3070 can’t play them to my standard.

You’ve poisoned yourself. Chasing fidelity and refresh rates has done for graphics what short-form media did to attention spans. I’m emulating PS1 games and playing Fallout 4 on a 970 while my computer fans blow like the flight deck of an aircraft carrier and I am free.

There it is, that’s the xenophobia used by right-wing politicians and corporate interests to divide the working class!

I was assuming you’re Australian actually since you mentioned compulsory voting.

No see it’s ok to generalize 300 million people as a cultural monolith this time.

As opposed to every other European colony, that are totally at-grips with the genocidal horrors they inflicted on the people they displaced?

Oh, and it would be nice if the main character wasn’t automatically the leader of every faction in the game.

Really wish Bethesda would get over this and their fear of letting players miss out on some of the content in their gigantic worlds. Taking over a guild should be hard and it should have consequences. Preston Garvey knows Nate/Nora all of fifteen minutes and puts you in charge of an entire movement (while gatekeeping essential system mechanics behind further investment in his faction, fuck you if you wanted to roleplay as a raider warlord you gotta be a good boy first)

Actually the whole first hour or two of FO4 is the core of what is wrong with it. They went all-in on essentially an E3 demo and expect every player to follow along exactly their rails.

What I really want is Steel Battalion.

I really love the idea of asymmetrical games like DBD but the community always ruins it. Evolve was absutely incredible in the first few weeks before players optimized all the tension out (and before the backlash over what is now laughably tame monetization).

Not necessarily. There are an infinite number of outputs that aren’t those things.

Fuck off then, stop hiding your “I don’t care for the current trends in gaming” behind a boomer-ass “they don’t make em like they used to” take. There’s tons of good games and there’s always been a bunch of low-effort garbage to sift through. We used to call it “shovel-ware”.

My plants need it, go back in your cave.

You should always remember it regardless, and learn to recognize the signs decades before they bear fruit. This is the culmination of a long and multifaceted process. Reject nationalism, reject regulatory capture, reject media monopolization.

I live in one of his hated Liberal crime-ridden cesspits, Trump bombing his own country is an uncomfortable possibility.

I assumed it was to cope with heavy snowfall but that makes sense too.

Because some people use it as a thin veil over their actions doesn’t mean it’s the root cause

I firmly disagree with this premise, I think religion’s particular mix of social othering and righteous justification are the root of a great deal of evil in the world.

You have to get kinda close for spell-check to step in and it’s really bad at fixing problems at the beginning of a word.

What a religion calls for is almost never what it enables.

how is the world a better place because the banned prayer rooms in universities?

I don’t think public funds should support any religion, and I don’t think universities should support unsubstantiated claims.

Antisemitism doesn’t happen without religion. Think about everything downstream of the Judaism/Christianity/Islam splits. Think about the impact of The Church being the de facto cultural force in Europe for a millennium. Think about how much harder it is to whip a population into supporting your expensive conquest without a Divine Right or Moral Imperative. Sikhism exists because of how shitty life was under Islam and Hinduism in the region, their current “mostly chill” status does not negate the past suffering.

And in a broader sense, consider how much fraud exists because people are willing to accept claims not backed by evidence. The normalization of magical thinking is probably as harmful as the actual power wielded by entities like the Catholic Church.

I don’t think the good comes anywhere close to balancing the evils justified by religion.

I think they wanted “sovereign”