I honestly felt that the weapon degradation was freeing in a way - that every item in the same was a consumable to be used and not an item to be collected and stashed away forever while you just use the Zweihander from the graveyard for 90% of the game. Even the unique quest items broke, but you could do another quest to unlock the ability to buy infinite versions! I thought that was great game design.

Worldwide Socialist revolution. Creating a society hostile to the accumulation of wealth, where all means of production are controlled by the workers.

I think both are bad communication. When I hear “messages are not end to end encrypted”, I think that my ISP or a hacker might be able to see them but not, like, ordinary people. In reality, whatever shitheads are administrating either your or the recipients instances.

I think “private messages are visible to both your and the recipients instance administrators” would be more clear

I think the larger point is that private messages are visible to instance admins.

The Mexican section of your grocery store should have Clamato or other brands of Mexican tomato juice

Yeah that seems fine tbh

I didn’t know the PS2 had a keyboard

Sex and beer

Most cities have a bus service, but they only rarely connect to smaller towns (“smaller” being relative here, like 30,000 people).

To put it in perspective, I live in a suburban apartment outside of a medium-sized city in Ohio. There is a single busline that goes through my neighborhood (which thankfully has a stop right outside my complex). A bus comes by once an hour between 7 AM and 7 PM.

This can get you to work if you’re lucky enough to work a 9-5 next to a bus stop. My work has a bus stop, but I work a 4-12, so no luck.

My favorite bar is in the next town over, a college town about 15 minutes down the road. If I wanted to get there by public transit, I would need to wait for the hourly bus outside of my apartment, get off at a grocery store, wait about a half an hour for a connecting bus from the college town’s bus service, and that’s not even counting the drive time.

And if I don’t leave the bar by 6 PM, of course, I’m stranded without an Uber or something, because even on weekends (not that I have weekends off work) the busses only run till 7 PM.

And there’s other towns nearby that I literally cannot take public transport to. I had to work an event in a smaller city (but still probably within the top 20 in the state for population) about half an hour drive away. There is no bus service that connects me to them. The only options are driving or Uber.

Bashar has been replaced by a Western puppet Islamist dictator. It is not good news that Britain cut ties to begin with and they certainly shouldn’t be reestablishing them now.

I was going to answer “in the Internet Hole”, which was also my college nickname

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There is a double filter, but it’s on the part of German law, not feddit mods.

In Germany, it is legal to say “Hamas is just as evil as the Nazis and has the same goals and aims”. It is illegal to say the same thing but with “Israel” or “Zionism” instead of “Hamas”.

Death to Germany

I run a West Marches server on Foundry that had a few dozen active players at it’s height. I ended up just renting a server on ForgeVTT, a cloud hosting service for Foundry. I believe they had a free option that’s good for more casual users but even I’m only paying like $5/mo.

Can’t wait till EUV comes out, they say it’s due for a 2025 release

Fuck French Toast, marry Waffles, kill pancakes

There are plenty of governments that do that. Cuba, China, Vietnam, Korea, the late Soviet Union.

While Stalinist ultraleft economic policies were not so generous to small businesses, the new Chinese model (which has been adopted by most Socialist states, bar Korea, which hews still to the failed Stalinist model) focuses on nationalization of heavy industry (steel, aggregate, resource extraction, refinery) while allowing consumer goods and small-scale retail to remain in the hands of business owners.

The reason this doesn’t happen in the West or its neocolonies is that it hampers the wealth and resource extraction of the international finance capital class.

It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment.

The disappointing answer is that it’s going to be very similar to how things are now, just with fewer rights and more repression around the edges. Almost all of Project 2025’s policies are things that this nation has used in the past or is using today to a lesser degree - voter suppression, rollback of labor rights and civil liberties. The rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer, but that was happening long before Trump.