@KupKate95 and I saw this bear outside of our lodge in Gatlinburg on the first day of our honeymoon. Snapped some pretty good pics.

The amazing thing about America is that it is a little crazy, and leaning into that is fun.

Counterpoint: a bunch of dudes on dirt bikes hitting sick jumps over humvees with Marines in dress uniforms standing in front of the White House is cool as shit and everyone kind of knows why someone like you hates it

The left won. The world's richest man is an electric vehicle manufacturer who is decarbonising the atmosphere while helping quadriplegics, restoring space travel, and making the internet and freedom of speech widely available across the globe. Unfortunately most of the people who identified as "left" were simply pathological grief merchants with oppositional defiance disorder. They build nothing. They stand for nothing.

It should be mandatory that people boot up morrowind before ever getting to complain about clunky games! Some of the best games ever made feel clunky

The issue of Mars colonisation (or space colonisation in general, if we don't want to get into the planet/habitat debate between space advocates) is surprisingly one of the key dividing lines in present day politics. You can reliably predict someones opinion on it by which party they vote for, by how they feel about Elon Musk as a person, or by their level of optimism/pessimism about technology. There is almost total correlation on believing it is a good/bad idea from a technical perspective and thinking it is desirable/undesirable from a political perspective. Everyone seems to be quite sure that the laws of physics vindicate their opinions on this matter. Its not surprise I'm in the "let's go" faction. But I am increasingly of the view that even beyond the issue of Mars, that faction must win, or else Earth as well will be sunk into the mire of degrowth, envy politics, and misery.

Very few Office lovers. Strange. I always hated Dust/2

Everybody knows cs_office was the Patrician’s choice.

I swear to God every remake for the past 5 years has looked exactly like this

This image summs up the entire game remakes debate on twitter

It genuinely feels like game remakes these days are made by people who have nothing but contempt for the original game. Instead of trying to understand why it became a classic, they approach it with the arrogance that they can "fix" it, convinced their own vision is superior to something that already stood the test of time Unlike remakes such as Resident Evil 1 or Pokémon FireRed, which aimed to deliver the most definitive and authentic version of the original experience, modern remakes are more interested in reinventing, correcting, or outright replacing the source material than faithfully preserving what made it beloved in the first place

theres a real difficulty in trying to talk about the UK because they're simultaneously doing a bunch of a totalitarian shit while not actually having any kind of national project to justify it, their leadership class is just schizophrenic and thinks everyone else is insane

if you look around at everything happening and your conclusion as to why people are becoming more radicalized is still some shit like “andrew tate” and “podcasters” you should be wearing a helmet 24/7

People just create better art when they're constrained by the tools of their time. Suddenly when they have everything they could've ever dreamed at their disposal, they make bland stuff and get outed as hacks, this phenomenon should be studied.

A true troll knows no remorse

Example 274820 that people fundamentally have no concept of how a market works. A labor market in this case. Time and again the fair wage discussion focuses on how hard someone works instead of how many people are willing and able to do the job at a given wage.

Still blows me away that millennials (my generation) grew up in a time where almost every social taboo had been extinguished and you could make jokes about literally anything (the 90s/2000s). And then the second they became adults, they immediately proceeded to built a system of even more rigorous “woke” social taboos and brought back public shaming for off color jokes.