Guys. The AI is getting dumber. It can't run D&D anymore like it used to; every NPC falls into that bartender-esque "What'll it be, pal?" preceeded by a summary; "You did X, Y, Z, now what you wanna do?" Regeneration yields same response over and over, no creativity. Ugh.

Felis catus, nature's great hunter, stalks his prey like an assassin waiting for the perfect shot, then pounces with efficiency and precision.

Rome: Total War loading screen activating my brain like the Manchurian candidate

I've been in poverty and it's never made me want to mug and rape someone on public transportation

We're banning raves, because we don't want you having fun where we can't watch you. By the way let me tell you about Woodstock. We're cracking down on underage drinking. It's bad for you. Yeah of course we hit up the pubs at your age it was great. We're banning smoking, but just for you - the smoking age will go up one year every year. Oh yes of course, we used to be able to smoke inside everywhere, it was great really. We're banning flavored vapes. We don't have any evidence they're bad for you, you just like them too much. We're banning dodgeball during recess, someone might get hurt. Yeah we really enjoyed dodgeball too. We're banning flirting, because it might make the girls uncomfortable. We're locking you in your room for the next two years. Yes we know you're in no danger from the virus, but we're worried that you'll get us sick. By the way you have to take this needle if you want to leave your room again. Yes, twice. Well there will be boosters too. No, we aren't worried about side effects, that doesn't effect us at all. We're closing the frat houses, because we don't want you having fun without our permission. Please join these officially sanctioned university clubs instead. We're bringing in labor from the third world to work the service jobs, so you can't have a summer job. You need to go to university to get a good job. By the way we're raising the price of tuition. Oh look we're raising it again. Don't worry there are loans. At interest. Actually we're giving the good jobs to the foreigners we just imported, to make up for our racist past. We are very good people. No of course we aren't sacrificing anything. You just have to take one for the team. Also, we're giving the foreigners the houses. We needed to increase real estate prices. For our pensions, you see. Sadly no, you'll probably never be able to afford one yourself. By the way don't forget to pay your taxes. Need to support those pensions somehow! Eh? No, we're giving ourselves tax breaks of course. Seniors discount you know. Oh by the way, that one thing you still have, now that we've banned joy and kicked every ladder out from under you? That social media stuff you kids like? You guessed it! We're banning that too! Just for you though, we're still going to watch AI videos on Facebook. It's for your safety, you see. We've noticed that you're all getting rather irate, and we think it would be better for your mental health if you shut up for a while. Why don't you just go outside? Eh? No of course we aren't going to stop Ahmed and his twelve illiterate cousins from raping your sister, that would be culturally insensitive, which would make us feel very bad, and we can't have that.

Elon Musk got rejected by Netscape. He walked into the lobby, was too shy to talk to anyone, and walked out. Never got the job. At his first company Zip2, the board demoted him. Twice. They refused to let him be CEO. He got fired from PayPal as CEO while flying to his own honeymoon. The board voted him out mid air. He almost died of malaria in 2000. Ten days in intensive care. Lost 45 pounds. A day from death. His first child died at 10 weeks old. His first rocket exploded. Falcon 1, flight one. Burned on the pad. His second rocket exploded. His third rocket exploded. The last of his money was nearly gone. Tesla nearly went bankrupt in 2008. The closest he ever came to a nervous breakdown. Both companies almost died on the same Christmas Eve. He was sued by investors. Mocked by the people who built cars before him. His childhood heroes, the astronauts who inspired him, testified against his company to Congress. The Cybertruck window shattered on live stage in front of the world. He overpaid for Twitter by his own admission and watched its value collapse. He was beaten unconscious as a child and thrown down a flight of stairs. He has said he goes to sleep alone and it kills him. He failed in public, over and over, for thirty years. He is the richest man in the history of the world. The difference was never the absence of failure. It was the refusal to stop after it.

Every single one of these guys suffer from John Cleese syndrome

It's the meme.

護身術破り！

Video game journalists have always been mainly grifters. When I was at Microprose (1988-1993) gaming magazines were up front about it. They would literally phone us and ask for bribes for reviews. By the time I was at Ensemble Studios they were more circumspect. They'd say something like, "We plan to review Rise of Rome in November. Would you like to accompany it with a full-page ad?" Often with hints that failure to pay for the ad results in a worse review. We all need video reviews to know what to buy. Get them from people who grew out of fandom, and play the games. Like Sophia Narwitz, Josh Strife Hayes, Civvie11, GmanLives, or Matthewmatosis. Let the major review sites die as they deserve.

🇯🇵 I am Japanese. Question for people all over the world. When I say I wanna leave behind a beautiful Japan for my grandchildren, that resembles the one I grew up in. I am getting called far right extremist. Have you also experienced the same? Why is this?

Goodmorning.

How the Ballistic Ballsack works

I've been so poor that I couldn't afford diapers for my kid because my boss was a month late on paying me. I've been so poor that I've had to live in moldy apartments, rotting trailers, and even in the back seat of my car. Never did drugs. Never stole from anybody. Never destroyed other people's property. Never randomly assaulted anybody. Never raped, tormented, or murdered anybody. Bad people do bad things because they can.

El aura de imperio caído de las ruinas de la URSS es una pasada.

I would watch a full concert of this

As a naturalized American citizen, an immigrant from Japan... America is the best country in the world, hands down, and nothing even comes close. Is Japan safer? yes. Is Japan more orderly? yes. But to me, American freedom is ambrosia for the soul. Europe feels like a dying civilization, post-Roman Empire, with scars of uncontrolled migration everywhere and no place to escape. Even the country side feels small and cramped. In a similar way, Japan is suffocating to me, like an open-air prison; everything is cramped and small. Unspoken social rules, rules for public behavior, reading the air, and even how to interact with friends vs coworkers, that's so vastly different from American culture. You can't own any weapons. Not even a Katana... and definitely no firearms without some massive paperwork and red tape hurdles. The pressure towards conformity feels like I'm dying inside every time I'm in Japan. In America, everything is BIG. The roads are wider, the cars-trucks are bigger, houses are far more massive, and even the food is plentiful. In the rural parts of America, the vastness of the landscape, the open air, and the epicness of how big America is really sink in. Then there are even differences in the utilities, where gas is cheaper, water is more plentiful, and electricity feels almost unlimited in comparison when the cost is so much lower. The vastness of America is just nothing else. I had a few older generation Japanese people visit America, and one thing they noted was... "No wonder Japan lost to America in WW2. Just look at how big the country is!" Room to move, room to be, room to build without constantly bumping into invisible walls.

“But what will the rest of the world think of us?” is a bullshit argument. A. America don’t care. B. “Rest of the world” is almost always code for global leftists anyway, and the regular people of other countries can’t stand their bossy shit libs either. Living our lives based on the theoretical approval of an imaginary global monoculture is stupid. Nobody buys this anymore. Just be American and be awesome.

Sometimes we forget how lucky we are to live in the US