There's a documentary about writing Dredd that's meaningful for a significant amount of the run. Like I said the rules were Dredd is the villain but he's also the hero. I think they got bought up at some point but when that was I can't remember

Judge Dredd is so misunderstood. The writing rules were Dredd is the villain but he's the hero.

Well its easier when there's not a plague. When the plague ends join a sport club of some kind. Taek wan do has a good gender balance and you're all being ridiculous together. Something like that where its a bit silly is good. Joining like real sport you get more hierarchy behaviour. I know people compete in taek wondo but its deeply silly compared to like olympic wrestling or something like that for most of the people involved.

In the bit of Covid remaining I suggest playing games. The inverse is actually true here. The more people take it seriously the more likely they are to add you if you communicate well and are chill. Matchmaking will put you roughly at the level where you should be in regards being good at whatever. I've made a load of online friends through counterstrike over the years. Obviously you are going to meet a lot of shitheads that way but also people who just want to play a game where you talk a bunch and cheer each other on.

I don't know what you work at or if you do but like you can make work friends. For reasons I won't get into one of my best friends is a guy I was trapped in a room with for a year and half. From 8 in the morning till about t, half 5 it was just us. He's deeply apolitical, just like any healthy person , so I couldn't really talk that all the time. When we did he'd try to fuck with me in different ways like Jeremy Corbyn is an antisemiete, my response was that's a plus for me but I don't think its true (you should pick up this is a joke response and not something I believe) . We bonded over the shit we could talk about, movies. He's big into the marvel shit which I found depressing but was also a cinephile generally so we could talk good movies. So like you can talk to people on the level they are without trying to propagandise, especially when you know when that's going nowhere. I couldn't even get my man to join the union but if I had a problem he would always have my back.

They in their bulk were not ideological but they hated the right people and understood what little they had was never going to make any difference. Feel bad for them. Feel sad prosperity not through the stock market is just shut down as an idea for them. They aren't wrong about that. None of us are going to live to see socialism

well he's not wrong obviously. Before the pandemic I had to move further from work, I went from losing half an hour to commute to the guts of 2 hours. So like an extra hour and a half of my waking 18 hours is added to the 8 and a half I'm already losing. My worry is instead of improving public transport he's likely to give Elon Musk a contract to build his one car tunnels

I doubt anyone would mind if they had a female gta protagonist. Like a certain segment of a segment would go apeshit but that's how they get off. I kind of get what he means with the Mafia games, nothing really stopping anyone doing a Francis Ford Coppola style game well with a black protagonist but as I understand it that game wasn't that. I watched a friend play 15 minutes of it and there was a lot of Nbombs. See its ok if you're depicting racists and not at all grating in the early 21st century.

I can't remember much of what happened in Silent Assassin, you fought mafia and then at some point ninjas in a Japanese castle. The game found its groove in the later games

Time has been kind because I don't remember that. Hitman 2 Silent Assassin or modern Hitman 2? Cause Hitman got cool around Contracts, Blood Money and then nothing happened before nu Hitman

oh yeah, the hitman games are all about murdering degenerate rich people who are twisted by their wealth. There's no bit where you are killing a communist. Its all killing disgusting mega wealthy people.

Look at a certain point you have to expect some people are never going to learn. If you want to fuck with them for some reason in 6 months Biden will have continued on Trump/bipartisan policy in a new and horrific way, maybe war with Iran maybe invading Bolivia. You can say I told you so at that point. But you have to recognise they aren't going to learn anything. The people you want to convince are young and haven't had their brains wrecked by cable news.

Assad is not a good guy but in the syrian civil war the alternatives were Isis win and slits the throats of anyone who doesn't want to live in the bronze age or he gives up to the benefit of some pro-market neolib no one has ever heard off and his country turns into a more fucked up version of Libya as no one wants that, Isis member or regular person.

go to a European country where they have free and good healthcare if you can, Canada isn't bad either

Do the tech companies have some reason to believe the republicans will always be in the minority? Like if you wanted the support of the trump base in 2024 you would hysterically want to punish the tech companies and Biden or Kamela are going to lose in 2024 after 4 years huffing their own farts.

I don't feel especially bad about it but the broader point is the police shouldn't just murder people. Even assholes.

Its very good. It will be great when they fix on it

I'm not going to spoil anything about it but I kind of what to talk about the themes of it though. So its cyberpunk, vicious corporations and capitalism in particular is the enemy obviously, intrinsically but I think there's a little more to it than that.

I threw in some extra thoughts about it that go into hard spoilers. There are minor spoilers before that but nothing you won't have been confronted it with by the start of the middle and main part of the game. Its clearly stated where the hard spoilers start. They are about an ending. So you were warned.

Everyone's live are much, much worse. That they would be overthrown was inevitable though.

Its very frustrating. Like if we had the keynsians running things they would have done massive stimuluses and kept everyone inside for 2 months and it would have been done. Capitalism had to lose its mind though and think the market would sort it out.

I'm not arguing for capitalism to be clear, just saying there used to be less plunge into disaster versions of it

yeah, he's an awful person. Honest feeling is the world might have been better off with trump. Biden in means the libs are going back to sleep and will learn nothing and there aren't many years left for total climate collapse. If trump had won we would have had chance of mashing their faces in it but with Biden same catastrophe but only people that don't matter to dc give a shit

I think we can all live without the dexter/house meld

the state as your therapist that thinks killing arabs helps you