KhanCipher [none/use name]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • Every single time a pre-warp civilization is going through a major crisis, the officers need to have a meeting in the important meeting room to discuss whether or not intervening and breaking the prime directive would do more good than harm while also displaying the worst bits of moral cowardice while debating it.

    Yes, I really hate PD episodes from TNG onwards. I know lower decks lampshaded the most egregious one in TNG, where Picard decided to take his ball and fuck off at the end.



  • I'm with you on live DC movies being unenjoyable, mainly that a majority of them made after 2000 feels like the director only read three DC books, Dark Knight Returns, Killing Joke, and Watchmen. Conveniently the three books DC seems to ever remember publishing most of the time. Though I will say that I enjoyed the most recent batman movie, though in hindsight it's likely only because its actuallybeing a detective story for most of its runtime rather than bats going around just beating people up the whole film.




  • It's a factory, they all practically speaking shut down on Christmas week, and depending on the factory and what they do (or how behind they are) they could shut down all the way through to new years as well.

    At least that's my experience with factory work in the car supply chain, and the factory where this happened here looks like it's roughly doing the exact same thing. Also just as an aside, a lot of factory type work still here in the states almost always has all sorts of problems with retaining workers.




  • KhanCipher [none/use name]togamestank controls
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    I think people forget that many of these games came out before the dual shock

    Also even then, the dual shock was entirely an optional peripheral for nearly two whole years until 1999 when a game was made and released to push it, and that game was called Ape Escape, a game that imho would be an entirely completely forgettable collectathon platformer if it wasn't for the fact that there wasn't a standardized twin stick control scheme yet until pretty much Halo:CE came out and entrenched a standardized twin stick control scheme. I know Halo:CE wasn't the first one, but it was the game that firmly entrenched it for twin stick controllers. Which meant that they actually experimented and came up with a unique control scheme that that again imho is likely the only reason it ever became a classic in the PSX library.

    And yes, I am of the opinion that Halo:CE was a universal net loss on video games in terms of causing nearly every single game since then all feeling like they need to control the exact same way all the time.



  • Let's see here, I work 3rd so society already considers me an outcast, live in rural ohio so finding anyone remotely closely aligned may as well be functionally impossible.

    Seasonal depression for me ends up being all year. New years, nobody to be with. Valentines day, "look at all these happy couples, experiencing a part of life you'll never be able to have, get fucked loser". 4th of July (seriously, it's the 2nd closest thing to a community event here), I really hate being in large groups of people, plus I just don't care for overpriced carnival food/games. My birthday, it's become nothing more than a reminder that I'm another year older and... oh right I turned 30 this year, well we all know what society thinks of a single man who hasn't ever dated really at all. Halloween, homeschooled church kid so I never had any feelings on it at all, besides hating it because I got to watch other have something and I just couldn't. Thanksgiving/Christmas, I've been avoiding it mostly because my grandparents have somewhat given me the implication that I should've been married and had a kid at least 5 years ago at the latest.

    Self care to me just ends up being me continually finding distractions to not ending it in spite wanting to.


  • The thing here is that the guy murdered here oversaw the company that he was in charge of was effectively in a sense condemning people to death, and as such in a sense he has a lot of blood on his hands whether he knows it or not. Did he personally deny claims that condemned people to death? Certainly not, but anyone who thinks that he had absolutely nothing to do with the circumstances that led to claims being denied that could've saved lives would be a naive fool at best, to a corporate bootlicker at worst.

    In an ideal world, he would be in a courtroom facing a trial, but we're not in that world and quite frankly until we come into an ideal world this is the closest we're going to get to that.

    This is what I said to someone who has the ideal of there should be zero reason to enact the death penalty on anyone, and to someone who also seemed receptive to more leftist thought. Reading it again, I know I definitely libbed it up in places (sadly, I'm just really used to having to really watch what I say), though I was trying to keep it concise and get the point across.



  • KhanCipher [none/use name]tochapotraphouseThey're spooked
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    2 months ago

    There appears to be some confusion about this online, so here it is plain and simple: Murdering corporate executives is evil.

    "Beheading monarchs is irredeemably evil" - some bootlicker during the french revolution, probably.




  • I guess we're going to have to go over this, so both parties working policy on rural areas pretty much comes down to "go fuck yourself, lol". Neither party will say that out loud, but the slight difference in their marketing strategy in rural areas has been that the Republican party heavily implies an offer to spite urban liberals as much as possible. Which one of the many reasons why election maps tend to end up looking like the above.

    Now I'm pretty sure we all know big city liberals are very infuriating, let's just say they really don't do themselves any favors the farther away from a big city they go. Like we're talking full on detached (much more than normal) from reality, to the level that if asked a lot of rural people would love to have them shoved up against a wall. Also to be nice and blunt about this, some people here on hexbear tend to exhibit the same thing as the "big city liberal" a bit at times.