The next episode he says the judo line as well.

You won't be shunned. You must accept your ppb though

I'm extremely sensitive to things poking my legs, so I almost never use by pant pockets at all if I have a jacket.

When I'm at work I typically have my phone in my back pocket, my box cutter in the other one, with maybe a tissue and an adhesive bandage in each front pocket. I cannot work if clunky stuff is in a front pockets. And when I sit down I take out everything in my back pockets.

I finished Rise of the Golden Idol, which I really liked overall, but the ending didn't do much for me, I thought it was going in a way that interested me, and the pivot to something that makes more sense, makes more sense but completely deflated it for me. Because the way the language puzzle works it meant my final guess was so far off that I only fixed it with the hint system. Also I really wanted it to be like 1 hour less of a game, so I wasnt up for another hour of being a detective and slowly swapping between screens and making notes on things. A very good game, but not as good as the first.

Persona 5, I've begun the second heist, and I really enjoy both parts of the game, but I almost wish I could just do the life sim and the dungeon crawler independent of each other, because it feels like I simply do not have the time to do what I want and I'm sure that's intentional, but it's the biggest struggle for me to play through these types of games.

Path of exile 2, it's good, it's also very poorly balanced, with needing a good weapon being so important and not really giving you the tools to get one. It has some really cool interesting boss fights, that have 20% too much going on. It does make it satisfying when you beat them, but also they need better sign posting for these boss fight mechanics. also the game has horrendous stuttering for me which I can only presume is because I'm on wireless internet that hiccups, but it's around 17ms ping most of the time so I really hope they figure it out. But given that poe1 had this issue for like 10 years and never felt great to play either. It's probably the thing that will force me to drop the game.

It's slower so far, plays more like a souls game, which many don't like. But the old poe was just deleting everything for twenty hours with over powered skills and not actually engaging with anything until near the end of campaign.

So I'm enjoying it, playing as a warrior. About halfway thru act 1. it is quite slow, and bosses require some attempts as you will die until you know what moves must be avoided and what moves you merely should kinda absorb.

I'm playing on ps5 so if it gets really twitchy I'll probably drop it. But the game was running like leaden ass last night with constant lag spikes and input delay so maybe it'll feel okay without that.

Yeah there is always

Asking people to cancel plans is the impossible task. I can't not go visit my family, I gotta spread this cough to every one in spitting distance as I board an airplane for 6 hours and never even consider a mask. What is a mask never heard of it.

Beards are gross, I'm a communard despite them all having terrible beards.

"when US climate envoy John Podesta was chased out a meeting area with chants of “shame” ringing in his ears">

Well at least that happened.

Oh certainly there was a brief window for even me where yeah maybe something better can come from this. But then constantly being surrounded by people refusing to mask, masking badly, masking incorrectly, finding any excuse they could to slip the mask off to breathe or sneeze or whatever. And it's like people here in Canada, and america have no desire to actually fucking modify their lifestyle even superficially to accommodate better future outcomes of others.

It's a pretty good article, although I think it over estimates the idea that there was a glimmer of a better world that covid showed us. Because sure for like a month, we had reduced emissions, actually reduced child poverty and such, and worked together.

Well unless you were deemed an essential worker and you got worked harder than before, while half your coworkers (the well to do ones who did it more as a side gig then because they needed the work) simply took a leave of absence until it was over. I never saw a single glimmer of hope, I work on a grocery store, all I saw was rabid animals buy out entire shelves of soup and toilet paper and rice because they had to get theirs lest someone else get it first. I saw a small wage increase disappear as my supposed hero pay was taken away after 2 months despite all the covid precautions remaining up for another 3 years. I saw no wage increase as inflation would later drag the price of most real food items up between 20-100%.

For me all covid revealed is that the capitalist west is unwilling to be slightly inconvenienced for more than a couple weeks, maybe a month. And now that they did it they'll never do it again. My hopes for climate change ever being possible were dashed over those years. The sweeping changes needed were never possible. The government would never have the stones to force that through, the people would riot like they should riot for all the other injustices we face but don't give a shit about.

The only chance for a future is

Death to america, death to the west.

These ghouls have apparently never learned that you don't know what you don't know.

Ironically the only people for who ignorance is a choice is these libs who seem to think the working class has all the time in the world to analyse every choice they make and ensure they are making the correct liberal choice.

Working class people aren't actually tired and exhausted emotionally and physically from maintaining the infrastructure that lets the liberal PMCs enjoy daily brunch while scolding their inferiors for always choosing to make the wrong choice.

Ugh these fuckers make me sick.

The same thing happened here in Alberta, the brief interlude of a centrist government a few years back, made it so farm hands had to be covered by basic safety codes all other workers are allowed and they freaked out and threw a hissy fit. They even got an exemption so their family farm hands would remain exempt from basic safety protections.

Oh and the starting inspecting the housing offered for the farm hands and told them no you cannot shove 16 workers into a tiny work shed, with threats of deporting then if they talk.

I don't know the actual name, but in my history class (the great patriotic war) we watched a soviet era law film about a defence lawyer being chosen for a show trial, I think set during the 30's) and how he tries to treat it seriously and defends his client and does everything right and gets evidence his client is innocent (obvious given it's a show trial) and runs smack into the authorities who, I can't remember the ending, I don't think he dies or gets punished for trying too hard, but his client definitely gets the wall.

I want to say the name was something like "defence lawyer 'insert Russian name here'".

I can't even remember if it was good, but it didn't seem actively bad. If anyone can figure out the title that'd be cool, it was over 15 years ago when I got my degree and it was just like a soft class the professor gave us during term paper round up so I have such vague memories of it.

Edit: I looked myself and it appears to be "My Friend Ivan Lapshin". Edit edit: it may not be this, it seems vaguely possible but it's too hard to identify as this doesn't have anything to do with the lawyer angle, but is set in time period I recall.

Work has completely drained me the past few weeks so I'm lucky if I have the energy to put like thirty minutes into ZZZ.

Then I usually zone out and try to watch a let's play of the nonary games (virtues last reward currently) and fall asleep about twenty minutes in and have to spend ten minutes finding what I remember before I passed out.

I'm trying to finish dragons dogma 2, basically still enjoying randomly wandering and leveling and killing monsters and such.

I'm trying to start persona 5 since I got it for free ages ago and I'd like to play through one of them.

I did manage to to finally finish tears of the kingdom after like 400 hours. Pretty good final boss and such. The ending was typical Zelda shit but it is expected.

I wish I wasn't falling asleep by like 7pm but I just can't seem to maintain my energy past that point anymore.

Frum, presumably is a millionaire several times over at this point. When his daughter revealed she was struggling to get adequate treatment, you'd think he'd rush in and be a good dad, promising to pay for her to get the best treatment no matter the cost to him. What's the point in being a ghoul for the monsters in the world if you can't even use that misbegotten wealth to save those around you?

There is after all stories by the hundreds of parents mortgaging their houses, selling off heirlooms or retirement accounts to try and save loved ones when the health crisis hits. I guess Frum is made of tougher stuff he's not downgrading the lifestyle he has come to know and love just to save his flesh and blood.

Or his daughter knew he was a giant piece of shit who worked for some of humanity's worst monsters and has been refusing to talk to him because of the obvious reason.

Regardless Frum comes off terrible. I wish him a miserable torment for the rest of his days. May a bird shit in his eye each morning and a fire consume him before the end. May he receive no pleasure from his actions and only pain. May he see his western civilization crumble before his eyes and only then be granted a release from existence.

Ahhh true yes

Alternatively, he's waspinator and he never fucking goes away, he just continually becomes a third tier right hand man to those in power but is so ineffective at any job he's given he probably should have been killed off immediately, if he wasn't just a walking punchline and scapegoat for those in power.

I can't wait until his son's begin an arms manufacturing company and get hundreds of billions in defense contracts and then entire companies of troops get owned in war when their guns spontaneously explode in their face and the tanks rounds detonates prior to firing. Capitalist efficiency!