You’re both right. Capitalism selects for psychopathy and gives them power to flourish.

That’s helpful, thanks.

Well that’s good to know. Once I find several free days hidden under the couch, I intend to fire it up.

Oh no. I’ve heard such good things about that game. Say it ain’t so.

Lucky bastard. I feel like by the end of the game, many hours in, I was doing like all of 15% more damage.

Yeah that’s pretty close to how I treated it, but I still had to wade through mountains of garbage to get to useful upgrades.

Both Control and the dogshit Avengers game had these upgrade systems where you were constantly bombarded with pickups that offered inane benefits like “2.5% increase to headshot damage for 3 seconds after taking damage while in midair” and you spent half the game managing your goddamn upgrades and the limited upgrade slots instead of having fun. It got to the point where I was relieved when I DIDN’T get any upgrades after a battle.

Shut up, Moon Moon

You’re a low quality person.

System Shock 2 is in my top 3 games of all time.

Cut a strip of vinyl siding, cardboard, whatever, about two inches wide and eight to ten inches long. Drive a nail through it at the centerline about an inch from the end. Remove the nail. Cut a slit from the nail hole to the end down the centerline.

Now if you need to drive a nail just out of reach or hammer one in without risking your fingers, just stick a nail in the hole, set it with a few strikes, then tug to pull the strip away.

Warb-garble? Is that a sly reference too?

Make sure you have a library card and an account in Libby/Overdrive. Ebooks galore.

Fuck racists. Wishlisted.

What I did was buy a phone-sized e-reader (Bigme Hibreak Color), and use that in combination with some focus mode app blockers to switch my habits during the day from doomscrolling to reading ebooks. I get through so many more books now than I used to and it’s wonderful.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow. I’m a sucker for films that go balls to the wall on a style.

Beautiful.

Dammit I just realized I should have done Guardians of Dick Galaxy instead.

The Conversatron. The Internet was a different place back then.

https://everything2.com/title/The+Conversatron

🫶