"Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism"
"Cannibalism?!"
"Yea... Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets... But it's not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.
... (Doesn't notice them pulling away)
Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product....". "Hey where'd you go?!"
Wait why is this bad? Are artists not allowed to express their fetishes? We're going to have very little art left if that's the case. Humans are kinky and obsessed with sex so there's fetish shit everywhere even where you never think.
Metal Fatigue 2: Echoes of Empire
Or maybe
Metal Fatigue 2: Entropy of Empire
Combots and Overseers were not the only thing to survive the fall of the Hedoth and there are whole factory sized machines that have woken up to resist trespassing.
These automated matter conversion facilities are sprawling behemoths of living metal that crawl across the landscape recycling broken things and toxic remnants leaving behind only pristine wilderness and stone ruins.
The story would follow the three major corporations fighting over this nightmarishly dangerous "terraforming" technology while dealing with new separatist rebel faction calling themselves "The Union".
The Union are anticorponational agitators trying to establish a Constitutional Republic on top of the ruins of empire we are only now just finding out was exterminated with surgical precision.
She would probably have to get a second job to support them which means she would never see them and she would be working all the time and miserable.
Having a kid costs so much money it's hard to explain even to my parents one of whom was a grant writer and nonprofit organizer for children's healthcare.
If you don't have at least $50,000 in the bank that you could spend without suffering you're not ready for what the hospital is going to do to you. We have totally fucked this whole country up.
But we need new people here. We don't necessarily need Americans to make them. Plenty of people see what we do here and come here anyway. They are willing and ready to make the kind of sacrifices necessary have another generation of their family, and we generally as a society are benefiting from their ambitions to do that.
I don't understand how so many people can be so pro-birth and anti-human at the same time, but I don't begrudge people who run the numbers and say the math doesn't math and so abstain from having children.
I know American families that are spending that much a month. It's really wild how expensive they have made it to have kids at the same time that all of the free outdoor stuff we used to do with our parents now costs money and is far further apart.
I had a BBQ going one time and one of my friends was going through a rough patch and didn't really feel very sociable but would disappear into the woods, come back with a log, chop it into firewood and then poke the fire a bit while adding fuel.
He didn't say much that day and spent at least 12 hours just tending the fire and one of my friends who didn't know him said "Man theres always gotta be the fire guy"
It's like yea... Before we had much technology we had the fire and if we were fortunate enough we had a guy who really liked doing that. People have probably been saying something like this for a million years.
Crazy thing is, I remember studying the pillars of Islam in history class before 9/11. The new textbooks we got after 9/11 started with "since George Bush kept us safe since 9/11..." like it was right on the first page. That's when I knew we were headed full on fascism.
I've never once had anyone push their religious bullshit on me except Christians.
I hope it hollowsnhim out from the inside and he has to pour all of his money into experimental medical research only to have everyone around him funnel his money to their own projects instead while he is wheeled around like helper from venture brothers.
There is a game called thrive that is attempting to do a really hardcore version of spore. There's still really at the early stages of evolution and the complexity of the bacterial stage is pretty intense.
My friend group has hardcore fans of Masters of the universe. We all grew up with these toys, I still have the plastic harness for my He-Man. I haven't seen it yet but the consensus from the others says "movie's good , leto is bad" And then we decided to try and find out if there's anything that Jared Leto is good in...
Dallas buyers club, Requiem for a dream, Lord of war, he does best in roles where he plays a very desperate and sick person. Though I'm not really sure it's acting at that point...
Yeah that doesn't even vaguely resemble what I'm saying.
Valve isn't regulating your hardware and they aren't forcing anybody to do anything.
Valve is not a bully here. They have a contract saying if you sell your product with me you can't sell it someplace else cheaper just to use me for marketing and delivery.
Apple says you have to pay me to even have the right to sell your product and you can only sell it through me. If you sell it someplace else I want to cut of that too.
Google just keeps changing the nature of what you're allowed to do with your own stuff and they take a cut.
If you feel bullied by Valve or some developer feels bullied by valve then you have a victim complex.
There are other marketplaces to steam. Steam doesn't prevent you from installing from sources outside of steam. Steam doesn't regulate your hardware or how you use it. If you want to sell on steam you can still sell elsewhere but it has to be the same price.
This means if you go to steam to find out about a game and then decide to buy it from the manufacturer's website the manufacturer makes more money because they don't have to give Valve a cut, and Valve might even authorize you to activate that product on steam.
Expecting valve to offer their marketing and delivery systems without any incentive for you to sell products through it would defeat the purpose of their platform.
Compare that to the other two chuckle fuckers in this mix:
Apple maintains an exclusive platform. Apple has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing software from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you rent from them.
Google maintains an exclusive platform. Google has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you bought from third party vendors and manufacturers.
The ever shrinking accommodation to installing third-party software on your purchased hardware is anti-competitive, and defeats consumer choice.
Maybe they need regime change... And freedom. We should liberate Israel. There's even an insurgent group we could fund for our proxy war against the mad regime.
"Rimworld, what's that?"
"Its like the Sims on a hostile alien planet with robots and cannibalism"
"Cannibalism?!"
"Yea... Usually not intentionally. I mean no one sets to eat their friends or even their enemies but after a few lean seasons and you have run out of pets... But it's not like you let them go to waste, you can use the leather too.
... (Doesn't notice them pulling away)
Human leather is actually kind of a premium value product....". "Hey where'd you go?!"
Two policies would make a huge impact on this.
An additional tax on nonresident ownership and a punitive tax on vacancies based on occupancy rates.
Those two would be enough to discourage hoarding, scalping and ghost neighborhoods .
Wait why is this bad? Are artists not allowed to express their fetishes? We're going to have very little art left if that's the case. Humans are kinky and obsessed with sex so there's fetish shit everywhere even where you never think.
Stay clear of beef unless you're really confident in its origin at least for a little while.
Metal Fatigue 2: Echoes of Empire Or maybe Metal Fatigue 2: Entropy of Empire
Combots and Overseers were not the only thing to survive the fall of the Hedoth and there are whole factory sized machines that have woken up to resist trespassing.
These automated matter conversion facilities are sprawling behemoths of living metal that crawl across the landscape recycling broken things and toxic remnants leaving behind only pristine wilderness and stone ruins.
The story would follow the three major corporations fighting over this nightmarishly dangerous "terraforming" technology while dealing with new separatist rebel faction calling themselves "The Union".
The Union are anticorponational agitators trying to establish a Constitutional Republic on top of the ruins of empire we are only now just finding out was exterminated with surgical precision.
She would probably have to get a second job to support them which means she would never see them and she would be working all the time and miserable.
Having a kid costs so much money it's hard to explain even to my parents one of whom was a grant writer and nonprofit organizer for children's healthcare.
If you don't have at least $50,000 in the bank that you could spend without suffering you're not ready for what the hospital is going to do to you. We have totally fucked this whole country up.
But we need new people here. We don't necessarily need Americans to make them. Plenty of people see what we do here and come here anyway. They are willing and ready to make the kind of sacrifices necessary have another generation of their family, and we generally as a society are benefiting from their ambitions to do that.
I don't understand how so many people can be so pro-birth and anti-human at the same time, but I don't begrudge people who run the numbers and say the math doesn't math and so abstain from having children.
I know American families that are spending that much a month. It's really wild how expensive they have made it to have kids at the same time that all of the free outdoor stuff we used to do with our parents now costs money and is far further apart.
Fourth Prime
I had a BBQ going one time and one of my friends was going through a rough patch and didn't really feel very sociable but would disappear into the woods, come back with a log, chop it into firewood and then poke the fire a bit while adding fuel.
He didn't say much that day and spent at least 12 hours just tending the fire and one of my friends who didn't know him said "Man theres always gotta be the fire guy"
It's like yea... Before we had much technology we had the fire and if we were fortunate enough we had a guy who really liked doing that. People have probably been saying something like this for a million years.
Crazy thing is, I remember studying the pillars of Islam in history class before 9/11. The new textbooks we got after 9/11 started with "since George Bush kept us safe since 9/11..." like it was right on the first page. That's when I knew we were headed full on fascism.
I've never once had anyone push their religious bullshit on me except Christians.
I hope it hollowsnhim out from the inside and he has to pour all of his money into experimental medical research only to have everyone around him funnel his money to their own projects instead while he is wheeled around like helper from venture brothers.
Some people's parents didn't teach them to fear and respect the escalator.
Anti bds laws around the country and state/city level funding to Israel is not going away.
I can see that they are Losing popularity but I don't see them actually losing power, influence, or resources just yet
There is a game called thrive that is attempting to do a really hardcore version of spore. There's still really at the early stages of evolution and the complexity of the bacterial stage is pretty intense.
My friend group has hardcore fans of Masters of the universe. We all grew up with these toys, I still have the plastic harness for my He-Man. I haven't seen it yet but the consensus from the others says "movie's good , leto is bad" And then we decided to try and find out if there's anything that Jared Leto is good in...
Dallas buyers club, Requiem for a dream, Lord of war, he does best in roles where he plays a very desperate and sick person. Though I'm not really sure it's acting at that point...
"Will the things help?"
"No the ones that help will be illegal"
I think instead he would hope that it could offer meaningful content to children around the world free of advertising and with no barriers to access.
Let's hope it's not hidden behind a subscription.
Yeah that doesn't even vaguely resemble what I'm saying.
Valve isn't regulating your hardware and they aren't forcing anybody to do anything.
Valve is not a bully here. They have a contract saying if you sell your product with me you can't sell it someplace else cheaper just to use me for marketing and delivery.
Apple says you have to pay me to even have the right to sell your product and you can only sell it through me. If you sell it someplace else I want to cut of that too.
Google just keeps changing the nature of what you're allowed to do with your own stuff and they take a cut.
If you feel bullied by Valve or some developer feels bullied by valve then you have a victim complex.
There are other marketplaces to steam. Steam doesn't prevent you from installing from sources outside of steam. Steam doesn't regulate your hardware or how you use it. If you want to sell on steam you can still sell elsewhere but it has to be the same price.
This means if you go to steam to find out about a game and then decide to buy it from the manufacturer's website the manufacturer makes more money because they don't have to give Valve a cut, and Valve might even authorize you to activate that product on steam.
Expecting valve to offer their marketing and delivery systems without any incentive for you to sell products through it would defeat the purpose of their platform.
Compare that to the other two chuckle fuckers in this mix:
Apple maintains an exclusive platform. Apple has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing software from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you rent from them.
Google maintains an exclusive platform. Google has taken specific steps to prevent people from installing from sources that have not paid them for permission to make software for the hardware you bought from third party vendors and manufacturers.
The ever shrinking accommodation to installing third-party software on your purchased hardware is anti-competitive, and defeats consumer choice.
Maybe they need regime change... And freedom. We should liberate Israel. There's even an insurgent group we could fund for our proxy war against the mad regime.