If you derive your personal self worth by the literal skin-deep appraisal of internet strangers then you are mentally unwell.

That’s not a “self-esteem booster” that’s you taking a hit of a “virtual drug” because you can’t produce your own self-esteem. You literally get high from it and then come crashing back down.

I was trapped in it once.

This is one of those things that’s just unknown and vague enough that it can’t be cringe.

If someone asks you what it is you can just say “oh it’s a cute bear cos I like them” .

“The final solution was 1941” is probably the correct language to use.

It’s good that Russia is creating a bipolar world actually.

If you had any understanding of imperialism you’d know that this kind of action might genuinely be a breakout moment for those who wish to escape Western influence.

I’m not going to suggest that Russia is doing this out of the kindness of their hearts for our Communist cause, but if you don’t support what they’re doing then what do you support? What would you rather they’d have done? Sat back and let Western hegemony grow larger and larger while you sit back and think “I’m a good person for thinking war is bad”?

I have legitimately always been confused by the bodega thing for the same reason.

We have several chains that do exactly that and they’re just called “corner stores”.

“You can get eggs, toilet paper, and Gatorade”

Damn, that’s called a Spar, or Premier, or Londis.

Roald Dahl made a little metal ball out of foil sweet wrappers and it’s on display in the Roald Dahl museum in Great Missenden.

Btw I’m on the United Kingdom - Hexbear Tourism Board.

It’s called Mainstream media

This, and United 93 was 100% shot down when they figured it was headed for D.C.

The worst instances of toxic masculinity I’ve ever received has been from women.

They’re SocDems, no shit. They also seem to be teenagers too.

They view the world as good vs evil. Putin is doing an evil right now, so NATO is the good. Also when Libya was destroyed NATO was still bad but Libya was even worser so it cancels it out.

Dark Souls is playing co-op with your friend, not knowing wtf is going on and he’s explaining all the lore to you.

The worst thing is when someone who is a skeptic but still says like “I don’t like North Korea but a lot of the stories they tell about it are made up” and not once do they think “What even are the reasons I don’t like DPRK, and how many of them are made up?”

Like, they reject the propaganda but still come to the same conclusion the propaganda wanted them to reach anyway.

The SpecTRe program is so good for storytelling purposes as it gives you a reason to do whatever you want while also giving you a strict mission guideline to do.

But it’s not a great thing to have when you really think about it.

The more the Batarians get genocided the nicer they become lol

It’s heavily implied in 3 that they’ll become good aliens after their entire civilisation was destroyed.

I like Taris a hell of a lot more than Peragus. At least there’s quests and such on Taris, a bit of variety.

We sorted that problem out years ago.

Source on Hitler being bad please

The DS9 episode was Badda-Bing Badda-Bang and it was Vic Fontaine’s 1950s Vegas casino.

I always liked that moment as you said because it is someone acknowledging the problem created with historical programs in a world that has moved passed that history.

I like that Yates’ counter-argument is that it might be nice to experience history as it should have been, rather than how it really was.

I don’t really come down on either side but it’s an interesting way to look at it.

Wouldn’t be surprised if it was Avery Brooks who asked for the scene tbh. He was often vocally critical of some choices because he didn’t want to be just another black character they were they often written. It’s why he liked his relationship with Jake Sisko so much.

On a related note, the episode If Wishes Were Horses script was changed from a leprechaun into Rumplestiltskin because Colm Meaney objected to the Irish stereotype.

“No calls to, or celebration of, violence” is always selectively enforced.

It is always enforced in favour of the Western world and to the status quo. You can call for nuclear hellfire on billions of Chinese people, call for the mass death of people in the Middle East, suggest that Africa should be forcibly sterilised to counter-act “overpopulation”, but if you even express some joy that a dude responsible for widespread suffering throughout the world is now dead then your ass is banned and the thread is locked.

Not here though. Roast in fucking hell Rumsfeld, you should have gone sooner and that’s the only sadness I can conjure up.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

But Crowder really likes to smoke pipe.