LiberalScratcher

have you tried being dumb as hell? surely you haven’t tried that one yet

A friend of mine claims he “only plays good video games” and I asked him what that means and he told me “mostly I don’t play video games with zombies” and I think he’s onto something

I worked in a machine shop running CNCs. I started by working on parts for microscopes and electrical housings and made what felt like an army’s worth of assault weapon uppers before I quit a week later.

Mmmm ice cream so good!

I can imagine an entire nation where this is true at most workplaces.

Pretty rare anyone says it explicitly tho

Yea but at least we still get the FB tier memes

Using anything other than local is a garbage heap

I don’t want to speak for everyone but I’ll say this for myself.

After being told for over 20 years that I should still be morning these people and for the same amount of time our foreign policy hasn’t gotten any better, in fact it’s worse just makes me angry. They died and we’re worse as a country for it. It makes me deeply sad, but at some point the sadness just became a bitter sense of humor I reckon as a defense mechanism so I didn’t truly descend into madness.

Or in other words, it jokerfied me.

and there's no nuance around it?

The fact that the whole ordeal was a giant fucking tragedy caused by American imperialism is funny for that reason, not because those people are dead.

That is the nuanced take.

Outer Wilds comes to mind although it tells its story in a very different manner.

Trying to play games with a large narrative component designed for mass appeal after playing Disco Elysium makes me wanna take a Dremel to my skull so I can carefully remove my brain and throw it into traffic.

I wanna make a popular video game with the most robust character creation anyone has ever seen but it will not let you make a standard white guy.

Nah your fine I didn’t take it that way