stembolts

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[–] stembolts 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

Keep in mind this is an undercount of Palestinian death.
I've heard counts well over 100,000.
Keep in mind that 67,000 of those deaths are women and children.

If that is their contribution to the world, Israel deserves no allies. Disarm them. Alienate them. Embargo them. Let them know what it's like to go at it alone.

[–] stembolts 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For similar series, I recommend Burnout and Flatout. See my comment in this thread for elaboration.

Career wise I think Burnout : Paradise City is the most fun of the games I mentioned because you have to go around the city finding hidden jumps, hunting cars roaming the city (when you catch them (by crashing them, of course) you get to drive them), and beating time trials that create unique opportunities to fly through the air and blast through traffic, ideally crashing your opponents into them.. anyway, I love the genre, hope you find your game!

[–] stembolts 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I adore the Wreckfest game. I played it, beat it, lost my save and was happy because I got to play it again. I think I've done that three times.

If you are like me and would like another game in this genre, try "Flatout Ultimate Carnage Collectors Edition", personally I find the crashing (as well as the racing) in FUCCE to be more satisfying than Wreckfest but both games are a must have for fans of the genre.

The only thing that Wreckfest probably does better is that it feels good on a racing wheel, I've never played Flatout on a wheek so I can't comment on that. Both are fine with a Steam, Xbox controller, or third party controller.

For the record many of the Flatout games are great, I just happen to think that FUCCE is the pinnacle. I would love to be wrong and find a better game so please feel free to share suggestions.

And for a more open world style game with collecting cars, crashing them, and causing carnage as the core theme (you still can't get out of your car) try Burnout : Paradise City, amazing soundtrack too.


Some of these games have quite unique game modes, the "High Jump" and "Long Jump" in FUCCE is a dumb as hell game and great for having friends compete on the couch.

Burnout has a mode where you have to incrementally take out X opponents before time runs out, X increasing as difficulty rises. And every time you take someone out you get boost so on a perfect run you're just exploding everyone at light speed lol. Then BAM WALL FUCK. Lol. That's the game.

And for a final unique game mode, the old Burnout games (not BPD unfortunately) had a mode where you intentionally caused maximum damage per time limit. It was hilarious throwing the car into traffic then dancing it around the city causing hundreds of thousands of damage in a scene so stupid it would have been cut from Final Destination. I think Burnout 1, 2, and 3 had it..

[–] stembolts 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good idea, thank you for the tips on how to disable it. Nothing more annoying than someone offhandedly mentioning something I should do and providing no details or elaboration.

Okay, maybe that was harsh, but really, not even an app name or.. literally anything?

[–] stembolts 5 points 3 months ago

As long as the jackass doesn't sell, they're solid.

I had a roommate who invested, when his stuff went down more than 5% he'd sell it, "Don't wanna be too risky," he'd say, unaware that he was breaking the cardinal rule of investing..

Then, "Omg it's up again, I better buy high before it goes higher!" then repeat pattern A again.

Moral of the story, if you actually believe in a stock, unrealized losses are not something to react to. Or do, and become a warning tale told to others, ha. Them -5% hits add up QUICK.

[–] stembolts 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] stembolts 2 points 4 months ago

Of course, but would that description be applicable to this situation? It's a subjective question of course so both answers work, but personally I do not think that this space matches that description.

I get that parents don't want their children hearing curse words because children are basically parrots, and I have no issue with that.

[–] stembolts 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)
[–] stembolts 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

A population who practices self-censorship is worrying to me as well. I'm no psychologist so take this with a grain of salt, but I read a LOT. I recall reading that when a population practices self-censorship, they engage in other censorship behaviors as well. I forget the details but in short, it's bad for a society to self-censor for many reasons.

Open to correction and addition, whatever I read it was many years ago so the details are quite foggy and I could even be misremembering. Lmk 😎

[–] stembolts 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)
[–] stembolts 5 points 4 months ago

However if you put it on the outside of the bucket nothing changes at all and this comment is a pointless thief of your time and attention. Sorry.

[–] stembolts 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We've all done it, I'm sorry if my joke wasn't apparent as well. Text is dumb.

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