I tell students when they say, 'Oh they don't care what we think. They ignore us', and all that, and I say, 'Oh no, no. That's the only thing they care about you. The only thing they care about you is what you're thinking. They don't care if you eat correctly, they don't care how your living conditions are, they don't care that they've built up an inhuman and irrational traffic system that's strangulating us and polluting our air, they don't care about anything. What they... the only thing about you they care about is what you're thinking. In the morning, they start, 'What's going to be the story today? How do we manipulate, how do we control, how do we contain, how do we influence, how do we act upon what it is that they have in their minds? '
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Classic cop move to pull a gun and mag dump into a corpse so it looks like a firefight rather than an execution.
One of the best to do ever do it.
I once was looking into Lansky a bit more because I think the angle of the US government being an organized crime state is interesting. There seems to be a whole Neo Nazi subculture of blaming shit on Lansky and Rothstein. Disregard that the Italians and Irish also formed massive criminal networks that heavily dealt with the government.
Do you install breaker boxes or junction boxes of some sort? Maybe telecom stuff? Scraper to remove people putting stickers on the boxes in public. Screw driver to swap out components. Marker to write on the labels for breakers inside. Knife to open the cardboard boxes they come in. Needle nose to bend the little tabs. Snips to cut zip ties. Wrench for the conduit connections.
The libs are seeing an opportunity to use Trump against the "extremist elements" that have been winning over mainstream Dems in local elections.
Any news outlet that posts shit like this right now is actively trying to get people arrested or killed.
I recognize him from all those shorts I instantly scroll past on youtube.
So instead of continuing to pretend these people were fighting for freedom and helping the people of Afghanistan we're getting mad that Drumpf isn't saluting them, therefore tacitly admitting that these people died purely in service to US interests. Leave it to reddit to invent new levels of cuckoldry hitherto unseen.
This doesn't even make sense as a rhetorical device.
For anyone who feels there isn't a case for the US, this artifact was recently uncovered in Greenland. This ancient coin is evidence that Americans had settled the lands long ago, entirely before Denmark even existed!
New episode drops in a few hours (9PM EST) for the western hemisphere. It drops tomorrow (2AM GMT) for everyone else. Share your thoughts on the show, theories, and grievances.
Episode description: "Carol's new approach to The Others yields unexpected revelations; Manousos finds himself in strange territory upon regaining consciousness."
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Episode drops in a few hours (9pm EST) if you're in the western hemisphere. It drops tomorrow at 2am GMT elsewhere.
Episode description: Manousos begins a dangerous trek to meet Carol. Returning home from Las Vegas, Carol gets creative with her rebellion.
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Episode releases tonight (Dec 4) at 9pm EST.
Episode Description: "Carol shares a horrific discovery and learns new truths in the process. Mr. Diabaté lives life to the fullest in Sin City."
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What if they were awake this whole time but couldn't tell the difference? I think mods should sell their father's modding fortune to a Japanese business man. Or, more accurately, they think they should do that.
I'm building a portfolio so I can try to get a job doing environment art. I have a little bit of an idea how the art-end of game dev works. However I can't help but to think about what games I would make if I was a project director or lead designer. What are your game ideas? They can be as unrealistic or realistic as you like. Big or small.
Mine:
I want to do an immersive sim with retro graphics and homage Deus Ex, Systemshock, and even VTMB (in terms of atmosphere). A grungy cyberpunk game where it's night all the time. I want to bring in TrueAnon type conspiracy stuff to replace the more reactionary elements of DE. Large semi-open world environments set in various locations. The PNW or NoCal for rural forested areas inhabited by militias. Suburban areas with a retrofuturistic 90s vibe. Large high-tech dirty cities. The good gameplay qualites of Deus Ex but updated and with QoL improvements. Though I would probably get rid of the squeenix quest marker and hand-holdy stuff. Make the player have to talk to NPCs and look around to figure things out. I would keep the graphical fidelity comparable, but ramp up the size and amount of stuff in the game. Environments would be full of vignettes and minigames. Make it so that not playing the story is rewarding and fulfilling too.
Another one is a spiritual sequel to San Andreas. Set it in CA, NV, OR, and WA. Set in the mid 90s instead of early 90s. A single open-world. Absolute tons of mini games and side-shit to do. Bring in skateboarding and the real BMX gameplay that never made it into SA. Improve the gang recruitment and territory system. Create real factions between the police, gangs, and feds. Increase dating mechanics. Tons of weapons. More B&E mini-games. Drug selling sim that you can actually scale up and make a business out of. Probably simulate some kind of economy in the game. Deep character customization. Tons of vehicles. Heists. Casinos. Casino management. Street racing. Car customization. Improved tagging. Just tons of content. Again, I would keep the graphics roughly the same, just include more stuff.
I need a city sim/logistics sim game but set in world with a centrally planned economy. The city sim stuff would focus on urbanization and good city planning. The logistics stuff would supplement that and lend restrictions to what you can or can't do. Like cash would in a traditional city sim. Not only would you be responsible for your sims and their city, but you need to create and operate supply lines as well. Like a mix of Factorio, Skylines, and Railway Empire. I have more specific ideas on how this would work, but I've already wrote enough for one post.
I know this person can't respond but I want to make an important point for the people reading this.
You absolutely are saying it's right. You say that ICE was harassing a woman because they felt it was necessary, with no interrogation of what that actually means. As if ICE can only react rationally to what they perceive as threats, as if ICE can soberly and rationally perceive threats. Then you frame the shooting as an almost mechanical consequence, like that of a ball rolling down hill due to physical forces, of state power interacting with perceived hostility. Again this is without critical thought of what that truly means and assumes the state is just a rational actor abiding by some rational law, of which the victims failed to account. You're essentially saying it's like standing in front a freight train running at full speed. The nascent law of the universe says that the human sized object will be obliterated if they don't respect the kinetic energy of the multi-ton behemoth. Therefore it's kinda their fault for not stepping out of the way. Painting these human actions as some natural system of mechanics is endorsing it as the rule of nature. You are saying it's right because to go against it is to fight against the inevitability of nature.
None of this was inevitable. It's not the result of natural laws. It's not a Rube Goldberg machine that is impossible to stop once it's in motion. It is an intentional, manufactured outcome. It's an intentional decision by the leaders of the state to not intervene in protecting its citizens. It's an intentional decision by the leaders of the federal state to point untrained, highly ideological murderers at the citizenry to make a political statement. It is an intentional, multi-generational effort to make sure citizens are as defenseless as possible with the least amount of oversight or input into the state. These things culminate in yesterday's events. It is nothing to do with the individual decisions of Alex or the person he was defending. To frame it like their individual decisions is just as much a cause as the historical confluence of class struggle is morally repugnant and lacks any intellectual merit.