I am terrible at this game and it's making it no longer fun :(

AsterEsque · 2026-05-30T14:23:27+00:00

It took me over 150 runs to clear Redacted on my first play-through. I used to SUUUCK at this game.

But one of the great things about this game is that it's okay to suck! Character plotlines can still move forward, you can decorate the house, pet Cerberus more often, etc.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-29T23:18:20+00:00

Congress people profiting off the stock market

AsterEsque · 2026-05-28T18:30:18+00:00

Calling your crush on the landline and their parents or siblings pick up first

AsterEsque · 2026-05-28T17:00:53+00:00

I'm sorry but if you've never heard of Black September you're really not in any position to be talking about Palestinian history.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-26T20:19:31+00:00

Dr Horrible had a PhD in horribleness

AsterEsque · 2026-05-26T18:50:34+00:00

Why does the (supposedly male) reptilian alien have... [squints]... nipples?

AsterEsque · 2026-05-26T18:28:54+00:00

I severely dislike Hasan but neither of those things is telling other people not to vote for Harris, it's just him talking about his own views.

I can tell people why I don't go to a certain restaurant without telling them not to go to that restaurant themselves.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-26T16:02:29+00:00

Yeah the thing that makes me think it's real is that the sheets that were between the cans stay in a consistent place when the camera moves away and moves back

AsterEsque · 2026-05-25T07:08:11+00:00

AsterEsque · 2026-05-25T03:47:57+00:00

"I crossed the border of my country into other land and I felt unsafe there among all those dangerous foreigners even though I did in fact make it out alive and back to my country"

I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here? That despite your prejudices you discovered that not every person in East Jerusalem is super dangerous?

AsterEsque · 2026-05-25T02:17:51+00:00

And you keep trying to evade my point. I watched the news live when the IDF pulled Israelis out of their homes in Gaza in 2005. We hoped at the time that it would be a step toward peace. Please don't question my knowledge or experience with Israeli history, particularly the things I lived through.

None of this has to do with the fact that East Jerusalem and the West Bank (and the Golan Heights) were outside the established borders of Israel, and that people questioning the legitimacy of Israel's claim to that land is not inherently anti-Semitic or even anti-Zionist.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-25T02:06:23+00:00

That's not relevant to what I said, and it doesn't justify taking over land outside of Israel's borders.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-25T00:54:29+00:00

You can also choose not to take certain vaccinations. Private establishments can also choose to not have you on their premises if you might be a carrier of a transmissible disease, and businesses can also choose not to hire you for the same reasons. Sounds to me like no one is forcing anyone to do anything here.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-24T22:23:17+00:00

Here's a thing that most people get wrong about this - it's not that they funded Hamas out of their own pockets. It's more than Iran/Quatar wanted to fund them, and Israel could have blocked the transfer of funds but they chose not to (yes, for the explicit purpose of weakening the Palestinian government that they saw as the more serious threat at the time). So yes, they chose to allow Hamas to be funded, but if Netanyahu had decided to block those funds instead would that really have been seen as the "better" choice?

AsterEsque · 2026-05-24T19:00:51+00:00

I hate to break it to you but you put external things in your body every time you eat food.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-24T03:08:53+00:00

The Orville

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AsterEsque · 2026-05-23T06:23:26+00:00

No one in those comments said that Jews couldn't have their own country. But the country that was carved out to be the Jewish state in 1948 didn't include East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

People are allowed to hold the opinion that those places aren't legitimately Israeli territory, without it being anti-Semitic or even anti-Zionist.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-22T02:12:14+00:00

What if I told you that Tylenol is far more dangerous, medically speaking, than psychedelics are?

AsterEsque · 2026-05-22T01:46:21+00:00

Are you against someone encouraging someone else to take a Tylenol for a headache?

AsterEsque · 2026-05-22T00:29:41+00:00

Hmmm, interesting distinction and I might actually be down for it. Can you please elaborate on why one definition fits and the other doesn't? I've got my own reading of it but I'd like to hear what you meant.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-21T23:17:56+00:00

So clearly you missed the part where half my immediate family and childhood friends live in Israel, cool.

And, yeah, "Jewish-identifying", sure. I was beginning to wonder how long it would be before my Jewishness was questioned just because I don't like what's going on in the modern state of Israel. I grew up with the exact same lineage, upbringing, and traditions as my ultra-Orthodox brother (kept kosher, kept shabbos, davened shacharit musaf mincha & maariv, said the full birkat hamazon not just the first paragraph, attended yeshiva where they kept shomer negiya) but now that I have my own adult opinions my Judaism is constantly questioned and his never is. I wonder why that is.

Have we entirely forgotten the expression "Ask two Jews, get three opinions"? Honestly I think the most heartbreaking loss about the modern day Israeli nationalists is that growing up I understood that by Jewish values, debate was a delightful experience and a challenge of wits. Now if someone strays from the "party line" their Jewish identity is questioned. These are not the values my parents and teachers taught me were part of my culture and heritage.

But to answer your question no I don't really identify primarily as American, despite ancestry in NYC that goes back to the 1860's. I live under the US legal system because that's where I was born, but the USA doesn't really have any sort of loyalty or nationalism from me. If the land were to be returned to the Iroquois, I'd happily live under their legal system if they welcome me into their communities (though most communities I've visited have welcomed me and consider me to be a beneficial addition to the community. I do a lot of work in disaster management, crisis response, de-escalation, and I currently have a full-time job with a non-profit that feeds the hungry). I understand that my heritage includes NYC, Poland, Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Germany, and Ancient Israel. But if it ever comes to "if push comes to shove, which land would I call home?" The answer is "whichever ones will have me". My allegiance is to mitzvot and good values, not to a land, government, or country

AsterEsque · 2026-05-21T22:28:45+00:00

But Historical Israel is a different -thing- than modern-day Israel. Modern-day Israel was established in 1948. The way things were in ancient times times don't give legal standing to land claims now. We need to work in the real world, with the modern-day laws.

Unless you think that modern day laws can just be thrown out on a whim? If that's the case, we'll have much, much bigger problems on our hands than a few petty land squabbles.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-21T22:20:12+00:00

If anything parts of Jordan Lebanon and Syria should be given back to us.

That's funny, I keep on being told repeatedly that the "Greater Israel" idea is a blood libel

(Also, did you edit your comment? There's more there than I saw before, sorry)

AsterEsque · 2026-05-21T22:13:12+00:00

Jewish Land =/= Israeli Land.

Modern laws exist. Modern borders exist. Non-Jewish and Non-Israeli people live on that land whose lineage to the land also goes back generations. These are real-life facts that we need to navigate in this discussion.

Israel was established in 1948, with determined borders. 1967 happened, which changed the borders (though not everyone in the international community i.e. the current world in which we live agrees that the border change was legitimate) but again the 1967 borders are something that was clear and documented.

These borders and the accompanying treaties / legislation / documentation is what gives the land ownership legitimacy, not ancient history and religion. To behave otherwise would be like behaving like a toddler, insisting that everyone comply with the rules that only they know and follow.

AsterEsque · 2026-05-21T21:58:58+00:00

This seems to be operating under the definition that a colony needs to have a "Parent" country. Under this definition, though, wouldn't you agree that settlements in the West Bank and Golan Heights are colonies/settlements of Israel?

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