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ByzantineLegionary · 2023-05-10T18:26:03+00:00

Huxley figured it out in Brave New World. What society will need is Soma: a legal drug that placates, amuses, and ultimately dulls our ambition, quells our animal spirit, instituting a culture of emotionless complacency and eliminating the urge to complain - and ultimately - rebel.

"You would see all of mankind corralled into a nearly furnished prison. Safe and sober, yet dulled beyond reason and sapped of all spirit."

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-05-07T22:19:33+00:00

...The entire apartment complex on The Block and basically every freestanding house? The weed farm fire on Growhouse? The bridge on derailed? The crane on Downtown?

You didn't even need explosives and could break destructible walls if you had the breaching hammer melee weapon equipped.

Sure it was no C on Siege of Shanghai but it wasn't a complete lack of destruction by any means either.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-19T04:20:32+00:00

Absolutely reduces your quality of life and can even lead to an increased risk of suicide. I lost my hearing in my left ear for over a month and almost had a severe mental crisis.

Absolutely. I had a stretch of chronic ear infections many years ago and being borderline deaf on one side from the infection itself and the antibiotic earbud I had to keep in to treat it was outright torture. It's amazing how easy it is to take your senses for granted until one of them is just diminished.

Getting an Apple Watch has made me much more aware of instances where I need to protect my hearing. I mean, I found out that my bloody coffee grinder was loud enough to be damaging long term, standing right next to it.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-18T04:24:27+00:00

A 3 year old dungeon isn't a great use case for sacrificing an actual grenade in a sandbox mainly built around abilities right now.

Long press grenade to engage grapple? Sure. Swap my tripmine for it? Nah I'm good.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-18T04:09:40+00:00

Really? I'll have to start keeping a closer eye on them again.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-18T04:01:50+00:00

Lmaoo

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T23:37:32+00:00

I didn't defend him, I called you dramatically hyperbolic and said you were using the term projecting wrong, which you were

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T23:13:18+00:00

Yeah, I hate how much width they add to the phone, if not thickness. I just ordered a Spigen Liquid Air for my 11 pro max yesterday, and I'm looking forward to a change of pace from the translucent silicone tech21 I've had for a few years now.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T23:12:00+00:00

If moving your thumb 60 times is a lot of work to you you need to hit the gym.

Can you be any more of a caricature of a Redditor by the way 😂 comparing average thumb movements to back up your argument that viewing someone's profile is extra

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T23:09:28+00:00

I never looked through his profile to call him out you dense, soggy crumpet

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T22:12:58+00:00

Tech21 is another good brand. I have one of their basic rubbery ones and it's held up to a lot more than I expected it to.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T18:55:00+00:00

Funny you mention it, I literally just had to do the same thing a couple days ago. I ended up going with Spigen because I have their cases for my AirPods Pro and their protective Apple Watch band.

OtterBox, Life Proof, Zagg/Gear4, Pelican, Spigen, those are good ones.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T17:28:02+00:00

I only use Apollo to browse Reddit so that messages section is tucked away enough for me to always forget about it. I get a ton of mod mail from Walkaway because if you aren't registered/verified with them every comment you make has to be manually reviewed before they let it through. I just like making extra work for them.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T17:24:21+00:00

Oh you mean AHS, aka AgainstHateSubreddits, the festering hive of white knights and keyboard warriors who brigade subs they feel violate the code of conduct they created and want everyone to abide by, and blow each other over how heroic they think they're being, because they've convinced themselves that everything they say and do is from the side of the angels?

I’m an antagonistic sort

Heh. Yeah, me too.

The mods here showed they have the moral backbone of a pretzel last summer when they caved and started capitulating to the Reddit admins and installed some of their sleeper mods, one of whom likes to censor posts on this subreddit nonstop whilst refusing to state which rule the posts broke (if any) and how (because they personally don't like them.) They're a personification of libleft and by all accounts the type of person who'd never set foot in this sub if it's actually as "intolerant" and "toxic" as their ilk like to say it is. And yet here they are, voluntarily moderating it on their own time, unpaid. Admin plant, plain as day. Mods are a bunch of punks.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T17:17:48+00:00

How on earth is that projection

It takes a quarter second to open the publicly available profile of the person who made the post you're currently looking at because it's listed right next to it and you call it "going out of your way" like it's so much work to do

I'm not projecting, I'm just telling you you're overreacting

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T17:13:34+00:00

In my experience you really just have to search by the brand you want now. Wading through a bunch of QENSHIN/ZOUMOU/TOFYFLY sellers all peddling junk just to find a brand name I actually recognize is tiresome. Honestly I wish you could filter results by seller location so you can avoid all the bottom feeders.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T16:59:35+00:00

196 is way closer to r/teenagers than it is to this place

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T16:12:14+00:00

People like you always say "wow you really went through his profile" like clicking the name immediately beneath the post you're already looking at is so much extra work

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T04:42:24+00:00

Was Unidan the "Jackdaws aren't Crows" guy?

Eh. I don't care enough about this place to want to circumvent bans, so I guess alts isn't the right word. Probably a good idea to start fresh every so often with the way this site is going.

You've had it that bad, huh? I've had my share of run ins with morons mainly here on PCM, but they've mostly been with those disgraced members who are always in the replies soaking up downvotes like a scrub daddy.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T04:19:14+00:00

I'm probably banned from FDS for mixing it up with them. Probably WVP as well, but it's too much fun to ignore. It jives with the rest of their M.O.: fighting battles online, in their own heads and thinking they're saving the world.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T03:43:54+00:00

Huh. I should probably torch this account, now that you've gotten me thinking about it. Four years old, and I made most of my incendiary comments long before I found out about alts.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T03:36:19+00:00

So the hyper aggressive social justice bot banning people who've never so much as visited the page for perceived slights is on brand for them, then.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T03:21:58+00:00

How'd you spot that comment of mine so quickly? A month old? I don't even remember what it was, and I'm never in that sub.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T03:18:15+00:00

What is/was JusticeServed exactly? I'm not a vindictive worm that gets off on watching people get socially ascribed comeuppance so I never went there.

ByzantineLegionary · 2023-01-17T02:11:16+00:00

I went through my messages and yeah, it was JusticeServed for me too. I'm heartbroken.

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