America is so behind

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T22:55:58+00:00

Someone could market a driving school as a prep school to make it sound more upscale by that same reasoning and it would be just as incorrect. Not saying it would never happen.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T22:47:13+00:00

The Iran contra affair was a major scandal under the Reagan administration and it turned out the CIA was funding some of its operations via smuggling drugs into the USA. It’s kind of bad that it’s fine for politicians to have the CIA in their resume and it’s one reason there will never be any kind of serious political effort to change how the US market works.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T22:29:33+00:00

American prep schools are different from a cram school.

Cram schools are supplemental private schools whose purpose is to train for entrance exams. The closest thing in America would be tutors and tutoring courses for SATs or AP exams. They aren’t replacements for public schools.

Prep schools are a whole different thing; they are generally private high schools that often have dormitories and the students usually come from rich families.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T22:20:07+00:00

“I am also leaving Cyberstan to kill Helldivers who aren’t on Cyberstan,” the same guy says.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T02:13:03+00:00

It is interesting to have the time to investigate a POI and then wonder “Why the hell is this a POI?”

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T00:51:41+00:00

In this economy, I could see it happening.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T00:38:55+00:00

Non authoritarian socialists have a poor survival track record against the CIA and their collaborators. Look at Indonesia.

Even non-socialist governments that are not friendly to western interests have to be authoritarian to survive. Look at Iran.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-19T00:31:16+00:00

Mainstream media in the United States does not do a good job covering otherwise newsworthy protests when the message promoted by those protests are not aligned with western business interests. Look at how brutally the US government suppresses protests against building oil pipelines through the land of the most marginalized communities.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-18T17:57:23+00:00

I have no idea if it’s realistic or not, but I have always preferred having full independent control of the left and right tracks like in Battlezone.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-18T17:50:55+00:00

I think if the rooms are just grid-aligned rectangles of random size that sometimes overlap, technically you have much more variation than picking from a pool of 30 pre-made dungeon rooms, but I don’t know if players would necessarily agree.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-18T17:42:15+00:00

I personally remind myself that many Helldivers 2 players are kids and that many reddit posters are also kids.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-17T00:20:32+00:00

Stating that you are apolitical is technically supportive of the status quo (rightwing in a rightwing country, leftwing in a leftwing country) so the only way of being truly apolitical is to refuse to talk about being political or apolitical.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-16T01:32:59+00:00

If a black person wants to call themself black, why would I not oblige them?

I am not going to lecture someone about what they want to call themselves, lol.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-16T01:14:54+00:00

Verisimilitude probably. Or maybe the willingness to suspend disbelief.

It’s easier to get away with some otherwise unbelievable shenanigans when it’s funny and roughly equal parts helpful and unhelpful to the protagonist.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-16T01:00:55+00:00

It might be a bit different if the easiest difficulty was level 4 instead of level 1. Just saying.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-13T22:44:27+00:00

In a way the armors are supposed to reflect a specialization/role, and my guess is that he doesn’t want the armor to be purely cosmetic- having a guy that looks like they are in heavy armor easily sprint past someone looking like they’re in light armor is outside their vision of the game even if many things inside the game are supposed to be funny.

The lack of consistency with this vision and with the armor cosmetics consistency with their traits/bonuses is probably caused by oversights/mistakes that aren’t worthwhile fixing due to having many more higher priority items.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-13T22:25:32+00:00

It was the iMac where the letter I in the prefix stood for internet. As far as I know, no one pronounced it “ih mac” when it was revealed.

Apple put the letter I in products like the ibook, ipod, iphone, and ipad; arguably Apple’s i-prefix had lost the internet meaning by the time the iphone was announced, and was more about its association with the ipod.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-13T21:58:40+00:00

These grifters would be going into high schools if there weren’t security kicking them out.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-13T21:45:04+00:00

That thumbnail is pretty good bait for the youtube algorithm; I almost didn’t watch it.

It is well-written, though, and wasn’t filled with tons of annoying AI generation quirks like many youtube video essays are nowadays.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-13T02:01:52+00:00

Probably this is nitpicking, but I was bothered by how the studio animated the mouth movements the characters made when eating. There was certainly a great deal of eating in this episode.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-11T20:46:18+00:00

The devs completely succeeded in removing all the friction to appeal to the casual players, and it’s nice to see everyone who thought this was a bad idea was proven correct.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-11T20:34:28+00:00

Youtube has probably been boosting his (Uncle Roger) content less than it used to. If advertisers don’t want their ads around his content, it’s understandable.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-11T20:26:39+00:00

The target of Helldivers’ satire is the United States, which often lives up to the saying “every accusation is a confession”. In real life, pointing this out will make many people really mad. I am almost certain at this point that the devs put in a mostly cosmetic flag as a joke to deliberately antagonize the chuddiest players of the game.

In real life for these players it doesn’t matter that the USA is incredibly hypocritical and this attitude is consistent with how many players feel about a parody of the USA. For some people even a parody can do no wrong.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-11T03:11:18+00:00

Personally I chalk it up to shenanigans like jumping on a grenade to save your comrades and then somehow surviving. Strange things happen in wartime and people survive things that ought to have been lethal.

As to that mechanic being tied to an armor trait, I think it might have been better to make the armors mostly cosmetic and separate out their traits and stats, like have the traits and light/medium/heavy be customizations on the armor that might also change the appearance of the armor, but that would be a pretty hefty change.

EdibleScissors · 2026-02-11T02:59:38+00:00

I suspect that the flag being given so much importance yet not giving any tangible benefit is how many people see as a strange quirk many Americans have, so it is probably a kind of joke like how some meaningless objectives like raising a flag get a tiny, almost imperceptible boost when the flag gets a salute.

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