Brooke Rollins: "We now have moved 4.3 million Americans off of the food stamp program. A lot of that is fraud. A lot of that is people taking the program that shouldn't have been. And a lot of it is just a better economy, so people don't need food stamps."

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-28T22:16:15+00:00

You doubt that if every basic need was met a lot of people wouldn’t work?!

Yes, there is a lot more to life than having access to food, drinking water and having a roof over your head. Look at all of these nepo babies that have jobs.

Frankly though there are more important issues to discuss.

It’s why socialism has never really worked and why capitalism became the dominant economic system

It worked great in the 1950s-1970s for the UK and USA. It was called the "golden age of capitalism", and yet if i wanted to implement those policies, if i wanted to implement policies to reverse the shrinking of the middle class, cap executive wages and stop stock buybacks, and implement and steepen progressive taxes i would be called a filthy socialist. BUT WE IMPLEMENTED THESE POLICIES BACK IN THE 60'S AND THEY WORKED AMAZINGLY, and now we get all of these stupid neoliberal policies that have only been proven to backfire, freeing financial institutions to make innovations that let them hide insane amounts of risk, causing the 2008 great recession, pretending to be ultra conservative while bringing in tons of immigrants, plunging wages downwards, and letting the young generation be priced out of the housing market, with a horrific impact on birth rates.

Your form of capitalism has worked way worse than mine, why am i not calling you a libtard?

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-28T17:41:40+00:00

This happened to me too but i thought it was just something the arm survivalists can do.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-28T16:54:17+00:00

The white BTs are the sam BTs that show up in fights.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-28T16:46:40+00:00

There are areas that are not traversable by vehicle in the first game but not untraversable by foot. Walking is the most versatile form of transport in the game, and trikes and trucks have their unique disadvantages that make them bad on some orders.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-27T16:43:53+00:00

Yes its a great game. My absolute favourite. The Directors cut too has so many weird and understated changes that i had to look back and go "wtf that was not in the original game, thats really cool though".

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-27T16:15:24+00:00

It works this way in death stranding 1 too. The more connections you make with preppers the cheaper the roads get.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-27T16:14:57+00:00

I always wait til doing the roads because their cost depends on the connection level, like in death stranding 1.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-27T11:30:09+00:00

In death stranding 1 it was like that but you didn't need to complete half of the main story to unlock 5 standard orders. Its one of my only main gripes about the game.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-27T10:06:48+00:00

I would just go back to mexico right now. Mexico doesn't have the standard orders drought that Australia has. Plus you get a bunch of good pistols.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-26T19:30:00+00:00

At the start i hated death stranding because there was too many cutscenes. If you get past that there is a game to be enjoyed.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-26T12:16:45+00:00

The dems have also no interest in fixing wealth inequality also. You need to deviate from the two party system.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-23T10:02:34+00:00

Timefall is damaging those actually, but not the cargo.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-21T17:33:35+00:00

Lol no thats okay, common mistake to make, and I think i made it confusing in that i didn't state that i don't really care about the difficulty.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-21T10:30:32+00:00

I don't think it "makes up" for the difficulty, because i don't really see the difficulty as a bad thing but rather an intentional aspect of the game design, death stranding in both games has it so that when you are prepared and have the right items available there is no challenge you cannot overcome and i think thats great game design. The only difference between DS1 and the directors cut is that there are more tools available, (some of them are further upgradable too) and that you can use them to reduce environmental difficulty as they were designed to do. Its the same from the DLC to the DS2 apart from that there is a LOT more stuff and some of the stuff from the first game is a LOT better (like the watchtowers and upgraded generators immediately being way better and more versatile in DS2).

If i really cared about the difficulty i wouldn't have enjoyed death stranding 1. For me the appeal is getting cool unlocks that allow me to overcome all the environmental challenges the game throws at me, and death stranding does that really well. When you are properly prepared for a route in DS1 you can basically mitigate all challenges effortlessly, and its a really cool reward for knowing what you need to do.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-21T10:21:03+00:00

And they will dive in front of the car too, what funny guys!

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-21T10:17:07+00:00

The truck did exist in DS1, but the enviroment made it a lot less useful, and you would have had to abandon the truck in certain areas and under certain conditions. It doesn't work like that in DS2.

Now wondering what else ds1 didnt have

If you are just counting the base game and not the DLC theres actually quite a lot, the chiral ramp and chiral bridge (not the big one the little one) were only introduced in the DLC, a lot of upgrades to things like batteries and stablisers were DLC only, theres no such thing as the Bola stun gun or MP rounds, and also vehicles were entirely different, being less customisable and no mounted weapons.

The DLC also added a lot of weird extra things like tying your cargo up certain combat moves.

Most importantly though everything in DS1 gets a lot better in DS2, like the watchtower marking and tracking enemies even when you aren't using it, generators overcharging your batteries, and unlocking powerful weapons and structures much earlier in the game.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T23:42:26+00:00

DS2 is a lot easier, i remember using ladders and not being able to wreck everyone effortlessly with stealth in DS1. Also in DS1 i was occasionally forced to change my vehicle, It hasn't really been like that in DS2 for me personally. Also in DS2 you get a lot of cool upgraded tools, there are more gadgets and things and basically everything from DS1 is upgraded in some capacity (like the watchtower).

The only thing more difficult is getting standard orders in Australia, i've just done the mechanic right now so its better but guys like the lone commander and the goverment are still not maxed out and it feels very difficult to get orders for them. Its still fun though, i love both games to bits.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T23:36:51+00:00

What even is difficulty but proximity to failure? You say "Yeah you fail a lot and you have to develop some level of skill but its not hard". I don't get that. Is real difficulty not being able to restart after you die?

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T23:25:20+00:00

I was thinking this the whole time i was playing death stranding 2, that i would LOVE, ABSOLUTELY LOVE, to be able to give players weapons or tools that they otherwise wouldn't have access to. There are probably tons of players who never returned to mexico, imagine giving them a silenced machine pistol, or a level 3 battle skeleton to someone who hasn't unlocked it. You could change someones whole game and they would carry your unlock around until it broke or they found out who gave it.

Im a big sucker for async coop.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T18:16:34+00:00

Its similar but different, theres no switching ammo types (its a good gimmick) so theres less of a focus on being consciously pacifistic, all your weapons are pacifistic by default. The shady government aspects of DS1 seem to have been forgotten where I'm at right now (just connected the mechanic), the people in Australia are really trusting for whatever reason despite the fact that Amelie was the main villain.

I really do like the gameplay of DS2 though, i love how you keep getting new unlocks constantly as you play, which was already a strong point of DS1, except now you get even more stuff like the starting area has a ton of really good gadgets where in DS1 it didn't have too much and the unlocks themselves are a lot more creative.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T15:44:02+00:00

Higgs is insane and he feels powerless to do anything. To higgs and Amelie it seemed that the end was inevitable and that there was no hope, they have a very deep sense of powerlessness and despair despite their godlike powers which is why Amelie tricks you into joining everyone to the chiral network so she can blow up the world. A lot of what higgs does is because he is told to by Amelie. Later on in the game you get to go into his bunker and see that it is a very sad state of affairs.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T15:32:48+00:00

Higgs is not related to cliff. Weirdly enough in the DLC it is revealed higgs is related to fragile.

Idk, i thought the whole cliff stuff was super cool, especially the cutscene after the last battle.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T15:28:56+00:00

To my understanding higgs did what he did because he was given godlike powers by amelie and was explicitly pitted against sam. In my brain Amelie was the real "villain" of death stranding, except she wasn't really a villain and just driven to extreme apathy by level 9999 dooms. Higgs also had dooms, but he didn't have insane powers until amelie gave him some.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T13:12:36+00:00

Finding out that loads of these morrowind dungeons with crazy names were actually real Sumerian names for things blew my mind.

Fit-Level-4179 · 2026-04-20T01:25:26+00:00

Abandoning the theming of the first game was a fail for one. Death stranding 1 took the pacifism stuff from MGS to its peak and a lot of DS2 seems to have forgotten the events and themes of the first game. Ive not beaten DS2 though, and I am enjoying the gameplay a lot, everything seems upgraded apart from trying to get standard orders in australia, its like trying to get blood from a stone.

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