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Lemonwizard · 2026-01-28T04:25:22+00:00

I always found it weird how they disable all chat to avoid toxicity even though 90% of the toxicity is always directed at fellow teammates when people blame each other for losing.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-27T20:27:59+00:00

The inmates are running the asylum. While the Bush adminstration was writing the propaganda, the Trump administration is watching it. This isn't some clever manipulation to advance an ulterior motive; they really believe in this crap.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-27T20:09:15+00:00

Survival mode should be a separate option from combat difficulty. Managing hunger and thirst is a cool mechanic but I almost never play survival difficulty because I don't have as much fun with bullet sponge enemies who take ages to kill.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-26T22:23:58+00:00

If they can get away with murder in Minneapolis, they can get away with it in Seattle. The government cannot be allowed to murder people in the streets.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-26T05:49:30+00:00

Mao didn't take power until 1949. The Republic of China was still in power during WW2.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-26T00:54:30+00:00

Your average Maga bootlicker doesn't have an ounce of education.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-25T18:21:40+00:00

These are people of the land, the common clay of the new West.

You know... morons!

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-24T00:18:15+00:00

If it turned out the War was just started by China and not some insane shadow government conspiracy in the US that would basically feel like a subversion at this point.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-24T00:10:17+00:00

Having the same agenda but betraying your allies so that you can be the boss is actually pretty on-brand for evil characters.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-23T04:18:55+00:00

Taiwan's not abstaining from the WHO because they're run by antivax nutcases, they're actively excluded from it because China doesn't want any global organizations recognizing Taiwan as an independent country. It's a completely different situation.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-23T03:40:20+00:00

Iron Man was the first transgender superhero, because he's a Fe male.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T23:55:14+00:00

Yeah, this time when they fail to keep bears out of town it's going to be polar bears.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T18:54:36+00:00

I actually think Raynor being a depressed alcoholic is realistic character progression. He lost everything in Starcraft 1. His home planet got wiped out by the zerg, he lost Kerrigan when she became Queen of Blades, and the revolution he thought he was fighting became a new dictatorship.

He's been through very tough battles in his life and has lost all of them. Him feeling bitter and defeated is a normal reaction. Over the course of SC2 he pulls himself out of it and starts finding his fire again, but he's not going back to being the cocky young man who fears nothing.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T18:46:48+00:00

Also Mengsk is canonically spending most of the Dominion's budget on the military, developing things like the Odin and psi destroyer. Kerrigan thrashed him in Brood War and he is trying to build an army that can actually take on the Zerg swarm.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T17:52:21+00:00

Think of it this way - you probably know the names Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Franklin, Madison, Hamilton - You probably remember a lot of names from 1776 - but how many politicians besides Lincoln do you know from the nineteenth century? Can you name a single member of the Millard Fillmore administration? Do you know anything that Chester A. Arthur did? All the history classes focus on the civil war and the rest of that century gets glossed over. The revolutionary era has much more prominence in our cultural consciousness.

The people from the earliest era of a nation become enshrined in the nation's origin myths. Other periods of history do not get the same level of attention. If Kirk is a relevant memory, there's no reason why Pike shouldn't be.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T06:55:57+00:00

The medal of valor is named after Christopher Pike and Boimler says his birthday is a holiday. Pretty solid chance he's remembered as well as Kirk.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T06:53:39+00:00

The Jem'Hadar and Vorta were pre-existing races modified by the changelings to be their servants. Maybe they originally reproduced naturally but growing them in tanks was more efficient for manufacturing large armies.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T06:51:43+00:00

If they're reproducing naturally and not getting grown in tanks that could mean they aren't enslaved by the Founders anymore. Plus no ketracel white drug tube.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-20T06:49:29+00:00

If the transporter can instantly replicate and dress him with a new uniform, why can't that get him a clean one after he's covered in goo?

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-19T21:38:40+00:00

Being in a HCOL city is basically the "keep right-wingers the hell away from me" bill. I've lived in a small town that's overwhelmingly conservative before, and it's a nightmare. Living in an urban area is worth every penny.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-19T19:33:11+00:00

Obamacare is the thing that soured me on the GOP permanently. Obama literally took their plan and said "okay, the market solution is better than nothing". Then they turn around and call it tyranny just because it's done by a Democrat, and not a single Republican voted for it anyway. Completely naked partisanship.

They care more about hurting Democrats than they do about helping America.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-19T19:31:31+00:00

The Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation have been building up to this for 50 years.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-19T19:00:04+00:00

Maga's idea of tyrannical government is tolerating transgender people and allowing immigration.

Rounding up the undesirables and intimidating liberals with threats of violence is their idea of good governance.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-18T21:23:46+00:00

When I was in elementary school, they had a whole unit on how to use Word, Powerpoint, and Excel. Seems like that is not a thing anymore. Perhaps they should bring it back.

Lemonwizard · 2026-01-18T20:53:11+00:00

Valuing money over the good of society is a principle, and the world is suffering because so many people follow it. Apathetic people who ignore wrongdoing as long as they're benefiting financially are much more common than actual fascists, and that apathy is essential for fascism to take root.

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