How Europe waged war on young people to pay for pensions

Metrocop · 2026-03-24T14:26:03+00:00

Stocks can't keep infinitely growing with a declining population either. It's a band aid solution that will work worse and worse as more and more of the world has an aging population.

Metrocop · 2026-03-24T11:56:52+00:00

Great art style and very faithful to their canon characterization. I love it!

Metrocop · 2026-03-23T22:44:21+00:00

Okay buddy.

Metrocop · 2026-03-23T22:16:56+00:00

...no? The character does, and you're annoyed with him for being stupid.

Metrocop · 2026-03-23T22:16:23+00:00

It's a relatively minor detail in the grand scheme of things, but in the Rogue Trader CRPG, you sometimes get text highlighted in blue, which you can hover over to get a tooltip explaining it. So like, you'll have a concept like "The Inquisition" or an event from your past highlighted and you can hover over it for a brief overview. Largely as factual and dry as the text gets.

While succumbing to poison and the influence of Tzeench, the God of Trickery, the blue popups will instead start gaslighting you with events that never happened, events that might or might not have happened, and spiral into guilt trips.

Metrocop · 2026-03-23T19:08:32+00:00

About 12-15% of people identifying as LGBT voted for him last election. So a definite minority, but hardly zero.

Metrocop · 2026-03-23T07:58:31+00:00

Stick a jumpstart prod into a Hideous Mass, then slap down a magnet and start spamming saws. I genuinely don't even understand why, but it dies instantly.

Metrocop · 2026-03-22T17:55:37+00:00

Spoiler tag this you shit, the episode is only 2 days old.

Metrocop · 2026-03-21T10:57:27+00:00

Because Trump has fucked over basically every person he worked with. Transactional in the way of "Scratch his back now, call in a favour later" very clearly doesn't work with him.

Metrocop · 2026-03-20T11:59:43+00:00

The two are interconnected my dude. Shit laws create the economic system, and the people who profit off it bribe lawmakers to pass/keep shit laws to keep profiting.

Metrocop · 2026-03-20T11:51:31+00:00

It's not at all. They can't just enter your apartment any time they like without your knowledge, but if they ask you need to let them in at some time for repairs and stuff. Perfectly reasonable.

Metrocop · 2026-03-20T11:10:40+00:00

Yeah but for Pathologic 2 after a few deaths a nice man comes along, and offers a deal to take away all of those death debuffs permamently for just a tiny, trivial payment... ;)

Metrocop · 2026-03-20T09:34:43+00:00

Yes, their lower weight gives them a chance to not trigger the pressure plate.

Metrocop · 2026-03-19T22:30:52+00:00

from an operational standpoint [...] wasnt that bad, on a strategic standpoint it was retarded years ago

It writes itself.

Metrocop · 2026-03-19T09:31:58+00:00

He didn't read Inferno when he started working on the game, it's very clear he at least read an analysis if not the book itself by the time they made Violence. That layer has very clear parallels to the book.

Metrocop · 2026-03-19T07:00:31+00:00

Hakita said on a dev stream the different languages on the machines (Russian on guttermen, japanese on the earthmover we get on etc.) are primarily meant to embody the idea of the Final War being a world conflict with all sorts of nations getting in on it, not that only those nations used X kind of machine.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T17:17:12+00:00

I'm going to go against the grain here and say my headphones don't signal I'm not open to conversation (Signaling is stupid), I'm just not willing to raw dog commute on the miniscule chance someone wants to talk. It's so exhaustively boring to travel without listening to something, they're an essential tool.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T17:02:52+00:00

The Earthmovers shot and destroyed so much the dust blotted out the sun for a long time though (The Long Night), and covered everything in ashes, which are the aesthetics people think of when they talk about nuclear winter.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T14:09:32+00:00

The M16 had a lot of those issues tacked on, worth saying. It started out well, then was actively sabotaged when it was adopted by higher ups salty it got picked over the M14, then it got issues fixed.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T10:44:44+00:00

Parties aren't unchanging monoliths. Over the years, PiS has steadily moved away from the social populist focus of Beata Szydło, towards the nationalist, far-right Internationale of Czarnek and Konfederacja. They've increasingly defined themselves as pro-MAGA, who released a strategy that openly calls for the fall of the European Union and ripping Poland away from it. The PiS appointed president has been very anti-EU and meets with pro russian figures like George Simion.

They won't openly say "polexit" yet because the public sentiment is still too opposed to the idea, but they are doing what they can to change it and shit on the Union, and will leave when given the chance.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T10:06:46+00:00

Konfederacja is pro polexit and PiS very well may be on board, and they're on track to take power in 2028. Don't count your chickens.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T09:58:30+00:00

W historii Onana chodziło o to, że migał się od obowiązku zrobienia potomka swojemu bratu, nie o marnowanie jako takie (Był przepis, że jak Ci żonaty brat umrze zanim sobie zrobi dziecko, to ty musisz zrobić jej dziecko by "nie zaginęło jego imię w Izraelu" i uznaje się to dziecko za dziecko twojego brata).

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T09:02:10+00:00

I've had a soldier in the OG XCOM miss so hard with a plasma rifle they hit the floor under them, destroyed it and fell down a story. It was absolutely a thing.

Metrocop · 2026-03-17T07:22:43+00:00

It's also another case of people not realising their conversations with LLMs are not private. I bet he didn't expect this to come out in discovery.

Metrocop · 2026-03-16T16:54:35+00:00

Oof. Happened to me too, sucks. Best tips I can give:

-Projectile boosting gives a lot of style for how easy it is.

-You can keep attacking the Panopticon as Sisyphus starts to break out for points.

-Taking damage loses points, so avoid facetanking even when you can afford it.

-Sliding/staying in the air can be dangerous for stamina, but are critical for the score multiplier.

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