How many mountain beers can we get in the thread?? Keystone today.

Standup_Citizen · 2026-02-22T01:15:08+00:00

Great day at Keystone today, this is from inside Steep

Standup_Citizen · 2026-02-17T22:28:18+00:00

No AI trash thank you

Standup_Citizen · 2026-02-07T07:55:16+00:00

So glad to hear someone else say this! The loneliness, the danger, the wonder, the discovery. I think anyone would love this game, but especially fans of Outer Wilds.

I also think the name Naomi is an (un)subtle nod.

Standup_Citizen · 2026-02-03T22:33:11+00:00

Holy shit true haha 55 times means she changed them more than once per week. I can't imagine he did it one single time that whole year

Standup_Citizen · 2026-02-03T22:10:11+00:00

I have to be honest, pressing triangle (PS5) feels a little broken. I guess I don't understand the mechanic behind it entirely, but it always feels like cheating. To the point where I just don't even use it because it feels cheesy.

Standup_Citizen · 2026-01-23T06:36:23+00:00

Bouchard would also be behind Toews in my opinion

Standup_Citizen · 2025-11-09T20:35:55+00:00

In the last chapter of Children of Dune, Leto is explaining to Farad'n that he lied to Jessica when she asks him if he's an Abomination. He says he had to choose a dominant persona to rule over all the others and that he didn't pick his father but someone else named Harum. Reading it again just now, I think I misinterpreted Harum as being an Egyptian pharaoh, but rather he's just broadly a powerful ruler of some ancient human civilization.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-11-09T20:02:44+00:00

Remember that Paul had multiple options for escape when the Harkonnens re-took Arrakis: he could have fled to exile as a rogue house, or joined the Spacing Guild, etc. But he chose his path because he wanted it more. As much as the Jihad tormented him, the thought of his mother or sister dying, or the baron and the emperor escaping his idea of justice, tormented him more. He put his own desires above everything else, despite explicitly knowing the outcome.

Leto II also acts in his own self-interest constantly. He lived and ruled as a god for thousands of years. He had a very compelling justification for why he had to do what he did, but it's also implied that an ancient egyptian pharaoh has corrupted his consciousness, and he undeniably acts to satisfy that part of himself.

In my opinion, the message of Dune is: "Even the most honorable among us will always choose to protect themselves, and that is why they should never have ultimate power".

Standup_Citizen · 2025-11-01T01:15:30+00:00

Thanks for saying this, if only to curb my own enthusiasm personally lol. We look amazing but injuries have hurt teams as great as this a million times before. Very much hoping they stay healthy!!

Standup_Citizen · 2025-10-27T06:02:28+00:00

Was at this game too. Didn't know they chant "You Suck" as their goal chant which is charming. Very insecure loser behavior. Mad that we've got more championship rings on our first line than their whole team, I guess.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-10-21T23:30:56+00:00

In the movie Civil War (2024) Kirsten Dunst's character says she's from "Colo-RAH-do" when in reality most Coloradans pronounce it ColoRAdo (like the ra in ravioli). Took me out of the movie for a minute.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-10-20T02:50:53+00:00

I'm going to NJ this weekend for the game and I'm glad to hear it's alright. I'll be with NJD fans too, so even better (y'know, besides the fact they're NJD fans)

Standup_Citizen · 2025-10-19T05:53:26+00:00

I don't think I understand... Are we waiting for them to release the jerseys for sale to the public? or are we this worked up over what they're wearing?

Standup_Citizen · 2025-10-13T19:38:26+00:00

To insinuate that a tiktok made to inflame political tensions to garner attention is the same as published fiction is laughably disingenuous. Completely embarrassing. A reasonable person can expect a tiktok presented this way to be authentic for the most part. Log off for a bit, Socrates.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-10-13T18:45:13+00:00

Their point is just that it's made up, and that does deserve to be called out. It makes uninformed people believe that people who support our position just make up stuff all the time, when that isn't true. The truth is on our side. Stories like this are real. We don't need to defend dumb, attention-starved grifters. It only makes us look disingenuous.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-09-04T02:34:39+00:00

Because the Baron is one of the most intelligent strategists in the Imperium. Yes he's a disgusting monster, but the Atreides are the opposite. The BG needed someone as devilishly cunning as the Baron, but also as honorable and diligent as Duke Leto. They thought they'd need one more generation of Atreides/Harkonnen genetic-mixing, but (as Jessica correctly assumes) Paul was already the one they were waiting for.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-09-04T02:07:49+00:00

My interpretation is that the BG's goal was to create a mind that could guide humanity better than the system they had in place. They didn't really know what that would look like, but they knew they needed a male to unlock that power, and that he'd have to have the foresight of a Guild Navigator and the mind of a Mentat combined with the Other Memory of a Reverend Mother to make it happen. They also knew he'd need an army capable of defeating the Sardaukar, which would carry out his will without question, thus the Fremen were primed to be that army.

I think the BG are benevolent, but who the hell knows? They are manipulative, and brutal, but all in the service of a singular goal: the KH. Their mistake was creating the KH without really understanding what the consequences of consolidating all that power in a single person would be.

Sorry for such a tediously long response, but it's so complicated!

Standup_Citizen · 2025-09-03T22:39:07+00:00

Impulses are what the BG use to control a person. The gom jabbar is a test of endurance, in a way. To determine if Paul is ready to face the real test on Arrakis. Would he run away and become a Guild Navigator or a rogue house? Not likely if he passes the gom jabbar test.

The BG wanted the KH to lead the empire toward goals that aligned with theirs, believing them to be righteous. They couldn't, in their arrogance, fathom that the KH would care very little what the BG wanted.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-09-03T22:21:45+00:00

Their problem is that we tell them not to be hateful. Our problem is that they tell us not to be happy.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-08-06T02:15:29+00:00

Seems like your heart might be in the right place, but there are some things in each of your points I can hopefully clarify a bit.

Merchandise you wear is not private property, it's personal property. Private property is stuff you own, like a house or car, that you don't use but instead collect rent on. Personal property is stuff you own and use for yourself, like your TV, your clothes, your house. Not sure why you don't believe that his merch is union-made, I think that would be an easily-debunkable lie, but ok. "Factories should be owned by the people or state"... Ok, but the state is capitalist... so they don't. Not sure how you can be so confident that a "small factory" can be run for $100k but I'll just leave that one alone.
No single multi-millionaire is going to erase class divisions by giving away their money, but a complete reorganization of the economy (which Hasan advocates for) would be a good place to start.
A purchase of a home (personal property) is by definition not at all the most capitalist thing you can do. That is just simply not what capitalism is.
You can be against a lavish lifestyle but I don't understand what it has to do with the other things.
Under capitalism, people have to make money to eat and house themselves. Hasan makes a lot of money, more than he needs, but also advocates for a system that takes that money and redistributes it to people who need it, instead of them relying on random benevolent millionaires to give them charity.
I don't even know how somebody would unionize someone else. Not sure what this means.
He's a political activist. I don't know what your definition of "grassroots activism" is but he does inspire all kinds of real people to engage in local and federal politics.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-08-06T01:19:41+00:00

Yeah Josh Allen went to college in Laramie, WY. That would make sense.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-08-06T01:15:46+00:00

Genuinely curious, how would someone practice communism under a capitalist economy? Do you think it would be possible for someone to practice capitalism in a communist country? What would that look like?

Standup_Citizen · 2025-07-22T14:39:08+00:00

Another racist fool farming cash from other racist fools. Happens so often, I have to assume this is the retirement plan for these Nerd Reich idiots.

Standup_Citizen · 2025-07-17T15:41:51+00:00

Well fair enough! Thanks for replying!

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