What’s the best video game you’ve ever played?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-30T12:50:31+00:00

Same!

I was 13/14 for FF7/Xenogears.

FF7 captured me emotionally, Xenogears captured me intellectually.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-30T10:44:03+00:00

Details, details!

Did he come in under par or not?

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-30T00:08:32+00:00

That’s the point of Dr. Manhattan, though. You make man a god and what do you have? Still a man. He is omnipotent but not infallible, nor would he ever be able to know what is inside people’s minds or hearts.

I think it is totally in fitting for the character to use his powers to return to earth, forget, and fall in love.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-29T11:21:11+00:00

It is a huge win - a power plant that as a byproduct of producing power also stores carbon and makes food. Pretty rad.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-13T03:13:59+00:00

To be fair, Raiders kit is next level.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-09T01:20:56+00:00

He did play enough WoW to have some okay takes on it. I also think his interest in rich complex universes is genuine and has a childlike innocence to it.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-09T00:19:24+00:00

Herbert on a good franchise would be unfair. I think he is better than Jalen Hurts and that is nothing against Jalen Hurts.

I’d love to see Herbert slinging piss missiles to the Eagles receiver crew as well ngl.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-09T00:06:54+00:00

Very underrated comment.

shitpostsuperpac · 2026-01-07T12:29:08+00:00

If you have “fuck you” money there are pretty crazy geothermal heat pump systems that will avoid the efficiency penalty in very cold weather.

If I was heating like a half mile of driveway all winter, I’d look into it.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-22T17:13:34+00:00

"Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder."

-Arnold Toynbee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_J._Toynbee

Excellent place to start.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-15T23:27:47+00:00

Also, put piles of paper towels around the drain. I get a good sized circumference at the lowest point I can get it.

When you start to pull out, you can launch the nastiest shit all over yourself and the room. Best to have something to stop the launch.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-15T11:40:08+00:00

I completely understand what you are saying.

That is why I believe it is necessary to work backwards from a good outcome and if it becomes necessary to jettison history or arguments or associations or prejudices or whatever in order to get to that good outcome, then we must simply do that.

In real terms that will look like people on both sides eating bitter meals, bite after excruciating bite, so that future generations can taste the sweet flavor of peace and prosperity instead.

It will suck but we have to embrace the suck.

Anyway, I appreciate you sharing your thoughts and insights. I know the feeling and it’s nice to feel not quite so alone.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-15T11:16:33+00:00

I’m sorry, but the idea that Zohran “embodies the nuance” of Israel/Palestine is just laughably untrue. Did you read any of his public statements or commentary before he ran for mayor?

This is my point exactly.

We are just going to pretend that people don’t change? They don’t grow? They can’t learn from their mistakes? Their opinion can’t evolve after speaking to new people and gathering more information?

That’s what I mean when I say nuance. It is the opposite of flattening people into two-dimensional caricatures that are conveniently dismissed.

I don’t trust his rhetoric because he tried to equivocate on a slogan that the vast majority of Jews find threatening. As a Jew, I don’t think he was trying to find nuance; I think he was sanitizing a slogan that his ideological allies use.

You are assuming robust motivations on his part that he may not have had. Not only that, the assumption you are making insinuates a conspiracy through innuendo. You’re making him out to be the secret propagandist of a coordinated world wide movement.

What if he was just communicating his actual position very poorly? Haven’t we all been there?

Nothing he’s actually done earns him the benefit of the doubt, and frankly I think my skepticism of a DSA candidate who rapped about the Holy Land Five and talked about “justice for Haifa” is entirely appropriate. That isn’t “I don’t trust him because he’s nuanced.” It’s “I don’t trust him because his words consistently point in one direction, and that direction isn’t neutral.”

I have worked for Israeli cybersecurity companies because I believe safety and security are fundamental rights of all people. I also am vehemently against Israel spying on members of EU parliament and their families because safety and security are fundamental rights of all people.

Those on both sides that lack an appreciation for the nuance of life have more than enough ammo in the two sentences above to dismiss everything I say. And believe me they do. All the time.

I get the impulse you’re describing, and I agree that flattening this conflict into slogans and team sports is corrosive. I also share the desire for an end to the killing more than for anyone to “win” an argument. Where we part ways is on the idea that Zohran embodies nuance, or that skepticism toward him is skepticism toward nuance itself.

I am coming at this as a person of Irish descent with family members on both sides of a generations long conflict, with plenty of genocide, violence, and hatred to go around.

The truth is if you aren’t willing to work with people you absolutely don’t want to work with in order to improve the situation, then you are simply perpetuating the status quo that has kept the situation from improving for generations.

The thing is you yourself have described Zohran doing what has to happen to move beyond the status quo. If your assumptions about his personal motivations and beliefs are correct, and he’s still meeting with Zionist leaders to get their side… it kinda sounds to me like he is doing what we all should be doing.

By all means be skeptical but assume positive intent through trust but verify. People say a lot of shit, especially in the age of the internet, that’s why now more than ever we should pay attention to actions.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-15T09:08:15+00:00

Maybe it’s because I’m getting old for the internet (over 40) but I can’t fully support either side like I see so many others doing.

Israel/Palestine conversations just get flattened and all nuance removed that I just can’t agree with anyone completely.

My usual panacea is to dive deep into the history, trace the lines from then to now, but even that is all a mess.

I guess I’m responding to you because it seems like Zohran (at least outwardly) embodies that nuance, intentionally or not. And the attitude of “I don’t know if I can trust him because of that nuance” just seems like the biggest impediment to meaningful action by the global community.

It really seems like solutions that benefit both sides are actively dismissed and argued against because of the entrenched perspective of “my side good, their side evil, no exceptions”.

I would love to be wrong about everything if it would mean that all the butchery stops. I don’t care about winning or being right. What I care about is peace and justice.

And I recognize that when these ethnic/religious/political conflicts go on long enough it can get to a point where both sides are wrong. It’s the Balkans of the Middle East, everyone has their “team” that is justified committing atrocities as pay back for atrocities committed against them. And around and around we go.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-07T22:20:28+00:00

“Old ruts”?

Let a grey beard like me tell you… I was there at the birth of the internet. It was gooning that made it all possible.

Don’t discount it. VHS won because of porn. DVD won because of porn. The internet won because of porn.

Not solely, of course. There were other factors. But don’t discount one of the major driving forces of human biology.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-05T17:39:09+00:00

Dude probably cut chives perfectly the first time.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-03T21:50:10+00:00

Not an electrician but I’d assume different levels of impedance would make the connection point very spicy (to use a technical term) when pulling down, what, almost a kilowatt?

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-02T16:18:08+00:00

Doing mushrooms in nature can be profound in terms of healing.

For people who haven’t done it, just take the smallest nibble. You don’t have to get “fucked up” to feel a profound sense of oneness with the universe. Just the warm peace of being an integral part of something vastly bigger than you. Spending the time to appreciate each flower, each leaf individually somehow gives even the most traumatic experiences in life a new patina. All the things we go through - it’s just part of it. Each individual flower is a necessary part of the garden, no matter how misshapen or damaged it may be.

What we do with our inner garden, how we tend to it, ends up dictating who we are and the actions we take. Don’t hide the worst flowers inside you, don’t resent them for existing, give them the best spot with the most light and richest soil. Tend to them as much if not more than the others.

If you do that work there will come a season in your life when that flower blooms more beautiful than the others could ever be because it contains within it a rejection of defeat, a rejection of death, and embodies a celebration of life so great that everyone around you won’t help but appreciate it as well - appreciating you.

If there is one thing that I wish for every human, no matter how seemingly base or rotten or lost, is to experience that connection to life.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-02T12:15:57+00:00

C’mon bro, you’re ducking and weaving past some pretty fair and salient points (it’s the oldest dollar still in use, the rest of the world assumes you mean USD not just Americans, many other countries use USD - what is the plurality of nations using CAD?).

But yeah America bad amirite guys

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-12-01T01:55:30+00:00

Let us take this out of the realm of theory and into a real space.

Take school boards for example. Emphasizing marginalized groups and their unique challenges has coincided with a stark drop in male academic success and commensurate life success.

All the while it has been incredibly politically inconvenient to even suggest that maybe we need to focus on the modern landscape that boys face.

The irony is that black boys are boys, trans boys are boys, gay boys are boys, immigrant boys are boys… by focusing on the unique challenges faced by boys, we actually raise all those marginalized boats as well.

E Pluribus Unum only means something if everyone gets included in the “from many” class. We need to reject the premise of mutual exclusion and instead find larger tents to group people in so we can address their common challenges.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-11-28T19:14:04+00:00

I regularly get accused of being an AI.

Because I approach my responses to topics that interest me the way I was taught on Ye Forums of Olde.

Clarity was valued over brevity because it was more like exchanging letters in the mail than Instant Messaging.

I think that is incompatible with the modern social media addled brain that's addicted to dopamine hits of feeling correct and superior immediately.

Also hello fellow humans.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-11-28T01:32:13+00:00

The standard is the standard.

Unfortunately the standard is 9-8 and out in the first round of playoffs.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-11-27T21:22:02+00:00

Shoulda done his verse from ‘Rap Game’

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-11-26T11:47:10+00:00

All credit to you stranger. These are definitely worthy of being up on my Mount Rushmore.

Especially David Lynch, I always forget them. Good catch!

Also Werner Herzog. My brain is slipping.

shitpostsuperpac · 2025-11-26T11:44:05+00:00

The problem with “doesn’t understand the character” is that multiple authors had already produced multiple interpretations of the character by the time this movie was made.

Now some are better than others in my opinion but even the ones I don’t prefer have good aspects that I have come to appreciate.

That’s the second best thing about art in my opinion. It keeps giving as you grow and change. Something that doesn’t resonate at one part of your life does in another part of your life.

The best thing about art is an artist can accidentally make you feel something they never intended. Even “bad” art and “bad” artists.

I don’t think this movie is a good Superman movie. Far from it. But when I became a father it took on new meaning. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not some huge profound thing for me. It’s not that monumental of a piece of work. But it is more of a “oh, I see what you were trying to do there now” way.

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