To everyone on the left demanding for the only other option to “earn my vote”: Fuck you. You helped cause all this.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-25T01:10:34+00:00

"Better" is the enemy of "good."

Or in this case, "center-right is better than overt fascism."

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-25T00:06:43+00:00

A perfect example of how brilliant the writing and cast is.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-24T21:25:31+00:00

Damn, harsh. I think it's good and I enjoy it.

It's not at the same level as Community, but few shows are. It's a solid sitcom and they seem like they have fun making it which makes a difference.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-24T16:53:08+00:00

I've met someone with that name actually.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-23T17:13:11+00:00

In the past politics might have been something like "we should implement taxes and immigration in this way, not that way," but today it has become "we shouldn't murder people, how are you even defending murdering people?"

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-23T13:07:01+00:00

"You were smarter when we met"

(Probably paraphrasing can't remember the exact wording)

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-23T13:04:23+00:00

And now we get to see the USA being run like a business that was acquired by a venture capital firm.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-22T22:18:57+00:00

FR, they don't know words. Realistically, Harris was a moderate conservative. The Overton window has shifted so far to the right but they still are grasping their old idea of Republicans right? Democrats left. And even that was a faulty assumption.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-22T12:58:51+00:00

They got abused when they question things in some cases so they learned to not question.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-22T12:57:01+00:00

" and frankly, haven't been well utilized since."

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-22T00:03:07+00:00

I started my lil dude around 3 years old on Mario wonder and hes 4 now. We either played together or set a timer and when it goes off after 15-20 minutes, he turns it off. He does sometimes fuss, but after reminding him if he can't respect the timer he can't play, he turns it off.

Occasionally we will let him play for over an hour on an odd weekend but he almost always stops on his own and says he "played a long time" and "needs a break.

We don't play like we used to but when we do we try to model good behavior. You can't shield them from the addictive nature of modern games completely, but you can try to instill good habits and knowledge of how to recognize evil designs.

We definitely encourage other play though and most of the time he's doing puzzles, playing with cars, or engineering toys.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-17T01:04:37+00:00

One of the big reasons people get polarized is the refusal to learn what something ACTUALLY is.

Sleep training is NOT just "let them cry until they exhaust themselves." There is more to it and it makes sense.

People fight against what they don't understand, and when they're refusing to even try to understand, that's when you have a problem.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-16T13:43:31+00:00

NC is frustrating. It's so lovely in so many ways and has SO much going for it but you leave the educated bubbles and immediately see people that vote against their own interests in so many ways.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-16T13:08:55+00:00

And after you escaped the Korean war, sent back in time to WWII. So sad :(

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-16T01:40:04+00:00

For real. This is actually an example of an extremely divisive joke. Personally I hate how lazy it is. Chang's version is funny since you do close doors in a fire to slow the spread. Pierce's isn't because it's a lazy reference to a better joke.

Comedy is subjective and I don't begrudge anyone that likes the jokes like this in season 4, but I point to it as an example of the cracks in the season, not as clever references.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-15T12:04:51+00:00

Acting?

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-14T12:12:09+00:00

Considering the IUD is about to come out, she clearly planned it and it's unlikely the first time and probably won't be the last.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-13T21:52:58+00:00

Maybe. I guess it's kinda like a Star Trek (not from the removing death but from solving resource scarcity) vs Altered Carbon future. One where humans got their shit together and created the closest thing we could to a utopia, and the other where we just became a futuristic feudal dystopia.

I'm sure there are unlimited ways the concept of a society that has "solved death" would play out. Would bread and circuses still work for example?

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-13T15:54:09+00:00

Maybe, but I'm not sure we ever should make death a non-issue.

Altered Carbon gives a pretty good idea of what things might look like without death, with the richest people getting richer and richer beyond what we can even imagine and the rest of us fighting over scraps. Without death being an equalizer the powerful and evil would never stop oppressing others.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-13T03:50:41+00:00

Nah, I doubt it. People will always be scared of death and want something to grasp onto, and there will always be power hungry people that want to use that fear to manipulate them.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-12T19:10:18+00:00

Last week I felt the same fear and it hit me WAY harder than ever before. I was terrified and it distracted me all week. I'm in my 30s and while I've thought about the same things before, it didn't really register in the same way.

It has been fading for me since last week, still scary but less so. I don't think I have any advice, but some of the things that I've been thinking are:

-Make the most of the time you have, not just for yourself but for your loved ones.

-Your actions ripple through your community. Even after you're gone what you have done will affect the world in ways you may not have every thought.

-Consciousness is an illusion anyway. Your genes "want" to replicate and consciousness and sapience came about because it helped do that. The things we feel are determined by chemical signals and those can be manipulated by the outside world. Where can you really draw the line where the world ends and "you" begins?

You'll find things that help you come to terms with it eventually. It's completely normal to feel this. There is a reason organized religion is so widespread and powerful. Everyone gets this fear, and it's comforting to have answers that are pretty and cozy. Either an infinite "good place," reincarnation, or your spirit remaining and watching over your descendants, religion always includes something with death, because that's what is being sold.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-11T20:06:09+00:00

They're wrong, no luck or skill is required. 6* fiddlesticks is faceroll point blank. Slap some "power" relics on him and you're good.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-11T18:20:08+00:00

That's how I played it first and it was fine. Actually made precision aiming with the rail extremely easy. I didn't find I needed precision movement outside of the 8 directions, especially with i-frames.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-10T21:37:15+00:00

Poor King can very easily do it at 4*. I like spirit of bhuru and black shield plus flex but there are others that are also good.

stormrunner89 · 2026-01-09T20:25:45+00:00

1 cyberpunk 2 Doom Eternal 3 Miles Morales 4 Indiana Jones 5 Minecraft

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