Evil god, good monster. Convert villages with displays of power while your loveable idiot puts out fires and gathers food. Slam dozens of worshippers into the pit to fuel your miracles. Having an evil beast is way more chaotic and you spend a lot of time cleaning up.

Many, probably even most of us, are capable of separating game from reality. Bits don’t have feelings.

They haven’t actually read the story if Sodom and Gomorrah, they’ve only had it explained to them by people they outsource critical thought to.

DEVO covering (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction is way up there for me. Loses the fuzzy guitar but the lyrics land better as an odd punk song than the whining of one of the biggest rock acts in the world.

Isolated as a pure salt, maybe. All those “uncured” varieties listing celery as an ingredient are making use of the same compound though.

You might be sympathetic to a recent video essay from Door Monster’s Kyle who definitely has a bone to pick with TLOU2 (and other recentish pop culture hits)

Woah there, not all law enforcement. Still need park rangers and game wardens to protect the commons.

No, because my interests were “reading books” and “knowing things” and I had very little patience for people who did not understand the basic rules to a game on first explanation, for example. That’s still true but it’s much easier to select your peer group as an adult.

Bipolar is indeed what I meant, I forgot that Borderline Personality Disorder took the initialism. It’s also probable that he has more than just that going on.

Unlikely. The reason I didn’t have many friends is simply because I didn’t get along with them: my interests were not their interests. It’s much more fulfilling to find people who align with and elevate you than to seek popular approval.

I didn’t get many friends the old fashioned way and I turned out fine in the end.

I have an uncle who has been cut-off from the family because he refuses to treat his BPD bipolar (whoops) and his sisters got tired of taking care of/cleaning up after him. “Doesn’t like how the medicine makes him feel”. Pretty sure he started self-medicating with other stuff and found a woman who enables him, don’t know exactly (it’s been two decades since I last heard from him)

The system of corporate veiling of responsibility is going to kill us all. What should happen is every single person who signed off on, voted for, or materially contributed to the implementation of this dangerous hardware should be prosecuted for criminal negligence. Gut the C-suite and the board.

I’d rather live to see their obituaries.

That sort of thing should be illegal. I feel guilty enough using spot-treatments but it’s the only thing I’ve found that keeps ants from invading my house :/

I do similar and there’s several species of bees in my flowers all season long. I need to get some butterfly-attracting stuff out there too.

The biggest issue is that your neighbors are also a huge factor, and if they’re using pesticides then you’re fighting uphill no matter what.

Cognitive impairment isn’t a social construct.

Someone got a few inches away from changing it, fwiw. Get your ecofascist doomer shit out of here.

Pass on sticking within the bounds of treason and tyranny. I’m gonna keep idealizing beyond that.

Hasn’t posted in a few months, must be busy with that Ocean’s Eleven project.