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I thought people had stopped using it by now. It is like 15 years old, contemporary with pedobear.

Starting to think jewdank should have stayed as a porn sub.

Fast food almost doubles in price and turnover goes up by 15%, surely this means that people are buying just as much fast food.

Wonder if the next Tory leader will do another “hug a hoodie” campaign.

On that note, have Labour said they’ll ban hoodies yet?

I still play video games but decided to cut down heavily on it after feeling like shit reflecting on what the fuck I’m doing with my life after most gaming sessions. Used to be able to just get up, boot up a game and just go for 12 hours straight without eating or drinking. They were a great way to ignore problems, I’ll give it that.

First step of becoming less life avoidant for me was kicking that habit.

Do they add "Likud-run" to everything?

Adding "Hamas-run" to it was something that a load of western media outlets started doing in order to cast aspersions on the numbers that literally every serious observer (including the Israeli government) take as close to fact.

Inquisition is alright, but it definetly has issues. The writing for the story missions is pretty good, but there is so much empty area and bland side content that you should probably ignore if you value your time.

I think the main difference is how they were written. In ME everything is written with Shepard becoming the big goddamn hero as the core, everything else kind of came afterwards. In DA the writers were a lot more interested in the setting or Thedas (The Dragon Age Setting, in case you were wondering where they got the name from). They also wanted to deal with subjects like racism and bigotry, which is something that ME is either uninterested in or slightly supportive of. Also that DA was very influenced by the "grey" morality that was incredibly popular in Fantasy writing at the time, this was the heyday of ASOIAF.

I don't think the spectres themselves is what put me off ME though, it is the uncritical portrayal of a very American-style military organisation overruling the ~~UN~~ council about the ~~weapons of mass destruction~~ Reapers who the ~~UN~~ council were doubting them about.

I think the main difference between DA and ME is based on the people that made it. I was in the forums an embarrassing amount from a couple of years before it released until somewhere after DA2.

The writers were actually able to write “romances” that would appeal to women, mostly due to the team being a gay lead writer, 4 women and a straight guy. This also carries out in the fandom, the most noisy people after release until I stopped going were by far horny army wives. There was always a much more even gender distribution in the DA forums than ME, so I don’t think it is Zeitgeist.

There are usually a couple of long tailed tits in my mums garden every year now, always a treat to see the little shuttlecocks flitting about.

Nice to see some classic libposting in these days of mainstreamed great replacement theory politics.

I swear, 75% of European parties dogwhistle it and 10% just say it openly ahead of this EU election.