SimplyTadpole

The night is also less hot and doesn't have super-harsh sunlight that makes me go blind, either.

I'm a pretty big fan of an online-only game that was killed while I was still in diapers, and I can only play a limited debug build of it that was leaked by a disgruntled developer who was mad the game was shut down. I often wish I had been able to experience it the way it was originally intended to.

I don't have The Crew, but what I'm seeing lines up very closely to my situation, so I relate to it. And this is a cause I most definitely support, so I really hope this works out. I hate when games end up as permanently lost media...

Yeah... I largely live under a rock and vastly prefer indie games (and older/abandoned big-name games) to most of the usual AAA games and live-service games.

Which makes it quite funny when I see so many Gamers complaining about how "gaming is dying" due to the enshittification of mainstream games, when I'm quite happy under my rock and sheltered from all that 😅

Yeah, in fact I rarely ever see the second one playing out...

Yeah. My country used to be a capitalist dictatorship in the 60s-80s and it very, very much kept people who disliked it from escaping it, and then tortured them for being "unpatriotic". And as ICastFist mentioned, there are several other capitalist and even "democratic" countries out there that very much build walls to keep people from leaving, too.

I initially assumed this meme was criticizing capitalism due to pointing out how the rich plunder and oppress the poor (i.e. the US with Latin America, and Europe with Africa and the Middle East), then hoard the profits for themselves while propping up walls to prevent anyone from the places they exploited from getting to also share and experience their wealth and safety nets (i.e. America's border wall with Mexico, and Europe sinking refugee boats while fanning fascism to pin economic issues on the migrants rather than the capitalists themselves), but reading the OP's replies it seems the meme was actually made in defense of capitalism...?

Honestly, between this and the "you'd be morally obligated to vote for 99% Hitler" nonsense, neoliberals seem to be really, really bad at defending their own ideology, lol

That's good to hear. Everyone else was only talking about the US and EU, and I'm like... "what about me, who doesn't live in either?" 😐

oh good lord i hope not.

I miss MSN Messenger... it was part of my childhood.

thanks!

In my school, we were taught to/made to write in cursive since like 4. And then everyone complained that my handwriting was illegible chicken scratch and yelled at me to write more legibly.

Then I switched to non-cursive (whatever you call writing the same shape as the text in the page here?) and immediately my text became legible. Then everyone switched to complaining that I write too slow.

I just can't win.

aroace gang represent