So Condescending it should offend you down to your core.

So Condescending it should offend you down to your core.

I got both of these in the mail at the same time. Same exact photo digitally manipulated her jacket blue for “Trust”, and in the other they made it red for “Bold”, can’t even be bothered to change her fucking jacket.

This genuinely offends me. Not politically, intellectually.

It’s the assumption underneath it that gets me. We’re basically children. Blue means safe. Red means tough. Big scary warning label. A few emotionally loaded words. Push the right little buttons and maybe we’ll vote the way they want.

It’s so nakedly cynical and so profoundly condescending that I find it genuinely existentially depressing. This is going to work on people, and it’s a goddamn tragedy that we have to share a society with such naive stupidity.

u/TiRow77 — 14 days ago

New to the game, but getting the hang of it, LFG. Does the platform matter, I see people posting it so I assume it must, curious why. I'm on PC, play with controller though.

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u/TiRow77 — 1 month ago

New player Looking for a Discord server for LFG

I've got a grasp on the very basics, but struggling. Really, I just want to have fun and be able to communicate so I can learn.

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u/TiRow77 — 1 month ago

3:40 AM Monday 8/10 Biggest explosion I’ve ever heard.

Anyone know what the hell that was in the Harbor area. My guess obviously is something to do with the military munitions base, but it was fucking nuts, I can’t believe they’d fire off something like that without warning and in the middle of the night.

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u/TiRow77 — 2 months ago

Best Crispy Wings

My wife loves wings, but she’s super picky. Looking for what you all consider the best possible wings spot in HB or NB, please. She enjoys them super crispy.

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u/TiRow77 — 3 months ago

Articulating the Divide

Arc Raiders PvP should not be taken so seriously. I am quite good and nonetheless the PvP aspect is so eye rollingly annoying. I genuinely seldom lose, and I have plenty of inventory so I don’t really care when I do. But, Arc Raiders is a nice relaxing gameplay experience and alternative from actual respectable and purposeful competitive PvPs. I enjoy the sound design and the different mechanics of each of the Arc, the landscapes for the most part are varied enough and really well done. My only real complaint is not that there is a PvP element, but that it’s so poorly realized and the absurd stupidity of the people that actively engage players that clearly aren’t PvP’ing, it’s not a flex. There is no real challenge to PvP and there is no agony of defeat or triumph of victory. Yes, it has a PvP mechanic, but it doesn’t have a competitive mechanic, so it’s completely meaningless, that’s the underlying point that people are feeling but not articulating when they say PvP players are dipshits in real life too, because if the reward center of your brain is lighting up from PvP in Arc Raiders it’s not because you accomplished a competitive feat, it’s because you successfully annoyed another person irl…If your brain tells you that’s a worthwhile endeavor then you’re likely a tedious imbecile in real life as well.

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u/TiRow77 — 4 months ago

Request: Need 6 electric bikes for two days, will pay.

If you have an electric bike and want to make a little money on it DM, me. My wife and I live here in HB Harbor area. Our closest friends are coming to visit with their 14 and 17 yo son and daughter. We want to go on an e-bike ride on July 10 and/or 11th. The rental places are too expensive, especially for 6 bikes for two days. We can afford $80 for each bike for the two days ($40/day)…$480 if you have all 6. If you’re on the fence about dealing with a stranger I’m happy to share my wife and I’s socials or buy a cup of coffee and shake your hand in person before you say yes. We’re just regular neighbors hoping to show our friends a lovely day without breaking the bank.

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u/TiRow77 — 5 months ago
▲ 5 r/SciFiConcepts+1 crossposts

You can save an alien planet’s ecosystem, or let it be destroyed so humanity can colonize it later. What’s your decision?

Humanity has mastered interstellar travel. We now explore and settle other star systems, and because of advances in technology and lifespan, a thousand years no longer feels unimaginably distant. It is more like how we think of a century today: long, but still relevant to civilization-level planning.

You are the supreme leader of Earth and have final authority over human expansion.

One of our fleets discovers a lush alien planet. It is full of native plants and animals, with complex ecosystems unlike anything on Earth. However, the planet is completely uninhabitable for humans. We cannot live there, settle there, or easily adapt it to our needs.
Then the fleet detects a massive asteroid on course to hit the planet.
The impact will be an extinction-level event. Most life on the planet will die.
Your fleet can stop it.

But your scientists discover that if the asteroid hits, the impact will transform the planet over time. Its atmosphere and surface conditions will eventually stabilize into something humans can live on. In about 1,000 years, it could become one of humanity’s greatest colony worlds.

So you have two options:

Divert the asteroid, saving a thriving alien biosphere humanity may never be able to use.

Let the asteroid hit, allowing a natural extinction event to occur, knowing the result will eventually benefit billions of future humans.

You are not murdering the planet directly. The asteroid is already coming. But you do have the power to prevent it.

What is your choice?

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u/TiRow77 — 5 months ago