Well… I suppose the public could give them back the food they ate, after they ate it… but it would be smelly…

I watched the playthrough of Death Stranding, as it got too depressing for me about halfway through. Totally get it. I paid a lot for it though, so felt kinda bummed that I’d dropped that cash and coulnd’t muster the energy to play it to the end.

On the other hand, I’ve got over 2,000 hours in on No Man’s Sky, (I’m playing in creative mode now and having a blast building cool bases in breathtaking locations) which I got on sale through GOG for 10 bucks, so I suppose it balances out.

The one that I’ve come to a complete stop in is The Talos Principle, and I love it but just can’t seem to finish it. Has been as frustrating to finish as Firmanent, which was built for VR so playing it in 2D leaves a lot to be desired - there’s a ton of items that require exact placement and it’s hard as hell to see how to manipulate then w/o the 3D… Oyyyy.

I’ve gotten to the core in permadeath.

Before or after you figured out the game?

Ugh why are the right so bad at satire? It’s always the same lame jokes over and over.

Because the people they are pandering to are simple-minded. Trump loves the “poorly educated” for a reason. It’s low effort to impress them.

The administration is trying to appeal the SNAP ruling to fully fund it again… Never fear, hunger will wake up those “poorly educated” he loves so much, soon enough.

Very much a 6 right now…

I think the play was 100% Mike Johnson going “Let’s not swear in the newest Democratic Representative from Arizona and prevent the Epstein Files from being released in full…” and him teling the Republican GOP congressmen to leave went further than he expected, and rolled into the ACA tax subsidy collapse and then the SNAP fiasco.

The congressmen are just as blind as the rest of conservative, middle-class America as to how large the demographc of white Americans on welfare really is.

I LOVE Rammstein.

Watch their video Deutschland and you’ll get the gist very quickly of what they think of NAZIs and authoritarian, repressive governments in general.

They are absolutely off their tits.

Oooo, that’s gonna tank the value of the stock.

I’d be interested to see the caveats included by the board, in that pay package.

Well, at least they ARE seeing it now.

At this point, you can work on them to bring it all into focus and the FIRST thing I always say is “you gotta get away from the billionaire controlled cable TV and social media sites…” then I point them to the vanilla news sites that have no editorializing, like AP and Reuters.

If they are open to it, I also point them to using Firefox and adding uBO. Given that sites like fb are now running rage-bait scam ads, the ad-blocking is critical.

A lot of the MAGA folks have been overwhelmed by the noise.

You can access pages that are still actively behind any given site’s paywall.

Ah, may I introduce you to No Man’s Sky permadeath mode?

I wouldn’t say a difficult game is poor art, it just challenging and may be more than the user wanted.

This is part of why reviewing a game’s difficulty and it’s play options are critical.

I mostly play sandbox games because the online ones come with the constant strife and challenge which is the antithesis of what I want.

Will really enjoy a well thought out puzzle game however…

My introduction to that was Myst, way back in the early 90’s and my main love are games of that nature.

That’s what shocked me last No Kings protest. I saw tons of older folks and even some people I know are die-hard conservative Republicans with signs out in the middle of town.

Things are worse than Trump and the beltway oligarchs know. Gilded fishbowls and all that.

Apparently this is closer to the truth than people know. Trump is so simple-minded that he has his morning briefs presented to him in video form with bullet points that contain simplified explanations. Also lots of AI chaff is put in front of him, like Portland on fire and reduced to a smoldering heap, people eating dogs and cats and angry kids assaulting ICE agents and being violently taken down. Anyone not recall the pictures of Kilmar Garcia’s hands with the obviously shittily Photoshopped MS13 letters on the knuckles? Tie bad eyesight to simpleminded, drug and age related mental decline and well… here we are.

I think Kojima gets it. For a lot of players, esp. on the more cinematic games, the story is the main driver and the action is how it progresses. The games I’ve played that were ordeals are often the ones I’ve given up on. It’s the ones you can start on story mode with, enjoy the narrative and then re-play at the harder levels that I’ve stuck with.

Reality is crashing in and with the number of these folks on assistance that Trump has cut, it’s only going to get worse.

My prediction is that if you still see a die-hard Trumper like in the photo, it’s actually someone wealthy that’s cosplaying.

The majority of Trump supporters generally don’t have two pennies to rub together, and given what’s going on in DC right now, they probably don’t have that anymore and they’re pissed…

My Alex Jones listening co-worker claimed I had TDS. He was all big on Trump as the Epstein Files were gonna be released, the economy was going to have all the factories returned to America,food would be cheaper…

I just bit my tongue and said nothing.

Now, with his wife’s medical needs so severe that he’s got almost nothing left at the end of each month, he says to me “How come we can’t get an affordable medical system that covers everyone completely…” to which I said, “Well, we could have that and be like every other civilized nation on Earth, but that’s ‘socialism’ after all and we can’t have that… I mean isn’t that what your right wing radio says?”

He’s gotten awfully silent about lots of that stuff now and I mentioned Epstein files being not released and he lost his shit over it. I told him that there was no more “deep state” it was the State now, and is right there in Washington DC and in your face. He is no longer disagreeing with that assessment.

I think that the reality of the situation is breaking through the Trump Delusion Syndrome a lot of these die-hards had and they are starting to see what really is going on and they’re pissed and silently fuming about it now.

My co-worker took the vinyl “1776” stickers with the tattered flag backgrounds off of his truck and lost all his Trump swag as well.

Musk stated not too long ago, he felt empathy was a weakness of western society.

So… too bad for Tesla. Oh well.