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Good point, and it sounds like you’re doing good work out there

Streaming in general is great. Streaming services are a mixed bag of results, but overall our options are excellent at this point in time. You can have streaming services with no contract, pay for one month and abandon it if you don’t like it. There are also numerous FREE streaming services with lots of great content.

It’s important to understand the above in the context of how it used to be before Streaming was an option. There was basically only the option to have a cable or satellite TV on contract, or use OTA antenna TV, or watch everything on disc / tape. So yeah I think streaming is great.

Having said all that, I buy anything I want to keep perpetually on disc. 4k Blu-ray for movies and CDs for music (I bought 3 albums on CD over the last couple weeks). Games don’t fit on discs anymore so I try to get stuff on GOG when it works out.

Being self-sufficient should be a goal for every human being to strive for. Independence is a potent form of freedom that makes you feel like a magical eagle.

I’m not saying you should be Ted Kazynski or however you spell the Unabomber’s last name and live in complete isolation for most of your life, because it’s cool to have access to society’s benefits and all. But the more you can do for yourself, the more secure you will be in all ways. Basically don’t be a helpless or useless person.

Yep that’s simple, a common fantasy that people engage in. It is also quite impossible.

I’m in a rural town in the USA and I have all these options available. 5 minutes away from grocery stores and restaurants, fresh produce and eggs growing in my own backyard. Room for my kids and pets to roam and no HOA and even low amounts of traffic to deal with.

Blue, Brown, and Black seem like the obvious 3 best to me.

You can go out on the town and fuck all night because people find you attractive and you don’t need sleep, then you can talk to their cats afterwards.

I’m suspicious of the timing of these posts, because I was bored enough to listen to “conservative” talk radio yesterday and I heard the repugnant outrage jockeys parroting the same stuff about DEI programs before the boat crash. They were talking about how everything is being ruined by diversity programs. They went on a tangent about how bad government websites are and one of them said “must have been a diversity hire” who built those crappy websites. I was a bit shocked at that blatant nonspecific racism.

It was baffling how they put so much energy into hating that stuff. Now I’m wondering if they were on a similar script to the trolls posted here.

It’s a reply to your comment, it says what it means already and needs no further explanation.

That is generally how it works in most of the world, except for primitive hunter-gatherer societies that live beyond modern civilization.

Except that most countries do have social services to support the needy. If you are poor in the USA, you can get free food and free healthcare from local county governments.

There is no law that says you can’t switch jobs whenever you want. We literally do have the freedom to do that within the framework of capitalism and the laws that govern the citizens of the USA. The reality of the situation is of course that employers generally don’t like that, but employers are not the government and they don’t own us. We still have our freedom to choose to pursue whatever we want for employment. These are generally good features of capitalist democracy - it’s also good that employers are free not to choose unreliable candidates.

It’s funny how that imaginary Chad Stalin quote implies that you can’t do any of that stuff under capitalism, or that capitalism requires any person to be limited to “one sphere of activity.” In the USA we do have the freedom to choose to do any or all of that, and our only limitations towards doing them all are time and resources.

Wow I didn’t know she could grow a functioning boner.

Mystique / Raven already transgendered into a bunch of dudes and back into a lady, in the X-Men movies years ago

It’s fine. I played all the way through Metal Gear Solid 3 on my old PC that just had a quad-core CPU about 10 years ago. It performed better than the PS2 did on the same game.

Wow that is certainly a hot take. Sounds like sour grapes to me, as someone who is very frugal and does quite enjoy VR gaming and my nice 34" widescreen 144Hz monitor with all its millions of pixels.

Sure you can enjoy games at 1080p and low framerates, but I definitely enjoy them more in 3D versus 2D and with more pixels and frames. It’s simply better to have more detail and smoother performance.

King of the Hilves

Because it’s cool

That is the same thing as Urban Hellscape. They just changed the vertical density to horizontal density.

Only a moron would buy a house like that with no yard, when there are many rural homes available with far more space for less price.

That’s already how my life is in the USA. I live in the woods, and I can get to 2 grocery stores within 5-10 minutes.