theoryof.games
chaotic good xennial nerd in the coastal empire. vp at Frakture. longtime digital strategist + policy wonk. If we must do without hope, there is always vengeance.
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As someone with chronic lung disease, I would really like to know.
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I guess PoE is very grindy, and you'd have to put in 100+ hours to get his stats and he was tripping over the UI. That's what I read, not my game.
it seems like he's a basic casual gamer but is too insecure to not present himself as a super god at any hobby so here we are.
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There's a lot of ways to be "good" at video games imo. I think what the PoE folks were saying was that he seemed to lack basic knowledge of how his own build worked and such. Like he didn't know how to play the game, not just that he was bad.
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He doesn't actually like video games. If he did, he'd be better at them. It's barely a hobby for him, he just thinks "gamer" aesthetics are cool. He also has no creative ideas and I think he's probably aware of this. My guess.
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I didn't know they sold snapple with booze in it.
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You wouldn't need to do that if you first simply implemented all the Pareto-optimal solutions that would make everyone better off without costing any money, the results of which would be obvious to everyone.
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Someone should warn the leaders of "indisible".
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There's a lot of inhumanity at play in all of this but the callousness it takes to inflict this sort of pain on kids in particular is simply incomprehensible to me.
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Why does no one like JD Vance he's so funny
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The one I remember best has you traveling through some kind of dimensional gate into a war zone, and you start picking up a bunch of cool sci-fi weapons while fighting random encounters as you explore. Sometimes I think that I hallucinated it.
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If you happen to encounter a series of hypercard quasi-RPG games - first person, inventory, turn-based combat, sci-fi themed - let me know. I played a few of them on a b&w Mac in the late 80's early 90s. Have never been able to find any info on them despite much searching.
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This is going to be like Trump I where a bunch of people like Don Jr. were getting the classified PDBs because it was cool.
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This is so wrong/right.
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How can it be that protests work if they have never successfully changed Tom Nichols' mind? Checkmate
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Remarkable how many "smart" people don't seem to put together that a lot of the people who are working every day to fight oligarchy and fascism might also be angrily posting about it.
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When I encounter someone that doesn't get the first amendment, I have them look up the actual text on their phone and read it to me.
"The first amendment protects the right..."
"No, no - the ACTUAL text"
"Congress shall make no law..."
"Ok now say that part again. Who does the law apply to?"
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Taking an undergrad political science course > spending $300m to try to buy the government, but what do I know.
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One of a handful of old DVDs that I have owned for like 20 years.
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Finally the pro-lake candidate we've been waiting for.
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It is the deepest of all possible lakes.
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"I show people kindness and respect by refusing to acknowledge their birthday and writing a snotty op-ed about how offended I was that someone asked me to."
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Don't worry though; this could never happen in America.