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Honestly I can't remember the last time my life was on "Play." I've been stuck in the same job so long it's had two name changes and an acquisition since I started. It's decent money and I can tolerate the work which is largely why I'm still there, because almost everyone I knew when I started has left or been fired. And I'm so afraid that if I leave or get let go I won't be able to find anything else because the job market's been absolute dogshit.

I've been experimenting with my gender presentation. I did a full body shave and picked up a skirt. I don't think it's helped me feel better about my body. I just kind of want to be a brain in a jar or a stuffed animal or something that doesn't look like a complete pile of shit no matter how it's dressed up.

Yeah. Clearly the only thing that matters is money, if we're meant to idolize these ghoulish billionaires. My country should be proud of me following the example they set of selling out everyone they can in the name of the almighty dollar.

So, I agree with the principle of your statement but the point that the discussion around the original post makes is that the writing is largely inextricable from the politicized plot of the middle-aged divorced alcoholic amnesiac cop.

Like, the whole reason you spend the better part of the game reconstructing your ideology around neoliberalism, fascism, communism, or centrism is because the world around you has failed you in such spectacular fashion, as it has literally everyone else in Martinaise, and while I'd agree that the expression of that sentiment shouldn't just be restricted to a middle-aged cishet white guy, it would be a wasted effort in a game about finding your cat in a village in the alps which is, per the post's complaints, ostensibly apolitical.

Fuck.

Oh, you mean the oligarchy that put Trump in the office the first time? The one that put you in the office after Trump completely fucked up the economy? The one that's been selecting both presidential candidates for the last, oh, I don't know, five decades? Six? Longer, probably? The one that's been crushing the spirit of every living person around the world with the promise of a meager subsistence life, and that's if they like you or you're convenient to their ends? And they'll throw you on the pyre of capitalism if it earns them a single cent more? That oligarchy?

Yeah, sure. Thanks for giving it the old college try, Joe.

You say that like any of the conservative controlled courts give a single flying fuck about precedent. They will embrace this ruling to foist religious doctrine on people who don't want it and reject it to prohibit any other material they find unsavory, in the same breath, even. The rule of law has been dead for a long time in the states.

I beg these people to imagine a world where you don't need to get in a vehicle to buy essentials.

I mean, that's kind of the point, right? Workers that are well rested tend to be more productive, so 4 10s kind of defeats the purpose of the 4 day week - notwithstanding that you do get the extra day off, you're that much more burnt out because you had even less time to take care of yourself the preceding 4 days.

I gave money to Palestinians, Planned Parenthood, and my trans friends who we're struggling to make rent. It's not a lot, but it's something positive.

True, but iPads don't have inbuilt controllers, and packing one would inherently make it less portable than a deck. I think if you're making a portable gaming system, your maximum screen size is sharply constrained by the form factor of the controller around it.

Really? I don't get that at all, I understand exactly where they're coming from. I don't mind public toilets but I love being able to take shits in the privacy and cleanliness of my own home.

Well, now I have a term for that awful sinking feeling I get in the pit of my stomach whenever I find out my friendgroups are doing things without me. That's a start.