Void or avoid?

the witness shifts reality in a way that is difficult to describe, but bleeds into the real world. If you’ve never played it and enjoy learning, this is a serious gem.

Found my original review:

“This game will bend your perception of the world. It is one of those rare games that define the genre. Everything you need to know to get through this game is always right in front of you, but nothing is ever explained. Every puzzle has rules, rules that you slowly have to figure out. And as you play more, you’ll look at things differently. It is amazing how much is hidden on this fantasticly crafted island. True art. Also a timeless game, pick this up at any point in your gaming career. It took me 100 hours to be able to say that I’ve seen everything.”

In no real particular order, games with highest impact on me:

1. battlefield 1942 - desert combat mod

Ground breaking at the time. Physics and gamespeed have never been captured by any other game. Consumed my free time for a long time.

2 counter strike

Simple concept, extreme depth. I’ve clocked several thousand hours into this franchise.

3. The witcher 3

In terms of world building and story telling… Incredible.

4. The Witness

Absolute masterclass in game design, world design. Puzzle design… This is an incredible puzzle game that will shift your perspective.

5. Faster than light

I haven’t found anything else quite scratch that replay ability, that tethering on the brink of losing, itch. It’s a unique game.

6. Guild wars 2

Completely changed the way mmorpgs were played, and was a great mmo.

7. Monkey Island

I wanted to mention a point and click, several spring to mind, but this still series lives in my mind the most. Although space quest is another that impacted my young brain.

8. Minecraft

Like… I was there since its debut. Still watching and enjoying mc related content.

9. Elite

Space is pretty big and cool

10. Eve online

Getting back stabbed by the person you’ve been back stabbing for, so you join the enemies of your friends to be able to backstab your backstabbers.

Popcorn!

So let’s be very clear here. This is basically true for any new car, practically no ‘normal car’ has come out (in the US) for the past few years. The amount of feature creep has been massive, some due to regulations, some because adding it is cheap. The only place where you can get relatively bare bones is in pick ups. Not in suv’s. Cars except sportscars are no longer being offered, only two ‘normal’ models (accord and camry) still exist. These all have driver assist tech and large screens as well. You won’t be able to get around features hiding behind touch screens, simply impossible to find in today’s market.

The problem for Evs is that beyond styling the only differentiating factor is tech. They are all fast and differ not that much in range, speed, comfort, handling in their price ranges. This has pushed tech into the car industry, especially in the US where people are willing to go into debt for cars, to the point where the average price for a new car is 47k. Compared to eu: 27k

In principle, the less you pay the less tech you get. But for any new car, there is tech. No way around it anymore. You can buy the car and ignore it.

Google is great if you want to buy things. It’s absolutely shit for information gathering.

Wildbow has written some freaks doing freaky shit. Like, proper body horror.

It’s incredible that this was viable in the first place. Of course these type of experimental surgeries are done on extremely sick people at the end stage of normal care. So, actually two months is nothing to scoff at. It means a successful operation. I hope autopsy will give insight. What this man did is incredibly brave and important for mankind. Hero in my books.

The natural yoghurt band

Ooh, I thought nqked… Doh

I would like to add to this. I spend at least 20 hours a week in forests, and have heard a lot of things. Never my name.

It’s fascism… They want fascism. That’s the joke.

When the barber asks: do you want me to do your eyebrows?

America has a real problem if something very bad happens to Biden or Trump during the elections (or shortly after).

The world has a problem when Trump is elected again. As he’s not known for keeping peace, or understanding international relations. In fact quite the opposite.

So the next big thing really is the elections.

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Notice though how certain massive events are barely registering here… Imagine a third of Americans threatened to lose their home… But that’s what’s currently happening in China through floods, and rain season still having to start. I would call that big, 120 million people isn’t nothing… In comparison, 7 million died from corona (out of 700 million confirmed cases)

So this very much depends on your perspective and where on the planet you live.

A doctors prescription.

No, you could have great arguments while being an ass. When you don’t argue from any morals or ethics, or a ground floor of ascertaining the truth, I have zero respect for your opinions. I don’t really care about what a ‘good’ argument looks like, it doesn’t even need to be good, as long as your grounded in reality and ethics, you’re fine.

Their mom is a volkswagen

America isn’t disposing anybody. Russia is.

I’m not talking about just money. Of course in current capitalist society we analyse through the lens of finances. But obviously the cost of war includes the loss of human life. And of course some people will manage to profit financially from war. This isn’t a revolutionary thought.

What I mean is that due to the obligation of being a NATO member, there is no way around having to join war in the EU. Actual boots on the ground, full blown, war machine goes choo-choo war. That costs many hundreds or even thousands of American lives. And yes, billions a day.

If you don’t want that, then having Putin lose in Ukraine in key. It’s key because it will diminish his political backing in Russia.

People in this thread clearly don’t understand what the implications are. There is a very clear danger of war on the European continent that will involve NATO and by proxy the US. Aid for Ukraine is the absolute cheapest option. Europe is not going to just let Ukraine fall and will ramp up their involvement. We already have France willing to send troops.