puerto rico the US virgin islands DC and guam don’t get them. because fuck those people, for reasons that totally have nothing to do with their skin color, uh, shut up, why do you hate freedom?

into? probably. helped by? probably larger.

you could do that on windows. no longer.

linux is fine, just don’t sudo under the influence.

and it’s altadena, which was recently the hub of some pretty big mutual aid efforts, so there’s a chance some of that might actually happen!

if you’re poor when you get the money, you still get taxed for being poor, and the sin of class mobility. only money made AFTER you get rich is safe.

none of what you listed is new

yes that’s exactly the point. two of these are from the 90s, one is from like 2001. old enough to have good credit and cheap car insurance. im making fun of the title.

morrowind isn’t really that weird

no, but it blew a lot of people’s minds so i put it on the list.

continues lots of the same themes

citation needed. not that I dislike it, it just feels like the name is tacked on to an otherwise lovely CRPG.

it’s not just the ability to boost false or suggestive narratives.

every single major media platform out of silicon valley has a procedurally refined algorithm to turn your son brother cousin etc into a nazi. this is on purpose. use a fresh OS install from a fresh connection, and go to youtube. search for the most anodyne shit, but especially things a boy might be interested in-lego builds, space ships, tips for running faster. within a few hours of suggested videos, which do auto-play if I remember right, you’ll be seeing fuckers like andrew tate and jordan peterson. within about two days of letting it run, without clicking anything but ‘yes im still watching’ you’ll be seeing dudes talk about “BLOOD AND SOIL!” and why your next door neighbor’s car breaking down means we must exterminate the jews. facebook does this. instagram does this. tiktok does this since a couple months ago. this isn’t just some fluke of an unconsidered system set loose in the wild having bad effects-this is deliberate and engineered.

they target old people and young women too, but it’s not as simple and not as well refined. these are attacks. these systems are attacks on your society. they are actively trying to turn people, and young men are the most vulnerable group, into nazis, into useful idiots and potential stochastic terrorists. this is not hypothetical. the perpetrators of recent genocides have talked about how useful a tool it is.

these systems are attacks, and they do have a body count.

I don’t even think he’d make it up.

and now you’ve just made it like 30% less cool. fuck, I may as well sign up for netflix now.

but that would be communism. which would mean you need ‘anti communists’ like musk to fight it. sorry. had almost this exact same discussion in california fifteen years ago. you need some extra extra justification to back it, which means you’re going to need really good messaging. kinda hoping you can skip the bullshit we went through on this that gave the nazis time to fuck everything up.

hey, speaking as someone whose democracy was absolutely murdered in silicon valley:

ban conservative and algorithm driven profit-motivated media, social and otherwise. this may include youtube. ban large language models and their outputs. this is the chief tool of fascists used to create their propaganda and murder the concept of truth. make your (great?) grandfather proud; kill some fucking nazis wherever they poke their vile heads up.

I genuinely believe that if we had done this, we would be… still fucked, but fucked by neoliberals, who leave a wad of cash on the bed rather than stabbing us so they can cum. please don’t repeat our mistakes. maybe also fortify your southern border. sorry.

lolno; space travel is hard. he’s never leaving earth, even for a recreational orbit.

I concur; we need more of this new breed of aggressively strange RPG’s, like earthbound/mother, planescape:torment, and morrowind.