Making me pay $80 for Mario Kart World impacts me way more directly than a company exploiting public water resources, ergo Nintendo is more evil than Nestle.

Nothing says “Friday” like the failure of a critical system!

I’m afraid I’m going to have to ignore what you just said. :(

If it makes you feel any better, as an American I don’t judge people based on decisions made by their country. We’re all stuck on this planet together and I’d like everyone to have some good times if possible.

Yes.

There’s plenty of civil conflict. Trump is trying to make it uncivil by calling in the military (as if local police weren’t already militarized enough).

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Haha, I can actually get down with that. Anyone crazy enough to do that is probably a genuine person who’s willing to engage with the insanity of existence.

Yeah, in my opinion it shows the power consumer culture has to erode the meaning of things. “This symbol used to stand for something, but it got too popular and now it’s just slapped on stuff to sell merch.”

Never get into the details, that’s where the devil is.

Chaotic good.

I can’t speak for everyone, but when I wear a cross it’s in reference to Matthew 16:24

Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”

To me the cross is symbolic of finding the courage to live our lives motivated by a radical love in order to overcome the fear of death and pain.

It’s like Goku once said while fighting to save the world “this is the power to go further beyond”

Or when Scout explains his date plan to Spy.

Spy: you have a dinner date for 7. What time do you arrive? Scout: 7… AM. Case the restaurant, run background checks on the staff. Can the cook be trusted? If not I’ve gotta kill him. Dispose of the body, replace him with my own guy no later than 4:30.

Quit your current life and move to a country where they speak the language you want to learn. Get a menial job in a small town, find new friends, and learn what love is. Then you’ll know what it truly means to speak a language.

Only an idiot would spend their time trying to figure out who the biggest idiot is.

Things won’t make people happy for forever, happiness comes from within. People with financial resources can afford to spend a lot of time running from that truth.

Bullshit.

And the fact that she comes back after the vet indicates that she’s willing to make that trade off.

Then they came for the gamers, but there was no one left to speak up.

I was in a thread the other week where someone said they hated “religion” but didn’t have a problem with “faith”. I think I’m starting to understand what they meant by that.

When people reduce their faith to religion it loses its power and leads people astray.

It’s not just reading, people don’t want to mentally engage with things. There are people who would rather read movie reviews than go watch a movie and form their own opinion on it.

Engaging with material will always require something of the audience. We can try to make things as accessible and easy to understand as possible, but that doesn’t “solve” the problem, it just lowers the bar. Lowering the bar isn’t bad, but it seems like the wrong strategy for the current era. I think a better strategy is attempting to foster and enthusiastic community at a local level. Get together with friends on the weekends and mess around with stuff in person, talk about it.