flabberghaster

flabberghaster wrote

It's true that no one should join the military but the right to join the military is part of what the state considers to be the rights conferred on you for being a full citizen. When they deem you ineligible to do this core thing that's part of civic life, they're saying you're less of a valid person.

No one should join the military. But the government saying "you are officially an outgroup of undesirables" is very serious.

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flabberghaster wrote

Oh Kristi Noem got a real dressing down about all the laws she's breaking by this Congress man, who will not do shit about it and keeps voting to confirm trump nominees.

They don't give a fuck about you yelling at them. They like that it makes dems mad and they know you're not even gonna do shit about it.

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flabberghaster OP wrote (edited )

No, not self deprecating. Most people just aren't that good of people.

I just need to be realistic. I've tried doing it before and it never sticks. It works better and is easier to stick with if I move to it over time, because I know myself and I know that I will just slip later on and drop it altogether in the future if I don't.

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flabberghaster OP wrote

Reply to comment by cowloom in Media Fullness Over Time by flabberghaster

That's just an artifact of how I made this (I just used python to stat the files and check their mtime, and not their birth time since python doesn't easily allow you to do that) and the fact that I've moved this collection from device to device a couple of times, so some timestamps are not really accurate. So a lot of files that are much older than their mtime show up as last modified on a certain day.

I think most of the files have an mtime of 2013, which is when I bought the first external hard drive this media collection lived on. It's grown over time and moved to different devices; currently it's on a NAS that has about 12 terrabytes of storage that I created in the early part of the pandemic. SInce it's SO much bigger than what I had before I ended up starting to download bigger files so the rate of increase shot up after I moved it to this NAS.

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flabberghaster wrote

A whole game that's an escort mission would probably not be much fun tbh. Everyone hates missions specifically in shooter games where you have to protect someone because there's usually not good ways to block them from damage, so if she was constantly in danger of dying and you couldn't control where she went it'd be a real slog I think.

It could be fun if done well I just can't think how to do it well

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flabberghaster wrote

I remember thinking it was fun to play, and a more interesting and dynamic experience than bioshock 1 was, and I liked the story more or less but the politics are just dogshit.

I haven't played it since it came out though and it was never that remarkable to me that I had strong opinions beyond "this is fun and the dewit backstory is interesting but it's trying to both-sides the union wars and manifest destiny??"

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