Frankly, China. A defeated, balkanized Russia cut up into smaller liberal democracies which can be manipulated by the western hegemony results in a China surrounded on all sides by hostile forces aligned with the west. As far as the modern Russian state is concerned, uh, fuckem, Putin sucks, but I still would rather they remained whole and friendly with China, the actual Communist project I have some alignment with, than split up into anti-China NATO puppets.

I fuckin love the wrestling carny speak.

Edit; some explanations

Mark = a potential wrestling fan, typically someone willing and able to suspend your disbelief so you can enjoy the show. Sometimes a mark can be a ‘Smark’ or ‘Smart Mark’ which means they don’t really bother with the suspension and just lean into the spectacle.

Shoot = a wrestling storyline, since wrestling is basically a soap opera, and the wrestlers are actors

Worked into a shoot = someone who has bought the storyline so strongly that they end up playing into the storyline with your own actual emotions

So, what he’s saying is basically “don’t get so caught up in what they tell you that you end up fervently believing it’s true yourself” and that’s just beautiful

Motherfucker did you even read

Boy I hope they reconsider. Terrible way to go stuck at the bottom of a vertical shaft

My god, the media are going to hammer him every day until the election and it’s going to be a glorious trainwreck.

I want you to think for a minute how this is even possible.

that was quick

I honestly don’t know what they were thinking, because I am right with you. The first game was just that, a real tight video game whereas the sequel was trying too hard to be some kinda simulation and stumbled over the line of sim/fun into boring.

Yeah, there’s logistical problems with, say, a soup stand: How do you deliver the soup to people? Reusable ceramic bowls? Those are gonna break eventually, needing replacement, and they’re also heavy as shit. Plastic? That’s not super good for environments, people will toss them in the trash, and plastic isn’t reusable in the long run on such a small scale. The ideal bowl would be like what Tim Hortons had for a while, bread bowls, but that itself is another logistical problem of producing your own bread bowls. Edit: Fuck me was this back in 2001? I’m turning to dust by the day

There’s logistical reasoning as to why you typically get soup at kitchens.

Ayo, just for the record fuck that lib ass meme though

Y’know I keep a little dirt under the pillow for the Dirt_owl

I remember puppymonkeybaby and now you must too

Equal parts that, and also I want to give a little reward to people just for having posted, y’know? Encourage more discourse. It takes a really shit post for me to rethink making that little golden bear.

Sure but I mean I think I’d lose my mind a bit if my wife and kid were killed in a car accident, too

A reddit comment from the man himself goes into the finer details of his thinking with cyberpsychosis and it really isn’t as simple as “get chromed, go crazy” and he delves into the socio-psycho reasonings behind the phenomenon: he presents a more nuanced ideal than most people engaging with the concept will allow either because it’s a game with rules, or an anime with plot contrivance (cyberpsycho serum meds)

Oh and he says it isn’t AI net demons lol

Don Hertzefeldt animations are like the exact opposite of edginess, instead promoting an impression of earnestness through absurdism like you said. Op ought to check out Such a Beautiful Day and reflect.

Watched some clips, it’s fascinating how they managed to make killing Nazi’s boring and lifeless, even the caricatures of the Nazi’s are boring and rote so there’s nothing to really draw you in except the over-exagerrated violence and Whedonesque quips.

Lol. Lmao. is so fucked

Trying desperately to come up with a “Biden was holding them back!” Joke but I’m dried up, god Fedvans sucks so much lol