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Ligma balls.

I think it’s a substitute for sorting ones own identity out by putting yourself in a predefined box so you can do zero self development and feel cool about it. It is a consolation prized coined by so-called ‘alpha male’ grifters when they realized they would need to carve out an exception for people sympathetic to their grift, but, shared all common traits with what they called ‘betas’. It’s all bathwater, and there isn’t even a tub. Anyway, you seem more like a ligma to me.

Did you play any games past ultima? It pioneered a laundry list of features that game are still using.

Ultima. Easy.

I never claimed there was anything wrong with money? As far as I thought, I was arguing that it was a tool so useful it would be reinvented if a society did away with it.

I wouldn’t kill my neighbor? Was that too complicated an example? I think that money, like an axe, is a tool that can be used differently in different contexts. ‘Money’ isn’t the issue. How it’s used is the issue, which is why I think we would invent it. You don’t solve the ‘issues’ of an axe. You don’t solve the ‘issues’ of money. Capitalism uses stand-ins for value to harm people, but I am not convinced it’s an inherent trait of value stand-ins. I think LV’s are money, so I think you think that is true also.

I am aware of this. It’s functionally no different than a dollar bill. The fact that I intend to melt down an axe after I use it to chop a tree down doesn’t make it not an axehead. If I used that same axe to hack my neighbor to death, well, that’s a completely different use. In the case of communist ‘money’, I think we would cease using money to kill our neighbor.

Anything you exchange as a representation or substitute for something else of value. I think communism would reinvent what I consider money but wouldn’t use it as it’s used under capitalism.

I think if we eliminated money, we would just invent it again and call it something else.

I was getting off to adust my forks and avoid dropping my skid. My boss told me, ‘Should be fine like that.’ I listened to him, lift the skid, and it IMMEDIATELY tipped over. Your boss isn’t driving. You are.

That’s a good point, too; without an electronic bill of rights, what’s stopping them?

It felt like turning in quest coupons and getting your magic item/promise of aid and otherwise very low stakes.

My thing about china getting my data is ‘so what?’ I live in the United States. Every major corporation will sell my data to the government, and no warrant is necessary. The fuck is China going to do to me? Send some of their secret police to my house? Fucking TIGHT. I can tell them to fuck off and eat my ass.

Whatever you say, horse fucker.

If they are going to call me a horse fucker, well, I guess I better own it.

Who actually makes a decent phone anymore?

I’m seeing a lot of negativity here, and I just got to wonder: have you even thought about how the shareholders feel!?

Let whatever the cultists believe in intervene on the parties behalf because it knows they are capable of getting【McGuffin】and now they either need to agree via binding ritual or die here and now. If not reasonable, it turns out one of the cultists accidentally became possessed by a Devilish entity and discreetly offers them help in exchange for 【McGuffin】.

If you live in the United States, don’t talk to cops. You don’t know this person. You don’t know that the cop isn’t a criminal and is now looking for a patsy. Don’t discuss your day, don’t discuss your travel plans, don’t say where you’ve been. If a cop asks to search anything, don’t say yes, don’t say no, don’t say sure, no thanks. The only thing you say is ‘I do not consent to a search’, regardless of how it is asked. If a cop asks you anything, say ‘I invoke the fifth and I want to speak to a lawyer’. Burghuis v thompkins effect hobbled you miranda rights. And you must verbalize your right to remain silent. You must also verbally request a lawyer in basically eight grade english. No slang. If you say ‘I want a lawyer, dawg’ state v demesme makes it reasonable for cops to believe you would like a lawyer who is a dog.