WIKIPEDIA TRANSLATION!: For each part sown, one part is reaped.

True, but the one working isn't always the one reaping. I'll just leave it at that.  

Payin' thirty grand in money you don't have for a four year degree from a public university only to possibly maybe get an unpaid internship(s) someday that'll last the next ten years of your life, all because prevailing dogma says it'll open doors for you!

Fuck this, I'm just going to stay a clerk.

War with the Newts--Karel Capek

Making fun of other people. Wow, how mature.

The King Of Comedy!

Creepy and yet hilarious.

The best.

This one!

I like the buttons that set sensitivity up and down, for alternating between sniping/hipfire run and gun.

I used to play a lot of shooters.

Things.

I know how you feel, though it did seem obnoxiously worded. I never thought of myself as a genius, but there was a time when I was living in a small, fuckwit community.

I watched a town of backwater dumbshits picketing the town library. There was a minor election. One of the candidates, running for town treasurer or some stupid thing like that made grandiose claims that he was going to run the corruption out of town.

That year, the local library was going to have a handicap accessibility ramp built. To bring things up to code.

This man targeted the library for some of his outrageous claims.

He said that the library had "shuffled" twenty thousand dollars away from the fire department.

The fire department was a ragtag volunteer outfit of nine people.

When those claims didn't stick, he claimed that the library had stolen from the water company, and that was why everyone's water bills are so expensive.

That made even less sense than before.

Then he claimed it stole five thousand dollars from a planned cemetery expansion.

Again, didn't hold water.

Then he claimed that it stole thousands of dollars from the police department, and was the reason crime rates were high.

Didn't matter how fucking stupid this trout-eyed little fucking shitheel was. People were picketing the library. There was an angry mob.

"I hope you all join me up on this trip," the guy said.

I just got out of town. Guy didn't get elected, but the plan to build a handicap accessibility ramp was scrapped to appease the masses. Today, the people there can proudly proclaim that their buildings aren't up to code.

As time goes on, communities are becoming more polarized, more religiously and politically like minded, more thrallminded on the village and city level in the US--even as it appears more homogenized on the national level. I can only assume it's the same wherever you are. The world is a big place. If being surrounded by people that aren't like you is really affecting your mental health, you might just want to get out and find your own people. Just don't go anywhere holding the assumption that things will be the same and that you'll be a "one eyed giant in the land of the blind" anywhere you go, because you won't be and you might find your super-genius status is more delusion than anything.

ff plots have always been terrible with the possible exception of 4, 6, and 10

I thought the plot to tactics (the original) was good... But I haven't played it since I was a kid.

I've read each and every one of the comments in this thread.

Abbakeicon

Excellent!

Every time I thought about how dumb the premise was, the image of Bruce Willis in the diner shouting "IT DOESN'T MATTER" popped into my head and I was able to focus on the characters

Oops, posted that before you replied. Wasn't attacking you, peanutbuttershoes, was just clarifying myself. Blah.

Today I watched Looper.

Clockwork orange, do androids dream of electric sheep, district 9, children of men, etc etc. All about concrete things in human nature/society that could have been set the modern world, but weren't, for the purposes of creating clarity via allegory/metaphor.

The "if you're going to write about x, make it about *actual* x that's happening now" logic scraps the entire genre.

if you want to make a movie about apartheid, actually make it about apartheid.

Welp. This statement is dismissive of the entirety of quality science fiction.

The drink was so good I had to put a hand to my chest.

Saw a fully grown woman in the breakroom, with coffee in one of those mugs.

She tried to take a drink from it.

Spilled.

Said,

"Boy, these coffee thermoses sure are confusing. You never know when they're going to spill."

She had failed to line up her mouth with the hole properly. Bested by a coffee mug.

You know what else is difficult? Spoons. I can never figure out which end to scoop with.

I'm losing my mind.

People in my station, they get depressed. Take antidepressants, which retards acytlcholine receptors. Retards your ability to recall memories and think deeply. To put it simply, they retard the brain. We also eat cheap processed foods, foods cut with nonfoods, which have similar brain retarding effects. We also lack exercise, and the required blood/oxygen circulation to the brain that goes with that. Eat a McBreakfast and the peak period of mental activity in your day a few hours later is already stunted.

This effect is temporary, and once it wears off the brain returns to normal.

At roughly 24, the process of synaptic pruning begins. Mental skills you don't use on a regular basis atrophy.

We do mundane work, no thought required. Stacked on top of this is the fact that we take brain retardants.

On a daily basis, we don't think critically.

I have a theory that over the years, the ability is pruned naturally via synaptic pruning.

If true, this means that one day, I, too, will be confused by rudimentary activities, such as eating or drinking things.


We are retarding ourselves.

...hotline miami?

Haven't played it, but heard about it. Maybe I'll look into getting it.