Wow. Let’s start with your flawed philosophy. A lot of people who voted for Harris will get fucked by these tariffs too. If anything, Harris voters will likely get fucked even harder than the Trump voters. The trump voters are more likely to be rural and have the space and means to grow a garden with which to feed themselves. Urban voters - the ones most likely to vote for Harris - are unlikely to have the space or time for such a luxury. So again, while Trump voters will feel the burn too, they’re far less likely to be hurt as badly as the Harris voters will. Yet, here you are, wanting to hurt people because Harris voters need to learn to not vote for Trump or something. What an unintelligent take.

As for your personality…

What a completely unempathetic piece of shit you appear to be. I hope you’re disowned so you lose access to your fruit basket, you privileged asshole. Furthermore, I feel bad for anyone who’s required to be around you; your very presence should be considered a form of domestic abuse. No one deserves to be cursed with your existence and I sincerely feel sorry for any friends or family members who have been forced to tolerate you out of a sense of kinship. They do not deserve to be forced to tolerate someone who displays such a sociopathic lack of empathy and willingness to sacrifice others for your own benefit.

I’m actually pissed off that people like you exist.

Give her a bottle of NyQuil unsupervised and bash her over the head with a brick for good measure.

Community is absolutely still a real thing. In my experience, however, you have to be willing to step outside of the mainstream and you have to be willing to touch grass every now and then. Socializing IRL is completely different than socializing online, which is different than socializing in VR, or in voice chat, or so on.

That said, there absolutely is a case to be made for idea that “community” being slowly ground into dust, possibly intentionally so. The death of open gathering places, the rise of online-only interaction and so forth, erodes at the kind of socialization you need in order to build a community. My tinfoil hat theory is that it’s easier to sow division in the unruly masses and keep them at each other’s throats when everyone is alone, so the rich and powerful have an incentive to kill the concept of community so that it’s harder to rise up against them.

At this point, I believe the places where you’re most likely to find a strong sense of community will be within marginalized groups; people who’ve traditionally been downtrodden tend to band together for protection, relationships and support.

If you can’t avoid pissing on the floor then fucking sit down like a civilized, intelligent creature. Don’t be a disgusting degenerate.

Furthermore, if this is some weird masculinity thing where you feel like less of a man for sitting to pee, then you need help. Sitting to pee doesn’t make you look any less of a man. You wanna know what makes you look like less of a man? Pissing in the sink because you’re too scared that you’ll have your man-card revoked if you dare to sit while you pee.

This is my experience as well. Anecdotally, at least. Lately I’ve been slowly putting together a community of friends, and my anxiety and depression have been dropping like crazy. Between that and the self-esteem boost I’ve been getting from finally starting hrt, I’m actually starting to feel competent enough to tackle things like getting a job, moving out (I’m gonna go looking at rental properties with a friend tomorrow), going grocery shopping, things like that.

God, I’ve always wanted to be able to just do something so plain as going grocery shopping for myself.

I can also tell that the anxiety causes a lot of issues with my motivation from the fact that my wonderful mom always throws worst-case scenarios at me whenever I try to become more independent. She’s been throwing the entire warehouse at me lately because I’ve been talking about how I’m moving out with a friend. My excitement has been turning to dread despite my friend’s reassurance that they’ll catch me if I fall; and as a result my motivation and ability to get out of bed has been plummeting.

But… Yeah. Anecdotally, it’s not laziness, it’s being anxious, overwhelmed, overstimmed, depressed, feeling lonely (I mean, what’s the point in doing anything if no one cares?) and so forth.

2 would be the closest I’d consider to being ideal. The handle kinda looks like it sucks tho.

Ideal would be the head of 2 with the handle of 5.

That’s a 100% reasonable take. You’re just jealous that you couldn’t come up with a more creative statement.

Did she get snubbed by someone who’s ace or something? Asexuality is possibly the most inoffensive sexuality in existence.

Like, oh no.

They don’t experience sexual attraction.

That means they’re probably significantly less likely to objectify or assault you than someone who isn’t ace. Isn’t that a good thing for someone supposedly so concerned with being objectified and violated, Miss Rowling?

What a wildly brain-dead take from someone who loves claiming to be a feminist.

(Yes, I know she’s not actually a feminist, but it’s another piece of hypocrisy to throw on the pile)

The world around them is collapsing. Tate promises to have the solution. For whatever reason, his solution makes sense to them. So they follow him.

That shirt goes hard.

If I had Q’s power then the world would be a hell of a lot more furry, more lewd, and less fascistic. Also the cis/trans dichotomy wouldn’t really exist because people could just change their sex when they wanted to. Doing that would also probably cure a lot of sexism at the same time.

Fuck yeah.

Edit: Picard was an asshole for not asking Q to fix a lot of the woes of the universe. Q wanted to be Picard’s boyfriend; he absolutely woulda done it if Picard asked nicely.

The Easter Bunny lays the eggs themselves. There’s plenty of drawings of first hand accounts out there which confirm this.

Having black characters isn’t woke anymore unless you’re in the deep south.

I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what she’s doing. She’s trying to “un-woke” her own series. What a fucking loser.

Nothing new here has been said except that enginetrap is gonna be at FWA. I’m exciteeeeeddddd. I fucking love their art.

Sure. Just make sure there’s a gate for marginalized communities who are trying to get out.

I have a lot of trans Texas friends, few of us have any decent options to leave. A fun fact: Texas ranks 2nd when it comes to % of trans people. Yet we have no voice, and a big part of that is thanks to how fucked the Texas voting districts are. That’s why a trans person in Dallas can be decently safe, but a gay person in Tyler will get their knee kicked in by a neo-nazi in broad daylight (this actually happened to someone I know, they have to walk with a cane now and they aren’t even 21); yet cities barely end up with any blue politicians at a state or federal level.

Mmmm… Spicy fly.

Thanks! It was a long, 10yr journey to get this far. Something I’m sure your experience in the delta quadrant could help you relate to c:

(Janeway was one of my favorite Star Trek captains by a long shot)

Imo there are two things that every VR game needs but very few have:

1. The ability to import a custom player model. I know this gets weird when the game has different armor pieces, mounts gear on the player’s body, and things like that. However, this, imo, is something that any VR game should have if the main character’s appearance isn’t important. Games like Myst or H^3 should have the ability to import custom models; meanwhile Bugsnax VR is okay without it.

2. FBT support. Even if FBT doesn’t actually do anything special, it still helps with immersion. It drives me crazy how attempting to lean in some VR games will result in you falling off cliffs due to your VR feet typically being placed directly under you. I want to peak around a corner or look over a ledge, why can’t I do that without exposing myself or falling to my death?