Have you worked with the public when they're feeling extra entitled or in pain?

I get it. It's not a good thing, but I get it.

That said, this is pretty old. Probably just a V-neck and you're thinking too much.

Atom RPG, wasteland 3, etc. Not as old school isometric, but the vibe is almost there. I do miss the quirky humor, though. It is a shame the TV show is as campy as it is. Fallout 4 was all the dumb mechanics that weren't the game. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever get a NV2 or the vibe of NV set in a different location.

I think it's bucking the trend of idolizing villains. Not to mention the sheer size of the posters, making them far too much of their identity. Also buying a gold KAWS figure for some ungodly price was a choice...

Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization? What a stupid, small brained solution to reach for when you're tapping omnipotence. Especially because it doesn't solve the problem because life fucks and makes more life! Fuck I hate what comic book movies became.

While the Thanos bit might be artistic hyperbole, picking the Joker as a role model is more common irl than it should be, and is a legitimate red flag, considering that Joker stans tend to romanticize his relationship with Harley Quinn, which is very much an abusive, manipulative one.

When looking for a mature, emotional healthy & safe partner, Joker fans should be avoided at a costs.

Too late played through those games, I require more. I've also played through Wasteland 1 in a deluded fevor state when I got covid.

Also yeah I doubt we'll ever get a NV again especially with how Bethesda seems dead set on doubling down on the camp, which is honestly a shame because for all its flaws Fallout 3 has a pretty good balance of goof and grimness. Maybe we could get something akin to that if Owlcat were to make a post apocalyptic game since they do 40k pretty well without too much grimderp encroachment. Also play Roguetrader and Wrath of the Righteous if you haven't, real fucken solid games and don't worry about the devs being Russian they fucked off to Cyprus early in the war.

Also play Roguetrader and Wrath of the Righteous if you haven’t, real fucken solid games and don’t worry about the devs being Russian they fucked off to Cyprus early in the war.

See, this is why I love fedi. Thanks for the recommendations!

No problem, frankly speaking they are not given nearly as much credit despite being really solid devs since their games are relatively linear at least compared to what they are inspired by. Honestly I don't really mind since too many CRPGs have a bit too much openness resulting in a confusing experience like their first major game Pathfinder: Kingmaker. Also they are making a Dark Herasy game which is neat, hope it has an All Guardsman Party reference.

Also another recommendation I forgot about, Arcanum it was made by the same devs as Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines who also happened to be Interplay alumni meaning it's got the same weird crackhead energy as Fallout 2 but instead of the Enclave being obviously based off of the Nazis you get literal 19th century steampunk eugenics. Games great 10/10 will shoot wizard with elephant gun again.

"Recent" is doing a lot of work here...

Yes, helping rightfully displeased electronics customers, helping the homeless, as well as helping people who do not return the shopping cart, during the super bowl.

Hell I've done a fair bit of my own ... call it unprofessionally qualified trauma response i suppose, a number of times.

Yep, many people in many situations can be shitty...

Not shitty enough to make me idolize the Joker or Thanos.

Also like this is art, its kind of subjective. Looks like scrubs to me, guess you don't see it, but that doesn't make me an 'overthinker', it just makes you an oddly defensive thought policer.

"You and I are like eleven o' clock and 1 o' clock. You see, we are closer to each other than to others" —The Flying Finn

And that sweet joker poster

Wanna know how I got these scars? Top surgery.

The Hippocratic oath doesn't say shit about thinking no harm.

Or simply make all life half the size.

Could you imagine Earth if everything alive were like, 10% of its size? There would be so much space, so much room for resources to flourish.

So much distance between one country on one side of the planet and a country on the other side that wars between the two would be completely unfeasible.

The grocery store shelves would be full!

Except maybe the lower ones.

Fire.

Iirc, that particular Thanos poster was an incel talking point for a bit. Don't think it's just Thanos, it's that particular image of Thanos

LMAO tHoUgHt PoLicEr

Never understood if you could snap half the life away, why not just double the resources or improve the efficiency of existing resource utilization?

Because he doesn't actually care about any of that, he just wants to prove that his original plan would have worked.

So when Thanos was younger, his planet was faced with overpopulation. He proposed that half the population should be killed at random, so that the other half could have all the resources. Of course, he was called crazy, but the planet ended up dying of overpopulation anyway, which convinced Thanos that he was right all along.

So his whole reason for comitting mass genocide is all so he can point and say, "See, I was right!"

Thanos is called "The Mad Titan" after all.

Pretty sure you mean mocking, not bucking.

Its not that deep bro, police is a verb, you can conjugate it like that, no need to bust out the 'I've been caught being an asshole' capitalization.

Ukrainian anarchist flag?

They put Guts and Joker together and called it redeemable quality. This thing is rigged.

I uh... don't think I've seen anything Marvel since then so I guess it feels more recent than it is lol.

I'm sure I'll be easily shown to be wrong, but I assumed that it's because the universe's mass is finite and that the all-powerful infinity stones only freely manipulate the substance of the universe, and therefore work with limited material. In that case, doubling resources in one place means repurposing equivalent mass from other areas.

The other problem is how you implement this solution across the universe: do you re-engineering biological systems to be twice as efficient? Do you double the input energy? What about non-biological resources: do you speed up geologic processes? Do you simply increase the size and mass of each world and assume twice the resources are available and accessible? How deep of an understanding of each ecosystem is needed to account for all potential target populations, and can a single mind hold all that information in place while giving the infinity stones such a command?

Most pertinently, Thanos was a cynic. He didn't trust any higher lifeform to not ultimately be shortsighted and selfish, and so his brute force solution was a culling.

The pants have a slightly different hue, so I think those are supposed to be jeans with this sort of top:

Well, probably not knitted, since her outfit is quite light, but you get the idea.

People are attracted to these characters because they are well written tortured souls not petty misanthropes.
Joker suffers from untreated mental illness and an unrequited quest for acceptance that is relatable but something that most simply internalize and suffer with. Like Thanos there is an element of relatable humanity there but with which he reacts in the most horrible of ways.
Thanos seems almost doomed to exist. Someone or something keyed the universe to have an option to partially destruct. That this is possible via a specific programmed sequence of events implies that it was meant to happen at some point. Thanos feels the time is now - that survival requires this destruction and that he is called to enact it. Its intentionally unclear whether he is acting through evil or that his innate power calls upon him to bear a cross of necessity that serves a greater good through a horrible act.

Also it's just fun because they are make-believe, they aren't hurting anyone or actively encouraging anyone to do harm. It's like being repulsed by someone playing violent videogames - such a superficial empty judgment to pass.

I think you underestimate the sheer volume of media we consume. I could probably name 20 of just kids movies that I loved and would recommend to anyone who hasn't seen them. A big harry potter fan would be at like 15 already without including games.

If you took the time to write a list of your favourite media items from over your life, you would easily hit 100 and feel pretty strong about #100 too. To put it in context, that's less than 1 per month, over 20 years.

I had an ex-girlfriend who had grown up in her father's antique shop and inherited all his shit when he died. Watching Antiques Roadshow with her was a trip because she knew the value of everything almost to the exact dollar. However, this had greatly distorted her perception of the acceptability of some things. She had an authentic "Ein Reich, Ein Volk, Ein Fuhrer" poster from the 1930s and I had to convince her that she couldn't just put that shit up over her mantelpiece and expect to have friends.

It's even dumber because most life on earth (and presumably in the universe) is single-celled. They generally reproduce so quickly that you'd make up that 50% culling in less time than the fucking movie takes.

Specifically a rather famous design used by the Ukrainians during the Russian Civil War and more specifically their war of independence, while obviously not official because y'know anarchists it was wide spread enough to be a known variant. Though they also just sometimes flew a straight up black flag, though the one I want is the one with a skull and crossbones with words in Cyrillic that I cant read.

No, and the Joker movies were also good. They have just become associated with the "red pill" corner of internet subcultures.

Can you perhaps send a picture it? I maybe remember seeing it somewhere.

Look at the text behind the dude

"Death • to all, who stand in the way of freedom for working people."
"Смерть • всiм, хто на пиришкодi добутья вильностi трудовому люду."

Here it is.

Oh, yeah. Seems like Ukrainian did changed slightly from this times, hehe.
But this one is not that highly known or popular, I would say.
You here can much often hear about УПА and Правий Сектор.

Ahh, okay, yeah.

what, it really does not indicate gamer

Great. I'm totally going to get criticized for my Gundam models.

Yikes. It's only missing a Rick and Morty poster.

It's the guy version of "Live Laugh Love" and stuff. Run.

I'd actually hang that Thanos poster up. It's so stupid I love it

Ideology of УПА is atrocious, but i should give the respect for fighting both Nazis and Tankies.
Wolyn massacre is also a really bad incident that shouldnt have happened. But to be fair, forceful assimilation, violance, hate, and even concentration camps for ukrainians in wolyn at the time are obviously going to spark a rage in ultranationalists, but at the same time doesnt justify massacre.

If my Gundam models make me an incel, no one tell my kid*.

You don't know shit about my media consumption so stick to things you do know about.

I was joking a bit but I think they're great in more than one way. It's like once you start putting together MG or higher then it's not just a toy anymore, especially if you start doing the modifications or lights. It helped me with mobility when I broke a couple fingers last year. The funny thing about gunpla is I was shopping in Akihabara and there were Japanese businessmen buying them, and I mean with grey hair. Even the clerk, who also was older, was like 'oh Gundam' heh

Next time I go, I will get as many special editions as possible.

Actually, he's got a point. I get why some sides of gaming community are frowned upon, but gaming is a good hobby to have, in general compared to other "media" based hobbies. Definitely better than tv series and smartphones

Why write it in Cyrillic if majority of people can't read it, and even those that know Cyrillic struggle to read it effortlessly. You could just say UPA and Right Sector, both are recognized English translations that have a Wikipedia page. No meaning is lost by translating them from Ukrainian to English.