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Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


Raine posted:

i might be on board with this

depends what kind of liquor an Earthshot is

I regret to inform you earth shot is oil and we've been chugging it for over a century

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Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


blatman posted:

give everyone who has ever posted in the thread ik but every time someone gives a sixer it also gives them a sixer

:hmmyes:

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


TACD posted:

sorry, what the gently caress?

I’ve spent a long time researching a suicide method that works for me and buying all the equipment with my own money, and you think the government should be handing out death like candy to anyone who can tie a bit of twine around a light fixture and act shocked when their half-assed hanging pulls the whole thing down?

how is that fair to hard-working suicide ideators like myself?

Come to Canada if you are disabled and are finding it extremely hard to live of the generous benefits for disability and the great safety net we have in place, the government has a solution MAID (medical assistance in death). They'll helpfully not improve your situation but get you a nice doctor to end poo poo for ya

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


Thorn Wishes Talon posted:

uh, this guy seems off his rocker a bit?

https://twitter.com/SDonziger/status/1372621865395523585

i only did 5 seconds of looking at his twitter profile though

In case you are being serious you really should read up on him. It's all publically documented how his life got hosed with because he dared win a first case against Chevron in Ecuador

Literally the wiki page lays it out
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Donziger

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


Laterite posted:

sure seems to be a lot of long-lasting heat waves around the world lately, wonder what that's about

Don't worry about it, you really need to focus on what's important like have you even heard of quiet quitting?

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


kater posted:

road was especially reflective this morning and I started seeing all the life crushed down into asphalt as I was driving just endless mountains and caves and trees and dinosaurs crushed into shiny black flatness spanning out into forever covering the globe like a warm corpse blanket

It's fun looking back at elementary school and remembering young kids didn't have grass or a field for recess. You had to stay on the asphalt if you were before grade 4, nominally because it was closer to the school building

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011



Say what you will about the Saudis but they understand floor lighting is cool and everything loves a glowing orb

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


Fell Mood posted:

I'm thinking that monthly phlebotomy treatments at a detox center could be the next big grift. Get all that plastic out of the blood. It's perfect because you'll need to do it for the rest of your life to keep the plastic concentrations in your tissues down. I assume all that blood can just be dumped in the ocean.

That's leaving money on the table. Just sell the blood, probably get a decent price

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


Popoto posted:

what is arkstorm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARkStorm

disaster porn

honestly I prefer the megaquake faultline idea for my long odds disaster porn based on past events

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011



beautiful analysis

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


4d3d3d posted:

Sure, I mean I'd argue we've already collapsed and are firmly in the "running on fumes/inertia" stage and it's hard to define exactly what the cutoff point is (there probably isn't one defining limit, maybe the collapse of governments worldwide?). We can't say mass starvation or widespread, preventable environmental/pollution death because that's already happening

this is pretty much it, for most people they do not have a concept of what to do without the current capitalist societal framing. So people are gonna keep doing what they are doing until they can't or they see another viable path.

We like to say we aren't just animals, but we are with extra steps, and its very well observed how they will keep to their patterns until forced to not due to changing conditions such as loss of habitat, food source, new predator etc. For most of us in North America this is not the case, it happens to some and you see small migratory behaviour to stabler areas but its not bad enough to disrupt the pattern that exists and is proven to at least keep you fed and housed. Just don't look into rising unhoused rates or rising cost of food and the increased news of 'crime'. Im not sure how much is intentionally a part of the messaging that things are fine but it's definitely not coincidental they keep saying it and who is targeted too.
If you are already being pushed out due to the above conditions they dgaf, the messaging is for the 'regular folk' to keep things going and to say there is no pressure to change.

It's literally the reason the rcmp in Canada talked about how a majority of young Canadians realizing the instability in their shelter prospects is a big threat

Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


Truga posted:

doom/quake/tribes era really was the best time for fps, everything is slowed down garbo now so you can "appreciate the details". let me glide/strafejump over the map at speed of sound goddammit

Scarabrae posted:

everything is a dumb rear end 5v5 slow ADS tactical squad shooter thing, counterstrike ruined FPS

the problem is they are frustration sims to new players, they rarely spend the time to get better and skill diff in those games means you're unlikely to do poo poo against great players.

TiFa2 is the most recent one i can think of and its fantastic but ran into the same issue. New players really hate playing against the ones who really play with the systems.

Apex is fascinating how it changed to become better for new players while still being at least faster than any other popular FPS by a good margin.

anyways not really collapse but my interest was engaged.

Edit: See also the death of RTS and the current small scale attempts to revive the genre. I don't think competitive RTS is gonna get big again

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Cerepol
Dec 2, 2011


The Oldest Man posted:

actually it's a well studied problem with severe negative health outcomes and you should shut the gently caress up https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2023-077310

this says ultra processed foods via a specific NOVA classification definition

its very unclear and really disingenuous to apply it broadly using processed which can vary dramatically and of which only a subset would qualify as ultra processed

an example is the ultra processed classification for chorleywood bread (like a pullman loaf of any of the nationally available bread brands) that is very common vs a processed classification for bakery proofed bread as it contains non whole ingredients like butter or milled flour

edit: not to mention there are disagreements regarding NOVA. its become a classic example of a scientific study being used to support a position and being telephoned into being meaningless
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35730561/

don't forget to drink your one cup of red wine a day, a study said its good

Cerepol has issued a correction as of 18:54 on Apr 3, 2024

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