good policy gets you voted out of office, and makes everyone hate you. You don’t get rich from pursuing a broad-based policy that improves the lives of your constituents. a lot of people i met… were smart and open about this. there was no reason to be a ‘good’ politician because nobody pays you for it, and the voters tend to vote you out for it.
I feel like this effect could be ameliorated by restricting political advertising to direct, verified facts only.
Knowing that poem meant I got chills from the opening lyrics to the Mayans M.C. theme song when I heard it for the first time:
Mother of Exiles, the torch of hope.
In the toss of the tempest, threw us Madison’s rope.
But the brazen giant, with limbs astride, blocks the golden door to the US of Lies, screaming:
Fuck your huddled masses, scrub our floors, cut our grasses.
I am a wolf, a wild cur, cut from the pack, with blood on my fur. Every howl marks the dead.
Cause a beaten dog never forgets.
terraria for minecraft + metroidvania
This…shines a totally new light on a bunch of decisions that originally made me fairly upset and caused me to quit playing the game.
I played the game with nearly every free moment I had between the time I bought it in 2012 and the 1.2 release in October of 2013. Multiple worlds. Multiplayer sessions with players in several countries possibly requiring port forwarding and VPN tunnels if I remember correctly, and all of it stopped dead for me when I had to quit focusing on creating and exploring and was instead spending most of my time struggling to survive.
There were enemies before, and you could find one of the three bosses and just… Not go there, but 1.2 really made combat the forefront of the game and killed it for me entirely.
In the intervening 12 years. I’d be surprised if had more than a couple of hours into the game.
Viewing it through the lens of a metroidvania where you craft your own progression is not something I’d considered before.
I might actually go back to the game on the rare occasion I’m in the mood for something like that.
Thank you for the insight, while it probably sounds silly, it gives me some perspective into something that was so jarring it still causes me to panic when a game announces combat where combat was not previously the focus (I’m looking at you, Dyson Sphere Program 😄) and I really appreciate that.
Do some of the same shit the Republicans have been doing for ages any time THEY are in the minority.
There should be a daily press briefing with Pete B, Bernie S., or Alexandria O.C. that’s covered by every journalist who’s been kicked out of the white house. Call that shit “The American Way” briefing and compare the events of the last 24 hours of trump BS to the constitution and the declaration of independence.
Obstruct every last piece of illegal garbage the Republican Nazis are trying to get away with loudly and publicly.
Put themselves OUT THERE in the public eye as AGAINST FACISM and go full-on captain America on those Nazi Republicans.
I don’t know what this is.
Yank special brew is called malt liquor, sits between 5% and 12% abv, and is typically sold in 40oz bottles.
Also called a fotie (FOE-dee) or a lando (because Billy Dee williams, the actor who played lando calrissian also did ads for colt45 malt liquor)
This is 42 ounces?
The war on Christmas CANNOT END until Christmas ceases its illegal occupation of November.
We are once again calling on the Claus regime to return to their side of the borders outlined in the Black Friday agreement.
Suspect?
I’m curious as to whether the use of that word was purposely deliberate or not.
I’m also curious as to how closely you’ve been following the subject and from where.
For reference, he’s been confirmed by multiple presumably trustworthy sources who, until reading the unredacted files, had no overtly stated agenda on the subject, to be in them VERY frequently.
The adamance with which these people have mentioned the frequency of his appearance in the files makes me suspect he’s in there on an order of magnitude more than anyone other than Epstein himself.