Mine’s probably nostalgia tinged but here goes: FFVII, VIII, IX, and X I love the setting, I love the mechanic changes between the series from materia giving various boosts in 7 to the actual spell slots changing stats in 8 and the summons in 9, and blitzball in 10. The story for each was unique in their own world ending way and beautiful to run through. I replay them probably once every three-five years or so but they mark a high point for me. Adding to the list, Demon’s Souls. I never fully understood the storyline behind it but the sequencing of zones around the central hub and the combat are some of my favorite aspects. I need another play on that soon… It would probably be a little weeby of me to take some life lessons from them but they did help me to understand that hard decisions sometimes have to be made that include personal sacrifice and doing things that are unpleasant in order to move everyone forward and up.

I will continue to complain about people who only show up once every four years and bitch about the choices. I do outreach pretty much every year in my local area for whatever election is up next, so seeing apathetic assholes who try to push that apathy on others instead of standing for what they believe the other three years is still going to rankle with me. If they can’t hold their convictions and get involved then they should shut the fuck up about not voting when they can’t bring themselves to. Don’t vote, fine, but if you’re not putting in the work for change don’t try and bring everyone else down with your lazy shit.

Wild take, maybe they should get the energy from a closer renewable source. Like offshore wind farms and current turbines located nearby? You can find a million bad ideas for literally any subject because greedy people want government money, but that doesn’t mean the underlying idea isn’t sound. Morroco is just a quarter of the world away, which makes this specific idea stupid.

Didn’t we have a whole impeachment about a president preventing arms that were allocated by Congress from going to their destination? Oh yeah that was Trump trying to get some election fuckery from Ukraine. Granted, the election aspect was another level on it but that is functionally the same thing you’re demanding Biden do which was already determined to not be ok. President doesn’t have that power so maybe instead of wondering why Biden isn’t fixing the thing all on his own, we can start (or continue if you were ever paying attention between presidential elections) pressuring and replacing the Congress critters that are actually approving the sale of arms to continue the genocide. Why does everyone keep getting big man deluded when we know for a fact that the president isn’t a king with total control?

Sounds like they expect the current known bugs to take most or all of the time remaining to polish out, and they won’t be able to handle new ones found in beta. Definitely worrisome.

Thanks, I’ll pass it along!

Dude. We don’t disagree with you. We just differ in that apparently we don’t like getting chastised about who to vote for by people who don’t participate until the presidential election, but you’re ok with that so long as it’s “for social justice”. I get it’s for social justice and if they cared enough to post online they should care enough to show up supporting a local candidate that has their ideals when it’s not the presidential race. Shit is hard to do and I don’t appreciate putting in the work and getting bitched at by couch warriors. How has that not gotten across to you?

I count how many are moaning in my local message boards vs the people that show up for actual actions in person. The difference is staggering.

I still see no context for “they should only focus on presidential elections” from “maybe if they paid attention in between elections, and not pout and withhold votes on election day”.

The only time we hear them complain is when the presidential election comes up, so if we take that as a standard and ask them to focus on between that means pay attention to the elections that aren’t the presidential one… I am active in non social media campaigns, so when I see the lack of support there but massive support on social media every four years, it does drive the narrative that they don’t care in between for the people that could actually do what they want. They’re complaining about the final product while not involving themselves in any step of the process getting there, WHICH INCLUDES GETTING THE LOCAL REPS ELECTED TO SWAY THE DIRECTION OF THE PARTY BEYOND JUST THE PRESIDENT.

Oh man, if only there was a way for them to force acceptance of these beneficial ideas. Like getting local reps elected who support those ideas to push the party as a whole farther towards those ideas. Instead of just saying “but it’s for a just society!” Once every four years and then wondering why they never get support.

I agree it would be awesome if we could make a hard shift left and move to a more just society for everyone in it but dreams don’t just pop into reality, there has to be work done and I don’t see a lot of them helping out. Certainly not where I’m trying to gather support for the same ideas. Always “too busy to help” until a presidential election rolls around, which is fucking infuriating.

Brooks brothers riot was absolutely republican fuckery.

The claim is that they glom onto good causes when visibly suitable, which is for major elections. It’s that the vast majority are not active in any election other than when they pop up for a presidential election. Posting on Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and other message boards does not mean politically active per se unless you count screaming into an echo chamber.

What you’re talking about in the second paragraph is what is desired, what is usually seen are Instagram and message board posts with little actual action until a presidential election where suddenly they pop out of the woodwork and scream that things aren’t fair.

No shit things aren’t fair, those of us actually being active trying to get local support for the same ideas get pissed at the sudden influx of people with good intentions but no idea how to act on them other than lambast the groups who aren’t perfect enough for them.

I don’t know how you got “only focused on the presidential election for four years” fromy previous post.

It’s not that it’s invalid, it’s that typically most people have no desire or input into the political sphere through their own choices right up until the presidential election and then get pissy that the things they want aren’t being done.

No shit, if you want them done you have to show up for more than one election to build the political capital to do it. Does that mean their ideas are invalid? No, just that you can’t sit out 90% of the time and then expect to be taken seriously.

I do understand that those strategies have some effect. I disagree that it means reason is moot, and the more shits that come out of the woodwork with doomerism the more effective it is so I have a question for you. Why are you pushing that narrative as well? What are you doing to change it other than point it out?

Not even good felonies. Power grabbing felonies. The context does matter a bit. Just a little.

I mean, yeah Biden hasn’t been great at campaigning this time. He’s been significantly better at the actual job, and we don’t only elect the person. We elect their cabinet effectively as well and Biden surrounds himself with much more competent staff than Trump who has several staffers up for felonies, nevermind himself.

Am I worried? Just about you assholes who keep forgetting that the president doesn’t do everything themselves.

Loads of felonies being led by a convicted felon who has said he would commit more crimes the second in office… vs one guy in the group being “old” despite only being a few years older than his opponent.

I get it, Biden is old. I don’t get how that one fact counters every other one from the other side.

I asked what level of work could be done and you said look around at the people who are working in that or hotter weather. Ok, so how many hours of manual labor can be done in 79 degree weather before the body needs rest? In sun vs shade? At 40/60/80% humidity? None of what you said answers any of that beyond what could have been a “Google it yourself”.

You spent multiple lines writing something I didn’t ask for to be an ass. If you don’t know or don’t feel like answering, don’t answer.

I don’t understand the chatgpt bit still. When you say you need more context on the subject matter, you could search for the wiki or a forum and get the same information chatgpt is pulling without the impact.

Surprisingly, I do go outside. In 79 degrees. Where I sweat like crazy and hit dehydration fairly quickly. Which is why I was asking for an actual answer instead of this shit. If you don’t want to answer the question, fine but you don’t need to be a dick about it.

So again, not an answer to the question I was asking. Kindly fuck off.

So effectively 11-12 searches vs 2.