The founding fathers set this shit up and they knew it was going to go sideways from the moment they signed the paperwork. If anything, it likely lasted longer than they imagined it would.

“A republic, if you can keep it” - Benjamin Franklin, 1787

So now we hype them before they’re even in pre-release alpha? What the fuck is this? ‘You can play the demo now it will hold you over until early access’ yeah no, go fuck yourself. After your game’s been released for a minimum of 6 months and proves to a) not be shit and b) actually be supported then maybe I will buy it on sale. Fuck off with this Christmas in October shit.

I only have any EA games at all because I got them free on Epic. They all require launchers and are so shit I can’t even play them so I guess what I’m saying is I HOPE YOUR AI IS BETTER THAN THE ONES I HAVE ACCESS TO YOU MORONS LOL

I don’t have a library card, but do you mind if I check you out?

MAGA people can’t feel shame over any of this, they are incapable. This is a wealth and religion thing, you’ll notice MAGA people are nearly universally either wealthy, religious or both.

Particularly in America (because of the historical confluence of wealth and religion) these two types of people don’t experience shame the same way normal people do. Wealthy people’s sense of superiority over their position in society has bred in them the notion that shame is for their lessers. The richer they are, the worse this is. Religious people feel that nothing in the world is more righteous than sticking it to nonbelievers and no effort put forth in pursuit of that goal can be considered shameful. In fact, the opposite. In any case their shame quotient is sodden with their own repressed sexuality.

If you have ever had a dream where you can’t get something right. Like, in your dream you know you need to do something - you even know exactly what it is that you need to do. You have no excuse for not doing it - maybe you actually try to do it - and yet you keep finding it is as yet undone.

You eventually wake up, because you are alive and you are dreaming. But if you are dead, you are not alive, you cannot wake up. You have all of the agency that you had when you were dreaming, which is none. Until you woke up - you were helpless in your dream, try as you might. The dead are helpless in their dream as well, but they do not have the luxury of waking up.

So have some pity for the dead.