[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 91 points 7 months ago

Sure, but this time they can be sure their money goes to themselves instead of those pesky vulnerable sections of society.

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 39 points 8 months ago

Good old days when the factory owner comes outside to see a rope on a streetlight and suddenly working conditions get a lot better

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 38 points 9 months ago

No, they aren't. They're forced to because there is no viable alternative.

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I used to play this game called RAGE many years ago. It was a first person shooter, with a bunch of late game overpowered guns, had a crafting system to make ammo and the like, shops to sell and buy said ammo, but had strict resource controls to keep it competitive and fun.

So I spent around four days tabulating values of every ammo and crafting material in the game, mapping out which in-game traders sold what and when, and then spent maybe the next three days just craft-selling the cheapest item, a wingstick(basically a boomerang) in the game.

Hundreds and hundreds of wingsticks, grinding like a little kid in a sweatshop. I made enough money to max. out capacity on every ammo capacity in the game. As a result I breezed through the endgame, and what was supposed to be a long, tough, engaging mission into the heart of the enemy turned into a caricature of a boss fight, and I probably spend more time admiring the environment design there than worrying about dying or running out of ammo. I think I ran out only on one ammo type, and in total I used only the three most powerful ammo types in the game.

A level I should have enjoyed and formed the neat little bow for that game to be wrapped in, turned into a comical doom guy-esque slaughter of the scariest enemy in-game.

I am truly my own worst enemy.

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 21 points 9 months ago

STOP I can only get so erect

You're going to make me write a cute green-urbania fiction of my self-insert walking around a beautiful city with parks everywhere and using the sub-rails to go far distances and then get on cute retro san francisco style over land trams to make my way to walk-only brick roads and then walk to some book store, the corners piled high with books, with books stacked outside the store under a cloth awning, owned by a wise old man of unclear nationality who spends his days reading the books he sells, who knows me well enough to offer a glass of tea.

[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 18 points 9 months ago

Stupid. Why do they even have such a shitty policy? What benefit would it have? Bully people into coming in?

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[-] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 19 points 11 months ago

Is that where the ship is registered? For tax evasion?

Maybe they just rolled the jets there, took the hubcaps of the fuel inlet off of every one of them (so that they are "disassembled") and then let ukraine know.

So still technically correct and within international arms trade law, but the jets got through without needing too much reassembly.

Maybe put some clingwrap or something over the inlet so moisture doesn't get in.

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I can't decide if the lack of drums enhances the experience. I love these songs, so I may be biased a little.

I think it makes the songs a little mellower, more pleasant to listen to or fall asleep to, at the end of a long workday.l

be the change you wamt to see

Well maybe you should have become a known publisher before writing any programs.

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Shitass is such a great insult. Juvenile enough to be funny, rare enough to be underused.

When playing football, to keep the socks from riding down our legs, we used to put loose rubber bands on top of them, near the top of the sock. Then to avoid the rubberbands from riding up above the sockline, we used to fold the sock over the rubberbands downwards. Then to avoid the fold from being undone during play another rubberband had to be put on top of the folded part.

Sounds similar to this. Just thought it was notable.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

I don't know if it's because I grew up in a different time period or whether my sense of humor is just misaligned, or if it's just that I don't have the background necessary, but I don't understand shit.

I don't get any of the jokes, some are just completely undecipherable, and some comics just leave me feeling stupid as hell.

How do you guys understand any of this? What do the user demographics of this community look like?

Is this a government psyop? Are these comics evidence trails to hire super smart cryptography detectives like Cicada 3301? Are they memetic triggers for activating sleeper agents? To be honest I think I'd feel better if it was.

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