I thought this was supposed to be a joke format. Where’s the joke? Is it ironic? Maybe replace civil engineers with car manufacturers or oil executives?

Something I have noticed about the Ukraine war is that right now Ukraine has good intelligence on specific targets with a tight focus on their overall strategy to blunt russias overwhelming fighting force. They have been incredibly successful at it. On the other hand russia doesnt have a great strategy with a tight focus other than the generl ifa of conquer that country. Which means that they dont have specific targets that they need to pummel and so even if they have better intelligence, it doesn’t really matter. As such they keep attacking civilian targets with the hopes that it will demoralize the country. A strategy that more often than not has the opposite effect.

I say this for no particular reason.

I comment on shit posts!

I’ll add to this an anecdote. My neighborhood is near a nature preserve. We get all kinds of animals theough here, but mostly racoon, possums and armadillo. Oh and feral cats. For a while we would occasionally have critters fighting in our yard. You’d hear it at night especially during summer. Not so much lately.

See a few years ago we got a feral kitten fixed as part of our local colony management group. Cat decided to stay, and we’ve been looking after her. Friendly, but stand-offish. We make sure shes fed, but let her do her own thing. Hasn’t shown much interest in the inside.

We noticed that in the evenings raccoons would show up to steal her food. We chased em away, but theyd just come back later. The thing was that cat would sit there and watch the raccoons. She even moved out of the way once she was done, and let the raccoons have their share. Its been a few years now, and our yard cat manages things between other cats, the raccoons and the possums, and sometimes armadillos and nobody fights about it. Heck sometimes we find a small crowd waiting for our cat to summon the food for them.

The point being, violence may be an inherent part of nature, and the wilderness. However even animals when they dont have to work so hard to survive will cooperate when its to everyone’s advantage. Which means that anyone who tells you that violence is the only law of nature is full of shit, and is really just telling on themselves. In my opinion.

Ive always meant to watch this, but never got around to it. It might be time.

It’s truly sad, but thanks to this government program they can eat all the crayons the want.

Live in Texas, can confirm

Too stupid to be a marine? Too fat to be a cop? Join ICE! We dont judge, just execute!

So basically its closed then. I mean the last time they tried to escort ships they had to stop cause uh… reasons. Reasons definitely not related to ships getting shot with drones and missiles. Also who’s going to pay America to get their ships shot up as part of a failed show of force?

I’m of two minds about why god would make people like us. Though bear in mind im not at all a believer.

I think about the movie Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Theres a scene where a kid asks the one black guy if god made him black, and why. The response was, “Allah loves wonderous variety.”

On the other hand I think in a well run universe an intelligent species with a genetic binary sex expression would be hard coded to gender expression. Since it isnt I can only conclude that god is lazy and indifferent.

On the other other hand I think dysphoria is a result of social pressure to enforce gender coding on children from birth. And traditional god fearing family structures force it hardest.

I think I first heard it from the movie Bad Santa.

They say PRAY IN ONE HAND AND SHIT IN THE OTHER AND SEE WHICH ONE FILLS UP FIRST

I never asked god, but I did try to make a deal with the devil. But as they say pray in one hand and shit in the other and see which fills up first.

This is because their most vocal supporters are such rabid trumpians that they are seriously worried about being physically harmed if they dont do as dear leader tells them. Like best case scenario if they oppose Trump is to get primaried. Its downhill from there, and theyre already soulless ghouls, so easy choice.

I consider Vivi to be their best written character.

Honestly I agree. Theres a whole history in the time that comes after 8 where SeeD is an active force for a very long time. At the same time if you consider this a time travel story, it takes place at the start of SeeD which makes sense if you consider the true sorceress from the future trying to thwart her enemy before they ever become a threat. I think one of the places where the story fall apart is that we get no explanation of who she is other than that she wants to do the big bad. I think it would be interesting to have a game that explores that end of things.

FF8 is a flawed game, no argument from me. But to me what makes the game great is that it’s the game where squaresoft was at its most experimental. Guardian forces was an attempt at making summons be genuine characters rather than a simple simulation of the idea of summoning. The leveling weirdness was an attempt at solving the problem of level grinding endemic to the genre. The story was an attempt to go beyond the usual heroes of light just saving the world. Did these attempts land perfectly? Not at all, but they had interesting permutations.

I think it’s amazing that squarsoft even in that time tried to do so much different in just that one game. They were challenging standard tropes of the genre.

I genuinely question this writer claiming they played the game many times when they pretty much ignore the existence of Laguna when trying to find character depth and background. Really you have to remember the game in its moment in 1998, and this reads like someone playing it well after the fact. And then wondering why the game doesnt do things as well as the games that came after.

“Senate republican leaders say that they’ve spoken to Mitch McConnell remains” FIFY

Bush 2 was a failson who was largely well intentioned, but also had no idea what his dad’s friends were doing in his cabinet. His second term he started taking a more proactive role when he realized how he was responsible for a lot of the fuckery going on around him. At the same time, Iraq was all his baby. I don’t say this to absolve him of anything, he was a shit president, but he was about as shitty as any other nepobaby that managed to fail into high office.

Hey, I dress like shit cause for most of my life i wasn’t “allowed” to dress how I wanted. And now that i know that’s fake im too scared.