Is this your first novel? What inspired you to write it? Have you find found it easy to write?

Exactly dude! I cannot even fathom how katz have families with little ones man. This inflation bullshit seems to make being a parent near impossible.

Keep doing your best to do your best for you people’s man.

I genuinely don’t know how people who have families and stuff do it. I’m just a dude flying solo and I have enough, but less savings at the end of the month then I did prior to COVID. I have even adjust my spending/saving ratio, but I feel like my coin purse is far lighter than I’d like on the 31st.

I don’t know how people who have kids, a spouse/partner, or anyone dependent on them do it. I don’t know how katz can make it month-to-month getting the shakedown from the market and its cultist goons every month. From the car bill, food bill, energy bill, housing bill, any type of care bill, I don’t know how regular people are making it.

It sucks.

These MEGACORPS can just slam the “we can make more money through greed because the market allows it and literally no one can stop us” button and raise costs for no real reason and we just have say “welp, times are tough” and keep it moving as if this wasn’t done purely out of capital greed and market incentives.

The perversion of capitalism is so mundane, you just have to “cut back” or “budget” or “we will do X next year”. It’s just kinda sad.

It’s so fuckin wack

I unironically believe we are going to see a lot of full-on mask off racism to pretty much every POC group that didn’t vote hard enough, or some slight deviation from the norm. If we see group X vote slightly differently and that slight difference can be used to explain why someone lost, they start saying racist words we have heard since like the 18th century.

It will be a weird blend of straight up racism and victim blaming as well and that weird sort of bold self-congratulating libs love. They will be jerks and feel good about it.

I’m seeing smug emu, or the Emu saying “YOU FOOL!” and then explaining a gotcha.

It’s 2005, I’m at my older cousin’s house. He’s smoking weed with girls he invited over. He set his Dreamcast for me to play MvC2 telling me not to snitch. Life is good.

“I WANNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE 🎺🎶🎵🎷🎹🎶🎵”

They can’t do him dirty like this.

That’s one of the top 100 uniquely evil moments under Bush. Katz need to remember how dreadful and awful the eight years of Bush were. Obama cleaned up the memory, and Trump sort of overshadowed the memory by being particularly vulgar and garish. Trumps novelty and Obama’s civility really did a bang-up job covering up Bush’s christofashism.

People have utterly formatted their mental hard drives in regards to George W. Bush. So much of Gen-X and below generation was shaped by W. In the same way Regan is the devil and reason everything sucks, W is also the devil and reason everything sucks.

He totally used the cross ✝️ to carry all his war on terror and by extension his foreign policy

Rather than going to therapy men will build a commune together. Take vows of silences and scar runes into their flesh as they study the tomes of ancient forbidden knowledge to bring back some ancient condemned nethergod. Or perhaps just vibrate their spirits the frequency of the universe to achieve higher forms of enlightenment and learn to throw fireballs as a form of exercise. Or maybe just vibe out and make beer, transcribe books, and study bees with the boyz.

All of this while never busting.

Dudes Rock.

What a nice photo. Just nice nature.

Play the demo y’all.

Some of those kids look 15; they’d be 78 today. Old, but many either recently left powerful positions or are still in them.

FUCKIN’ EXACTLY!

Exactly dude, exactly! This was stuff isn’t ancient history, it’s VERY recent and I find it really infuriating that there people of great power and influence today who were likely exactly like the katz in that picture. This sort of American history isn’t that old and I wish people didn’t try to create a narrative that segregation is some relic of the civil war era or something.

Yeah, The Virtuous Mission and Operation Snake Eater both occur in 1964. 📦🐍

(For the record the only reason I have that knowledge off the top of my dome is because I have a print out of the MGS timeline on my nerd bookshelf. I used that print out for TTRPG writing sessions as well. Also I find the 60’s cold war era to be a uniquely fascinating time as it’s a confluence of so many interesting social and political movements. Most importantly of course, The Civil Rights era specifically due its influence on my life)

I think it’s utterly maddening that shit was in 1960. It wasn’t “the olden days” or “the before times” it was 1960. That’s fours years before the events of Metal Gear Solid 3. This shit isn’t that old.

(For the record, I think the black and white photography capturing racism is thematically and aesthetically on point)

This sort of thing should only be heard of in some sort of survival horror game lore item describing some fictional super experiment. It’s sickening that real life actual people have their humanity removed when they enter the thresher of the us criminal (in)justice system

“On the job” training these days is like a fuckin’ poorly designed game. It’s mostly fail at something they don’t explain to you properly and assuming you don’t die you kind of extrapolate from there. Yes, trial and error is a way to learn, but with any sort of technical skill or task (or even social behavior), it’s a lot easier and better when you are instructed or better yet paired with a teacher of some kind.

In my experience, having an experienced colleague is often the fast way a new hire can get up to speed, but that requires a job to prioritize workers in some meaningful way.

They are treat us all as individual node utterly unconnected to other nodes. they want you to learn on your time not theirs. Also I hate “upskill-ing” being totally outsourced but also is kinda mandatory these days. They all wonder why we all hate work, and never take a second to look at how work is done and more importantly HOW THEY made it worse

I never thought language being used as a weapon would be so literal. This is a grim injustice.