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Not the point of the meme, but where does one go about getting fresh supplies (ribbons, replacement keys, etc…) for old typewriters like this to keep them in top condition?

I’ve had this discussion with friends because I’m the crazy “privacy” person in my peer group. I always have trouble putting it into words, so this might not make the most sense, but I’ll try.

The most fundamental right that we have as humans is the right to present to the world the person that we want to present to the world.

Everybody has something about themselves that, if it were known, would change the way other people look at them. Maybe it’s something silly and stupid like you’re afraid of spiders. Maybe you’re into some really freaky porn. But whatever it is, if you don’t want people to know about it, that’s your right and it’s sacrosanct.

People will say, “who cares if people know that you’re afraid of spiders, it’s a small price to pay if it means that we also catch the people with something illegal to hide, like CSAM or other stuff.”

But what about the battered wife who has been secretly searching for support and planning her escape from the situation on the internet. But she shares a computer with her abusive husband and google, knowing her search history, starts showing him ads about furniture and moving companies?

What about the scared teenager who has realized that he is gay and have parents who would disown him if they found out. When he’s searching for support and fellowship online, the only place where he can feel like he belongs, he can be as careful as he wants, but his search history will eventually betray him before he’s ready to come out himself.

Maybe what you don’t want people to know about is just that you’re afraid of spiders, sure. But what if it’s something far more important.

No body is protecting the perpetrator for taking a bat to the face for breaking into your house, jackass.

But if you take a bat to their face, they’re incapacitated on the floor and no longer a threat, and then instead of backing off to call the cops you CONTINUE to give the now neutralized invader shots to the face…yeah…that’s assault.

Why is that so difficult a concept to grasp?

Simply put, if the invader is immobilized and no longer a threat, but you continue to beat them, it’s not self-defence anymore, it’s vengeance. That’s the law in Canada and I’m okay with that.

I’ve been a pretty big fan of both Elex games from Piranha Bites.

In terms of world design, scale, etc… It’s rare that I come across a game that actually sucks me into exploring every part of the open world map like Elex and Elex 2 did.

They’re also games that don’t hold your hand. Enemies don’t level with you. Meaning that if you wander into an area with strong enemies, that’s on you. A lot of people complained about that aspect of it, saying that it leads to having to spend a lot of early game running and dodging fights. But to me, that’s the entire point, finding creative ways to deal with the enemies that you’re too weak to deal with.

• I’ve lured stronger enemies into towns for the NPCs to deal with; adding just enough hits of my own to get the experience points. (added bonus of looting the corposes of the townsfolk that were killed dealing with it)

• I’ve skipped entire minor fetch quests (like paying off a gate guard to get access to a town) by again luring an enemy to him and having it kill him because the games have very few non-killable characters.

• I’ve spent an hour skirting along the edge of a crater riding the line between freezing by going any higher and getting one hit killed by enemies if I go any lower just to get to a hut that I spotted in the distance.

Honestly, for AA games that certainly have their flaws, there are parts of both that blow the modern Bethesda games out of the water.

Not good enough. I’m afraid this requires a decimation. Choose ten of your co-workers.

That’s not even arguably true.

You could debate whether or not the Roman Empire fell in 1453, if we’re pretending that the Byzantine’s represented a cohesive enough continuation to the traditional empire as we understand it. For the record, I don’t subscribe to that idea. But it’s a debatable topic.

But Rome, the City, had nothing to do with the empire after 476, and arguably even earlier since the capital of the west had moved on to Mediolanum a long time before that.

Any person who punches a clock for a living that doesn’t support unions is a class traitor, plain and simple.

I haven’t once in fifteen years needed to do any coding whatsoever to use my Linux computers day-to-day.

Ahh, why are you so negative

The curse of studying history in university…

People think America is in the grips of the “fall of the Roman Empire”.

But sad reality is that it’s more likely that America is in the grips of the “Fall of the Roman Republic”, where the reins of power were coopted away from the senate by emperors and plutocrats.

Yes, but how does Huey Lewis sound on it?

Not as much as I would have liked them with someone else in the lead role. Especially Shutter Island. It’s one of my favourite books and Dicaprio ruined it with his usual overly affected New York accent straight out of SNL.

Leo DiCaprio. No exceptions. The movies he’s been in that I’ve enjoyed were enjoyed despite him and not because of him.

His entire approach to a character is to put on an over-the-top accent and call it a day. I’ve never had the sense that any of his characters were the actual character and weren’t just “Leo with an accent”. I’ll be fair and say that he has improved in recent years, with movies like The Revenant being tolerable.

But holy shit, how his career went anywhere when people saw his “acting” in Titanic and especially Romeo and Juliet, is mind-boggling to me.

God how badly do I want to see a remaster/remake. So under rated. With a bit more fleshing out (It’s a pretty short, pretty linear experience) it could easily compete with the mechanics in Homeworld.