goddamnit, lol

Correct, I’ve no sympathy for someone in the same unfortunate class of predicament as myself who weaponizes that class as a means to justify continuing to make the same societal mistakes that are exacerbating the current extent of their suffering and also condemning to that extent of suffering all other people who may one day find themselves a member of that class.

If you think its mere lack of empathy, you’re mistaken.

Dismissing public transit as a solution, as a paradigm for urban planning, because you are disabled… its the same as a farmer voting MAGA, its shooting yourself in the balls out of misplaced grievance.

A city designed with walkability and public transit in mind is going to be easier for disabled cripples like myself to get around in, as it also will be for everyone who doesn’t have a car.

More transit options = less and safer road traffic = better service for paratransit vehicles, safer driving for those disabled but capable of driving a car.

More walkability means those who need a cane, crutches, leg braces, prosthetic limbs, a wheel chair, power scooter, the blind with a walking/sensing stick… they’re gonna have an easier time getting around than if sidewalks barely exist and its a half mile between two intersections, with no benches or shade.

You don’t seem to know what a No True Scotsman fallacy is, so I’d also argue that you’re the one being more ‘reddit’ here, throwing around accusations you don’t even understand.

They said they live in an area that doesn’t get school bus service when it snows. Pretty reasonable inference that that means they live in a remote area.

The entire topic of the thread is ‘urban design’…The entire point I am making is that living out in the middle of nowhere, in a spread out, low density design schema or paradigm… that is the problem that makes public transit unfeasible.

And yeah, being crippled is always going to reduce your mobility. Having walkable, more dense cities/towns that have good public transit will somewhat, but never wholly alleviate this. Neither will any amount of mandated extra lanes and parking stalls wholly alleviate you or me or anyone else being crippled.

Walkable City + Working Public Transit != suddenly all private cars and all roads stop existing.

You know, often in these green text posts I have a takeaway that at least attempts sympathy toward the anon.

Fuckin nope, not here.

I would say its so hilariously pathetic that its a bit, but I’ve met people that are unironically like this.

Anon, you only exist because Sherman didn’t finish the job.

He should have.

Here, a song for you before you meet your God:

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,

With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me;

As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,

while God is marching on.

Oh, imagine a world where that describes current day ‘Republican Jesus’.

My idea of a ‘white man’s burden’ is that its our job to rid the planet of all these melanin deprived slavers and ‘ante bellum nostalgics’.

Its really the least we could do, at this point.

EDIT:

… you know who I can trace my lineage back to?

Father’s father’s father’s… etc, was a goddamn miscreant, some kind of petty criminal that got shipped out of I think somewhere in or near Wales, to Vrigina, in the 1720s.

His sons fought in the Revolutionary War, some died in it, some didn’t.

One of those sons had his own sons… one of them… a Reverend.

A Reverend that moved out of Vrigina, out to Kansas in the 1850s.

Where he founded an anti-slavery Baptist church.

Around which, he helped to build a small town.

A small town where an escaped slave from Missouri was able to purchase his own land, work his own land, and from the proceeds of it, buy the official freedom of himself and his family, before the Emancipation Proclamation and/or 13th Amendment would make that last step unnecessary.

Now I can’t say with 100% complete certainty that this Reverend ancestor of mine ever met John Brown… but uh, given a fairly small number of anti-slavery Reverends running around this particular part of Kansas, in the exact same time frame as John Brown… and that they were both part of the general Free-State movement…

… seems more likely than not.

RamenJunkie used Schrodinger’s Asshole!

It wasn’t very effective…

brb, jettisoning my recycling into the mobile external containment vessel, prior to scheduled rendevouz.

Either way, well done, you’ve certainly understood the assignment.

… but it takes two, to make a 00.

Ok brb making a game about being a self righteous asshole boomer who is always correct and its actually everyone else’s fault that he has no friends and his wife and kids dont speak with him.

Call it Boomer Shooter, but its not an FPS, its actually primarily a series of small adventure/puzzle levels with complex branching dialogue options.

You get points for shooting down ideas you either didn’t think of first or don’t like because they might imply that you aren’t perfect.

The rules are made up and the points don’t matter beyond a high score at the end of the bad ending.

The good ending happens when you don’t get that many points, despite the game constantly handholding you and telling you thats what you should focus on.

There, enjoy your retirement.

EDIT:

The DLC will add the ability to play as a privileged white woman who gets points for morally policing everyone around her but herself, spreading misinformation, and guilt tripping people who trust her.

EDIT 2:

In case I’m not being clear enough, a Boomer that wants a video game for their enfeebled retired ass can fucking make it themselves, and/or possibly think about why it is the case that the industry has enshittified to the extent that it has.

Who is it exactly thats in charge of all these enshittifying gaming companies again? Oh right yeah, its your 401ks, teaching children how to love their gambling addiction, so that you can retire well.

I mean, it can’t be that hard, right? To make a toy that satifies Boomers? Just bootstrap it yourselves, I’m sure you’ll discover that if you just shake a few hands and burn a few hundred million dollars, it’s just about showing up and doing the job well, or something.

… you want a Boomer game?

It already exists, its Candy Crush, its Words with Friends, its Scrabble Go, its Solitaire.

That’s not even an insult, that’s just literally market research data.

Things we can thank Hillary Clinton for:

As best I can tell, the term ‘UAP’.

… and of course, the snizz snuke.

My napkin math results in ‘further than a guillotine’.

Hey.

HEY!

You like food, doncha?

You’ll get better at it, just take it easy.

I still think Gold/Silver/Crystal was the actual peak in terms of world design/mon design/storyline/characters, but I’m 100% willing to admit that could be my own particular age bracket of nostalgia talking.

I do like some of the additional/revised gameplay mechanics from later games… team battles, weather, held items, that kind of stuff makes the games meaningfully more complex, as well as more detail and structure given to how breeding and heritability actually work.

But a lot of the more… closer to current day stuff bssically just seems entirely like a gimmick that isn’t very well systemically thought out.

I was going to rejoinder this with a quip about ‘presumably neither shaken nor stirred’, but given that this was clever enough to stunlock me for ~12 hrs, I guess just ‘bravo!’

Man, I’m crippled. You’ve entirely missed the point.

The concept here is the entire way a city or community is laid out and designed.

You wanna see a solution to your problem?

Look at any city that currently exists that has at least half decent public transit, or town where its reasonably safe to walk to common places you’d need to go.

There are tons of these, by the way, places that have figured out how to do this.

You’re mad that you live in a poorly designed and poorly funded exurb area.

Howabout this?

Sell your inconviently located home, at the current market rate, and move to somewhere that doesn’t have these problems.

What, is too much of your net worth tied up in your home?

Wow! How did that happen?

I wonder why your community is built in such a way that that could happen… maybe decades and decades of giving handouts to homeowners and driving up their prices and requiring everything else in reality bend over backwards to subsidize them… has maybe just completely proven to be fundamentally economically unviable, with infrastructure needing to be spread too far and thin, constantly being subsidized by the urban core areas that generate the vast majority of jobs and tax revenue?

If that doesn’t make sense…

I’m sorry.

In addition to your physical ailments…

You also have terminal car brain. Yes, it’s fatal.

Hard disagree.

Most people become dishinibited in enthusiastic crowd enviornments. They become more suggestible, trusting.

Its a huge part of how group religious gatherings work.

A large concert is in many ways a secular, mass ritual gathering.

I think you could do something like this a considerable number of times.

How many people ‘let loose’ and do something they wouldn’t otherwise normally do, at a concert?

All of those people would be likely to both keep attending these kinds of events and also fall for the exact same schtick, unless or untill a very, very broad social backlash essentially shamed them into not doing so.

Yes but have you considered that if I make up a dash of bullshit and change and conflate the contextual meaning of a word or two, I am actually very smart?

For example, cellulose is part of plant cells, and cells have protein in them, and all proteins are basically the same, therefore cellulose is protein.

Is there… a word… for… ‘exposed to the void of space for a prolonged period of time’?

Yeah I know fossilized isn’t the right word, as thats generally a process that requires water… but i dont know how to say ‘space fossilized’.

Dehydrated and Irradiated … ?

Its respect.

If you can reiterate it… you were actually paying attention.

Just saying ‘oh neat!’, you’re being flippant, in comparison.

Yeah… I’ve heard about that.

Been using gnome for years, literally cannot remember a single time the entirety of gnome crashed.

I’ve used gnome tweaks for a long time as well.

Whereas everytime I’ve tried to use a custom KDE theme of some kind, some part of it is broken in some fun new extremely specific way that I did not know KDE could be broken in.

Oh no.

That’s … that’s too humanoid.

I’m sorry you were made this way Braixen, the internet is not safe for you.