The Efilists’ ideology came about within a year of Gurren Lagann being distributed in the US. I have no evidence of this but I swear it looks like the guy behind Efilism literally just saw the fucking Anti-Spirals and thought “neat, this is definitely a coherent and reasonable ideology, DNA really is the ultimate evil that will destroy everything, we should be the antithesis of all life and progress”. Efilism is literally a cartoon villain ideology, and not just in the abstract it’s literally one specific, somewhat famous cartoon villain ideology.

You make it sound like folks had a choice.

Of course they had a choice. They could choose to become violent enforcers of the empire’s will, or suffer state violence a thousand times milder than what they were being asked to commit. It’s not like they were being black bagged and dragged to the front to be thrown into a meatgrinder without training or equipment, like Ukraine has been doing. They were told “go and murder for our vanity, for our dominion over all things, or sit in this box for a few years” and they chose to go do violence and bring horror and death to innocent people on the other side of the world instead of sitting in a cage for a few years.

Rich failsons tended to be given safe and cushy posts, and even beyond that most American soldiers in Vietnam survived. Literally no one should join the US military ever. It is always a worse thing to do than not doing it is.

Hypocrisy literally does not matter, GOP hogs do not have shame or moral beliefs, they do not have principles, they are literally just ravening demons wearing human skin who subsist on suffering and death and who do not perceive material reality or remember what they had for breakfast this morning. You’re not owning them by accusing them of at one point doing the less bad thing when moral consistency would suggest they should have done the more evil thing which they advocate for, because they don’t care, literally no one cares.

it isn’t productive.

it better not be.

Cranking your hog for somewhat longer than is typically considered socially acceptable, as a hobby.

undersocialized young men that don’t know how to interact with people.

You don’t even need the “undersocialized” or “young” qualifiers there. However the volcel police meme started back on the old sub it was quickly weaponized to target the sort of omnipresent low-level sexual harassment that creeps do all over reddit and it’s managed to persist past the death of the sub and multiple ground shifts in site culture here because it works at suppressing that.

Sometimes grocers have pre-formed fresh hamburger patties that they’re selling as a loss leader for ~$2-3 a piece or so. Splitting one of those in half and reforming it into two patties would yield two pretty large burgers while leaving another $1 per burger for bread, cheese, and potatoes. In fact, I’ve literally done exactly that before with excellent results. It is extremely easy to make a burger that’s better than you’d get from a fast food place, because those go for volume and consistency over quality, and even at a restaurant I’ve only ever found one place that made burgers comparable to what I can make at home although it was too expensive even a decade ago to go there more than occasionally.

I’d also like to know where food is still that cheap in the west.

Maybe the burger is just ~2 ounces of beef or so, like a typical fast food burger? That would account for about half the per-meal cost, and both bread and potatoes are cheap enough that the rest could easily fit inside the limit.

Or he’s just counting wrong.

Certain news sites and video hosts get embedded like this. I don’t know if those sites are returning a different sort of embed data when hexbear tries to fetch something about them or if they’re being handled in a special way, but it’s been like this for a while now. I kind of trust that the lemmy/hexbear fork devs have done something to stop the embedding from being a security risk since I’d expect an outcry and the feature to be disabled otherwise, but it does kind of sketch me out every time I see it.

Well that answers the question of “is this a cynical grift or just earnest stupidity?” I posed in the other thread.

You know, I assume they’ve done something to replace the Greenbrier, but at the same time the odds are it’s just been a crony contractor money pit with no oversight because everyone stopped caring after the USSR was dissolved by Yeltsin’s coup but they still kept throwing money at doomsday bunkers because what else were they gonna do?

But this in particular is just crank shit.

What do you think is a bigger factor there: being stupid enough to think its historical fame makes it somehow actually useful despite being a tiny and inconvenient that’s worth more as a museum than a prison, or because it presents another opportunity to throw endless piles of money at private contractors tied to his family and allies?

I mean it’s obviously both of those things because literally everything the regime does is both the dumbest thing possible and also just open graft and other crimes, but which is bigger here? Earnest stupidity, or cynical corruption?

I’ve managed to do WILD before, but I have a hard time falling asleep while maintaining that sort of focus. I kind of rely on doing a sort of story-scene visualization thing to fall asleep in the first place, building out a detailed worldspace and characters and playing through some story like I would when trying to form a scene when writing although in practice it’s more like falling back on a handful of rote scenes that just get iterated over and refined over time some of which are bits from things I’m working on and others are just nonsense. That is also a technique for priming lucid dreams, but it’s never carried anything through into actual dreams for me, it just knocks me out almost immediately.

The most I’ve been able to prime dreams is when something inadvertently induces the tetris effect and I get a disjointed, fitful loop of related nonsense until I wake up.

In the comment above I was just saying that I know I’m not asleep because I can read things and they work right, so I never doubt that I am awake when I am in fact awake. Dreams have a way of making problems like text not working just confusing rather than immediately alarming, although I’ve gotten sharper at jumping from text being broken to recognizing that something’s a dream.

Nope. Text doesn’t work right in dreams. I’m almost constantly reading something so I’d notice if the text was suddenly inscrutable or kept changing as my eyes ran over it.

Gotta have those big numbers with big numbers of dice being rolled to set off players’ undiagnosed gambling addiction.

Yeah lmao, it’s the only game I’ve played that gives Shadowrun a run for its money there.

vehicles themselves often have high toughness

They have toughness instead of armor now? I’m recoiling in disgust. I liked 5e’s vehicles.

Your strength is either half or less of the target’s toughness, less than, equal to, greater than, or double.

I remember it being a simple equation even in 5e, something like 3+T-S, capped at one and six IIRC.

All of this sounds so much worse. I mean I’ve always hated every TTRPG or wargame edition change from one I was already familiar with, except for Pathfinder 1e to 2e which was great, but this sounds particularly bad. It’s like when I looked at Magic the Gathering 15 years ago after having last played it in the 90s and just hated every change they’d made.

You can have titans, primarchs, and aircraft in 2,000 point games.

What the fuck. Like I remember flyers being given normal rules in 6e, but the rest sounds wild. Do the superheavies still have X strength attacks or did they at least get reigned in?

If you’ve played any time between 3rd. and 4th., you’re probably familiar with changes not occurring for years.

5e was when I started, but that was all true then too. Extremely slow to update things, with a lot of army lists being one or two editions old at that point. I remember hearing relatively positive buzz about them starting to issue updated army lists in 6e, but never really got back into it.

What have they changed? I haven’t played since 5e and haven’t looked at the rules since 6e.