cerebralhawks

I play Animal Crossing. My character has been going for 3 months as of yesterday. She has more clothes than people who live on the mainland, and a two-storey house with a basement and several rooms. She's paid off the racoon (or tanuki if you prefer) so she has no debt. As far as food, it sucks because AC is a vegan fantasy game in which meat and meat byproducts simply do not exist, but hey, the trees and crops grow every 3 days and put out more than enough food for me, the racoon/tanuki and his two nephews, his girlfriend, his ex-girlfriend and her sister, and the museum curator... oh and the ten villagers I have... to survive and thrive.

Oh, you mean a real deserted island? I couldn't. But I'm about to get off the computer and go cross some animals because they won't cross themselves! (I know that makes no sense, but neither does the name, which it's a play on. FWIW, the game's original Japanese name means something like "animals in the forest." The English name, I think, is a play on "Railroad Crossing," but it's still kind of nonsensical. Just like our reasons for playing this game...

Continue to not use Facebook/Instagram.

I switched to Lemmy when Reddit came out in support of people who abuse children. I don't even mean Trump, I just mean in general. I suggested abusers in general should face harsher penalties. They banned me for it. I said "holy shit you just did me a huge favor, apparently I was on the wrong site because our values are 100% incompatible."

I mean, there isn't even a debate. I'm not talking about people who find themselves attracted to kids. I'm talking about people who actually went out and hurt a real child facing longer, more meaningful sentences and they said nah, those people are people and need to be protected.

I've moved social networks on account of incompatible values and I think others will, too. Maybe not the majority but I think some others will. Especially as things get worse. There are networks for people who hate (like Truth Social), and networks for people who don't care (like Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp), but I think as things change, more people will care and will look elsewhere. Not everyone but some people.

Yes it does.

Sometimes I miss the shooting. The best gun in the game is locked behind the pirate quest line, but that's buggy AF. From getting the guards shooting at you for silently KO'ing the guy you're after on the luxury cruise ship to the three beacons you have to protect (pirate side) or destroy (navy side) just not showing up... and the developers having people report these issues on a dedicated issues channel on their Discord and just not caring enough about their game to fix their shit... it sucks. Now I can't even remember what it's called. I just remember pointing at something in my way and clicking or maybe double clicking and it getting erased. Oh yeah. Revenant. Something like that.

Oh yeah, or how the hot Asian pirate chick has this stupidly convoluted maze of a ship and her Captain's Locker always has like 25k credits in it and she does not care if you take it. That was funny to me.

Game absolutely sucks. And it's worse because the developers do not care.

The true Christian response would be that Trump will be judged in the afterlife but that they still support what he's doing in government... which is making things harder for people with darker skin and/or who are LGBTQ+. "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" and all that.

Ask them if they would allow their preteen daughter to stay the night with Trump and you'll see where their feelings truly lie. Many of them would! Many of them would happily traffick their child to him hoping that she might be his fourth wife and their family would benefit. A few would tell you that the accusations against him are inventions of the liberals, but those people are never mentally sound.

For what it's worth — and keeping fully in mind this is a meme and therefore not serious — Starfield (crappy Xbox/PC game from the people who made Skyrim) did this. A particle accelerator experiment (albeit involving an alien artefact) caused reality to split apart. So I'm gonna say, it's possible!

Was Sisko's office a ready room though? I think it was just the commander's office.

Maybe they serve the same function. I'm well aware of Sisko's office, but I just never thought of it as a ready room.

Last dream I had, I was completely and ideally convinced I was gonna rewrite IT by Stephen King.

I’m currently reading that book. King wrote it high on coke and it’s absolutely insane how much detail he packed into it. If you’ve only seen the movies, you’ve barely scratched the surface. Book is literally about fear and I think it’s his third longest? Was the longest for a long time.

My first Star Trek game was on the Amiga, and it used the TOS crew/ship. I couldn't get anywhere in it. Maybe I wasn't old/smart enough for it.

I agree that a Star Trek game shouldn't be all action, that's just the kind of game I want to play.

I really don't care for the Call of Duty games, but one set in a Starfleet combat situation would be awesome.

Starfield could have been a good Star Trek game without the branding, but it mostly sucked.

I don't have a religion, but I get ya. (Doesn't mean I don't know some of what the Bible says, mostly for the sake of argument.)

Did Kirk and Sisko have ready rooms? I remember they had private quarters (they all did). Picard's was just an office.

Maybe I worded that poorly. Yeah, we generally trusted the news, but for the most part the TV was the "idiot box" and was not to be trusted. At some point, the news — I think, largely, FOX News at first, but the others weren't far behind — became "news entertainment" in the same way WWE was "sports entertainment." It was either not real, or at the very least it was heavily biased. Whenever The Newsroom came out — what a lot of people know for a 3 minute YouTube edit about why "America is no longer the greatest country in the world anymore" but was really more of a love letter to the way the news used to be. They told real news in a way that was entertaining, but through a character (portrayed by Jeff Daniels) who was trying to tell the news the old way. Give people the facts and let them make up their own mind. But by that point, I think most news on TV was fake/heavily biased.

I'm religious neutral (I don't like the term atheist), and I'm fine with the Ten Commandments.

Work within the system to bust it open.

The first commandment says "thou shalt have no other gods before me." In a monotheistic religion (one god), that seems nonsensical. What He's really saying is you can't put anything before God. Including money. Or greed.

Another one says "thou shalt not bear false witness," which is to say "don't lie," but they can't stop doing that.

"Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's..." I forget. Ass is in my family's KJV (meaning donkey of course) and that's funny. But this is another good one. They need to stop coveting our freedom and what little we have left and stop stealing from the poor.

Why should we live by these rules if the people in power won't? In that case the rules aren't even arbitrary.