I know one thing, I sure wouldn't bother with your smug whiny ass, I mean talk about proving op's point lmao
An underrated aspect of that game is really the color pallette, mixed with the animation effects it really made alot of scenes pop out
Mmorpg's tend to either have oversaturated or subdued color schemes, but Old Republic somehow hit the sweet spot
I'll admit it, I was mashing the zap button the whole game, the way the steam came off their bodies while they stood up and got back into bioware conservation mode absolutely killed me every time lmao
And then they'd say something goofy af like "Well that was unpleasant and rude"
Sith Inquisitor was definitely my favorite playthrough, the evil acts you can commit are straight up hilarious and the characters you're committing the acts against more or less deserve it so you never get what I call "phantom guilt" like you get in other games
Instead its alot of schadenfreude and ironic comeuppance
I've enjoyed evil playthroughs before, such as in Star Wars: The Old Republic
That's a funny coincidence, that's one of few games I could tolerate going full evil, honestly I suspect the game is not that fun if you don't act like a cartoonishly evil Saturday morning villain
So republican congressmen were an inch away from getting the Army, Navy, Air Force, National Guard, state police, FBI, CIA, DIA, ATF, OICI, INR, NSA, CSS, NGA, I&A, ONSI, wallstreet and Federal Reserve from officially backing a localized riot made up of off duty cops, drunk proud boys and car dealership owners?
It's the conscious and unconscious recognition that when genocide is normalized and an entire demographic is sacrificed for the sake of political expediency, the very concept of solidarity becomes untenable as an organizing principle for society or as a personnel ideal that people can afford to maintain
People begin to feel (again unconsciously and consciously) who's next? Me and mine? Where am I on the line? Obviously this generates immense resentment, suspicion and justified paranoia
The Egyptian security state is in full overdrive and media blackout, the smallest gatherings are meet with mass deployments of police and army, thousands have been arrested
For instance a few months ago there was some pro-Palestine graffiti painted in a Cairo neighborhood, the state responded in the hour by disconnecting the entire electrical system for that part of the city and deploying hundreds of police to scour the neighborhood
Egypt is a fuckin pressure cooker right now
lmao I honestly didn't realize today was Halloween
That's precisely the reason I don't see this ending well at all
Maybe, but this stuff is eventually gonna come to a head and those founders are gonna be forced to make a decision
The No Nazi Bar rule is real and has to be strictly adhered to, but lemmy has dropped the ball on it hard
The possibilities of a US civil war lies in one place only, the factional rifts (potential and actual) among armed Federal agencies and the true identities of their capitalist suppliers, backers, investors and patrons; the 18 intelligence agencies of the United States would obviously form the nexuses of new leadership castes, absorbing or leveraging the 3,000 or so private intelligence companies active in the US
It's a path of least resistance that flows towards whatever government entities has the most guns, and these new power blocs will scramble to absorb the various branches of the US military (assuming of course the various officer corps of the US military don't somehow overcome the combined pull of 18 intelligence agencies)
The police will obey, or they'll be branded foreign infiltrated rogues and destroyed (this may have the unfortunate effect of confusing certain leftist radicals who may form incorrect assumptions about the new "cop-killing federal government")
Militias will either be absorbed a la Azov battalion-style or suffer a similar fate to the more uppity pigs
This picture is likely to emerge by the mid 2040s