I think a lot of people need to go back to elementary school for remedial lessons on metaphor.
I see often see two errors. One, this one, where two things are not alike in all ways and thus they are not alike at all. The other one, where two things are alike in one way and thus they are alike in all ways.
I have some machines I’d like to merge Altman with
Contrary opinion: I really enjoyed it. I 100% want to hang out playing video games with spider man and lifting weights with Captain Marvel. The book club story arc was silly and fun.
I don’t remember the UI or currencies being bad. I enjoyed playing all the missions. I did extra just for fun instead of rushing for the plot. I don’t remember any micro transactions, either.
The different characters have pretty different decks. The game encourages you to use different teams, but I mostly used the protagonist, captain marvel, and the girl from the runaways. Captain marvel I think gets a lot of armor and energy beams. The runaways girl has a big random factor in her cards. The blonde girl moves enemies around more, and I think Spiderman can play off scenery better.
I had fun. I’m sad they’re not making a sequel despite the teaser at the end
That fine is too small!
Yeah I don’t know about the down votes. I tried to be clear I was talking about a preference and personal experience, but I guess some people took offense.
The last non fiction book I read that was really interesting was “The Ghost Map”. It’s about when people figured out Cholera. That’s kind of technology adjacent.
Oof I didn’t even notice the author
I like making people laugh & I dislike Woke politics. So I made these comics for us to laugh at Woke politics together and push back against its stupidities. I will stop mocking when it leaves us alone.
Author seems to be an absolute idiot.
Yeah, I’m not old enough to have experienced the city in the 70s and 80s. I’ve heard stories but it’s hard to say how credible some of them are, but I believe the city is a lot nicer than it was back then.
Like, Bryant Park is a nice patch of green in Manhattan. They do yoga classes there. There’s a holiday market. People used to call it needle park because it had some a drug user problem.
Places change.
(for people that don’t live here, the path is basically another subway system that serves Manhattan and North Jersey.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(rail_system)
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Also remember that the subway is a flat fare no matter how long you ride. You can go from Coney Island to the Bronx on that $2.90. and back again. You only pay again if you exit.
I have had many, many, uneventful subway rides. Most of the time it’s just people sitting and/or standing quietly. Boring is a little more subjective- someone might find people watching interesting, but even then sometimes off-peak it can be sparsely populated. Sitting in quiet non-interaction for 25 minutes with an old lady reading, a middle aged guy dozing, and another person silently looking at their phone isn’t very exciting, but that’s a lot of rides.
Like, this is people’s daily commute. It’s not the warriors. It’s not whatever wacky video surfaced on youtube. Most of the time it’s just transit, and good transit is pretty boring.
This feels like the scared, naive, suburbanite’s take on cities and public transit. Like, do you really think a system with 3 million daily riders has constant brawls?
The zohran campaign called me and asked if i’d canvas. never done it before but i said yes. fuck cuomo and the other conservatives
I don’t know if any political system would stand up to a concerted effort to sabotage it. If socialism was the dominant paradigm and some small country tried to do capitalism, it very well might have been sabotaged. It wouldn’t follow to say capitalism can’t work after shooting all the leaders and buying all their media
I’m going to have to ask this again it seems. Where has 100% socialism worked for longer than 10 years for a country?
it’s confounded by the US, a powerful state, being deeply ideologically opposed to socialism. Maybe shit would have worked without the US sabotaging it
Oh, so these nazis don’t need gas chambers they’ll just let the diseases kill everyone. Great.
Redistricting isn’t even the nuclear option. Abuse executive power to remove all republicans from the voting records. Bunch of traitorous scrum, anyway.
Cars bring out the worst in people.
Spite. Many people are no more emotionally advanced than a toddler. They’re mad about something (traffic, the looming spectre of mortality, queer people, being out of shape, whatever) so they lash out at whatever. Bike lanes are a symbol of things they don’t like, and easier to attack than the real sources of their unhappiness.
These are some of the worst people. It’s a mistake to just let them walk around, take on positions of power, and sleep soundly at night. Someone who espouses such horrible beliefs should be banished from polite society, at the very least.
They’re not even secret about it. They have websites. With their names, faces, and where they go to church on sunday.
People need to fight back. I don’t know the best way to do that. Unfortunately, many platforms are owned by the rich who don’t care about this, and collaborators that are happy to “removed by mod” anything too spicy.