BeamBrain

Nearly 25 years alter, I can hear the title theme in my head just as clearly as when I first booted it up. Sometimes the game was cozy, sometimes silly, sometimes exciting, sometimes creepy, sometimes sad, but it always nailed the atmosphere it was going for at any given moment.

The American dream is alive and well (the real American dream, that being enriching yourself through agricultural slave labor on stolen land)

I like to have it with a nice tofu sandwich to dunk.

I feel this weird mix of pity and disgust every time I see Indians kiss the boot that stomped them for centuries. There's nothing else quite like it.

For real though, why do people keep falling for this shit

Capitalists constantly fear-mongered about how this was the dystopian endgame of communism but will immediately turn around and present this as the market solution to homelessness under capitalism

There is no contradiction there. The dystopian part, to them, is that such conditions would be inflicted on people who don't "deserve" it (PMC ghouls, small business tyrants, rich failchildren, &c.) If the poor and working class get crammed into human warehouses under capitalism, well, that's just an objective and uncontestable assessment of their worth by the free market.

Never forget that liberals are idealists: they care about procedure, not results. It's how they can say "you should support Israel because it's the only democracy in the Middle East" while Israel is actively committing a genocide.

That's the nano-retirement!

Nano-retirements involve taking a one to two day break from work every week.

Pico-retirements involve taking a sixteen hour break from work every day.

Femto-retirements involve taking a thirty to sixty minute break for lunch every day.

Atto-retirements involve taking a five minute break from work to use the restroom every few hours.

Some level of oil extraction is still going to be unfortunately necessary until we get the infrastructure in place to fully convert to renewables and biodiesel.

How long should someone with no physical or mental disabilities be allowed to remain on benefits?

What is the industrial reserve army

Definitely ask yourself whether they really need to be, but using a global variable makes sense if it's something that's going to be used by a large number of different parts of the program.

For example, the game I'm developing uses a variable called control_mode to determine how to handle the player's button presses. Anything that can be affected by those button presses (the player avatar, the menus, etc.) needs to be able to know the game's current control mode to be able to handle user input, so e.g. the player character shouldn't be able to move during cutscenes or when the game is paused. Since so many different parts of the program need to read control_mode, I made it global, but I only change it from a dedicated control manager.

I did public outreach for my party today and even though we recently had a discussion about how you shouldn't use overly academic language when having a street conversation, my brain crapped out and when I was trying to explain socialism and the phrase "means of production" came out