What a grand and intoxicating innocence idea!

ddg unironically giving me better results than google these days.

I’m skeptical of abundance on a finite world nearing the limits of growth and being destroyed by climate change.

What if I told you that we already have abundant housing, right now, as I type this out. And I’m not talking about our hotels, prisons, or “camp grounds”, but actual livable units¹. Enough to solve Homelessness in the US multiple times over².

It simply is not evenly distributed yet

That said, pod hives could be easily established in any location. Want to live near a beach? Near a skiing slope? Near dense forest? Near downtown? There’s pods for that!

Oh I believe in seizing hotels for exactly this purpose.

¹ Census on housing, table 3, Vacant Year Round - Held off Market: 6,812,000 units. This is nearly 5% of the entire US housing stock, and almost half of the Vacant year-round units.

² Department of Housing and Urban Development homeless count in 2022: 582,462 people

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Not only would libs make this joke, they wouldn’t wonder at all why these guys were carrying around that flag.

A large surplus of housing, so one could change their surroundings on a whim, would be an ideal socialist future. Hostels are a type of communal pod system you are talking about.

Steal this “Realistic” old-school Croft look:

• Triangle cup bra.

• Huge vest and pockets. Shove all your equipment into them giving you a blocky look.

• Extreme YASSIFIED makeup to sharpen every contour.

• Super fit so every muscle casts shadows regardless of lighting conditions.

• Gel for that rock-hard polygonal hair.

I love how they come here starting shit…

Yes, some of my comments are done with the aim of making hexbear look bad. (source)

And then go and whine about it!

I haven’t played in a while. I should install it. Unfortunately 4X games have a steamroller problem mid-late game, which is why Crisis is a popular mechanic. The Total War games do this too.

Here are some things I used to do:

• I tend to jack up the difficulty to increase my challenge, since that tends to make larger and more powerful opponents.

• Alliances, vassals, and federations are also my way of organically creating combat since they bicker with other civs.

• I used to use a mod that made rebellions more powerful, which also usually shook up the game in fun ways.

• I also like to RP when I play, so I tend to stay away from purgers/devours/etc. See second point above.

But I do wish I could field navies as large as my older games…

The only I support.

I would bet he thinks a francophone was 19th century German recording device.

I’m curious what this lost soul thinks the Teutons were doing to the pagans to advance medieval German “nationalism” (can I even call that nationalism?)

But what really tickles my sides is how much Mr. Teuton badly wants the US and England to be included, but can’t stand France.

ADHDs body doubling with our autistic friends to actually get things done.

LUNK! HE COME TO TOWN!

HE SAVE! PRINCESH BELDA!

Looks like Ocean’s 11 is now dated.

Which was likely inspired by 4chan circa 2007

There are two books you might be interested in:

Marx at the Arcade - It likely covers what you’ve done, but its short so you can easily dive into any particular category the book brings up.

The PlayStation Dreamworld - A experimental analysis of video games using Freudian Dream Analysis. Video games are a special class of art because they are uniquely interactive. You are immersed, you forget that you are playing a game. This immersion, this Process of Forgetting (“They don’t know, but they do it anyway”), is the player’s process of absorbing the game’s ideology. At the same time, it shows just how weak Ideology really is when that immersion is broken and we become aware again that we are playing a game. This book is also short, so you can dig much deeper on this analysis if you want.

All this VR will cause myopia because the lenses don’t allow for each eye to flex its own focal point. It’s even worse than screens or reading/studying too much because its so close, and at that age the eyes are still taking cures from the environment to adjust its focus. They will be doomed with coke-bottle glasses.