there is a genuine complaint in there being a lack of ‘evil’ content, like if you side with the refugees in act 1 you get to see them subsequently throughout the game along with their side quests, whereas if you go the evil route and off them, there’s no ‘alternate content’ like seeing more goblin characters or something to replace them. as early as act 2 the option of good/evil kind of breaks down when the main quest is so linear as to just be ‘kill this particular guy, no he can’t be reasoned with, sided with, talked down, or result in any kind of outcome that doesn’t involve a boss fight and his death’. further, pretty much every side quest in the game revolves around ‘person needs help, so you help them’. if you’re playing evil, very often the only evil option is to not do the quest, arbitrarily kill the person, or do the quest and then be demanding about payment after the fact.

none of this to say that the game needs to be more racist of course

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what were they doing before, dumping trash in the street?

i felt the game was a 10/10 until the end, then it became 9/10. all i needed was a witcher 3-style storyboard to cover the impact of my decisions on the wider world

as with any form of cardio - choose what suits you.
e.g., if you’re more explosive and prefer to get it over and done with asap, try doing a front crawl/freestyle as fast as you can for as long as you can, take a minute break and repeat a few times.
alternatively, if you’re more ‘low impact’, then more conventional swimming like breaststroke at a leisurely pace for 30+ lengths.

same thing applies to running - when I was in my early 20s I predominantly did high intensity sprints for like half an hour - 10 years later and I prefer hiking for an hour or two instead.

violent/aggressive discourse? i thought sticks and stones could break your bones but words could never harm you

I don’t think it’s in their capacity to acknowledge that they can be outlefted. If you’re fully sold on the democrat-republican dichotomy, then there’s no room for left critique - you must be a republican.

Every single time, without fail, they assume, as though more certain than they are of their own existence, that the person raising the (valid) point is a republican. Despite the blatantly transparent fact that the statement in question never invokes ‘the libs’, ‘triggered’, ‘maga’, or tags all of the alphabet security agencies, they always fucking rattrap themselves into thinking that anything other than facile patronisation is tantamount to fully supporting whatever it is they’re chastising.
How do they see something like “consequences of capitalism” and still think “Hurr, durr, REPUBLICAN! NEXT!”?