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Transferring period cramps

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Tech-priests on a backwater world that are the 40k equivalent of two drunk guys working at the only gas station that exists for dozens of miles.

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i cant afford to pay my mercenaries but im sure they will understand

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Giving someone a sinus infection on purpose call that forcephlegm

hey. this is bad.

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why does the US have a theme park ride thats just presidential speeches. who would want to visit that. that sounds like something yeonmi park would make up about north korea

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With this final issue, Team Fortress 2 fully cements itself as Overwatch's opposite: Whereas the latter was a story that took itself seriously yet never truly felt meaningful, the former is a deeply nilhistic comedy that never took itself seriously yet ended up with a very meaningful finale.

yes!

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"listen to such-and-such voices" is a requisite first-step in understanding any situation, of course--find out, before anything else, what some of the people who are directly affected have to say. unfortunately after that you still have to actually make up your mind on the issue because the such-and-such voices will in 100% of cases say different and contradicting things. however there's a quick fix: if you just want to validate your own preexisting perspectives and feel like a good person in the process you can find someone who agrees with the thing you already think is true, stop there, and then yell at everyone else that they're not centering lived experience

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Team Fortress Two: Parahumans Edition

Like eight different people asked about the specific powers I had in mind for the wormverse iteration of Team Fortress. Here’s the reddit write-up, updated and expanded, now with additional Ms. Pauling and Administrator.

(Read more under the cut; this absolutely got the hell away from me. This is so so long)

Keep reading

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if, when i was less online, or rather online in non-english speaking communities, you would've mentioned a fringe ideology whose adherents believe that overpopulation is real and must be stopped (with all the racist preconceptions this implies), that mandatory vaccination is too oppressive, that the way to deal with societal problems is through individual direct action and that those most prepared should thrive, that we live in a time of degeneracy and must dismantle society to return to an idyllic state of pastoral communion with nature, i would've assume you were talking to me about capital f Fascists, you know, not about leftists, much less anarchists. but no, apparently anti-civs count as leftists and anarchists. i was very surprised because i never encountered one of those in my country, nor any of its neighbouring countries, not in any of their neighbouring countries. but then again, i'm south american and i didn't move around fascist circles and i never ascribed to reddit ideologies

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the idea of "lending" an ebook or digital audiobook, let alone of one being stolen, is a truly incredible piece of grotesque nonsense

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lets be honest, 40k memes peaked in the late 2000's when this was made

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why are people pretending that sex is the only axis upon which some people willingly enjoy things that hurt/scare them

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suppose i should be glad that i went this long without getting into a real car accident. and that when it finally happened it was close to a best-case scenario. but even so, what an absolutely horrible, nerve-wracking experience. I am left with renewed anti-car conviction, people should not be individually piloting these things around en masse

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classic cicero moment

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Sorry but how anti-civs can write so much and support the absolutely dumbest ideas possible. At some point you have to realize all your criticisms have already been done and better and your solution (no civilization) is dumb.