While this is all good advice. It unfortunately takes significant amounts of time and effort to request those validations, have things exponged from your credit history, and most certainly to sue people illegally attempting to collect on a debt.

It's a Vimes Boot Index problem. The poorer and more accosted by debt collectors you are, the less agency you have to fight those things while also providing for your own basic costs of living. And that's not accounting for those of us with mental health or medical issues that make carrying out those tasks all the more difficult. Yes, it should be easy to send a few letters via certified mail, and then forward on the applicable responses. But when you are struggling not to have a suicidal melt down every time the phone rings, because you can't afford to pay rent or keep food on the table - let alone your antidepressants - those tasks quickly become insurmountable.

Please do not let debt collectors play in your face.

The hilarious part is they think we can afford breakfast

making fun of americans is pretty much always ok if youre not doing it in an edgelord “you guys have so many school shootings” way or acting like we’re the only country that has racism. but like posts about americans and hamburger get me every time

Only the SCABs. This is why we need a picket line

Those videos that are like “sorry millennials but gen alpha thinks side parts/skinny jeans/high ponytails/whatever are cringey” are so painfully embarrassing can you IMAGINE being in your ENTIRE THIRTIES and caring what a twelve year old thinks about you??

Just to be clear, women can also have an unquenchable thirst for alien titty.

have you ever seen a female alien without breasts in a movie

Not quite. It's important to time the charges so that Trump's campaign can be hamstrung by repeated criminal suits against everyone involved. We haven't been ignoring them. We have been giving them enough rope to ensure they hang.

F—k off already you MAGA morons.

I want a DND plot about a kingdom where somebody build some constructs that can do cantrips on their own, so the king decided to get rid of his centuries old wizard advisor, and abolish the mage's guild in favor of a cheaper to maintain army of really dumb wwarforged.

The players aren't going to help the dumb bastard, but they can have a great time building a new college if magic in the ruined aftermath of the capital.

My Chronomancer has a subclass for this.

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Only Half? It's the entire American population. Mind you, if we are speaking globally, Americans don't make up half the world population. But if you live in this capitalist dystopia they tell us is a society, you aren't *afraid* of the cost. You are Permenantly enslaved by it.

I just want to add to this: we have a captive bred northern pine. He is every bit as big, if not bigger, and we love him to death. But he is the absolute fucking Himbo of snakes.

Like snakes to begin with are dumb. They just are. There's not a lot of room for brain cells in there, and most of them are dedicated entire to tasting the air to find food. But gods above and below Khali is *special*. The boi tried to eat a hammer once. The shiny metal end. We feed him live, and I have watched the thickheaded little pasta look at me pleadingly wondering where his meal is while it comes up and sniffs him to see what he is. We don't have to ever worry about him escaping, because he cannot figure out how to climb through his open terrarium door without help.

But dumb as he is, he is the sweetest thing. He has only bitten us once in almost 7 years. It was because there was a tornado coming in close to where we live, and when my wife went to get him out of his enclosure so we could take him to safety in his special backpack, her grabbed onto her hand and tried to pull her into his cave where it was safe.

Beyblade my ass. This is

Spiral Power

once you realize its all saying the same thing. water spins generators in dams, car engines spin to make wheels spin, the earth spins in a circle and then spins around the sun which spins around the galaxy once you grasp that its all about spinning you realize why beyblade is so important

Legit, this is just radiant magic in my setting. Sortof.

Technically speaking, Psionic, Arcane, and Divine energy are all just increasingly high energy states of matter-energy, with the fundamental forces recombining towards a single force as you progress along the spectrum. Radiant exists at the state of Arcane matter-energy just before it transitions to Divine, and is thus the most volatile state of Magic. Without Gods to help shape and contain the radiation produced at those levels, radiant magic produces massive amounts of cosmic (beta, gamma, and a number of others) radiation, which can and will severely damage most living creatures. Healing Word is basically a cross between the words most extreme chemotherapy and whatever the fuck they did to Deadpool. Just happens that you used to have gods around using higher energy forces to contain and direct that radiation for specific effects.

That was until the gods were killed off by some vulture with a vendettas and a hard-on for unethical science. There's a reason you don't see many clerics or paladins around these days.

Spice up the arcane-divine-martial dynamic by adding in a fourth archetype, nuclear.

Magic is real. We just live in a dystopian cyberpunk setting where it's all owned by megacorps and licensed back to us along with water and breathable air.

“magic isnt real” — plants just grow out of the ground. for free. everywhere.

For reference, the reason we are ok with housing and feeding people in prison, but not outside of prison, is that prisoners can be exploited for free labor, in addition to tax incentives and government contracts based on the number of prisoners.

With weed being legalized in so many places, a lot of US prisons are having to release large numbers of prisoners who's only crime was possession or sale of a plant that literally grows in ditches across most of the country. To make up for it, they figure "well, how about be just imprison people for being homeless"

And the sad fact of the matter is that there's a non-zero amount of homeless individuals for whome this exploitation is a better alternative to trying to survive in the capitalist hellscape in their own. Don't get me wrong. It's absolutely terrible and should *not*, under any circumstances be considered a "solution". But the system is so fucked that being treated as free subhuman labor with no rights isn't even the worst option for a lot of people.

There is no profit or labor value to steal for capitalists, so housing the vulnerable will never change.

We can solve any problem we want once you remove the construct of capitalism.

We can save billions by treating people in need with solutions. Incarceration is a waste of so many assets. Criminalizing the needy is just an excuse to create more prisoners. Beyond stupid.

Here's an idea: turn every empty dying church into housing.

I already sorta have the spider one for some reason, so free food is no contest. An entire meal for free? In this economy?

Fuck, I'm glad someone gets it! Modern FPS gaming has trained us to think that the way a game controls is irrelevant to the themes and context of the game - that anything less than buttery smooth and responsive combat is flaw. But in games where the protagonist doesn't have the superhuman skills and reflexes of a supersoldier, the controls and responsiveness can really do a lot to help tell that story. Especially in psychological horror games, where the protagonist is supposed to be confused, scared shitless, and at the very limit of their sanity.

Now I'm not going to say that anything short of high energy FPS should have shit controls on purpose - but having less optimal controls? Controls that are somewhat clunky or non-standard, to help simulate that feeling of fumbling helplessly with your gun as the creature gets closer and closer? That sort of thing can be a really powerful tool for putting the player in the same terrified or unsteady mindset of the character. Especially in a world where most players are so used to mowing down enemies with ease in other games. Instead of making enemies massive bullet sponges, or giving them attacks that chunk a quarter of your health on a hit, you can make combat (or other situations) something to avoid by just making the character control poorly in situations they aren't prepared for.

Better yet, make those controls adaptive, so that they become more fluid as the protagonist gets a handle on themselves, or less responsive as the character's sanity drops and they begin to struggle with simple things like aiming or moving around quietly. Adaptive controls like that open up a whole new kind of progression, where instead of cutting away to a handy menu and picking the upgrades you want to spend points on, your character just slowly becomes better at the things you do a lot. You take the time to headshot every enemy you come across? Well, your going to get better at aiming steadily and remove that shake from the character's hands. You spend most of your time running? Well, you find yourself getting faster, and the movement controls losing that unresponsive edge.

There were a lot of things that developers experimented with back in the day, and it wasn't always for the same reason. Game controls don't have to - and shouldn't - be this bottleneck evolution towards the same optimized control scheme. There's something to be said for controls as a storytelling device. Controls can be clunky or unconventional and still be *good*. And if you don't get what I mean by that, go play death stranding. Kogima may just be one of the only developers out there today who understands how to use unconventional means to help immerse the player in a story.

thinking about the original silent hill 2 e3 trailer for absolutely no reason at all

Joker's response is the most accurate depiction I have seen in years.

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