a FOSS MMO with PvP and a fairly customizable interface, like WoW.

setting isn't too important, but probably something personal combat oriented. high/low fantasy, medieval, cyberpunk, wuxia, alternate history, space opera, whatever I'm down.

capital formations have been relocating south for a bit now and bringing their cheap labor demands. there's a Who Makes Cents pod on the phenomenon and it's impact on US internal migration / interview with a book author. pretty sure it was released in 2024. I can look it up if anyone is interested.

I think anybody who is able should be swimming in the opposite direction as hard as they can, but capital has a gravitational pull that can uproot people and move them against their impulses.

there are also a big chunk rich, older morons from the northeast corridor who think "me get big house in sunshine" and go no further. they need maids and egg salad sandwiches and new sliding glass doors and pill dispensers and butt wipers.

the only people who know how to torrent are the ones that want to learn. the learning curve is gentler than a walk-in shower. I've shown people of all ages and all tech backgrounds, though recommending VPN connections and getting that going does throw a few.

anyway, it's so easy, it's crazy compared to the old days of usenet, ZIP disks, ftp sites, .is files, and sequenced RAR files. this is the golden age of piracy and I love it.

that's more of an advanced pose, wherein I stand on my hands and try to tightly control my piss flow so that it dribbles into my face which helps me attain the golden energy restoration.

this is only the beginning, this whole article is full of details pointed to an unhinged asshole.

The substitute teacher taught four English classes at Woodbury High School on Monday, and Nielsen said there is video and audio of what happened. In letters to parents, Nielsen and other school officials reported that the man told students that he thought they “would want to hear about his life as a police officer.”

I do 5 sun salutations (look up ashtanga videos... these can be as simple or as intense as you want, there are a lot of variations depending on your capability) the minute I get out of bed. I go pee then I am on the mat.

I have been keeping that going for about a year.

I used to do more (10) of higher intensity, but less frequently and in the afternoon as part of a workout, but I would go through periods of not doing any.

since starting every morning with a quick set to wake up my entire body, it's been transformational for my entire day: better posture, better balance, just generally spending more time mentally and instinctively in my body.

his ultimate would be popping up in mid screen with prompt text saying, "It looks like you're trying to lose at smash bros" and then all the other characters are rearranged and stacked like cascading windows + frozen with spinning hourglasses on them and clippy gets like 10 seconds to damage dump.

what a limited imagining of a robotic sex partner. not one of them is a shrieking metallic skull on the thorax+abdomen of a 700 lb scorpion with a tail that injects an adrenaline and DMT mix.

which is what we all want to come home to,, am I right fellas?

once they automate making homophobic jokes and farting in bed, cishet men are RUINED. men will wish they stayed grinding that WoW gold.

great pic by the AP, open mouthed, aggressive angry, pointing and the lighting makes his eyes look like empty sockets of vantablack space, where all love and humanity go to die.

lol, "looks like" just playin'

"P = G + E + block chain

Phenotype = Genotype + Environment, but now the equation respects the contribution of block chain NFTs. with enough bored apes getting slurpjuice, we can revolutionize dementia into a value-add for the marketplace."

• me, a Technology Management Consultant.

he's a real VIKING of following the rules written by rich people!

no, this is what happens monetary policy is the only tool in the neoliberal toolbox, corporate profiteering is unchecked, and 2 million workers die off to keep the rent checks coming.

not sure a social collapse is something that can be identified in real time, but rather a point identified by historical analysis at a later date to say, "this was the point of no return for the hegemonic order and its property relations" and it may be something like a persistent government shutdown that sees many programs never recover administratively/fall into corruption, a court ruling, a moment of political violence, etc. basically the single moment in a chain of events undermining the social order beyond which recovery is impossible.

this is an instructive read: https://gen.medium.com/i-lived-through-collapse-america-is-already-there-ba1e4b54c5fc

I can't believe Putin went back in time just to get Trudeau to wear blackface in public several times.

these sneaky Russians and their constant stream of propaganda Ws.

to be fair, if i were the little lordling running a troubled, fragmenting island and visiting a global superpower, i would make some kind of announcement about how i'm going over there and really going to stick it to those motherfuckers, expecting to be met with throngs of hooting idiots below the parapet.

and then, once over there and behind closed doors i would tell them they can piss on me for $100 and if they want to kiss me on the lips its $150.

that's just old school statecraft.

imo, the dishonesty is less about the size and more about how all the toppings look fresh on the menu, while in person they look like aged out grocery store culls and the burger always looks like someone put it between their ass cheeks and then watched a Peter Jackson movie before serving it.

i don't really really get how one articulates that in a lawsuit.

i never really noticed it besides the hack bit in Falling Down until i went to a mcdonalds in japan. every item on the menu came out like a goddamn prop for a promotional photo. surreal. kinda made me realize that unless you're willing to fork over a day's median wage or more in the US for a prepared meal or go to some mom and pop place that gives a shit, you're gonna get fuck you food from someone being paid a poverty wage to slop together utility-tier ingredients because screwing over the customer and the worker is what makes rich people more money.

weird how "gay panic" is a defense allowed by the courts, but an appeal to jury nullification is not.

If you're going to San Francisco,
\ be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.
\ If you're going to San Francisco,
\ you're gonna meet some gentle people there