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Okay, but what if you, you know, like, ask people from Asia what “Asian” means?

Were you homeschooled by a pigeon?

Do it, cowards

You forgot “I used to be a liberal until radical leftists started putting people up against the wall for mistakenly using the wrong pronouns. So really, it’s your fault that I changed my screen name to 14Pepe88, changed all my opinions about vaccines, want to abolish the income tax, and am now okay with concentration camps at Gitmo. So, like, now I’m a full-blown centrist, and you have only the Marxists to blame.”

Sure, if “caring about their own well-being” = “maintaining their very fragile shitty worldview and trying to hide their pants-wetting cowardice about anything unfamiliar,” sure.

Of course. Does their voter base strike you as people who give two shits about their own well being?

They run on spite. They don’t want to win- they just want you to lose. And they’ll pretend to believe whatever might have to be true to make them feel like you have.

No. In fact, there may likely not be any halfway serious discussion forum anywhere that doesn’t match your special, private, incorrect definition of “leftist.”

How odd. I just watched that a couple weeks ago but don’t remember it looking that… bubbly

What the fuck Enterprise is that? It looks awful.

Old Man Trump by Woody Guthrie until I swerve into oncoming traffic

Been waiting on this one since it was called “Spellbound.” Had assumed development hell had gotten the best of it.

Liberals in 2025 are a lost cause.

Without question, Global Village Coffeehouse, Corporate Gen-X Cyber, and Utopian Scholastic.

Take me the fuck BACK.

Start throwing punches.

Gillian’s Island in space

What are they doing that isn’t easily ignored?

There absolutely are not. There are anemic little marches scattered here and there.

Americans were protesting George Bush in 2004 more forcefully and in vastly larger numbers than they are protesting now.

However they’re told to feel

I don’t quite know yet. I’ve played every Civ game since I started on the first with my dad when I was about 11 years old- and I’ve loved every iteration for different reasons.

I’m approaching this one kind of the same way as always- I’m playing it kind of leaning on what I know about the franchise as a whole rather than trying to understand every more granular system, because a lot of things change while all the patches start rolling in and the expansions release. I play each new game sort of the same way I played the previous one, learning the new systems by making mistakes.

It’s early enough that I still don’t really understand most of the new systems- I will say that I am enjoying it just about as much as I enjoyed 5 and 6 at launch, but less than I enjoyed 4 at launch. Fully tricked out 5 and 6 are both excellent as far as I’m concerned, and I’m thinking this one has potential to get there.

Having said all that, I absolutely HATE the “Civ-switching” mechanic. It very much takes me out of the game. We’ll see how that develops.