Watch some Japanese programming, read any magazine there, and you’ll probably notice a huge amount of articles praising people living long, active, healthy lives. Is suicide an issue? Absolutely. But it’s ridiculous to say they don’t value life, especially when compared to some countries which seem to have a problem with gun violence

I could have sworn at least OP was making that reference, but oh well. Glad someone got it!

It’s like that classic case of bank fraud where the criminal takes pennies out of peoples’ accounts, hoping they won’t notice and the bank will think it’s an error.

If Reddit gets caught can we send them to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison?

最近好嗎？我只想問一下，你最喜歡的小吃是什麼？

There are people who are loudly outraged, Islamic democrats. The DNC does what it always does, ignore them and stoke fear. It’s disgusting.

It’ll probably happen with millennials and younger too. It’s true we got fucked over, but for some people it’s surprisingly easy “fuck you I got mine” as we age, and there will always be grifters who take advantage of that.

Ancaps and tankies are everywhere these days. No good place for an old fashioned ancom anymore.

Then again, same as it ever was.

Nice! Also thanks for the image transcript, I’m not visually impaired the image looked cool and this helped me find out about Ultrakill

It’s alienation in its worst form. But it gets repackaged as “rugged individualism” and people end up finding an “other” to blame

I hate these birth rate panic articles. If they gave citizenship to the people who are doing the hard work (like 3K jobs) it wouldn’t be a problem.

Hi. I have a mild physical disability, and this point comes up quite a lot in different settings, including fantasy fiction. “If such and such is a fantasy setting, why does character simply not be disabled?” Is something many able bodied people like to assume.

Without going into how hurtful it is to assume that what all of us want is to be “able bodied”, you’re basically taking away a person’s agency to tell a story about themselves as they are. And there are many stories to be told!

So instead of trying to use logic to negate these kinds of characters from stories and fantasy settings, I challenge you to expand your own definition of what’s possible. There’s plenty of room for all of us.

actually… that kinda makes me nostalgic. No Mercy was the best, and it holds up pretty well!

Ads are basically paid graffiti

Me playing Zelda needing a strength powerup be like

Ready Player One was a dystopia and Zuck was so enamored it became required reading for building the “Metaverse”.

Billions of dollars can’t buy you the ability to sense irony I guess.

It’s not that they’re not religious. They just don’t pick only one. As they say, “Born Shinto, married Christian, die Buddhist”

Definitely a question worth an interrobang. I never understood the “we need to pretend follow the law so we can break it” policy

Hey now, go easy on them

… they’re doing everything they can.

Most Americans have their talking points ready to go around certain topics: healthcare, guns etc. But if you get anything that attacks the capitalism, building the country off of slave labor, or the country being the product of a genocide, that’s when the propaganda really kicks in.

Oh and if you call it propaganda, then the denialism gets even stronger.

Same, I don’t really care what the media thinks, I’m having a good time.