General Kenobi…

I’m talking about ancient aliens, Graham Hancock, and general woo woo pseudo historian babble. Anyways most of the big mysteries at this point are a matter of specifics like we know how they did every step before and after step five but they didn’t write down step five type shit. Either that or it’s just weird artifacts that we just aren’t precisely sure what they are let alone what they were used for, for example those weird Roman dodecahedrons.

But yeah most of these folks are pointing to shit like stone henge and going “we have no clue how they built these” even though we do know how they were built, for context stone henge was built using sleds, dirt ramps, and lots of manpower. Problem is we have the broad strokes for these but are missing specifics like did they water down the path the sleds went on, did they reuse the dire for other things nearby, or how much manpower did they use. Experimental archeology only gets you so far when you’re working with what amounts to a multiple choice question with no mechanically wrong answers, we know the answer is 16 but the maths they used to get there are unknown.

Also I do think its somewhat doctored. Nothing malicious you can achieve the same thing with a monitors built in settings, they just fucked with the contrast and some other shit to make it look not weird. Kinda like how Neptune is just kinda greyish blue and not a nice deep blue.

I have the stubbornness and autism required that even if I can’t achieve anything I revel at the challenge. You are going to learn about the bronze age and how the ancients were just people who were culturally alien, like the Siberian peoples of the French. They didn’t have super technology that we can’t replicate, we just have better methods and are lazy, cheap, or don’t want to invest into it.

Yeah shits breaking down on the edges and will probably only gain more traction as energy bills hit come the summer with the obligatory spike in air conditionet usage. Depending on how things escalate it may very well be possible to see feds being chased out of cities by militia sooner or later.

Yeah actually. A lot of laws get shitcanned into irrelevance due to being worded like shit on everything from the local to federal levels. That’s not even getting into conflicts with pre-existing well worded laws or the constitution as a whole.

If it’s worded badly enough it may even just be thrown out on first test due to being vague and too widely applicable. Just for example I drive a 2001 Toyota Tacoma it has an operating system because it’s got an ECU, how the actual fuck would that interact with this law? Obviously the corporate answer is to force me to get a new car but the actual practical answer is that that isn’t viable, so it’s more likely the courts just gut an entire section of the law with one case. Keep up the gutting and sooner or later it’ll end up defunct.

Euuugh.

Mike Tyson in his prime.

Technically this is just a subtype of Verne gun. Which fun fact kinda existed. Back in the 60s HARP fucked around with a power charge based one down in Baja to achieve sub orbital space flight for a satellite.

Also Sadam Husein wanted to create one so do with that what you will.

In my experience conspiracy theorists tend to be rather mundane with shit like this, why that is is problematic up for debate but I assume it’s some fucked up version of Occam’s Razor with an absurdity modifier based off of scale or potential scale.

No I know what I said. The damage done through violent balkanization is an acceptable cost, if I’m killed in a car bombing so be it.

Thanks for the enthusiasm dude.

Let this empire burn and 50+ flags fly freely. May these profligates see their wealth evaporate and never be returned for contempt of their weakness, corruption, and stupidity should ensure their inevitable and violent deaths.

Hey now let’s give them some credit, they may also drink poison and die without their thinking machine.

It kinda reminds me of light side sith in SWTOR, like yes you do serve the evil empire but you aren’t an asshole nor are you crazy.

I think they’ve been trying to phase out the damned things but who knows whats going on with the back end shit. Wouldn’t even be surprised if kegsbreth specifically kept them in commission because the look kool.

The critique of fascism that is the Enclave, specifically in Fallout 2. As much as they are my favorite bad guy faction that is partially because of how well the critique works. They have the cool weapons, they have the style, and the have an awesome front man in the form of Frank Horrigan, but when it comes down to it they’re a bunch of weirdos hiding on an old oil rig clinging to ancient symbols while planning on commiting omnicide so they don’t have to actually work for anything.

Similarly the NCR is a great critique of liberalism in New Vegas, falling into the same pitfalls as the old world but with the potential to improve. For new world hope to bloom wherein the Enclave hold onto old world blues.

Or maybe I’m looking too far into the funny power armor and super mutant post apocalyptic games. Though I don’t think I am because the Interplay alumni are all philosophy and history eating crackheads and I see through them!

There are two exceptions to this still, STALKER Gamma doesn’t work on Linux still and SKSEx64 doesn’t work either. Also modding Baldurs gate 3 through Nexus is fucky.

California Scots, so whatd be recognized as Redneck to most people. The whole Scots thing is probably the defining factor here since telling our women kin no is liable to get you an ass beating or poisoned, assuming they don’t just ignore you.

Also that argument isn’t really as great as it was in the PS3 or PS2 era where a lot of games either didn’t come out on PC, had weird versions, or ran like shit for no reason. Plus I can play a game released in 1996 one minute and then switch to a game released in 2026 since PC is basically universally backwards compatible.