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  • The rural population isn’t the issue, it’s suburbia which is where the majority of the US population lives.

    It’s not dense enough for public transportation to be viable and it’s zoned in a way that makes pedestrian traffic a non starter.

    Suburbia causes a lot of problems. I understand why it exists - owning a house with a yard is nice. I personally wouldn’t want to give that up to live in an urban environment if I didn’t have to




  • I argue that the feel of BotW is a return to Zelda origins. It’s the most any game has felt like the original Zelda.

    There original Zelda game was a game about exploring a giant over world to find it’s secrets. The dungeons weren’t puzzle filled, they were essentially just combat challenges.

    … It’s that feeling that you are setting out on a difficult journey of exploration across a giant world with no support.

    Every Zelda game since the original has felt smaller in comparison because the role of the over world got shrunk to just a thing to connect dungeons.

    My favorite is AlttP which I think has the best balance between dungeons and over world exploration, but I prefer over world to modern dungeons we got in skyward sword and such.




  • I’ll tell you, I have my setup to the point where I go to one website, subscribe to a show, and episodes of that show appear to watch on my TV same day they are released.

    I also set myself up to get email alerts telling me what new episodes I have to watch when they are done being downloaded.

    … Setting all that up took me awhile and will take tech skills. But now that it’s set up, it’s zero touch aside from adding new shows.

    Plus, I never have to worry about trying to find where to stream at it and even if my Internet goes out I can still watch my shows





  • Yeah. This is the one that came to my mind.

    Dude straight up ended his career. His band members left, label dropped him and his colabs said they wouldn’t work with him anymore.

    Turns out he was a lieutenant in the oath keepers and the FBI grabbed him. Last I heard he made a plea deal and got put into the witness protection program.

    He is the band and it can’t exist without him. Even if he could continue, he’d have to rebuild it from the ground up.

    It’s a shame, I really Loved Demons and Wizards, the iced earth / blind guardian colab group.

    … Based on some song lyrics I feel I should have seen this coming when looking back though.





  • That’s what makes the whole thing complicated, isn’t it?

    Israel shouldn’t have existed to begin with and when it did, it shouldn’t have acted the way it has since its inception.

    Yes, Israel is to blame for Hamas having power in Gaza today as well.

    I’m not arguing that Israel isn’t a bad guy here.

    What I’m arguing is I don’t see an alternative that doesn’t just kick the can down the road.




  • Yes, they are doing a genocide.

    I’m not sure what other options are available at this point though.

    Hamas is extremist to the point where they would be doing a genocide as well if they were in the position to do so.

    People say separate the Hamas from the people, but that’s really hard when the members of Hamas are of the people and have the support of a good percentage of them.

    If Israel invades on foot and Hamas is threatened they can simply fade back into the population and wait to try again. And the general population will support them in doing so.

    The creation of the state of Israel was a mistake and the rise of Hamas is the direct result of decades of apartheid practiced against the Palestinians by the Israeli state.

    … But as the issue stands today, I can’t blame Israel in taking extreme action to end the conflict that’s dragged on for nearly a century now.

    There is no reasonable path to peace. A two state solution would end with the states at war anyway as both states have extreamists who want to genocide the other in government positions.

    And there is no where that would accept the Gaza population as refugees even if you could get them to leave.

    So what’s left?