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Nah, it's not particularly hard to not be crippled by it, you just have to accept or learn to ignore that you're kind of a piece of shit in some ways that prefers you and your family/immediate community's comfort over the lives or happiness of others and then just... go about your day to day.

Shit's remarkably easy when you're sufficiently insulated from the effects of doing so, really, and avoiding participation or whatever immiserates you. Maybe you spend a few days or weeks really caring about it or having a breakdown or something, but then you get distracted by things like needing to eat, yourself, or your family needing medical care, or whatever, and most of the issue cheerfully regulates itself to the back of your mind. Maybe you'll try to mitigate the harm you do after you notice how fucked up things are, but the degree you'll do that will probably be pretty limited. Part because it's hard to indefinitely care about indefinite suffering, part because this system will fuck you if you try to disengage or push for significant reform. So on and so forth.

Speaking from experience

Quote from: Sentient Bowtie on May 30, 2020, 09:46:47 am

There have been multiple different instances of police attempting to escalate violence, including smashing the windows of the AutoZone that burned down before it was on fire and smashing windows in another building more recently. But I'm sure that there's a perfectly reasonable and logical explanation for it.

Interesting. Source?

Don't have any offhand, but there's constant reports of police responding to the peaceful protests attempted with rubber bullets, tear gas, and pepper spray. Seen less in the way of reliable sightings of cops (plainclothes or otherwise) getting their property damage on, but the cops have been going balls to the fucking wall to try to escalate shit, all over the place. How well that turns out for them varies from place to place, though.

He could have been arrested a day before my comment and shit would have still been slow, nevermind the rest of the mess related to the murderous sack of shit or everything else related to the situation at hand. That a previous incident was even slower doesn't somehow change that, ha.

Trial can take its time if it needs it, it shouldn't take days to clap cuffs on a fucker on tape murdering someone. Not even a cop, and if our justice system wasn't a goddamn farce, especially not a cop. You can figure out the rest from there, if there's a rest that needs figuring out.

I'm not aware of all the "american ways" to do things in their country, but honest question : how are people accepted in the police forces in the USA ? Is there a country-wide selection system or is it different from states to states ?

It's different from precinct to precinct. There is no country wide standard. There is no state wide standard in many (most?) states. Sometimes there's not even a goddamn county or city wide standard.

What the problems are takes more energy than I have right now to mention, though. There's a fuckton of them, from lack of accountability to pervasive racism issues to problems with employment standards and HR issues to a host of other shite. There's not a single primary problem though, this is the effect of decades or centuries of pervasive rot on a number of different fronts, growing from a foundation that was itself pretty goddamn shit.

... like, man, "have to" is a hell of a turn of phrase unless someone involved actually requires water based therapy for health reasons or somethin', and it doesn't sound like it with a two foot deep pool. My mostly deprived poor ass can't really wrap my head around that mentality, not gon' lie.

Dunno, heh. Pretty sure there's some cosmetic mods that spruce up some of the weather effects and stuff like that, but I haven't used them. There's certainly plenty that adds more stuff, more critters, enemies, invasions, biomes, etc. At least one that adds a new moon event, probably other things I'm forgetting.

Not aware off the top of my head that goes as far as overhaul in regards to what overhaul specifically does, though, ala seasons or burning down your house. There might be, but I can't recall playing any off the top of my head.

All seriousness, especially with modloader being on steam now just popping overhaul on and seeing if you like it should be pretty painless, especially if you're not trying to throw a bunch of mods together and have no reason to struggle with out of memory issues.

Like, I'm not super fond of overhaul, personally? I like to mod the hell out of the game, but didn't particularly enjoy overhaul, specifically, when I gave it a shot. It does indeed have seasons and fire and a host of other stuff.

Still, particularly if you've already spent some time in vanilla just... give overhaul a try. Bonus for overhaul I think you can run magic storage (and auto-trash, and vein miner, and boss checklist/census/recipe browser, ha) with it, too, for that exponentially-better-than-the-base-game experience. Or other mods, for that matter. Vanilla's, well, vanilla, heh. _{it doesn't have magic storage or auto-trash or vein miner}

If that was reference to me, though, I wasn't high at all. Maybe tired, but probably not much more than usual. So you'd need to be like... negative high or something to fail to top that. On some sort of anti-matter cannabinoid, I guess.

... drugs that self-annihilate on introduction to your system would be pretty darn sci-fi, tho'. Just throwing that one out there.

But yeah, I'm just saying if the game detects dong stations, quietly tweak the disaster rate up a few percent or somethin'. More games could stand something like that, I think.