Oh no. Not falling for this one again.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2023
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US Senators and congressmen are underpaid. Their salaries should be doubled. The president should make at least a $1 million a year, directly paid by taxpayers.
Reason: If I, the taxpayer, pay them, then they have to work for me. The payment makes that service relationship explicit. I pay you, you work for me. And, yes, the current pay is too little, $174,000 - barely comparable to tech workers.
Only taking $1 is an invitation for corruption. (Not claiming it happened, but it is an invitation.)
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The song The Piano Man fucking sucks.
I guess you weren't in a mood for a melody
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The main story of Baldur's Gate 3 is pretty bland and mediocre.
Donβt get me wrong, itβs still a phenomenal game! The companion arcs, acting and overall presentation are still next level, some sidestories are very good, and itβs great how faithfully they adapted the D&D rules. But the main story ...
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... is pretty bare bones and has no real twists and turns along the way.
- You start with a mindflayer tadpole in your head, so who do you think will be the final boss? Exactly, an elder brain.
- On the way you kill 3 major henchmen, who just want power, destruction, or are confused beyond saving. None of them were particularly interesting or multi-layered (maybe Ketheric a bit). None of them could be saved, convinced to switch sides, or at least affected somehow. Aligning with them is only temporary, makes barely any difference, and absolutely no difference for the end afaik.
- Most big quests end in act 3 in the same manner: Go to a place in BG and dispose of the boss character behind it all.
- The revelations with the Emperor/Balduran were nice, but he was a very mysterious character for the entirety oft he game, and his decision to fight you if you side with Orpheus is just absolutely ridiculous!
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Religion and conservativism.
We are trying to solve computer/rocket-age problems with a caveman brain. If we don't start genetic engineering humans soon i'd wager we'll eradicate ourselves before we colonize other planets and stars.
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All forms of communication that promotes any level of division between the general population, and the idea of payback or revenge is very wrong and toxic and are some of the main reasons for the shit we all go through these days, yet most people either don't think it's a big deal or think it's necessary. We're gonna end up killing ourselves and we're all gonna lose, but at least you got to punch the guy that punched you first, right? Or kill all the ancestors of the guy that punched your great great great granddad, then their ancestors killing yours for killing their ancestors, right? You deserve to kill them all, they had it coming, so did your ancestors, right?
Until the childish ideas of revenge and division is gone from our adult society, i don't see us surviving as a civilization before we kill each other first.
I'm tired of hearing people justify either. It's all nonsense, illogical, and childish.
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Postcredits scenes in movies are bad, always were and always will be.
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Assembly language is fun to learn, fun to use, and still relevant professionally.
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An opinion so strongly shared by a vast majority is worth being sceptic about.
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8Γ·2(2+2) comes out to 16, not 1.
Saw it posted on Instagram or Facebook or somewhere and all of the top comments were saying 1. Any comment saying 16 had tons of comments ironically telling that person to go back to first grade and calling them stupid.
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