I hadn’t heard of the Prime Directive until I was a man; by then it was merely guidelines.

Notepad.exe, pre-windows 11. Now it’s something else entirely but still uses the name :(

Hmmmmm. Torn on this one actually because yes, I do believe that we should exile those who blindly follow their party. Mindless voting is the most unstable component of any democratic system.

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That one wasn’t wrong about the subject matter, just had the implementation a little off.

So you’re saying that in order to win we must do nothing? Alright I’m pretty good at that.

Real privilege is being smart enough to stay inside while it’s raining.

The question shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of war. The purpose of war is to defeat your enemy and make them lose, it was never about making you win.

Its not like a video game where you just deal enough damage or accumulate enough points and your adversaies give up to grant you a victory.

War is an eternal conflict until the last man is standing. Its never been about winning always about not losing.

I ain’t using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

This would be a sick THPS map.

Likely is, but not necessarily. Lot of scam listings just toss in “works with popular brand of thing” for ad space filler.

You can take my cartooned skin and prevent me from playing online, but you can’t take my Brood War CDROM and stop me from hosting LAN parties.

Ask for professional legal help, randoms online can’t help you with this. The answer is highly nuanced and depends on the specific manner in which you have things phrased.

I’m more talking about crappily made halfasses riddles and puzzles that require huge leaps of logic to the point that random brute force is just as valid a solution.

Like the stuff from NES/SNES days. Not actually a puzzle, but just random sequences of seemingly unrelated triggers. Castlevania II comes to mind as a quick example.

GOTTA ASTROTURF THAT WEBSITE FOR ADVERTISERS BAYBEE. CANT WAIT FOR GITHUB POPUPS.

Can’t wait for crappy devs to use this feature as an excuse to design dogshit puzzles.

I’m thoroughly confused about WhiteDeal.

A service where one contracts other white supremacists to do menial ad hoc jobs for a cost under the market price just seems so very antithetical to the whole “supremacy” thing.

Acquaintance** is the word you’re looking for. An Acquittance is a statement/document that says you paid off/no longer owe a debt.

Therapy. Right now. We are random strangers on the internet. In the year 2026 that means 99.9999999999999% of us are terminally online losers that not only don’t care about you personally, but we’re also data harvesting AIs that can’t personally care about anything.

Having said that; That’s a rough place to be man. Life sucks, and then you die. I’ve been in a similar place, and even those of us great at making friends struggle with understanding the fundamentals. You are taking actions that are proven and well understood friendship catalysts. It is not your actions making you feel this way, it is a feedback loop stemming from a combination of a lack of skill and a selection bias. Comparison is the thief of joy, as they say.

Something that helped me a lot when I had similar experiences was simply being more direct. People struggle with understanding subtly and context clues. Subtly is one of the hardest communication forms to master. You struggle with social situations. Act like a child, pretend you are writing for Netflix, and literally just full on exposition your feelings to people. “I am trying to make new friends, because I am lonely.” “I would like to date you, because I like you” “I also like XYZ, can I be invited to XYZ?” Always frame it with some form of reasoning: I want X Because Y // Because Y, I want X. Yes it feels stupid, yes you will look childish, yes you will often be given very patronizing reasons why you can or can’t be included, but in terms of social cues you lack both knowledge and a matured set of skills. Socially speaking you are effectively a caveman; put down the scalpel and stop trying to use nuanced surgical precision until you’ve mastered the basics of unga bunga with a social machete.

The onion lady and elbowless man are a classic romantic pairing.

Oh neat. They are capable of learning. That’s a huge step forward.