I suspect Mimbaan was a 9 way clusterfuck between the Empire, Republic rebels, Sepratist rebels, Random wierd space-trots, and 4 different types of localist fascist.

Dark forest theory kind of sucks though, because all it takes is for a few non-shithead species to openly band together and murder dark forest societies, and the local calculus changes drastically towards federation.

Remember remember the 5th of November, the gunpowder campaign and vote.

It's just so sad. I feel bad for them. I mean I'm never going out with guys but like it's just such a 2003 "i read a how to date book by the worst person on earth" move.

"Ok, you have money, but what use are you? Is this it, the most impressive display you can muster to show off? I'd honestly prefer 90 minutes of unhinged rambling about Cicero. which I assume was your plan before the Temu brand Andrew Tate influencer told you to try this."

As general advice, if you want to pick up people of either gender, being able to vaguely pay the rent helps, but mostly people are looking for something that makes you fun to be around (most people can muster this up, even dumbass chuds), and a sign you actually care (or might come to care) about who they are. You can't fake that, you have to care about things.

Buy!? Here in Hexbear we play cosmonaut mode.

i'm finding that after Mohg, this area is a relaxing introduction, and I think a lot of underlevelled newbs that just beat Mohg after 3 hours because they rolled three crits in a row are going to enjoy that respite.

Also as someone who enjoys the lore I like being able to get a sense of where and when the setting is (mostly pre-early crucible era dancing beast architecture as expected, but that big tunnel is draconic. Also Tarnished Archaeologist is going to have a field day with the churches showing Goddess Marika and not the ablutions-era Marika seen in the og game opening church.) It's nice sometimes to just enjoy the world.

I hate so very fucking much that this had to be the single fucking thing the Trad Caths were right about.

"Unhinged drivel...The drive of capitalism will force initially compassionate Euthanasia increasingly down a path corrosive to the dignity of human life, much like abort...even more unhinged drivel"

This has been true for long haul carriers like Etihad/Emirates for over a decade. I very occasionally have to grow a lanyard and fly business class, and the food is generally equivalent to a reasonably good restaurant, and a very good restaurant in first class (I've heard, I don't rate that.)

Of course if you need to do a 30 hour flight and then get straight to work with no downtime you want it to be. But flying non-economy is really a different world if it's the Aus-Europe/Aus-NA routes.

Time to spread the machine plague.

As you can see this objective test portrays me as the chad and you as the soyface.

There was some ghoul on twitter recently saying what they'd do if they had no money, and that was grift a $10,000 credit card and use it to set themselves up as a middleman for tree clearing work, using cheap undocumented immigrant labour and undercutting the competition so he could raise prices and expand the franchise.

At no point did the scam (which had multiple fatal flaws but assuming it works here) involve the "business owner" doing any actual work except illegally littering the street with signs advertising their supposed business which was actually just a middleman money pump exploiting cheap labour on both ends.

Usually I'm used to a fig leaf of obfuscation in these schemes, but no, full mask off "I'm exploiting labour for profit and that's good actually"

Much with cyberpunk libs took all the shiny white singularity dyson sphere bullshit and none of the "they made capitalism sentient and it ate the humanity of everyone who took part in it , then itself, then promptly collapsed into a post apocalytic economy made entirely of grifts."