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As much as I think the US military is likely over-funded compared to many other areas the American people need, this is one slight benefit, at least for our civilians. There’s no longer a need for drafting amateurs for our frequent wars. We already hire professionals for that.

Agreed. And there’s not even a need for a draft. The US is the most well equipped, well-funded military in the world (by far) and is outnumbered in military service members only by China and India, where populations are over a billion each.

I just conferred with my daughter, and she confirmed that we also definitely need to try making something like that soon. :-)

That looks delicious.

Just like in Wargames, the only winning move is not the play the game.

Interesting. I think it’s time I give this spelling conspiracy thing a propa ganda.

Disco Elysium (Final Cut) is somehow firmly both simultaneously.

YOU WOULDN’T EAT A DATA CENTER

Wait… crunchy? … ah, you got me. 🤣

“I still remember it like it was yesterday…” is what I’d say if I were someone else…

That soundtrack, though… 🔥

Yeah, it seems very short-sighted.

Not only is it morally empty (Jesus’ words about gaining the whole world but losing one’s soul seem relevant), but it won’t *work* long-term. They are burning bridges to the past and the future (image of Elon with a chainsaw), and the kids will see the hypocrisy.

Hope that’s an adequate summary anyway.

As I’m very much in that world, little in my life has perplexed me as much as this question and the disconnect between those that claim to follow someone that laid down his life and suffered for the sake of others… and yet they want to make others suffer.

Best explanation I’ve seen so far is in Kristin Du Mez’s “Jesus and John Wayne”.

Long story incredibly short: Anti-communist fear-propaganda plus a misogynistic brand of masculinity that trades Jesus for the worship of strength+violence, exacerbated by desperation over culture war losses+race fear.

Why would the War Department need to analyze the bulk data of 350 million Americans? What reason could there be other than formulating plans for prosecuting a war *within* the United States against Americans?

I keep getting the sneaking suspicion that the guys that rebranded the “Dept of Defense” to “Dept of War” want to do some wars.

It’s probably nothing.

Great analysis.

This impulse reminds me of Jesus’ rebukes in Matthew 23, closing heaven’s doors in others’ faces, all for an outward appearance of godliness that they refuse to follow themselves yet demand of others.

And like you said, all of it surpassed by the greatness of Jesus’ saving grace.

That’s how you knew a game was Nintendo Hard (TM) and that we're never gonna survive, unless
we get a little crazy.

An edit, combining two images: The Nintendo Seal of Approval, of which I kept the star-shaped outline and the TM symbol. And the cover of Seal's gold-hued greatest hits album, of which I took his iconic outline and the banded gold gradient shading. Silly joke.

Remember the official Nintendo Seal of Approval?

This is how you knew a game was authentic and a bona fide Nintendo experience, comparable to something like a kiss from a rose on the grey. Wahoo!

Sometimes the algorithm can be a beautiful thing.

I don’t remember how far I got as a kid, but I started another playthrough a couple years ago and made it to the desert island area, I think. I keep wondering if I’ll go back and finish it someday.

Pretty much everything in Earthbound is pretty deranged, haha.

How far are you in?

Thank you, Spider-Man.

a purple light is coming out of the chest of a superhero . Alt: Thanos powers up his Infinity Glove…

Alex might be skilled at Vicious Mockery, but wait til you see what the Russo brothers can do with Dancing Lights…

a woman says they 're the same picture while sitting in front of a window Alt: Pam from the Office says that they are the same picture.

I know this isn’t actually true, but there’s some part of me that won’t accept they aren’t the same word for some shade of green.

Can’t wait for Chicago Pope’s hot new diss track during Super Bowl LXI’s halftime show.

I’ve thought a lot about that 1 Peter passage the last few years. Lots of busybodies and meddlers that like to cry “persecution” when someone tells them that’s not loving their neighbor.

Clearly some marketing folks weren’t playing FF7 with their brother in 1997, and it shows.

A not quite famous painting by an Austrian chap with a silly mustache.

Something about that particular angle gives me…