Xariphon

Today on “Pillow or Bear Trap”…

I’m a forgettable nobody, so, Michael Cera.

More money going to the steadily employed and no missed payments crew, i.e. those who need relief the least.

It also became memeable and noteworthy because it’s it’s drastically off tone for the comic strip it came from. Generally a light hearted series and then BAM, have something that in context is utterly brutal.

Nowadays it’s so divorced from it’s context that it’s essentially just a meme.

So why do so many keep dying?

Because these deaths are caused by murderous assholes with over-inflated egos and immunity to consequences. ACAB.

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I stand corrected.

The irony of the title is still true, though.

Which fuckin’ god? The one that (if you believe in) sent the ten plagues? And the flood? And burned two major cities? And that’s just in the book where he’s supposedly the good guy?

would have been stolen*

Have you tried earning people’s attention instead of demanding it?

They’re not failing. They’re actively choosing not to.

Is she gay or European?

“Fuck you, got mine” is pretty much a cornerstone of their platform…

Because that’s what young people need, more ways to be excluded from society and isolated.

ACAB

Mine is an old Black Crusade character name. The original Xariphon was a scholar-warrior.

Anyone enrolled in the SAVE Plan who took out less than $12,000 in initial loans and has been paying them down for the past 10 years or more will have them forgiven.

It always pisses me off when I see qualifications like this. You know who needs forgiveness? People who got suckered into a lot of fucking debt. You know who needs forgiveness? People who have missed a lot of fucking payments.

Qualifications like this seem designed to make sure relief goes directly to those who need it least every time.

Between Neo from RWBY and Toga from MHA, I’m starting to think I have a type…

I want to see games with AI-powered NPCs making responsive, possibly unique dialog. Probably text-only at first, but maybe with AI voice-acting later on.

Yeah, that’s the real thing: “the economy” is how well the country is working for rich people and corporations. Look at average wages, actual buying power, etc. What’s in the hands of the worker. That’s the actual measure of how well a country is doing. Grotesque inequality is a condemnation, regardless of what the stock market is doing.