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Because of everything Amazon does and is I’ve completely stopped using Amazon a few years back and it wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought it would be.
Most small businesses have an online store and a very convenient ordering process. Hell, most even ship the next day. I go out of my way to try and find smaller businesses (who often have to charge for shipping) to order from, but if you just want to avoid Amazon, you can find larger outlets that don’t have shipping costs either.
If you need some weird stuff that you can’t seem to find anywhere but Amazon, try eBay.
And you won’t miss next day delivery very long, I can promise you that. You’ll even get to know a completely new joy: “Oh shit, I totally forgot I had ordered that!”
Spec Ops: The Line
It’s story is based on Heart of Darkness, the same book Apocalypse Now was based on, so they share some commonalities.
Gameplay wise it’s a pretty standard 3rd person cover shooter, nothing really memorable.
But man that game fucks with your head and expectations of a shooter. While you mow down hordes of fellow American soldiers who have gone AWOL with their commander, the tone of the game constantly shifts ever so slightly. You lose people from your team, you get to be more and more vengeful and violent. And at first you think nothing of it, because that’s almost every shooter I’ve played.
But they let you see yourself in a mirror, so to say.
I think the first time it really hit me was when on one of the loading screen tooltips, that usually said stuff like “You can throw grenades back.” or “Flank your enemies.” it just said “Do you feel like a hero yet?”. Felt like I’d been punched in the gut. It gets more and more intense from there and I can’t really describe it all, because it’s been a decade or so and it was mostly the sum of a lot of smaller things.
I know some people called it corny and pretentious but it really stuck with me.
It’s not even just that. He was out on bail.
He repeatedly broke multiple bail agreements. And it’s not like they jailed him right away. They forbade him from using encrypted messengers because he was contacting former and active employees of FTX. He used a VPN to “watch NFL from his international account” – sure, buddy. He made a blog explaining how everything wasn’t even his fault, which must’ve doubled his lawyers blood pressure. In the end he was only allowed a flip phone (no, not the smart kind).
IIRC the final straw was him leaking his ex’s diaries. You know, the ex that also worked with him and is considered a witness against him.
It was so easy.
The amount of bank robberies commited in Germany in the 70s and 80s with a toy gun and a bicycle as a getaway vehicle. Or how every European country had active domestic terror cells Just bombing Shit occasionally and you couldn’t do fuck all about it.
Go even further back, before finger prints. You could just go around murdering people.
“Anyone seen who did it? No? Ah well, case closed.”
I mostly edit PDFs to fill out documents. I know browsers can do that but they don’t save the progress until you download (or I’m to stupid). Recently found out that Google Drive has a “fill form” PDF editor that works pretty well. But to my blood pressures detriment that works only on Android and not in your browser where I have a proper keyboard. Google fucking enrages me with their complete arbitrary shit sometimes.
How are your kids coping with, uh, something different? I imagine it’s a tad less convenient, even with your server. Also, I haven’t done something different since the rise of Netflix. Is the quality of something different generally higher with streaming services just putting their content on the internet themselves?
I didn’t get banned site wide but on a few of the bigger German subreddits.
I wrote “Punch Nazis - always and everywhere” which is inciting or glorifying violence against a group of people apparently. I appealed it and asked the mod what they thought of the Allies and what they did and wether we should maybe glorify that. They said something about political discourse and that I’m not making any sense after which I told them they would’ve stood on the beaches of Normandy asking everyone to calmly discuss their differences on the mArKeTpLaCe oF iDeAs.
And that turned my four week ban into a permaban
I left because they killed the app I accessed Reddit with, but that enlightened centrist bullshit permeates Reddit like the plague and definitely made my decision easier.
I hate to break it to you – but we’re already here.