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hell yeah, Sim City 2000

you could build one water pump, attach it to power, then not attach it to anything else and the game would think everything has plenty of water

Also, if you had plenty of Launch Arcologies (301, apparently), they would fly off into space to find new worlds. But they didn't program anything special for this so instead they all just appear to explode one after another. As a kid I didn't know English well to read the message telling me what happened so I was completely devastated by how half my city just exploded randomly.

I don't think Epstein was Portuguese

The Overton window can only shift so fast, and at this point, it's too much for the average zombie-like normie used to this tiresome between-age of mediocre stagnation and nothing ever happening. Because that's what those people have been conditioned to accept, constant stagnation, with consistency being the ultimate virtue, and maybe a side of "this thing just got worse, it can't be helped, it's the new normal" every couple weeks. A slow descent into total shit, but slow and consistently, no drastic changes. Boomer were promised their pension funds and nobody else was asked, so that's the plan for this society, and that's what people were conditioned to accept.

Now people are coping with the fact that something could actually happen, because they were continuously told that nothing could happen and that anything happening is a conspiracy theory. So now they don't want that, because it would mean they would have been wrong in their blind loyalty to people that actively hate them. Because the best way to control a moron is to tell him that he's a genius, and that's what has been researched the moment that people rejected emperors that were so powerful that they could insert new month into the calendar.

Same shit, different story. It's just yet another bullet point in the fine art of how to control morons to not just convince them of your great scam, but to make them mindless zealots for your cause. And the best of all: make them believe that something terrible couldn't happen because it would be too terrible to happen (and that would be in the news), lmao.

we'd say "put a paper bag over her head" but not "throw away and keep the body, like a shrimp"

the implication with the shrimp analogy is very clear, the head isn't disregarded or ignored or anything, it's chopped off, and if that wasn't the goal, then the analogy makes no sense

"WOAW this drug makes me feel something so obviously it can't just be a drug with this well-researched and described effect on your brain that causes all those hallucinations and feeling on the basis of signals in the brain getting sent around wrongly... no, it obviously needs a more religio- uh, I mean science based origin of all life and shiiiiet explanation! Because how could anything that I like not be the bestest and most awesomest thing EVER!!!"

Retards like that are why drug use is frowned upon and banned for everyone. I also do shrooms with friends about 2-3 times a year but in the end it's just an interesting drug that makes you euphoric, makes you see and feel some crazy stuff and maybe have some interesting thoughts. It's not a fundamental/godlike thing, it's the defense mechanism of a creature that is made to fuсk up anything that eats it hard enough for it to get killed by some other predator.

yeah it felt a bit forced but I let it slide