I am honestly shocked to see a reference in the wild to Ken Ashcorp.

Bruh wuuut? That song was the best song on the soundtrack.

Edit: oh shit, just saw it was 2 not 3.

Except it used to be … And can be again

My steam library is full of humble bundles that I only bought for 2 games because it would be like $5, cheaper than buying regularly, and still getting like 7 other games with them.

And that’s even with me giving away keys from games I know I won’t ever play.

Things is, true revolutionary effort is far from exciting or interesting.

It’s literally just getting involved in local politics and forming lobbying groups with like minded people. It’s boring shit getting together with your local community to bitch about what needs to be done, how y’all will acquire the resources to get it done, and delegate who is going to do it.

Yet, that’s how all of society functions. The biggest issue with today’s society is how isolated from this process people are. We go to work and go home without ever being involved in the things that control our workplaces and homes.

Loved the first seasons of Arrow. The crossover episodes with Flash were great.

No I believe that title goes to Mao or Lenin

Star Wars: Andor is made and produced by fucking Disney. Squid Games was produced by Netflix.

Never underestimate the ability of capitalism to commodify anything and everything, even the dissent of the system.

What is right for the spider is wrong for the fly.

Right/Wrong is subjective and entirely depends on the surrounding circumstances of those involved and how the action in question affects their interests.

NDAs have always been bullshit. Any obligations that I have to a company ends as soon as they terminate me. Want me quiet? Keep me on the payroll.

Drama aside, I’m just glad to read the goal was reached. Hopefully something comes of the effort.

Keep telling yourself that. You can’t even argue against what I’m actually talking about so you just keep hammering on about a simple minded, subjective moralist position.

Nothing about my argument has anything to do with an individual’s competency at driving safely.

Be a simple minded fool and only think on the surface level. Whatever. I’m done trying to talk to someone who clearly doesn’t want to think about what is being said.

For many, such as in the US, are struggling so hard that, in the Maslow hierarchy of needs, their long term health isn’t as pressing of an issue compared to others.

Paying to be told why your health is bad and needing to take on the financial burden of continued medical care to rectify anything wrong is not as pressing of a worry as, say, being able to make rent payments or making sure you have food in the fridge to last.

There are also the psychological trauma effects of poverty that twist people’s ability to logic through a situation. Poverty is stressful; the brain begins to prioritize short-term release of this stress to protect itself from mental harm even to the detriment of other needs cause our fleshy meat computer isn’t perfect and prone to errors of logical reasoning.

Nobody forces you to speed.

Never said anyone did.

Speeding isn’t simply a choice. That’s your biased, uninformed assumption of a stranger’s moral character when you have no actual idea what happened in the moment.

Just because you never got a ticket doesn’t mean you never caught yourself speeding absent mindedly, for an unknown length of time that the speedometer slipped your attention, for any number of perfectly valid reasons, before catching yourself and slowing back down. For that time period you were, technically, speeding. Lucky you that those times you made that mistake it didn’t also occur as you passed a pig in a speed trap and you lose your license after a series of unfortunate events and mistakes.

Edit: Let’s put this differently: Are you seriously argueing that you are incapable of controlling the speed of your car and I should feel sorry for you for that reason?

No, absolutely not. My argument has nothing to do with a judgment of the individual or their capabilities or something as petty as “feeling sorry”. It is that I know they are human, and humans make fucking mistakes. Plain and simple. So no matter how much you try to dictate their actions, even by threat of penalty, you will never have 100% compliance because of this. People will slip up, and the current system of blaming the individual and penalizing them for it without there being any actual victims is IMO ass backwards and the least effective method of prevention. I’m saying instead of blaming the individual, blame the conditions of the road that makes it possible for people to comfortably speed on. Traffic calming is a fucking thing. If a road has an issue of people driving faster than those living or working there are comfortable with, lobby the fucking city to upgrade the road infrastructure. We, collectively, are perfectly capable of improving the material conditions we fucking live in instead of trying to coerce people into specific behavioral patterns by force.

Well, that’s exactly the case

And for that exact reason it is fucking stupid.

Because it’s a concious decision to break the law and drive too fast

No, it isn’t. You can claim that it is all you want but it just makes you look like a judgmental simpleton who only cares about subjective bullshit to avoid critically thinking about the systems we live under or and failing to make allowances for the fact that humans are not perfect beings who unconsciously make mistakes, regardless of our intentions. Speeding occurs predominantly due to a simple mistake from people needing to pay attention to a myriad of information while driving, and the speedometer slipped their attention and their foot relaxed a little. It happens to literally everyone. You are no different; if you try to say that you are, you’re a fucking liar.

If someone is incapable of seeing the speed limit or the speedometer or someone is incapable of comparing one to the other, then they are not fit enough to drive.

No shit people who are blind and suffer from certain limiting disabilities shouldn’t be behind the wheel but that is why we have licensing exams. It has nothing to do with a discussion on speed limits and how to enforce them, twit.

they should expect to be fined and shouldn’t expect compassion.

Then you admit you willingly forsake your humanity and discard compassion for blind obedience to an unjust system. I have little to no respect for you and those like you who blindly and uncritically support a system which disproportionately harms those who are already struggling the most.

Is there anywhere in the world that has successfully addressed this problem using other methods?

Yes, Not Just Bikes on YouTube has done videos on some. Other mentions are the Autobahn, but that’s a special case which is also predicated by the structure of the road system. and Paris has been expanding its efforts to retro fit roads in certain areas into green spaces and pedestrian/cycling infrastructure, which effectively removes speed limits. Not to mention all the eras of industrial society before the personal car became the dominant model of transportation but I get that Pandora’s Box has been opened and that evil ain’t going back in any time soon but I do fundamentally believe it should be a goal of getting back to.

I’m not saying speed limits are completely useless but you have to first take in the material conditions of the road and understand people are going to drive at the speed that is most comfortable to them. That’s just how humans generally are. That’s why I mentioned that most speeding is simply an absent minded mistake. Paying strict attention to the speedometer slipped their attention among the many other things you need to keep observant of while driving or just simply were pulled into complacency by a boring, routine drive

It just isn’t an effective method of trying to force people to drive at an arbitrarily predetermined speed even if the road conditions are safe to do so. Also, due to the systemic structures which dictate the overarching experience that I personally find unjust, I fundamentally oppose a political entity having the hierarchical authority to take away someone’s means of being able to travel or imposing financial penalties but that’s getting into much deeper politics than I care to get engaged with. I’m too tired for that right now

Cool, stay simple-minded, judgmental fool then. You’re right it’s a bigger societal problem, so maybe focus on that instead of judging the individual as if you’re so fucking perfect yourself.

At least it is still being updated and just happy to hear it hasn’t gone dark like most other Early Access titles.