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fucking SAME
i was watching the webcasts. i refused to accept it until the announcer declared that michigan fell. even then, before he ever even stepped foot in any official office, i knew how fucked we were
I remember I was playing The Forest late at night with my friends. I was utterly unconcerned - America surely wasn't stupid enough to elect Donald fucking Trump. And the polls were clear.
And then one of my friends, knowing that I'm the more politically oriented one in the group, asked, with a bit of concern in his voice, "We just lost Pennsylvania. Is that serious?"
I alt-tabbed out and checked the maps at like 3 AM. And kept checking the maps for two hours, in utter horror and disbelief. Over and over again. Clearly Hillary was winning the popular vote. How could the electoral college fuck us? It had only happened a handful of times in US history? And then I passed out, because 'went to sleep' implies some sort of restfulness. I remember waking up afternoon the next day with an immense, crushing weight on my chest and feeling utterly exhausted, wishing it was a nightmare and knowing it wasn't.
Jesus Christ.
How's the Forest game? I have it in my Steam library but haven't booted it up yet (busy having "fun" with Dwarf Fortress)
It's great, don't look up any advice or guides. Everything can be found by exploring; they put the stuff you need right in your face and it's a relatively small map.