Fallout 3. Slaughter the vault of police officers (who you grew up knowing), but grow a conscience when you meet the overseer. Take out armies of enclave soldiers, but let the weirdo Colonel Autumn walk away.
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Spec Ops the Line is art. You don’t have a “choice” to not use the white phosphorus if you are going to play - but just like Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now - no one needs to be there/participating to begin with.
It is, but it took Venmo and I don’t think Walmart does. I needed groceries and that seemed to be the best option with my only money being the $50 in the Venmo account. I thought about asking someone if I could send them the money and get cash instead, but didn’t have anyone I could do that with.
Yeah, I prefer not using venmo, but I had negative money in my bank and some Venmo money my boss had sent me. I wanted groceries and that was the only money I had “access” to.
Already use a credit union 🙃
Not trying to lay blame, but doesn’t Venmo ask where you want the money to come from every time you send money?
No, unless that shows up if you are transferring in the app. It did not ask me where the money would come from. I was using a grocery delivery service and selected Venmo as my payment option. I assumed that selecting Venmo over my bank would take it from my Venmo.
I already got my credit union to forgive a charge on an accidental 1.99 purchase. I don’t think they’ll do it again.
I have even less hours this month. I’ll probably just end up driving off a bridge. There’s no way I’m ever going to be financially solvent again.
The Moonies are so wacky that calling them “Christian” is a stretch. Definitely not aligned with the Nicene creed, and I think once the founder/prophet claims some sort of divinity it’s better to refer to as Christian derived.
My dad sold off his Apple IIe and I’d kill for that damn thing back.
I can’t get Adventure Construction Set working in emulation…
Animaniacs is actually good tho
The best solution is to try to avoid buying things with plastic, and repurposing plastic that you do have to buy.
It’s not really that much of an answer, but plastic recycling is entirely greenwashing by the industry.
Plastic recycling is literally pointless though.
It’s a farce to pretend that plastic can be reused/sustainable in any way. Most “recycled” plastic ends up just shipped off to pollute developing countries in Africa and Asia.
A lot of non goodwill thrift stores will do bulk bags of T-shirts that no one will ever want (think blood donation drives, fraternity or business events, etc etc). These can be stupidly cheap.
The ideal is the biggest t-shirts you can find - look for XXL plus for the best results/most yarn, but any size will work.
Start with a t-shirt folded in half. I use rotary cutters to make the process quick/easy.
You want to cut roughly along this line, leaving you with just the armless trunk of the shirt.
Cut on the side where the two ends meet (just to make it easy). You want 1.5” or so strips. Maybe 3-4 cm. Err on the side of thickness, to help it not snap during the stretching process later.
(Sorry for terrible lighting and the general chaos of the work area)
Then, put your arm through the truck to make it easier to start your cutting. You can start on either end, on one of the two sides where the “ribs” meet. Cut at an angle to meet your other cuts.
Keep cutting to make a continuous strip. On one side you’ll cut down at an angle to meet the next rib, on some sides you’ll cut straight. Try to keep the width of your strip sorta consistent, it’s not too big a deal though as long as it doesn’t get too thin.
Keep going around until you get to the final loop. Finish by cutting at an angle to get an unbroken length of t-shirt.
Find a post or other stable place to begin stretching the shirt around. I usually stretch holding maybe one - two feet of length on both sides. You don’t want to pull hard, and be especially gentle on thinner areas. The hems are usually safe to be pretty tough on - you want to hear them snap.
Once you’ve stretched the whole length, you can wrap it in a nice little ball of t-shirt yarn.
I knit mine to make quilt batting (you can use the leftover tops/interesting graphics as your backing or front). Somewhere in between size 11-15 needles is a good idea. Because of the weight of the yarn, circular needles are best. Crochet seems like it would be tough, but I suck at crochet anyway. If you accidentally break off small length or mess up your cutting process, it’s fine material to weave with or incorporate in mixed media. There‘s probably rag rug techniques that would work well with this too.
I think this is a great way to take advantage of the horrors of fast fashion/textile waste.
You can also modify this technique for plastic bags. You’ll just need to cut the bottom as well as the top, and consider the strength of the plastic when stretching. Walmart bags suck (use them carefully with an iron for laminating projects), but thicker plastics from bougier stores work fine.
For context - I searched “TM 28 Tombstoner” - a non existent move in any Pokémon game, which was always intended to be a joke.
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It’s a hilarious read. He depicts himself as such a ridiculous and goofy loser it’s hard to believe that he wrote it.
He needs more memes.
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One of my favorite aspects is the way the ludonarrative/gameplay ties with the story.
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The enemies start showing up in unrealistic numbers, one of your dead squad mates shows up as some kind of mutated monster - it feels like the classic escalation in difficulty because you are playing a video game. But this is happening because your character is delusional and perceives it that way.I’ve always wanted to teach a high school/community college elective where we read Heart of Darkness, watched Apocalypse Now and played Spec Ops - to see how the same narratives in themes are used in entirely different settings and with different methods of storytelling, but how ultimately they all reach towards the same message about humanity and war and cruelty.
The older Call of Duty’s (maybe the newer ones, haven’t played since Black Ops one) often had messages/quotes that were pretty anti war when you died, but were ultimately sabotaged by the story. Spec Ops is probably the best game at understanding how to use the FPS mechanics as part of its storytelling.