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“He’s quite happy for Russia to be the smelliest, farting uncle at the barbecue,” Mr. Tesch said. “The signal is, ‘Yes I am a disrupter. I can act in ways that increase the complexity of what you’re trying to manage.’”

In America, women hold up the entire sky.

Nah, they think he’s incredibly annoying. Stealing Jum-jum and all that. I don’t even think there’s Brownie faction hits.

Everyone’s been nice so far, but I also haven’t left the newb zone. Though, there are some druid rings and higher level characters passing through have been generous with bufs.

Started playing on the p99 green server, though I might try other servers just to see what’s up. Been a bit surprised at how active it is.

Just want to say your posts have inspired me to get EQ working on wine and play for the first time in 24 years.

I always tried to play on the emptier servers. Gives the game a lonelier more exploratory vibe. Many of the zones had a mystical and supremely dangerous quality when empty. Like a Celtic myth made manifest. I remember have a blast taking my level 16 gnome from Ak’Anon to Qeynos on foot, then down to the Rathe mountains to see the Sphinxs. Died a lot.

Shrinking is good. The world needs more itty bitty little guys.

They just assume the preceding eras were worse

I say as the psycho-reactive slime from the ghostbusters sequel slowly fills my tunnels.

You might be right. It’s unrelated, but for whatever reason your reply has made me realize I’ve been in an extreme doomer funk for months now

Long live the lambda-calculus of the proletariat

It does seem to be an escapist reaction to worsening conditions. Retreating inward because the real world is becoming hopeless. It cannot be healthy, but I’m loathe to blame them because society at large is so toxic.

We are all Hamas on this blessed day

Hamas man Mahmoud made me chuckle

No reason, don’t worry about it

Ayy, I’m delivering presents, and abducting souls back to the fae realm over here.

It’s beyond video games, you see this with music and movies as well. Gamers are just particularly odious. A lot of adult children NEED their choice of treats to be validated by others.

This is Dodge Ram 2500 erasure. Reigning DUI champs.