At least you chose a fantastic game to go out on. RDR2 is like one of the most amazing games ever produced! I still go back to it when I run out of stuff to play despite beating the ever living hell out of it.

Felt the same way about GTA. I don’t think the story is supposed to be serious though, but it certainly is disjointed and not very compelling.

Have you ever play the Mafia games? Those games felt like a much better story with the right mix of city destroying chaos. Not quite as open as GTA, but I don’t really think that’s a bad thing. I really enjoyed 3 despite the missions being fairly repetitive. There’s just something about running around killing the Klan that just doesn’t get old to me.

Exactly what popped into my head too. They also had questions that were ambiguous. “What’s the big staircase in Rome?” doesn’t really have a single correct answer much like many of the literacy tests in the Jim Crow south.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say if a random immigration official knows about your anonymous lemmy account you were already mega-fucked on the immigration front. They’ve been watching you and probably have a 3 inch thick file on you before you walked in the door.

Have you ever shopped at a Trader Joes? Those paper bags are by far the best paper bags that I’ve ever used, and can carry about as much as my reusable ones.

It also isn’t true. LBJs approval rating absolutely tanked because of the Vietnam war.

Johnson’s approval ratings had dropped from 70 percent in mid-1965 to below 40 percent by 1967

https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/foreign-affairs

I’ve never used one of these services. Are they like a credit card in that they have interest/fees only if you don’t pay off your balance? Or are there upfront fees to using the service?

The kind of hilarious part is there was right wing pushback in the southern US when they came out because it was “teaching kids witchcraft.” Which is so fucking funny to me now. It’s just so plainly obvious that they were literally judging a book by it’s cover. I read the first two books as a young adult because of the right wing pushback and even the 2nd book was an absolute slog. To my dismay I didn’t learn any witchcraft along the way either.

On the other hand, my youngest brother absolutely loved those books. I remember sneaking him one of the new ones when we were staying with our Southern Baptist grandparents for the summer. They absolutely were his first books that he really read independently. He was quite bitter when JKR decided to be all anti-trans and shitty. If you even bring it up now it sends him into a tirade about how shitty she is.

Just rename Estonia to EstoniAI and people will apparently send you $1.5 billion no questions asked.

People wouldn’t take two pictures in the same day. That would be crazy.

You can literally see the smear lines in the picture (the chin especially). On top of that they’re clearly taking a joke picture and she’s hiding her laughter. If this dude has these face tattoos and teeth THAT nice he’s like a complete anomaly. Everything in this picture says those are marker, but you can believe whatever you want!

You all do realize those are just drawn on with a marker right? If those were real, and fresh enough to have the ink smear, they would be way more red and probably raised a bit.

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This… this one?

It’s really not even advice. It’s just self aggrandizement and dumbass people looking for a circle jerk to join. It doesn’t address the issue that OP has in the slightest practical way, and is kind of callus to their actual problem.

I have no problem with unions and I’m extremely pro-union. I’m also practical and not naive enough to think that you can join a union in every job. They don’t exist for a lot of jobs at all and you have to be very diligent to be able to form one without losing your job from unjustly being fired.

What I hate is people giving shitty advice so they can feel superior. “Join a union” is great advice if your job/field already has one. “Join a union” when someone has a work dispute with their clearly non-union employer is idiocy and belittling to the person that is asking the question. I made the analogy above, so I’ll turn your question on its head, do you think depressed people should just try to be happy? Because it’s the same level of advice as, “Join a union” in this instance.

Holy fuck you all are a bunch of callous assholes. Telling someone to “join a union” or “ask your union” about it are fucking mental. Do you really think OP is working a union gig or are you really that stupid to think you just go out to the union store and ask for one union card? How is this helpful to anyone who is in a non-union job working for a non-union company. I’ll bet you all are the same people that tell depressed people to “just be happy.” It’s just useless, if not ourtright malicious, advice to give someone.