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  1. When will you give in to the Brennan Lee Mulligan pipeline and let him subsume your lifeblood?

    I have already bought the headstone because this is the hill on which I die. how could anyone trust I am committed to my causes if I'm not committed to the bit?

  2. Diff Anon:
    So you're telling me that this is a bogey man made up by conservative politicos???
    Next you're going to tell me "Welfare Queens" are a plague extrapolated from a handful of caught grifters!

    in response to Another diff anon: it's worth noting that there is actually very little evidence that anti-war protestors called Vietnam vets baby killers much at all. There's basically no hard evidence and very few vets reported their reception from peers in the US as unfriendly in a poll in 1971 commissioned by the VA. Wikipedia has an article on the Myth of the Spat-On veteran with some references. Doesn't detract from the point that killing babies is not, in fact, an acceptable point of disagreement, but I felt you might want to know.

    wait'll I tell you about immigrants and jobs

  3. Can you please teach me how you do this? I don't know how you measure time signatures lol.

    in response to Favorite 5/4 song?

    oh, um, take years of guitar lessons that you only half pay attention to and then live with a musician friend who explains it all to you again but it's interesting this time. at least, that's why I did.

    but most of the time just listen to the drum beat and count where it repeats. most will go one two three four or one two three but sometimes you'll be like, "wait, this is doing something weird." and then you count along and realize, "oh! it's in seven!" or "oh! it's in five!"

    for practice, listen to Little Sin by The Toadies to count in five and Push The Hand by The Toadies to count in seven (on the verses, the chorus is in normal old four-four)

  4. I feel like I'm so vulnerable to misinformation about the Israel Gaza conflict and I don't really know what to do about it. The mainstream media has been both bad about covering this and intentionally hampered by Israel. I see all these terrible clips and statements from Twitter about Israel's actions, but I have no way to check if like 90% of it is true. A lot of it seems like it could be, but I don't want to accept potential misinformation just because it seems likely and agrees with my worldview. Maybe its not worth worrying about because the 10% that is easily verifiable is more than enough to understand Israel is doing an ethnic cleansing but idk...

    Is this something you've thought about and do you have an ideas on ways to deal with or even mitigate it?

    I'm lucky that most of my feeds are LARGELY filled with reliable information, and falsehoods tend to get found out and shared. with Israel in specific, the main thing is how much the IDF is revealing the crimes THEMSELVES, literally posting pictures of the children they murdered. they're BRAGGING about the cruelty.

    if you're looking for a source, I have found AJ+ on Twitter to be pretty reliable. I've never learned anything they reported turned out to be false, and they make a point of covering things mainstream media ignores. obviously you should read widely, and AJ+ has biases same as any source, but their biases use facts as their starting point, not misinformation.

  5. Portal or Postal?

    Outer Wilds

  6. can the nazis really be categorised as white supremacist? They considered other white groups like Russians Poles Serbians on the same level as black people and other people of coluor on their racial hierarchy. Would it be more accurate to call them Aryan suprematists.

    yes they were white supremacist because they considered Aryans to be the only true whites. race is already a made-up concept with no consistent logic, it is not hard to define it more narrowly when it suits your needs. even within whiteness, racists will establish a hierarchy.

  7. (Diff anon)
    [Sextina Aquafina voice]
    "Imma baby killer
    Baby killing makes me horny"

    Srsly tho, wasn't the "liberals spit on the Vietnam vets" largely a fabrication and that the public disrespect was not at all prevalent?
    Also, I feel like if I was forced to drop napalm on civilians, I'd at least not demand respect for that. Maybe

    in response to It would maybe be normal if people could tell it was about the babies, but people who are functional can tell it’s not. It’s about you, dunking on traumatized people to feel good about yourself, because maybe you’re insecure that people sometimes seem to respect them more than they respect you. Which is totally understandable but I think that’s more a sign that they don’t respect you enough than that they respect vets too much.

  8. Favorite 5/4 song?

    in response to what's your favorite song in 3/4 time

    I like the stretch in the middle of Botch's Afghamistam where the guitars are in 5/4 on a 3-measure loop while the main drum beat is in 4/4 but the kick stays in sync with the guitars

  9. Will anything happen to the MCU after the revolution? I just think all the movies and shows are impressively planned and wouldn’t want to mess with their future projects. Very important stuff, I know.

    I would not count on the MCU staying internally consistent even should capitalism continue

  10. Another diff anon: it's worth noting that there is actually very little evidence that anti-war protestors called Vietnam vets baby killers much at all. There's basically no hard evidence and very few vets reported their reception from peers in the US as unfriendly in a poll in 1971 commissioned by the VA. Wikipedia has an article on the Myth of the Spat-On veteran with some references.

    Doesn't detract from the point that killing babies is not, in fact, an acceptable point of disagreement, but I felt you might want to know.

    in response to You think you can argue technicalities when this whole thing started because you were acting like a snarky asshole. Also, I’m not the person who asked the original question.

  11. Diff Anon:
    I never get tired of the Wrong Opinions you keep posting here. Make room in your reality and your heart for irregular polyhedrons.

    in response to favorite number sided die

    miss me with this platonic solid blasphemy

  12. don't you think its disturbing the amount of leftists who celebrated or ignored October 7th

    I was not privy to that. in my circles, all the lefties were pretty concerned about the violence and the fear of how Netanyahu would respond. none were celebrating or ignoring. I am aware that some lefties celebrated. if I had a sense of how many I might be concerned. as it is, it's hard to tell.

    it was a bad thing. it started a lot of bad things. there is nothing to celebrate.

  14. favorite number sided die

    I dunno but it ain't 10, that thing is an abomination

  15. Wait why are forecasters threatening to explosion people‽

    in response to god you are such an asshole, I know because this was exactly the line of reasoning I had to train myself out of because it was what made everyone hate me throughout middle and high school and rightly so. basically the idea that what's right or wrong is situational and dependent on who is in charge. it's covert narcissism and it tells people not to trust you, because you will modify your values based on how you're feeling. there's no "harassment is wrong", there's just "harassment is only wrong if who's in charge says it's wrong, and right now i for once get to be in charge, so I will decide that I can do it". everyone can see that you're trying to tool on traumatized people to feel good about yourself and it's not really about saving babies or any of that. normal people can think the vietnam war is bad, some vietnam soldiers did some fucked up shit, but also know it's fucked up to call some random vet a babykiller unless he literally killed a baby intentionally and feels no remorse. and don't tell me that you meant only the ones who actually intentionally killed babies, we both know you didn't.

    oh sweetie

  16. Do you like Deftones

    White Pony is pretty good

  17. what's your favorite song in 3/4 time

    I decline to answer this on the grounds that I can't always tell 3/4 from 6/8

  18. You think you can argue technicalities when this whole thing started because you were acting like a snarky asshole.

    Also, I’m not the person who asked the original question.

    in response to It would maybe be normal if people could tell it was about the babies, but people who are functional can tell it’s not. It’s about you, dunking on traumatized people to feel good about yourself, because maybe you’re insecure that people sometimes seem to respect them more than they respect you. Which is totally understandable but I think that’s more a sign that they don’t respect you enough than that they respect vets too much.

    I know I was rude, but I'ma stand firm that killing babies is the greater faux pas

  19. K, Ian, it’s time to let you in on how the real world works: if you’re a soldier and you disobey orders then you are going to likely get the absolute shit beaten out of you by your unit, brutally hazed, and/or quite possibly killed.

    Are they just supposed to endure that because mOrALz? Hmmm? Go ahead, read me the “riot act.”

    no, I get that that's a really complicated situation, but I still think, in a Telltale Games moral choice sense, that if you have to choose between killing multiple children and getting beat up, there's a pretty straightforward answer. and, like, the person who chooses to kill children is generally gonna be considered a coward, y'know?

    also, like, the draft was shitty but not inescapable? my dad took a job as a teacher because teachers were exempt, as were several other professions. you could register as a conscientious objector. these weren't foolproof options, but c'mon, it's not like "flee the country or get beaten to death by your fellow soldiers" were the only options. most people who disobeyed orders got a dishonorable discharge and lost their pension.

  20. Disobeying orders isn’t some magical rainbow fairy dust scenario where your superior officer holds your hand and rubs your shoulders saying “it’s okay buddy.”

    You people really really REALLY need to understand that the real world isn’t black & white. It’s shades of gray

    I tire of this

  21. Is being drafted the same as taking a job? I have a lot more sympathy for Vietnam vets than cogs in the modern military machine though even there it's messy with the economic forces at play

    in response to god you are such an asshole, I know because this was exactly the line of reasoning I had to train myself out of because it was what made everyone hate me throughout middle and high school and rightly so. basically the idea that what's right or wrong is situational and dependent on who is in charge. it's covert narcissism and it tells people not to trust you, because you will modify your values based on how you're feeling. there's no "harassment is wrong", there's just "harassment is only wrong if who's in charge says it's wrong, and right now i for once get to be in charge, so I will decide that I can do it". everyone can see that you're trying to tool on traumatized people to feel good about yourself and it's not really about saving babies or any of that. normal people can think the vietnam war is bad, some vietnam soldiers did some fucked up shit, but also know it's fucked up to call some random vet a babykiller unless he literally killed a baby intentionally and feels no remorse. and don't tell me that you meant only the ones who actually intentionally killed babies, we both know you didn't.

    again - if you feel Vietnam was a government forcing you to kill children against your will, I don't think you're going to go on and on about how you deserve respect for serving your country

  23. It would maybe be normal if people could tell it was about the babies, but people who are functional can tell it’s not. It’s about you, dunking on traumatized people to feel good about yourself, because maybe you’re insecure that people sometimes seem to respect them more than they respect you. Which is totally understandable but I think that’s more a sign that they don’t respect you enough than that they respect vets too much.

    in response to Different anon. I mostly agree with with you Ian, but remember many Vietnam veterans were drafted and thus their actions in Vietnam were against their will. I know some draftees could leave the country, but that wasn’t an option for everyone.

    bro I didn't do it, we're talking about war protesters in the 60's. I wasn't even born when people were calling 'Nam vets baby killers.

    is this what constitutes "harassment" in your world? you bring up hypothetical protestors from 60 years ago, and if I say "well they weren't wrong" then I'm harassing veterans? and that's how far "harassment is bad" is supposed to extend? no, but "dropping napalm on villages full of non-combatants and children," THAT we're supposed to agree to disagree on.

  24. How would you feel if after your died a message appeared saying “you can now play as Luigi"

    finally

  25. These are the types of CC's you get: silly funny questions, *are* video games art questions, are we all gonna die (political) questions, "fuck you" (political) statements. Missing anything?

    you don't see the "oversharing my personal life/please cure my depression" asks cuz I don't answer them

  26. Different anon. I mostly agree with with you Ian, but remember many Vietnam veterans were drafted and thus their actions in Vietnam were against their will. I know some draftees could leave the country, but that wasn’t an option for everyone.

    in response to god you are such an asshole, I know because this was exactly the line of reasoning I had to train myself out of because it was what made everyone hate me throughout middle and high school and rightly so. basically the idea that what's right or wrong is situational and dependent on who is in charge. it's covert narcissism and it tells people not to trust you, because you will modify your values based on how you're feeling. there's no "harassment is wrong", there's just "harassment is only wrong if who's in charge says it's wrong, and right now i for once get to be in charge, so I will decide that I can do it". everyone can see that you're trying to tool on traumatized people to feel good about yourself and it's not really about saving babies or any of that. normal people can think the vietnam war is bad, some vietnam soldiers did some fucked up shit, but also know it's fucked up to call some random vet a babykiller unless he literally killed a baby intentionally and feels no remorse. and don't tell me that you meant only the ones who actually intentionally killed babies, we both know you didn't.

    yeah that's a good point, weird how op said "felt bad about it" and "didn't do it on purpose" but not "did it against their will," and was talking about disagreements over the Vietnam war almost as if the soldiers in question and the liberals who protested the war had opposite opinions on whether it was good. I think the soldiers who said "my country did something evil by forcing me to kill children" probably agreed with people who called them baby killers.

  27. I’m actually shocked because you mentioned in Dr. Horrible video that the proper response to bullying is to subvert existing paradigms, rather than become the bully. Really thought it was a cool vibe but this is genuinely gross, please don’t show this to your kids if you have them

    in response to god you are such an asshole, I know because this was exactly the line of reasoning I had to train myself out of because it was what made everyone hate me throughout middle and high school and rightly so. basically the idea that what's right or wrong is situational and dependent on who is in charge. it's covert narcissism and it tells people not to trust you, because you will modify your values based on how you're feeling. there's no "harassment is wrong", there's just "harassment is only wrong if who's in charge says it's wrong, and right now i for once get to be in charge, so I will decide that I can do it". everyone can see that you're trying to tool on traumatized people to feel good about yourself and it's not really about saving babies or any of that. normal people can think the vietnam war is bad, some vietnam soldiers did some fucked up shit, but also know it's fucked up to call some random vet a babykiller unless he literally killed a baby intentionally and feels no remorse. and don't tell me that you meant only the ones who actually intentionally killed babies, we both know you didn't.

    if I have kids please don't kill them and then act a victim if someone calls you out for it

  28. How long are you?

    5'9"

  29. god you are such an asshole, I know because this was exactly the line of reasoning I had to train myself out of because it was what made everyone hate me throughout middle and high school and rightly so. basically the idea that what's right or wrong is situational and dependent on who is in charge. it's covert narcissism and it tells people not to trust you, because you will modify your values based on how you're feeling. there's no "harassment is wrong", there's just "harassment is only wrong if who's in charge says it's wrong, and right now i for once get to be in charge, so I will decide that I can do it". everyone can see that you're trying to tool on traumatized people to feel good about yourself and it's not really about saving babies or any of that.

    normal people can think the vietnam war is bad, some vietnam soldiers did some fucked up shit, but also know it's fucked up to call some random vet a babykiller unless he literally killed a baby intentionally and feels no remorse. and don't tell me that you meant only the ones who actually intentionally killed babies, we both know you didn't.

    in response to Would you agree that liberals harassing returning Vietnam vets and calling them baby killers, wasn’t the left’s finest hour?

    you are correct, I didn't. I don't care if a Vietnam vet killed a baby by accident and feels bad about it. you take a job where "potential casualties: babies" is part of the description and people might take issue with that. I'm frankly amazed at the lengths you're going to frame "we shouldn't kill children" as a matter of opinion. less impressive is how you're framing "calling a person who killed babies a baby killer" as harassment. if you wanna talk about the Weathermen sending bomb threats to their houses, I'll condemn that as harassment. you're talking about NAMECALLING, you fucking wimp.

  31. Opposite way around?

    in response to FPS to RTS

    I would play an FPS where I'm a Protoss

  32. Would you agree that liberals harassing returning Vietnam vets and calling them baby killers, wasn’t the left’s finest hour?

    I don't super duper care? like, did they kill babies in Vietnam? then, I dunno, people might call them baby killers. seems like a predictable response to killing babies.

  34. How would you rank the Telltale Walking Dead seasons?

    1
    4
    400 Days
    2
    3

    never played Michonne

  36. Do you think Obama was more liberal than Biden?

    I would say Obama was to Biden's left, which arguably means LESS liberal

  39. watched the fallout show?

    no

  40. Have you watched the HBO show The Last of Us? Broadly, do you know what the story is about?

    in response to Let's change the subject, then. Have you played The Last of Us?

    I know the plot of TLOU, yes. haven't watched the show but I gather it's pretty faithful to the game.

  43. Even ignoring the assumed meritocracy of capitalism, this argument is truly baffling.

    "What I don't like about anticapitalists is that they don't care enough about doing well at capitalism"

    Bro, you can just say you don't like anticapitalists. You don't need this nonsensical justification for it.

    in response to What I don't like about anticapitalists is that you're all poor! Why would I listen to you? It's not even that you're disadvantaged. Like you, IS, are clearly a great marketer and have great social skills and you are smart enough to learn stuff to make a bunch of money, yet you don't. I'd rather listen to some guy who makes a bunch of money and plays golf every day

    yeah, it's kinda like when people criticize Cuba for having a weak economy. like, no shit. they're communists. economic growth isn't exactly the goal. there's so much ELSE you could criticize them for!

  44. Would you say that Biden has Shifted so far to the right that he's now pretty much just a republican politician pre-Trump.

    was that a shift? I think that's what he was when we voted for him. like, this is what people like me were afraid of out the gate. I didn't think it'd go as far as genocide, but I can't say I'm SURPRISED. all the warning signs were there!

  45. You get to choose any game that hasn't been turned into a Kart Racer and a Kart Racer for that game is made, what game do you choose?

    Full Throttle

  46. What are your thoughts on "vulgar auteurism" and the general rise of Michael Bay reappraisal on film Twitter?

    can you summarize this reappraisal? I only learn film Twitter opinions when they get yelled at me.

  47. should workers always be owners and vice versa?

    I dunno, depends on what "owners" means. I don't generally think the capitalist creation of the "owner class" is a good thing and would rather be done with it. I don't want "capitalism but all the businesses are co-ops," you know? I want to abolish the private sector.

    but if "owner" means "in control of the means of production"? yeah, probably.

  48. What overall societal movements and change in popular discourse did you think caused "bush did 9/11" to go from a fringe left belief to a fringe right belief?

    very little, actually. conspiracism is about picking a conclusion you need to be true and grabbing whatever you need to reach that conclusion. if Bush needs to be the bad guy to justify conservatives' love of Trump? whatever, they don't need Bush anymore. they needed him back then, but now he's irrelevant. they'll accept Trump is an evil man the moment they don't him anymore.

    what conservative cranks need is the belief that some authority is gonna "take their country back" and "set things right." Bush served that purpose once, Trump serves it now. liberal cranks need to believe that some technicality or insidious plot is the cause of all our problems and not just a bunch of entrenched and systemic awfulness; that the rules CAN save us so long as people enforce them. blaming Bush for 9/11 allowed for the possibility the whole war could be ended by one big reveal, or to blame widespread Islamophobia and warmongering on one mastermind instead of their own party's failings and the history of US imperialism. now it suits their purposes to rehabilitate Bush and act like he was a "proper, honest conservative" so they can spin Trumpists as deviant instead of the next logical step for conservatism.

    the arguments themselves DO often reflect the beliefs people hold (e.g. conservatives often leaping to the fear of race war), but they don't ACTUALLY matter that much, and they'll gladly pinch an argument from the other side if it suits their needs.

  49. Do the right in America still deny climate change? in Europe pretty much nobody does anymore, on the right its all about "we can't do anything about it because economy"

    the American Right somehow manages to argue that climate change isn't happening, is happening but isn't man-made, and is man-made but actually a good thing all at the same time

  50. Man haven't you played any games? Fake gamer alert...

    in response to Will you?

    I have played like a lot of Supplice...

  51. Diff Anon:
    And in these cases, I like to ask "relative to what or whom"? Does "the Left" have an antisemitism problem when compared to "the Right"?

    in response to Do you think the left has a serious antisemitism problem?

    I'm ok if we consider antisemitism a problem relative to how the way things should be, in which case any antisemitism is a problem

  55. Any thoughts on aunty pho, the aunt in your life who makes pho

    in response to any thoughts on antifa?

    I love her work

  56. Next you're going to tell us you haven't played Pentiment!!!

    in response to Let's change the subject, then. Have you played The Last of Us?

    not yet, but I DO own it and it's on my list!!! I haven't had the bandwidth for a good text-heavy game in a while, it's why I still haven't played the Citizen Sleeper dlc or Astrologaster or Roadwarden, even though I'm hype about all of them. just been disappearing into retro shooters lately, turning my brain off with a fourth run of Supplice's early access levels.

  58. Which do you think does adapting heart of darkness for modern war climate better?

    in response to do you think spec ops the line is the apocalypse now of the millennial generation?

    well, as I've said, I haven't played Spec Ops. come to think of it, I didn't make it all the way through Apocalypse Now. and I read the Spark Notes of Heart of Darkness in high school instead of the book!

    dang, maybe I should stop sharing my opinions, I don't know anything...

  59. When you say "antisemitism is not AS chronic a problem as transphobia, misogyny, and Islamophobia" do you mean *generally* or do you mean specifically on The Left?

    in response to Do you think the left has a serious antisemitism problem?

    on the Left

  60. Do any other pieces of media do this? This tension happens in games like it's going out of style but I'm not immediately thinking of a Book that is like that

    in response to If the gameplay were enjoyable, would it ruin the deconstruction aspect of it?

    there's a subgenre of movies that are pretty explicitly shaming people for watching them. usually horrifically violent things like Saló or Funny Games.

  61. Do you think the left has a serious antisemitism problem?

    the Left generally has problems of ignorance, where social minorities are not treated with respect, biases go unchecked, damaging assumptions are made, needs are misunderstood and left unaddressed. and the Left also has a subset of explicitly anti-social justice lefties who wanna be edgy and say slurs and insist anything other than class analysis is a distraction. antisemitism is a problem in both those spheres.

    I would generally say that, of the blindspots and willful ignorances, antisemitism is not AS chronic a problem as transphobia, misogyny, and Islamophobia. those are things I see much more blatantly and explicitly these days. antisemitism is still an issue, but a nonzero amount of the "leftists and antisemitism" discourse I come across turns out to just be people defending Israel.

    so: real problem! probably realer than I'm aware. but I'm not aware of it being one of our *serious* problems outside the minds of Israel apologists.

  62. do you think spec ops the line is the apocalypse now of the millennial generation?

    thematically, sure. I mean, it draws those allusions pretty directly, right? Spec Ops is doing the same thing with adapting Heart of Darkness to the modern war climate?

    I think a noteworthy difference is Spec Ops is a critical darling but was a financial flop, where Apocalypse Now opened at #1. its box office total, adjusted for inflation, would be almost half a billion dollars. Spec Ops is not gonna have that cultural impact - not that many people actually played it.

  63. How would one best make a game with the premise of "critique the player's actions taken within said game" anysuch? Spec's not first nor last I've heard talk of the issue, a certain Bastion and Wrecking Things comes to mind in fact, so I'm curious how best a game might critique the player for playing, seeing as I severely doubt there's any way in hell you or I or anyone will stop people from trying to do the deed.

    in response to If the gameplay were enjoyable, would it ruin the deconstruction aspect of it?

    I don't think it's possible to do without internal tensions, but tensions aren't necessarily bad. I don't think Spec Ops is a failure for having these contradictions. they're just worthy of mention.

  64. any thoughts on antifa?

    it's good, I'm really, like really opposed to fa

  65. If the gameplay were enjoyable, would it ruin the deconstruction aspect of it?

    in response to Is Spec Ops: The Line an effective deconstruction even when you're enjoying the gameplay?

    I don't know about "ruin." I haven't played Spec Ops: The Line, I've only experienced it through the discourse. from what I have gathered, though (and people who've played it can tell me if I'm off-base), there is already a tension between its themes and its gameplay/plot. it's a critique of games that have you do war crimes, and is also a game that has you do war crimes. and, while that's part of the critique, it is still weird to serve up an example of what it hates, invite you to participate, and then tell you you should feel ashamed for playing it. that tension is core to the game existing at all; it kinda reads like the best way to make the critique would be to refuse to make the game, but, of course, it's a franchise; the owners are GOING to make that game, the gears of capital have demanded it, and if Yager refused the contract it would just go to someone else who'd make a normal-ass jingoistic version of it. so, yeah, at least THIS WAY there's a critique involved, but the critique is still "games like this should not exist; now pay us $60 for it."

    I don't think the gameplay being more enjoyable would "ruin" it but would probably ratchet that tension up even higher. because if the game arguably shouldn't exist, it DEFINITELY shouldn't be fun!

  66. Four way tie then?

    in response to What is the most mainstream music act you listen to?

    mm, icebergify doesn't tell you which you listen to most, just which is most popular. I think Kendrick and Dua are the ones I've spent the most time with.

  67. Did your parents support you going vegetarian?

    in response to Would you say you eat healthier as a vegan, compared to before you were a vegan?

    yeah, my sister was already vegetarian. then my dad went for health reasons and my mom said "well I'm not just gonna cook meat for myself" so the whole family was veg for a while. parents still ate fish, dad eventually started eating meat again, I'm the only one who went vegan.

  68. Israel just offered a ceasefire and hostage proposal. What was that you said about Israel rejecting every offer Hamas has given them? Also, why would a country trying to commit genocide offer their victims peace? They’re even offering to reconstruct civilian areas.

    liar

    https://bbc.com/news/articles/c888p5p2zvxo

    this is the twelfth ceasefire agreement they've rejected

  71. Have you beat Return To Bird World?

    stuck on the last boss

  72. Do you want to learn another language? If so, which one would be most useful?

    in response to Speak any languages?

    I want to learn ASL

  73. What is the most mainstream music act you listen to?

    according to my Spotify iceberg: Dua Lipa, Kendrick Lamar, Beyoncé, and Metallica

  74. What was fascism supposed to do in the first place? Was it supposed to improve society somehow?

    it was supposed to give power to fascists

  75. Would you say you eat healthier as a vegan, compared to before you were a vegan?

    I mean... I went vegetarian at 13 and was only just learning to cook properly when I went vegan at 20. so, like... whatever eating habits I have established myself instead of being decided by a parent or restaurant has been in the context of already being vegan. I would say the options for vegans have gotten better in that time, so I have a wider range of ways to feed myself, both healthily and otherwise. saying "I eat healthier as an adult" doesn't have much to do with veganism, it's more than I buy better produce than the canned shit my mom cooked, y'know? but I have a lot more options for desserts these days as well. so... meh?

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Ian replied: