This is kind of the plot of Armored Core if you also made it a cyberpunk corporate dystopia.

Europe and the Colonial Projects (dibs on the band name)

It’s almost time, we’re almost back to web-rings.

14/f/cali, obvs

Yeah, if you want to chat off-topic take it to AIM.

Old-school forum with under a hundred people and a couple mods that give a shit is peak but does have problems with stagnation and over-specialization. Casual chat rooms or a -chan style board are a good counterbalance and nobody should exist in only one social space. Reddit et al. is a weird in-between and Discord feels like worse IRC.

“Tummy hurts, gonna hard reset the situation and see if it helps.”

All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.

Settle down Mitch Hedberg.

Proudly “fluoride free” too, which makes me immediately doubt the veracity of their dental health claims.

Don’t give the military ideas like that.

We have a pretty good idea how things work during development, it’s tricking those cells into the same process as a fully-formed organism that’s hard. Isolating and distributing the hormones in the right way. I think you’re underselling the complexity and scale of biology. We can’t just put a tiny camera and chemo-sensor inside a neuron and see what’s going on in real time and synthesize up a hundred thousand copies.

Captain planet (he’s our hero) (gonna take pollution down to zero)!

We could really, really use an environmentalist power that isn’t beholden to any nation or company.

Rescue dogs and bomb dogs are cool, traffic stop K-9 units are an affront to civil rights.

This is the same reason police dogs shouldn’t be used.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen non-homogenized milk in a jug like that.

Milk is so easy to tell if it’s spoiled, no reason to throw it out without a sniff test.

Encumbrance makes a lot of sense in the context of old D&D, progression was tied to how much treasure you could get out of a dungeon. It also works well in survival-type games where resource management is a key mechanic. But like many facets of old D&D it is applied widely with no consideration.

It’s very important that we find a healer or we’re going to die! But also, you can only get one camp interaction per rest so take your time~

This doesn’t bother me at all. It’s kinda weird that games are often expected to give 100% of their content to average investment players. Leave some meat on the bone for the tryhards!