The sims don’t really build anything on their own. I play the Sims 2, because it’s got decades of mods available at this point. The newer games don’t really seem worth it - the Sims 4 is very much focused on parcelling our everything as DLC.

Basically, I have a bunch of STALKER and Fallout 3 assets ported into the game and use them to decorate my little post apocalyptic setting. I try to destroy/rebuild in a way that looks sorta organic - having them squat in abandoned bowling alleys and the like.

Imho the Sims 2 is worth getting into. We’ve reached the point in the nostalgia cycle where the ridiculous early 00’s clothing is endearing. It’s a really open ended story telling tool, and with modding you can do things like historical simulations or weird sim cults or prisons… but even just playing the vanilla game has a lot of charm of its own.

My favorite thing to do in the Sims is to use a bomb mod to bomb pre made neighborhoods, and institute a post apocalyptic “Handmaid’s Tale” setting where most of the women are put into re-education camps.

Not a splatter movie, but Stalker was a hell of a movie on shrooms. 11/10 experience

From Acrylic Painting for Dummies - Colette Pitcher

It’s primarily a Jewish and Muslim thing. Christianity doesn’t really require it.

He was also a eugenicist!

Covering the organs with a cage has been practiced with entire success. A remedy which is almost always successful in small boys is circumcision, especially when there is any degree of phimosis. The operation should be performed by a surgeon without administering an anaesthetic, as the brief pain attending the operation will have a salutary effect upon the mind, especially if it be connected with the idea of punishment, as it may well be in some cases. The soreness which continues for several weeks interrupts the practice, and if it had not previously become too firmly fixed, it may be forgotten and not resumed.

John Harvey Kellogg - Plain Facts for Old and Young

This is a website by a guy trying to sell poop transplants.

It appears that many of your comments are an attempt to advertise the poop transplants guy’s website.

Are you Micheal Harrop?

Tyler Childers gets it. You just gotta stay away from the shit that airs on the radio.

Putting it directly on the over rack at 350 usually works fine for me.

(Not owning a microwave teaches you patience…)

No slavery in England in the 19th century. You’d have to go to a colony or the US.

The documentary Marjoe is a really good exploration of this. Former child preacher who stopped believing, and invites a documentary crew as he does a tour.

It’s in the public domain - they forget to register it, so you should be able to find the full movie online.

Gynandromorph birds sometimes exist too.

SnapCircuits!

They have a bunch of different kits, there’s like a music one that’ll even let you make a circuit that plays music from a phone.

They are absolutely a WONDERFUL introduction to electricity for a kid.

Emmanuel Macron enters the chat

“Ledasha” is an urban legend. (with a nasty snack of racism)

Young ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see

Some say that’s statutory (But I say it’s mandatory)

Why do MAGAts love fucking kids so much?

So when the AI bubble burst, will there be coding jobs available to clean up the mess?

There’s an interpretation that she did it in purpose to get away from her controlling mother. Kinda like that version.

The Handmaid’s Tale (it’s kinda funny how both you and a commenter replying to you misspell the name in two different ways) is going for a “The Lady or the Tiger” ending. Do you believe that Nick is actually part of the Resistance, or is he part of the state secret police? The narrative tricked us a little with the “relationship” between Offred and the Commander - can we trust anyone at all?

The epilogue also gives the narrative some verisimilitude. It’s pretending to be a historical document - how would the world post-Gilead react to accounts of what happened to women during Gilead? How would you interact with the Diary of Anne Frank if you didn’t know that she was killed in the camps?

I fail to see how it’s similar to “The Mist” here.