Haven’t been the same since I finished the game a few years ago. Andrew Prahlow dominated my Spotify playlist for two years following and now I have an emotional aversion to pulling the game open, after having played through it (and the DLC) three or six times over the course of 90+ hours gameplay.

10/10 would recommend lol

I had some friends I convinced to play through it and they just didn’t get anything out of it. Couldn’t believe it tbh

Haha, could you speak a little louder? I guess because I don’t like the grocery store firing employees so that the CEO and shareholders can pocket the difference, I am but an old spent husk which should be shunned for speaking their mind. I should have just kept my mouth shut because, as a boomer being born between 1946 and 1964, I am old enough to where my feelings are irrelevant and I should be shamed simply for my age! Oh, and I can’t hear duh

What?

100%. Veggies and any fresh produce is a gamble. When I order cilantro, there is literally a 10 fold difference in size from order to order sometimes. The employees do not care or not know how to pick out a decent onion and you’d better forget about getting a reasonable avocado ever haha

Of course I’ll be alright. I order ahead all the time and get my groceries delivered, but that requires pre planning. Sometimes I just want to go to the grocery store and walk around and have 30 seconds of social interaction in the process because the cashiers enjoyed talking to someone pleasant for 30 seconds too. Self checkout is less convenient than ordering delivery groceries, so if a store wants to make me use self checkout, I guess I’ll just use their competitor and skip the issue entirely?

Its not about getting mad for the sake of hating change or having to do more work. Why don’t they offer me even just a one dollar discount for using a self checking? A fifty cents discount? Because it’s all about the CEO firing their employees and pocketing the extra cash, to no benefit on my behalf or anyone elses. I guess aside from people who don’t care to even question or think it through.

Silly take. The problem isn’t having to move my own items around across a scanner. The problem is me doing more, the store doing less, and the prices just keep going up anyways. You’d rather just silently get less?

Oh, and also the ridiculous cameras they stick right in your face pre-accusing me of stealing in the checkout. And having to juggle a whole cart of groceries while the machine asks me to move the item off and on the bagging area.

Maybe if they had implemented the system better I wouldn’t mind using it?

Living in the US. Before I buy anything, I do my best to check the manufacturer out to see that it comes from a blue state. Check on Goods Unite Us to find out if they donate more to Republicans or Democrats. I am postponing or self-performing tasks and work that would require a “trade”, since I’m guessing those people are more conservative anyways. Sorry to any reasonable peopIe I may be accidentally boycotting.

I know it’s not perfect, but its at least something.

I’m in the same boat. I’m into cars, and have a couple that I enjoy very thoroughly, but I’ve never been able to think of a name that sticks, even tho I’ve tried. I usually just refer to as “The Mazda” or whatever. Mayhe one day I’ll have a Jaguar, and will be able to refer to it as “The Jag” like Jeremy Clarkson haha

The worst part of getting “old” is that other people think you’re getting old. And the jokes about it, too. I’m generally physically healthy on account of gym and my bicycle, and I probably feel better now than when I was 25. Sorry I have wrinkles from laughing and smiling so much over the last few decades, society. Jeez

Are these the new American exports Trump has been pedaling his deals for?

I get it, you’re just trolling. There is no valid argument here; NASA is a government institution who’s intention is to serve the people through scientific advancement, not scrounge up a fucking profit. I literally just showed you that SpaceX is only more “efficient” by taking advantage of people, which is the complete opposite end of the spectrum from what government is supposed to do. They are not even competitors. They’re not even competing; SpaceX will never develop the technology that NASA did, that SpaceX relied on to be in business in the first place.

The original conversation wasn’t even about money, efficiency, or profit; it was about the ability to create and benefit society. Because SpaceX has a profit motive, it will never be able to create and innovate the same way NASA did; it’ll only ever be able to fulfill narrowly defined contacts. Because guess what? If it goes beyond that, it’ll basically be where NASA is and then you’ll be in here bitching about them too because they’re not “as efficient” as the people they’re paying to do a simple, narrowly defined task with overworked, inexperienced employees as they generate rampant environmental harm.

Reading directly from your source: one of NASA’s key drivers have been RELIABILITY, and a “non-industrial” culture. Of course both of these things drive cost up. “Industrial” cultures have eliminated creativity since Henry Ford introduced the assembly line at his plant–everyone has a single efficient responsibility and it makes everyone miserable as a result, leading to nobody giving a single damn at the end of the day.

In the same paragraph you linked: “The low Shuttle flight rate not only makes for inefficient use of personnel and facilities, it distorts the cost per flight calculations because of high fixed costs.” (Rutledge, 93-4063)” Meaning that if they had modified their program and product to launch more frequently like SpaceX does, then the costs would be much more favorable.

And also: "Another key factor in SpaceX’s low costs is its young, highly motivated workforce of top graduates willing to work significant unpaid overtime. " This is NOT a good thing–people shouldn’t have to slave away for their career. It’s also not sustainable, and it means that the work is being done by inexperienced individuals which leads to disasters like:

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/12/18/texas-space-x-lawsuit-tceq-pollution/, and

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/25/mexico-president-lawsuit-spacex-debris-rocket-explosions, and

https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-starship-super-heavy-launch-destroyed-launchpad-volcano-sized-explosion-2023-11

They keep giving contracts to SpaceX because that’s the way the budgets are mandated from congress. They have X amount of money to distribute. Everything goes to generally the lowest bidder, and because there are only a handful of options, they have to keep using one contractor to produce their parts because it’s even more expensive to keep switching.

So drop the attitude. Usually the worst bidder gets the job, and it ends up costing more money after everything is said and done.

The whole point is that SpaceX’s contributions have been minimal… and have still been paid for by tax dollars anyways with all the contracts they’re getting. Their big thing is supposed to be reusable rockets… guess what, NASA already pioneered the concept of reusable spacecraft with their space shuttle.

Yeah. These dumbasses forget that government funding is what originally set the stage and enabled any progress at all for private company-entrepreneurs who benefitted from all that publicly available knowledge, paid for by our tax dollars.

Innovation will slow to a trickle with all these government cuts because these companies literally can’t pay for anything not directly related to their bottom dollar, and none of them can see far enough past next quarter’s profits to invest in the future.

Could you elaborate on how SpaceX “ran circles around NASA”, seeing as how NASA basically pioneered every single piece of modern space technology, and all SpaceX is doing is fumbling to rearrange it like Legos that explode on the launch pad? Lol

Wouldn’t be surprised of we begin seeing these headlines from the US, thanks to the Trump administration

Dang, I was hoping there was a competitor. I’m boycotting Musk companies as best I can

They’re getting candy CRUSHED

Yeah, we (at least I) don’t prop up shitty people to save face, just because they’re on “my team” and I can’t admit I messed up–like basically every MAGA applogist.