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Canceling people who pretend to be nice but have racist tweets from 2007 is all very fine, we have fun with that in our culture. However, the real action is in finding people who call Zoomer culture cringe, and then digging up their old forum posts where they called a lolcat "epic winrar for great justice"

It's genuinely disturbing that modern discourse has been changed because moot thought it was funny to randomly add word filters to 4chan.

If the current iteration of Mario or Mario Kart were released today without the nostalgiabait and brand recognition, they'd be the laughing stock of the industry.

This was very convenient, thanks. Now I know I can safely ignore every opinion you have on every matter.

I admire Rome in the sense of holding it in wonder and esteem, but I don't think it was good, and if you'll indulge me I'd like to explain more.

tl;dr

I'd say I admire Rome for having such a sophisticated apparatus of state that was, at the time, found in only a couple other places in the world; and for having a really fascinating culture and absurdly robust cultural identity. It's almost unique in that period for having its cultural identity repeatedly survive truly horrific amounts of senseless bloodshed and turmoil (though I'd personally argue Rome's real fall began at the end of the Republic). The First Punic War, for example, saw Rome throwing away its entire treasury and 17% of its adult male population in an effort to crush Carthage, and the state didn't collapse. Romans waged endless civil wars and insurrections, and yet Rome remained Rome through centuries of that.

However, as fascinating as that is, I don't understand the mind of any person who can come away from Roman history without being appalled by it. Rome was dissolute, degenerate, and disgusting. Everything it accomplished actually fell far short of what could have been, because Rome was repeatedly mired in prioritizing shameless greed and sadistic cruelty above effective governance—like when the reformer Pertinax was executed by his own men, who then sold the title of Imperator at auction. But even though this obliterated any remaining illusions among the populace about the due processes of the Roman state, Rome still held together for centuries, and its dissolution was stubborn and slow. I think if you were to sum up everything about Rome in one word, it'd have to be Proud. I guess there's just something darkly admirable about that.

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Future generations will look at people who think there will be sapient general AI the same as how we today view people who thought there would be a microfiche machine in every home by now.

That's in interesting point of view, but I was just making a joke about goats.

Biting the hand that feeds has always been his style.

I think that kind of approach is pretty me-e-e-e-e-e-eh

Pot, meet kettle.

It's top notch. Those who just want to be smol beans chilling with their chonkerinos and insist their hecking nostalgiarinos be pure as m'lady herself can go tip their fedoras on over to a private server. Make sure not to come back.

If you thought Summoning 2 or The Other One were going to be better skills, you do not know ball. It is a bona-fide Old-School skill, and the only thing incongruous about it is that it's fun.

This is a slow and boring game and that's part of the appeal. If you think the core gameplay loop of Sailing is boring, try doing some Fletching or Smithing without any other stimulation but the game music. If you think it's too much like a minigame, go do some Farming, the literal Herblore minigame that was made solely to be a dailyscape chore that would increase login counts. It fits Old School better than some aspects of Old School do.

tl;dr fits OSRS like a glove, landlubbers maldin

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