I think it’s the innocent impotence. The crawlers all have agency. The former crawlers are stuck in bad contracts, but they’re contracts they signed. The system npcs think they have agency. But the monsters made from the people of the planets? They were just inside and are now experiencing disgusting body horror where they’re being forced to kill until they’re killed.

Hell, I’m still in book 3 and the whole thing is dark but approached with levity by the absurdity and the degree to which the system AI is keeping it showy.

It’s shit like that that’s among the reasons I’m grateful to be gay. I’m sorry for all the women who have to put up with that

Not doing anything drains you in the same way not lifting anything makes you feel weak all the time. Go slow, add to your capacity, and get rest when done. High stress nothing is the most exhausting thing

I don’t have a place to charge, but my wife and I are in agreement that our next car will be electric. I’m hoping that’s a few years off still so we can move somewhere with charging first. But yeah, it just doesn’t make sense to buy gas cars anymore

Please can you spare an ion?

Plenty of folks are actually blue collar but don’t need it. You see a lot of trucks in factory parking lots

Harder sell, treat criminals with humanity and work to rehabilitate them

It’s not my fault, my wife was seducing me by sitting there on the couch watching a movie with me. Stupid sexy wife…

Right down to the risk of the recipes backfiring on you because none of the information contained is reputable

It’s intended to. Epstien had some weird stuff going on relating to islam there.

Oh yeah I always forget about his islam kink

Some are human made, sure it’s just by dumping a corpse into a bog, but we have evidence of the Irish doing just that (though we don’t know if it was to preserve them)

There’s also bog mummies who stay preserved because they’re in an anaerobic environment

Yeah premarin is red and was what was used in the 90s

Yeah the point of them is that they’re ultimately grey. They’re blocked from doing the most good and to a reasonable degree from doing the most evil. But they’re self destructive no matter what and for every group of heroes you get from them, you get similar groups of villains. They’re knights in shining armor, some gallant and heroic and others self interested bullies, trying to keep everyone else from returning to an advanced society, but also trying to protect them from the evils of it.

The biggest thing is they can’t maintain any moral character from group to group or generation to generation. They’re too insulated, too ideologically bound (in a way completely separated from morality), too focused on their goals. They hate the Enclave, sure, but in part because both see themselves as what’s left of the government, they hate Caesar, but they also hate other grey factions like the NCR and the institute, and they can’t see the good of the railroad.

Yeah, he’s the hardest to pin down of the 20th century masters of sci fi. LeGuinn wears her heart on her sleeve and while she explores ideas, she has a consistent direction. Herbert demands critical thinking (if the entire book is Paul terrified of the evil of him leading the jihad, what does it mean when he leads the jihad at the end). Asimov is out there exploring ideas, but you can figure him out (it’s been a long time since I’ve read him). And Clarke is pretty consistent in his distrust of those who desire power.

Yeah, it hits hard when Lucy Paraons says it because she was widowed for her husband’s opposition to the dictatorship of capital. When I was hungry and sleeping in my car I needed secure housing where I could do my homework and consistent access to food, not a gun. And plenty of homeless people would just hurt themselves or each other if armed.

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the owners as they come out. Let us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of extermination.

• Lucy Parsons

People absolutely pull that shit with the brotherhood of steel

Yeah a lot of us noticed when we were in Afghanistan