Olden Era is kind of the best of these games right now. I'd rather they let that team keep working on it and add a faction or two tbh

"yes I could help you build a peaceful society where crime is unheard of and poverty is elimin-"

"No see we just want you to do it but keep poor people poor so they know their place"

"Uh I think I'm just gonna take over from here"

"Sure whatever"

And Agent Smith is just the old program that is still pissed off and knows that whatever fucked up system they made is still magnitudes better than whatever we'd have come up with. And they let us keep existing in the 90s. lol sounds like they basically gave us our version of heaven as best they could.

They fight Neo because they know that, if humans win and earn freedom, it's back to the same capitalist bullshit eventually and we destroy the planet for everyone.

Never invite the cops in for your own safety. That can go sideways and then you're arrested because some idiot thought a bag of cumin was heroin.

Might be better to make a police report at a station if it's an insurance thing

4 out of 5 times that probably ends up being fine. The thing is, it doesn't enough.

I know it's hard to turn off naivety and trust but you have to sometimes.

I always laugh at how little surveillance and security systems they have compared to us modern day too.

Like, there is zero fucking way the ship AI wouldn't know exactly where everyone is on the military ship at all times and recognize if anyone is doing something funny, or if there's someone extra on board, someone missing.

So many little star trek conundrums would've been solved in the first 5 minutes with the right security system that detected and isolated the threat before it had a chance to even do damage. It is well within their capabilities, it could summon force fields wherever the fuck it wants, fabricate the right material to cancel any issues. It could summon force fields around someone as soon as they pull out a phaser in an unexpected non hostile situation, ffs

It does ruin a lot of episodes and plots if you take these technologies to their logical end. It's a lot of work to write "hard" scifi and you kinda have to guess at how a lot of stuff will be used, think of the most common sense utilities it would be awesome for, and if you don't want that in your story... Fabricate a good reason ahead of time why it doesn't work that well. Oh no Zero Point Energy can't be manufactured at small scale so of course you only see it in large ships, small ships can't warp, faster than light comm isnt possible on a handheld device, this shield doesn't work for some rare energy weapons, etc

Oh you'll find out on their terms if they have one.

Sand sharks once prowled the Egyptian wastes

That's why you have to read it further than the headline. They would tell you if it's just correlation or if they proved causation.

In this case, they state down at the end that this does not prove causation and also that they received funding from glaxo smith kline

The authors reported receiving funding from GlaxoSmithKline, the manufacturer of Shingrix.

Someone dropped something from his prison pocket

It's not to censor the idea. It's that dupe detection bots use ocr text detection and fucking with letters can defeat it

Ain't gonna suck itself grin

Google homeless man abs

Constant walking, fasting, getting up with the sun and going to sleep at sunset... It might kill you but you'll be doing a routine whether you like it or not

You need to not be an anxiety ridden antisocial cave troll that leaves all your laundry on one chair in your bedroom too though.

And even those can get laid now and then if they pretend to be normal and have their shit together for a day or two around a stranger

Do you ever get "oh no I forgot I parked that car/motorcycle I own and used to drive over around here somewhere? Have to walk around the blocks and look for it" dreams

Set reasoning to extra high and boil the oceans for this one

I like talking to them when they're 5/5

I was just thinking that... Imagine someone straining too hard while drunk, having eaten German food rich with onions and sausage then drank a shitload of beer