human players who definitely never consult chess bots right

Not sure why this author is spreading “paid software is convenient and just works” rhetoric. Simply isn’t the case. You just get addicted to trying to solve your problems with money.

spendy culture in general is disconnected from reality

Yes that’s the specific reason they give. They’re fascists though, ultimately they just like finding excuses to throw away mail, so you don’t give them any.

propaganda like this is so fucking sad

colonizers don’t have anything to value in their culture and they don’t have a future so they want to rip on people who aren’t buying their garbage

This is what I was also going to advise! Pick a couple of styles to emulate for a purpose and use them. In my 20s I picked up block print so I could write to my buddies in the armed forces without the censors throwing my stuff away. It also comes in handy for whiteboarding at work. If you are into game design, maybe pick a style from one of the D&D dungeon illustrations and it might come in handy for your purposes?

why do lib magazines write about nation-states and regimes as though they are MCU characters who quip at each other

it kind of reminds me of the way american pastors will talk about their weird god like he’s a Black Adam starring The Rock, blasting through their enemies in their fantasy sermons

their podcast diet usually

keep a rag bag handy and just wipe up cooking grease with those, them throw them in a pile next to the wood stove

you end up needing the oily rags to wipe down the wood stove anyway or else it will rust

a liberal arts education isn’t applicable to being a detention center guard or retirement home laundry operator

college education isn’t for the kind of shithole the colonies have become

sure Fritz i think you can just chalk this up to moral and political differences

So you read the paragraph about how she was a high ranking imperial officer during the war on Iraq

why would a “brilliant” person be working as an imperial officer at an imperial finishing school

it’s just long knives, you don’t have to act like the imperials just now realizing they aren’t immune are cool

it’s just a crappy and lazy image regardless of origins, but the fact it is AI makes it crappier