My crackpot theory is that this isn't Mega Man 12, it's the long-awaited bridge game between Classic and X. That's why the last monitor in the hallway of dates and numbers was all screwed up, why Dr. Light isn't shown, why he was sealed in an X-shaped vault. Mega and Proto are gonna awaken X.

Great business model though. Turn down the temperature, but in a way that weakens a major fossil fuel alternative, making us even more reliant on fossil fuels and therefore maintain a need for their "solution" to fossil fuels.

It's a trick. My body tells me to go to bed early and then wakes up 2 hours later and won't go back to bed until 3am. I must never listen to the siren call of the early bed time, no matter how tantalizing it sounds.

What exactly am I supposed to interpret from you harassing people? Love and joy? C'mon. At least be serious with me.

I've been exasperated with people ignoring current events for decades. When they finally do, I feel relief, thrilled even, but not contempt. If you feel contempt, then I don't believe you're genuine in wanting them to acknowledge current events, I think you just want to feel superior.

Me after laboring for years to get people to pay attention and they finally do:
"WOW. What the FUCK. You piece of SHIT, who do you think you are? You want a fuckin COOKIE? I was here first"

If you think the point of politics is to improve the world then you'll be relieved when other people finally wake up and see what you've always seen, but if you think it's just another form of self-expression then you'll be bitter because you're not as unique now that others have caught up.

When confronted, Shen will scamper away and leap through a single conspicuously placed leafy bush on the show floor, disappearing entirely from this plane of existence as if passing through a fey portal

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The reason is a reflexive repulsion many liberals have to the left. It stems from a desire to be the "sensible and moderate adult in the room", but only aesthetically. That's why they all use those snarky dismissive memes instead of arguments, they see themselves as adults talking to children.

Yes, that the problem with letting wealth be concentrated into the hands of too few people. Once that happens, they become the gatekeepers. I don't like the fact that unelected old men are the gatekeepers and I would prefer a system where that power was democratic, not autocratic or oligarchic.

Yes there is, you just said what it was a few posts back: wealth and power are consolidated into the hands of too few people. This is a zero sum game, we can't have infinite money and power, both of these things are relative in scale. So if one man has way too much, there's less for others.

This is readily solved by making the newspaper democratically run and worker owned. One person can no longer control the information because that person can be democratically removed if they abuse their position.

That's exactly what happens when you let the rich own newspapers though, that ability to control information will always be weaponized to manipulate people's opinions to suit their greedy ends.

People act like the consequences of male loneliness only affects those men. This is what turns them into the asocial little creatures that ruin everything for everyone around them. And regardless of whether they "deserve" help, if we want society to improve, we need to take this problem seriously.

Same for me, but also Mega Man 8 as well. My father rented both of these games for me because I loved the Ruby Spears Mega Man so much. I even love the terrible voice acting, I wouldn't change a thing about these games.