u/Boniface222

Hear me out.

I've noticed a pattern when discussing with socialists.

They will present an idea like "We just need to have a dictatorship that will redistribute all the wealth!"
And the rebuttal will be like "But whenever this has been tried it ends very poorly."
And the socialist responds like "But we say it will be amazing!"

Does it matter what socialist say? Does it matter what anyone says? Why not prioritise facts in instead of sayings?

Why shouldn't we look at history to see how poorly the promises of socialists ended up?

Socialists love to live in capitalist countries. Drinking their soy lates and avocado toasts. Meanwhlie socialists don't want to live in socialist countries. How can we trust you? Seriously.

This is a bit of a tangent, but if I really believed in socialism I would go live in a socialist country.

I don't find it believable that socialists really believe what they say because they don't practice what they preach. So why should any of us care about what socialists say?

EDIT:
I should specify. I do think it's totally valid to care about what socialists do. Socialists cause a lot of problems. So I think it can be fruitful to engage with socialists on that end. But if socialists do X and say Y I care about X and not Y.

If you take the red pill 🔴, your priority is to have a society where you can provide for your family and your loved ones. And others can provide for their family and their loved ones.

If you take the blue pill 🔵, you don't have theory of mind. You don't understand that other people can have different values and perspectives. If someone disagrees with you, you assume they are manipulating you because there's no way they could be genuinely different. You are completely convinced that the world would be a better place if you ruled it with an iron fist. And you call it anarchy. You think it's totally cool if to silence and kill your enemies because obviously the world revolves around you. You were born with a chip on your shoulder because your father has more money than you and the fact that an adult having more money than a baby is normal flew way over your head. A little voice inside your head says maybe you shouldn't be such a selfish a-hole but you don't actually put in the work to be a good person. You just assume you being in charge will create a utopia so your way of being a good person is trying to grab as much unearned power as possible. You think the world owes you everything, yet you call children parasites. You call your boss greedy, while you see spending money on your own kids as a waste. You live to consume and don't understand the value of human life aside from funding your life style. You're an empty shell. Sometimes you wish people who are different than you would just die. As you're reading this, part of it is sinking in. A seed. A suggestion that maybe you are the a-hole and need to change. But the seed slides off your perfectly smooth brain and you immediately forget everything I said.

Which one do you pick?

When I was a kid, my mother would read me some comics with anthropomorphic animals going on small adventures. All light hearted stuff. The book was in french. I'm not 100% sure it was originally french. I wouldn't have known the difference at the time.

I don't remember what type of animals but I think it was mostly forest type creatures and mostly european setting. (no jungle or sci fi or anything like that) But I think there were no human characters.

I think the animals were kids and their parents would often give them big stacks of pancakes at the end of the adventure. I think pancakes with jam on top? I remember vividly plates with like 20 pancakes in a stack with jam or syrup on top as a recurring motif.

I remember one story about of one the characters building a wooden house.

The art style was simple and colorful. It felt more european than american.

I unfortunately don't remember much more than that.

Does this ring any bells at all? Any hints where I should look?

Never mind, I just found it. Searching crepe confiture BD. One image had a young bear holding a plate with 20 pancakes and a jar of jam on top. lol

It's Petzi!

I'm new to Quake 1. I just got it on GOG and loved it. Finished Quake 1 and the expansions on hard and nightmare.

I figured I'd try some map packs and stumbled upon Arcane Dimensions.

I'm not saying it's bad, but to me it doesn't scratch the Quake 1 itch.

From Quake 1 I like the "bite sized" maps where I can finish a map if I have just a bit of time before work, and the maps within an episode kind of build on a theme. And I feel like the focus is on sort of "puzzle" like gameplay with relatively open flowing yet tight maps.

I haven't tried all the AD maps but so far it seems like the main themes are huge lengthy unrelated maps where most of the appeal is the visuals and highly scripted encounters.

AD is definitely well made but to me it feels more like Elden Ring than Quake 1.

Any recommendations for map packs that have more of a Quake 1 design philosophy? Something with bite sized maps (50-80 enemies average?) focused on tight yet flowing gameplay, preferably with episodes.

I quite liked Scourge of Armagon. Hated Dimension of the Machine.

If you had to pick a favorite book (That's not in the Tanach) what would it be?