As it seems to me, who hung around with a lot of drug users back in the day, as well as regular folks: most people who are interested in trying them can and will get their hands on it regardless of legality, sometimes easily. It’s about as low risk of a crime as there is. Those who aren’t interested, won’t, again regardless of legality. There will be edge cases where somebody will go “Ah what the hell, it’s legal now, why not” and toddle on over to their local dispensary for the first time but largely speaking anybody that wants to smoke weed or snort coke is probably already doing it.

Now what probably would change is the number of people on record using drugs, per capita, over the next few generations if it becomes normalized like alcohol has been. Which makes sense. But, counterpoint to that, in countries where they have legalized many drugs they still often have lower rates of severe addiction because they’ve generally also set up safety nets for those folks. Accessible medical care and available addiction treatment options will keep many drug users from hitting rock bottom, but we don’t really have that in the US so many users will often go unassisted in any way for ages and lose jobs and homes because of it, only getting “help” when it becomes forced upon them by the state (which is frequently not in any way helpful).

Anyway, I’m rambling, but tl;dr it’s definitely a multifaceted situation and blanket legalization probably isn’t a great move without accompanying medical and social support, which needs to happen anyway regardless of any moves for drug legalization. Gotta walk before we can run, unfortunately.

If anybody’s gonna know what will kill you…

Terry Pratchett’s Discworld approaches magic as a fundamental force akin to gravity or nuclear force. It even has a unit of measurement (the Thaum, further broken down into millithaums, etc)

There are a whole host of reasons you should read Discworld but this just adds another.

Extremely doubtful, I’ve seen what we’re used to paying for wages. Every company you’ve ever interacted with has a foreign team that they’re paying $2 a day for, whether that be for tech support, customer support, materials gathering/construction, or shipping.

I mean, ha ha funny joke, but realistically, yes. Someone with no money and no friends or family with money is a waste to advertise to. You fly under the radar by virtue of being a statistically bad investment. You’ll still get hit with all the same shotgun-style advertisement that the rest of us do, but you’re unlikely to find yourself being a priority for targeted advertisement. It’s a little bit of a silver lining to an unhappy situation.

You’re not allowed to keep Jackie hopped on stims in the Delamain until you reach Vic but two hours earlier you had a cutscene moment where you stim a hostage to wake her back up from basically death.

It’s fucking bullshit

Thanks

Yeah and besides, what the fuck are the cops going to do if they did respond to it? Swim out there and catch the boat? They’d have watched it hit the bridge just like everyone else.

Didn’t know Santa Claus was a politician

30% and DBZ is one of my favorite media franchises. This is damn tricky.

Once upon a time I would have agreed with you but nowadays I see a couple bullet holes in Nintendo’s feet as well. And Valve is a bit less quick on the draw with their lawyers it seems.

Fair enough! To each their own. Personally the 200 hours in between shots of dopamine put me off of that. I found myself being bored most of the time I was playing the game and supposed to be enjoying myself.

Though, that said, I found myself bored most of the time running GRifts too. Modern Diablo may just be poorly designed from the base up. The glory days of Blizzard are well behind us, unfortunately.

You make a great point about the state of post-expansion endgame. But loving the Auction House loot system is akin to banging your face on a brick wall because it feels good when you stop.

Yuzu wasn’t completely free; that’s sort of what got them into hot water in the first place and the reason why Nintendo hasn’t also sued SNES9X into the dirt. Yuzu had a patreon with certain releases gated behind it. That’s what got them in trouble.

Counterpoint : Kool-aid man doing Lil Jon’s YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH!

Yeah, if you fall and break a hip and need a wheelchair this guy is gonna gouge you for it

That’s Comrade Earnhardt!

Serious: Dale Earnhardt is/was a cultural hero for rural conservatives, as he was one of the greatest NASCAR drivers of all time, so it’s been fun for Lemmy meme artists to use his likeness for aggressively left-wing memes. It’s a little bit “Ha ha funny NASCAR man makes memes about communism” and a little bit “conservatives will believe anything delivered to them in meme form so let’s capitalize on that”.

Rising is very very different to any other MGS game. Fair warning. I recommend every MGS game wholeheartedly, but don’t play Rising and then pick up Snake Eater or MGSV expecting it to be more of the same.

Yeah… Have you actually looked at our gear list with a critical eye recently? Brother we’re getting arrested for everything there is.

Precisely

Edit: I have discovered that I can annoy my girlfriend by saying kombucha in the same intonation as Ryu says hadouken and it is very excellent