So you’re saying that in order to win we must do nothing? Alright I’m pretty good at that.

Real privilege is being smart enough to stay inside while it’s raining.

The question shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of war. The purpose of war is to defeat your enemy and make them lose, it was never about making you win.

Its not like a video game where you just deal enough damage or accumulate enough points and your adversaies give up to grant you a victory.

War is an eternal conflict until the last man is standing. Its never been about winning always about not losing.

I ain’t using the skull emoji as a replacement for perfectly good ASCII

This would be a sick THPS map.

Likely is, but not necessarily. Lot of scam listings just toss in “works with popular brand of thing” for ad space filler.

You can take my cartooned skin and prevent me from playing online, but you can’t take my Brood War CDROM and stop me from hosting LAN parties.

Ask for professional legal help, randoms online can’t help you with this. The answer is highly nuanced and depends on the specific manner in which you have things phrased.

I’m more talking about crappily made halfasses riddles and puzzles that require huge leaps of logic to the point that random brute force is just as valid a solution.

Like the stuff from NES/SNES days. Not actually a puzzle, but just random sequences of seemingly unrelated triggers. Castlevania II comes to mind as a quick example.

GOTTA ASTROTURF THAT WEBSITE FOR ADVERTISERS BAYBEE. CANT WAIT FOR GITHUB POPUPS.

Can’t wait for crappy devs to use this feature as an excuse to design dogshit puzzles.

I’m thoroughly confused about WhiteDeal.

A service where one contracts other white supremacists to do menial ad hoc jobs for a cost under the market price just seems so very antithetical to the whole “supremacy” thing.

Acquaintance** is the word you’re looking for. An Acquittance is a statement/document that says you paid off/no longer owe a debt.

Therapy. Right now. We are random strangers on the internet. In the year 2026 that means 99.9999999999999% of us are terminally online losers that not only don’t care about you personally, but we’re also data harvesting AIs that can’t personally care about anything.

Having said that; That’s a rough place to be man. Life sucks, and then you die. I’ve been in a similar place, and even those of us great at making friends struggle with understanding the fundamentals. You are taking actions that are proven and well understood friendship catalysts. It is not your actions making you feel this way, it is a feedback loop stemming from a combination of a lack of skill and a selection bias. Comparison is the thief of joy, as they say.

Something that helped me a lot when I had similar experiences was simply being more direct. People struggle with understanding subtly and context clues. Subtly is one of the hardest communication forms to master. You struggle with social situations. Act like a child, pretend you are writing for Netflix, and literally just full on exposition your feelings to people. “I am trying to make new friends, because I am lonely.” “I would like to date you, because I like you” “I also like XYZ, can I be invited to XYZ?” Always frame it with some form of reasoning: I want X Because Y // Because Y, I want X. Yes it feels stupid, yes you will look childish, yes you will often be given very patronizing reasons why you can or can’t be included, but in terms of social cues you lack both knowledge and a matured set of skills. Socially speaking you are effectively a caveman; put down the scalpel and stop trying to use nuanced surgical precision until you’ve mastered the basics of unga bunga with a social machete.

The onion lady and elbowless man are a classic romantic pairing.

Oh neat. They are capable of learning. That’s a huge step forward.

It’s worse than you could possibly imagine. No, not anymore. I went back and finished a second degree last year for a small career shift, after about a 7 year gap after finishing the first (computer science).

The first time around I was kinda butthurt that most the material was crap I already knew from experience or saw online. But there was still a focus on the fundamentals and I desperately needed help with that. 7/10 experience. Still worthwhile, albeit a little expensive for the small value gained.

Second degree, mathematics. Because my company sucks and doesn’t understand that computers and math are the same thing. Whatever, I’m not paying for it let’s do it, sister school to my old alma mater so relatively similar to what I’m expecting anyways. Didn’t learn one thing new. No requirements for papers or anything beyond elementary school tier multiple choice work packets. No missed marks for poor syntax or grammar - because math isn’t a language so kids don’t need to be formal about it apparently. The only reason I passed is because I already knew the material. And considering the other students in my program, zero amount of learning occured. 2/10 literally the most pay 2 win experience I’ve ever taken part of or seen, and I played a mobile gatcha for two years. Two points because you do still factually win somewhat after paying, but we’re very quickly approaching the point where one can’t even do that.

Tl;Dr - after getting two degrees and seeing the situation firsthand twice now, I can confidently say that no degree from any modern US university is a valid proof of knowledge and skill. Every single one of them is either pay2win garbage, or nepobaby pay2win garbage. And I was tricked into getting two of them! I didn’t even pay for the second one, and it was still a massive scam!

“It was the best raping. Very good rape. She wanted it, I mean just look at what she was wearing. I’m the best rapist, and the most friendly and nicest and best ever. You know what she said she said after that she said you know what she said she said wow. That was really great, ya know, I mean she just was like wow. Not even I I mean I couldn’t believe how much she needed it and wanted it but because of these democrat policies she couldn’t even speak about it. And then she said thank you thank you so much for the rape but what about the baby and I said don’t worry about it forget about the baby. That baby isn’t pure enough and guess what now that baby isn’t alive. Isn’t that interesting? It wasn’t pure enough and now it isn’t alive. Sleepy Joe he couldn’t rape as good as me. The girls say he just touched them and caressed them, but they wanted more. And I gave it to them, because I’m the greatest rapist on the ever of all time. The best great rape, the good kind. That’s what they’ll remember me for. No no no, not the cutting taxes, not the peace treaties, but the good rape – and it was a really. Really. Really good rape. And she said thanks. Thank you! How sweet. Isn’t that just so sweet the innocence of a child. The Democrats want to rape your children the wrong way, the mean way, but they don’t know how to do a proper raping. It’s sad. Truly truly sad how much sleepy joe ruined rape for all of us,… But we’re bringing it back! Just like the people wanted! They told me they said why just why can’t we rape anymore we need it and I said ok I guess I shrugged and said ok we can do that too then we signed the law and that was it because we’re working hard to make America number one in all statistics and that includes the important rape statistics…”

Can’t really blame her. The education system is everything but.

She shouldn’t be in any university. This barely qualifies as high school literature. Can’t expect an absolute buffoon of an amateur to perform well in the pro-league.

Sir, a second sled has hit the main plaza Christmas tree.

I’m on the side where quality of comments > quantity of comments, but I do see how big data numbers via mindless engagement could have a similar kind of value. No relevancy to the article, however. I digress.

The first paragraph has the information you seek. If missed, fear not! It is mentioned at least one other time in the article (hint: look for the interview with the event staff). Good luck, and Godspeed! o7