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Something I think about a lot is how absolutely ready late-90s America was to become Terrorism Power Freedom Flag Land. There's a West Wing where one of the characters lambasts stand-ins for the 1999 Seattle WTO protesters. He calls them dilettante hippies and then says "free trade stops wars." This is the event it was referencing, these are the cops and institutional politics it was celebrating.
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Wtf are you scared of Josh, having a plane crash into your 2 story out in the suburban sprawl of Nowhere, Indiana?
9/11
Everything you need to know about this country is that the same people screeching for war and about how awful and scary 9/11 was, were the same shits refusing to pay out money to help survivors of the attacks, and all the residents breathing in the awful air pollution that was there for months.
The same ones saying "Support our troops" cut funding to the VA because so many vets were coming home disabled, instead of outright killed, and they didn't want to pay for it.
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I remember my Civics teacher being worried about the creeping fascism he saw as ol' Rudy got revved up about being crowned mayor for life, and Bush started passing surveillance laws, and white people were beating Muslim folks in the street. We had soldiers stationed in the subway with assault rifles for a long time. To keep us "safe".
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When 9/11 happened, I was a senior in high school, I was a ferry ride away from lower Manhattan, could see smoke from the towers burning outside the window, and classmates were crying and freaking out that their parents were dead.
My biggest fear that day was that we were going to war, but fortunately everything turned out ok oh oops no, everything is even worse than I could ever imagined.
ABSOLUTELY FRIGGIN CURSED please do not read this oh god why is my brain like this
@Nine This seems to solve the "why does Sonic seem to have two pupils in one eyeball" problem, but actually raises more questions.
Is his face just all white except for the muzzle?
How do his pupils move?
[i]Are[/i] they pupils?
ABSOLUTELY FRIGGIN CURSED please do not read this oh god why is my brain like this
what if...
sonic isn't actually blue furred/quilled...
what if... that's actually like... some kind of skintight bodysuit, where only his eyes, tummy and chest, and mouth and nose area are visible...
....
and Sonic's wearing socks, gloves and shoes over the top of it...
Sega should just put those games all on the Nintendo Switch because they feel like Switch games that came out 2 decades too early.
The problem was, gamers in 1999 did not like color or having fun.
They wanted ugly block men shooting at one another and being angsty over ridiculous, sub-B movie plotlines. That's what a hit game was in 1999.
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.