I recently ran into what I believe is a very messed up issue with the game.
I had been carrying around a lot of cash- too much cash. I was getting mugged for around 600k a pop. So obviously I needed a way to store my money.
I tied some up in the bank, some in the stock market and then decided I would try leasing a palace so I could have access to a vault.
On the rental market, when looking at palaces, it shows a vault as a featured amenity for the property. So I spend 4 million to lease the property, only to then find out I can't use the vault.
Why?
Why list it as a feature on the rental market if you can't access it... also why can't you buy items like safes for mansions to keep your money away from power abusing trolls who mug you because they know you have money. Not everyone can afford a palace!
I suggest creating a safe item, or make a smaller safe an add on for mansions. Or just allow people who lease a palace with a vault, access to the vault.
I'm pretty upset I wasted all of this money and the mods answers were just "Oh well"
The way in which the elite liberal and conservative power structures in this country sold-out the working class to Wall Street, China and nefarious multi-national corporations over the last 40 years should be described as nothing less than radical.
Demonstrably radical.
Abhorrent.
So much so that even "moderate" attempts to usurp that power and give it back to working people has brainwashed the majority of us to knee-jerk such attempts as "radical".
I don't get what's exactly radical about saying that people working 40+ hours a week shouldn't live in poverty or struggle to put food on the table.
I don't get what's exactly radical about saying that people shouldn't have to put off going to the doctor because they can't afford it.
I have been at the same manufacturing job for nearly a third of my life. Granted, I'm just a "radical", "lazy", millennial. But you know what I consider radical? The fact that every year the cost of my health insurance premiums goes up, and the coverage goes down. I need an MRI on a shoulder I injured over two years ago, that I can't even sleep on anymore, and the co-pay is 1,500 dollars. It's pretty radical that with a middle-class income today I can't even afford to get the treatment I need.
I think it's radical that we receive threats, almost yearly, that our company is going to pack up and move to Mexico.
I think it's radical that I pay income taxes, sales taxes and now "service taxes" on getting auto repairs done to my vehicle and now in Kentucky being threatened to start paying sales taxes on groceries while the very richest just got another tax break while they threatens workers to move jobs to impoverished countries because their profit margins just aren't enough.
If me supporting the one guy who actually seems poised to threaten those bloodsuckers in Washington, the one guy who scares the sh!t out of them because he will fundamentally restructure at least one of the parties that totally sold-out working people like me and my family makes me "radical", then so be it...
As a Kentuckian who voted yesterday, you'll have to understand the dynamic in our state it's, well, it's different.
We're a deeply conservative state, we haven't voted for a Democrat for President since Bill Clinton who was, no matter how you look at it, a deeply conservative Democrat. Yet, with that said, Matt Bevin was one of only two Republican Governors elected in 2015 in the last 50 years.
Even with our conservative tendencies, we have these "Kentucky Values" which are very pro-union, pro-state labor. The TVA and the New Deal didn't just "save" Kentucky in the 30s, they literally made the state what it is today.
In 2015, only 29% of the electorate showed up, and Bevin won by 9 points. The first few things he did? He went after unions, he went after teachers and he went after state employees. While also cutting Medicaid which provides health insurance to over half of the state.
Every other down the ballot race yesterday, Republicans won in landslides. Secretary of State, a very unqualified AG, hell, even me being a "lefty" I voted for the Republican Agricultural Commissioner because he's actually a good man who is not an ideologue.
The bigger picture here is that this wasn't a referendum on Trump in Kentucky. He'll likely win big here in 2020 again, this was a referendum on Bevin, and not even Donald Trump's presence on Monday could save that idiot. Bevin let his ideology get in the way of what we Kentuckians value the most, and that mostly being us providing for our families with good-paying jobs.
We're rid of an idiot, lunatic governor. I'm glad he's gone.
It's getting beyond time now, that the centuries worth of false dichotomies on race that has led to irrational fear and hatred are coming to ahead.
The issue is easy to detect. We as a nation have never dealt with our crimes against humanity, especially on the subject of slavery. The South was not punished, and following the abolition, we dealt with another century worth of Jim Crowe laws.
Today, Americans hate not only each other but ourselves as well because, in a sense, the America we are today was founded when Robert E. Lee surrendered toGrant on April 9th, 1865- and was molded out of the unfulfilled promises of Lincoln's ashes.
In Germany, reparations were paid to the victims of the Holocaust, and in a very overt and genuine way. The imageries of hatred, such as swastikas are rightfully banned because they understand that hateful words, actions, and imagery are not mutually exclusive when dealing with the spread of bigotry.
The Elders of Zion, a work of fiction and hoax was written and distributed throughout Western Europe and was a direct spark in the rise of the antisemitism that led to the holocaust. Hitler, in Mein Kampf, cited the Elders of Zion as fact, and that a German journalist who debunked the book was"fake news". Sound familiar? The book eventually became doctrine and was taught in public schools.
The Germans were able to learn from their mistakes because they took responsibility for their actions and were able to heal. Where here in America, we've never even begun the process- and so- like an old weed rooting deeper and deeper into our garden that could have easily been pulled, it is becoming harder and harder to deal with. Rather than accept the consequences, and dealing with the racism, we've allowed it to spread, eventually killing off any beautiful flower that we may plant.
I say all of this to any of you, right, left or indifferent, that if you feel even in the slightest way, a moral objection to what you're seeing, and what you're feeling about what's happening, please, don't ignore it. It is that everso innate quality of anarchism in your human spirit questioning the violence that is unique to hierarchical power.
White nationalism isn't coming.
It's been here and is now being dog whistled out of the stupidity of moral restitution uncharged and into the open screaming out:
"It's not our fault!"
It's mounting the spines of the Holy Bible and charging away from reality to combat the fear of the foreign.
The obvious hypocrisy that leaves one weeping at the forthcoming bloodshed is ever-present; that we white Americans are ourselves foreign. But the not so obvious, and the perhaps more important realization that we must undertake, is that humanity itself is foreign in the endless borders of the great universe.
I charge again to you, who feel the unease and discomfort- be blessed! There are many among us who are not going to feel it and will be aligning themselves with those who seek to oppress the freedom of humanity. Arm yourselves. Be vigilant. Speak truth to power. Protect your families and your communities.
CNN/Obamaworld are dropping shit bricks because Sanders is surging, and are now willing to sacrifice their Warren Lamb in the hope that her and Bernie fighting will tear down his support structure.
What they're still not understanding is that his support isn't going anywhere, and furthermore, if he doesn't get the nomination, a large chunk of those folks are going back to Trump or not voting at all.
Sanders leads individual donations from the lauded Obama/Trump voters in counties in OH,PA,MI and WI.
If Democrats were really concerned about beating Trump, they'd throw their weight behind Sanders. But at the end of the day, they're more scared of Bernie than they'll ever be of Trump. At the end of the day, they're just like Trump only with pseudo-woke virtue signaling BS.
Ah, never thought I'd hear you speak in such generalizations.
Respectfully, sir..
Rendering up China in such a way that is totally and incoherently missing the mark of the contextual distinctions of 2020 United States of America and it's unique nearly 250 year history, versus 1949 China and the shit storm of imperialism and famine-riddled history unique to that region that led to that moment.
I hate to say it MGS, it's a bad, almost knee-jerky take. Far beneath your comme d'habitude.
To recognize China today as anything other than a hyper-state capitalist society with a puppet communist party is glossing facts. If there were say and uprising in China today to dismantle the oppressive hierarchies, you couldn't claim it was in a conservative, or pro-capitalist vein. Revolutions never are... but the silly dichotomies are what we're getting hung up on, aren't we?
There isn't an iota, or shred of contextual symmetry between this moment and then, this meaning of that word of then and now. That type of straw-manning adds no value to the discussion. It's white noise.
Let's go with some actual, current context though.
Millennials (I'm guessing these are the young people you claim think everything should be "free") in the United States make up the greatest percentage of the work force. This is a simple fact. This is the most productive work force in American history. That's another fact... and they are the most underpaid, per productivity, per corporate profit, while living in the most inflated economy in history.
So...
What are the issues then? Do you think if young people could actually buy homes and start families that they would be nearly as disenchanted with "capitalism"? If this were so common-sense as you stated, then why are people so desperate for change? Again, maybe things aren't as black and white as the vapid arguments of the old. Who is offering anything fundamentally different to actually help people?
Sanders isn't going to kick this endorsement, and good for him.
Rogan viewers are our type of people.
His viewers are the REAL centrists in America, ones not affected by extreme knee jerking and heard Bernie's interview on Joe's podcast and thought: "Why does everyone in the media say this guy is crazy? What he's saying is common sense,"
Bread and butter, kitchen table economics. People are tired of the far right and SJW nonsense.
The way in which the elite liberal and conservative power structures in this country sold-out the working class to Wall Street, China and nefarious multi-national corporations over the last 40 years should be described as nothing less than radical.
Demonstrably radical.
Abhorrent.
So much so that even "moderate" attempts to usurp that power and give it back to working people has brainwashed the majority of us to knee-jerk such attempts as "radical".
I don't get what's exactly radical about saying that people working 40+ hours a week shouldn't live in poverty or struggle to put food on the table.
I don't get what's exactly radical about saying that people shouldn't have to put off going to the doctor because they can't afford it.
I have been at the same manufacturing job for nearly a third of my life. Granted, I'm just a "radical", "lazy", millennial. But you know what I consider radical? The fact that every year the cost of my health insurance premiums goes up, and the coverage goes down. I need an MRI on a shoulder I injured over two years ago, that I can't even sleep on anymore, and the co-pay is 1,500 dollars. It's pretty radical that with a middle-class income today I can't even afford to get the treatment I need.
I think it's radical that we receive threats, almost yearly, that our company is going to pack up and move to Mexico.
I think it's radical that I pay income taxes, sales taxes and now "service taxes" on getting auto repairs done to my vehicle and now in Kentucky being threatened to start paying sales taxes on groceries while the very richest just got another tax break while they threatens workers to move jobs to impoverished countries because their profit margins just aren't enough.
If me supporting the one guy who actually seems poised to threaten those bloodsuckers in Washington, the one guy who scares the sh!t out of them because he will fundamentally restructure at least one of the parties that totally sold-out working people like me and my family makes me "radical", then so be it...
CNN/Obamaworld are dropping shit bricks because Sanders is surging, and are now willing to sacrifice their Warren Lamb in the hope that her and Bernie fighting will tear down his support structure.
What they're still not understanding is that his support isn't going anywhere, and furthermore, if he doesn't get the nomination, a large chunk of those folks are going back to Trump or not voting at all.
Sanders leads individual donations from the lauded Obama/Trump voters in counties in OH,PA,MI and WI.
If Democrats were really concerned about beating Trump, they'd throw their weight behind Sanders. But at the end of the day, they're more scared of Bernie than they'll ever be of Trump. At the end of the day, they're just like Trump only with pseudo-woke virtue signaling BS.
If I did just an off-the-cuff ranking it goes like this:
1. The Return of the Jedi 2. The Force Awakens 3. The Phantom Menace 4. The Rise of Skywalker 5. The Revenge of the Sith 6. Empire Strikes Back 7. A New Hope 8. The Last Jedi 9. Attack of the Clones
I'll tell you one thing that this movie really did... it made The Force Awakens even better, just in my opinion. It added some new context that really made the movie stand alone in its own neat kind of way.
It's hard for me to see Force Awakens being anything like A New Hope. The stories are so contextually different. Then again, as I admitted, I'm a serious nerd when it comes to this stuff.
EDIT:
I could probably switch the Empire and Revenge of the Sith. Those two really tie for me on 5th.
Before I get into this movie- here is a quick synopsis of who I am and how Star Wars has been a part of my life:
I'm 31, and I was 7 when I watched my first ever Star Wars movie; Return of the Jedi. I fell instantly in love with Star Wars. I soaked up everything I could. I played the SNES games. I got the VHS of all three original movies. I read comics, I read books... anything I could get my hands on.
I went to all of the cinematic re-releases of the original movies in the 90s, and was 11 when I went to the midnight premiere of Phantom Menace... The beat of my heart for Star Wars carried on from there.
Now maybe it was because I was just so young, and enjoyed the prequels so much myself, that I never realized how badly people hated those movies. I never realized that Jake Lloyd (young Anakin) was bullied into mental institutions, I never realized Ahmed Best (Jar Jar Binks) nearly committed suicide, I never realized Hayden Christensen (older Anakin) nearly swore off acting forever, or that George Lucas was sent death threats. I loved every single second of every single one of those movies.
It was these reasons that led George Lucas to sell Star Wars to Disney, and wouldn't you know it? The same people who burned Lucas to the stake for his prequel trilogy, were suddenly so pissed off that Disney had Star Wars, they were clamoring for Lucas not to sell. Suddenly they loved him again and wanted him to come back and make something they knew they would hate regardless of who made it.
Say what you will about the sequels: I enjoyed them. That moment in Force Awakens when Rey force-grabs Anakin's lightsaber away from Kylo Ren? I instantly got emotional. All of those feelings from my childhood after not having a Star Wars movie for over a decade came roaring back up into my throat. But yet, Sooo many of these same people who bullied child actors were super pissed off.
Regardless of what they tell you, these people were NEVER going to like any of the Disney movies, the same way they never liked the prequels. But even more,ridiculous elements of hatred were employed with these movies. Primarily sexism and racism. Suddenly, because there was a female lead to Star Wars, the movies were suddenly "feminist", "woke" and "multi-cultural". Me, being a Star Wars snob, and somewhat of a guru to the old cannon and lore, I can easily debunk every single bit that these people like to throw out.
But that's for another time.
The Rise of Skywalker, the end of the Skywalker Saga: Poorly reviewed on Rotton Tomatoes currently sits at a 55% for critics, and 86% for fans
Critics claim the film has too much fan-service. I'm not entirely sure what that means. The movie is a two-and-a-half-hour long roller coaster ride that left my heart pounding, my eyes soggy and my feelings at ease with a fitting ending to the series that shaped my childhood.
Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver are absolute studs in this movie. They honorably carried the saga that started a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away to a place that I believe, will eventually be cemented by time as one of the best Star Wars movies ever.
I watched David quite a bit around a year ago, but he just got so whiney about youtube demonetizing him- it became insufferable. I'll still click him if he's in my feed.
The Hill TV (probably the most balanced left/right views that I've seen) The Michael Brooks Show (Hard economic left content) The Majority Report (Hard left, but mostly tune in for the sarcasm)
I'm biased. I buried my cousin, my best friend, pretty much my brother in 2007.
We initially were recruited by the Navy together in Highschool, we were both going until my father, a Vietnam veteran, pretty much told me "over his dead body" would he let his son fight for the U.S. Government.
Timmy went on, but instead with the Marines and came home in a coffin. I still get sick and lightheaded just typing about it...
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