- ridiculously cheap alcohol. Getting absolutely plastered should cost something. It shouldn't be comparable to getting a very large McDonald's meal.
- anyone who talks about owning firearms in a non-chalant manner.
- 12-egg omlettes.
- commercials for hospitals
- USA! USA! USA!
- a political system with less than four parties.
- patriotism
- the phrase "The greatest country in the world" when not applied to Sweden.
- the above phrase spoken with dyed in the skin certainty.
- food portions that could feed a large village in Uganda. For a month.
- the term 'my country', especially when coupled with 'get out of'.
- flag colours displayed anywhere other than a goddamn flag. These include, but are not limited to, bandanas, shoes, entire body suits. Superheroes excluded.
- the pledge of allegiance. Sounds like something that members of a rather well-armed militia might have. I think it's the 'allegiance' bit. Makes one think of sides and armed conflict.
- Homeland Security. The entire border thing. I'm worried I'll say something completely wrong, give not quite the right answer, and be sucked into GitMo or somesuch. Of all the fears, this is the most real to me.
- how much coverage y'all give to lost blonde women from the mid-west.
- Wal-Mart
- the near gladiatoral fervour with which Monday Night Football is televised.
- 24-hour news which refuses to put quotes around 'news'.
Like a late 90's webring, replete with link back and hints at an actual relationship with other authors, this is a piece I'd like to say in.. rebuttal is too harsh a term, in reply, to my very long standing internet friend, zompist, where he posts his various gripes with that great sprawling hot mess, Cyberpunk 2077. Now I say hot mess because that's what the internet at large thinks of it, but me, playing on the worringly over-powered computers on GeForce Now, have experienced nearly no problems. Or at least not problems that bother me enough. Keep in mind I'm the Homer Simpson when it comes to critiquing alot of things. I just like, alot of things. Cheap date, as it were. It might be my hundreds of hours in Bethesda titles and regularly having to look up console commands to debug yet another janked out quest, but it takes a rather large bug to befuddle and begrudge me. Like if a bug repoed my car, maybe, or told me how much weight I had actually put on during ...
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Damn it.