I find the civil war era of technology interesting. I think a Total War game set there would be awesome. Doubt we’ll ever see it though. Either the game would ignore the problematic aspects of the south and get criticized or if would focus too much on it and the tone would be weird. The closest we have is Fall of the Samurai I think. Obviously the geographic area is different but it’s close to the time period.
It’s interesting because it’s sort of the end of traditional line wars. WW1 sort of had them but they were trenches instead.
While it ignores the 4X layer of Total War, I really enjoy the old Generals games. Going through the campaign does give a real feeling of progression as units attain veteran status and become mainstays, and your armament choices open up. The games always stay brutal, and despite the bright graphics and cheery music, the casualty counts are unavoidable.
Reading the text in some of the other pics, it feels like some curator was fighting the good fight and trying to undo some lost cause nonsense without pissing off the Daughters of the Confederacy too much.
It’s a private museum, so I wasn’t sure what to expect when it came to all that, but I didn’t get much of a feel there was any lost causery. All the exhibits seemed to present their information straight forwardly.
I worked for one of the major dating sites about a decade ago. Let me assure you, that people act like debased hyperhormonal chimps in heat when they think nobody is watching. Oh, and by the way - someone is ALWAYS watching.
If you’re a male who has some combination of a steady job, are remotely reliable, not drug or booze addled, have most of your teeth and hair and can tell a joke and hold a conversation - you’re golden. It is UTTERLY unfair to ladies, but just being able to hold that low bar will get you much farther than you might think.
It’s a strange dilemma - for a dating site to suceed, you have to protect the women. From the guys’ perspective, it’s shouting into the void, on the off chance you might EVER stand out enough to get a reply a week. From a woman’s perspective, it’s like the ozone layer protecting a constant bombardment of radiation and lethal rocks from space. A cornucopia of typically BAD CHOICES that manage to slip through the various cracks that the sites/apps put up to protect them.
But - the women ARE the site. If you have the WOMEN, then the men would follow you buck naked through the flaming tar pits of hell to get to them. But - the average male is a monosyllabic goblin with skeletons in his closet and bad intentions much more often than you’d think. It’s why Bumble tried female-only communication initiation. The women on dating sites have an invisible shield tbey don’t even realize exists around them to prevent bots, unsolicited dick pics, one word messages, repeat-offense harassers, and wide-net-casting quagmires who have more deeply held mysoginstic beliefs than they do good pick up lines.
When Musk says free speech is the bedrock of democracy he means wealthy people have the right to speak and those who can’t out spend them should shut the hell up.
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