There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.
Pacing. One example:
In GTA Vice City, the first mission was “drive to that place”. The second mission was “beat up that fat guy”. The third mission was “smash those parked cars with a hammer”.
In GTA 5, the tutorial was a bank heist with explosives, automatic weapons, hostages, a shootout with cops, a car chase, and a betrayal by part of your gang. That’s enough story and action for the first 3 acts IMO.
I don’t know where you stand in life, but I do know what it means to be hungry and literally have no money to buy food.
I was unemployed without any visible path forward long enough to think it’d be permanent.
I cleaned dishes in a restaurant, worked as ranch hand for a bed in a tent and whatever meat I could hunt, cleared the trash out of houses whose owners had died, delivered packages and mail on my own bicycle for less than minimum wage, and literally wiped old people’s asses in a nursing home.
5 years ago, I was just a day away from becoming homeless.
1 year ago, I still couldn’t make ends meet, while living in a moldy apartment, with no car, and wearing thrifted clothes.
Believe me, I know what it means to be where I am now, and I’m paying it forward best I can.
It took me 15 years to position myself in my dream job: 35 hours a week, 42 days of paid vacation I have to take, unlimited sick days, flexible schedule, WFH possible, and a very relaxed work environment with no time stress, regular nerf gun battles and an office dog. Pay is good enough so I can save up about 1000€ per month. Employer is a family business I feel good about supporting with my work (liberal-leaning newspaper).
I’ll stay in that job for as long as I can.
It gives my day structure and lets me actually prioritize more important things in life. I have absolutely no ambition to climb a career ladder or change the world in my job.
1-3 bytes?
This is a widely recognized principle: kicking those above is OK, kicking those below isn’t. The US is the most powerful country in the world, its culture dominates the globe, and celebrates that fact. So they are OK to kick.
one third plus one half of one third is one half.
The '90s were wild.
Steal a bicycle.
Snort amphetamines.
Ride on the back of a train.
Unprotected one-night-stand.
Chase away a Grizzly and her cubs.
Climb onto a high-rise rooftop from the outside.
Break into a stadium to see Metallica live for free.
Break into an active US army base to play airsoft.
Break into Chelsea Stadium at night to steal a piece of the pitch.
Looking back, it’s a miracle I didn’t end up in prison, dead, or worse, expelled.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
A human.
A human who?
A humangous 8 storey tall crustacean from the protozoic era.