Conservatives: I like [insert obnoxious conservative figurehead] because they tell it like it is, they mean what they say
Also conservatives, sometimes in the same breath: Fake! [obnoxious conservative figurehead] didn't mean that! Taken out of context! 'Tis but a jape!
Jesus fuck the reality distortion field is strong, it's like doublethink but without being a clever social trick to survive, it's just they're that stupid.
I'm beginning to think reality is not guided purely by random chance or by an all knowing creator, but by a handful of adversarial scriptwriters trying to make a black comedy.
Wait til SE5 goes on sale if you do decide to get it, I'm wagering they'll discount it somewhere around the release of SE6 in January. Probably for Christmas.
If not for the fact you said one's on an Xbox, for a co-op experience I'd recommend Helldivers 2. However, a similar game to HD2 is Deep Rock Galactic, and it's on Xbox as well as PC. Fantastic co-op shooter with some very funny humor, much like HD2 you can tell a lot of love went into the game; and much like HD2 the developers actually give a shit about it and their community. Since you said you don't have a load of screen time, you should know a full mission is usually about 20-30 minutes.
For a PVP experience, you said you have two brothers -- three is actually the perfect number if you wanted to get Sniper Elite 5 and play through the campaign with Axis Invasion enabled, you can invite one to play co-op and for the other, you can invite a specific invader. Two players would be playing as allied snipers infiltrating various locations in France and taking out Nazis, and the third would be an elite German sniper hunting them. It's supremely fun to hunt people (as well as be "hunted" -- though with two players you can really flip that on its head). And a mission in SE5, depending on how you play, can either take as short as 15 minutes or as long as 45 minutes, though probably on the longer end if you're doing invasion -- you do not play it like COD if you actually want to survive against a hunter.
Both of those have crossplay and should work on a Steam Deck, as well; although I've noticed Sniper Elite 5's anti-cheat, when run through Proton on Linux, doesn't like the game being installed on an external drive and won't let you play online if it's not running on the same drive the OS is installed on, and I imagine that'd probably extend to SD cards. So, if you go for SE5, make sure that brother installs it to the Deck's internal storage or they might run into trouble.
Oh no, that was the first term.
Him and his cronies have a plan now, and that plan is Project 2025. We're fucked. We're very fucked.
... in fact, I think in january I'll be signing off, I think it's best I disengage from the internet/socializing and just hide under a rock for the next 4 years, or until it's safe. Or until I get disappeared, whatever's first.
I don't have any really good friends and judging by the conversation I just had with my family they aren't taking this seriously enough to want to help me leave.
they're going to sit by and wait for it to be too late for me to get out.
I feel physically sick right now. I don't have the money to leave. I'm an openly gay man. We're headed for a christofascist dictatorship. I just wanted to stay alive long enough to bury my mother, that's all, and I probably won't get to, not in the new American Reich. I know Harris winning wouldn't fix every problem this country has but please fuck not like this
Compromise, then?
Perhaps every other night you can cook from scratch, and cook as she likes on other days. Or, you could try to replicate the flavors she's looking for in your cooking. Involve her, have her try tasting some sauce you're making or whathaveyou and then try to see if you can nudge the flavors in a direction she likes.
A shitpost I made years ago
I now can't watch this movie without being reminded of Dick in a Box, and if I can't, neither can any of you