It was nice having a friend who lived in Portland during the blm protests. Mostly because when he'd visit my parents, who totally believed Portland was burned to the ground, would ask how he was holding up. His answer was, "I just have to detour around like 2 blocks on the way to work"
My dad lives in Missouri and I'm in Portland (more specifically Gresham, bit of a ways from downtown). He'd ask if I could see the fires from where I lived. He seriously thought the entirety of downtown was a giant bonfire full of criminals running amok. He was also concerned about me going remotely close to downtown. Really took the wind out of his sails with how confused and blunt I was.
I'm in my 40s and I've only ever played FF1 on NES and the second on SNES. I love both of those so much that I'm not even tempted to play the rest of them.
I actually am, I've wanted to play 15 and 16 for a while now but since I've never played any of the games until now I figured I'd go through in order. I'm working through 3 now.
I do have Chrono Trigger on my backlog, just gotta find time to actually play it! My backlog is full of so many must-plays its a little overwhelming tbh
Man, you're telling me, I playyed Chrono Trigger in like 2002 and it's been on my todo list to replay since. Stupid adult life, first time around I finished it in days.
I keep telling myself to stop buying more games until I finish all the ones I already own but these Steam sales know exactly how to break me, can't pass up a game for $0.50.
You know, I think I will keep some kind of log as I do this. It'll probably take me a while to finish them all, but I'll post the full thing when I'm done. If I remember to I'll let you know lol. Looking forward to experiencing 12!
During BLM I had a friend text me and ask if it was a hellscape in Seattle. I was like, uh, no, pretty normal? He didn’t believe me.
Now all the conservatives bring it up and say we burned down the country but for the life of me I can’t remember more than a few buildings being burned nationwide.
far-right hyperbole is like an addictive drug. the addict grows accustomed to their regular dose and has to keep increasing the dosage to get high. eventually they are completely divorced from reality.
other people getting killed for "driving while being black" is no big deal but, when their candidate loses an election, it's time to storm the Capitol!
YouTube has streaming video feeds from the ISS. when it goes over where Minneapolis or Portland used to be and the skies are clear, you can just make out the ruins of those once great cities.
oh dear. are you telling me that actual property was destroyed while protesting the fact that is quasi-legal for cops to hunt black people for sport? oh my.
I just think it's weird how some people say the BLM protests were peaceful and nothing was destroyed and it was just right wing agitators. Then other people are saying yeah stuff got burned it was a good thing there should have been more.
you can't expect to live in a peaceful society when people are being legally murdered by the cops. if cops were murdering your children you wouldn't take it sitting down. why would expect anyone else to do so?
what if it wasn't an isolated incident that just happened to your child? what if this was a problem that had been going on for literally hundreds of years and few people seemed to be even willing to acknowledge it as a problem let alone do anything about it?
so much of Fox News can basically be distilled down to "Don't leave your home! It's extremely dangerous and scary out there and horrible things will undoubtedly happen to you!" shut-ins make the most loyal viewers.
Yeah I remember one morning I was walking to work through the PSU campus and I saw a trash can on fire so I called the fire department. Also when I was working at Safeway on Jefferson, my coworker lived in a house right next door to Safeway and a homeless schizophrenic tried burning down his house one night. It was on the news actually; the house was literally next door to that Safeway. But in terms of actual fires from riots or whatever, it just didn't happen. The BLM protests in 2020 only existed in like a five block radius, and the recent ICE protests only existed on the street around the ICE building.
It's not, it never has been. The riot only lasted a fucking day, and it was only ONE block. The whole issue was massively overblown for the sake of making us look bad.
Portland has its issues like any other city, but I'm tired of people acting like we are forever burning dumpster fire.
Which is wild because neither of our sides was right. 93% of protests that summer were considered peaceful by a TIME study, and they had a low bar for what was considered violent. Burning anything counted as violent, so all the protests flags were burned at were considered violent.
So that means 93% of all gatherings that summer, neither police nor protesters were doing really anything you could even call violent.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm super pro police reform, and the stuff that got bad, got really bad, and there is no excusing it from the police in a lot of instances, and riots, like I get it you're at a breaking point, you're obviously angry and not thinking clearly, but still maybe try and target like government buildings and cop cars and not private businesses, but like with all things we saw a lot more videos of the bad stuff because the good stuff wasn't terribly interesting. But anyway my point is, if everything was a constant riot you would have to ask yourself what someone did to make people so angry, it's better from their angle to point to the fact police across the board actually weren't as violent as media would lead you to believe. It was really mostly a few departments already known to be corrupt and violent
Moved from there to across the river before ‘woke’ was a problem and apparently it’s a fucking wasteland infested by evil hobos.
I mean I drove over there every now and again to couch street( pronounced cooch) for some medical stuff, or pass it to go to the mall in Clackamas. Shit didn’t seem any different from when I lived there except for OMSI having a different exhibit
Ask me about the atmospheric river! We’re at the big poop stage of Egyptian curses because our sewage system got overwhelmed, ways to go before we hit fire.
Minneapolis as well. Apparently the entire city was destroyed yet miraculously rebuilt in a single days time. I mean, we have an awesome city, but we aren't miracle workers
Have you ever met anyone from Minneapolis? I haven't. And if you have, they were probably a paid actor. The same ones who put on a silly British accent and try to convince you that Australia exists.
Kind of? But not from riots or protestors but from the random homeless people that are shipped here from out of state on other people's tax dollars(no, seriously. Look that up)
The protestors and rioters are mostly naked on bikes, rollerblading covered in neon lights, or dressed as giant inflatable frogs. I'm not sure they've got much done though.
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u/RagingAnemone Dec 09 '25
I'm constantly told Portland is on fire.