Suffering

Missed opportunity to have one guy yelling ":!q"
- I think you want :q!, otherwise you’re just trying to execute the q command in the shell. No wonder you’re stuck.
- picard 🤝 vim users
This comic gets the collective despair across so well.
We will never forget the secret ending of Sword Art Online where Kirito finally exits the game, only to find there’s another options menu in the real world.

/s (but somehow I wouldn’t be surprised if they actually did that)
- You might like Alicization

WHERES THE FUCKING BUTTON

Have you checked your midsection?
- Just tried, only pissed myself.
- I've put so much stuff up there.
It is in your brain, is called "dissociation".
LEARN WHERE IS HIS BUTTON
- Sorry pal, I don't speak Russian

Oh boy, how great would that be

Eh, with my luck it would be the glitchy alpha version of utopia where it crashed and I had to start back at the beginning the second I walked into the door of the Federal Cupcake Bakery and Fuckatorium.
- Just keep trying to enter the door in slightly different ways until it lets you in.

The scariest part is that real world is, in fact, a hardcore free-for-all PvP realm.

I'm not talking competition or something. A random person can absolutely come to you at any time, stab or shoot you and you'll be dead. Forever. No respawns.

It's only because people don't really like being murdered that led them to make and enforce rules on what violence is legitimate that curbed the violence. But even still, anytime, anywhere, by anyone, you can absolutely be killed. And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work, we're super screwed.

It's not the police that keep us from killing each other, or even laws that do so. Check out law and authority sometime if you're able. It's very short and worth a read. We don't kill each other because we don't enjoy being killed or killing. We're social creatures, and don't want to be shunned. Crimes of passion don't really change based on laws, but the way we organize society may actually be increasing the number of murders, because some people are desperate enough to kill for food or shelter
- I read half of it. It seems to overidealize the pre-law era to a large degree. Before law we had mass slavery, constant raiding of nearby tribes and nothing to prevent anybody from taking everything from a person. There is definitely a case where laws can become draconian and force people to break them but I'd argue that in most countries law prevent more unwanted behavior than cause it.
  
  This especially doesn't apply in modern times since you just need one person to create a private mercenary group to essentially create a mini kingdom within a loosely organised society. That person will very quickly be able to form a successful dictatorship by raiding, enslaving and demanding tribute from nearby settlements.
  
  Even a laissez faire government with everything legal except violence will essentially make it legal to dump toxic waste on your front lawn everywhere without policing and laws. Toxic waste is currently being dumped with laws just under woefully loose law and I'd argue that we need more laws and regulation to prevent people from doing so.
  
  I feel like anarchist theory quickly forgets that we had anarchy before law and people quickly formed kingdoms around settlements to defend themselves and aggressive kingdoms where more successful than passive ones.
- Really, you can replace police and laws with any form of more or less organized sanctions against the perpetrators.
  
  Law and authority is a good read, but it shows exactly that - without centralized power, people do (and, according to Kropotkin, people should) put system of unwritten controls all by themselves. And that keeps us from sliding into the savage world where everyone preys on one another. But if something breaks in this chain, if we accept the violence against one another, we'll get extinct very rapidly.
- Will always upvote Kropotkin.
- What the hell are you talking about. I can assure you that perspective of jail is an excellent deterrent to crime
  
  Or you know you can go ahead and be sodomized and beaten for 5 years if that's your choice of things. For sure isn't mine tho. It's not even jail but the anal prolapse that is the true deterrent.
  
  You people are completely detached from reality in the most stupid of ways. my sincere advice is to get real unless you want to self nominate to the Darwin Award
It's only because people don't really like being murdered that...

No it's also, and more importantly, because people don't like murdering
- If not for people’s negative feelings toward being murdered, I would only take <1% of people enjoying murdering for it to be an extinction-level problem.
And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work, we’re super screwed.

Sad USA noises
- I quoted that exact part in a reply before I saw yours. What part of fantasy land is this person from?
No respawns.

I mean, maybe we respawn on a different server.
- Yeah... as a different material. Some wood, stone, grass or a few water molecules dilluted in an ocean. With more luck maybe as a different lesser species.
You can get banned for team killing.
Already long broken for people of color
Not only can they PK, they can cripple you for life. You can be completely fucked way worse than 'just' dying.
- Yep!
And if one day something breaks in the chain that makes police work...

Are you a time traveler?
- Yes.

holy fuck this is dark

I dunno, seems uplifting to me, if it means we can switch.
- Tactical comment: reply here if you discover how to switch
- The way I see it: the last three panels didn't happen (in reality).

you know how people in Minecraft build all kinds of wonderful and amazing things such as machinery and art and games and all kinds of shit?
that's what life would be like if we didn't have to work to survive.

You have to work to survive in Minecraft, too. Which is to say, all those wonderful things are the product of human labor.

But in Minecraft, you get to enjoy the surplus of that labor. You don't have a handful of Whale players draining your reserves with extortionary rents.
- More importantly, in Minecraft crops grow in like 3 days, you never get sick and never age, and the global population is post-apocalyptic.
that's what life would be like if we didn't have to work to survive

Which mustn't be an issue. Most advanced nations produce a surplus of food for example. So much, that an insane amount of it is wasted and never consumed.

So in principle, sure. Some work is necessary to allow a certain quality of life for all and ensure survival. But if you think about our fucked up wealth distribution, it does not need to be so hard.
So basically heaven

So I guess 2b2t isn't the oldest anarchy server after all

Moral of the story: don't skip the tutorial.

Sorry, I grew up on 1980s video games. Only nerds and losers read the manual.
- Your loss. The manuals of yesteryear were amazing. Better than the game, generally.
- So did I and everybody read the manual, those who didn't just rage quit after five minutes because games were fucking impossible beyond the most basic racing or sports games.
- You didn't read them in the car on the way home?

Stop teasing us

it's hardcore you just need to get killed to go to the main menu

I'm going to go find a train tunnel to stand inside of.

And 2 months later he returned to PVP mode because he got bored.

🎶 wouldn't it be nice 🎶

Had to give it a shot at least

Now about that "Appearance" tab...

When do I get to customize penis size?

someone has never PUG vet-DLC.