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Yup, this seems to be a very real game. Bum Simulator [Steam] is a game that's going to turn a few heads, with it [showing] off life as a homeless person. It could end up being a little controversial too, I'm sure a few people will have some interesting opinions on this one.
I'm not sure what to make of it, as it looks mildly amusing, but it makes me feel a little weird. Can't be much worse than the thousands of other violent games we have I suppose and highlights the issues some people have to go through. A modern-life survival sim? Could be interesting.
In a sane forum it should be entirely possible to have an interesting and rational discussion on the sociological statement and implications of this game. That just wouldn't be our style though, would it?
Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/bum-simulator-will-simulate-life-as-a-homeless-person.11751
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday May 14 2018, @08:32PM
Sometimes I think it's not a matter of intelligence so much as a matter of humility. It's probably some of both.
Your ideas are basically how I'd go about doing this. I'd actually be fine with the idea of religious types getting a monopoly on the word "marriage" so long as my girlfriend and I could get "civilly unionized" and have all the *secular* benefits of marriage, as visitation rights, taxation brackets, etc.
Thing is, for the real religions nuts, that is *not* on the table. They don't hold with the civil authority being free from the religious one; separation of church and state is blasphemous to them because, after all, it's all God's property, isn't it? They'll stop at nothing less than theocracy, and they don't care who or what has to be sacrificed for it, including the very nation itself ("either God rules this country or there isn't a country to rule"). We're seeing this now, even, with Pence as VP and Bolton and Pompeo in such positions of foreign-policy power. Aren't you following what's going on with the embassy in Jerusalem?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...