i ran out of content right before the 1.0 announcement

did they unfuck the dire and unfun act 3/postgame content because this game was a delightful ride until the end of act 2 where resource gathering advances into deep tedium and the fights got worse

the entire late game needed at least one more fuckin’ pass and im skeptical they did it is all

This is good. This was deserved. Rest in shark piss

Fuck yeah lady

transforming oneself is difficult. The default mode we all have is what’s raised into us. Tradition inherited via parents, and schooling. It’s often trauma or something as un-anchoring as psychedelic experience that makes people crack and change themselves, and this process is so uneven and often incomplete because change is random and unsupported except by the whims of the altered ego.

There are very few unchallenging ways to honestly reject framing you’ve been trained to see as your only window to reality, and because of this it’s easy for westerners to find themselves unable to fully break from the frames that define their understanding of their relationship to their society, government, the world, whatever.

I remember the day after I tripped for the first time because it really was that meme of like “wow so all of this is a fucking lie”. I had to go to school and I was laughing at the things a teacher said [they were dealing with political material] because it was just fucking wrong. Presumptions about the way things are that the average liberal or conservative takes as sacrosanct, just all fucking nonsense. But I lacked the context and knowlege to develop this further at the time. A break was made, and it would take almost two decades to widen things further properly. An early lesson was that it didn’t feel safe to fully leave the frame we’re trained to accept as authoritative reality, because those frames determine social pecking order, they determine the jobs you can get. If you can’t at least fake the faith in the dominant frames society lets you have, you’ll be quickly ousted for being too weird. It’s not even conscious for most folks, these mechanisms operate subconsciously to exclude difference of thinking and approach.

Even a good education is unlikely to, by itself, let you break free. Especially if you’re educated in a prestige or elite context, you’re being shaped to be the next generation of demonic overlord - the education you get is structured so that you’re invested in the existing power structure - these places strictly do NOT educate in a manner that lets you go your own way intellectually.

So everyone from Qualified Experts to the average person on the street is operating on a framework that directly serves the interest of the country and the ruling elite.

I think people get fucked up because they take this to be conspiratorial, when social engineering is a field that’s been in the process of being born for centuries now, a lot of the key players don’t even know what they’re doing, and that’s by design. The structure is designed to maintain and propagate itself.

It’s easy to break from it when you’re the frontier of empire- you live with the politics of empire as a victim, as a deeply exploited resource.

People in the core are just as exploited, on the whole, but as beneficiaries with narrow education and limited interest and ability to educate themselves (on the whole) - they will not understand just what’s happening.

I’m 34, and I have a love of learning. I literally get dopamine from study and acquiring new knowledge. How many freaks like me are there, really? Most people have trauma around education, or fully accepted it as a means to an end: there is rarely ever any love for the process of discovery and the requisite change that comes with it. Most people my age are figuring out how to live with themselves as they are, they’re not trying to shake shit loose. My experience as a trans woman probably has more to do with my plasticity compared to my peers, but at no point are any of the individual circumstances that made me able to, finally, accept a more fundamental reality about my relationship to the world, to empire; things that are automatically salvific.

I’m a freakshow. We are freakshow. This is difficult work and most people who have the tools to wake up, never will, because the conditioning is strong, and breaking it requires the awareness and will to do so that the average ego just won’t abide.

nothing more alarming than high profile people trying to normalize eating substandard but still mass produced food because it means they think this is an angle that will benefit them downstream. Yes, even someone like this idiot demon. She isn’t the first person to start saying weird shit about food and now i’m wondering when they’re gonna start starving us lol

it’s gotta be the right kind of dominant, i kinda don’t want latex and protocol, but i really felt this

it couldn’t be that the incidence of folks whose life is improved by transition is greater than the special kinds of privileged and extremely long-suffering women who were able to jump through the hoops of the old gatekept process that inevitably funnelled you to GRS with no regard for the individual’s needs…

No, the proliferation of my very special secret identity that i’m revealing now is bad, actually.

A better person would use their position to make life better, not kick down.

what a piece of shit

Trying to armchair theorycraft why a story about cops being fucking pigs to a minor as suboptimal “agitprop” codes to me as someone who sees themselves as a planner and manipulator, or is trying to portray themselves as ‘pragmatic’ with regards to signal boosting and spreading stories that serve a narrative, and tells me they have some kind of experience, real or imagined, that leads them to naturally think like this. Maybe they’re doing a “how do you do, fellow leftists” thing, and their specific brand of neurodivergence and employment is making them give the game away, or maybe it’s just somebody that has been told they’re very smart their whole life and has never had that challenged, and never been forced to confront themselves or ever do meaningful self crit - the positioning of making this about its value as propaganda in order to play it down comes off as kinda 5D chess-y to me in a way that’s either accidentally sincere or delusional.

The inability to present any kind of thoughtfulness or empathy, the inability to read the room, to not understand why the story was posted and shared, to resist constructive criticism outright and get lost in dumb fights just comes off like exactly the kind of guy that will die on this hill because they’re a fool, or because they’re trying to stir shit up. Either way he sucks and needs to go to therapy or work on himself.

All of you have been immensely helpful. I’ve saved or acted on a good chunk of the advice here, so thank you all!!!

!I wish to encourage everyone to be extremely complacent, happy, and not to seek any sort of punitive vengeance upon the people suing the internet archive. !I want to encourage love, forgiveness, and hope, but not excessive action, lest tomorrow be darkened with the sin of your actions.

kamala wins, but fash literally does a real coup in the first year of kamala’s presidency

lose lose

the software is niche hobby stuff, i guarantee there’s no substitute on linux, it’s straight up esoteric. getting it to run via whatever process is the practical solution, if there is one.

It really seems like the living memory is the only reall window in which one can hope for a lesson humanity learns to persist. It’s not lost on me the very last few people who remember WW2 are approaching zero by the day, and the closer to 0 living that number gets, the more violently capable fascism seems to be at re-asserting itself.

Shame the cold war is so much further than that from exiting living memory - every generation that grew up under duck and cover drills can’t be redeemed.

i genuinely gave myself anxiety over the thought of leaving it up, but i appreciate the sentiment

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It’s about what annoys you. I’m from Texas, and the cali transplants there are especially awful. Everyone choosing to move to Texas from California is objectively in the running for the worst person ever award and they somehow got in n out imported even though in the great hierarchy of burgerland, in n out is positively dogshit. nobody needed lines shutting down dallas area traffic for the most mid burger you’ll ever overpay for.

But Texas has native brands of insufferable, including really insufferable prosleytizing christians, busybodies shoving their nose in your business, and an appreciably oversized contingent of outright fascists

I moved to seattle in 2018 as a uhaul lesbian, and the big culture shock is the profound amount of passive aggression and conflict avoidance. The utter indifference and lack of care for anything not in the immediate concern the average washingtonian is alarming sometimes. I prefer it to Texas busybodies though. The quickest way to get people to give a shit is seeing somebody fuck with you when you’re minding yoru own business.

The kind of place where you can eat pavement riding your bike through an industrial park to get to work and nobody even stops to check on you, but if somebody is being a bigot at you on the bus, the person is likely to get jumped. It’s real weird, and i’d change it if i could

washington drivers suck shit and dont know what traffic laws are, but all the cali plates i see are like that plus they’re trying to actively get you killed

There are regional ways of being annoying that Californians have, and then they also vigorously export their shit too, and that’s why i think they probably suck more than the national average

at least until you get to new york

fuck new yorkers.

ww3 fucking sucks

I used to be uselessly self critical, and learning how to make art in a social setting - receiving constructive but sometimes difficult critique taught me how to use it to better myself, and how to discern attack from constructive crit.

It can still hurt, but there’s a certain feeling to useful criticism that’s constructive.

At this point when it’s harmful or unhelpful criticism or attack I just don’t hold back. I’m transfemme and I’m at a point where I’m ready to fight at anybody dumb enough to disrespect me about it. I get loud and confrontational, and because I feel justified and within catharsis, the feelings relating to the attack itself don’t hurt as much, they don’t stay with me or ruin my day. I stood up for myself, I make it hurt to do that.

Some people might call that unhealthy but this isn’t a normal thing for me, and to me if you’re out there hurting people verbally or otherwise, you have it coming.

I’m white though, I am navigating life as non passing transfemme, but whiteness goes a long way in a racist society to letting me get away with attitudes that might be more dangerous for other folks, I can’t speak to that struggle first hand and i wont try.

Derek Chauvin was sin eater for the entirety of the police force. A sacrifice to sate the dogs. Our fascist police state was never gonna give an inch beyond that. ACAB etc.

Todd In The Shadows on youtube kinda points out that a ton of high profile female country artists just get nuked by the industry right around this time and that creates an imbalance they never recover from, like it’s still a huge issue today.

For the dixie chicks it was this horseshit, but faith hill basically just got shut out of the industry behind the scenes, and all the other high profile lady country artists of the 90s just sort of fucking vanish from public relevance in the wake of 9/11, the face of country going to an extremely masculine and regressive place even relative to it’s perrenial conservative disposition

edit: it’s in the context of a video about faith hill, not the dixie chicks, but this happens around the same time iirc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJpK_SGIcj4