Enkrod

Dont dead open inside

As soon as I retire, every single one of the multiple hundred games in my steam library will be a game for at least one retired person… except the ones I don’t like and don’t play anymore, like PAYDAY 2.

We seem to have to change the song now…

“Running for your life (from Shia LaBeouf)
He’s brandishing a knife (it′s Shia LaBeouf)
Homophobic asshole
Hollywood shouldn’t hire Shia LaBeouf”

The American identity sucks if you’re white skinned, because of the whole genocide thing, also it’s too new, too cosmopolitan, and not real to most other people.

I dunno American Identity sometimes seems more real outside the US.
There’s the fact that we constantly tell americans who don’t speak a word of german or french that they are neither, they are american to us, no matter where their great-great-grandparents were from.
And then there is the time when an aquaintance of mine one day seemed very happy and I asked him why he was so chipper. He said he’d figured out that over here, he wasn’t “african american”, he was just seen as “the american” and that had never happened at home. Yes he clearly was recognized as black, but it never once came up as a qualifier on his identity.

Ah puh, he gets a lot of resting in on his way down the mountain.

Oh absolutely, Camus can be soul-crushing if you believe that hope and reason are an innate part of the universe, let me quote Wikipedia:

The essay contains an appendix titled “Hope and the Absurd in the work of Franz Kafka”. While Camus acknowledges that Kafka’s work represents an exquisite description of the absurd condition, he claims that Kafka fails as an absurd writer because his work retains a glimmer of hope.

But Camus work is beautiful in its entirety and he makes a good case for “the universe in and of itself is hopeless and it is pointless, but it’s also huge and beautiful and filled with wonder. Go and enjoy it” the entirety of the ending is:

I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one’s burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

In my eyes it’s about finding your own reason, your own point and your own hope in the daily pointless struggle of existence.

Nice one.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus - The Myth of Sisyphus

Define kind.

Those are the results of keeping individuals of both species and opposite sex in the same enclosure. The reproduction part happened all by itself.

Allow me to make one thing perfectly clear: If you insert those symbols into my perfectly working website… only to mess with me and inadvertently give me vietnam-style flashbacks to the days when I had to deal with incredibly badly formed and misencoded CSV-files on the daily…

Then I will find you and break into your home to replace every second sock with one of the same color and pattern but slightly different make, size or material and you will always wonder why you can’t find any exactly fitting pairs of socks anymore.

They’re not unhappy that he went to war with Ukraine, they’re unhappy with the results they’re getting.

My friend group was in our late teens, we partied hard, we had each others backs… but we were so very inexperienced with the world. Then this one girl brought her new boyfriend… early thirties, soldier, fit, cool, experienced.

I had this instant dislike, his words were… too smooth, his jokes were funny, yes, but also cruel. He radiated a kind of coolness like uranium radiates poison. Everybody was all over him, the lads wanted to be like him, the lasses wanted him. I could not bring myself to like him and got accused of being jealous.

He broke up some lifelong friendships and budding relationships. He ended up getting two of the girls pregnant and went to prison because one of them was underage at the time. I feel vindicated, but I can’t say I’m happy about it. The only good thing to come out of that is that I left that group and went a different way in life.

Someone needs to follow people like that around with a camera for weeks. And when they inevitably crack, just ask if they have anything to hide and state that in a public place all privacy goes out the window.

No should about it, they have to. This is a requirement for new members.

Oh yeah! Soooo many of the things that make Cat cool she learned as the Squire to the Black Knight. I love his worldview, his genre-savy and blunt pragmatism.

His little speech of why he chose Catherine over Akua is just Chef’s kiss

I chose you Catherine Foundling, because I remember what it’s like… that feeling in your stomach when you look at the world around you and you know you could do better.

The things Heiress knows, you can learn. Will learn.
But that indignation you have boiling under your skin?
That is not something that can be taught.
And that is exactly why, when the time comes… you will beat her.

Obscure? I think every gamer in my age group (Xennials) knows the leader of NOD.

Catherine Foundling, the Protagonist of A Practical Guide to Evil.

But I don’t know if this counts. Catherine has only the best intentions and many Heros are kinda Dicks in PGtE. She definitely causes a lot of (what she considers) necessary suffering to end unnecessary suffering. And in-universe she undeniably is a Villain, but as the villain protagonist it’s hard to argue that she’s on the same page as villain antagonists.

But in terms of reach, Fox News and conservative talk radio trump them all.

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But “around here” is representative of what? 5% of voters? 16% of democratic voters max? Let’s not pretend Lemmy users represent a sizable number of democratic voters.