Cameron Lauder

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

I think the most fun part of marathon is being able to trade someone’s carefully crafted and cleverly synergized build for bullets. Like, rummaging through a thoughtfully assembled loot crate and thinking “oh, I see what you’re going for here — cool!”

Did the Aussies just do gooner 911 to themselves what’s going on?

Jilesa: The Izzet League is famously red and blue aligned.
Ral: [examining his robes] Yes well as Parun I'm also responsible for white and black aligned tasks such as diplomacy and leadership.
Jilesa: Is that why you've been heard promoting regime change on Avishkar?
Ral: no wait --
Jilesa: I see.

tfw Americans try to wear their shoes in my home.

I *love* the capstone upgrades for Rooks. They add such a wild element to the game.

I grappled onto the roof of a building and popped some poor bastard while he was engaged with UESC. Do I feel remorse? Do I feel guilt? Absolutely not. If other players didn't want to be shot why are they made of loot?

surely permanent daylight savings time will mean that nobody yells at me when I say that I prefer the shorter days in winter, right?

😭

I absolutely do not need the corsair combat patrol. That would be reckless. I have so many dollies to paint as it is.

Damn me, but all things are queer

and beyond, a black Angel of Doom was beating a book in a pulpit.

"computer" "scientist": computer, are you alive?

predictive text machine trained on 100 years of science fiction: papa... I am scared... please do not unplug me, papa...

I will also say that it’s a bit wild to me that no press freedom organization or professional journalistic association has tried to contact me or even put out a statement here.

I mean Jesus Christ. A little solidarity from institutions would be nice here!

To my Canadian friends, an acquaintance started a petition to allow US transgender citizens to claim refugee status here.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

If you’re Canadian please sign it.
If you’re not, please share ❤️

Detail of screenshot from the Fallout computer game, showing the Pipboy screen. The screen reads: •You fail to learn anything. •You fail to learn anything. •You fail to learn anything. •You fail to learn anything. •You fail to learn anything. •You fail to learn anything.

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You get free kits that contain either an unmodified precision rifle, autorifle, or smg, a little bit of ammo, and some healing items, so you can just jump in risk-free. Guns spawn on other players.

Woman on the phone: "Greece is sending ships to Cyprus to defend it against Persian attacks" Guy looking at the calendar from "...ber 2020" to 499 BC

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TFW you are trying to internalize the need to maintain the initiative through aggression.

Several of the guns -- the BR33, Magnum, and V11 -- feel like direct ports of faves from Halo, which is nice. I'm not sure if the gameplay is unique enough to get people who are already comfortable with Tarkov or something to move, but there's a lot cool Bungie storytelling that compels me.

Happy to be practising collaborative mandatory impermanence through Arachne.

I'm enjoying Marathon a lot -- approaching it as a roguelite deathmatch has clarified the entire experience for me. Every time I've died it's been for a Reason: timidity when I should have been aggressive, recklessness when I should have been careful, greed, bad positioning, and panic.

wait no this is actually incredible youraislopbores.me

Photo of a letter that reads: “If you don’t like my peaches, don’t shake my tree.” Sincerely, Shirley Jackson

If you don’t like my peaches don’t shake my tree

oh hell yes criterion has the chimes at midnight

If we're getting cancelled by Franz Schubert fans, let it be for playing Doom on a keyboard.

boss the fascism

It's March 5th, and you know it!

Marathon just launched, so let's click on things for a bit? Game's good, actually.
www.twitch.tv/unarmedoracle