Alex P. 👹

The real reason Keir Starmer wanted to ban all ninja swords was that now there will be no stopping his devastating sai attacks.

also the Scavenger support guys have 90% blind on attack (while Conquerors only get burning), which means by your third tome your Collectors (with Shadow Blades) get some *ridiculously* favorable trades in melee

i have seen people fussing that Conquerors are better than Scavengers, and the only way i see that being true is if the auto-ai is garbage at picking up loot

a high-end polearm unit with built-in corpse control is so much better than a hybrid shock unit that doesn't even get heavy charge

aow4: the big defense/resistance revision is a winner, imo; same for the movement speed revision — the game feels so much more *expansive* now

i got about 30 turns into Nomads last night (Scavengers with Chosen Destroyers and Cult of Personality), and the moving city feels so good for Destroyers

lol markets

worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.

I have a piece coming out soon on the similarities between the data center boom and 19th century railroad booms, and honestly they’ve made it a little too easy and on the nose.

Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Vote Kat.

Iran engaging in pernicious propaganda by accurately describing our society and government.

Give me a fucking break... WAPO declares "Epstein class" to be Iranian propaganda

republicans can just swoop in and start a hundred wars and abuse the shit out of millions of people because society & the government are fundamentally built around starting wars and abusing people

humans need something new that resists this at the structural level, or we will all perish eventually

a load-bearing part of Trump getting away with everything is that he’s generally faced with rational actors who do their best to steer around his lunacy but the people making decisions in Iran are a guy whose entire family we just killed and some random IRGC folks and they might just go “fuck you”

well, trump did promise to bring back mining jobs

me: "what if tory power stance was like mickey mouse's ears, where it looks the same from every angle"

djinn: "is that really your wish?"

me: "don't make me repeat myself"

it was obvious at the time that they were making copies of everything to sell to the highest bidder or keep for bragging rights. who knows how much has already been sold

There's a reason you're told that looking at the world and accurately and factually describing what you see is "being too political."

rt if u hate nazis and love boobs

"i will slurp down swastikas all day but do not let me see one boob" is an excellent filter for awful people. i, for one, hate nazis and love boobs, and i'm brave enough to say it

My (25m) wife (26f) has had lice for almost a year. How to handle this?

BRO WHAT? BRO. BROOO. WHAT? SHE WHAT? BRO. BROOO!!! WHAT!!!! WHAT??

The risk for babies who get measles under the age of 6 months to develop this within 10 years is 1 in 600.

Oh that? That's my dueling scar (papercut I got from a Yu-gi-oh card)

How to summon the demon inside of you:

Persona 5 - take off the mask on your face

Persona 4 - cards (??)

Persona 3 - shoot yourself in the head with a gun

Really enjoy the fact that it seems the minimum wage was mostly protecting lunatic small business owners from trying to get people to work for them at a loss haha

it's a great metaphor for how all you need to force a massive regression to hell times is to just block forward progress a bit — compounding and contingent factors kinda take care of the rest

A lot of times I remember that we used to have a minimum wage in the US but spent so long not raising it that it may as well not exist now. A country running purely on denial.

"We took idiosyncratic passages out of context from longer, often challenging works, and asked a supercomputer to render them more palatable in isolation. Which version do you find more palatable in isolation?"

there’ll be class solidarity finger-wagging over this, but she needs to go to jail too. she’s an adult, and she’s living it up on stolen tax dollars

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

he also invented the phrase "razz my berries," but the world wasn't ready for that yet — the pope got real mad and brother gregory had to lay a patch and hide out in the bohemian countryside for a few years.