baby orca having fun

honestly might make a nolt board post about this, this is one of my most desired features in any platform fighter period

desperately wish roa2's training mode was slightly better

most specifically i wish i could test things on likely di sequences without having to pause mid-combo to change the cpu's di, go frame by frame, or make an input recording (which will also have to be done frame by frame in all likelihood)

yayyyy my knight is hollow yay yay #myhollowknight

i just have to channel the powers... of unemployment....

i hit diamond in ranked and didnt immediately plummet out

i rly wanna hit master this season. doable?? maybe????

like i dont even think orcane's bad now, i think he's gonna be fine once the playerbase adjusts

but he's just straight up *unfun* now. and the bubble buffs mean he's ALSO gonna be less fun to fight. what are we doing here.

it is very obvious that they do not have any idea what they want orcane to do or look like. and i hope they figure it out soon bc this shit sucks

ok the r2 devs seriously need to become less willing to fuck with characters' movement stats

this shit is how you kill your playerbase LMAO

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

people love saying to not freak out and do productive action instead but it will eventually catch up to us all psychologically that we need to grieve our stolen futures

so, in short:

• if we all get loud for trans rights and actually organize a movement, we can win this one

• if we don’t, then a de facto ban on care is assured in us law within the next six months

in other words, you found yourself in history

now’s a moment to be the hero

really.

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

"None of the 35 methane gas turbines that help power xAI’s massive supercomputer is equipped with pollution controls typically required by federal rules."

The ancient romans and greeks referred to asthma as "rehearsing death"

Get off that bloody platform Right Now

hopefully whatever chat program we all bail to from discord in a few years will be different enough that people won't try to use it as an information repository over just making a damn website

This is incredibly dangerous and will cost lives. It will also disable people, as many food borne illnesses can lead to chronic health problems.

You can sign up for Canadian recalls & alerts at the link below. It won’t cover everything, but we do share a lot of the same food supply:

This is, weirdly, the most purely fascist shit anyone in the administration has said so far

- Your health is an asset of the fatherland
- Illness is a failure or a moral failing
- You have a duty to maintain your health
- Healthcare is not a right, it's a finite resource
- Die for the fatherland

Untangling this ethical knot is, I think, a matter of perspective. It comes down to the way that you think of what politics is. For the most part, it is wrong to think of elections as contests between "good" and "bad" candidates. With few exceptions, it is more accurate to divide most politicians into two broad categories: Enemies, and Cowards. The enemies are those politicians who are legitimately opposed to your policy goals. The cowards are those politicians who may agree with your policy goals, but will sell you out if they must in order to protect their own interests. Embrace the idea that we are simply pushing to elect the cowards, rather than the enemies. Why? Because the true work of political action is not to identify idealized superheroes to run for office. It is, instead, to create the conditions in the world that make it safe for the cowards to vote the right way.

Key paragraph for those who don't want to travel there (an explicit rejection of the search for a savior figure):

put another way: these conclusions were just as reachable last year - at least, for those who ranked accuracy and honesty over normiepunching and I think there's a lesson in there too

I'm seeing a lot more of my far left friends posting things like "both parties aren't the same after all" and "there are meaningful ideological divisions even amongst capital/the right/etc". which is good! We should move with the times. but I'm seeing less contrition about it than I'd hope

To be fair, all of this could have been avoided by simply voting for Kamala.

something that gets lost in all of this is that the damage donald trump is inflicting on middle, low income nations is criminal unto itself. he is, quite literally, robbing entire decades of growth and prosperity across LatAm, Asia, and Africa. Mexico is the most immediately relevant example.

It's 1828. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.

It's 1929. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the century for insane and idiotic reasons.

It's 2025. The United States has adopted the highest tariff rate of the ce

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also cancelled nitro. which i only got for one specific purpose a couple months ago and kept bc i like sending friends silly little clips without having to go through youtube

discord ui update is so bad i went out of my way to install a client mod that gives me access to dev features just so i could opt out

if i end up getting banned over this (possible but unlikely) i'll just fully stop using discord. the new ui *literally* hurts to look at for me

100000000% THIS

Remember Mitch McConnell's strategy was to use unchallenged seats on school boards, city councils, etc to build a foundation of extreme right-wing power. Progressives need to do the same.

This is why I donate to @runforsomething.net monthly. If you're willing, they'll help you run.

i miss bayo. i've seen the things hdr bayo can do. this is who i'm meant to play

what if i tried to get into hdr again...

A fun historical fact about the French Resistance during WWII is that none of those people were ever going to get a shot at Hitler.

They were, however, in a position to do something about the people Hitler relied on to carry out his orders.

This has been your random history fact of the day.