the fact of the matter is... economics is real. the fact that economic theories are cynically deployed to justify injustice is not reason to dismiss scientific study of the movement of resources
[ms. octavius in a prequel comic where she saw a vision of the future where dock ock kills her high school bully; in response to the midwife asking her newborn son's name] otto... otto octavius
"Google says" was already common parlance in the prior decades... a linguistic foundation was laid for "chatgpt says"
NO!!!!!!
that's all right... i was reading jason pargin's blog before he became the cracked dot com guy
I may not be friendly with Pratchettian humanism... but I will defend it to the death against the mind that brought us The Daily Show with Jon Stewart...
It's laughable for a fiction writer to earnestly believe in the value of writing fiction? This is where Josh Lieb's philosophy has led?
a clever rhetorical sleight of hand from death: that which cannot be reduced to a molecule is fiction. this categorizes most complex objects as fiction, before we even get to arrangements of objects. all so that a fiction writer can tell me to be inspired by fiction rather than nonfiction.
tofu in soybean oil with soy sauce... soy is an amazing bean
[cooking enthusiast] they say you are what you eat—and how can you be a snob about anything if you're not a snob about food? do you really want your essay about cinematic frauds to be fueled by the best deal on doordash?
[scissors enthusiast] people don't care about their scissors. they don't want to understand them. they don't want better scissors. they're content to thoughtlessly consume the mass appeal brands.
if there is a category of "it's true, but he shouldn't say it", then could there also be a category of "it's false, but he should say it"? in what circumstances are there benefits from saying something false?
here's the thing about final fantasy xi: it's a multiplayer game
i'm the only mf out here relating the protomen to everybody loves raymond...
[debra barone listening to heteropessimist protoman] yes!! YES!! that's SO true!!!!
how it feels to buy a quest item in ffxi instead of grinding for an hour
Live now!
[heteropessimist protoman]
Don't you see the truth is
They don't want a lover
They just want a mother
A servant to breed
the most amazing thing about an electric standing desk is that if you need to tighten the screws you can just raise it up and sit down
absolute crystal victory...!
the game about a phallic object filling a hole?
the idea of a trans person starring in a story that is not about gender... buddy, they don't even make stories about cis people that are not about gender
what's even the point of writing a story if the hero doesn't have to reckon with an unpleasant truth about themselves...
don't be motivated by fear...
protoman's distorted growl when he says "tell me now" is so relatable
i just don't trust anybody who is too certain that they've got it all figured out!!! i desire expressions of doubt and contradiction and self-criticism
the wii is an interesting example of an enormously successful product that nevertheless failed to revolutionize its industry... motion controls were indeed a passing fad that survive only in secondary form, not as the primary control method for any platform.
they should make devil may cry 9
"Hope Rides Alone"... a romantic image of heroism, to be sure. Yet it carries an inevitable corollary: Hope Dies Alone. What else could be expected?
