Void

Which felt very deranged, this will be far easier

Transfer cable arrived today so I expect more picture posting as I get a feel for it again. It's an old proprietary one and the card itself is old too so for the last couple days if I wanted to show friends a picture I had to put the card in my old PC's reader then post on discord so I could save it

Also he was so real for this

He did this in War and Peace as well, but being this one doesn't have digressions that are basically essays on the great man theory in between character moments, that flow hits much more naturally and you can see how intentional it is.

Returned to my read of Anna Karenina and Tolstoy really is the master of a dry ironical slant to how he characterizes each one of the players in his novel, building this entire narrative internally and then a quick sentence or two at the end to pop that bubble. It makes the pages of monologue work.

But now you also have a reason to be excited again so at least there's that

Its the classic situation of these such things wherein you discover what you've missed and if you simply had not known maybe it would have been only an occasional irritant, but now that you've seen it, felt it, well you cannot be without it. Like flavours, sensations, sounds, its now essential too.

Its almost why the auto adjustments on my phone irritate me, especially since their solution to a dark light photograph is to just blast contrast

The fact that I can have three different blacks (Sasha's cost, my blanket and my sheet all appear as different colours in a low light shot without any editing really does speak to it

Definitely have to get the feel again since its been years since I last used a camera worth a damn, but nice to see it at work again

Get my camera working again first shots gotta be of Sasha

Also tried making Ajitama for the first time and, my own fumbling of the peeling of the eggs aside, they turned out great

tried a broth similar to a one I like at a local ramen joint, white miso paste, Gochujang, dashi, garlic and soy sauce. Tasted similar with maybe a few nominal adjustments, but the heat was way too long, adding more Gochujang paste next time. Cannot trust recipes on the internet for actual heat

Just piles of dead bodies. It's glorious action

I'm not a fan of real politik but like, I know it, these people do not seem to

Its all about just taking time to learn about them which i think requires a curiosity

Ive been thinking of making kombu salt for a similar reason, especially since I'm in a bit of a mood to learn some japanese dishes. Keeps well for a good amount of time too

men will construct elaborate, obviously fabricated justifications to see each other bleeding in flowing white shirts dozens of times over two decades rather than going to therapy and/or fucking nasty in the woods

I cant disagree there, I think that the way I saw it was how I do my FEAR replays. Like the first time through watched every cutscene and whatnot but now I'm there purely for the gunplay so I fire past the cutscenes and get into the action

Showing up to board game night with my new turricula and the panties are dropping faster than the dice

I think that I'd equate it to sometimes just putting on a particular part of a film you enjoy because you've already seen it half a dozen times already.

Hearing the metaphorical gunshots over their heads has maybe actually made them wake up a smidge, even if its purely cynical

theyre not changing their minds. theyre still getting the main thing they voted for, hurting the minorities they want to hurt. theyre just mad there are consequences to that that they personally didnt think far enough ahead to foresee. theyll eventually excuse anything else as long as they get that

we made enough esoteric fell for it again award wojaks that chuds started desperately yelling about how theyre getting exactly what they voted for actually. did people think they actually meant that or something. that even for a second that all wasnt just massive fucking cope

Its all a grift and its all performance with these motherfuckers like at the end of the day the cross-section of them and others against this war is only just that, a small overlap, they still hate the poor, racial, religious, sexual or gender minorities, like these are not the allies you want!

Also starting to see like reactionary centrists and neolibs accounts on Facebook posting angry MAGA influencers and politicians mad about this Iran thing like this is another own against Trump and I really wish they wouldn't. Like you do not need to hand it to Matt Walsh that hes pissed about this.

This feels like an accelerated version of all those MMOs crashing in the late aughts and early 2010s and at a far greater scale as well. Just these bloodlettings of studios after a project fails

I always think "alright man tone it down with the 1984 comparisons because it downplays the nature of these things" and then something like this comes up and makes me look like a fool. Fucking ghoulish shit on display here.