Dawntrail!

Loving Viper & Picto. Didn’t really progress the MSQ so much as its boring me to tears but I love the scenery and music :D

isnt there a scientific study that says people get worse at video games after 25 years old?

The way that the bourgeoisie arrested and seized control from aristocracy and monarchy, (e.g, England) making the latter into the symbol of the state and central authority and undermining the former’s dominance in shaping the future of the country, yes.

I think the Erebonian empire’s situation can be compared to Meiji era Japan, where an oligarchy emerged to bring Japan away from isolationist feudalism to imperialist bourgeois democracy, modernization, and industrialization.

Idk, the Bismarck analogue guy (Osbourne?) was supposed to be a representation of the emergent bourgeoisie taking control from and over the aristocracy. The emperor was basically a puppet of his - not even given voiced lines - and the state had begun to be fully centralized. The peasantry and proletariat at that time weren’t as class conscious, politically coherent, or as organized as the bourgeoisie were.

The game’s politics seem to be consistent with how history played out.

Netflix used to have historical fiction stories about Turkey called Etrugl. I quite liked it.

Started watching House of the Dragon. I quite like it. Certainly more coherent and suspenseful than GoT was past season 3.

The point is trite, since it’s been echoed since the 90s and 00s, and is and was much of Gen X’s cultural expression: The choice presented by @peppersky of being a suburbanite robbed of humor and youth, or a manchild, is a form of colonization of the mind via capitalism. Our unique selves buried under consumption of content and fulfilling social roles and goals determined by the capitalist system. (Not that there’s anything particularly wrong with either of these choices, but living like this also turns life into a purgatory of repetition and variation. It deprives life of color and purpose that become filled by junk ideology.)

Instead, we should be aspiring to be self-actualized adults with our own individuality and aspiration for life beyond checking milestones or consuming media.

Hunter Robinette Biden, son of the current President of the United States of America, Joseph Belden.

I don’t see the purpose of asking this question when Israel is still extant and capable of surviving while Palestine burns. Israel hasn’t surrendered because they can do this attrition warfare longer than Gaza can hold out, despite any gains or advantages Ansrallah and Hezbollah have over Israel at the moment. Israel and the US are both willing to escalate in calculated and measured ways.

Considering that Jewish Israelis are 70% of the population, it’s likely that they will stay in the long term. Before Oct 7th, there was already a sort of exodus of Israelis to Europe/US because of lack of economic opportunity, high rents, low wages; reasons people leave their country as it is. Israel is not really stable without US support.

I liked Helck.

Hexbear inside reference/joke.

When the commenters here say its “easier” in one’s 30s to date, it means that people who are single in their 30s often cut through the romantic anxiety and adolescent ritual of consulting entrails or trying to interpret signs and just express intent of interest directly or their feelings directly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzDFKJHczQ8

The new dynamic of people at or older than 30 is that these people have established identities and understandings of themselves - which we call maturity - which strengthens the prospects of relationships instead of a joint venture of people in the process of self-actualization. (People in their 30s are further along this process.). Relationships thrive and function by the accumulation of minor gestures, and it comes down being considerate and consistent.

If you’re a Millennial, think of Friends’ Ross & Rachel in Season 4 vs Ross & Rachel in Season 10. (Without all the forced dysfunction deemed necessary for the humor of a sitcom.)

Depends on the power dynamics.

Human shields is not just a way to retroactively justifiy civilian deaths within a military target. It is also used as a way for the premeditated murder of civilians while using military target as an excuse.

So when Israel kills hundreds within a civilian refugee camp to kill one military target/hostile, that is using the military target as an excuse for destroying and terrorizing the population. e.g: (Wolf Blitzer/IDF spokesman bombing a refugee camp) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyqFFsRifFM&t=2s

https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-197-the-human-shields-canard-as-catch-all-colonial-absolution

Roy’s resolution in Shamballah is better than FMAB’s ending for Roy. Cursed with the memories and grief of his war crimes, he commits a sort of intellectual suicide by sequestering himself in a remote snowy region as an outpost guard. (A huge step down from Brigadier General). Even his revenge against Bradley for Hughes death was done out of a sense of honor and guilt rather than genocidal fury against Envy.

While Bradley’s death had more showmanship and climactic presentation in FMAB, the 2003 version is much more satisfying and vindicating of Roy and the general themes of that show with Bradley’s death in that version.

The State (called Amestris in FMAB) is also dissolved from the military dictatorship under Bradley and back into a parliamentary democracy.

I didn’t like the presentation that FMAB Roy’s aspiration of becoming a compassionate Fuhrer as a way of resolving Amestris’s issues and prefer the systemic rehabilitation of the state and nation in the 2003 version.

They’re both equally good but despite having the same name and story - up to a certain point - they’re completely different the way apple cider is to water with an apple slice in it is.

It’s worth a slow rewatch. Dameon Clarke as voice actor for Scar is a better Scar.

Scar’s last act was to save Alphonse from being transformed into combustible metal and grant the Elric brothers their wish: The Philosopher’s Stone.
The last twelve episodes of the 2003 anime were really well written.

I liked the 2003 version too. Dante’s a better villain than Father, and Shamballah is a great refutation, reconciliation, and resolution of the Elric brothers myopic pursuit of a magical solution to their crime of desecrating their mother by playing God.

Infrequent poster, but if we’re complaining about Hexbear culture is that there are often leaks in personalities here - I among the guilty - that treat socialism, writers, and world events as avenues for self-actualization that put me off.

The socialister-than-thou posts, for its own sake and not when dunking on reactionaries, I mean.

Anyone use ChatGPT for career coach advice? I found some interesting leads but it’s also so vague that it really is just a hint at best.

https://x.com/hachiseiboshi/status/1792115293638271269

In 2009, by decree of the true ruler of the world, Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume.