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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Does anyone else find it weird that everyone has seen millions of adult pigeons, but nobody has ever seen a baby pigeon in the wild? i've seen one, they're ugly as gently caress. but then again finding nests is part of my job the thing that scares me is where do the seagulls go after dark? i haven't done a lot of work on shore birds, but i've never heard of a gull nest, nor seen a single feather of 'em after sunset. where the gently caress do they go?
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Feb 23, 2023 06:37
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:What is an isekai? usually an even more blatant power fantasy above and beyond other genres in a medium known for power fantasies the good ones are some mixture of "if i didn't have this crushing corporate job and societal pressure i would just live a simple life farming" and "i would use my knowledge and skills to effect a positive change on my surroundings". the bad ones are some mixture of "if i was taken out of this mundane life i would be freed from my shackles and show the world my superiority" and "i would have a harem of sex slaves"
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Feb 23, 2023 06:44
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i've seen one, they're ugly as gently caress. but then again finding nests is part of my job they sleep on the water. idk where they nest though, especially the ones near you
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Feb 23, 2023 06:45
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i have seen the nests of both pigeon and gull. the gulls nest on remote seaside rock shelves, the pigeons nest on my brother's balcony
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Feb 23, 2023 07:00
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Cease to Hope posted:a genre originating in japan, where a viewer-surrogate protagonist lives a mundane life but is killed and wakes up reincarnated in a different, fantastic world, usually one that is very conventional in some way you die as a belgian librarian and wake up as elon musk walking into twitter headquarters
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Feb 23, 2023 08:08
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Professor Beetus posted:All due respect to EHF, but telling someone to skip DS2 should be a bannable offense. If we're being honest, they all went down a tier when one came out with guard counters and a jump button
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Feb 23, 2023 08:52
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:i've seen one, they're ugly as gently caress. but then again finding nests is part of my job I'm assuming they hang out at some all-night diner that serves fries and pizza crusts.
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Feb 23, 2023 15:02
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:usually an even more blatant power fantasy above and beyond other genres in a medium known for power fantasies Okay. That is a discussion so common it is equivalent to "is a hotdog a sandwich" to some peeps? Seems like a pretty clear-cut definition? Also, a weird topic to be constantly arguing with people about.
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Feb 23, 2023 15:05
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Okay. problem there's a massive boom of power fantasy isekai stories along the lines of "I was a bullied nerd who spent all my free time arguing on the internet, and then I was reincarnated into a fantasy world where God gave me the power to literally alter reality with my sick internet debate skills, so now I'm the strongest person in the fantasy world and spend every day taking massively disproportionate revenge on dumbasses who tried to bully me for no reason, also I enslaved their wives and added them to my harem of hot fantasy ladies who are all totally in love with me" there's literally hundreds of those, and some people are uncomfortable putting them in the same general category as Digimon and Inuyasha
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Feb 23, 2023 15:17
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 Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for wealth, fame or power. But the idol always ends by requiring self-sacrifice, leaving us to perish on the blood-soaked altars we erected for others. For empires are not murdered, they commit suicide at the feet of the idols that entrance them. We are here today to denounce the unelected, unaccountable high priests of Empire, who funnel the bodies of millions of victims, along with trillions of our national wealth, into the bowels of our own version of the Canaanite idol, Moloch. The political class, the media, the entertainment industry, the financiers and even religious institutions bay like wolves for the blood of Muslims or Russians or Chinese, or whoever the idol has demonized as unworthy of life. There were no rational objectives in the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya and Somalia. There are none in Ukraine. Permanent war and industrial slaughter are their own justification. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics, Boeing and Northrop Grumman earn billions of dollars in profits. The vast expenditures demanded by the Pentagon are sacrosanct. The cabal of warmongering pundits, diplomats and technocrats, who smugly dodge responsibility for the array of military disasters they orchestrate, are protean, shifting adroitly with the political tides, moving from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party and then back again, mutating from cold warriors to neocons to liberal interventionists. Julien Benda called these courtiers to power “the self-made barbarians of the intelligentsia.” These pimps of war do not see the corpses of their victims. I did. Including children. Every lifeless body I stood over as a reporter in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Palestine, Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, Bosnia, or Kosovo, month after month, year after year, exposed their moral bankruptcy, intellectual dishonesty, sick bloodlust and delusional fantasies. They are puppets of the Pentagon, a state within a state, and the weapons manufacturers who lavishly fund their think tanks: Project for the New American Century, Foreign Policy Initiative, American Enterprise Institute, Center for a New American Security, Institute for the Study of War, Atlantic Council and Brookings Institute. Like some mutant strain of an antibiotic-resistant bacteria, they cannot be vanquished. It does not matter how wrong they are, how absurd their theories of global dominance, how many times they lie or denigrate other cultures and societies as uncivilized or how many they condemn to death. They are immovable props, parasites vomited up in the dying days of all empires, ready to sell us the next virtuous war against whoever they have decided is the new Hitler. The map changes. The game is the same. Pity our prophets, those who wander the desolate landscape crying out in the darkness. Pity Julian Assange, undergoing a slow-motion execution in a high-security prison in London. He committed Empire’s fatal sin. He exposed its crimes, its machinery of death, its moral depravity. A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice. Some here today might like to think of themselves as radicals, maybe even revolutionaries. But what we are demanding on the political spectrum is, in fact, conservative: the restoration of the rule of law. It is simple and basic. It should not, in a functioning republic, be incendiary. But living in truth in a despotic system, one the political philosopher Sheldon Wolin called “inverted totalitarianism,” is subversive. The architects of imperialism, the masters of war, the corporate-controlled legislative, judicial and executive branches of government and their obsequious mouth pieces in the media and academia, are illegitimate. Say this simple truth and you are banished, as many of us have been, to the margins. Prove this truth, as Julian did, and you are crucified. “Red Rosa now has vanished too…” Bertolt Brecht wrote of the murdered socialist Rosa Luxemburg. “She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out.” We have undergone a corporate coup d'état, where the poor and working men and women, half of whom lack $400 to cover an emergency expense, are reduced to chronic instability. Joblessness and food insecurity are endemic. Our communities and cities are desolate. War, financial speculation, constant surveillance and militarized police that function as internal armies of occupation are the only real concerns of the state. Even habeas corpus no longer exists. We, as citizens, are commodities to corporate systems of power, used and discarded. And the endless wars we fight overseas have spawned the wars we fight at home, as the students I teach in the New Jersey prison system are acutely aware. All empires die in the same act of self-immolation. The tyranny the Athenian empire imposed on others, Thucydides noted in his history of the Peloponnesian war, it finally imposed on itself. To to fight back, to reach out and help the weak, the oppressed and the suffering, to save the planet from ecocide, to decry the domestic and international crimes of the ruling class, to demand justice, to live in truth, to smash the graven images, is to bear the mark of Cain. Those in power must feel our wrath, which means constant acts of non-violence civil disobedience, social and political disruption. Organized power from below is the only power that can save us. Politics is a game of fear. It is our duty to make those in power very, very afraid. The ruling oligarchy has us locked in its death grip. It cannot be reformed. It obscures and falsifies the truth. It is on a maniacal quest to increase its obscene wealth and unchecked power. It forces us to kneel before its false gods. And so, to quote the Queen of Hearts, metaphorically, of course, I say, “Off with their heads!”
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Feb 23, 2023 15:27
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nice meltdown
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Feb 23, 2023 15:45
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Fritz the Horse posted:nice meltdown thank you 
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Feb 23, 2023 15:47
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how i think i am melting down: how i actually am melting down: 
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Feb 23, 2023 15:49
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I go crazy because even with the injustice and inequity, we are still comfortable enough by and large that we are complicit. There's no magic button to change the world, but I fear most people wouldn't press it if they'd face any material loss themselves. Others must sacrifice, because it is the fault of the others (tying into that other post).
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Feb 23, 2023 15:58
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You got red on you
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Feb 23, 2023 15:58
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RBA Starblade posted:You got red on you Just saving some of Nonna's gravy for my midnight snack
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Feb 23, 2023 15:58
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Okay. is narnia an isekai?
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Feb 23, 2023 16:16
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  you should take a writing class
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Feb 23, 2023 16:50
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cinci zoo sniper posted:
What about commas now?
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Feb 23, 2023 16:54
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Punctuation is a fake idea
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Feb 23, 2023 17:59
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I think it's extremely entertaining that cinci thinks/is suggesting I wrote that piece. Just completely unaware that the person that wrote it was a war correspondent for decades, made a career out of publishing his works, and teaches literacy and drama to incarcerated people
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Feb 23, 2023 18:01
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Also an incredibly illustrative speaker on the state of the rot that is the US carceral-industrial complex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlVPCK8lHCI
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Feb 23, 2023 18:05
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Oh so George Santos wrote it? 
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Feb 23, 2023 18:06
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I love Hedges, the final boss of doomers
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Feb 23, 2023 18:08
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Epic High Five posted:I love Hedges, the final boss of doomers I don't know that I classify him as a doomer; he seems to think that the Democrat party can still be repurposed into something Good
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Feb 23, 2023 18:10
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Epic High Five posted:Oh so George Santos wrote it? Surely he would've been too busy writing all the Star Wars movies?
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Feb 23, 2023 18:10
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Lib and let die posted:I don't know that I classify him as a doomer; he seems to think that the Democrat party can still be repurposed into something Good He makes it very complicated, which is why he's the final boss
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Feb 23, 2023 18:11
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Lib and let die posted:I think it's extremely entertaining that cinci thinks/is suggesting I wrote that piece. Just completely unaware that the person that wrote it was a war correspondent for decades, made a career out of publishing his works, and teaches literacy and drama to incarcerated people the entertainment here is the premise that i read literally any of it
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Feb 23, 2023 18:16
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Lib and let die posted:I think it's extremely entertaining that cinci thinks/is suggesting I wrote that piece. Just completely unaware that the person that wrote it was a war correspondent for decades, made a career out of publishing his works, and teaches literacy and drama to incarcerated people Sure but what's his favorite dark souls
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Feb 23, 2023 18:17
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RBA Starblade posted:Sure but what's his favorite dark souls 1 really encapsulates the idea of class struggle. you wake up a prisoner and are expected to sacrifice yourself to sustain the waning rule of the upper echelons of the crumbling empire
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Feb 23, 2023 18:18
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Frampt is a classic reactionary, filling the undead with visions of grandeur in a plot to sacrifice them to restore his own class position. This is the news Radio Free Lordran doesn't want you to hear.
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Feb 23, 2023 18:33
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What's the Marxist read on Baldur's Gate? The main character is literally a child of (a) god, but they spend a good portion of their time running around and wrecking institutions that are at best oppressive. I guess they sort of lamp-shade that one with the faux-Marxist side character in the sequel, but she sucks anyway.
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Feb 23, 2023 18:33
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Dark souls is perfect because the surface narrative is the age of fire (good) is waning, and it must be restored at all cost to stave off the age of dark (bad). However, the age of fire is unsustainable, its empires hollowed (lol), it's gods absent dead or dismissed. It has become a self interested lie. The people who seek to sustain it are the "good" guys, but we see them falter and fail, lose their sense of self and purpose, and succumb to madness or murderous self-interest. But maybe the player character will be different? The age of dark is thought to be fearful and bad, but in fighting against its coming we see the same characteristics occur that it would be defined by anyway. And before, and perhaps after, the timeless twilight devoid of what we would call life. There is no good or bad, the contrast and friction is life, existence. The people fighting for something "better" (restoring the status quo) are ultimately no different than the ones who fight to bring change (unless/until they actually link the flame, which simply starts the cycle over at the cost of themselves). And the age of dark is presumably just another part of the cycle.
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Feb 23, 2023 18:50
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I think the Age of Dark isn't a metaphor for the ending of all things, but rather just resuming the natural cycle of things that had been artificially prolonged with disastrous results. As I recall, one of the things you see in the ending in one of the games is other flames now becoming visible as the one you got to choose the fate of dimmed.
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Feb 23, 2023 20:16
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Epic High Five posted:I think the Age of Dark isn't a metaphor for the ending of all things, but rather just resuming the natural cycle of things that had been artificially prolonged with disastrous results. As I recall, one of the things you see in the ending in one of the games is other flames now becoming visible as the one you got to choose the fate of dimmed. 'dark' is always described as a trait that came from the furtive pygmy, the ancestral being to whatever "normal" humans exist at any point in time in the souls timeline, the entire thing is an exercise in how the ruling class abuses language and connotations (dark = bad) for its own benefit. ultimately, the age of darkness is the age of mortals and the gods are terrified of that
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Feb 23, 2023 20:22
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Epic High Five posted:I think the Age of Dark isn't a metaphor for the ending of all things, but rather just resuming the natural cycle of things that had been artificially prolonged with disastrous results. As I recall, one of the things you see in the ending in one of the games is other flames now becoming visible as the one you got to choose the fate of dimmed. That's the DS3 ending yeah
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Feb 23, 2023 21:13
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Someone who is a lawyer just emailed me and asked me to "send over a clean copy" of a 118-page document I made because it "has track changes on it" and my several emails (with pictures) of how to turn track changes off were too complicated. So, they want me to manually go through and remove all the track changes info because it is on by default in their version of Word.
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Feb 23, 2023 21:32
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Someone who is a lawyer just emailed me and asked me to "send over a clean copy" of a 118-page document I made because it "has track changes on it" and my several emails (with pictures) of how to turn track changes off were too complicated. So, they want me to manually go through and remove all the track changes info because it is on by default in their version of Word. Send him back a blank word document and ask if it is clean enough
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Feb 23, 2023 21:34
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Someone who is a lawyer just emailed me and asked me to "send over a clean copy" of a 118-page document I made because it "has track changes on it" and my several emails (with pictures) of how to turn track changes off were too complicated. So, they want me to manually go through and remove all the track changes info because it is on by default in their version of Word. What's the highest resolution image of Mr Clean that the system will allow you to send
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Someone who is a lawyer just emailed me and asked me to "send over a clean copy" of a 118-page document I made because it "has track changes on it" and my several emails (with pictures) of how to turn track changes off were too complicated. So, they want me to manually go through and remove all the track changes info because it is on by default in their version of Word. reply with "but ive already sprayed it with disinfectant"
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