[WESTERN PARODY VISUAL NOVEL] Kyaaaah~ what if... the pretty anime girls you dated... wanted to kill you ๐ณ
[ACTUAL VISUAL NOVEL] You jolt awake. It is AD 1235. You are general of the Song Dynasty Cao Youwen. The Mongols are advancing into Sichuan. The future cannot come to pass.
the real redpill is that most "normies" are deviant; not just in the sense that normal people are usually much weirder and more eccentric than you think, but in the sense that "normalcy" is a reign of being which is shaped around a few kinds of powerful subjects
Coward that you are, for you feel safe only loving that which cannot love you back freely, intolerant of the possibility that a flesh and blood human, in all its flaws and failures, could also be a hero. Will you choose to struggle and to love? Or will you perish like a dog?
I think idolizing cartoon characters is honestly healthier than idolizing real people because at least with fictional characters you know everything theyโve done but with a real person itโs like. In 12 years itโs gonna be revealed Jerma ate a live horse
It's so cool that if an employer drops you after they already interviewed you they don't even let you know, they just ignore you. It's very professional, and makes having to put on the song and dance of applying for jobs asking for insane overqualification feel better
man the meds are working so well it's scary. I never knew I could be so productive. just today I washed my car, picked up vitamins, got halfway done with a term paper, drew a complex picture and did some lineart, cleaned up the kitchen, and put in a few job applications
the Nerds and Jocks have been in an eternal war to decide who's the more fascist high school subculture. the Nerds had a long run with gamergate but the Jocks are making a comeback out of nowhere
israeli "toleration" of gay people has two sides: for those who buy in, who give the state carte blanche, there are cut drugs at Tel Aviv techno clubs, and for those who question it, the same visceral kneejerk hate and disgust expected from the worst of any homophobe
Aside from Israel, where would this person be allowed in the Middle East to live freely?
Gaza? West Bank? Iran? Yemen? Iraq? Syria? Under Hamas? Under Hezbollah? Under Houthis? Under ISIS? Under al Qaeda?
from what I can tell there are three kinds of breakcore albums:
1.) dj imoutofucker - Kirei Flat Chest Incest v.2
2.) Keith Anglo - Background Music in Manchester
3.) Qin Shi Huang - Eternal Genocide on the First World
getting to the point in the job hunt where I put in an application and it turns out I've already applied. is every employer in the world collectively just sitting on their ass
โ KEVIN O'LEARY WARNS STUDENT PROTESTERS ARE 'TRASHING' JOB CHANCES BY FIGHTING POLICE, VANDALIZING SCHOOL
"Iโll put that resume on the left into the garbage because I know I can find someone else just as good as you, of which there are tens of thousands of candidates thatโฆ
I hope the one mutual I had once who was a member of the Communist Youth League of China posting past the firewall exclusively to RT hentai is doing alright
Rent seeking. The entire economy is built on rent seeking to sustain the lives of the most boorish, morally pontificating, morally bankrupt people on Earth
What do you mean the parasite who makes a YouTube living off of publicizing and humiliating the mentally ill turns out to be a lackey for genocidaires. I'm so surprised
"it's not my job to educate you", "it's not my job to manage your emotions", all expressions of someone with more mental resources essentially being laissez-faire about leveraging that emotional capacity to help others. logic of free market economy applied to socialization
something very funny about how games like True Crime: LA and LA Noire both tried to have huge open world maps true to the actual map of Los Angeles, and because of that, ended up being like 70% driving across a world with nothing in it
You don't know how badly I need to look like the fanservice-oriented evil second in command lady in a totalitarian evil organization bro. You don't know how badly I need to look like this
I will never get over how once you get to grad school it's just, like, normal to drink at academic events. In school buildings. At school-sanctioned meetings
found out the Internet Archive has Hidden Agenda, a DOS political sim from 1988 about running a central american country after a revolution during the Cold War, free to play in browser
people will talk on here so much about a mental disorder "not erasing your responsibility" or etc. i say - yes, it does erase some of your responsibility, it absolutely does, and refusing to acknowledge that by holding a neurodivergent person to NT standards is absolutely unjust
the idea of a commons in the economy, of a commons in broader society, simply cannot work if we refuse to admit that there is also a commons of social life, that some people must be given more leeway in response to their particular conditions and others less
"accountable" is a word of quantification. no one who is held "accountable" continues to be a person - they are reduced to an "account", a ledger of societal resources, without regard to their context. it sucks the totality of life from them; it is anti-life
something to be said about how wealth can enable the worst behaviors of mental illness. i think a comparable impulse, as someone who's done this, drives someone to order delivery every day from the same place as it drove Howard Hughes to order literal tons of the same ice cream
it's absolutely not an exaggeration to say that of all the Axis powers politically speaking, Japan was the most united behind its government, had the least meaningful internal opposition, and was *extremely effective* at excising the opposition that did exist from public life
[TIME TRAVELER] Wow! So this was what life was like in the Shit's Fucked Everyone Dies Period!
[LOCAL GUY] I dunno what you're talking about. This is the Normal Period
if justice is giving every person what they are due, then surely a neurodivergent person, a mentally unwell person, an emotional person, an eccentric person, a deviant person, et cetera, is due a responsive allocation of social resources as they are an allocation of economic ones
To avoid future problems maybe colleges should have designated protest zones that are available for booking like any other venue.
Then students can happily protest while not preventing other students from studying + doing other normal school activities (graduation, classes, etc)
A Manga AI Localization Start-Up Company named Orange Inc. has raised around 19 million US dollars to translate up to 500 new manga volumes PER MONTH into english and launch their own e-book store 'emaqi' in the USA in Summer 2024!
Their goal is to fight piracy and increase theโฆ
really hate it when I see people dig up cancellation stuff again. the whole culture surrounding this stuff really does make me feel like hell is other people
the "outside agitators" line is insidious for a lot of reasons but one big one is that it specifically delegitimizes the possibility of a specific movement becoming a general one. a specific concern exploding into a general social movement across all segments is how they win!
the Nerds and Jocks have been in an eternal war to decide who's the more fascist high school subculture. the Nerds had a long run with gamergate but the Jocks are making a comeback out of nowhere
Oh...oh dear.
The NYPD has found...the
@OUPAcademic
Oxford Very Short Introduction series.
I wonder if he thinks the Antisemitism is also a how-to book.
one thing I'm learning from this game is that if you try to take a moderate social democratic path, you're going to get couped, and the only way to avoid it is to go full Cuba a few months in. much to consider
found out the Internet Archive has Hidden Agenda, a DOS political sim from 1988 about running a central american country after a revolution during the Cold War, free to play in browser
very half-baked concept but living in NYC has made me think there's a kind of "mental suburbanization" a lot of Americans have where people believe there's a moral imperative to avoiding "undesirables" both socially and spatially
the Finkelstein/Destiny beef was very satisfying for me, it fulfilled my fantasy of seeing academics personally send each and ever YouTuber to the coal mines
Howard Hughes became this bizarre, unwell, sickly recluse because he was a very wealthy man surrounded by sycophants who were either scared for their jobs or opportunistically looking for the pickings of his empire. There's something to learn from that
it is more important to be *perceived* as ethical than to be concretely ethical. it's really a very cynical morality which is totally fine with causing as much damage as possible as long as We Are Perceived To Be Good People - and it ends up dehumanizing us in the end
thinking about the end of If.... where there's a fantasy of a student uprising that ends with the liberal administrator getting shot today. no reason specifically
You don't know how badly I need to look like the fanservice-oriented evil second in command lady in a totalitarian evil organization bro. You don't know how badly I need to look like this
Panera's finally discontinuing its line of Charged drinks
The company's still facing multiple lawsuits over their caffeine content
โข Large Charged Lemonade: 236mg
โข Recommended daily amount: 400mg
Still wild that you could just get unlimited refills
Honestly kinda dont blame the people who havenโt read Scott pilgrim for thinking itโs a problematic story or whatever when supplementary material has shit like this. Like come the fuck on man who wrote this
One of my favorite bits in Beautiful Fighting Girl is how Saitล Tamaki says that when Evangelion premiered all the psychoanalysis grad students at his university went fucking *insane* over it
dense cities make avoiding some degree of unpleasantness - i.e. the social contradictions of a society - impossible. the suburbs are specifically designed to avoid these things and the spatial design of suburbs influences how people engage with these things
my pet political assassination conspiracy theory isn't LBJ, it's Olof Palme. people try to make JFK out to be a dove that got in the way of LBJ/hawks, but I don't think they would have been v different. Palme, though, committed anti-imperialist leader of a major Western country
going to actually try and get my Colombian docs updated. i'm going to see if Colombia or the U.S. makes it easier and become more patriotic for the quicker one
if DeSantis just kept tapping into handwringing concerned suburban parents, the M4L crowd, he would have had a solid, reliable base that could give him steady funding and a strong foothold in any major suburban state. but no he decided to become the school shooter campaign
the advance of the last decade feels like it has not been the achievement of concrete equity, but belief in equity merely becoming another attribute in the suite of expected appearances a successful middle class yuppie must keep up
Hey guys! We will come back to North America in this fall ๐ฏ๐ต๐๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ Yay!!!! Thank you for giving us this precious opportunity again. We are really excited to meet you all. See you soon!
On-Sale: Friday, May 3 @ 10am Local
me: ah, well i'm moving to NY soon, i'm doing an MA in psychoanalysis
them: oh? well, in the three minutes we've talked, can you psychoanalyze me?
me: i.. Ahhhhh... Uh.... You... Dress nicely..........