#intellctuals

[zevranunderstander]

im not saying this is a given and that every video game needs to do this to be “good”, but i recently rewatched a bunch of hbomberguy videos and in his fallout new vegas essay he talks about the moment with caesar’s legion where you argue about actual hegelian dialectics w caesar and he also compares this moment to disco elysium in his essay and i just have to say that this is such a cool way to engage players into thinking about pretty deep philosophical and ideological questions without making it all that clear that you are *discussing philosophy* and the apporach is so unique to video games.

like, you create a character/faction who clearly is not the good guy in the story but they give you the chance to “debate” them in a sense - the way caesar talks about his motives and ideology forces you to think for yourself. like, this is *not* a moment where you are supposed to see that “oh, maybe this faction isn’t as bad as i thought they were - what a surprising twist! they are equally moral as the NCR!”, like if that is your takeaway from the moment you are actually super fucking gullible, because, yeah, ceasar is quoting smart men he read a book about and yeah, he might actually think that his approach is correct but you need to apply your own knowledge of morality to the situation.

like if you see these people torturing and killing civilians and latching people to crosses and calling everyone that isn’t like them a “degenerate”, then maybe the ideology of their leader doesn’t matter. also, you have to think about if he is just misusing said ideology to *sound* like that is what he is doing, to *sound* morally right so that people join him, despite knowing it’s bullshit. like, the game doesn’t force you to come to the correct conclusion, you have to actually think about if what he says is actually meaningful and correct and the game does not chew up the right answer for you. like you can end this game working for the actual fascists because they have a compelling leader figure and maybe joining the faction makes you see it for what it is. like, if you aren’t smart enough to realize that ceasar’s legion aren’t the good guys, you have to play along with them until you yourself go “wait, are we the bad guys?”.

disco elysium also does that a lot, like it never just *tells* you if a person is morally correct in what they are saying or if they might try to decieve you by sounding big and impressive to hide their very bigoted agenda. you have to actually think for yourself a lot and realize, that even people who might have *some* correct opinions, do not have all of the correct opinions. that is why i loved that they made kim, who is probably the most beloved character in the game and someone you often look at as a moral compass, a centrist. like. he isn’t a confrontational person, or anyone who is looking to change the status quo and a lot of his morals and ideals he has otherwise don’t mean all that much if he tries to keep his head down all the time. like, you could actually look at kim in the game and say “he usually has opinions i agree with, he probably is right about that”, but to the game kim being a centrist is actually more of a moral failing and a character flaw than just a reasonably held belief.

while i have some beef with the explaination as to why the deserter *did what he did* and there is like, a billion more examples of three-dimensional characters in the game, i loved that the deserter - the only *actual* communist you meet in the game - is a massive asshole, who is incredibly sexist and racist and just a complete cunt, not so that you go “wow, so communism sucks too :/”, but to see his failings and also the failings of communism to be something you need to be mindful of when calling yourself a communist, that you still have to be a good person and also have an actual community. like this guy doesn’t exist so that you go “communism bad, actually”, but that you can see that he isn’t wrong about everything, but he still *is* wrong about things.

like, i love that, i love the way these games tell you “if you take people to be either 100% correct or 100% incorrect all of the time, you will never learn to actually find your own standpoints on topics but always just copy other people’s morality. if you don’t learn to think about your own ideology, you will copy other people’s flaws and harmful ideologies without realizing it and you will have to learn the hard way that you are wrong”.

and a lot of games that try to discuss political ideology or societal issues (cloudpunk comes to my mind rn, but they are not the only ones doing that) are so scared of “confusing” players by having bad people have good traits and good people have bad traits or have a person with a bit of a misguided ideology or have people try to convince you that their bigoted ideology is actually good, because they are scared that people will think they endorse bad ideologies or advertise fascism. and bc of that they make people really one-dimensional and always point out, who is right and who is wrong and people basically lay out their bad intentions for you, so that you don’t actually confuse them to be a good person and i think we should force players to actually use their brain sometimes

#myposts #Disco elysium #fallout new vegas #fnv #also. yeah. i didnt like cloudpunk #like it had its good parts but overall. not a really good game ghjags #also hbomberguy showed a game awards scene from DE winning best narrative where they thank marx and engels and that shit is so funny #like. at the GAME AWARDS #the awards show with the least intellctual quality in the world

[thedragonagelesbian]

why are we even talking about the accessibility of art when we could be talking about the democracy of art

#hot take art is never going to be 100% accessible because it is always going to reflect sensibilities that are different from your own #some art shouldnt be 100% accessible as a means of protecting those involved (i.e. #deliberately obfuscating Black art from white audiences as in the case of the black trans archive) #some art IS needlessly opaque and obfuscated and designed only for self-aggrandizing intellctuals #making that art accessible is imo a less worthwhile project than making sure ppl who ARENT self-aggrandizing intellectuals #can express themselves in the medium

[lorisystem]

Throwback to when i was 17 or somth like this and i randomly decided to comment on yt on this song i liked a lot- which is, when you read between the lines, about murdering ones gf bc she stopped being in love- and this song helped me understand a lot how my evil ex felt about me so i wrote somth about that in the comment and every incel in the comment section piled up on my comment to tell me i was evil n i probably deserved whatever he did to me etc etc lmfao

- ???

#lorisys #ask to tag #idk why i thought it would be a good idea to interact with this bands fanbase in any way shape or form. they make a lot of songs #about unrequited love or feeling wronged in love or wanting to die together or feeling like love interests dont live up to expectations etc #and their music also has this pseudo intellctual aura to it. so yea i lov them a lot but unfortunately this style attracts the most #unsavory ppl out here.

[daemonhxckergrrl]

cracked cyberpunk on underspec hardware via proton would be based af

fuck intellctual property

peak entropism is "I will make you work even if you shouldn't"

and you're lying to the software

#daemon.md #proton #cyberpunk #my pc already cries at me running it in windows but we shall see

[kiribaku]

waittttt omfg greatest hits dropped last year. no wonder waterparks was my top artist. well next year they're dropping intellctual property... we'll see

#I'm really excited for the album. I like the singles a lot so far but I need to hear the rest #I usually end up liking a non single the most lolol #like fuzzy for greatest hits

[pharaoh-khan]

[hopkinaton]

Frustrations andRandom Mental Illness shit, im going in a spiral

I know im talking about this to an audience of no one but self-hate has me by the balls as of late. i hate that im stuck in my small room as people my ag get out of community and go to college. i fucking despise that i talk too naively for my age or that i cant get a stable job for myself at age 20 everyone assume im a intellctually disabled man for that shit. like i throw myself on my bed and start having tamtrums and trying to hide it from my family thinking im having a aspergers trip because of wholly irrational shit, like not getting a job and thinking im mentally 16 by everyone and that i should be punished and outcasted because of that. it helps that im precieved by my parents as a mentally retardant man (doenst help im autistic too) that cant be in the real world by himself so they shame me from time to time which is nice, there also still too protective that their child (who is a full grown man) cant go outside because ill be thugged or reported by the police. i know thats because they care for me but they could be a bit less jarring about it too

#grammar and spell checking are for stable fools

[birdmodetruther]

i am on the intellctual.,.... avant gard.e..... mainstream path of thinking.... i am a corporate financeur..... my novels will flow like water through the rivers of "barnes and noble"

[sulfurista]

We layed on his soft white sheeted bed, and there were kilometers of distance between us, even though I could feel his warm skin touching mine. Just before that he joked "wanna have sex?", he couldn't even dream about the reality, that was that I spent the last few days constantly considering the option. I laughed at the joke, and quickly transformed our spontanous chat into an intellctual discussion, hiding my passion behind thoughtful opinions and calculated speculations regarding the topic. We dropped it. I didn't give him enough signs. I hid my secret passion while laying with my back on the bed and my feet up resting on the wall. I'm stretching - you can't be horny while you stretch. Ballerinas don't have libido, they just turn their feet out a little more and tuck their tummies. The wheels of thought spiraled in my head, round round round. As he seemed to start falling asleep, I was left once again with my speculations, calculations and hypothesesis. "-it's hard" I said. "-I wouldn't say it like that". "-So how would you say it?" "-tempting" he said.

[tasmiq]

Metamorphosis

Experience of a blessed transformation

New and complete vision gained

With, through and out of love

Penetrative of all the senses

Intellctual, physical, emotional and above all, spiritual

Resonance at all levels of being

Gratitude for quenching an unknown thirst

Alhamdulillah for the fulfilment of well rounded desires

Amounting to indescribable bliss and beauty

An unexpected transformation from the travails of a mere caterpillar

Borne into a butterfly

Ya Shakur Ya Wadud

[starlight-student]

august 17, 2019

my first post since going to college!! i started making my semester overview in my bujo :-)

#study #studyblr #studying #bujo #bullet journal #bullet journal inspiration #bujo inspo #bujo inspiration #college #my bujo #starlight student #starlight posts #starlightstudent #heyaly #athenastudying #einstetic #intelliqents #intellctuals #studyblr2019 #lookstudyblr #stvdybuddies #heyabby #Hey Sareena #heystudyblr #indiaisstudying #pretty pink studiez #noodledesk #studyspo #college inspiration #college stuff

[studylei]

18 january 2019 | perhaps it’s too early to do a february spread but anyway

#studyblr #studyspo #studyinspo #bujo #bullet journal #aesthetic #monthly spread #heyaly #acadmia #curiostudy #einstetic #intellctuals #studyblr2019 #stvdybuddies #mine #mine: 1819 #mine: bujo

[abjectifying]

thursday, april 5, 2018 ⋅ notes on multiplying and dividing rational expressions

notes inspired by @studyquill

Hi guys! I’m so sorry for not posting in the past few weeks. I’ve really been struggling with time management lately and I’ve been finding it difficult to get back into my normal schedule. May is starting soon, and I’m looking for this new month to be an opportunity for me to become a better student!  

#academiix #acadmia #heyaestudier #adriana-studies #athenastudying #einstetic #equaticns #focusign #hufflepuffwannabe #intellctuals #intellectys #lycheestudy #nerdstudies #obsidianstudy #rhubarbstudies #jiyeonstudies #uglystudies #studyquill #lookstudyblr #studyblr2019 #stvdybuddies #heyaly #original #notes #math notes #math #algebra #algebra notes

[studi0a]

On the left you have my notes from lectures and on the right is notes from when I’m revising and I transfer my lecture notes to separate books. I find that this helps me understand and remember things better (especially for biology!)

#study #studyblr #studying #maths #logarithms #studyspo #layout #studyquill #athenastudying #intellctuals #academiix #einstetic #itshannyb

[kiribaku]

I cannot wait for intellctual property to drop its such a man slut album oughghg. waterparks my beloved boy band ❤️

[theinhinyera]

hi everyone!

gelique here, a sorta new studyblr. i said sorta ‘cause i’ve been lurking around this lovely community for years now but every attempt to create a studyblr always turn out to be a disaster. anyway, i am hoping this one would turn out pretty well, as i really need something to look forward to on my last year in the university (hopefully). 

why theinhinyera?

inhinyera is basically a term in my native language (which is filipino btw) for a female engineer, and since i am an aspiring civil engineer, i thought, “why not?” + i think it is very unique.

about theinhinyera

i am currently on my 5th year as a civil engineering major at the university of the philippines - diliman. crossing my fingers that i’ll graduate this coming june 2019 and see the sunflowers bloom. 

why did i start this studyblr?

like what i said earlier, i needed a major motivational boost for this year as i will be taking up most of my majors + thesis (which i do hope will turn out for the good hahaha). and since i also notice how helpful this community is in terms of motivating each other, i decided to join as well. 

my study inspirations

@emmastudies @studying-engineering @studyquill @studyign @intellctuals @eigenshit @pinkmangostudies @study4engineering @enggrblr @enjoying-ce and a lot more (+++)

also if you are a studyblr, please do like and reblog this post so i can follow you if i still haven’t. let’s all study together!

#theinhinyera #newstudyblr #engblr #studyblr #studyspo #studyquill #emmastudies #studying-engineering #studyign #intellctuals #eigenshit #pinkmangostudies #study4engineering #enggrblr #enjoying-ce