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Strong @k-simplex energy imo

jenny holzer x lana del rey

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original -> http://seiga.nicovideo.jp/seiga/im9155062

#pixel lain as she should be

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Yeah its can be simultaneously true that there are a bunch of bad actors right in the protest- I followed the Columbia stuff in more detail as an alumn and, yeah, I see a bunch of legit acts of anti-Semitism in the "gets yelled at" variety, which does legitimately suck, that is a rough experience of discrimination. But then you have people like Jewish community leaders in the city telling the press "we don't think the campus is safe" and bro you can go to your biochemistry class, its fine! Stop making shit up! 99% of students don't protest at all, and of the 1% who do less than 1% would ever directly verbally yell at a random passerby. You are legitimately, actually more likely to get mugged going to your local grocery store while "staying safe at home", stop fucking LARPing the Night of Broken Glass for clicks.

Periodic self-indulgent reiteration of the fact that, yes, because "ivy league" school protests get ridiculously outsized media coverage and generate inane political grandstanding like congressional hearings, the overbearing response to the event in fact makes the events socially relevant, and a self-fulfilling prophecy is still a prophecy fulfilled...

...but that doesn't the change the fact that everyone involved in that attention spiral is a complete idiot and we all should be treating these as no different from any other protest of a similar scale. I dream a hopeless dream of a world where people don't just invent crises out sheer boredom and pavlovian prestige jerkoff sessions, a dream that will never be of course but one worth complaining about at least.

#And ofc this applies to the other side too - inventing threats is the default state for these things

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See, that is exactly the trap though! Who are you talking about? Its 1% of the student body, of people who are overwhelming hugging the age of 20, who are students. There has never once been a time in the history of modern universities where that group hasn't been a bunch of morons - completely independent of this specific issue, even if they protest an issue correctly they will be morons in a million other ways. If society insists on treating a biased selection of kids as a symbolic stand in for elitedom just because their parents are rich or smart, then they are just as stupid as the kids! Don't do that very dumb thing!

Periodic self-indulgent reiteration of the fact that, yes, because "ivy league" school protests get ridiculously outsized media coverage and generate inane political grandstanding like congressional hearings, the overbearing response to the event in fact makes the events socially relevant, and a self-fulfilling prophecy is still a prophecy fulfilled...

...but that doesn't the change the fact that everyone involved in that attention spiral is a complete idiot and we all should be treating these as no different from any other protest of a similar scale. I dream a hopeless dream of a world where people don't just invent crises out sheer boredom and pavlovian prestige jerkoff sessions, a dream that will never be of course but one worth complaining about at least.

#dw I know you were speaking rhetorically ofc

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I personally don't think is a strategy with much real benefit - there are worlds when it can, the marginal investors are not in fact all made equally and people sleep on the impact shifting investors norms can have on what gets funded and what doesn't, but defense spending is not one of those worlds - but it is off topic from my main point ofc, which has nothing to do with efficacy one way or the other!

Though fair if someone heartily believed in divestment strategies then they could think Ivy protests are more efficacious as they are targeting larger endowments. I think most people don't really think they are, so I don't feel compelled to detail it, but if you do fair enough at least.

Periodic self-indulgent reiteration of the fact that, yes, because "ivy league" school protests get ridiculously outsized media coverage and generate inane political grandstanding like congressional hearings, the overbearing response to the event in fact makes the events socially relevant, and a self-fulfilling prophecy is still a prophecy fulfilled...

...but that doesn't the change the fact that everyone involved in that attention spiral is a complete idiot and we all should be treating these as no different from any other protest of a similar scale. I dream a hopeless dream of a world where people don't just invent crises out sheer boredom and pavlovian prestige jerkoff sessions, a dream that will never be of course but one worth complaining about at least.

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Periodic self-indulgent reiteration of the fact that, yes, because "ivy league" school protests get ridiculously outsized media coverage and generate inane political grandstanding like congressional hearings, the overbearing response to the event in fact makes the events socially relevant, and a self-fulfilling prophecy is still a prophecy fulfilled...

...but that doesn't the change the fact that everyone involved in that attention spiral is a complete idiot and we all should be treating these as no different from any other protest of a similar scale. I dream a hopeless dream of a world where people don't just invent crises out sheer boredom and pavlovian prestige jerkoff sessions, a dream that will never be of course but one worth complaining about at least.

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So on the one hand its a "worse" EU4, on the other hand EU4 isn't going to also have the Fall From Heaven mod where you can play as distaff Sauron literally corrupting land tiles or have hero units picking up magic swords and casting fireballs, OR the Rise of Mankind mod that quintupled the tech tree and gave us continents spammed with maglevs lines and forcefield-domed cities. It was the flexibility of the series in Civ 4 that did it for me - you could kind of staple anything onto the "city-and-tile" system it had and it would come out alright. I do respect Civ for that even if of course that makes it a jack of all trades, master of none kind of deal.

i would enjoy the civ series a lot more if it didn't have, like, a paper-thin pseudo-historical skin on it. i guess i'm no fun, but george washington fighting the aztecs doesn't feel like a game about history. it feels like weird nonsense mad libs.

the crazy thing is that SMAC showed a reskin of the basic civ concept was a terrific delivery mechanism for lore and a fun new setting. not just far-future science fiction either. you could do something with fantasy like Lords of Magic, or a postapocalyptic setting, or a more focused historical setting. but the cartoony theme park version of world history just doesn't engage me in the same way.

i think this is also why i find the civ scenarios a lot of fun. they're much more focused and structured in terms of narrative. they scratch that 4X gameplay itch without ripping all the signifiers from their historical context in a way that leaves them meaningless and empty.

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I think I am in this same general camp but I always just played civ games with so many bespoke scenarios and customize layouts and such that it just was as historically 'accurate' as I wanted it to be. True start resource-accurate Europe maps for the win I guess!

i would enjoy the civ series a lot more if it didn't have, like, a paper-thin pseudo-historical skin on it. i guess i'm no fun, but george washington fighting the aztecs doesn't feel like a game about history. it feels like weird nonsense mad libs.

the crazy thing is that SMAC showed a reskin of the basic civ concept was a terrific delivery mechanism for lore and a fun new setting. not just far-future science fiction either. you could do something with fantasy like Lords of Magic, or a postapocalyptic setting, or a more focused historical setting. but the cartoony theme park version of world history just doesn't engage me in the same way.

i think this is also why i find the civ scenarios a lot of fun. they're much more focused and structured in terms of narrative. they scratch that 4X gameplay itch without ripping all the signifiers from their historical context in a way that leaves them meaningless and empty.

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Been watching the original Sailor Moon with partner (@stifledlaughterao3) and there is this character, Motoki:

He is Mamoru's (Tuxedo Mask) genki bff and in Season 1 a crush of Usagi's, and overall is just a general good civilian friend of the whole squad and a recurring character all the way through Season 4. He never appears in Season 5 (I think) for no stated reason, presumably because that season stuffed a healthy dose of new boytoys into its ensemble and needed to balance the scales by putting some others on a bus, but anyway...

In the aforementioned Season 4, the main plot is a Snow White Queen style villain capturing people's "Beautiful Dreams" (shown as mirrors) in a hunt for magic crystal (its Sailor Moon, its always a magic crystal). Said crystal is btw protected by a pegasus/alicorn prince with whom Chibiusa fulfills the deepest fantasy of every eager horse girl in the audience:

Get it girrrl don't let your dreams be dreams. But anyway (again)... the minions of our Distaff Evil Queen raid everyone's dreams hunting Chibiusa's beau, and I mean everyone's; at some points they are just dragging bodies by the truckful to inspect mirrors:

Those are the mirrors - I promise you the piles of bodies they got them from are just off frame. Point is, pretty much everybody has got a beautiful dream, which is why its so hard for these minion girls to find the needle dream in the haystack, insane hairstyles or no.

Season goes on, villain finds the macguffin, fighty fighty plotty plotty and it all culminates with the villain having sealed away all of humanity's dreams in darkness and Chibiusa & Usagi calling everyone to channel the power of their dreams into a planet-wide counterspell. Or Tokyo-wide at minimum, Chbiusa speaks like God from the sky over Tokyo and huge crowds go glassy-eyed to help her:

Even our boy Motoki's sister Unazuki jumps in to help, yelling into space as a confused Motoki tries to figure out what is going on with her:

Which...wait a second, why isn't Motoki helping? Everyone else is! He is the only character on screen in this sequence in Tokyo who isn't helping. Its not just girls, you see plenty of guys, its not just "kids", we see a confirmed late 20's school principal for example doing it too.

I get that not literally everybody had a Beautiful Dream probably, but like everybody the main cast interacts with does! Its used frequently as like an inherent, thematic statement of the essence of humanity, and its lack as a serious problem. So wtf is going on with Motoki! Why doesn't he get a dream?? I thought this would have some like nitpick explanation, but digging in I can't actually find one, I think he just...is dreamless, and therefore by implication kind of sucks.

This is literally the last time you see him, too! Dreamless and confused. My new headcanon is this moment outed him as some form of an alien spy minion and he was summarily executed by the post-dream-apocalypse reconstruction authorities, explaining why we never see him again. Rest In Peace, Motoki - in death may the void of the universe finally meet the void of your heart.

#sailor moon

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Judaism truly the most universal religion in that there is no group for which the right context cannot make you "the Jews of [X]" in the most unfortunate way.

“When they (the Congress) were in power, they said Muslims have first right over resources. They will gather all your wealth and distribute it among those who have more children. They will distribute among infiltrators,” Modi said to thunderous roars from the audience.

“Do you think your hard-earned money should be given to infiltrators? Would you accept this?” Modi said.

infiltrators...

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Implying that Taylor Swift isn't a fascist smh

would you a marry a swiftie with the same politics as you or a fascist with the same taste in art as you

this website has elevated suicide bait to an immaculate artform perfected like no other culture in history

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Written after observing our discord AGOT games I presume

finally starting this classic!

#He means retarded as in slowed down or delayed ofc in case anyone was actually confused

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Art credit https://twitter.com/CoreyBrickley

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Submitting The Swirl of Magic to Yuletide next Christmas

@stifledlaughterao3 and I were reading a "book" she wrote in fourth grade that an old friend found in their house and mailed her, and the plot revolved around a group of 'alpha wolves' who morph and fight other (were)wolves, and a meeting with a mysterious black wolf who is "nice, and also cool".

You get one guess as to what kind of fics you will find on her Ao3 today if you go looking.

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The same thing happens when you are playing Kanon, never fuck with trees in visual novels

People hyping up the Tree in Tsukihime so constantly is so great, because I liveposted my readthrough in my discord to some friends, and my reaction to seeing the tree background for the first time was just so dismayed.