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high-voltage-rat · 2 days
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I think it's fascinating that the quotes:
"Have you forgotten sir, we were at war? A fight with an alien race for the very survival of our species. I feel I must remind you that it is an undeniable, and may I say fundamental quality of man, that when faced with extinction, every alternative is preferable."
"When you spend every day fighting a war, you to demonize your attackers. To you, they're evil, they're subhuman. Because if they weren't, what would that make you? What I'm trying to say... is I've been afraid to see you for what you really are. You're our brothers. Our sisters. And the things we've done to one another are unforgivable."
"These guys want to use us, take us away from our families, and send us all over the dad-gum galaxy just to test if their agents are ready for the big fight? Well... guess I'm interested in showin' em exactly what a big fight is all about! So I'm not ordering you to go. I ain't even asking. You do what you gotta do, Private."
came from the same series whose standard fare is lines like:
"What in the hell are you two doing?" / "We're being executed by our own men, sir." / "Cut it out."
"I only drink the blood of my enemies, and the occasional strawberry yoohoo."
"You always said I could sleep when I’m dead, Sarge, and guess what? I am dead. This purgatory is about to become purga-snore-y, yawn!"
...and both categories manage to be a poignant statement about the nature of war and what it does to the people in it.
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diversegaminglists · 1 year
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My cat had another expensive operation today.
7 teeth removed (she has FCV and some Siamese ancestry so very suspensible to gingivitus) and a possibly cancerous mammary lump removed.
Here’s a picture of her being blissfully unaware last night.
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the-pokedestined · 1 year
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I’ve never asked for help from the internet before. I am raising funds, as I’ve no more options, and this is quite possibly the worst situation I’ve been in ever in my entire life. Shares and reblogs are appreciated, of course. I’m a non-binary disabled person who has no safety net when it comes to family. https://gofund.me/737c6c9a
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goober-nator · 9 months
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the art print from @nesstolgia 's store arrived! this one is AMAZING!
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champion--hawke · 2 years
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how many times does tumblr dot com need to reinvent discrimination before we learn that hating people based on uncontrollable characteristics, regardless of what they are, is bad and wrong actually
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corpsebrigadier · 2 years
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Sorry to be fact checking "BUCKLE UP!" style reproductive rights posts when you probably follow me for 90s JRPG takes. This is just the perfect storm of things that make me uncontrollably angry.
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unfairaddiction · 2 years
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I hope Nori gets to be evil and do crimes <3
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Last Line Tag
Tagged by @rakimaiirisa Thank you ☺❤
a little late doing this but here we go.
Morning at his place, a burnt toast on a Sunday, I keep his shirt, he keeps my words and for once he let go of his mind, of his own fears and of his own ghost, a single step, one single touch, he saw enough, he heard enough, he stops then say, you're my one and only, love..
Tagging @worldxwonders and anyone else who wants to do this. No pressure doing it if not wanting to. :)
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bloodstainedmuzzle · 1 month
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Resident Evil 4 Remake (2023) Leon S. Kennedy [ 1 / ??? ]
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bookpdf · 2 months
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there should be more hours between 6 and 10pm. like even just two more hours. for my assorted hobbies & activities
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high-voltage-rat · 8 hours
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Actually I'm still thinking about it. Another interesting way in which RvB is anti-war is the way that the Director fills the role of a villain and antagonist (especially in the Recollections trilogy, where he's a faceless villain we never see but is responsible for everything that happens).
In his memos to the Chairman, the Director emphasizes his sense of duty and obligation to the military- he becomes irate for the first time when he feels that it's being implied that he was derelict in his duty... or that the work he did out of that duty is being criticized for being against the military's interests. He also talks about Allison's death in a way I find... interesting.
"You see; I never had the chance to serve in battle. Nor did fate provide me the opportunity to sacrifice myself for humanity as it did for so many others in the Great War. Someone extremely dear to me was lost very early in my life. My mind has always plagued me with the question: If the choice had been placed in my hands, could I have saved her? [...] But, given the events of these past few weeks, I feel confident that had I been given the chance, I would have made those sacrifices myself... Had I only the chance."
The idea of sacrifice is central to the way he talks about his wife's loss, to the way he talks about the war in general. He talks of sacrifice with a sense of veneration- that it's something he aspires to do, that he longs for. There's a few ways we can interpret "I would have made those sacrifices myself"...
-That in Allison's place, he thinks he would have laid down his life too.
-That if given the chance, he would have given his life to save hers.
But most interestingly...
-That he would have sacrificed Allison's life for the continued survival of humanity, if that was what duty called for.
...And personally, I think all 3 are true.
In most war media, the Director's perspective on sacrifice is very common. Sacrifice is glorious and heroic- to die in battle is an honour- and it's the only way to ensure the group you serve survives. This is a tool of propaganda- nobody wants to go to war just for the sake of it, you have to give them a reason that the risk of dying or being permanently disabled isn't just acceptable, but desirable. Beyond that, most people don't want to do things they think are immoral- you have to convince them it's important, a necessary lesser evil. You teach them to sacrifice their morals, too.
The way they train soldiers to follow orders and to kill, is to convince them that they, and the people around them, and the people they care about, will all die if they don't. It's drilled into your head from day one. It's the way they ensure their commanding officers won't shy away from sending their men off to die. The message is constant- sacrifice is your duty, and duty ensures your people's survival.
In the Director's eyes, the damage Project Freelancer caused was his sacrifice. He never got the opportunity to sacrifice himself during the war- so he sacrificed others, as military brass do. The Freelancers- including his daughter. The countless sim troopers. Any people he considered "collateral damage" on missions. And when the opportunity to do so presented itself, he sacrificed a copy of himself- Alpha- and he sacrificed a copy of Allison- Tex.
The very thing that derailed his life- the loss of his wife- he made it happen again. He put her copy in dangerous situations, let her exist in the position of constant repeated failure, created the circumstances that would eventually lead to her death. He put their daughter in deadly situations that nearly killed her repeatedly, provided her with impossible expectations leading to self-destructive behaviours in the name of duty, implanted her with two AI knowing they could cause her permanent harm. He was confident he "would have made those sacrifices himself" because he did.
The Director is the embodiment of the military war machine. As an antagonist, he is a warning against buying into the glorification of sacrifice. He's a condemnation of the idea that one should be willing to do anything to win a war- that duty to the military is the thing that ensures survival... All the messages that are pushed to ensure recruitment and obedience of soldiers.
He's a reminder that swallowing the propaganda leads to you doing terrible things... and in the end, you're a broken man left mourning the losses that you suffered even as you repeated them, convinced that it was all necessary.
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diversegaminglists · 1 year
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Honey’s come down from the pain killers and just wants to burrow in my bed today.
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the-pokedestined · 1 year
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Happy Torkey day, my dudes
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retrogamingblog2 · 6 months
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unpretty · 2 months
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as a kid i thought i would graduate from kid problems like cleaning my room to adult problems like jobs and taxes. but instead i have a job and taxes and still have to clean my room. cleaning my room is a lifetime problem. i will never stop having to put my markers away before bedtime. this is a rude way for aging to work.
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