I’ve been using the em dash a lot — decades! — due to influence from reading a lot of classics from the 1800s when I was a child, and I do it with the spaces around it for visibility, readability, and clarity. The spaces don’t give anything away.

Just very short sessions but in that case I decide the game just isn’t worth it. The very act of getting motion sick from it makes me not want to play a game.

I could probably try zofran or some other anti motion sickness medication, but I don’t want yo have to take medicine just to play a videogame

Hades: extremely queer.

Damn. Why can’t I ever lathe something good?

Blue Prince is cool but spooky and made me motion sick.

I still haven’t gotten around to playing the original Oblivion so idk why I would bother with a remake. I have not generally found remakes or remasters to be worth it at all because part of the charm of the games is their art style and jankiness, historical snapshot in the time of a game remake. Thank fuck Remedy never decided to make a Max Payne (yes I know ACAB but I have a weakness for noir, it’s so good) remake because the janky graphics are part of it.

I tried the Spyro remake and preferred the original – they butchered the art style. These older games made good use of the fuzziness and lower resolution to evoke a sense of grandeur and opportunity. Adding too much detail and resolution actually robs from them. I worry about that with Oblivion. I think Demons Souls is the only good remaster I’ve seen and part of that is just that it made such big quality of life improvements to inventory management.

Could the baguettes be phallic imagery?

On the one hand this is bad, on the other hand the saber rattling over Kashmir is a time-honored. tradition at this point. war is off the table.

RIP, cutie <3

I sympathize greatly with the feeling of not wanting another pet. It’s been 6 years since my budgie died and I still can’t get another one – I just want him back. Animals really do have such unique and special personalities. They’re just as much individual irreplaceable people as we humans are

OK, $1800 cash then.

Inshallah this guy gets his identity stolen via that faucet

For real. You’d have to pay me $1800 to let some smart faucet into my kitchen.

Skill issue. It’s not fair that this failson can just burn $1800 on an inferior product while normal people go hungry.

Haven’t seen it before but it’s a good one

your argument is based in idealist moralism, not actual material analysis. your moral condemnations are admirable but entirely useless and a typical example of liberal westoid smugness and edgy circlejerling.

your argument is based in idealist moralism, not actual material analysis. your moral condemnations are admirable but entirely useless and a typical example of liberal westoid smugness and edgy circlejerling.

EXACTLY. See also the New Atheists like Richard Dawkins deepthroating the war on terror

Yeah, or any sort of indirect - non-confrontational communication. As I’ve gotten more experience I’ve learned to take it as a red flag in and of itself, though. I need someone who has the strength and decency to do direct communication. I know why people won’t – trauma, fear – but having been in failed relationships with people who wouldn’t do real-talk or direct communication no matter how safe I tried to make them feel, and seeing how that put unfair burdens on me and sabotaged those relationships, now I just won’t fuck with anyone who can’t be direct and upfront.

Still awful though especially because this sort of indirect communication is often the result of systemic sexism and gendered pressures and violence.

Sorry. At least now that band-aid is ripped off and hopefully you can heal and move on from it. Better to know than to prolong the uncertainty.

Look, this -ass take provides a crack for reaction. The new atheists ended up going pretty fascist because it was a short hop and a skip from “religion bad” to “and that’s why the war on terror is good! Because it’s killing Muslims!”

As porcupine said, religion is not the primary obstacle to revolution.

Given that the majority of the world is religious, we aren’t going to win by telling them they all have to stop being religious before they’re allowed to be Marxists. Better to meet them where they are. It is quite likely that religions will lose their hold naturally as a better world wrought through Communism leaves fewer unmet needs that require Religion to cope with.

This is a ridiculous hill to die on.

Not saying we all have to be religious – I’m not – but there’s a reason the new atheists over at ( .com/r/atheism) largely went fascist.

You and they basically follow the same sort of prescriptivist vs descriptivist approach to politics and religion as TERFs apply to gender. They define “man” and “woman” in a very narrow way that ignores how people actually are and actually behave and then apply those definitions. Similarly the “I’m 18 and just figured out that God isn’t real (or I’m 40 and haven’t learned anything in the last 22 years)” crowd construct an idea of what religion is and then condemn all religion for it. It’s often more understandable because a lot of us get to atheism from accruing some sort of religious trauma but our trauma does not grant us clarity, it lets us see some aspects of the truth while risking blinding us to others.

The materialist, descriptivist fact is that Religion varies far more than these simplified prescriptivist models account for. I know Muslims who drink. I know a Catholic who denounced Pope Benedict for being against gay marriage. A friend knows an openly gay Catholic. There’s massive differences in beliefs within Judaism. To pretend you know what’s in the heart of every religious person because you think you read their holy text is arrogant and foolish.

The Bible is very clear that you cannot pick and chose, that you have to accept the full book or none of it, you can’t just take the verses you like and still be Christian. To be a good Christian who follows the entire Bible you must be bigoted

This is exactly what I mean. Prescriptivist. But look at what people actually do and how religion actually functions and you’ll see that plenty of Christians don’t follow that. Why are the ELCA Lutherans fine with gay people but the Baptists condemn them?

Then there’s a whole thing about the role of religion in different communities and ethnicities. Yes I have contempt for the conservative white evangelical weirdos that harass people outside Planned Parenthood, those people are assholes. That doesn’t mean the people going to the Ethiopian Church near me are bad people. They’re both Christians, but their actual religions, religious practices, and values are vaaaaaaastly different.

You’re fucking painting with a broad brush here and then wondering why people get pissed at you.

There are certainly reasons to take issue with Religion, but it’s not actually a fight worth having this way.

I have seriously pulled religious friends to the left by talking about how pretty basic “universal” human morals like take care of each other and don’t let people starve to death align with Marxism. Wouldn’t have gotten anywhere saying “akshually, in order to care about other people you have to first stop believing in your religion and lose your community”.

Peasants in Europe expressed sentiments about class warfare long before Marx, and they did so using the language of religion because that’s what they had. “The LORD gave the land to all to be held in common; why should the nobles lay exclusive claim to it?” or “When Adam delved and Eve span, who then was the gentleman?”

I used to be super anti-theist, I looked down on religious people, but I learned that that was just a silly product of some trauma. People have feelings and ideas and will express them in the language and stories they know. It’s not so much that religion drives people’s ideas as that people’s ideas drive how they express or engage in their religions.

And YES, yes, religion can and is used to make very horrible oppressive structures, havens of sex pestery and abuse. But I’ve seen those same cultish dynamics come about in completely secular martial arts spaces as well. To blame religion is to miss the actual problem and shoot yourself in the foot when it comes to trying to address it.

Can’t believe I’m going to bat for Christians, I usually only get like this when I see people being Islamophobic.

Religion has had incredible staying power. I don’t know why, but it has. Even many people who leave religion just recreate religion and nonmaterialist thinking oftentimes – see the ex-Christian atheists who get really into astrology and crystals, for example. While I do not believe in anything spiritual or supernatural, I think it is completely pointless to fight with people about it.

Also, lmao at condemning all of Christianity when Liberation Theology is based as fuck. Lmao at condemning all of Judaism when there are so many radical leftist antizionist atheist Jews activists struggling for Palestine. Lmao at condemning all of Islam when the religious fervor of Islam helps oppressed and colonized people stay strong in the face of brutal, brutal oppression from the global north. Just fuck this idea.

New War Thunder leaks coming soon?

Glad it could be of solace. I have the same feeling tbh. Made a former friend cry about it years ago when she was freaking out about there being no afterlife. I told her “exactly, and that’s good because it means that eventually the suffering will end!”