Thanks to the new Zelda game, I am getting back into loving video games and making time for them. I’m playing Ocarina of Time atm :)

Also, I’ve been reading The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. So far, really nice, but not anywhere close to the end yet. Same goes for Moby Dick by Herman Melville (the racism gets unbearable though). And then, I’ve been starting my journey with Nietzsche, I chose Ecce Homo to begin with.

Lastly, some music! The new Lana del Rey and Danny Brown x Jpegmafia albums have been on repeat. Been getting into the group “Lamp” as well. Bad Bunny released a song a few days ago and I’ve been absolutely addicted to it too.

Hope my beautiful comrades have been well, love you all! Remember to take care of yourselves and your circle.

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      Once you finish consider watching the movies. In particular ST:2 The Wrath of Khan is an all time sci-fi classic. Star Trek The Motion Picture has the huge production budget (they wanted to compete with Star Wars but soon learned they weren’t going to break out like that) but a kind of different story, not bad but I’m biased because I grew up on Star Trek and love it. Of 3-6, 3 is required just to understand an important plot and cast point, 4 has a certain time travel and ecological messaging charm, but 6 is really the best of the bunch after 2 and 1.

      You can actually watch ST:2 without watching ST the motion picture but 2-4 do form a story arc so if you want to watch any of them you should start with 2 and work through. 5 and 6 stand on their own.

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    Bought a new (second hand) bicycle and pannier bags and I did some minor upgrades on the bike. I’m now ready to do trips by bike with my tent. I have the first trip planned this weekend, a small 150km tour. I’m really looking forward to the freedom the bike will give me (versus going on trips by car).

    I’ve been enjoying some Dutch 80’s and 90’s pop lately. Bands like Klein Orkest, Doe Maar, The Scene, Abel etc. Never really listened to them but I somehow relate to their music now.

    I’m also enjoying family a lot more. I always used to be a friends kind of guy but in the past year or two I’ve grown closer to my gf’s and my own family and I always look forward to seeing them these days. My youth was kinda heavy on my family and me so it’s good to finally be able to be close to eachother.

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    I managed to set up a little ‘pond’ (a glorified tub) with some rocks and a water plant. It’s attracted some local amphibians and I feel like a proud parent watching them grow. It makes me remarkably happy watching nature flourish, if I can call it that.

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      Hell yeah! I wanna do that soon. I sort of did it a couple years ago, but it’s really just a glorified toilet for my ducks. I love aquatic creatures, and have some sea-weed, algae, snails, and so on in smaller containers, but I wish they could be outside (beyond being eaten by raccoons or whatever).

  • @tamagotchicowboy@lemmygrad.ml
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    Been reading Caudwell’s Illusions of Reality, more theory than a light read but interesting since I have almost 0 arts background. I want to re-read a book about fractals I read as a child after I finish with this.

    Haven’t been doing too much gaming lately, my mood’s been frankly too low, hope to maybe do some modding and playing with a really old version of Blender though.

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    I’ve been massacring spotted lantern flies, trees of heaven and bitter-sweet (invasives) while listening to Marx Madness. I’m so glad to have finished ‘Evil Geniouses’ (socdem theory) and feel obligated to write a lengthy review of it. I should be getting an ereader soon, and intend to read many many things on it. I’ve been mostly listening to random nu-metal, from limp bizkit to linkin park, but a couple days ago I was listening to ashnikko, and today I listened to some Fela Kuti. I’ve been playing platformer and mirror games on coolmathgames (don’t judge, I am a child).

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    I played the new Zelda game for a bit then dropped it to do a second playthrough of Elden Ring. Enjoying it so far.

  • @CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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    I’m surprised you’re starting Nietzsche with Ecce Homo. I don’t think I’ve read that work, but I think that’s the one where he jerks himself off a lot. I think Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, or Geneology of Morals are better places to start. Also, which translation are you using?

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      I picked Ecce Homo because I think if I have some background from the man himself, his other works will open up a bit more. Yes, he does jerk himself off a lot LMFAO. I’m debating whether I wanna go through his things chronologically and see how he grows, or if I just wanna go through the most popular ones.

      For Ecce Homo, I’m using the Anthony M. Ludovici translation.

      Any tips would ofc always be nice <3

      Edit: I’ve been laughing nonstop while reading it. I don’t find the insane confidence he has annoying, just really funny. Also, this man HATES Germans, and (who could have foreseen this) HATES women. Surely he’ll have good opinions on minorities! /s

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        I don’t have any tips unfortunately. Nietzsche is anti-communist, but he has a mesmerizing writing style. “Philosophizing with a hammer” as he put it.

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    Good thread idea! I’ve been playing a decent amount of UFC 4 and having fun beating on anti-comm fighters, idk if Merab Dvalishvilijs is in the game but I wanna go after him especially for shit-talking Stalin(real brave, who’s gonna defend Stalin publicly?)

    I’ve been re-reading Critique of the Gotha Programme and Blackshirts and Reds on my break at work. It’s also really nice out lately so I’ll often sit outside and drink Yerba Mate while reading Motorcycle Diaries. Occasionally when I’m bored I read a lil mini-magazine of factoids and stats about Michael Jordan’s basketball career.

    When I’m not listening to my Lefty playlist of mostly Soviet Chinese and Cuban songs(many other nations, too many to mention), I enjoy listening to 80s pop90s Rap, 90s-2000s Rock, 70s Soul and R&B. Not necessarily in that order. I love Simon and Garfunkle. Not a huge fan of America, but I love the song America by them. Paul Simon in general is pretty catchy, crazy to think about his range of songs he can do.

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    Where I live, the weather is only reliably warm and sunny from May to September, so if I haven’t been posting as much as usual, it’s because I’m enjoying the heat of the sun, the taste of roasted almonds, the sight of my friends, the sound of my marching band, and the smell of woodruff.

    Other than that, sometime around February this year I discovered that I am not quite as abysmal at algebraic geometry as I thought when attending the lecture, and I fell into a really cool rabbit hole of weird indie animations like Midnight Parasites, Double King, and (OO). (TW: (OO) contains VIOLENTLY graphic imagery of the common cold)

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    I like my job. What the heck?

    Customer service, front-facing type beat. Cashier type beat. It’s all so fake and corporate, right? I don’t know. I love talking to people. Even though the problems that arise are always always always the fault of capitalist inefficiency and they piss me off to no end, people tend to be so grateful and kind whenever I solve em for em - a machine accusing them of theft, a coupon not properly applying etc.

    Like, all I’m doing is helping them pay way too much money for desparately needed groceries. But… I’m naturally smiling at work when I’m frowning at home. I like my coworkers. I like my regulars and they like me. I’m beginning to make connections that feel genuine with people my age – I’ve had a few customers ask to add me on social media and I’ve obliged - because I’m a vegetarian, because I’m an atheist, because I “seem cool”. It’s so weird!

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    I’ve been making a bunch of changes to the Lemmy UI. I have no idea when they’ll be merged, but it feels cool to actually work on something other people and I use.

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    Rewatching Star Trek DS9 almost fanatically in a desperate attempt to take my mind off how absolutely wretched job hunting is in this shithole of a country called the U.S.

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      Must. Rewatch. DS9.

      Me and my partner’s first watch through was on the crappy 480p version, but a few years ago someone released AI upscaled versions of every DS9 season on torrents. Need to rewatch just for that.

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        Yeah that’s the one I DLed I think. It’s pretty nice looking. For whatever reason my Plex server won’t detect it though. Plex has been hit or miss with picking up stuff in my library. Started using Emby. So far I’m liking it way more than Plex. It’s detected all of my media so far that Plex wasn’t.

        DS9 is the only star trek I haven’t rewatched. Voyage and TNG I have watched like 4+ times. DS9 has some of the best moments in trek imo. It also has some truly garbage episodes. It’s like, if you graphed the good vs bad episodes it would look a seismograph of an earthquake. lol. But then you get these acting moments out of the main and guest cast and it really is some good stuff. I just watched the “Gul Darheel” episode tonight and I had forgotten how good this scene was. https://youtu.be/7y2dBhj8sOM

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    I’m enjoying Honkai Star Rail a LOT. It’s AAA quality game with gacha elements, Hoyoverse really has no competition in this market and many people can’t deal with it because it’s from China lol.

    Also been surprisingly enjoying ‘corridos belicos’ a lot, it’s the current evolution of mexican regional music, the lyrics are bad, at best just funny, and mostly talk about getting removed or idolizing cartel leaders but the combination of guitar/requinto/bass is so simple yet so good. Really mindblowing that it’s topping the global charts, something never been done by any other mexican artist or genre.