Carl [he/him]

I’m imagining Marx writing a dissertation on the water economy in Caves of Qud

Thirty on thirty

Cowards couldn’t even let Magneto actually destroy that Navy squadron.

Need to have a Magneto movie, I’m thinking the plot is that he wants to stop the government from doing fashy shit, gets stopped by the X Men because Professor X wants to the fash out of office, the fashy shit happens exactly like the fashy government guys said it would, Magneto gets busted out of plastic jail by radicalized former X Men, saves the world by killing a bunch of fashy government dudes. Film ends with him standing by Prof Xs grave, who was killed by the FBI, and teasing a sequel where he will fully overthrow the government. It’d be the best X Men film since Logan.

All government buildings go with the worst, blandest color imaginable.

Agreed, I replaced the pads on mine with higher quality ones almost immediately.

(posting this emoji cleared 800 hectares of the Amazon rainforest)

ran into a person on lemm.ee who is doubling down on the idea that “authoritarianism” is only when governments do it and that corporations and private citizens cannot be authoritarian.

The moment that sticks out in my head was, I think JD Vance, saying “we need the federal government to take over California because they just can’t run their own state anymore” or something to that effect.

And it’s like, this shit is all they would do. Flood already-flooded farmland and accomplish nothing. California’s water management has problems but it’s not a lack of knowledge about how to manage it, it’s the fact that it’s all privately owned and operated for the profit of the owners rather than the benefit of everyone.

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Also, calling it now, but if there’s a fire in that part of California before the reservoirs refill they will totally blame Californians for it despite the draining being their own awful idea.

If you didn’t buy the FF7 NFTs then you are not a real ecoterrorist.

That’s like how a manga artist would draw the main character’s pet.

True fact I have a pair of MDR-7506s that I use for all headphone-related purposes. No bluetooth ear bud can hope to compete.

You should DEFINITELY seek out the communism side quest. I think it appears in your journal as something like “make contact with your fellow communists”? There are a few people who will point you towards the event I’m talking about that are missable if you rush through the investigation.

I do it whenever I’m playing something like Factorio, but not if I’m playing something for the first time (like I currently am FF7 Rebirth) and actually want to hear and focus on the experience.

Right now I’m watching old YouTube stuff I like, yesterday it was Red vs Blue but I stopped around halfway through season 7 cuz it was awful and now I’m once again rewatching all of HBomberguy’s videos.

I like Quinton but damn he made over 40 hours of content about live action 2000s Nickelodeon shows and there is no way I’m sitting through that. Most of the rest of his content is good though.

The only thing I ever seem to learn about foreign cultures (across space or time or both) is that the people in them were basically the same as the people everywhere else. All differences are directly attributable to material conditions.

Plus we all know which parts of the government are absolutely not getting cut by

Been rewatching Red vs Blue. I love it but they really shoulda killed this show off after Season 2, maybe keep going to 5 but that’s where it really, really, really needed to stop.

They made HOW many episodes!? THERE’S A MOVIE!!!???

Kurtzman is such a hack. The whole “oh you think your society is good well I’ll have you know it’s actually made possible by BAD PEOPLE doing BAD THINGS in the SHADOWS” is the kind of shit that a teenager would think is really smart. Coming up with ways for the Federation to uphold its principles in the face of challenges to them would actually be much smarter than defaulting to a vision of the CIA in space.

And it’s totally fine to explore the idea that the Federation doesn’t always live up to its ideals. That’s the theme of a lot of episodes in every series. But New Trek has lost track of the fact that the Federation has ideals in the first place and its become pulp sci fi slop.