that was also my assertion
that was also my assertion
cuteness will not avail you, flame of Udun. go back to the Shadow!
NO
mulgrew should have been a villain on ‘Remington Steele’
wondering if he’s been given a terminal diagnosis and just wants to knock over as much sh** as possible on the way out
I agree except instead of spite I would say an act of purgative liberty
this insightful conversation between Timothy Snyder and Ruth Ben-Ghiat is both an evisceration and a delineation of current events
youtu.be/xVfevUbyZhs?...
I think about this, but I also think about how Brecht, Camus, Weil, and a host of others also did so much of their work during that time.
Seeing all these posts in the U.S. saying stuff like “things are dark right now, but you’re allowed to feel joy!” and I’m curious if that’s what the Germans told each other as they were letting their government ship people to concentration camps.
listening to implementer Steve Meretzky and head of marketing Michael Dornbrook discuss Infocom packaging back at GDC 1999
archive.org/details/gdc-...
you remind me I once made a short comic about that
kiki and jiji in the mach five, hilarious
I know I shouldn’t be shocked but I am not inured to the cravenness.
War Powers Resolution
House
Republican 2 Yes, 215 No
Democratic 210 Yes, 4 No
Independent 0 Yes, 0 No
Senate
Republican 1 Yes, 52 No
Democratic 44 Yes, 1 No
Independent 2 Yes, 0 No
when I go walking in the hills and the coyote pack starts yipping I say to them in my thoughts “come to me my children” and imagine them carrying me off into the wilderness
yeah our value favoritism based on our varying relationships with differing species is weak
Yeah, I don’t think I can project myself into their refusal to abandon norms from a bygone era. Just don’t get it.
these goofs, from day one
I am Christian. I am a citizen of the United States of America. I reject Pete Hegseth’s definition of both.
one of the first feature scripts I wrote was along these lines, a romcom set in the 90s about an oblivious midwest couple during the Gulf War
Logical conclusion: schoolgirls are acceptable military targets according the most advanced AI and also the unapologetic misogynists in charge
Huh, neat coincidence
listening to the First Aid Kit tribute to Leonard Cohen, it’s pretty good, I like the group reading of “The Asthmatic”
absolutely insane the Senate Republicans voted today to say “the executive branch does not need us”— that being the case, maybe they should all quit
never played MOONMIST, but Infocom-inspired paratext is one of the reasons I’m making some video games, and Drew’s interactive fiction site is interesting— all this plus Warshaw’s Atari 2600 Indy (though I imagine the programmers didn’t write the manuals?)— I’m a manual freak
thereby falling directly into the Reluctant Hero trope oops
bring back those glasses sir
Morpheus or Trinity is trying to get your attention.
I see there’s a podcast as well, hope you’re a future guest, always enjoy your interviews/conversations
more punching, clearly
since they’re so poor at messaging: make educational short-form video series w/optimistic host, take impeachment process from filing to squashing— make it plain how the machine works and when Johnson kills it give that episode biggest push on socials— politics is theatre, embrace it, use it, show us