that dude’s wikipedia article is a wild ride

i’ll be damned. sorry i don’t follow sportsball obviously

best of luck to them

a FIFA World Cup

would fifa deal with the hurdles involved in getting that many foreign brown people into amerikkka?

LOL turns out that “come see fascism take root in real time” isn’t quite the selling point we thought it was

can’t wait to see the one for the re-re-re-re-reboot in 3 years

i don’t remember what the threshold was for me, it might have been having to defend the bloody baron from mobs while he’s carrying his undead monster infant to a burial spot-- the sort of thing that would make me say wow, that’s about the most warped thing i’ve seen in a game-- i need to see the whole thing!

it took me a couple attempts at W3 before i really got into it, but after that i played all the way through. as a habitual game DNFer. it’s a masterpiece

lol i requested one of those things when they were giving them out for free, just so there’d be one less out in the world. it’s still in the plastic wrap

hon! hon!

i’ve been on the fence about darktide for a while. after reading this i’ll actually look forward to steam summer sale to pick it up

i’ve yet to see an mfa that is as usable and streamlined as steam’s

changed my pw anyway. i don’t know, and don’t really want to know how much money i’ve got sunk into my acct, but it’s a lot

i would not be able to work in an environment where any colleagues fellate the exploitative bullshit corpo “leadership” with such fervor

i’m glad at least one company is doing shit right

after ~20 years of being tangled up in google and even longer with microsoft, i’m in the process of doing the same. sooo many accounts, it’s hard to realize how embedded you are until you start removing all those tendrils

“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

-Vonnegut

i haven’t read the book yet–does it include advice for keeping yourself safe (leave phone at home, don’t use google, etc) while going outside and taking action with others or standing out, setting an example for others? because you’re basically making yourself a target at that point.

the “can’t live without a phone” culture/mindset is intentional of course, to harvest your data and spy on you

currently looking to replace my smartphone with a dumb one, but there are a lot of things i have to find solutions for like MFAs etc–things that require my own research into what can reasonably be considered trustworthy

“let’s make a deal! you give me all your land and everything in it, and i won’t just waltz in and take it!..probably. maybe.”

it’s not just me

https://theconversation.com/snobbery-in-the-academy-is-alive-and-well-and-doing-harm-32037

https://www.beyondphdcoaching.com/academic-career/academic-arrogance/

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2505473/hidden-barrier-to-intellectual-growth

hell, someone actually wrote a fucking paper on it

https://www.iosrjournals.org/iosr-jhss/papers/Vol.29-Issue4/Ser-4/G2904044951.pdf

this sort of comment is exactly what i’m talking about. taking a blatantly metaphoric (cliched even) statement literally, and arguing against that, and then asking me to explain how private personal relationships might affect one’s general overall attitude? really?

but seriously, if you’re just trolling–keep practicing. if not, then thanks for illustrating my point.