don't go in a space shuttle
As awesome as it was in concept, that thing was a safety nightmare from the very beginning. With every other manned spacecraft if something goes wrong during launch you can blast off and land the capsule safely in the ocean, but with the shuttle there were large portions of the ascent and descent profiles where, if something went wrong, you were going too fast to turn around but too slow to make it to space so you were just hosed.
Authoritarianism is not doing what America tells you to.
Bandera is in the game already if Ukraine becomes independent and fascist (although if Nazi Germany conquers them they can put a different German fascist in charge). HOI4 just kinda pretends the Holocaust doesn't happen, which kinda whitewashes the fascists but also I don't want to know what the HOI4 community would do if the Holocaust was actually in the game.
I liked this video. I've never heard the term "metamodernism" until now but the way he explained it makes sense. It's like people want to return to the escapism of older films but they can't quite let go and be totally sincere about it, which is why you get soy banter and shit. I've always preferred what this essay terms "modernist" films and I suspect a lot of other Marxists do too, as Marxism itself is a very modernist philosophy, even if we are also aware of the terrible lessons taught by many films of that type.
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I tried to think of a second rec that's also vegan friendly and came up short. Could be an interesting story - isekai'd into a world where you're expected to hunt monsters, but you reject the premise and become a high fantasy Steve Irwin protecting endangered magical creatures instead.
Anyway for anyone who was intrigued by Goblin Slayer and wants something with that vibe but without all of the problematic shit, Dungeon Meshi is really great as long as you're not vegan.
You know, even when I was a kid I thought Magneto's plan in the first X-Men movie to turn everyone into mutants was fucking baller and they should have let him do it. Just 'cause that one guy turned into a water monster doesn't mean that would be the default - the X gene expresses way differently in everyone who has it.
An no, I don't think giving every human the X gene constitutes genocide, that's fucking stupid.
Shot by a rental cop in a fucking Walgreens. You could burn every Walgreens in this country to the fucking ground and it would still be less of a loss than a single person's life.
I'm on the list
tbh I haven't enjoyed my time on an internet forum like I have this one in many, many years. Y'all keep being cool :soviet-heart:
I don't even feel disappointment when people I watch online turn out to not live up to the values they espouse anymore, I just feel numb. Are we all just hypocrites who haven't been tested yet?
As the founding fathers intended.