And also: Tomb Raider Crash Bandicoot Mario bros. Diablo Age of Empires 2

Turns out most games I used to love I ended up disliking the sequels. Can’t think of one that has gotten better.

Age of Empires 2 is still so good.

Agreed. And the visceral hate for Sylvanas that was very clear at least in the gamer dudes I was around was also always very sus.

I did try to play in Shadowlands for a bit. What an utter bore it was.

In discourse news it looks like the libs on the social medias are getting fresh outrage aneurysms about the WaPo electoral stuff. I keep seeing post with stuff like “fascism is imminent” or “here look at me rebelling by cancelling my wapo subscription”.

The hubris was so cringe and oh boy once the Blizzard shit really hit the fan later, could not overlook that. Online friends had the energy to pester me for a year to come play the dragon expansion or whatever, but as a lass it all just became a huge 🤢.

World of Warcraft, everything after Legion. Not that some parts weren’t bad before that.

About 10 hours.

Has to be a bit surely.

Oh god that flag line up is like the who’s who of the Axis of Evil.

Oh god, these ovens have always been nightmare fuel for me as I’ve worked with these in bakeries and large food factories. Always thought that all it would take is a slip really.

What a terrible way to go. :(

I suppose this depends a lot on where you are from. In my uni the neoliberalization of studies has paradoxically made studies a bit easier for me because so much is done remotely or by book exams. And this will only increase in the coming years. The “covid is real and should be avoided” years were when I went back and thrived in the remote learning environment.

But they do enforce attendance as a norm. If a course is in person, it’s really hard to get exceptions for it. My grades took a hit as soon as the world decided covid is over and studies became hybrid.

I have managed, but I credit this to my own understanding of my neurotype and an ability to work with it better, not the uni. This is my second try as an adult. It is definitely an ableist environment, nothing shows this better than the full covid denialism that took over everywhere.

I’d still say go for it. I wrote my first thesis about neurodiversity, leaning hard into my special interest which made it easier.

Oh I sympathize after reading this. This was basically a 400+ page celebration of Pikettys U-curve. So many words, so little actual substance. A lot of self-righteous arrogance too.

Some points: Class isn’t relevant today. Revolution is wishfull modernist thinking. And the only relevant class violence was “the genocide” of upper class people in the Soviet Union.

Also nationalism is a result of imperialism which is the only thing that made class relevant.

China is obviously imperialist and authoritarian with deep inequality.

They just throw this stuff into these books, it’s draining.

Oh I am exhausted… Been reading: The Return of Inequality : Social Change and the Weight of the Past by Mike savage. Because this is stuff I have to read for my uni exams.

The book started out ok, clearly the author has read his Marx. Then sinks into the most clear anti-communist brainworms possible. I keep reading thinking “what never reading Lenin/Stalin does to a mf.”

But he then has the audacity to name his last chapter “What is to be done?” And first fully dismisses Lenin only to then move on to saying that we need to get rid of the growth motive.

Sigh. This books calls capitalism all things except capitalism and tries to explain most things without any material analysis of them. I suppose this is pretty radical for a London school of economics guy, but omg what an exhausting read.

It’s such an odd thing for someone who comes from a country where your vote has been constructed as such a private matter that often members of the same family don’t disclose their vote to others. I also found this to be very odd growing up, but came to understand it through the heightened stakes of class and a class war that isn’t that far back in history that has over time been co-opted by the bourge “civilizing” mission of neutrality and being apolitical in your everyday life.

The vote then has become something protected that was dangerous to reveal in the past, that has lived on to this day, turning this into this unwritten social norm. It isn’t proper to ask anyone who they voted for, much the same way salaries can’t be discussed.

As a result nobody here would put signs like this anywhere where they could be associated with them. I’m not at all sure if this is better in any way from the US lawn signs, but it sure is different.

Gas stoves never really got popular where I live. Been cooking on a electric stove all my life, not induction. Have had to use a gas stove in cabin conditions and the chance of accidentally leaving the gas on and such always freaks me out. Also I dislike having to fiddle with the flame, electric is far more predictable.

Have raised a family aka cooked a lot for a few decades with an old school electric stove just fine, have also worked in kitchens and bakeries that had similar stoves. Very much a cooking person myself.

I think it’s just what you get used to.

I always had a good feeling about this one based just on the genuinity and sincerity I read from her and her argumentation, hoping I won’t be proved wrong in the long run.

Gretas character arc has been the most beautiful example of neurospicy intellectual inquiry and honesty, it makes me feel so happy and also seen.

She grew up seeing the planet burn, tried the bourgeoisie okeyed ways of protest etc., it didn’t work. Came to the logical conclusion that libs can’t get to and I think her neurotype explains some of it. A great role model, a great human all round.

Dude is trying to sound so smart and yet keeps on failing at it spectacularly.

This seems to be the play, after all they seem very interested in “an access to the Arctic”. The fash here really learned nothing from the nazis burning Lapland as they left.

One of my favourite lecturers, a seasoned older lady who was very active politically in the 70s just quoted Fanon and is talking a lot about solidarity in the uni lecture I am attending right now.

Love to see it!