It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly
Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
It’s funny how obviously American a show Invincible is when it’s willing to depict the most gruesome violence imaginable but is too prudish not to keep its heroes’ pants intact when they smash face-first through the center of a molten planet core.
The Tower of Babel in a TTRPG
For a creative OSR Bronze Age TTRPG, check out my review of Let Us Build A Tower. cayzle.com/screeds/book...
As famously documented by Martin Scorsese!
I remember when Black Easter was listed on IMDB as an upcoming sequel! My friends and I who group-watched Assassin were so disappointed to learn it was just another cut
Assassin 33 A.D. sucks so hard. I can’t recommend it enough.
I literally whispered to my partner in the theater, “That was the best scene in the movie.”
I would say exactly the opposite, in the OSR circles I run in. Tends to be quite a sharp bunch with a lot of interest in the history of the hobby and history in general. That said, you go to enough cons, you eventually run into a few incurious chuds. Luckily they're a small minority.
You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.
The most effective way to prevent trans adults is to eliminate trans children. The far right understands this, so the focus of its anti-trans strategy is to create an unlivable environment for trans children. Trans people also fully understand this. The democrats and mushy center don't understand it and react as if it's just reasonable "adult" things like transgenderism be kept out of schools and kids' media. They act as if those kids aren't trans already, in the schools already
Trans people are a wedge. Attacking gays stopped working, so Republicans attack trans people to get at gays. Trans minors are the wedge of the wedge. They pick on the subgroup that can't defend themselves and which Democrats are least likely to stand up for To Democrats, this is a reasonable "compromise". Let go on the trans children, focus on the more winnable rights for trans adults. For trans adults this is obviously, axiomatically unacceptable because *we are all ex-children*. Anything done to children is something that was done to our past selves
Somewhere right now there is a ten-year-old child who is, for all practical purposes, me. She is experiencing something she cannot explain or yet understand. She is in an unfriendly environment (Texas? Alberta?) that does not help her understand, punishes her when she tries to figure it out herself.
When I see trans children being legislated away, I think: I care more about what happens to this child than what happens to me. I want her to reach forty-one without being broken and damaged, like I am from all the things cis people did to me. I want the next me to have a better life than this one.
This is my trans agenda
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I’m in a book-and-movie club where we only read books adapted into films and then watch the adaptations together, so, yes, quite a lot recently! It’s fun conversation fodder.
[Triple A game talking head of a dove]
HOLY SPIRIT: Yo J, good to see you're awake.
JESUS: Felt like I just did 10 rounds with the Devil.
HS: No time for that now. You see that fig tree up ahead? Go up and press triangle to investigate it.
J: Don't tell me. It's not bearing fruit.
“brb asking ChatGPT what 20th century Austrian said the unexamined life is not worth living.”
Utterly ignorant of the most basic, sweeping concepts of history. And finding a soft j way to blame Jews like Freud for the invention of western guilt instead of, y’know…the core doctrines of Christianity?
“Great men of history didn’t sit around doing this stuff” Doesn’t your entire *class* of Guy lionize Marcus Aurelius as the great philosopher-king of history??
“Four hundred years ago it never would’ve occurred to anybody to be introspective” God these guys are actually illiterate.
Aw, that does a body good to hear. Thanks for sharing, Sean!
So I’m in a 900+ person discord server for Shadowgast. In the channel where people share their home games, I just got to witness someone organically share their love for my friend @calebwimble.bsky.social‘s game! This was so cool! (Shared with permission from this user, who said they’re a huge fan.)
I think we can thank Suzanne Simard for her pioneering work revealing the mycelial forest networks by which trees share nutrients and information through root-connected fungi. It was just about the coolest science revelation in years and quickly spread to all corners of our collective imagination.
Ahead of the Oscars, the Alternate Ending crew and I took some time to look back on the movies of 2025. We had *very* different perspectives on the year as a whole, but films like Sirāt and The Testament of Ann Lee had us all equally jazzed for reflection.
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Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash
Laker Fans Furious As Bam Adebayo Dies In Even Worse Helicopter Crash
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
slay the spire 2
My 9 Games meme: Link's Awakening, Civilization II, Warcraft III, Morrowind, Portal, Dark Souls, Hollow Knight, Slay the Spire, Outer Wilds
Formative then, top of mind now.
SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.
Plenty do, in the evangelical sphere. I grew up surrounded by this ideology.
Might’ve been socially easier to ditch her shitty husband, at least.
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin