Having a hard time focusing on reading these days. Gotta get back into the habit.

Wish it tapped target permanent. Bolt and ice a land would be nice.

More brown sugar helps too.

I think my smiling muscles are giving out. I’ve been forcing one for around 100 minutes.

I plan to use my weekend productively and play games. I’ll be playing Chrono Trigger, StS 2, and Magic. I’ll probably eat junk food too.

Damn. I’ve been trying to force a smile all day. I think it does actually improve my mood somewhat. I can’t tell if it’s because of a chemical reaction or me internally laughing at myself.

I finally started slay the spire 2—damn near kept me up all night. It lead me to running my morning Shadowdark game blurry eyed. Honestly, that’s nothing new.

Metroid Fusion. The second Sa-X chase scene is one of the most intense chases in video games. The last two bosses are fairly easy compared to the difficulty spike during that aforementioned
Sa-X chase scene. Cool game. Surprised it took me so long to get around to it.

You’re not the only confused one. I figure it’s a mixture of Israel gets what Israel wants and some island files being discussed too much in the papers.

I started a play through of Metroid Fusion about a week ago.

Just unlocked the diffuser missiles and made my way out of sector 4.

I thought I was soft locked in sector four but there was a secret tunnel. Annoyingly secret.

On to sector six to fight the security robot again.

I was so excited for a moment thinking Ikoria was on Arena

Companions are sweet regardless

My eyes have housed many bugs. Cyclist thoughts.

man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you

I found the prose great. The events in the book hit like a sledgehammer though. Those are hard.

The book Human Acts is an excellent exploration of the Gwangju Massacre

I worry they’d pull out machine guns.

Ice America or MAGA America will have the same ring as Nazi Germany sooner or later.

Fuck.

I hate watching all of this.

They killed a nurse at a peaceful protest.

They arrest babies.

They arrest grandparents.

Arrest is probably the wrong word.

They disappear people.

Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives. Coined by Alexei Yurchak for late Soviet society, it was popularized by Adam Curtis's documentary, applying it to modern Western cultures where complex problems are met with fabricated, anesthetic narratives by those in power, leading to collective cognitive dissonance where everyone pretends a dysfunctional system is working.

“Hypernormalization describes a state where a false, simplified, or surreal version of reality becomes so accepted as normal that people lose the ability or will to challenge it, even when aware of its untruth, often due to systemic inertia or lack of alternatives.”

Probably better food! I miss that spread.

Since when did Waffle House get biscuits and gravy? I’ve been away from the states too long.

Now, we’re talking. We could open packs when we meet up and deck build from a pool we create from those packs and to make it faster limit the deck size to 40. It might even be fun to pass the contents of the packs around and select a card as they loop around.

Annual health check, annual rip a patch of hair off my chest when they remove the EKG thing.

I have feels about about Feels having it’s 20th year release edition. Album still slaps.

The “a” is a typo

Memories of a Murder

They’re omitting the second line, “tomorrow I’ll be strong”

I tumbled leaving a smoking room at the Incheon airport today after my flight back from Fukuoka. Completely missed the step down. Mildly embarrassing. At least I didn’t injure my body. Just my pride. I had so much pride in my sense of balance. Turns out I wasn’t balanced at all.

Why does everything have to be a fucking cult?

Also fuck that deceased guy.

I really hate having a president that makes photoshopped memes. Everything is dumb.

In getting what I want news, I’ve wanted the US government to take stakes in our corporations for a long time like Trump is doing with Intel as it’s a great way to fund public services. But this is a monkey paw situation and none of that profit will go towards useful programs. Just war and fascism.