Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
Seeing “Cass Informed Psychotherapy” is like running into “Crippen Informed Holidaymaking”
I have an opinion on this clip which I'm realizing ties into some deep childhood lore of mine that I don't have time to explain right now
anyway: I think the kid is right to decline the draw
it's the political equivalent of MAHA. the way to treat the cancer on the body politic is to pretend it isn't there, and do stuff that might be marginally helpful if the system were healthy.
isn't this the guy who was saying that Democrats' number 1 priority, on getting a trifecta, should be national fusion voting to break the two party doom loop?
Stupid goo goo nonsense. The only way to get fair districting is to pinch republicans in the mouth enough until they agree to fairness. Doing this with Callais days away from ripping up the VRA is so stupid I don’t know where to begin.
A lot of games I loved growing up were from having a lot of time to just lose hours/days to dumb game breaks/wrong builds. Special shout out to Daggerfall a broken mess I dearly love that no one should waste the amount of time I did with
@kirbyconrod.bsky.social this an island violation or no?
"[by the 1970s] in some quarters the West itself was imagined as a source of oppression rather than liberation" oh man that's crazy. did something happen? that led draft-age men to think of the US as a liberator in 1945 and an oppressor in 1975?
yeah I kinda doubt that the pushback he was getting was about the phrase.
though he deserves pushback anyway for saying "can we use it to look in the mirror and not just circle the wagons." more clichés than a Katy Perry song
haven't read beyond the registration wall, but was this a different occasion from the one where he suggested "not just circl[ing] the wagons" with respect to Trump? because I can think of some valid reasons to scold him there
again, I'm not a bishop or even Catholic, but "The evaluation of these conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good" sounds to me like "civil authorities must consider this," not "*only* civil authorities *may* consider this"
perhaps relevant, I see that the inaugural issue of the Journal of Natural Law doesn't have anything to say about just war doctrine
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"the just war principles function... as heuristic devices"? I'm not Catholic but what? Is he saying that the just war principles are ceteris paribus, because I don't think that's how it's supposed to work?
woohoo another journal of affirmative action for right-wingers
to be fair the discussion of integralism is a symposium of a book that criticizes integralism, but this is like the "against infanticide" of political philosophy
“…in any given week there are scandals playing out in Cabinet departments, sub-Cabinet posts, and outer-rings-of-Trump influence that never even make the front page — and yet most of them would be bigger than the biggest scandal to hit either the Obama administration or Biden administration…”
you could cast an impeccable lib in Michael Shannon and have him do the big speech, but that would be a good movie
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trying to think of what the lib equivalent would be. Jimmy Fallon is Ferenc Gyurcsány, the guy who lost the Hungarian premiership to Orbán?
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Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.
It's so funny how much Zionists sound like the most ineffectual, anti-persuasion leftists, despite being ideologically opposed. "There's nothing we could've done, and fuck you for victim-blaming" is an attitude straight out of every internecine Left argument about taking a loss I truly hope more Leftists can learn from and understand the importance of persuasion, coalition politics, and pragmatism--and ditching ostracism/social pressure as tactics--by observing how badly it's failing for Zionists. You don't want to be like the Zionists!
the deep incoherence of "what we do or say irrelevant to our public perception because some of our opponents are acting in bad faith" is much easier to see when it's people you don't like saying it x.com/i/status/204...
ah yeah, then I take back that part
(Nuclear Throne doesn't do that, every level is continuous. at least every level I reached)
(also I looked up some NT vs. Gungeon comparisons and maybe I'd have a better time with Gungeon because it's not as hard)
don't mean overmap as a separate screen, but that movement around the level is a way of getting you from one fight to another instead of being integrated into the fighting
(maybe this is true of Gungeon? I just watched a video and *thought* you could open a door without clearing the room)
the other thing about Binding of Isaac is I just don't enjoy the basic gameplay. that might not have been an issue with Enter the Gungeon because I liked Nuclear Throne fine, so I can be OK with top down bullet-hell procgen etc. games
(also: Nuclear Throne is from 2015 and had a dodge roll)
my favorite deckbuilder is Slice & Dice because it retains interesting challenges/choices at the tactical level
my curse is that the mode I'm by far the best at is the one where you can spend a long long long time with an engine that plays itself but requires lots of clicking
("eventually" being "well before I could beat the second area," so skill issue probably)
not that new rewards in VS were contentless, they did new things, but it mostly seemed to get to the endgame of "you watch the screen blow up"
to me, what makes Cookie Clicker (which I despise) feel like a slot machine isn't randomness, it's the way it keeps your semi-attention with promises of the next reward and those rewards turn out to be contentless
and Vampire Survivors felt kinda like that too eventually
this may be not quite fair, because apparently Enter the Gungeon doesn't have the main thing that makes Binding of Isaac feels non-roguelike to me: consisting of discrete battles on an overmap
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oh in the ten years since this bullet hell roguelike came out, the roguelike genre has transformed into something unrecognizable from then? away from the fundamentals of Binding of Isaac? do tell
I might not buy one now anyway, but if I had been able to consistently keep an iPod Classic going I would probably still be using it
do you have a plain jane mp3 player you recommend? I bought a cheap one after my iPod died and it also died real fast
I found an article that said "The last of the old-school MP3 players. It's simple and easy to use, however. It seems to be finally discontinued, unfortunately"