Chris Pressey

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Being an old timer, I firmly believe that a game should consist entirely of mechanics and that its culture should be transmitted exclusively by the comic book that ships with the cartridge

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One must imagine Sisyphus happy. Like he's got some kind of rock-rolling ASMR thing going on. Can't get enough of that *rumbling*.

I'm not convinced this was out of touch. I suspect it was a deliberately timed "fuck you America" just like demolishing the East Wing was.

Well it's true that he can't change his kids.

However,

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Ah. Beginning to look the part, I see.

They're feeling dug in enough now to be more overt with the iconography.

Earlier today it occurred to me to wonder when Elon's going to add four skewed serifs to that 'X' of his...

Although there is still an element of "Ozzy Osbourne biting the head off a bat" to this one, I now also detect a distinct drift towards "Kim Jong-Il does not defecate and posesses the power to bend time and space".

I understand he has said some pretty choice things about magnets recently. Well, so did Alex Chiu, back in the day. So did Insane Clown Posse. Their fans didn't call them insane.

(Well, ok, I suppose ICP was already literally calling themselves Insane. That's fair.)

In 1982, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a live bat, on stage. His fans didn't call him "unhinged". They loved it. It fed into his image.

You have to analyze these things this Trump guy says, the same way. It doesn't matter to his fans how insane they are. They feed into his image.

"For consistency we could establish a naming convention."
"Well that's just aesthetics isn't it."
"Well it's also about cognitive load."
"Hey does that imply that cognitive load is a factor in aesthetics."
"Hey it does."
"And what does that say about symmetry and tiling."

It's just that whenever I see someone say "Just wait til the midterms!" I'm like, ahh, no, *just waiting* is unwise because it's unlikely that there will *be* meaningful midterms.

Apply pressure peacefully and legally and ideally with material consequences. Shame may be dead but money still talks.

First it was Alex Chiu. Then they got Insane Clown Posse. Now this guy!! Will the magnets stop at nothing!?!?!

The rational assumption at this point is that they're going to do everything possible - both within and outside the law - to prevent free and fair elections.

Thus the chances of solving this at the polling booth is low.

Thus be prepared to take more drastic measures, such as a general strike.

Autumn Tree | Egon Schiele

He will never willingly leave office. He will never acknowledge any action to remove him from office as legitimate. And if he dies in office, his successor will never willingly leave office.

And it shows!

btw, it's "gramps", not "kid".

I am struck by the fact that a software developer can write an entire article about software quality without once mentioning writing tests. Almost gives the impression that they think tests are unimportant for software quality.

I'm straining to imagine the set of Americans who don't care about this event one way or another.

One way: yes
The other: also yes
Not one way or the other: who ARE these people

Don't know what else to say but once a regime has demonstrated a propensity for cheating like hell, it's unwise to assume it'll be possible to vote them out next time elections are held. They'll cheat like hell on those too, see? You need to be prepared to take more drastic action to remove them.

A prop from the movie "Back to the Future 2": a sign saying "Welcome to the City of HILL VALLEY" which has fallen to the ground and has been defaced to read "HELL VALLEY"

The seat of government torn down and replaced by a gaudy tower, you say?

The alternate 1985 in "Back to the Future 2" looking prophetic af right about now.

(The character of Biff Tannen was, in fact, inspired by Donald Trump.)

The US dollar is the world's primary reserve currency, but obviously, if it tanks, that'll change. And crypto is not an attractive substitute for that role.

'Gardening.' (c1945) Discussing Stanley Spencer's subjects of this period, the critic Eric Newton wrote: 'he tends to accumulate objects in his pictures, to relate them to each other dramatically rather than visually, and, above all, to paint them in sharp, harsh definition.'

Accidental art work on house wall #foundrelief #accidentalartwork

I might be confused but how is it capitulation to point out they're going to do everything they can - both within the law and outside the law - to cling on to power? Because they certainly will.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

I have to admit, I hadn't considered the possibility that the demolition of the East Wing could just be a cover for something more insidious. It's not impossible.

Either way, damn straight they're not leaving willingly. They're going to do their dishonest utmost to stay in power indefinitely.

If this is true, it makes a lot of things make more sense.

It should say "not JUST sex traffickers" though.

'The Birch Grove, autumn.' Tom Thomson was a great colourist; he painted blood-red sunsets, ominous storms and clouds of every shape and kind; he had a concentrated way of seeing, a Wiliam Blake kind of vision, which made the ordinary extraordinary. This is from 1915.

The squatter paradigm for despotic takeover.

America is the place where the President can scream "Fuck you America!" over and over in different ways while 30% of Americans cheer it on just like those two cops in Idiocracy watching their own vehicle being blown up.

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