Materialist Gnostic

"the dawn wall" has to be the name of a real thing that most sounds like the name of a thing from a fantasy novel

I never played the games so I don't really know how explored it is but I really find the "fascist government find itself in a war of existential survival" dynamic of Halo fascinating

depends where you draw the line. imo as long as the pilot isn't contributing to the force exerted by the machine it's a mech.

too busy doing war crimes

I kidna want to go back and see if Gina is as grating as I remember her being

slightly larger than human mechs probably make sense for urban environments. something that can walk through an apartment complex but is immune to small fire has real utility

there are a lot of lessons you can take from the 2024 election but I don't think any of them should make you respect the median voter *more*

just learned my dad is gay. I'll have to tell him and my mom when I visit for christmas this year

I appear to finally be making progress on killing the succulents that have survived ~2 years of my intermittent watering and otherwise benign neglect

still less weird than Alyson Hannigan deciding that the move after two beloved long-running TV series was to be the announcer for Penn and Teller's TV show

watching Shrinking and, man, I feel like Jason Segel should've gotten more work. HIMYM and then a decade of the middest comedies of all time

I tried to connect this to the topic better but getting the thought out where everyone else could see it turned out to be more important

the rare sub power bottom

I did go back and watch ATLA, but for the most part I haven't really been interested enough as an adult to go back and catch up

my parents had very strict screen time limitations on us growing up, so I have almost zero exposure to the classic kids cartoons of my generation. I've seen probably four or five episodes of SpongeBob, for instance

I tried to watch Love, Actually because it's supposed to be iconic. I think I got about a third of the way through before I completely lost interest

going to my antifa super-soldier assignment and getting told I have to hunt down Mencius Moldbug. I put on a brave face but everyone knows I'm embarrassed they don't trust me with the Miller account.

there is something sort of poetic about the endpoint of conservativism being one man, possessed of more power than anyone in history, cocooned in an endless phantasmagoria of fabricated nostalgia designed to appeal specifically to him

this is an insane cultural artifact

(well, not *just*, I do agree with your criticism, but I just want everyone to know I dislike the account for petty reasons in addition to substantive ones)

I just object to the methodology. I don't want to see shithead crashouts, I want to see good posts. the "Louvre of Tumblr" isn't the dumbest thing someone said in the Homestuck Wars, it's the spiders georg post

he is actually on record as having said that he thought Elon buying twitter would move him left, because it would expose him to more bad-faith right wingers, because he is completely self-aware about how his brain works, he's just unwilling to fix it

we must maintain a MattY enrichment enclosure consisting exclusively of right-wing morons

Noah MattY schism when?

we have invented a guy who doesn't want to fuck, but for Horny reasons

not sure the anti-asexuality treatment worked right

I think mark zuckerberg is doing this

I wonder how much the trust and safety teams at social media companies drink

am I missing something or is saying "lack of self awareness" just saying "it's not conscious because it's not conscious"

my concern is you'd get an Alex Jones cycle where they take over the party