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@ShitpostRock2 Lilura’s crpg writing is fantastic - the nwn builds and module reviews are particularly great. Got me onto swordflight which is absolutely magnificent. Also certainly not a woman. Far too autistic.

Rare gem from Bluesky

@AFL What are we trying to do?

"Blind Freddy can see what we're trying to do and it's frustrating in the short term, but we've tried to patch this together in the past and we're not doing that again." Brad Scott fronts the media after the Bombers' loss to the Dockers at the MCG. #AFLDonsFreo

@OVTweetmarck @TheCatholicEngr Popped off

@TheCatholicEngr He exploded

I miss this guy. I wonder how he's doing in life.

@Cpcc15 Nah

Is Brad Scott smart enough to think his way through situations to at least stem the flow in games like this?

@AFL Fraud

"We pride ourself on our work rate and we got a lesson today." Sam Mitchell on the Hawks' loss to Narrm. #AFLDeesHawks

@ProudBavaria Voltaire btfo once again, you love to see it

The Holy Roman Empire was holy, Roman and an empire.

@bernardtjoy @OVTweetmarck It’s just a brainlet get out of jail card for shit they think they don’t care about. But in reality everyone cares about fidelity in storytelling. Mess with a story they love and watch the pitchforks come out.

One disturbing thing I've heard over and again in the last few days is people saying that The Odyssey is myth, not history, and so "it didn't really happen" and therefore we can play as fast and loose with it as we wish. This shows a deep, dangerous misunderstanding of myth.

HEATHEN What weapon will you choose? Wishlist now.

@saintiyla Based as hell. Shout out to dad.

my dad was like ill get left for dead 2, dead space 2, and dragon age origin for my 11 year old daughter

@TJGameDev This looks great!

It's finally happening. Tabletop Tavern launches June 11th! A medieval RTS roguelite I've been building solo since the pandemic. Total War scale battles, Slay the Spire run structure, one satisfying run per sitting. May your ale stay full and your enemies distant 🍻

@Howlingmutant0 Bring back Deidre!

I may transition - God knows I’m a sexual failure and I could certainly use the attention. But I’m not gonna be a Madison or an Amber or something cute, I need to be realistic about it and be an Edith or a Helga or something

@DailyMail @CityBureaucrat Courts are cooked

Transgender woman wins groundbreaking 'what is a woman' case after she was kicked off a female-only app in Australia trib.al/qHHzEzw

@Keir_Starmer Tyrant

I’ll always champion peaceful protest. But the Unite the Kingdom march organisers are peddling hatred and division. We’ve already blocked visas for far-right agitators who want to come here to spew their extremist views. They don't speak for the decent, fair, respectful Britain I know.

@AesirAesthetics Bloodborne is about Sony’s greed and our collective seethe 😏

Bloodborne is about the conflict of Enlightenment and beasthood (insight and blood, phantasm and vermin, Isz and Loran, Great Ones and Beasts) It's also about the horrors and beauty that are unleashed when the boundary of the world is broken and the malice and madness that is born from the human desire to know Yes, women suffer in these games, and yes, they suffer specifically because they are women, but men also suffer and specifically because they are men Saying femininity is not a massive theme running through Bloodborne is absurd, but to say it's specifically about that is sort of limiting the work to only one of it's component pieces

@NiohBerg @MBjoernhagen I would reckon 300 had nearly zero impact on Iran’s modern image. Argo certainly would have though.

@MBjoernhagen You say that, but imagine what it does to our image when it's the only major film to feature Iranians, next to the equally shitty Argo.

The Greeks now feel the same anger that Iranians have felt for 20 years.

@jmrphy Forgive me, what does radical alpha mean? Is it unique ideas? The only “content” I’ve ever engaged in on literature has been from people who very clearly read the books. You’re probably right in that there may be an inauthentic creator trend but still niche, hardly a catastrophe.

The Great Books trend of the past 5 years has been a total catastrophe. The simple fact is that Plutarch and Homer and Virgil et al. do have radical insights buried in there, but at the same time most of these books are truly boring and lame and most people pretend to like them, cannot really digest anything, and get absolutely nothing from them! The trend is overwhelmingly powered by these books' aspirational quality; it's like a luxury heritage brand that conveniently only costs $15 a pop. The people on social media who've made brands around how great all these books are, often they are trying to *express* something about *themselves*, which is nice, but does not change how lame and boring the lion's share of these books are! You don't have to pretend to love them! If you're teaching undergrads that's great, or doing real research, fine. But this in no way means that everyone should read these books; it does not even mean that the smartest and most educated adults today need to read these books. The bits of radical alpha in them are great to find, explore, and write about if you are in the .01% of people who are called to do such things, but there is really zero reason why anybody else should read any of these books. Frankly, many of these authors are even somewhat primitive and infantile compared to the best thinkers of modernity. Plato and Aristotle have tons of provocative alpha worth getting, but also they were retarded on many topics, especially religion. The Romans were even worse in many ways. But all of this gets shrouded in the cult of Great Books. There have never been more people professing to love the Great Books, and mass public culture has never been lower brow than it is today. A ton of larping and precious little education, virtually zero novel insight, has come out of this movement.

@shoe0nhead @Awk20000 >hasan right now

@Awk20000 there's no coming back from this

Shoe0nHead addresses Hasan bringing up her Wikifeet with SmugAlana Also ends her video with the “I’m a Champagne Socialist” song "Whaaaaat..did I listen to what that woman said? No absolutely not, let me know if I can see ur feet tho..honestly it would be gigachad if it came from anyone funny or likeable" "If the chatter didn't even bring it up, why did u bring up Wikifeet?" -SmugAlana "I have a higher feet score..is this what this is about? He’s been footmogged..if I sold pictures of my feet would he use this as an insult? No bc he's Mr. S-positive, Mr. S-work is real work, Mr. Br*thel Boy..she's stupid don't go watch the video guys"

@bronzeagemantis I would do an Australian returning from the shores of gallipoli after fighting the dreaded Turk. Gets distracted by the tarnished lustre of the Mediterranean. Maybe a trek through India, dying soul of empire. Return home, bitch wife cheating on him.

Nolan is a huge pussy …if he wanted it would be legitimate to reimagine the Odyssey entirely eg in west Africa of 1400 ad or even in Congo of 2000…but by his choices he shows extreme slavishness to dull convention and that he’s mentally trapped in opinions of his time

@ceaubin You’d think a historian would care (and hopefully know) about the historicity of the Trojan war. And then care about the historical fidelity of a retelling of the myths surrounding it. What a cowardly position. I bet there is actual fiction you would want treated with respect.

@Howlingmutant0 @EWErickson Nolan is similarly a fuck it kind of guy when it comes to historical detail and authenticity. We really wanted an eggers doing it.

@EWErickson I remember people saying this about Napoleon and Ridley Scott

Sorry y'all, but it is Christopher Nolan. I'll go see the Odyssey and probably enjoy it because it is Christopher Nolan, and I'm going to go into this assuming the guy who brought us Interstellar and the Dark Knight knows what he is doing better than Twitter.