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@Uncle_Cranky All gaming is a footnote to The Sims

Good evening everyone. New season in The Outlast Trials by @TheRedBarrels so we're going to go through some of the new levels and tasks tonight Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

Good evening everyone. More Tiny X-COM, a.k.a. @BreachWizards tonight May leave dream missions to my own time but we'll see how it goes live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

Good evening everyone. More @BreachWizards tonight as I try to get the courage to do another dream sequence Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

Good evening everyone. We're back to @BreachWizards tonight as we learn what windows are for Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

@dieworkwear I mean, I thought The Terminator was pretty good

It seems like everyone wants out of the social contract these days. Usually the breaches are less blatant than stealing lemons. open.substack.com/pub/joshbarro/…

Good evening everyone. I still felt like The Outlast Trials again tonight so I'm going to do my tasks then try escalation therapy again Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

The dollar per hour heuristic is foolish but not usually for the reasons people say It assumes you can go to the store and say “one video games please” and that the people who pay the higher price are stupid The quality matters but isn’t readily measurable, hence the arguments

@romanhelmetguy holy crap im not reading all that

The most fascinating part of the Odyssey to me is the Cretan Lie. When you think of the Odyssey, the first thing you picture is probably Odysseus’s run-ins with famous monsters. The Cyclopes, the Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, etc. But there’s a reading of the Odyssey in which none of these events took place, and a far more historically intriguing sequence of events emerges. For one, we don’t actually ‘see’ the run-ins with the monsters take place in the poem. Instead, these details all come from Odysseus’s own narration to the Phaeacians. They’re part of the story he tells them of his travels to convince them to charter a fleet to send him back home to Ithaca. The problem is, Odysseus is a liar. He lies constantly, any time he pops up in Greek mythology. In fact, in the Odyssey he tells many different people many different versions of what he did after Troy. And why would he tell the Phaeacians the truth? He wouldn’t, of course. He would tell them whatever he thought they wanted to hear. To me, the most intriguing version of events he tells is to his loyal swine herd. While still in disguise pretending to be a Cretan, Odysseus says that after the sacking of Troy, he led his men on an expedition against the Egyptians. But his expedition failed. His men were all killed or enslaved by the Egyptians. But he threw himself at the Pharaoh’s feet and begged for mercy. He received it, and spent 7 years in Egypt, where he amassed great riches, before being tricked and nearly sold into slavery in Phoenicia, but then surviving a shipwreck and making his way back to Ithaca. We know the Trojan War would’ve taken place during the same period that the Sea People were sacking their way down the coast of Anatolia (where Troy was) to Egypt, where Ramses III ultimately defeats them. This matches up perfectly with Odysseus’s ‘lie.’ I like to think that Odysseus saved the most honest version of his travels for his most loyal servant (though still cloaked in a lie, as Odysseus’s stories always are). And that Homer has preserved more about the Bronze Age collapse than we’ve ever given him credit for.

Good evening everyone. Sorry for the last minute switch but there's a new even in The Outlast Trials so we're going to spend some time with that Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

I would genuinely love it if Apple declared that it was removing speakers from all phones and tablets and (accurately) branded its competitors as devices for sociopaths

I bought it on release to stream and it's actually taken me this long to get to it but tonight I finally play @Pentadact's latest, 'Tiny Ex-Con' (also known as @BreachWizards) Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

HI folks. I'm not feeling all that great but I need to get streaming at some point, so we're going to read some short works (fiction and essays). I'll start with Bartleby and then take it from there Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

@BrianFargo I thought your company was called InExile. I read so in PC Gamer

Bank Error in your favor, and I'll forgive PC Gamer for misspelling our company name. pcgamer.com/games/rpg/afte…

Good evening everyone. I think I know what I'm going to make as a main game but tonight I'm going to go back to The Outlast Trials and catch up on some tasks Live at twitch.tv/systemchalk

@John_Stepek I propose a centrist compromise. Full discriminatory pricing set by frontier model AI that is fed every bit of demographic information available, but we are only allowed to buy ethically sourced non-GMO cruelty free products

Increasingly radical economic opinion these days

You know you never hear about volatile prices for brent crude in the Roman Empire. They were clearly better at managing their reserves and this information must have been lost in the dark ages

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@weatherfactory I was so waiting for the Reddit post of the episode to drop the deep Canadian lore for Project Habakkuk "Do we have anyone experienced with ice?" "GET ME THE CANADIANS!"

New Skeleton Songs just went live! Listen to "Mr Chi's Magic Emporium" to hear about - zoot suits vs. zazous - why Hush House miaowed - the importance of boldness in art And more, over here: buff.ly/CHPt5Hl