utopologist [any]

This might be a good opportunity to do some self-reflecting on your beliefs about the DPRK! When you observe that objective facts don’t line up with your perception of this country, the correct thing to do is not to say “how can I twist what I’m observing into an explanation that will leave my perception unchallenged”; it’s to say “perhaps my perception of this country is flawed” and re-evaluate

Stop sending them the munitions and money that cause the suffering and maybe we’ll believe you

Can’t escape from White Pharaoh even in the webcomics

I know you probably don’t actually care, but things that the Pope says are only infallible when they’re made ex cathedra, which is like a special phrase that indicates “this stuff came straight from God”. Most of the things the Pope says don’t have that authority

It is so fucking frustrating how you can quote every Allied military leader saying that they didn’t need to drop the bombs and it just sails right past people arguing that they did. It feels like the Patrick Spongebob wallet meme sometimes

Both film versions of Solaris, though for vastly different reasons. Lem’s original novel is super dry and hard sci fi, like most of Lem’s work, which isn’t my favorite kind of sci fi. Both films really delve into the fascinating psychological questions of the situation Kelvin finds himself in. The Tarkovsky version is the best, unsurprisingly, since Tarkovsky is the GOAT, but I also really enjoy the Soderbergh version with George Clooney. The latter is hollywoodized compared to the Soviet version, but still is a really interesting and gorgeous movie

I think Elden Ring would be a good place to start since it’s the one that lets you customize your difficulty the most. You can use spirit summons (both other players and NPCs) and vary up the order in which you do things, so if you get stuck on something, you can go do something else and then come back with more experience and better equipment

The new UI looks good. Much easier to find things and keep track of everything. I reinstalled the other day to try the beta and instantly remembered what a good game CoQ is

The secret to making things better in the world is that you can’t rely on people making good choices, you have to remove the bad choices.

I also would love to know about this. Sometimes I’ll get lucky with scripts being on libgen or annas-archive but usually anything newer than like 2000 is a challenge to find

I had a good time with it. I don’t know if it’s good, but I had fun, so add that to your mixed things

Running 5e be like

It’s because he’s a right-winger, a particularly fucked up “orthodox Catholic.” It’s very rich for him to be complaining about fascism b/c his ideal society is basically Francoist Spain

Which ones?

Carlos Martinez wrote a book about the collapse of the USSR called The End of the Beginning which honestly should be required reading for any socialist

I don’t believe that the entity that is currently known as the USA will ever be socialist, but I also don’t believe that entity will be around for too terribly much longer, either

Did any capitalist countries at the same time have meaningfully better stances on LGBT rights?

If you read more of Che’s letters, you’ll see that that one is written in exactly the same style as the rest of his letters, both those intended for only one person and those he knew would be shared. I think you’re overstating the nature of Fidel and Che’s disagreement; there were some ideological disagreements but I don’t think there’s any evidence to suggest that Che leaving Cuba to foment revolution had anything to do with his relationship to Fidel

Monthly Review pretty consistently has good stuff in it

It’s slow going since I haven’t yet found a laser cutter large enough to accommodate the schematics I have. I have the materials, though. I’ve never played one