América Latina & Caribe

anyone crying about how 1984 orwellian kids informing on their parents to the soviet state was is a fucking loser. Kids having the bravery to overcome their natural loyalty to their parents to pursue anti-fascism should be commended and celebrated.

it is january 2 and stalin saved the world from fascism

Playing RE1... I kinda hate dodging zombies for now but I love restricted saving and inventory, and cool techniques like prerendered backgrounds. Gonna probably suffer through it, love it in concept, but never replay it again. Been on a backlog clearing streak and this one inspired many others on my backlog so I want to go through it first, thankfully it isn't too long.

FF7 Rebirth is so good it literally feels like it's from a less cursed timeline and yet they gave GOTY to this Sony circlejerk tech-demo-forgetable-name-ass game?

I CANNOT believe game awards are bullshit!!

I wish I was better at drawing but to become better at drawing I would have to draw. aAnd I like drawing but I dont want to darw

I've found a fun new way to piss off the nordic-mythology-obsessed fashy twits. Pretend not to know the difference between the various European mythologies. It is the centre of what passes for their sad little spiritual worlds, and as Mel Brooks has shown many times, they just can't cope with being made fun of. Ignore them and they move on to a new bullying target. Treat them as a personal threat, and they feel powerful. But ridicule them, and their brains just short circuit hilariously.

Pretend it's all a big lump thing and pretend not to understand differences even when they're carefully explained. Treat their weird little interest they same way, for example, they ignorantly lump all Africa's various traditional mythologies into a giant undifferentiated mass. And make sure to include the in-game lore of that fabulously "woke" (and awesome) game Hades as part of your "knowledge" of European mythology. Make sure the norse ones are complete bottoms at all times. (There's nothing wrong with bottoming of course. But that really sets them off.) I like to start with asking them for details on the story of how awesome Zagreus was when he pegged Thor with his own hammer's handle when they were dating and they visited that charming little B&B in Avalon and met King Arthur, because "That's fuckin' hot, man!"

yoooooo skincare tho? First time using shit that isn't like 8 in 1 bodywash for MEN and I feel so soft? this rules actually

Had a great day

Went to an arcade with my friend and actually did pretty well at a lot of the games, we exchanged gifts, got boba, and played pokemon go.

I got 3 shinies (party hat wurmple and 2 party hat hoohoots) plus my first ever kecleon

1. childhood is realizing that your parents like your siblings better than you

2. maturing is realizing that your childhood was influenced by an overwhelming number of factors and that your parents were also existing within their own circumstances

3. adulthood is realizing that point 1 is completely true despite point 2 also being completely true

Proboscis Monkey

"Bed of Chaos?! More like Bed of Bullshit! It's like pukin' on a pile of shit! You have no impact on the fight. My ass has more of an impact! WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING?! IS THIS NECESSARY?! Look! I can't deal with this godforsaken piece of shit! ASS."

Touching grass for awhile. Later, comrades.

Like 14 years later, still unreasonably upset by pronouncing Guillotine "gill-uh-teen" instead of "gee-o-teen"

Spent the past 24+ hours terribly nauseous and sick. I don't drink, so not a hangover. I suspect food poisoning.

Happy new year!

Is it possible to just move away and start over in an entirely different city/country with like 1k lol? I've been in like a really dark place these past few years, instead of doing anything rash, I was thinking of just leaving, somewhere entirely new...I just have no idea how to do so

Just.ade a smoothie with frozen strawberries and mangoes and fresh ginger and carrots and oranges with coconut milk kefir. This is literally a healing potion

In April 2009, a six-year-old Norwegian boy named Christer pressed his parents to send a letter to King Harald V of Norway to approve his name being changed to "Sonic X". They allowed Christer to write it himself but did not send it until he badgered them further, and the king responded that he could not approve the change because Christer was not eighteen years old.

Me: For 2025 I'm gonna stop being a workaholic

Also me: Gotta get as much work done on this solo shift, which I could have avoided with smarter scheduling, as I can

I’m so tired of everything

Viva Cuba!

My Christmas/New Years visit home:

I used to eat mugcakes pretty often when I was a teen and they kinda always sucked but I just kept making and eating them

For some reason

literally me right now

i just got caves of qud

will it eat my life, and what am i doing?

Saw Robert Eggers Nosferatu. My disorganized thoughts:

I've seen a bunch of people online talk about Eggers as if he was making mumblecore or otherwise affectedly naturalistic films. Drives me crazy. While he clearly is a nerd and has a thing for material history and weird lighting choices, his films are the opposite of naturalistic (at least in terms of story-beats and acting choices).

But I didn't love the movie. Fell into this pattern for me with Eggers' films. I love The Witch and The Northman, but I'm cooler towards The Lighthouse and now Nosferatu. In the two I don't love, I can't point to any one scene that I dislike or think was poorly executed. I guess I'd say the pacing is off. Nosferatu starts off at a high intensity and maintains that for 2/3rds of the film. Only the third act has what I would call rising and falling action. But in the first part of the movie every second, every element, is screaming at you that this is horrific. For instance, the scenes where Thomas meets the Romani peasants at the inn or travels up to the castle feel just as intense as the scene where Count Orlock is actively trying to kill him.

It's just too much. By the time you see the city engulfed by plague you're all burned out. Which means, at least for me, that you never really get that great meditative moment where your conscious mind falls away and you're totally absorbed in the film. Maybe that could've happened, in a differently structured/paced movie. But by the time we get to the half way point I'm so emotionally divested from what's happening on screen that I start consciously judging technical aspects of the film. Which is just never what I want out of my first viewing of a movie.

The other most recent horror movie I've seen is Heretic, a worse movie with a worse script predicated upon a facile view of religion (and I have, at best, active disdain for religion) but that I enjoyed watching much more.

This year, in my excitement for Eggers' film, I also watched the original 1922 silent film. I've never in my life watched a silent film and assumed I would actively dislike it, watching it only as an object of curiosity. But it was actually a blast. I had a much better first-viewing experience of that 102 year old film than I did Eggers' latest remake. It makes me want to try some other of the great silent films, in particular The Passion of Joan of Arc and Battleship Potemkin seem interesting to me.

And I want to just stress here that I didn't dislike the film. It looks gorgeous. The performances of Willem Dafoe, Ralph Ineson, and Emma Corrin were all very strong. And I really liked Aaron-Taylor Johnson in this. I've seen some particularly sharp criticism of his performance but I thought he was considerably more compelling than Nicholas Hoult. And at first I was mixed on Lily-Rose Depp, but once her character really came to life in act three I was impressed with her. It's just the way that so much of the movie is coming at you full tilt, not giving you a chance to rest or ground yourself in the world or the characters, that makes it less than it could've been.

Got passed by an suv that had a sticker but at the same time just outright didn’t have a license plate lol

I'm sorry, but that Adriann Dittman guy is Musk, no matter what that article says.

Happy 2025

Only half a millennia exactly now until the Human-Covenant War begins on Harvest

Sure, dozens of world are burned and billions of people die, but Earth is somehow not destroyed by climate collapse in that timeline and John Halo saves the world and defeats the Covenant eventually and stops the Flood from taking over the galaxy, so we might have that to look forward too