Oh shit they're thinking!

Fun fact! The vomit flavor is a failed attempt at creating a pizza flavored jelly bean!

Can you imagine being the dude who finds out they're the reincarnation of Henry fucking Kissenger?

I'm alright! Moving is really stressful especially when there's super cool ultra fun complications (I think those are worked out now?) and also my kitty eated a bat while I was away (yucky! Rabies boosters are expensive!) and also classes start in two weeks (I am aiming to finish my bachelors!)

There are years where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen and babygirl? I've been having some WEEKS.

That's so real, good point

BRIGADOR MENTIONED

Fucking love that game, its a hidden gem of a title!

I finally beat the final campaign level in Brigador (a top down isometric mech game with crazy good art, atmosphere, and writing, albeit made by at least one bigot) and Im thinking of seeing whats new in Zero Sievert (a top down 2D survival shooter with rpg elements that draws heavily from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. and Escape From Tarkov) tonight since I haven't checked in on that game in a hot minute. I really wanted to get started on Heaven Will Be Mine (space lesbian mech pilot visual novel, the @halimede twitter account is based off of a character from this) but it just doesnt want to run through proton and now Im kicking myself for not getting the version on itch.io thats built to be linux compatible.

The fear is that those LGBT organizations might be being used as tools for various intelligence organizations to do intelligence organization stuff. I cant remember any specifics but the CIA has aided some minorities to act against powers they oppose. As much as I want global liberation for my sisters, brothers, and siblings I do recognize how the existence of people like me is cynically weaponized on political stages.

I hate CAH with a burning passion because I used to play with these people who would pass up my very fun and interesting offerings on game night in favor of playing this for hours until we all hated eachother and made an excuse to leave. Half of them didnt get the refrences to authors or politicians and it was agonizing to see plays get thrown out because someone didnt know who Toni Morrison was.

If you like the idea of CAH as this irreverent humorous card game but hate CAH for what it is, you might like Trial By Trolley. Trial By Trolley is based off of "The Trolley Problem" moral thought experiment. As two teams you put "good" cards (puppies, babies, cancer research labs, ect) on your track, "bad" cards (hitler, serial killers, the guy who invented pop up ads) on your opponents track, and then present arguments to the conductor who then chooses which track to go down. You win if they choose the track that isn't yours. It's pretty straightforward and encourages a lot more engagement and interaction than CAH ever did. The only downsides are that you need to decide on a time limit for the arguing phase (the creators did not set one iirc) and some of the cards can be kinda cringe, but overall I'm satisifed with it as a CAH replacement.

Love the level of discourse in this thread.

"Classic rock" isn't an actual genre of music so much as it is a format for a radio station that mostly plays adult adult alternative pop music from the 60's - 00's and I will stand by this. I miss the old classic rock station we had around here, it got bought out about five years ago and it's really just not the same as it was back then. Now it really is the same 40 songs with no actual dj, back then they would pull out some deep cuts about every hour or so to keep things interesting but now it blows chunks. You can say what you want about them as a news source but NPR affiliates have some awesome music programming.

Back on topic, yeah supertramp sucks so much ass it's not funny, Lynrd Skynyrd's value as a band is entirely contained within the guitar solo in Freebird. Jack and Diane got mentioned already in this thread, and that's a good contender for the worst but Free Fallin' by Tom Petty is so fucking maudlin and the way he draws out his words just aggrivates me.

[Angel in the] Centerfold is a song I hate on a personal level, it's so agressively cishet it makes me wanna puke, the character guy gets all upset that his old crush is a beautiful woman who does nude modeling and he conspires to get her all to himself and its like... thats so creepy? Like can he really not stand the idea that other men might look at/interact with the girl he never made a move on in highschool? It's so wild that this is played on a daily basis given how he describes exactly how hes going to try to seduce her the next chance he gets.

I used to work in one of these kinds of stores for a long ass time and this is what I figured out about the whole thing.

When it comes to books that are soley about current affairs rightists will buy a much wider selection of titles, but books that appeal to libs and leftists sell more copies overall. It's part of the rightwing grift for dudes like Ben Shapiro to publish a book every so often to launder their image as an intellectual and make some money while they're at it. They function more like fan merchandise than they do actual serious collections of thought since they usually deal with VERY current affairs and become totally irrelevant in about two to three years if not earlier.

Books that are politcal in nature that appeal to the other parts of the spectrum tend to show up in other sections and don't sell well next to stuff like you're seeing in that endcap display. In my store Marx was filed under philosophy, books on racial justice were found in social studies, and climate change was found closer to nuclear physics than it was Mark Levin's current ragebait cashgrab. So it's not really that rightwingers are better read, it's mostly how the bookselling industry works.

That being said... in half a decade I had probably 100s of requests for rightwing books ranging from Rush Limbaugh shit to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (side note, I would explain what it was to people and the reaction was usually something like "what? [Insert relative here] is trying to get me to read THAT?" so Im pretty sure I started some fights indirectly) and exactly 0 requests for Marx or Kropotkin or anyone like that. However books about racial justice, womens issues, queer matters, and the exploitation of labor sold reasonably well on their own.