I swear to kill your enemies.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58398068-the-communist-manifesto

I thought you were joking, but no, it’s real.

Enigmas never age, have you noticed that?

Decided to purchase a fountain pen to finally justify why I bought a book of calligraphy some years ago. Realized I’m gonna need some ink for it, and fountain pens need special water-based ink that’s for fountain pens only. But a Hobby Lobby moved into town ten years ago and killed our last standing mom & pop craft store.

Well, it turns out our fucking Hobby Lobby doesn’t carry fountain pen ink. None of the other big box stores carry it either. The local office supplies company doesn’t have it. All I want is some ink, man. I’m going to have to wander through the forest collecting oak galls. This is the worst thing Hobby Lobby has ever done.

I’ve long maintained that medieval men’s fashions are superior to modern ones. Specifically having a belt around your natural waist so it can’t fall down without it having to be cinched overly tight and then hanging all your shit off that belt is something that has always seemed wondrous to me.

But I was thinking about it, just sitting around fantasizing about wearing a tunic and a belt with an axe stuck through it supporting a drawstring purse full of coins, and then I realized that’s basically just a fanny pack. Fanny packs are the modern heir to the practical garb of that most industrious race, the medieval peasantry.

Completely ruined it for me.

Me screaming “the tendency of the rate of profit to fall” at my computer monitor (I’ve never read Marx).

Edit: I meant to post this in the general mega.

Sometimes I think I might have face blindness (not really) because when I saw Alien Covenant I didn’t realize that Michael Fassbender plays both the android’s David and Walter, the only physical difference between them being that one has dark hair and the other has light hair.

But I was going through a stressful time in my personal life and wasn’t giving the movie the trancelike focus I usually give to films.

Still, the twist at the end of the movie was completely lost on me. Can you guess what it is?

Also I can’t tell Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Tina Fey apart. There’s a clip on 30-Rock where JLD briefly plays Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon in a cutaway gag where Liz had cut sugar from her diet. It literally cuts from a medium shot of Tina Fey to a medium shot of JLD in a similar outfit and I can barely tell they’re different people.

Saw the new Superman movie, liked it a lot more than I thought I would. A much better film than virtually all of the MCU, and Man of Steel (I never watched Batman vs Superman but based on the clips I think I’m safe in my assumption this is better than those). I liked The Suicide Squad (that’s the James Gunn one) but this is a little better than that. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but my feelings are that this movie is just a bit worse then the second best MCU film, The First Avenger.

Not in the same league as The Batman, which was the best superhero film since 2012’s Dredd (or if you feel like Dredd’s doing a very different sort of thing from the capes then I guess the last good superhero movie was 2009’s Watchmen (yeah, I know, it’s far from a perfect or even good adaptation but I think it’s a decent movie). I guess if you hate Watchmen that much then just go back one more year to 2008, the year of the superhero.)

SHIT I FORGOT ABOUT JOKER. I like both of those movies but I thought about it and decided they don’t count. We’re talking about action/adventure films here which happen to be based on superhero comics, whereas Jokers 1 and 2 are early career Scorsese pastiche that could only secure funding by attaching it to Batman.

There’s this self-pubbed Fantasy author who made a very bad critique of a Kojima character named Fatman going around on Twitter. Someone posted the first page of his book, and it’s very bad, and for the last day and a half a good portion of my timeline has been relentlessly mocking this.

On the one hand, it seems like this dude has it coming and also the first page of book is very bad. On the other hand, as a wannabe SFF author I am seeing someone live out on of my nightmares. Having this happen to you is like showing up for work and realizing you have to give a presentation you forgot about, and you’re naked, and all the teeth fell out of your head.

/c/badposting

Post Title: Neighborhood in Moscow, Russia

Image description: a still image of Barad-dûr from Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Lol, I’m so mad.

Alright so a month ago I installed The Elder Scrolls Online onto my dedicated gaming SSD. Played half an hour of it, haven’t touched it since, it’s a 110 GB game so I decided to uninstall it to make space for whatever I end up buying in the summer steam sale.

So I decide to use the ESO uninstaller, which is sitting in the top level folder of my drive (I didn’t put it there, ESO did when I installed it). I have three folders at this level: Steam, GoG, and ESO. So I click eso_uninstall.exe or whatever it was named and a wizard pops and it works for a second and then I notice my GoG folder disappears, then ESO, then Steam.

At first I thought it was a bug with the windows file explorer, and in a state of disbelief I try to launch a game from steam, which doesn’t work.

The fucking ESO uninstaller is apparently programmed to just wipe out whatever folder it is installed in. I google it and this has been a known issue that they just haven’t addressed SINCE 2014. Thank god I didn’t have it on my main drive, or have anything important on my gaming drive. I haven’t lost anything, except 800 GB of games I’ll need to redownload. Which with my internet speeds should take about 5 days.

I haven’t even really been playing them as of late so it’s no real loss, but I was planning on playing some the next couple days. Ah well.

I feel like, roughly coinciding with Mamdani’s win last week, my For You page on Twitter is just crawling with reactionary slop. I mean, Twitter always has been, and there was a noticeable uptick when Elon first took over of overtly fash accounts, who neither I nor anyone I follow seemed to interact with in any way, showing up in my feed. But the last week or so I’ve gotten just a ton of like goofy racist stuff. Maybe I interacted with a few bad posts and the Twitter algo has decided I should be served this content. Or it’s possible that when Tucker Carlson was running rings around Ted Cruz that a few of the accounts I liked making fun of Cruz were these right-wingers. Whatever.

In the last half hour I’ve seen a video where the post said “beware where you get your takeout” and you could see the video was in a kitchen. I figured it was going to be some slighly slop-like content where inspectors go into a kitchen and find roaches or something so I click the video. And it’s some British guy who barges into a kitchen and is mad that migrants work there. There was another one of a guy walking through some sort of market in Rome, and he was the only white around, and he was bemoaning the fall of the West. I saw a post from a veteran claiming that Muslims are evil savages, and we can’t let Mamdani take New York.

I spend a lot of time doomscrolling Twitter and the sudden proliferation of this stuff (and I’m getting a lot of slop and video content that isn’t relevant to me in my feed generally, not just this shit) might be what finally gets me to quit Twitter.

https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLuKg-WhduhkkEZNV0-1ToOAi_x8pltE22

playlist of all of these bits from Dropout. They’re all pretty fun, but this Oreo one is probably my favorite. The hardware store one, where a grandfather is radicalized into anti-capitalism by his annoying crypto-bro grandson is also good.

Zeus expressing his assent for Mamdani?”

Binged the show for the first time a few weeks ago. It’s a much better, funnier, and more thoughtful show than its online fanbase led me to expect. It’s not a GOOD show, exactly, but it’s decent for what it is.

But I feel the show wearing thin in spots. Rick can’t change, can’t show weakness, can’t ever face real consequences because then the show itself would change. He’s smarter than everyone, including Q-esque godlike beings. But Morty has come to the realization that Rick is an irredeemable asshole multiple times now. And while Morty has changed, he can’t reject Rick fully because then the show would change. They’ve got to do something to keep this act from getting stale but they also can’t do anything.

Similar to House M.D. in some ways, but I’m struck by how that show’s various answers to it’s unchanging asshole protagonist (his whole staff leaves, he loses both of the best relationships he’s ever had, the only person he really cares about hates him for much of the last run of the show, he gets shot, and at least once he does change and isn’t such an asshole anymore (but it can’t stick)) wouldn’t work for Rick & Morty.

In preparation for 28 Years Later I decided to rewatch Days. It’s been probably 15 years since I last saw the film, mostly I remembered Brendan Gleeson and that bit at the beginning of the movie where Cillian Murphy is walking around a deserted London.

I forgot that Christopher Eccleston is in it, and also that in the last act Cillian Murphy, who was just a normal man thrust into the apocalypse, turns into a damn operator. Like fucking Solid Snake. Or if that’s not right (I’ve never played a MGS game) then like Corvo from Dishonored.

Standing up and screaming “Kim Jong Un wife guy!” as loudly as I can in celebratory triumph in the break room.

Can we agree that your most important advisor is indispensable to the realm? That their honor is unimpeachable? That you have the utmost faith in them and their abilities and you know they’d never betray you and seize the crown for themselves?

gaypayoo

If you, like me, were confused why you’ve seen this image before, this is why:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/guy-pointing-a-gun-at-elon-musk