THE MEME IS REAL

It should really be a free update to Fresh Supply *but* it's going to FS owners at a pretty steep discount and it's not like I haven't already bought blood like four times

Alien Earth is finally weird and kinda uneven but worth a watch. I enjoyed it mostly for finding out what 90s hard rock act was slamming over the outro and everyone's new favourite scamp, the Eye thing

imo it comes from a few places 1. many mainstream commentators in Irish media are lazy and/or outright stupid, and it's easier to reprint Steen's fully-formed narrative than come up with their own 2. some just agree with her, or think that they do 3. a general bias in favour of 'tradition'

it's also likely that there are many forces in Irish media who were desperately looking forward to a month of headlines and tension around things like trans rights, gay rights, abortion rights, and resurgent Catholicism. now they're stuck with a month of the triple lock and i think they're in denial

It's pretty fucking dire if The Beano knows its (mostly primary school aged) audience will not only see you as a punchline, but also get the joke that you're a gullible bullshitter.

Catch me later this year at the Omelas comedy festival

Exciting Visions of Mana news. - there's a "the main character gets Shanghai'd into doing a play unexpectedly" sequence. I love the classics baby

Queen

Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny, also The Book of the New Sun

Shining Force!

Too many of you are showing that you've never been stopped and searched on the street. Your ID card discourse is myopic. Asking for your papers is one of those 'discretionary' things and guess who the police use their discretion on?

To quote Terry Pratchett: Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.” ― Terry Pratchett, Snuff

this is crude to say but starmer could goose step out on stage, throw a nazi salute & order every immigrant rounded up into camps, & it wouldn't convince a single fascist to vote for him, because what they want isn't rational. a far-right party would simply say "we'll do that but more & faster"

Me yesterday playing visions of mana: Eoren is up to something but seems to ultimately have his heart in the right place Me today:

I am going to go insane at last

A red-haired swordsman fighting a giant sea monster with tentacles on the deck of a boat in a party-based action JRPG? CLOSE enough, welcome back Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana

Italy was on strike in solidarity with Palestinians last Monday. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated blocking roads, ports & railway stations. In Rome, many drivers found themselves stuck in traffic — & were happy about it, saluting demonstrators & condemning Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.

Eoren's "man isn't it kinda fucked up you're all going to the Mana Tree to kill yourselves and no-one ever questions it" stance in the face of the party's "nah it's super cool actually 🙂" attitude still winning me over here, I have to say

You’d like to credit Tony with a huge amount of prescience - but they are in fact this predictable.

one of the biggest indicators I think of video games hitting a plateau in terms of fidelity is that AAA games have been using "you can see their pores" for like a decade now

BDS gets the goods

Important Visions of Mana update: the depressed cat Samurai has cheered up a bit and now has three knives (he wields the third one with his tail)

Do you ever think about how despite there being thousands of years of recorded naval warfare the largest naval battle in recorded history happened 2000 years ago or are you normal

No excuses! Everyone should play it now!

I’m telling you, political violence is the new school shooting - angry and nihilistic young men doing violence for attention. Our years of lead aren’t ideological, they’re byproducts of the attention economy.

Italy has moved me to tears for 3 days straight. Bravo ❤️

I think the worst of the whole Steen situation is that's a fucking atrocious handbag

Started playing Visions of Mana after enjoying the Trials remake so much and it's really clicked for me this time. It still has the twee brightly coloured setting but doing "everyone knows they're doing Final Fantasy 10 but we think it's fine" as a plot in that setting has potential

Maria Steen, in basically her own words: "I will be the Catholic, conservative candidate for the presidency" The Irish times: "Maria Steen is a conservative Catholic" Mary Kenny: 😱

This is like when TERFs, who for years demanded to be called TERFs, started saying TERF is a slur. When I say conservative, I do mean it in a derogatory way, but only because of how conservatives act, and there's only one way to change that imo.

EUROPEAN: Ah! [American third-rate politican]! He texted his dick to people. I know this basically against my will. AMERICAN: I don't know what's going on over there. You're ruled by the Marquis of Racism or something?

We're going to read a "mass grave" headline someday and all the worst people will be shocked, shocked, for the course of a single news cycle.

loling at the idea of the rapture people quietly cleaning up the notes they wrote for the people left behind and putting them in the recycle bin

Irish political discourse for the next few days

Hmm I like all these words

It's gotta be Yojimbo baby

Oh man I love Deus Ex and I really liked what Aspyr did with Soul Reaver but man I dunno about this one chief

Starless www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfR6...

The fact that Dawn is gone and we're stuck with Wes Streeting is really very depressing

It's nice to think that Rónán Mullen, the eternally inferior Rónán, is desperately sad and upset somewhere

This is embarrassing

Artists, quote with something silly

There's nothing "well-orchestrated" about it. Plenty of independent candidates have gotten on the ballot. You're just a lazy shit who thought he should get the VIP treatment, despite no-one having heard of you.