Meh.

God, I miss when Yoshi games were gritty, brutal affairs dealing with death, nihilism, and the lengths to which the average person would engage in self-destruction. Unless I took the wrong message from Yoshi's Island.

Our seniors should not pay property taxes, because they should already have been rendered down to cooking fat.

Working with Claude Code in 2040

The equivalent timeline for today would be someone making a fan site for Twilight Princess, or Oblivion.

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

Come for the history jokes and takes on military stuff, leave for the sincere political stuff, apparently.

I don't know why so many people who are clearly liberal won't just admit it. There's less social stigma around liberalism than around leftism! Is posing as someone with revolutionary ideas, despite not having them, so damned important to you? Just accept where you are and move in that direction.

You can be a progressive and still support capitalism. Progressivism is a strain of liberalism that seeks to put some, but not many, shackles on capital, and try to use it to improve lives. You can't be a leftist and not touch capitalism. Leftism is not about taxes and reform. It's more than that.

"Many are demanding that I speak out against the continued enslavement of the working-class, but only I have the guts to work within the system and demand that slaves should have slightly better healthcare!"

-Henry Dearborn, 1812

As good as Ike was, he absolutely had a mean girls clique thing going, and Devers wasn't in Ike's bridge club. Like how George H. Thomas was never REALLY one of Grant's guys and got treated accordingly.

He seems like a man who will absolutely insist the system can be fixed, while it repeatedly tries to stomp him to death. A decent man, perhaps. But respectfully cleaning up the mess of a pack of murderous thugs, and getting tear gassed without reprisal, is hardly the energy we need right now.

Mahan was not ready for a decisive battle.

Not quote tweeting, because I don't want this to be a dunk. I know people who love ASL. But I'd sooner be deployed in a combat zone than try to use ASL as a learning aid.

Revenuers keep shutting you down? Still issue.

Nationals? A winning record? Huh.

Sousa's less well known "King Dipshit March" seems appropriate here.

Gonna see some *very* furrowed brows.

Pretti and Good? Wait, are we still pretending that their deaths mattered, and led to real consequences?

Irresponsible uncle energy at a potluck: activate!

The best Star Wars idea i ever had for a game was the shadow Jedi Council, made up entirely of Masters and Knights who operated in the Mid and Outer Rim, who kept an eye on things and operated the Order in the places the official Council didn't give a shit about.

I dunno. I'm a helper. I like to help. I just also like to have control when I do it, as well.

Rise of The Machines

Might be doing *an experiment* before long. Likely either today or Thursday. Anyone who's interested in participating, I can handle anywhere up to 7 people tagging in.

the old Stephen Jay Gould quote again: "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

I think it's awesome that Trump is adding new conditions that are driving friendly and neutral states away from our position.

Jaxson Dart being a fucking moron doesn't shock me. I grew up with guys like Ben Roethlisberger and Jeff George. "white QB is a dumbfuck chud" is very "dog bites man."

1. Caste. Most people in the west don’t understand that the waves of engineers and doctors who immigrated out of India in the 70s and onwards were ‘high’ caste folks, who resented the Indian equivalent of affirmative action for caste. Caste solidarity is very powerful…/

That sure didn't take long.

One of those rare arguments where I have nothing of value to add that hasn't already been said, and where my presence wouldn't be helpful in any way. So we're not touching that one.

Coalition politics requires *everyone* involved to have a thick skin, and it also isn't a suicide pact. There are actions that can absolutely break it apart, and the people leaving would be justified to do so. You also aren't a traitor for criticizing intellectual opponents in the coalition!

I'm streaming* a game live**! This thread is a game of the solo RPG Lost Among The Starlit Wreckage. I'm using the end of the One Year War from Gundam as setting. At the battle of A Baoa Qu, an EFSF ace sits in his wrecked GM, hoping for rescue before systems fail... *posting **round by round

i dunno I think sometimes people just enjoy talking to like minded people. do you do this kind of shit with your friends offline

Pathbuilder is an incredible app. Easy to use, and it gets updated super fast. I still use paper character sheets, but when I'm just playing around with leveling or character concepts, or looking things up, it's outstanding.

Not sure if Bluesky is becoming more horny over time, or if it is returning to its original state of horniness from the earlier days, but either way it's pretty great.

Liberalism is too weak an ideology now to rally around. Might as well be a monarchist in the 1890s.

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I dunno, man. Woke up in a good mood, had a good night, and generally feeling positively. But you can defend the right of the worst people on Earth to have an audience, I guess. That's a thing you can do early in the morning. It doesn't seem sad, pathetic, or like a desperate cry for attention.

A tent big enough to let a bunch of Nazis hang out is going to be a tent where a lot of women and minorities don't want to hang out. Prepare to be shocked, but I'd rather have the interesting people from marginalized groups here, over the swarms of sweaty, incoherent, unbearable Nazi dudes.

The Ensconcening.

Wait, ethnostates are still racist, even if they're social democracies!?

Tony Hinchcliffe is a bigoted piece of shit, sure. But have you considered that he's a talentless little bitch that only caught fire because comedy is an incestuous snake pit where hacks back each other over caring about comedy.

Oh yeah. It is indeed on.

My 30s have been my best years so far. Honestly, they'll probably just keep getting better.

The Midwest is my fucking place, and I love the people here. Well, I love most of the people here.