It was nice for threads to stay on-topic for a couple weeks there.

I get a kick out of "land acknowledgements." They amount to "this land ain't ours and we ain't giving it back" and at some universities, the entire staff have them in their email signatures. It's an impressive flex.

I'll second MFE, I was really bummed when I realized I only had one mission left.

I liked the idea of Sifu more than the game itself. I usually don't put up with any kind of grind. I have so little time to play, I like each session to end with some kind of progress.

That said, Sifu is beautifully crafted, in all senses.

What the ever-loving fuck. Thank you for sharing.

Blaspheming intensifies

We're fucked.

It used to be "say 'nigger' or you're a fed." Unlike actual niggers, the word just gets more useful.

He's not saying, "She's rich, you're poor, why do you care so much?"

You know your situation. You don't know jack shit about hers. I've never met a wealthy individual who had a good relationship with themselves, their family, and God.

You're getting bent out of shape over the appearance of her life. If the tiktoks aren't real, what makes you think the tiktokker is?

Oh, I'm not arguing against it. The movie has basically nothing in common with the short story. In the latter, he's running across the countryside and there's audience participation. If a civilian sees him and calls into the hunters with a tip they end up acting on, the civ gets put into a cash lotto or wins a toaster or something.

That's the plot of the Running Man short story. Though, if you're hunting niggers and commies, I don't think it can end with 9/11, unlike the book.

The canon of high literature tends to feature arcs, but it's not necessarily a common trait. Picaresque stories, which are episodic and of the "here we go again" variety have been around for thousands of years. Think pulp heroes: Conan, Elric, the Three Musketeers. Things happen to them, there may be continuity between stories, the character may even change significantly over the corpus, but a coherent "arc" is non-existent or something accidental, that you have to squint to see.

Indy shouldn't be a character. Last Crusade worked, but on paper, really shouldn't have.

He doesn't need a family, or pathos, or an arc. They could have just made another adventure, completely ignoring his age, and it might have worked. Definitely, for sure, don't have a sequence where your storied protagonist begs for death, unless you want the audience to do the same.

Just learn to prompt, bro.

Thank God.

What if I write 'nigger' instead of a spicy windmill?

Here's what I tell myself: when Newpipe stops working, I'll finally ~have~ get to figure out how to use youtube-dl.

Newpipe is a phone app that plays youtube videos without ads. You can import your subscription list from YT (without signing in to a google account). And videos can be downloaded through Newpipe as well.

Edit: Newpipe sucks, actually. Don't use it, and definitely don't tell anyone about it.

You're getting ahead of yourself. Let's start with gas vans and see how it goes.

"Food comes from the grocery store."

Whoa whoa, stopping foreign nationals from operating here is incredibly counter-semitic of you.

That the wrong side had won every conflict the USA has been involved in for at least 200 years.

Then you have to grapple with what, exactly, that makes the USA.

Into a wood chipper.

Sure bud.

Tell me what other secret messages were in Tolkien's work.

I didn't hire Whitey

My sub ain't tighty

Unda da sea!

I assume this is some kind of psyop, but don't know enough to speculate at the angle yet.