thought: nearly every mario game involves bowser kidnapping a beautiful woman, resulting in a (presumably politically charged) conflict in which mario (sometimes alongside an ensemble cast of other warriors) infiltrates bowser's turf to get her back
proposal: you could make a case for almost any mario game being the Super Mario Iliad
Trinity: My name's Trinity.
Neo: *The* Trinity? Who drew the comic about lesbian wolves on the run from the law?
Trinity: That was a long time ago.
Neo: Jesus...
Trinity: What?
Neo: I just thought... you were a guy.
Trinity: I thought so too.
Ok but now I'm reaching the end of this lecture series I rlly just want to make The Enlightenment: The Fighting Game
Rousseau would be the 'random' character everyone hates to play against b/c they're hard to predict and have bizarre move properties
Thomas Hobbes fits 100% as the End Boss that every other character has to defeat in Story Mode fsr
"..'The Academy of the Fist' meet to discuss the French works coming into Italy, in particular Montesque & Helvatius. It was led by two brothers-"
Okay this lecture went from 0% to 100% Shonen Manga Fuel real quick but I am so onboard
Send in the ninjas, let's do this
[Alan Kors, Birth of the Modern Mind]
Subtle #IRC prank: have your hostname claiming you're on Mars and configure your client to return non-system pings with a delay between 3 to 22 minutes depending on current Earth - Mars distance.
Idk why I haven't managed to get into The Mountain Goats much
I've heard a few individual songs that I'm like "Yeah, this is good", but then I try to listen to albums and my attention kinda drifts off
I mean, since I love Smog & Leonard Cohen "Depressed folk singer-songwriter" already has a strong streak in my taste in music
So this should be a good match rlly
Does anyone know of any blind accessible IM clients that are available on Apple & [either Android or Windows] devices?
I have a friend who primarily uses Text-to-Speech on her Apple phone, and relies on WhatsApp & Facebook messenger. I avoid those because [privacy nastiness + stalker history on them].
We want to talk more, but neither are sure what to suggest. "Install many things, find out which is accessible through trial & error" isn't really fair on her.
re: rambly, pol-abstract, nature, environmentalism, western spirituality
@pastelbat i think its improtant to say that like, humans shouldnt strive to "preserve natural ecosystems" but not to "destroy healthy ecosystems"
re: rambly, pol-abstract, western spirituality- [CW: Meta (anti-kin bs)]
This, among other things, is why
I'm F'n Laff
..At the idea that Western Spirituality had absolutely no connection to anything animalistic -> started appropriating it from other cultures -> kin happened.
Like, the people who say that? Get lernt, read a book and shut the hell up, you utter earspoons.
This is a graffiti-free zone.
Vandals will be ~PASTELBAT~