katt, migrating 🌟 🌈 @starkatt@awoo.space

I continue to be absolutely astounded that the devs said "Sure, we can make the entire milky way galaxy, actual size and with the full stellar population."

And players looked at that and said "Cool. Let's be explorers and cartographers and figure out the farthest reaches of where we can go."

Even though this is just the context of a videogame, humans are amazing.

I've visited over 600 star systems and traveled 2,860 light-years away from Sol. My focus has been on exploration for a while now.

...and this is how far out into the galaxy I've been: red lines, bottom. https://awoo.space/media/2vcdWxuCji8Om3pXs3o

I want a ceiling with stars on it.

Alas, rented house.

I'd actually be fairly irritated if someone described me as falling under the category "spiritual but not religious".

Like, sure, I don't follow any one tradition or god or pantheon or structured practice. To me though, whatever this thing I have is, it still very much feels like it falls under the umbrella of "religion".

To describe my beliefs as "spiritual but not religious" feels like making "organized" a defining feature of religion, which, no.

Visited Ravenna Park for the first time today and yup, I'm joining the train of people saying "that place is definitely magic" :)

I'm not gonna get into how I feel about the central political question driving the film, though.

Heck, in the stinger, a literal american flag lapel pin was being used to aggressively code him as Other. I think that's neat.

I think it's cool how Ross was used in the film. After half an hour or whatever with Wakandans, this highly american white guy is introduced... and both that context and the way he's presented clearly establish him as Other. Not bad, just foreign and alien and completely clueless about the culture the film takes as given.

White US audiences are so used to being subject and default. I appreciate the invitation to take a different perspective.

There are now three different fuzzy blankets on our couch and this is entirely excessive. However, it is also very nice and cozy :)

Pourable stone is a technology that's thousands of years old and I think that's pretty cool.

All narratives are fake. Narratives are, nonetheless, invaluable.