WideningGyro [any]

Ew, reddit is leaking

Community did it first: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z906aLyP5fg

a notably right-wing fascist state masking as socialist just like the Nazis did

You’re doing a bit, right? Please say you’re doing a bit

I start to think and then I sink into the paper, like I was ink / when I’m writing I’m trapped in between the lines / I escape - when I finish the rhyme

Archolos is very good - it adds a lot while sticking close to the OG Gothic experience. My biggest objection to it is that as of right now it is only available with Polish voices, and I miss the crappy EN voice acting of the originals :( but that’s hardly fair given the amount of work that went into it. If you have the time, and love Gothic 1-2, you should definitely give it a shot.

I played Risen 1 and 2 a long time ago and recall them scratching some of the same itch, albeit not quite as good. Just saw there was a third entry which I never played

Sure he kills children. But with integrity

Piranha Bytes Gothic and Gothic 2 are some of the best RPGs ever produced in my view. The atmosphere, the sense of progression and danger, the way every single item and enemy is curated and placed in the world with care and thought, the way the game doesn’t hold your hand and characters actually behave like human beings - including the player. All wonderful.

Unfortunately, the graphics were ugly as shit for 2001-02 and the combat is unbelievably janky. A large part of the game’s difficulty curve comes from how fiddly and frustrating the combat is. So, it is really hard to recommend.

Red is also a fantastic album!

They have a fun song called Your Racist Friend which is about not tolerating your friend’s racist friends, so that would at least suggest that they’re OK

That’s a super good point, actually. At the risk of committing sacrilege in a thread meant to spark a struggle sesh, that could also be key to finding common ground between the vegan movement and people who aren’t ready (for whatever reason) to go full vegan. Tell them that the next best thing is to be positive about veganism anyway - provide vegan options for your vegan friends, talk about how cool it is that they are vegan, speak out when people scoff at vegans etc. I dunno, probably some people think that’s a dangerous half measure, but I genuinely think there are a lot of potential allies who are scared away by the “all in” approach to veganism (which I get - once you internalize that killing animals for food/products as murder, it’s hard to accept a little murder). Maybe they could, if nothing else, be put to work talking up veganism and vegetarianism to less receptive people - who might be even more inclined to turn out vegan voices anyway.

I was really confused when browsing cheese.com (as you do) and noticing “vegetarian cheese” as an option. That’s when I learned that there is technically meat in some cheese.

participate in collective action against animal exploitation

Does being vegetarian count?

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I got banned from r/comics for commenting that Hamas are “terrorists” in the same sense that the native americans were when scalping settlers, or the SA resistance when bombing white policemen.

Che loved chess, if memory serves. It’s a good game when removed from the established sport. Let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

You are the only one coming off as rabid here. It’s entirely possible to have a good faith conversation about this. Your interlocutor appears to be attempting that, and you’re coming off as entirely hostile from the offset and unwilling to engage with the responses.

They can also just be really fun, and help you have extremely deep connections with the people, places and art that you love.

I feel like expecting/requiring anything more than that is ceding ground to the new age cranks of the past and the dipshit techbros who have co-opted these drugs more recently.

Weren’t those mostly focused on it’s use as a truth serum though?

I mean, we are, but have you considered that we actually eat rotten fish, fish preserved in lye, and blood sausage, rather than rotten reindeer cock?

This is really the point to hammer home. Back in my lib days, I started hanging out with a dude who was much cooler than me, and his anarchist friends. We once got to talking about how our town used to have a pretty substantial neo-nazi presence, in the 80s-90s. I said something to the effect of “good thing people are smarter today!” and he and his friends got really animated and saying how “they didn’t just go away one day, we fucking chased them out of here!”

While at first I just didn’t like getting yelled at, it eventually dawned upon me that that he was right. I, and everyone I had ever talked to about it (other libs), just assumed that that whole unpleasant nazi thing just went away, through the magic of progress, presumably. It was just a thing that was there once, now wasn’t. People like him and his friends (and I’ve since met many more) were the actual people who went out and risked life and limb to oppose the nazis everywhere the went, to vandalize their posters and stickers the moment they went up, to show up in numbers every time there was a demonstration. To do everything to make life as shitty as possible for these pieces of shit until it just wasn’t really viable to be a nazi in our town anymore.

That whole realization did a lot to cure me of my “we can’t sink to their level”/freezepeach brainworms.