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Any chance you’re on iOS? That’s where the bug mostly happens, but no one knows why. I can recommend using next.hexbear.net for now.
Edit: Yeah, I’m also on Firefox. I wonder why it works fine for everyone else.
Any chance you’re on iOS? That’s where the bug mostly happens, but no one knows why. I can recommend using next.hexbear.net for now.
Edit: Yeah, I’m also on Firefox. I wonder why it works fine for everyone else.
I find it really mean when the fly is constantly circling and landing on me instead of the amply provided garbage. It’s like, are you really saying I’m the biggest piece of trash here?
It’s a nice addition to the weekly /r/curatedtumblr transmisogyny post
I believe character descriptions became a big thing in the time of physiognomy – when Balzac narrates someone’s physical appearance, he wants you to extrapolate the character’s personality from that. Physiognomy fell out of fashion and if there is no other motivation to provide a description, like signalling someone’s class position or injecting a bit of lyricism, it’s simply economical to leave it out. To provide a counter-example, Mary Gaitskill always writes exactly one paragraph of description in her short stories which you can just skip because it’s not properly integrated into the story as a whole.
I just got Dragon Age: Inquisition and to be honest, it’s been rather frustrating so far. The controls/camera and interface are obviously made for a gamepad and the whole MMO vibe – endless fetch quests in wide, empty spaces; rogue and wizard are the classes that do damage while warriors are supposed to take the heat – is bothering me. And common equipment at level 7 being infinitely better than rare items at level 5 is just depressing. Still, I’m hoping that the story and characters pick up soon.
Exactly! I think part of it is a, in my view, mistaken historical realism where authors think fantasy should be based on the middle ages when, in reality, the better part of our modern fantasy genre derives from post-1600 literature. Like, the rise of the bourgeoisie and decline of feudalism is the primary social context for all of this, I think.
Any representation of feudal ruling classes. Maybe I’m overdoing it with the class hatred a bit, but I can’t watch nobles cavorting around and not feel an instinctive revulsion. It’s even worse when, in fantasy, we’re required to care about the machinations of court intrigues as if that’s a real form of politics. One thing I do like about many standard fantasy settings, like that of Pathfinder, therefore is that they usually have a modern conception of class and an abundance of republics; especially the whole idea of adventurers as individuals outside of society but still integral to it has a lot of potential I feel. Basically, I just don’t want any more fantasy stories about good kings and evil kings.
I didn’t know they had a foundation. Turns out they’re even renting a unit (probably just a mailbox) in a nice, modern office complex. Somehow, it nevertheless reminds me of those photos of the Something Awful offices…
What, do you have something against homosexuality?
[Nathan Fielder voice] Oh, okay.
No surprise there. Everyone involved with publishing Angela Nagle’s book should face some serious questions about their political convictions. Also, I didn’t know what Rockhill what’s up to now, but I guess everyone who blames French academics for the failure of the left ends up in the same place eventually.
What a cute little rat! They’re really the sweetest-looking pets.
This isn’t propaganda, exactly, but it has the vibes of anti-Marxist misinformation (is that a thing?): Character mask. It’s absolutely incomprehensible and reads like an essay by someone obsessed with the history and theory of Marxism in a weird, unproductive way (you know those types). Naturally, it has remained essentially unchanged for a decade. Bonus points if anyone can figure out what micro-ideology its author is pushing, because I really can’t tell.
Do you have “yankee” in Norwegian? A lot of Americans don’t like being called that for some reason
I never liked that article because its message seems to be that we should make it easier for trans women to stay in the closet. Also, there’s an unduly focus on internet interactions and politically-minded undergraduate students – that’s a method with which you can make any political movement look ridiculous and extreme. Like, I can’t remember the last time I heard a strong anti-male opinion expressed in earnest (and I’ve never seen an academic feminist work in which a contemporary author was dismissed for being/seeming male). I feel like the liberal egalitarianism the author ends up advocating for is already the mainstream opinion on discrimination, and the idea that trans women should not transition and instead sublimate their desire into higher things is certainly also popular enough.
If I were more conspiratorially minded, I’d make a big board with lots of red string connecting the Mormon church, the FBI/CIA (rumored to heavily recruit Mormons), the Iowa writing program (FBI connections) and genre fiction (Mormons overrepresented, connections to the military-industrial complex, bound to the stylistic conventions set by Iowa)
One part of the answer would certainly be material conditions. It’s easy to support socialism when it has given you a job and a place to live, but since “reunification”, vast parts of the economy were dismantled and the free market was unleashed, leading to widespread poverty, brain drain, all the good stuff. And it seems to me that poverty leading people to support fascism always wins out over having received an anti-fascist education, unfortunately. Still, the Left is more popular in the East than the West, but who knows if it’s due to the legacy of socialism or just because of regional differences within the party.
Academia has the advanced version of this where you just summarize what someone wrote about their own work and pretend that that’s analysis.
I’d like to speak in favor of the isometric perspective in CRPGs. I think it shows the genre’s affinity to RTS games and serves to separate the combat/exploration layer of the game from the roleplaying aspect, which is expressed through texts and a minimal number of (painted) portraits. What I like about is it’s precisely unlike film, which is the one visual style video games are more and more converging on. Maybe I just like non-mainstream and non-naturalistic aesthetics too much, but I think any one portrait in Baldur’s Gate looks more beautiful than any 3d model in Baldur’s Gate 3 (where the cinematic style also forces other concessions, like a lack of prose).
Is it wrong to say that gamma male can get it