Nearing the end of my first play thru of disco elysium and I'm so confused and mystified

I have a mild headache. This is the worst thing that's happened to anyone ever

Woke dog update: the woke dog is back and I realized they never left

I think I might be the woke dog

going to move to a swing state for a month just to vote third party and then move back

EXTREME spooky season opinion:

Shock Treatment is superior to Rocky Horror in nearly every way and it didn't achieve similar popularity because of its clarity of antifascist purpose.

yankees couldn't handle their culture being associated so clearly with nazism

To put this further into perspective, there are less GMs than billionaires. 2000 vs 3000. You literally have a greater shot at becoming a billionaire than earning a GM title.

Less than fractions of a fraction of a percent globally could ever hope to attain the rank of GM. Even fewer who already have the financial means to afford it.

Damn, chess is intense. It's a good thing I have that DAWG in me

I don’t know if it’s intended, but the name “xitter” would be pronounced “shitter” in Portuguese. That’s funny I think.

wish i could muster any sort of interest in anything at all

been having incredibly bad panic attacks lately and i barely do anything outside my room. i go to work and come home and maybe go for a walk, but that's it. i spend 95% of my free time in my room reading books or watching shows or playing games.

Lol, I love how this style of posting is just the Ukrainian version or kids really mad their english teacher made them read a book.

I just thought of a phrase that instantly puts you on the top of a watchlist

I'm pretty sure every social media company copying twitter and making their APIs prohibatively expensive had the unintended sideeffect of stopping those dumb scams where the CEO of my company emails me and asks for an urgent favour where I buy him a gift card.

Moo Drej or something idk (by https://xcancel.com/Py0wwK/status/1832790464870900199 )

cc @UlyssesT@hexbear.net

bucking old people im an opposite pedo

can't stop thinking about this fucking shit

I was gonna give my phone a cool sindarin name but then I went to some sindarin translation forums and remembered that people who can speak sindarin make people who are fluent in Klingon look grounded and illiterate.

Bit idea: go to an open mic night and only tell one joke. Start really quiet and ifnpossible with the mic off. Make sure its a bad joke that no one will laugh at. When the mic is one, say "I guess no one heard that, so I'll start over" say the joke again but kinda mumble. "Sorry, that sounded loud in the monitors, maybe you didn't hear it." Repeat the same.joke louder and clearer. Keep making excuses and telling the same joke louder and slower until people eventually laugh and then immediately say it probably wasn't that good of a joke and they didn't miss much by not hearing it and leave.

Starting to think the volumes of marxology put out every year isn't going to bring about socialism

Working on the kernel of a story about the Blue Wizards and the men of the East, where the Blue Wizards "lose faith" (I forget how Tolkien described it) because upon reaching the nations east of Mordor they come to love the people and cultures they find there and become upset and dismayed that all of these people were left in the clutches of Morgoth and later Sauron without aid from the great powers in the West. While they don't turn against the Valar their discovery of the horrors wrought on the men of the east does lead to a crisis of faith which causes them to doubt the limitations of their mission to simply resist Sauron and, after spending many long centuries providing aid and counsel to eastern men in their efforts to resist the Dark Lords, they decide to remain among men after the defeat of Sauron to continue to aid them in re-building after millenia of oppression and torment, only returning to Valinor much later and then only in spirit, having lain down and died in their corporeal bodies rather than bodily journeying back to Aman.

When they finally return they are greeted with curiosity rather than hostility. They explain their reasoning to the assembly of the Valar and the Valar understand that their failure to aid the distant men of the East, due only to their distance from the blessed land and a belief that these men were lesser as a result, was a shameful failure. The blue wizards are reconciled with their friends and kin and continue to abide in Aman thereafter, satisfied that the time they spent counselling and aiding the men they came to love was time well spent, and that the men of the east will cast off the last of Sauron's shadows and propser by their own wisdom and abilities.

I'm also playing with the idea that some of the elves captured by Morgoth in the First Age escaped in to the east and maintained a small colony, joining the culture of the men there and becoming a small community of immortals who acted as preservers of knowledge, wisdom, and memory in a land that frequently faced enormous destruction at the hands of the dark lords. Heroes and sages would fall before the might of the Dark Lords, kingdoms would perish, but the small community of elves would endure and help their short-lived friends rebuild, inspiring them with stories of their forebears.

When the blue wizards arrive they bring the eastern elves up to date on the long, sad history of their western kin and the men, elves, and wizards join their strengths together. After the defeat of Sauron the Elves join the hosts of men who pursue the broken remnants of Saurons armies west, eventually meeting outriders of Gondor. From their the elves journey to Minas Tirith and meet King Ellesar and Arwen, and are overjoyed to see kin again after so many thousands of years of separation. They travel west and leave Middle Earth for Aman on the very last of the ships to leave the Grey Havens. Arriving in Aman they become a source of great joy as friends and relatives separated by countless thousands of years, and even by death, are rejoined at last.

As these elves were so distant they had no contact with Valinor or their western kin, except that the Valar were aware of them. Unable to reach them by conventional means this small group of elves would receive visions from the great Valar - Manwe, Orome, Yavannah, Aule, and Olmo, but these visions were dim and came only in sleep. Rather than explicit instruction they nudged the eastern elves towards inspirations and insights, while providing hope and comfort.

Rewatching Re:zero has been tough. I keep falling asleep

I might just have to get serious about finding myself a primary doctor. Kind of worried about these energy crashes I'm going through the past few days. Then again it could just be the changing of the season and I'm edging close to my usually wintertime depression thing

A problem that's very funny but also quite annoying if you forget about it is: if you run too far in the wrong type of shirt (without a bra or tape) the fabric will abrade the outer layer of your nipples.

Pray for my nips comrades

I always thought "I hate being right all the time" was just some joke people made about how conceited they were, but seeing all the heinous shit going on right now, shit the left has seen coming for centuries, I genuinely hate being right. Can we be wrong for once? Can Kamala be super awesome, and Dick Cheney find a heart? I would love it if we could be wrong for once

(read slowly with a pause at the comma and repeat) Big choppa, big floppa

Vocal stim thread? Would love to hear and pick up yours maybe