Yes it’s not an insect of order hemiptera or homoptera but I’m trying to use the colloquial “bug” for the animal enjoyment libs

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Okay Felix but once on Hasan’s stream you said that you don’t like chickens because they’re like bugs to you and I was deeply disappointed, that is low-vibration animal enjoyment

For a while dota 2 had a pve roguelike game mode that was legitimately pretty fun, though valve keeps doing this thing where they make the fun temporary mode ballbustingly hard which I think kinda kills it for the majority of players

I don’t foresee a single player game mode tbh but I think finding ways to tell a personal story across your many matches of a multiplayer pvp game is unexplored territory that valve could break new ground in. Maybe a hub similar to games like Hades, with NPCs who have comments about wins and losses or particular feats you pulled off.

You give a man a fish, you feed him for a day–you give a man a rat, and you satisfy his rat desire

Very tall Bart isnt just the best leftist ytp channel, it’s the best overall

My brain keeps a permanent spot for “Dennis Prager: Hated by many, loved by few”

Relative with multiple “big 5” published novels just asked for my book to read so that, if he likes it, he could maybe get mine past the slush pile at an appropriate publisher

Good Christ would I like to get some of those nepotism bucks (it’s actually good and not cynical at all you see because I post on a leftist forum)

There are probably lots of historical records that were written by people operating on too many layers of irony to truly interpret accurately

There’s a lot of evidence to suggest that early humans and neanderthals coexisted and even cohabitated and it makes me happy to imagine it being not just circumstantial but enthusiastic cohabitation (not even horny)

Like the period of coexistence lasted for estimates of thousands of years. You’re gonna tell me there were no cross-species duos getting up to mischief? Not one puny human kid who teamed up with the big neanderthal kid because they were both getting bullied? No Last Kingdom scenarios in which a child who was raised by the other group feels torn between these identities? Please

My cargo shorts are the garb of an artist, disheveled and prophetic

The books set in Bas-Lag by China Meiville fit this and also happen to have based politics (and cactus people)

The Gormenghast books spend a lot of time satirizing fantasy royalty with a ghoulish atmosphere of “decaying hateful weirdos with well-rehearsed manners” over it, and passing attention to the real but impoverished life outside the castle

Malazan has some of what you are after but it deconstructs like every trope throughout its enormous wordcount so I imagine it’s too broad

(My book has it too but it’s more of a backdrop, likely too distant for what you want)

Painful to see a guy who I usually think has some insight make a post this rancid, hopefully Shaun isn’t next (don’t worry I am keeping my ass away from the lathe)

Best part of Harrison Bergeron is when he gets blown away by a shotgun at the end just saying

Having grown up around tons of evangelicals who often said shit like this after their missionary summer trips, hearing this conversation as an adult makes me want to fall facedown and turn into undifferentiated slime, the anger just hits the shutdown threshold instantly

Beyond the ability of most people, they visit the poorest places in the world, the places where human dignity is barely holding together, and instead of having even a taste of an understanding of the misery and injustice of it sink in, they bounce off and double down on their learned ability to dismiss the suffering of their fellow man. It took a lot of time to untangle the bitterness I developed toward these petty fucking emotional weaklings from religious people in general

Honestly I think it might be why expression is something people (or at least I) seem to need. Bundling up the way I feel into a little “scene” to be distributed to others means that I have turned my grim ass emotions into something more solid that I can maybe pick apart and recontextualize. The cloud of death becomes something I can point to and moan about, maybe even joke about, instead of being my reality that I am stuck with.

edit: What plants are you growing?

The grief hurts but I think the part that has me particularly fucked up is the constant presence of death in my home now. Two pretty old parents and the remnants of many absent pets means it feels like everywhere I look I am reminded of mortality, and that’s without mentioning the awareness of genocide in the wider backdrop.

I gotta get started back up writing something bigger than little practice exercises soon I think, it’s the only method I know for processing this type of mental sewage

Man I lost like 3 pets this year and I’m feeling lonely as fuck and I can’t really complain to my friends about it because they are dealing with much bigger problems right now, this sucks

Yeah yeah, your marriage is struggling, okay yeah you are making a lot of extra suicide jokes lately, yes yes I am happy you’re recovering from your gender reassignment surgery

I happen to miss my dog and I reserve the right to be sad today

I kinda want to defend cumtown but also I don’t think cumtown wants to be defended so I won’t

At least I remember Nick Mullen making jokes about IDF soldiers bravely requesting APCs to clear out orphanages back in like 2017

Who doesn’t love a bit of class betrayal?

I often think of Quixote and Sancho being an example of two people becoming “proletarians” (for lack of a better term) from opposite directions. Quixote’s madness makes him become more of a genuine person who takes part in the world around him for a change while Sancho’s exposure to such madness carves away at his more selfish lumpen tendencies as he realizes how the madness of his companion reflects upon him in the eyes of others. See also: Julian and Ricky from trailer park boys