I'm moving into the Loft. If the magical door is always four left turns away, then it should be there even if I travel across the country, right? Traveling all around and always having my house nearby sounds pretty cool.

Aww man I loved that game. Basically every single ending is like "fuck the Japanese government".

On Authority I'm guessing.

Hot irons are bourgeoisie.

It's a base station for my VR headset

Weekly reminder that Wikipedia was created by a bunch of libertarians and that outlook is 100% present in their power user community.

I would switch but I also feel in my bones with 100% certainty that if I ever got on a game show I would do all the correct things and lose anyway just through bad luck.

Blue green red, cops troops firefighters I'm guessing?

A bunch of my notifications get lost in the shuffle too, especially if I have a popular comment with a bunch of replies. I can only guess that programming a notification system is harder than it sounds since every social media site has this problem.

afaik castles have a recurring problem where rich people buy them saying "we're going to restore this and keep it authentic" but then as soon as they find out the price of doing that they backtrack and usually end up not doing anything. But I would prefer doing nothing to doing this.

False Consciousness. Some people clearly see the problems with capitalism and blame the Jews, some immigrants (and many both), and some people really believe the things they were taught in econ 101 and wind up blaming the problems of capitalism on not enough capitalism.

I think libertarianism as we see it in the US is a uniquely American phenomenon (which occasionally gets exported abroad like in Argentina) that's born out of our quasi-religious worship of the constitution and the founding fathers. Every US child is taught in school that the founders were all once in a generation geniuses and that the constitution is a masterwork of politics and not a badly outdated document that is only ever invoked by the ruling class to consolidate their own power. The founders believed that capitalist markets were a force for liberation, so we get taught that in high school - although ironically the modern version of that idea of a completely unfettered market is not at all what the American founders had in mind, it's the extreme that you get to by following their logic.

As long as GameFAQs still exists every single video "guide" is completely useless.

Zizek had one interesting observation about how fascists are ironic now, but his career started with being an anti-communist in Yugoslavia and it completely tracks that he's a pro-NATO "leftist" now.

In 2010 the first Nier game came out in two versions, I remember being baffled by it but I suppose in the end they figured out that every culture loves

Would you put your brain in a robot body?

This was a really cool and insightful essay, thank you for sharing. I've always conceptualized the mind as a complex physical, chemical, and electrical pattern (edit: and a social context) - if I were to write a sci fi story about people trying to upload their brain to a computer I would really emphasize how they can copy the electrical part perfectly, but then the physical and chemical differences would basically kill "you" instantly creating a digital entity that is something else. That "something else" would be so alien to us that communication with it would be impossible, and we might not even recognize it as a form of life (although maybe it is?).

That's cool. Reminds me of how Tarn is still working on Dwarf Fortress over two decades later.

Can I get some enterprising North Koreans to steal my identity so that I can put their work experience on my CV?

Yvonne's cooking.

...and cleaning. Someone should really get off the couch and help.

You know the sketch of the guy with the huge erection that Jacky Treehorn draws in The Big Lebowski? I draw that everywhere.