On that note, I'd love to see a commercial where I remind people that the corporations polluting our world have employees with names.
That's true. I guess I'm just jealous I didn't have Cloud talking about mental health when i was a kid.
All i got was that Reagan cartoon where the Muppet Babies and the Ninja Turtles told a kid not to do drugs.
My reaction to being asked how my day was can be... intense.
Just feels kinda surreal seeing a game like this used to promote conversations about mental health, given the themes in the late portion of Final Fantasy VII.
https://seizetheawkward.org/final-fantasy
Seize the Awkward and FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH have teamed up in a PSA that encourages young people to start conversations around mental health with friends. Join Cloud, Aerith, and friends on their journey to face their battles together. Equipping yourself with the tools and resources to confidently support your friends is totally worth it!
Transcript from one of the ads:
>Life’s daily battles are not meant to be fought alone. > > We’re not powerless. > > So long as we don’t lose sight of what’s important. > > Don’t be afraid to seize that moment to talk to your friends. > > "Cloud, you okay?" > > Because checking in on a friend can create a safe space. > > The first step on our new journey. > > "You coming?" > > Reach out to a friend about their mental health. > > Seize the Awkward. > > It’s totally worth it.
It's like what animals do to keep from slowing down the herd.
Fuck healthcare at this point, just stop it, please.
X
IX
VI
X is my all time favorite though. I'm glad it got a sequel for its epilogue. The world building is phenomenal. The way Pyreflies, Aeons, Fiends, and more are incorporated into Spira makes the world believable.
My only gripe is that in the thousand years since Sin's appearance, only five summoners have succeeded in bringing a Calm. That just seems so unlikely, and it makes more sense to me if there were more successful pilgrimages. Otherwise why bother keeping the pilgrimage as a practice?
Nooooooo. They did Castform so dirty.
Electric Flying with the ability Drizzle.
Special Attacker
Thunder
Hurricane
Weather Ball
And Blizzard from gen 1 where it had 90% accuracy
But design- wise, idk.
unless you are using words bad for algorithms.
I would much rather have a cw than all of these childish euphemisms for serious things.
It's so jarring watching something online and noticing the person awkwardly skirting around the most accurate words to describe what they're talking about.
Just sucks that the chuds just want permission to say the n word and make lazy transphobic jokes.
Yeah, that's an oops from me. I'll edit my comment. Thanks!
McDonald's Monsanto can sue farmers if their produce was pollinated by their copyrighted genetic strain of potatoe plant corn, "Jay Walker" was made up by motor companies, and Shell has spent billions on preventing alternative transportation and hiding the evidence of climate change.
I'd say their success rate is pretty high. They might not be killing people in the streets, but they are killing people.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but those companies very much do go after people who use alternative products.
It was pretty rushed and so they didn't really have the diamonds take responsibility for the lives they destroyed for their empire. It was more focused on the family issues.
The diamonds weren't forgiven so much as had their records expunged so they could sing songs for the movie.
It was never realistic, but there was a distinct lack of average gems confronting the diamonds for their actions. The diamonds work to restore damage, but they can only do so much given the massive violence inflicted with thousands of years of imperialism on a galactic scale.
The writing was fucked up, not the reading. It's good, but the last portion of the series dropped the ball with the theme.
We're literally going back to serfs boiling water to make it drinkable.
I'm a liberal sorry https://www.sciencealert.com/theres-a-surprisingly-easy-way-to-remove-microplastics-from-your-drinking-water
Honestly, I'm going stream of consciousness and would love to have leftist eyes on what I've noticed.
If you find something that resonates with you, I'm happy to talk about it.
It's sad how much capitalism has done to make us reasonably afraid of what it would do to survive.
It's scary how much we perceive capitalism even when it has no reason to be there. Why should anybody have to do math to be able to eat a fruit that could easily be grown in a garden? Why should it be risky to eat a fruit on private property? Because the HOA says Black kids eating from their trees ruins the property value?
That's what's causing the food desertification in the US. The bourgeois hates to see the proletariat enjoying their food.
Because deep down they know they'll never be happy with what they have.
No matter much they were born with. No matter how much they take from others. No matter how much they lie. No matter how many they kill.
They refuse to believe capitalism won't make them happy. They refuse to believe they are eroding their souls with each excess they consume.
And so we find ourselves complicit in the cruelty.
We must accept that capitalism has eroded our souls in irreparable original sin. It's a mark on humanity that will never go away. Future generations will look back on all of us and how terrible we were. And after they're gone, their descendants will describe them as monsters too.
And rightfully so.
Because while we as a society act monstrously.
We're living under the influence of a monstrous system that limits the choices we can make. Funny that capitalism claims to offer choice. I think about the guy who went to Cuba and laughed that they only had plain Lay's potato chips. At a store where you can get whatever you need to eat and snacks for free.
They point and laugh at Cuban Baskin Robin's because they only have four flavors of free ice cream. They think only being stuck with Coke or Pepsi is scary enough to warrant embargo and nuclear war.
Because the thought of a child being able to e enjoy food disgusts them. How dare people enjoy without thinking about capitalism!
Capitalism is that one rich kid who has to be the center of attention at someone else's birthday party.
Capitalism makes you hate enjoying things because they might be cringe and make you less marketable.
Capitalism makes you hate your body by convincing you it's fat and dirty while simultaneously serving fat and dirt to children.
Capitalism forces kids to maim themselves on slaughterhouse floors while their managers look away to run gambling pools on who might die of covid.
Capitalism makes it scary to like things unironically.
Capitalism makes it scary to be in the moment.
Know why?
Its existence is predicated on you perceiving its existence for another day.
It's an evil ritual that is maintained every time someone ignores the suffering around them to have brunch.
Chuds see the monster too, but capitalism has convinced them it's the disenfranchised people who run the world.
Look, a lot of you don't see capitalism ending in your lifetime. It might not, but if you believe multiverse shit, even a little, then you owe it to yourself to try to picture one day waking up without capitalism in your life.
Write the story of the marvel universe where superheroes don't exist, allegedly !scared , Kamala Harris is challenging Donald Trump for president of the United States, and you get more active in your community.
You join an organization or reach out to people when you have the bandwidth.
If you have leftovers, share some with a safe person who might be struggling.
If you have the bandwidth, hear someone out, even if they don't have the same understanding of material politics yet, but are well-meaning.
If you get lucky and manage to find a level of institutional power, use it with sincere class consciousness.
That's what I'm trying to do at least.
It's rough feeling like writing something like this will draw attention towards me. We see wreckers all the time. There is reason to believe anyone here could be a fascist looking to hurt the most vulnerable person they can find.
And for that reason, I'm trying to go out more and be a better person in my community. I could argue with chuds all day, but I think instead, I'll get good at a vegan brownie recipe and use that to share my short story about a surviving Lenin discovered in a block of ice like Captain America. (Yes I wrote this if you want it, dm me)
What if you find a magic amulet that lets you talk with the ghost of Che Guevara and he helped you write a book to share with 2024. Yes, what if Che Guevara was your ghost roommate and he ghost writes a book for you? (Writing this story now)
All I'm saying is fantasy and superheroes and wish fulfillment don't have to belong to reactionary thinkers.
Why can't we have Materialist Fantasy?
Have a good night!
That guy died right? I wonder what he would draw now.
It could just be a live reaction of the actors debating Team Edward or Team Jacob.
Neither are good, but I'd love for the emotions of a teenager to fight about it.
I'm torn between Rogue, Cammy, Mine (yes, this will be partially be a bit account), Cyclops, and Magneto.
With honorable mention to Ken.
