I have to beg and plead my mom to take her vacation days or stay home when sick. I'm so glad I don't have the self-destructive American work ethic older generations seem to have.
The only way I'm going to hate younger generations is if they move right politically.
We have the most amazing and beautiful usernames here in Hexbear. Many people are saying this.
Can't keep track of what bogyman buzzword group I'm supposedly a part of anymore.
Honestly this but cis people. Honestly this but trans/nb people that can't easily hide it. I don't trust anyone fully unless they have no choice in the matter but to fight back or die. I bet most of the people here would sit back as Trans people got exterminated if it came to it. Would I fight and die for a minority I'm not a part of? I would like to think so, but when the time to die actually comes that's gonna be fuckin' scary and I bet a lot of us won't pass that test, so POC not fully trusting white people like me makes a lot of sense even if it feels bad.
I worked overnights at a group home and it was pretty easy for the most part. It's not great for your social life though.
I hate feeling like a reddit atheist, but it feels really hard to imagine any organized religion not being a ticking time bomb in a communist society. You can bend most/all religions to fit communism in the same way you can bend them to fit capitalism and social conservatism, by ignoring the parts you don't like. However to me it seems like an organized religion is going to breed dogma and an in-group which is going to breed out group and discrimination. I'm pretty sure it's hard for me to look past my bias though, as my experiences with religions is mostly them wanting me dead.
For my face i use Cerave daily moisturizing lotion. If you don't have that in europe look for anything that says "non comedogenic" and bonud points for salycic acid. These are really good if you suffer from acne, blotchy skin, or big ugly pores. Avoid scented stuff too, but as you said mens stuff that shouldn't be hard.
For body I use Vaseline Advanced Repair lotion, which is strong stuff and really good for eczema or garden variety dry skin.
I'm from the r/cth days and have had just the one account. I'm not afraid of being doxxed because of my ironclad "being too unimportant and boring to be noticed" defense.
Hold up, I'm logging in to defend Blitzball, the best minigame of all time
DO NOT KILL ME YET, MY MOM ASKED ME TO DO THE LAUNDRY AND WOULD BE MAD IF I DIED BEFORE I DID IT
I just fucking bought some of these, ain't gotta call me out like this.
Somehow Desantis becomes president because the world hates me.
U.K bans all pronouns, accidentally makes entire country legally non-binary.
Hillary Clinton tells centrist republicans to Nintendo Switch 2 voting blue
Another ship gets stuck in a canal
Crash Bandicoot movie voiced by Chris Pratt
My Mom never stops talking about the christmas message I got her from Will Friedle from Boy Meets World on Cameo. I didn't explain to her how easy cameo is because it would lose some of the magic. She feels so special, and it makes me feel happy.
I'm American and I've never been anywhere where people where shoes on in the house. But I'm from a swamp in the midwest so maybe it's a warm/dry climate thing or maybe a rich-person-with-maid thing?
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I'm still hanging on to my own website even though I have 0 visitors because I LIKE having something I'm totally in control of to post my stupid writing projects.
1000 hours in Armored Core VI.
In case anyone wants the hexbear emblem:
PC Share ID: KJDKMNRJD7DY Textless: SR4ZHMP4LU4X Just the head: VZFZQBUAFA68
No Hexbear isn't brigading you I'm clicking on the main page of the website and replying to whatever I see. I don't even know what website I'm on, I have ADHD, I aint got the kind of focus. Anyway I'm going to go brigade a thread about video games with my pro-FFXIV propaganda.
(I don't know how much this will make sense for non FFXIV players, and also obviouosly spoilers ahead.)
-------- The Brilliance of FFXIV's Ascians or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Sad Bird
Final Fantasy XIV, aka “the second MMO one” or “the one with Y'shtola” is maybe my favorite game of all time. At least it's the game I've spent the most hours playing. The main story line is a bit unfocused at times due to the troubled history of the game. When it released it was so bad that they fired the director guy and then literally blew up the game world in universe, and then hired a new guy to make it again. And somehow it worked! This caused a lot of “plot threads that kind of exist technically, but the new guy doesn't like them so let's just shove them over in the time out corner.“ Though “Spend tons of money to make a really bad game and then spend even more money doing it again.” was probably not the plan at the start, it ends up feeling oddly fitting, like accidental brilliance. There is probably a word for that, but I don't know it.
Anyway, I just think it's real neat. To find out why I think this is, well, you are gonna have to go play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn, and the award Winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for FREE with no restriction on playtime, which is good because you are going to have to set aside about 300 hours. Come back when you meet a very important sad bird, I'll wait.
Okay! The rest of this is going to assume you know the gist of the main storyline. Here we go! So the Ascians in 2.0 largely are just weird little evil guys doing weird little evil stuff for some kind of reasons, probably. Then in 3.0 or 4.0 or whatever we learn that they are the ones who caused the massive society altering calamities that punctuate every era. This is largely considered to be kind of a dick move. They basically just said “Hey I wonder what would happen if we imitate that meteor that smashed into The Yucatan and killed all the dinosaurs, a terror birds, except six times in a row.” and then they did it, the mad lads.
Then we come to learn that they are doing this because they did an oopsie-woopsie and blew up their civilization so bad that 13 pieces broke off and everyone became 1/14th as much of a being(?!) So now they are trying to smash them all back together to fix it. Somehow. To cause said calamities, they have to basically blow up an entire alternate dimension version of the planet. Alongside failing to do it correctly with the 13th Reflection and accidentally creating ghosts, they ended 7 entire planets worth of human and animal life. The amount people they've killed is unfathomable, so unfathomable that I think our minds kind of glaze over it and we forget just how ridiculously evil this is. I'm not even sure how many Hitler Units they've amassed but it is a very large number.
The point is they should be beyond forgivable, right? We wouldn't give the Nazis a pass if some of them had a dry wit and swagger. So why does Shadowbringers, Endwalker, and their respective post-expansion raid series all seem to be going so hard on rehabilitating the image of the lot of them? Ah yes Emet-Selch, you cantankerous bastard, that was a funny quip you just made. Hey, btw, do you remember that time you did like a thousand genocides? When the writers first started doing this, I really really really did not like it, but the more I thought about it, the more it started to make sense.
One of the major themes of FFXIV is that to live is to struggle. Pain gives life meaning, and heartbreak gives us the capacity for compassion. As far back as 1.0 the song “Answers” has been driving that into our head. The Ancients though (who become the Ascians) are what happens when you break that theme. When you live without suffering. They have nigh-godlike powers of creation magic, a utopian society, and they seem to be immortal and just live until they get bored.
Let's get it out of the way quick, The Ascians/Ancients are all fucking dumb. Nothing they do makes any sense. Some guy is like “Wouldn't it be cool if there was a big flying shark?” and then he imaginated up a species of big flying sharks and I guess they just live here on the planet now. Cool, great. They say only concepts that will improve the world of Etheirys are allowed to be set free, but this is just them having their heads up their own asses. It's a pretense for them to create a society around playing god. Then we have the entirety of Pandemonium which is so obviously a bad idea, even for them, that I'm genuinely surprised it exists. Even our lord and savior Venat mostly just seems to run around being cryptic and putting into play 3000 year long multi-dimensional Machiavellian schemes. (A lot of the MSQ could have been avoided if she just told us what was going on instead of hinting at it, but that's less fun I guess.)
And then we have Hermes. That motherfucker. What a tool. He's the one Ancient who can get a major case of The Feels and when you meet him he's trying to bureaucracy his way into showing his fellows that their creations deserve more empathy. That they deserve more than to be tossed away like garbage when deemed failures. Even still he has no frame of reference for how lesser beings like the Warrior of Light, or the Ancient's creations, (hear) feel or think or why they act the way they do.
Hermes, as a little side project for funsies, wanted to explore the great unknown of space and search for life. So obviously he creates some sentient birds to do this and not just like a fucking drone or a spaceship or something. And that's not even the dumbest part, because these Entelechy (or birds) are super-empaths that feel emotion of others incredibly strongly. Hermes even sends the bird we meet, Meteion, out of the room during a slightly heated conversation because he doesn't want her to to freak out. He knows what he's doing! He's knowingly sending the Sympathetic Bird Brigade alone into the vast emptiness of space where they could encounter literally anything. While “sad bird ends multiverse” wouldn't have been a result I would have seen coming either, it was still clearly a horrible idea and at best was just going to traumatize a bunch of beings that are basically children.
And this wasn't even his job! He did this on the side! Later when Meteion's Bizarre Adventure inevitably goes to shit, Hermes, that dumb fucking cretin, that fucking fool, that absolute fucking buffoon, that bumbling idiot, gets suicidal and depressed. So he, who again comes from a race that just decide to stop living one day because they did all the Life Sidequests that they wanted and got bored, in his alien-esque morality system decides that if suffering exists he might as well kill everyone and then himself. Because of course he does.
Sure some of the Ancients can be affable and downright friendly to us, but only because they have no reason not to be. The Ancients come from a post-scarcity society, but not one based on compassion or unity. Theirs is based on detached “academic” apathy and goofin' around with your mega wizard magic. In short they are all dumb assholes.
Except for Hythlodaeus who is my boyfriend.
The reason Hermes didn't realize his little space project was pretty damn cruel is the same reason that the Ascians, many who used to be pretty chill, will just murder a bazillion million people the moment they think it could bring back their peers. Life is cheap. When you can create a human life (or something approaching it at least) with a snap of your fingers, it's no big deal to lose one or two or all of them. We are eminently replaceable. We are vastly beneath them, as they can not be replicated. Emet-Selch himself even tell us this.
“I do not consider you to be truly alive, ergo I will not be guilty of murder if I kill you”
If a human (the real world ones) goes and picks up a rock and then draws a :) on the rock and names him Jeff, they might feel a little attachment to Jeff, they might try to keep Jeff clean and not drop him and chip him, but if they lost Jeff they would shrug off the loss near immediately. The races of FFXIV are the Jeffs to the Ascians. Their life without real pain or fear or struggle made them something different from us. Something inhuman. An extreme version to how the ultra rich in our world eventually get so used to having every whim fulfilled and everyone around them sycophantic that they can't comprehend what life is like for the masses anymore. They stop being a person in the way that you and I are and become something else. Something with much much less compassion.
But instead of becoming incredibly divorced and ruining a social media site, the Ascians casually did some omnigenocide. They became cartoonish (but well written) villains (Just like billionaires.) for the heroes, the ones that know suffering, to vanquish. Even Hermes, the mythical benevolent oligarch, is too detached and stuck in his society's batshit morality that when he tries to “help” he instead fucks everything up.
To live is to suffer and to suffer is to live, and it's very serendipitous that a game that crashed and burned and then came back better for it can teach us that.
Anyway read Karl Marx or whatever.
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I'm obsessed with cardboard and plastic crack and would love to be able to talk about (and maybe play some on Tabletop Sim) with people who don't suck (especially Warhammer 40k, which doesn't have nearly enough leftists playing.) For card games I've been playing a lot of the Digimon TCG which is interesting and new enough to not have extreme nonsense like Yugioh or Magic.
