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Holy thus took so long to draw. GUESS THE MAN. It's colonel hsu one of the better ncr higher ups. I'm a colonel moore hater a general oliver hater. Someone tell me this looks like leyendeckers style before I go take a long walk off a short pier

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looking for opinions both from americans and non-americans: what would you consider to be the big 4 american cities in terms of like, vibes-based cultural impact?

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damn girl are you a bobster 🦞 because im about to 🥣 bisque it all

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I fuck wit title-only text posts. this shit is like talkin in an apartment hallway loud as fuck out the window

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Why do you think the NYT is Like That currently?

buncha reasons. access journalism dazzles journalists by letting them close to people who have power and prestige so they come up with ways to justify making that closeness primary rather than instrumental to good reporting. misunderstanding political neutrality to mean perfectly-balanced bothsidesism, which when one party has gone objectively insane means minimizing their insanity. post-Woodward and Bernstein generations of reporters obsessed with getting the Scoop, meaning they ignore obvious crimes right out in the open. obsessively repeating mantras like 'it's not the coverup it's the crime' when in fact the crimes are really fucking important. 'centrist liberal who gets their yahoos punching hippies' is just kind of a naturally reactionary figure, and the NYT is a paper where that is basically the official editorial line. BLM scared the piss out of Arthur G. Sulzberger personally and he would throw in for Adolf Hitler to prevent it happening again. transphobia is just really common and people will contort themselves wildly to justify their prejudices. good journalism is slow, difficult, and expensive and journalists are lazy, so it's much easier to write commentary on commentary and publish it as political reporting than it is to do research and shit. the paper's incredibly inflated sense of its own importance as an institution. journalism has always been bad, and despite journalists sucking each other off about being a bulwark against authoritarianism, a free press is closer to a necessary evil than it is an active virtue--with very occasional exceptions journalism should be viewed as a slightly scuzzy profession like used car salesman or personal injury lawyer, and they are more often the people driving the turn towards authoritarianism than the ones preventing it. this goes triple for opinion columnists and (save Jamelle Bouie, who I think is great) the NYT has some of the most dogshit stupid opinion columnists on earth.

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"The humanitarian said dates and olives were consistently thrown out by Israeli customs official without explanation. After pooling their experiences with other aid groups, they realised the common denominator was fruits or vegetables with pits or seeds that could be planted."

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if you hate jazz you will die and go to hell

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look out! general's got drip

based on this, all the way back from January (whoops!)

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apparently Rus’ merchants would pretend to be Christian when they traded in Syria because Christians paid lower import duties, which I think is a funny image

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I think the concept of introversion may have harmed a lot of people, tbh

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Da il mematore Johnny su fb

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“The guys I had the most fantasies about as a child were David Attenborough and Carl Sagan. Really. In school, I would fall for the guy in the back of the class with really thick glasses and the insect collection who told you about the solar system. It’s these people who show you these secrets, like, ‘Do you want me to show you a lot of really strange things that nobody’s ever seen ?’ It just drives me nuts. It gives me 53 hard-ons. That’s what turns me on.”

— Björk on the kind of men that turn her on, Spin Magazine (1997)

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“oh i’d do -40 i love wintertime and the snow and i hate the sun” did you know that -40 is actually too cold for clouds to form or snow to fall. so it’s just going to be blindingly bright and the sunlight will bounce off the solid white chunks of ice coating everything and give you the worst sunburn you’ve ever had in your life and/or make you go blind. did you know that

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at 38 celsius you can stay outside so long as you drink enough water and wear enough sun protection. at -40 you will get frostbite on any part of your body that isn’t bundled up in layers within minutes if not faster. i’m starting to think some of you are stupid

people who have never had their eyelashes get encrusted in frost or had the inside of their noses freeze should not be allowed to vote on that 38 celsius/-40 celsius poll

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people who have never had their eyelashes get encrusted in frost or had the inside of their noses freeze should not be allowed to vote on that 38 celsius/-40 celsius poll

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Disco Academia

Open Access academic works written about Disco Elysium:

Urban Shivers: Recoding Actual Space in Disco Elysium (2022) by Arina R. Medvedeva

Baltic Screen Media Review Volume 9 (2021): Issue 1 (December 2021) - This entire issue is dedicated to works on DE, there are ten separate articles herein.

Not just Playing: Potential in Enhancing Second Language Learning through Games (2023) by Xiangyi Zhang

Screenshots as Photography in Gamescapes: An Annotated Psychogeography of Imaginary Places (2023) by Mafalda Gamboa et al.

Potentially paywalled articles, check if you have access through your local library or other sources.

The Voices of Game Worlds: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Disco Elysium (2022) by Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen and Míša Hejná

Disco Pinball: Declining Games and Depression in Disco Elysium (2024) by Ryan Banfi

Our Bodies, Our Incoherent Selves: Games and Shifting Concepts of Identity and Narrative in Contemporary Storytelling (2018) by Julialicia Case

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Would you rather:

-Live somewhere where it is ALWAYS 100F/38C

-Live somewhere where it is ALWAYS -40

In both scenarios, assume you’re stuck in that place and cannot move somewhere else.

In both scenarios, assume you’re stuck in that place and cannot move somewhere else.