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The thing about many city-builder games is that they still can't break away from the SimCity model, and the SimCity model, as groundbreaking it was for its time, was never exactly the best way to simulate a city.

I of course deeply respect SimCity for what it did but it came out in 1989. I think it's time to think away from it. Do you really need a Residential Commercial Industrial index in every game?

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What if we all got really into arguing about the meaning of some other short story for awhile. If I were in the room with the yellow wallpaper I would simply leave

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book from the sky (tianshu) xu bing, 1989-91

I was so excited to see a copy of this in real life bc it's something I studied in art history. this is a book that was typeset and printed by hand using wooden blocks but every one of the characters was invented for the sake of the piece and does not correspond to any word in the Chinese language

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politely informing my boss that i can't do my job because i have to spend 18 hours perusing beafts on e-codices

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“Medieval peasants couldn’t handle my Spotify playlist” but could YOU handle a medieval bard relaying the epic of Beowulf over the course of an hour? Humble yourself.

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Do you have the Libby library app?

If not, download it to your phone, and under "Add library card" select the button to search for a library and start typing in "queer"...

Sign up with an email, no actual address required, and you are good to go 🏳️‍🌈

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say what you will about california but i love that we have an official state slug (banana slug). more states should have official state slugs.

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Happy 2025! We're so excited to be releasing our Carmilla adaptation on the Re: Dracula feed this year, starting Feb 14! The cast and crew absolutely nailed this production and it's going to be such a treat. (If you're impatient you can join our Patreon page and listen to the first half of the series right now!)

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i bet there are ghosts

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Ordinary Sacramento Californian photographer Enoch Ku in his ongoing project captures the quirkiness of the otherwise mundane urban landscape of Sacramento, California. 

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“ugh, [genre] is so bad, it’s all shallow and stupid and pandering” I hate to break it to you but that is the entire point of Sturgeon’s Law

Theodore Sturgeon was a sci-fi writer in the 50s, back when sci-fi was seen as lowbrow, pulpy, and for children. He countered the dismissive critics with, “yes, 90% of sci-fi is crud. But that’s because 90% of everything is crud.”

if you’re like “oh X genre is universally shallow garbage” you have probably only seen the few most popular parts of it, and the most popular parts of basically any genre are in the 90% of crud. Your genre of choice is not better, you just know it better and you know how to sort the good stuff from the crud.

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Into the Void - Simon Bang , 2020.

Danish, b. 1960  -

Acrylic on canvas , 54 x 95 cm.

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Just opened my fic document and found this

Thanks, past me. Incredibly helpful.

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Colonizer Classics, 2024

Glass seed beads, beeswax, nylon

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Oscar Oiwa - Light Shop 2, 2018 - Oil on canvas

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Control Room, 2004 (embroidery on black velvet) & Space Station, 2006 (embroidery on canvas)

Farhad Moshiri