#joyce messier core

[thefiresontheheight]

I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like the style of the spiderverse movies. But peeps saying how Spiderpunk is anticapitalist or antifascist or whatever have to remember that the character is fictional. And also is fictional inside a wildly successful movie put out by Sony. So, like, to paraphrase, Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.

[selfchiller]

Deeply ashamed of the way my moral core simply crumbled into dust when Joyce Messier called me sweetheart.

[yellow-yarrow]

ok so it looks like some characters (and places) in de could be named after famous leftists, Revachol - Ravachol, Harry Du Bois - W.E. B. Du bois, Echo Maker/Ulixes Bücher(?) - Eric Mühsam, Dolores Day- Dorothy Day, also possible that Joyce Messier is named after Jean Messlier, Evrart - William Everard, Lilienne Carter - Étienne Cabet maybe

and it bothers me that we don't know the full name of Steban, he uses Nasteb Encalada-Bernal in the La Fumée article, Nasteb is obviously an anagram for Steban, but what is Encalada-Bernal an anagram for?

also looking through famous leftists who he could be named after the closest I found is Eduard Bernstein maybe? E. B.? BerSTEiN? probably not but idk. it could be also possible that they didn't come up with his name like this and i'm just making stuff up lol

honorable mention of this one Esteban E. I found

and while searching I also found this Stefan

jesus christ

the devs got me learning about history again

(Also theres that story set in Elysium, written before the game, "Full core state nihilist" where the two characters are called Esteban and Hulio, very possible that Steban and Uli were named after them, so this Stefan - Erich Mühsam could be just a coincidence? Or maybe it is this layered? who knows. at least im learning about all these historical people)

[disco-elysium-via-polls]

"How about the *Sleek Fish*."

JOYCE MESSIER - "What?"

"Because it's sleek… and fish-like."

JOYCE MESSIER - A smirk passes her face. "I think I'll stick with the factory name. But thank you."

3. "How do you like it?" (Conclude.)

JOYCE MESSIER - "My sloop? I like it a lot." Her lips curl into a wry smile. "It's the *eel's hips*, baby."

KIM KITSURAGI - "I'm enjoying this part of the interview -- it has *so* little to do with the murder we're investigating."

ESPIRIT DE CORPS [Medium: Success] - I really do, the lieutenant thinks -- is she thrown off, yet? He's looking at the woman, assessing her…

3. "Do you have a license for this boat?"

JOYCE MESSIER - "Officer, I assure you I'm a highly qualified pleasure craft operator."

PERCEPTION (SIGHT) [Easy: Success] - The crowns of her teeth are porcelain, white as the boat's hull as she smiles.

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Easy: Success] - Her nonchalance *might* be related to something called the Wayfarer Act -- a law that says she doesn't *need* a licence. Sly fox... you're not aggressive enough to harass her further on this.

4. "I think I have a handle on the boat thing." (Conclude.)

JOYCE MESSIER - "Good," she takes a sip of her thermal cup.

2. "Tell me about Wild Pines. What do you do?"

JOYCE MESSIER- "What *we* do -- I'm afraid I don't speak for Wild Pines as a whole. It's a giant undertaking."

"So what do *they* do?"

"Fair enough. Tell me something else."

JOYCE MESSIER- "The Pines' *core competency* is logistics -- container shipping, freight, that sort of thing." She points to the small dots on the horizon. "See those airships there, blinking? Those are the shipping side of things..."

...then to the east, toward the harbour: "And that is the terminal. Another subdivision deals with energy -- oil and gas exploration. Offshore platforms."

SUGGESTION [Challenging: Success] - She enjoys talking about the company. It would not hurt to inquire more.

"How much money does Wild Pines have?"

"Got it. Tell me something else."

JOYCE MESSIER- "I'm not at liberty to discuss the company balance sheet, but I *can* tell you that last year the company booked more than 20 billion reál in revenue."

ENCYCLOPEDIA [Medium: Failure] - A... billion?

"What exactly is a *billion*?"

"Wow."

"That's *it*? I thought Wild Pines was supposed to be big time."

"Numbers like that mean nothing to me."

"The money I owe is *so much* less than that."

JOYCE MESSIER- "It's a number, officer, a *big* one."

"What is it made of?"

JOYCE MESSIER- "It's made of one thousand millions -- a million is made of a thousand thousands."

[troyplaysbass]

My Best Years May Still Be Ahead of Me: My Favorite Albums of the 2010s

An Introduction

The Upsides leaked on Christmas Eve, 2009.

Wonder Years vocalist Dan Campbell was panicking in an Outback Steakhouse bathroom (seriously, he wrote a song about it), and I was sitting at my parents’ desktop computer downloading the album that would have an immeasurable influence on the next ten years of my life. I don’t know Dan personally, but I would guess that was as much a turning point in his life as it was in mine.

The Wonder Years would go on to tour the world, release four more albums, and become my favorite band in the process. In the meantime, I was playing in bands, writing songs, and occasionally touring. I was briefly a critic, writing reviews for two music blogs. I recorded and mixed records for myself and my friends. But first and last, I was a fan. All these years later, I still love the feeling of hearing a great album for the first time and letting it wash over me, of a lyric that cuts to my emotional core, of singing along with a room full of people or by myself in my car, of feeling seen and understood, feeling like I was a small part of something important.

A decade-spanning list like this is fraught with complications, biases, and tough questions. How important is a decade anyway? How do you weigh an album with five or eight or ten years of influence against one that came out six months ago? Can I cheat and list two EPs as one album? How do you reckon with the personal significance of art whose work is tainted by the artist’s problematic behavior?

I don’t have good answers to those questions. I just have a list of albums that were important to me over the past decade. These are the albums that soundtracked every significant moment of my life since senior year of high school. They’re in some semblance of an order, although that order gets messier the further down the list you go. I hope you listen and find something you love.

I was eighteen years old, still in high school at the start of this decade. I was still buying every album I liked on CD. I had yet to discover vinyl collecting (and Vinyl Collective). I didn’t know DIY bands were releasing their albums for free on Bandcamp and dubbing their own cassette tapes. Spotify hadn’t launched in the US. The entire musical landscape is so much different now than it was back then, and I’ve certainly grown a lot in the intervening years as well, but it’s still possible for music to move me like it did a decade ago, by the light of a desktop computer, the first time I heard The Upsides.

The List

The Wonder Years - Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing

The Hotelier - Home, Like NoPlace Is There

The Gaslight Anthem - American Slang

Fun. - Some Nights

Jason Isbell - Southeastern

Bleachers - Strange Desire

Beach Slang - Broken Thrills

John K. Samson - Provincial

Laura Stevenson - Wheel

Jimmy Eat World - Damage

The Gaslight Anthem - Handwritten

The Menzingers - After the Party

Spanish Love Songs - Schmaltz

John K. Samson - Winter Wheat

The Wonder Years - The Greatest Generation

Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life

Thursday - No Devolucion

Joie de Vivre - We’re All Better Than This

The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep For You Are So Beautiful and So Unaware of It

Fake Problems - Real Ghosts Caught On Tape

Ruston Kelly - Dying Star

Brian Fallon - Sleepwalkers

Paramore - After Laughter

Into It. Over It. - Intersections

The Graduate - Only Every Time

The Horrible Crowes - Elsie

The Wonder Years - The Upsides

The Menzingers - On the Impossible Past

Jimmy Eat World - Invented

Against Me! - Transgender Dysphoria Blues

The Front Bottoms - Talon of the Hawk

Bleachers - Gone Now

The Hotelier - Goodness

Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly

You, Me, and Everyone We Know - A Great Big Hole / I Wish More People Gave a Shit

Jeff Rosenstock - We Cool?

Hellogoodbye - Would It Kill You?

Aaron West and the Roaring Twenties - We Don’t Have Each Other

The Tower and the Fool - How Long

The Hotelier - It Never Goes Out

Waxahatchee - American Weekend

Modern Baseball - Sports

Desaparecidos - Payola

Copeland - Ixora

The Sidekicks - Happiness Hours

The Wonder Years - Sister Cities

Taylor Swift - Red

The Menzingers - Rented World

The 1975 - The 1975

Future Teens - Breakup Season

Phoebe Bridgers - Stranger In the Alps

Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness - Andrew McMahon In the Wilderness

The World Is a Beautiful Place and I Am No Longer Afraid To Die - Whenever, If Ever

Charly Bliss - Young Enough

Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

The Swellers - The Light Under Closed Doors

The Mountain Goats - Beat the Champ

mewithoutYou - Pale Horses

You, Me, and Everyone We Know - Some Things Don’t Wash Out

Joie de Vivre - The North End

Julien Baker - Sprained Ankle

Frank Turner - Tape Deck Heart

State Lines - Hoffman Manor

Into It. Over It. - Proper

Pedro the Lion - Phoenix

Fireworks - Oh, Common Life

Jimmy Eat World - Integrity Blues

Broadway Calls - Comfort/Distraction

Transit - Keep This To Yourself

Polar Bear Club - Clash Battle Guilt Pride

Vampire Weekend - Modern Vampires of the City

Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) - You Will Eventually Be Forgotten

The Dangerous Summer - War Paint

Japandroids - Celebration Rock

Real Friends - Everyone That Dragged You Here

The Gaslight Anthem - Get Hurt

Guster - Easy Wonderful

Titus Andronicus - The Monitor

Better Love - We Were Younger and Less Put Together

I Am the Avalanche - Avalanche United

Brian Fallon - Painkillers

Bomb the Music Industry! - Adults!!!

Smallpools - Smallpools

The Wonder Years - No Closer To Heaven

Jason Isbell - The Nashville Sound

Los Campesinos! - Romance Is Boring

The Swellers - Good For Me

Braid - No Coast

Modern Baseball - You’re Gonna Miss It All

Converge - All You Love You Leave Behind

Touché Amore - Is Survived By

All Get Out - Nobody Likes a Quitter

Fireworks - Gospel

Joyce Manor - Million Dollars To Kill Me

Hostage Calm - Please Remain Calm

Mixtapes - Ordinary Silence

Daytrader - Demo

Aficionado - Aficionado

Counting Crows - Somewhere Under Wonderland

The Appreciation Post - Work/Sleep