#pure philosophy

[nicknamed-naturefreak]

Do I run over this liberal on our next patrol or do I drive around?

[spotsupstuff]

Gold is often connected to divinity in rl religions. In Buddhism, it indeed symbolizes enlightenment and such, and it is often kept pure in order to not ruin its brilliance. In Tibetan Buddhism, statues are gilded with it and the 5 tonne Golden Buddha statue in Thailand is composed of 18 karat gold, almost fully pure.

Within this world, I like to think that gold has caught the eye of the Anemons in a religious sense upon the (,,re/")discovery of the Void Sea. The golden waves of it shaped the perception of their world, from explaining the sun as coated in a layer of Void, to giving an idea of what "cleanliness of soul" should look like. Wheel Flowers are also attributed to the Void as sprouts of it, because of their ethereal gold coloration.

The feeling of the divine has however faded when the motivations behind handling of the Void went terribly south, replaced by the extremist corruption and greed of High castes.

In other words, I wanted an excuse to draw Euros as a šarkan/змей.

[fictionadventurer]

From what I can see, all the commentary on the Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes movie thinks this story is trying to answer its philosopical questions, and completely overlooking the fact that all the answers these characters find are the wrong ones. The right answer is in The Hunger Games and Catching Fire and Mockingjay. You can tell because the main character of this story is the villain in the other ones.

[funeral]

With Nietzsche, everything is mask. [...] Nietzsche didn't believe in the unity of a self and didn't experience it. Subtle relations of power and of evaluation between different "selves" that conceal but also express other kinds of forces—forces of life, forces of thought—such is Nietzsche's conception, his way of living. ...His madness was his final mask. He had written: "And sometimes madness itself is the mask that hides a knowledge that is fatal and too sure." In fact, it is not. Rather, it makes the moment when the masks, no longer shifting and communicating, merge into a death-like rigidity. Among the strongest moments of Nietzsche's philosophy are the pages where he speaks of the need to be masked, of the virtue and the positivity of masks, of their ultimate importance.

Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life

[rathologic]

biggest disconnect in pathologic's reception has kind of always been a divide between "patho is driven by mechanics" and "patho is driven by story" camps where opinions only ever come from one of these extremes... around p1's development and release the developers considered it exclusively a survival challenge sim, not a game marketed for its story (despite story representing a huge fraction of the time and thought put into it). In The Society Of Dead Poets goes into so much detail about this. and it WAS a stunning technical work under the circumstances, but the complex story was what gave the franchise cult appeal, or at least enough so for it to get a sequel... reviews from the period tend to go along the lines of "this game looks and plays like shit but it's extremely thought-provoking". there's a little to be said about the mainstream view of a "Gamer" in 2005 and what they would be interested in marketing-wise not tracking with story games yet; anyway, the one-dimensionality here was consistent with the studio's approach to games as a whole (cf BoneHouse.ppt).

so IPL's perception of their work was what informed p2's priorities, which turned out to be A Way Better Survival Challenge at the expense of things like characters having complex motivations (expansion on this has been omitted; iykyk), and they did an incredible job with that & basically perfected what they had been going for mechanically. which created this weird divide where p2 fans think 1 isn't worth playing because it's less engaging as a gaming experience, and p1 fans (me included, to be clear) see 2's story changes as a spit in the face of everything that made the series work. like, neither of these are fundamentally incorrect, but they refer to completely non-overlapping paradigms of engaging with the material. when hopefully it can be agreed that a Video Game is comprised of Both a narrative aspect and an interactive aspect, and that they need to work together to create the player's transformative experience (again, premise of BoneHouse.ppt).

Anyway. that helps explain a lot of hbomb's stance on the franchise, particularly that he can endorse patho2 without comment as an ostensibly leftist youtuber when even the most cursory playthrough is enough to let players in on its gleeful centering of ecofascism... that game's representation of colonial relations as an unfixable divide employing the racist trope of reciprocal violence, its obsession with maintaining status quo, and its completely tasteless approach to MMIW are all elements of Story and thus all secondary to p2's huge improvements on the survival system. in the same vein, his discussion of p1's changeling's route is limited to the constant reputation decrease and the repeated quests because those are the only mechanical features introduced over the previous routes, even while clararoute text is fundamental to understanding most characters... his video isn't like Bad for getting the interactive experience p1 would present to you, but it sucks for engaging with the story because it's not about the story. and unfortunately, on discussion posting websites, we do usually post about story

[dilfmas]

style as a character is fascinating to me because he is simultaneously the character that is the most like his taming parallel while also being nothing like him at all. like when he’s with fadel and “taming” him, that is the most petruchio i’ve ever fucking seen in a modern adaptation. however he doesn’t have any of the same personal parallels to petruchio that makes him feel like petruchio in the same way that bison feels like bianca, fadel feels like katherine, and kant feels like lucentio.

which is interesting because objectively petruchio is like. fucking evil. despite being so much like him in his courting of fadel, style is not like petruchio beyond that and i think that’s honestly the only way they could keep the parallel as close as possible while still making him likable and making us want to root for fadel and style.

also! style is the only one that is technically not just a 1:1 with his original character. he’s petruchio, yes - but he’s also tranio, who is lucentio’s servant/friend. which i think is likely part of what makes him more likable and also so different from petruchio

[miraclemaya]

world where plato was right and marx came up with communism in a fit of divine madness instead of years of work

[legionofpotatoes]

A few more starfield verticals from weeks past. Seeing Aceles in the wild was so cool

[alchimistetyche]

A friend and I were talking about it and we couldn't decide so obviously the next best thing was to leave it up to the spn website. Personally I think he would be some type of humanities major but this is early seasons Cas so maybe he'd try to go to med school and angeliclly cheat his way through or something.

I'm getting all the discs. of majors from google so yeah

Anthropology: study humanity, and they examine how linguistics, culture, biology and history shape human diversity

Philosophy: study of fundamental questions about the nature of reality, knowledge, and value

(BROAD) Religious Studies: an interdisciplinary field of study that examines religious and secular worldviews, rituals, ethics, and philosophies

History: (I can't find many good ones that aren't ai generated boooo) critically examining the connections between the past, present, and future, usually has a specific time period in mind/that is an interest

Pre-med: a program that ensures students take all the required classes needed to apply for medical school

If you had a specifc focus in mind for any of these or something else that would fit him feel free to comment or put it in the tags.

If pre-med wins I'll make another poll to determine what his medical discipline would be because I'm way too invested in this now lol.

[thepersonalwords]

When I was looking for the key to open the deepest chamber of your heart, I found that secret key of pure love hidden in my heart.

Debasish Mridha

[nicknamed-naturefreak]

no asks😔 imagine

-tfa-bee-and-c(imma just put bee from now on)

Yeah, I can imagine the wind that blows through your empty helm

[sciderman]

What are some things cable likes about peter?

nathan's type:

red mask ✅ tight suit ✅ kind of stupid ✅ filters sadness through the prism of humour ✅

bonuses peter parker has to offer

cute hair ✅ cute butt ✅ cute everything ✅

[waitmyturtles]

[funeral]

But we shouldn't enclose life in the single moment when individual life confronts universal death. A life is everywhere, in all the moments that a given living subject goes through and that are measured by given lived objects: an immanent life carrying with it the events or singularities that are merely actualized in subjects and objects. This indefinite life does not itself have moments, close as they may be one to another, but only between-times, between-moments; it doesn't just come about or come after but offers the immensity of an empty time where one sees the event yet to come and already happened, in the absolute of an immediate consciousness.

Gilles Deleuze, Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life

[tabellae-rex-in-sui]

You can ignore this if you haven’t read it but is “Must we burn Sade?” By Simone de Beauvoir a decent read ?

I’ve heard it’s basically a defence/criticism(?) for Sade’s writings . Haha I don’t know the proper word to use for it .

I’m asking you since you seem very knowledgeable on de Sade and assume you read books revolving around him .

I would definitely recommend it if you're interested in how Sade's image has changed throughout the years. The 20th century saw a huge recontextualizing of his philosophy, especially in the European surrealist and existentialist circles. Simone de Beauvoir argued that Sade had been unjustly maligned/dismissed as a philosopher and redefines him as a moralist and feminist figure. ...Of course it should also be mentioned that several of the midcentury philosophers and artists defending Sade, like Beauvoir, were defendants of the abusive aspects of his philosophy as well (Beauvoir and Sartre were twice accused of grooming Beauvoir's students into sexual relationships with them).

If you follow me, you can probably tell I don't fully agree with her appraisal of Sade, but it's still a super fascinating essay, and there's still a lot of valuable analysis in it. Even just for historical/philosophical interest. I'd also recommend Angela Carter's Sadean Woman for a more modern feminist reading of Sade. And Laurence L. Bongie's biographical essay for the complete opposite lol (he argues Sade is NOT deserving of the praise he got during the 20th century, and is an overall mediocre philosopher and writer). Honestly any Sade analysis is a good read in my opinion, regardless if I agree or not.

[daydrinking75]

k the thing abt streaming music is it turns my listening experience into money in someone's pockets and i just think thats kinda fucked up