It's not exactly groundbreaking, but I really appreciate how Dread Delusion's several regions and main quests all present different slices and manifestations of its central themes and question, giving the player a lot of opportunity to consider how they feel about it and even experiment with different answers before what I assume will be the final decision.

It also makes all those choices really hard. I've developed a great deal of respect for this game's writing.

Watched Lindsey Ellis's first essay on YouTube in years. It was pretty good actually. As someone who really enjoyed a Yoko Ono exhibit at the MoMA and has a copy of Grapefruit I can see as I type, it's nice to be validated again that she's demonized as a cultural activity more than anything else. Also that sucks a lot. The video goes over several examples of this, but that's only one track of it. There's a lot more about the will to fame and what actually "broke up" the Beatles.

Something else that sucks is that censorship vis-a-vis "unalive" and shit is getting pretty crazy these days. Like there are things you just can't talk about without doing a little censor dance and have your shit be visible. It makes it really difficult to have serious discussions about challenging subjects on what are the pre-eminent media platforms now.

Anyway I want to be rocking with someone where we can bench press each other.

The ancient masculinity of being repulsed by your wife who toils in the fields with you, filthy, sweating, and strong.

You're sooooo smart

Another thing that is really good is chocolate and cheese, especially with a nice fruit. One time I got served a "wedding proposal" which was dark chocolate, apricot, and monchago.

All of these are actually good and mostly rely on combining sweet and savory flavors to different degrees. Three of them are also foods that are associated with being poor and déclassé.

Personally never really been into ranch on pizza or in general, but I begrudgingly respect that it works.

The one I'll really stick up for is apple (or other sweet fruit filling) pie with cheese. It's really tight to have something like a swiss to cut the sweetness and round out the flavor profile there.

As someone who intentionally uses any pronouns as the result of a long process of reflecting on my gender and coming to the conclusion that I am both someone who is comfortable being identified as cis while not really feeling strongly attached to, I guess, any particular set of gender performance norms or personal identification with such a set except as occurs to me moment-to-moment - I guess it wouldn't be an appropriate statement to say that I'm "just dipping my toes in the water".

But I also would be mad if someone got banned over that on my behalf.

I find this site generally misanthropic and would prefer that that be confined to public figures at least.

It's not about being praxis; it's about the quality of content.

And it's also about not spending all your time finding every last person who said something that sucks. It's not healthy to do that shit.