Part 3 of my FNV DLC design series. Now going into the divide.

You're bickering like an old married couple.

game designers talking about what a game is/should be are really just the ancient greeks inventing philosophy again

"what is a game?" whatever i'm playing right now, and most of the things I'm not

Oh, I know this one! A game is a featherless biped!

Diogenes comes in the room holding an IKEA instruction manual: "behold: a game!"

my little brother & i are having a scholarly debate about mornings

he’s like if an enlightened sage was a 22 year old metalhead who likes to rollerblade in the house

the thing about israel and palestine is that only one side has the power to end the conflict. israel could end the occupation, end the blockade, stop the settlements, stop the apartheid, and let palestinians return to their stolen homes. an end to israeli violence--to israeli occupation of palestine--would mean an end to the conflict. an end to palestinian violence, on the other hand, would see the bombings and evictions and ethnic cleansing continue unabated. so when someone calls for "an end to violence on both sides" remember that only one side can end 'the violence'--all the other can do is roll over and die.

I'm obsessed with this chair. The artist takes a flimsy hunk of injection-molded plastic that's been cost-cut to hell and back, and insists that we look at it with fresh eyes and understand its beauty. And they went about it in the most labor-intensive way I can think of.

Absolutely nothing about this design is convenient to execute in wood. Every piece is curved, most have compound curves. This is artisan craftsmanship: it's inherently slow, manual, and skilled. Notice, also, that most features of this chair must be thicker and heavier than on the plastic chairs being imitated. Injection-molded chairs can be produced in this shape in a matter of minutes with far less material at very low cost.

If these flowing, organic curves are so beautiful in polished wood, perhaps they are also beautiful in the mass-produced chairs that are far more accessible. Perhaps we should remember to admire designs that succeed enough to become ubiquitous. I don't know about you, but I'll never see injection-molded chairs the same way again.

Whenever I see those plastic chairs all I can think of is this lol

"A cup of tea with Ēvalds Valters" - a sculpture in Kuldīga dedicated to one of the greatest Latvian actors of all time. With bronze plastic chairs

suzanne collins is such a genius... the cultural phenomena of her series leading to the hanging tree house remixes, mockingjay being milked for two (bad) movies, the capitol-inspired makeup palettes, the halloween costumes, the explosion of the market for dystopia, the butchering of her characters and removal of disabilities, disfiguration, and racial tension + representation to sell more tickets, the extra gale scenes to fuel discourse, and the audience showing up to cinemas to watch what was pretty honestly marketed to them (the jacob vs edwardification of the symbolic love story and also to watch children fight to the death) it's just so ridiculously ironic i would say you can't write this shit, but she did write about it... in The Hunger Games published 2008

hey guys is it over or are we back i think i lost track

i mean to be clear i think we can all agree it is bad when civilians die. however the israeli state's policies as a settler-colonial genocidal project means that for decades it has been constructing a situation where it is impossible for palestinians to fight back against daily brutal violence without israeli civilians being caught in the crossfire so i think if you are upset about those deaths you should take it up with the government that built cities and invited settlers onto recently stolen land and then committed indiscriminate massacres against the people it was stolen from for decades. but of course most of the people handwringing about israeli civilians are not actually concerned with human life--or if they are, not with a worldview that recognizes palestinians as human

when people say "what about all the palestinian civlians that have been murdered on an ongoing basis as part of the eliminiationist status quo" they're not arguing "oh palestinian civilians died so israeli civilians should die too". they're pointing out that this status quo is one that can only be changed by actual armed resistance, and because of the aformentioned decades of israeli policy of 'moving civilians into a war zone to settle on stolen land' that's going to inevitably result in some level of harm coming to those civilians. and sure in a vacuum we can all agree that's bad, but condemning the fight for palestinian liberation on those grounds implictly makes the argument that the constant deaths of palestinians was tolerable in comparison, that the status quo should have been maintained--that that violence, of constant bombings of the starved and blockaged gaza strip, was preferable to this violence, where those people actually fight back. this is not a case of violence vs. peace--it is a case of one violence vs. another, and framing it as the former is the same as a fullthroated endorsement of the first, normalized violence, sanctioned by the israeli state and its imperialist overlords in washington

this is the only thing on my mind rn

MAN RAY (1890–1976) | Les Voies Lactées

Lana Del Rey by Chuck Grant for the 'Ride' music video, 2012

"It’s often unhealthy to hyper-analyze your sexuality to the point where how you experience it changes where you belong. This is why the idea that broader terms are somehow more restrictive is baffling. Continuously breaking labels down and creating terminology for each facet of one’s identity shrinks communities until it’s just one person convinced that they’re the only one who relates to their experiences. It isolates people and ignores the importance of individuality within a collective identity."

On Hyperpersonalized Sexual Identity

The author also dropped some gems in the last paragraph of the short article:

if you can’t handle richard siken at his “i also want to get bruce wayne pregnant” you don’t deserve him at his “everyone longs for a father figure. even those with fathers. even fathers. that’s why we invented god.”

This is so.. ! Such a fragile object in the shape of such a fragile creature surviving through the centuries intact.

Photographer Unknown, X-Ray of Daffodils, 1930

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