Linux: you’ve been using it for years and don’t even know it

Comfort Eating.

I don’t drink. I don’t smoke. I tried weed and found it uninteresting and never did anything harder. I exercise regularly.

But I’ll still never be the platonic ideal of a “healthy person”, because whenever I’m sad, I need processed sugar to feel like a person again. And brother, does life give me reasons to be sad.

Fuck me.

I don’t like Lula

But if he dies or retires, the Brazilian left has nothing to offer in his place, and it’s pretty much guaranteed Bolsonaro will be president again.

Evopsych type dudes.

They made up a whole pseudoscience to “explain” their inability to form meaningful bonds with other humans. And in the process broadcast to everyone they are on the spectrum but refuse to accept it.

Like my dude, I too have trouble intuiting the rules of proper social interaction and wonder where the manual everyone but me got is. But it’s not because of some made up bullshit about the pleistocene. It’s because I’m autistic, and it’s high time you got your ass checked.

Korra is basically a neoliberalist propaganda piece in a cartoon’s clothing.

It shows us a world that is chafing as technological advancement and social change causes conflict with long-standing traditions – Which is a great premise, actually – And ultimately arrives at the answer of “replace all traditions with Capitalism. That will fix literally everything”.

A billionaire known to be a crook is depicted as a dashing rogue who is an ally of the heroes. Of the three villains, only the fascist-adjacent one gets a redemption arc. Our protagonist deletes all previous incarnations of the Avatar and doesn’t even get a slap in the wrist for it.

My hottest take? Korra would have been an awesome show if instead of trying to one-up TLA’s stakes (and failing) – It instead embraced being a low-stakes thing and became all about the Fire Ferrets’ professional bending career. Just four seasons of wrestling-esque shenanigans at the ring.

Yeah arguably the former three villains all sucked.

Amon was a criminal exploiting social unrest for his personal gain, and didn’t really care about the cause.

Unalaq was the wuxia fantasy equivalent of an Ecofascist. “We are the virus” type shit

And Zaheer as an anarchist didn’t really have a project or care about uniting the people, he just killed some powerful assholes and considered himself a hero for it, not even caring that killing a powerful asshole and fucking off basically just opens the door for other powerful assholes to do powerful asshole things. – Which they did.

The telling part, to me, however, is that only Kuvira got a last minute redemption, where the other three fucking died. Because ultimately neoliberalism considers “violent warmongering and conquest (aka mostly it’s the poors dying)” to be less destructive than social unrest, violent environmentalism, or anarchist movements that target the powerful.

Actual gods, or do self-proclaimed gods that are actually something else count?

Cuz if the latter, Final Fantasy 1 (same year, few months earlier) might be Patient Zero for killing “gods” in jRPGs.

But we should also recognise when violence

a. Is bad

b. Is completely legal

And that this is, in fact, a bad thing. And we should question why such violence is legal.

… Even if you come out at the other end deciding that yes, this is how it should be. The only “wrong” thing is not thinking about it.

Brazil has Lampião and Padre Ciço. … Though Ciço is less ‘criminal’ and more ‘heretic’. He’s considered a saint by many nevertheless.

We as a society have evolved beyond the need for dungeons and dragons /hj

I enjoyed 7/9 of them (Rise of Skywalker and Phantom Menace commit the only sin that I think is unforgivable in a movie: They are uninteresting)

But that’s the thing right.

They’re

Enjoyable films

… And that’s it. If one of them sucks, it doesn’t change much in the world at large. And even if you’re the type of person for whom a bad entry ruins a series, it’s not like it’s such a massive loss in the case of Star Wars?

LISA the painful.

What about KDE music

99% of the salt involved with Star Wars comes from taking it way too seriously and treating it as way more important than it actually is.

I know it’s happened a couple of times, but it’s not the usual practice. AFAIK when someone is condemned, the method of killing them is already set from the get-go.

Nah the right has one or three pet billionaires they outright worship.

MS word, Telegram, Notepad++.

Exactly that. It acts like the hand tool in a pdf reader, mouse has to keep moving.

The Firefox one is enabled already. I don’t do Chrome(ium) unless I absolutely have no choice.

… But yeah I’d like to enable it for other applications. Dunno if it is possible though.