Frank

Frank, 2 months ago

I hate this shit so much. Weighing your creature comforts against the literal life or death of your family. Yeah, living with the horrible, horrible burden of chronic illness and vulnerability does suck, doesn’t it? It is limiting, you do miss out on so many things you wish you could do, it does crush you and grind you down and extinguish the joy in your life, doesn’t it! But you’re so lucky! You can leave whenever you want! You don’t have to live with chronic illness, you can just fuck off and be normal and not have to worry about any of it whenever you want!

I have type ii bipolar. I’ve spent decades fighting to survive horrific depression, isolation, anxiety. And i watched normal, neurotypical, healthy people crack after a couple of weeks of half assed quarantines. “If you had what I had you’d be dead”. And now when they’ve all given up and embraced the plague i get rolled eyes and scowls and pitying looks from people. Well fuck all of them! Covid causes many of the same neurological conditions as bipolar and adhd - brain fog, executive dysfunction, fatigue, malaise. I haven’t fought like hell and suffered pain worse than death year after year to just give up and let this fucking virus destroy what’s left of my brain because people want to eat shitty diner food or watch some capeshit movie in theaters.

I’ve survived things that would have killed most of them a hundred times over and i’m going to keep surviving. Wearing a damn mask is nothing compared to taking a fist full of pills every day that fuck with my stomach and make me shit weird and forget to eat and throw me between extreme cognitive states of focus and disfunction! Avoiding crowds? I spent almost a year once only leaving the house at night because i was so wracked with depression and anxiety and i was terrified someone would see me as a dangerous crazy man and call the cops!

I’ve been in much worse places than this, and i lived, and i’m going to continue to live, and i’ve seen what’s in the heart of all these people who don’t believe in death, who don’t believe it could happen to them, who won’t make sacrifices for the people they love.

Frank, 2 months ago

Can you imagine? I would pack my bags and leave the second i saw this. It’s so cruel, so callous, so utterly lacking respect to shame your partner like this in front of the entire world.

Frank, 2 months ago

Oh my…

I guess I should go shave.

Frank, 2 months ago

I keep one of those glass breaking hammers attached directly to my driver’s side sun blocker thingy.

This is very funny. Musk doing more praxis than almost anyone here.

Frank, 2 months ago

They’re parachuting aid packages in to, literally, a city that is never more than, what, 10 miles from a major roadway? Sadistic and ju8st id oan’t I don’t have words.

Frank, 2 months ago

“We have to support the genocide committing establishment because the other guy is definitely going to do double genocide” is just the sickest shit I have ever encountered and I really cannot think of any productive way to engage with it. The only upshot is that telling people you’re voting for Trump because he has only participated in one genocide (Yemen) instead of Joe’s two genocides (Yemen and Gaza) makes them very mad. But only for a few seconds before their supremely logical minds remind them that Yemen wasn’t a genocide because Genocide is what the bad guys do and they’re the good guys.

Frank, 2 months ago

that’s awful. I thought it was going to be baldies getting in to someone trash or something.

Frank, 3 months ago

I have no idea who this is but he’s an old white guy with “lord” in his name so i assume his death built at least .001% of communism

Frank, 3 months ago

Studying Democratic Party politics, huh?

Frank, 3 months ago

“You have to vote for the real existing genocide because i’m afraid of the imaginary theoretical genocide in my head”

barbara-pit

They went from " vote for the lesser evil" to “vote for the lesser genocide” with so little effort.

Frank, 3 months ago

I know some canadian leftishists and their nationalism is very strange compared to their professed beliefs.m

Frank, 3 months ago

Lol

capabara-tank

Frank, 3 months ago

Very much so. Origin made a sandbox for people to roleplay in, based on then existing muds. Everquest was still mostly a sanbox, but it introduced things like levels and zones segregated by level. And then WoW happened, and the true theme-park mmo where everything was on rails and you had to do exactly what you were told at exactly the pace the game dictated as you were lead through a series of curated areas.

Dungeons in UO weren’t at all like dungeons in later games. The dungeons had mobs of all kinds of difficulty levels. Usually it started out easy at the entrances and got worse the deeper you went, but there was no anti-kiting mechanism! So somethings a bunch of screaming, half dead adventurers would run past you screaming “run run run!” And you ran, because that usually meant the worst monster in the dungeon had spawned and was slaughtering everyone. If it got pulled to the dungeon entrances transition tiles i twould just squat their over a mount of corpses as people tried to enter and get their stuff back from their body, only to be one shot by the acid elemental or elder liche or whatever. Sometimes a big party of heroes would come clean it out, other times everyone would just wait, or send in runners to try to lure the monster away from the entrance. Players would wait for the corpse decay timer to expire so they could dart in and try to grab loot off of other player’s bodies. It was a chaotic mess very different from most mmos where player were just handed a big map with a defined set of rules and told to go figure their shit out.

Did i mention there was no instancing, so everyone on the server/shard was in the same dungeon at the same time? Total mayhem!

There was a place in one dungeon, and i forget what we called it, but it was a spot with a fast spawn of strong skeleton warriors. It’s where you went to train your healing skill. People would form a wall of fighters with shields, banging away at the skeletons, and then you’d “cross heal” the people next to you. It took eight seconds to bandage yourself, but only four seconds to bandage someone else, so “cross healing” was important during serious fights to keep everyone alive. The goal was usually to get above the threshold of 80 points in healing, because at that point you gained the ability to wrap bandages around player ghosts and through the magic of video games that would rez them. It was this organic, cooperative thing where people would come and go from the skeleton fightan wall all day, hang out, chat.

The game had banks, too, like many later games, and they were the game’s social hub since people always needed to come and go from the banks to deposit items or grab things. There were often dozens of people standing around the bank in Britain chatting, roleplaying, showing off their latest fashions, selling things, or even pickpocketing other players back when the rules allowed that.

Idk, i was a kid when i played, and it was a really important experience for me so I’ve got a lot of nostalgia for it.

Frank, 3 months ago

Yeah, that tracks. Robocop is a satire of 80s white flight and drug hysteria, but it has a plot, Murphy’s lost humanity, enslavement, and struggle to define who he is gives him some depth and pathos. The badguys are ridiculously ghoulish and over the top, everyone is chewing the scenery, the special effects are fun.

But with starship troopers, fash media is fash media, so once you get the joke, the impact is made and i can see how it’d lose a lot of it’s appeal.

For me, there’s a lot of nostalgia and quotability to it, that’s a lot of what I like, rather than watching it for plot.

Frank, 3 months ago

We’re on like Austerity VII: The Rerevengeance

Frank, 3 months ago

“Vote for genocide because we’re all cowards and won’t fight our enemies and will instead beg an evil old man to save us as we cower in fear taking no action whatsoever to protect ourselves and in exchange we’ll let that evil old man murder children by the thousands because we’re fucking monsters who believe in nothing but violence and death and fear”

Frank, 3 months ago

Someone told me I was insane if I thought America was a fascist state. I politely asked them for some reading on Fascism so I could better understand what it is. Crickets.

Frank, 3 months ago

For super argentina!

/nails the economy of argentina with a hellpod

Frank, 3 months ago

I mean yeah. There’s a lot of bullshit attached to vaginas. Like, women masturbating was so taboo twenty years ago if youc an believe that. Women in teh US are/were conditioned to hate sexuality, hate their bodies, judge their bodies against absurd media standards. All sorts of wild shit.

Frank, 3 months ago

It’s not a “hallucination” you dorks it’s a random number generator that you used to replace labor.

Frank, 3 months ago

It is though the strong taboo against cousin marriage is relavtively recent and kind of weird and supported by incorrect beliefs that you’ll definitely have flipper babies instead of any kind of analysis of power disparities or family dynamics.

From a genetics and general health perspective having babies with a first cousin creates a trivial risk unless you’re both carrying genes for some serious condition. Condemning cousin marriage bc genetics is not valid and is probably left over gene hygeine nonesense from the bad old days of eugenics.

If you have a social critique of cousin marriage i am 100% on board to hear it, but if you bring up genetics I will point at you and laugh.

Sincerely; i’m an anthropologist and marrying your cousin is weird in our cultural moment but has been entirely normal in many places in the past and doesn’t cause your babies to be born with tentacles and fangs.

Frank, 3 months ago

This is all so disgusting. Ansarallah, hezbollah, and a handful of others are the only groups trying to stop a genocide. People have been saying “why didn’t anyone do anything? Why didn’y any nation step in to stop thius?” My whole life. My whole life.

Frank, 3 months ago

The Batman, except he’s the Mothman and is attracted to bright lights (which he destroys with a sledge hammer and a shotgun loaded with rock salt)