It's time to resume my Sandman annual reading. Now moving along to Season of Mists. It's not my favorite arc, but it's a powerful one. If I have to choose the arcs I don't like that much, I believe A Game of You comes first, then Season of Mists, I don't know why.
But I also know that every time you reread something, it's a new experience. You can think it's the same book, the same comics, the same text, but we're all changing every single day. You can always fall in love for those things that now resonates to your life in that moment. #Sandman#Comics@comics
#Budget#UKPolitics This article by Gary Stevenson is so good, please read every word of it.
“Whatever Jeremy Hunt says, traders know the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer. And they’re paid millions to bet on it.”
This is what the world is - it is run by a minute elite for a minute elite and the rest of us, the masses, the natural world, we just don’t count. It is a #TragedyOftheNonCommons (will reshare my own piece on this below 1/n)
Such an astonishing dossier. I totally recommend everyone to read @pvonhellermannn ‘s #FollowTheMoney and #academicventing toots. It’s a bleak and troublesome reality we’re facing, it’s going to get a lot worse, but our best chance is to educate ourselves about this before it’s too late.
@pvonhellermannn I, as an anthropologist myself, believe that it is in these moments that we can most help others with this kind of awareness. And I think this cannot be restricted to the academic milieu, so sharing this information here on Mastodon or on other social networks is of great importance. Thank you for sharing! #academicventing
As you sit with your cyberdeck in front of the dataterm, trying to hack the corpo building, you realize that you are missing the right music. Suddenly, you remember that you downloaded a few audio files from an artist in Berlin from the old-net, an artist specializing in the perfect music for netrunning sessions.
You upload the tracks to your cyberdeck and let yourself be immersed in the digital world by the driving beats and pulsating synths. It's time to start your hack and infiltrate the corpo system - with the right music in your ears, you are unstoppable!
@revengeday Such a great tune! I'm starting the prep for my session tomorrow of CBR+PNK, reading one thing here, another there, listening to some tunes and getting inspired.
I just finished reading Batman - The Long Halloween. It is without a doubt a masterpiece. I’ve said it here before, but the duo Jeoh Loeb and Tim Sale is very very good. Sale’s drawings are very expressive and authorial. I was quite shocked by the plot twist on the last page, it was impressive. I recommend reading.
I’ve had this game for several years, but now that I’m looking at it carefully. I just finished Chapter I and I can say that it is a very engaging story. For those who are a fan of Batman Year One, this game is for you.
Despite the problems it went through, Telltale has always known how to make narrative games of exceptional quality. It’s no different here.
@comics The story is so engaging that I couldn’t turn off the game and I decided to keep playing a little bit more. I’ve finished Chapter 2 now. What a fantastic game! What a twist!
@munroe@comics I finally arrived at Chapter 4 of Batman - The Telltale Series. Two things happened that disconnected me from the game, which was the cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 3 and the appearance of the Joker. This plot of interning Bruce Wayne in Arkham has already happened elsewhere and I have always found it somehow inconsistent or at least a little bit off. I didn’t like the characterization of Joker. They could have called Mark Hamill to spice things up.
I’ve just finished reading
Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean. It’s outstanding in every way, a masterpiece.
#ClimateDiary Just came across this. Quite major flooding in Kazakhstan and Russia at the moment. It is frightening in itself how with more and more climate disasters everywhere, they may well cease to be news; nobody in other areas will know or care.
Somehow news of Israel’s AI use shifted me - now feel it may all really be dystopian quite soon, in many related ways at once (climate,economy, democracy, AI, military, human relations). Cheery Sunday morning thoughts!
@pvonhellermannn It’s scary and I agree with you. However, it was not a lack of warning.Anthropocene, Capitalocene, etc. It seems we’re already living in @paolobacigalupi ‘s dystopic Windup Girl.
And it’s time to resume reading Star Wars - The New Jedi Order: Agent of Chaos I, Hero’s Trial, by James Luceno. Last year I tried to read this book at least three times, but Luceno’s unnecessary verbiage bothers me too much. It is one thing for you to pay attention to the details (and run the risk of being called verbose). Another thing is that you put several alien words and expressions that contribute nothing to the narrative. 1/4 #starwars#swnjo#newjediorder#books@bookstodon
@zozo@bookstodon I was here thinking about other books to think about this criticism. Then I realized that I’m used to reading Tolkien’s The Silmarillion and History of the Middle-Earth (which can be seen as a pain in the 😝😜🥳). The Silmarillion is, by the way, one of my favorite books and notably written in a very difficult way. But it seems to me that, with regard to the style, there is a clear function of emulating a text of biblical content. #tolkien#thesilmarillion#books