CarbonConscious

joined 1 year ago

We need that meaty sausage-finger down-v as an emote and I mean we need it for something.

It (was) her turn.

And what's more, standard legal. So you're gonna see a lot more of it no matter what format you play.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 10 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

A short but fun kids-are-scary story.

When our oldest was 1-2yo, we were reading some Halloween themed picture book and having them point at the pictures.

"Where is the bat?"

points at bat on page

"That's right! Now where is the skeleton?"

points at skeleton on page

"Great! Now where is the ghost?"

instantly turns and points over my shoulder towards the empty corner of the room

"..................heh, how about the ghost in the book buddy..."

points at ghost on page

this-is-fine

My score or ranking or whatever was several orders of magnitude below that, so it's unlikely we ever matched lol.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I was going to make a joke about smurfing, but then thinking about what that actually implied made me reconsider.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Chogo for a long time, then just gave in to the spin-to-win and went Darius. Also got pretty good with Rammus, just rollin around.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 41 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Tag yourself

No, I absolutely will not.

[–] CarbonConscious@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

It comes and goes, really, along with other forms of hate.

Things get nakedly bad, which galvanizes people to organize and rise up and push back, the libs and cons get together to say "Whoah those people over there sure are hateful, let's put a new holiday on the calendar and pass a law that says "hey you're not allowed to officially discriminate against this group (wink)", the capitalists pop champaign and celebrate their inclusiveness, things seem slightly less bad for a few weeks, then the extremists get pissed off about the tolerance of those groups, the elites use their anger as an excuse to neuter the (already basically meaningless) protections, the chuds celebrate this as a win and use that as a rallying cry to organize and recruit, and saying anything about it means you are either ignorant or an extremist because "there's already laws protecting those people! There's no laws protecting my way of life! (all of the other laws)". Things get worse again, but now chuds are emboldened because they knew all along they were going to get their way like a child screaming for oreos at the grocery store.

Sometimes after a few hundred years things get marginally better! (on the surface)

I mean tbh I've been saying all along this is the kinda shit I want AI to be doing. Let it examine and compare thousands of pictures of my dookie so that the manual dookie-watchers can go out and retrain as artists.

I mean surely, this kind of thing will result in an overall improvement in our society and not just like, warehouses full of marginalized people flipping through millions of dookie pics a day while getting paid piece-work rates well below minimum wage while draining several nuclear reactors worth of power just so that The Company can bill this service as "AI" and some tech bros that made their millions on the dot Com crash and crypto scams can look at their weekly dookie-score and go, "huh, 6.8 this week. Guess I should eat some more grape nuts" (but they actually don't even). Definitely not that.

Gimme tha bits!!

Thaaaaaaaaaa bits!

About to do a Winston draft this weekend with my BiL. 3pk Crimson Vow, 3pk Karlov Manner, which feels like a reasonable thematic match (and it's what I've got laying around). Plus a few promo packs thrown in for extra spice.

Very excited! Haven't been able to go draft for real for a few months since my latest child was born.

Hoping to pull a Sorin for the wifey while we're at it.

 
 

Tropical Fuck Storm's "Soft Power", from their wild LP "A Laughing Death in Meatspace".

So many good tracks from this album, but this one is particularly notable for the geopolitics angle. The titular refrain comes from Joseph Nye's concept of soft power, the cultural and social influence of a nation, posited as the other bilateral avenue of global hegemony distinct from its counterpart, hard power, representing military force and thereby influence.

This one's definitely got a little "orange man bad" flavor to it, but is a little bit less just about that and more about the geopolitical power vacuum left in the wake of the amerikkkan empire voluntarily slam-dunking itself into the shitter, particularly when it comes to having any meaningful influence on the world via culture or human rights or anything like that.

If the style grabs you at all, check out Gareth's other work with The Drones, really fantastic off-kilter aussie-rock, with some of the weirdest and wildest guitar tones out there.

 

Link is to the original 2006 release, a bedroom-indie track about how cool bears are. If you haven't heard it, give that a listen and let it stew for a while before checking out the new stuff, because there's a big tonal and perspective shift between them.

Apparently, the artist put out the original track, which is mostly pining about the simplicity of a bear's life compared to the difficulty of our own. The artist then immediately went on hiatus, got married, both of their fathers died, they had a kid, and then they decided to make this album together just this year.

It's extremely beautiful and heart-wrenching, and the contrast in perspective from the break in time is really astounding.

If you've got kids, this thing is probably gonna sucker-punch you pretty good, so find some private time to listen and strap in.

The 2006 track (the rest of the album is just ok, imo):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scXezSTOMRA

The new album ("the dreaming's what carries you through"):

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n_mAIPScsjgdaUYvyIvvGP7S6lrAUJKvc

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