Not worrying about money or visa?

… Like. Tierra del Fuego. Or one of those remote areas of Canada/Alaska

Basically a cold, cold place that rarely sees heat. I detest heat.

I loved school uniforms as a deeply autistic young man who really, REALLY struggled with all the silent peer pressures of fashion.

There was an outfit I could wear without half a thought every day and no one cared.

All of them.

My most radical opinion is that every story ever created should be made to end. And continuing any story past a well-made ending is a crime against storytelling.

We should have a law where sequelising a story that already reached a satisfying end incurs fines that quickly escalate into insane amounts of money. Redirect that dosh into funding actual original art.

read this in castlevania dracula voice

Enderal was already mentioned so I’ll say Project Brutality

It turns ol’ Doom into a totally new (and so over the top that you can’t help but love it) game

Because with every year that passes I slowly turn into my 'pa. I’ll soon be around the age he was when he made me, and I look like the spitting image of him. Maybe a bit fatter and a lot gayer.

I do not slowly turn into god with every year that passes.

The so-called “anarchist” boy I met at my union meeting when I

When I touch

Touch his pro-state.

For a second I thought this was a 196 post and was wondering “where is it? Where is the proselytizing shitpost?”

Ah yes. The great tyranny of checks notes digital payment processing

You know, we already have this in Brazil. The countryside has not, in fact, been burninated. In fact, last I checked we’d been schooling the first worlders on how to actually handle fascists.

Oh and we never had to bend the knee to MasterCard’s forced purity rules because our digital payment system isn’t privatised unlike yall’s.

You need to lay off the shrooms, mate. They’re fucking with your mind.

I think the way we treat The Law as a Suggestion is very much a national exclusivity. Other people, especially first worlders, are a lot more reverent about it.

“Thingie”

Or in my language – “Negocinho”.

A Negocinho and a Cabo (“a thingie and a cable”) make a phone charger (“carregador de celular”)

I’m going to work

But you can help yourself to my gaming PC.

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Exactly at 0

Stepping back and looking at technology as inventions and the stuff they do and the ingenuity that goes into them, tech is dope. And even useless tech is fun as a toy.

But for Capitalism Reasons, whenever some new technology gets announced my first thought, by necessity, is “okay cool. How are they gonna use this to fuck us over and/or to kill people here in the global south”

Because the answer is not, has never been, and never will be “they won’t”. There is ALWAYS a knife under the pillow with capitalism.

Because you touch yourself at night

sorry. I had to say that.

More like a squat or flophouse for nerds. Daring to exist in the middle of a gentrified area.

one of the most numerous and arguably the most influential religious group in modern times is not representative of religious people

Are you being serious right now?

Though I will happily agree that evangelicals are in fact the worst religious people.

Right?

With hindsight, now being more or less the target audience (a 30+ year old disillusioned with life) – A lot of the books they pushed on us (I’m in Brazil, so of course they pushed the Brazilian canon of Literature) were objectively super good?

But y’know

When you’re 15 years old, and have to read a book that is not only very old (thus has a vocabulary you are already struggling with, just because OLD), but is written by grown-ups for grown-ups (ergo, a lot of the fun leans on heightened versions of life experiences adults have all either lived or seen someone live through) – AND you have to do it in a hurry (because you’ve got like 4 other assignments for that week, and the deadline looms) – AND you are expected to not only get into the nitty-gritty of its themes and such, but to do so in a way that your teacher approves of?

Like how can you not hate reading after that? I was lucky I’d been exposed to literature I liked prior to that, so instead of thinking “I hate books”, I just thought “wow all these books suck”.

They didn’t suck. But they just… Were very much not for me?

Like. Senhora, by José de Alencar, is a deeply enjoyable book if you’re a grown up. Two rich people who married for money and hate each other’s guts, playing the perfect husband and wife to society while shooting subtle barbs at each other whenever they get the chance? AND then they end up fond of each other after years of this? Inject that into my 30-year-old historical-romance junkie EYEBALLS please. But at age 15? I hated it.

Humans being gluttonous motherfuckers who will consume stuff until we’re wrecked is indeed older than dirt. Some of the oldest records we HAVE of humanity involve people committing excesses of the sort.

– Having a bunch of organisations driven by profit independently come to the conclusion they can exploit this flaw in human persons to maximise their profits, leading to a systemic vicious cirle where we consume more, so they create more artificial needs for us to consume, so we consume more, so (…) – Is, in fact, a product of capitalism.

That’s just capitalism

You’re describing capitalism

And pretty much everyone knows that’s how it works, the disagreement is that some (very odd) people think this is a good thing.