Count Regal Inkwell

A cheap, flea-ridden (m)hotel, usually.

More generally “cheap housing inhabited by people who are down on their luck”

Doesn’t feel like I’m constantly being sold shit while I’m here

The corporate web feels like a shopping mall, the indie web feels like a flophouse.

Ok neolib.

Trash.

I think saying Tankies aren’t Communists is a bit like saying Sword Art Online isn’t an anime.

Just because they suck doesn’t remove them from the category. In fact acknowledging the sucky parts of a <thing> is part of being grown up about that thing.

Eagleland

I played far too much Earthbound.

Other pros:

• You might filter out people who want to Create The Nexus of Torment from Hit Sci-Fi Novel Don’t Create The Nexus of Torment

listen to audiobooks

Listening to an audiobook is reading unless you’re really fucking pedantic. (and in that case, you shouldn’t be taken seriously)

The content of an audiobook of, idk, name a story you enjoy, is exactly the same as the content of the paperback or ebook. Unless the book is like. Really avant-garde, the likes of House of Leaves. But let’s face it – Most literature ain’t like that.

Communists (internet troll-ish)

As opposed to Communists (just-- communists) from lemmy.ml and Communists (Spicy Communists) from lemmygrad.ml

Fun little anecdote – One of my neighbours is one such twat. They used to fly a Brazilian flag from their window.

Then Jan 8 2023 came and went, and the “patriots” failed to manifest a CIA-backed military coup in our country by camping outside army boot camps (because the CIA right now has other problems and doesn’t care to fund right wing dictatorships in Latin America, and our military does not like to work and will never move their asses, for or against any cause, without a fat paycheck telling them to) – And they became disillusioned.

So they replaced the Brazilian flag, with the flag of SE Palmeiras, a soccer team. Which is hilarious because Palmeiras has history with the original fascists, like the Italian, Mussolini-before-he-was-hung ones.

See, nothing you said contradicts what I said. Yes, they created this world, and they did so to drain from us.

But. And this is important.

Their malice is the kind of sociopathic malice that leaves little space for personal enmities. They see all human beings outside their caste as a resource to be exploited, not complete living persons that can be liked or disliked (ever notice how every corp has a literal “Human Resources” department? Yeah.) – Just another datapoint in a dry and emotionless calculus of power.

In other words, most corporate boards don’t really give a shit about queer people, but will say they support queer people if that is popular at the moment, and similarly will say they hate queer people if that is what is popular at the moment. Consider Disney’s inserting of LGBTQ characters in their movies… That can be easily and effortlessly edited out for sale in countries where that isn’t mainstream-acceptable. So that in some countries they can generate buzz about it, but in others they can bury it easily.

It’s all about the money and never about anything else.

I almost took a photo of it in my phone to tell my friends about my great achievment.

See, this assigns a level of human personality to corporations that I don’t think we should be doing. It implies there is a “true self” to be revealed, when in reality the “self” of any corporation is entirely plastic and follows what the Excel Sheet tells them will make Line Go Up. Most corporate suits aren’t Elon Musk (who is, in fact, a human being, just a terrible one). Most corporate suits are dead inside and haven’t had a soul or a human emotion since 1985.

No, they just do whatever they can to appease whoever is in charge, because that is how they make money. They only became “LGBTQ friendly” when that was mainstream-acceptable and government-endorsed. And now that the culture is swinging the other way (more than half of americans wanted this fascist descent, never forget that) and the US is going all in on white supremacy and puritanism, they switch tunes right away. Case in point dia da consciência negra, the Brazilian equivalent of a black-history thing is still labelled on my Brazil-facing Google Calendar, because it’s still a government-sponsored and mainstream commemorative date here.

I’m imagining that “living in the game” implies something a bit more personal than the game interfaces. So I’d get to attend decadent high-society events, travel around and see the worlds under my domain, meet interesting aliens, have an affair with the fungoid president of planet AZ-12-69 (…)

I mean sure, you’re right, I would eventually get my shit wrecked by an endgame crisis and things would go very tits up for my space empire. I’m not that good at Stellaris, just sorta okay, and something tells me that not having the birds’ eye view that the game gives you would make the strategising even harder.

… But it is also worth taking into account that we can go beyond the interactions the game allows, so boredom would take quite a bit longer to set in.

That’s a story and a half

In early 2020, after 5 years and 3 separate doctors I figured out why my belly hurt all the time. It was crohn’s disease. But hey, good news, I could start treatment!

The first treatment we attempted, because we had to, was Azathioprine. It is provided freely by our government’s free healthcare service, and it works for a lot of people.

Well it did put the crohn’s into remission. After a month I took my first normal shit in eeeeh nine years?

Small problem, it was too toxic for my body and my pancreas rioted.

Anyway we started with Entyvio after I got over the pancreatitis, it is not provided by the government but my parents’ health insurance covers it and we found a way.

Tech megacorps are wusses, in other news fire is hot.

Spent it in the hospital, drugged with some morphine shit that wasn’t actually powerful enough to take away the pain.

Pancreatitis is no joke, kids.

You tell me, man. Over here in Brazil, seeing a national flag outside the context of “it’s world cup match day” generally signals whoever is flying it is a fascist twat.

Stellaris.

Going to be a space emperor forever.

I’d honestly accept them moving to blue-fucking-sky.

Anything is better than the current state of Xitter.