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today i learned that Fidel’s mother (a poor cuban) was originally his father’s (a well off, domineering Spaniard) domestic servant. one doesn’t need a full biography to extrapolate the levels of exploitation and coercion that kind of relationship entails. and she raised a man who would go on to dedicate his entire existence fighting for women and all oppressed peoples the likes of which latin america has never seen before or since
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i spent 15 minutes making this comic amd then walked back to the stove ans immediately did it again
we can actually solve a lot of problems related to "the inherent imprecision of language" by just getting rid of everyone who finds overexplaining annoying.
as a girl with a "tendency towards trying to solve the imprecision of language and prevent misunderstandings through brute force", i found that in the past year by simply not talking to anyone who gets frustrated by me overexplaining, ive become much more confident and much happier with *not* overexplaining. because, in fact, people getting annoyed with you for talking too much makes this shit harder not easier.
i am seeking wizard games. please leave your recommendations here.
Magicka 1 and 2
Wizzards of legend 1 and 2
Wizzard 101
thank you. wizards of legend has been added to my list.
also looking for games where you don't necessarily play as a wizard, but a hypothetical wizard would play. like potioncraft as an example
Gemcraft series
Dungeon keeper series
Dungeon tycoon
Graveyard keeper
Dwarf fortress
Amazing Cultivation simulator
Rise to ruins
This might be a controversial choice, but I'm going to call "Baba is You" a Wizard game. You are using words of power to literally rewrite the rules of the game as you are playing it. That is 100% structurally a wizard game even if the theming has nothing to do with wizards. I'm also fond of "Tower Wizard" if you want a cheap idle game. It's all pondering your orb and improving your wizard's tower. There's also a silly multiplayer wizard deathmatch game that use voice commands where you must speak the name of a spell out loud in order to cast it. That one is called "Mage Arena." Though, I would only recommend that if you have friends to play with who would enjoy the gimmick. I also see that someone else beat me to mentioning this in a different reblog.
The last game I'll recommend is more of an honorable mention since I would struggle to call it a wizard game, it's just a game with a fantasy setting where magic exists. But I absolutely love "Thea: The Awakening." It is loosely a 4X strategy game but it keeps the scale contained to only one or two towns to manage and you play with a handful of named units who can specialize in a number of different things. So every unit matters, and new units can only be obtained through things like diplomacy, events you encounter while exploring, or when a new child is born in your town. But the most refreshing thing is that the setting takes inspiration from Slavic mythology, and it is so nice to have a setting that is not just yet another Tolkien inspired vaguely medieval western Europe. The presentation is lovely and gives the feeling like the game has been pulled directly from the pages of a storybook.
"Magic" and "Hex" skills are actually fairly rare, especially in the early game. So that's another knock against it being a Wizard game. But, once you get access to even a tiny amount of magic your options for resolving encounters increases dramatically, and you really feel like you've unlocked some deep arcane secrets.
Oh fuck, I forgot about SpellRogue, one of my favorite games of all time. Think Slay the Spire in terms of gameplay loop. It's the standard "Traverse a map with branching paths, complete a combat/event at each node, fight a boss at the end of the floor and do the same thing again in the next act until you either win the run or die" roguelike formula that a lot of games use. Unlike Slay the Spire, you aren't building a deck and drawing cards at random. In SpellRogue when you're in a fight you have a list of prepared spells that are available to cast every single turn. When you start your turn, you roll a bunch of standard 6-sided dice and those dice are what you will use as mana to cast your spells. Each spell has different conditions on what dice can be used as spell components (Some just need you to keep spending dice until the add up to or exceed a certain value, some need you to slot in a matching pair, some spells only take even or odd valued dice, some need an exact value, some allow a range of values like it must be between 4-6, etc etc). In addition, each spell can only be cast a limited number of times each turn before it is exhausted. As you go through a run, you will learn new spells to add to your spell book. You can only have a limited number prepared at a time, but you will also get crystals that you can spend to either level up your spells or you can spend them to unlock additional spell slots so that you can have more spells prepared. And you can swap out prepared spells with ones from your spell book at will in-between combats. When you start a run you select from 4 different characters who each specialize in a different school of magic, and they all have a handful of different starting spell loadouts, so there is a ton of variety between runs. Everyone usually gets at least one "mana-fixing" spell in their starting loadouts, with effects that range from just rerolling the die you spent casting it, splitting the die into two dice whose values add up to the original one, returning the die with +1/+2 value (if this would overflow the value on the die you will instead get two dice that add up to the new value just like in the previous example), flip a die to its opposite face, or spending dice that add up to 8 or more to roll 2 new dice, and so on. And all of these effects synergize with different spells spells in the game, and some spells will even enchant the dice themselves with different effects that give you a benefit every time you reroll or that give you bonuses when you spend them in spells. It is so much fun, and if you're a dice goblin who gets satisfaction from rolling a shit-ton of dice this game scratches that itch like no other.
i am seeking wizard games. please leave your recommendations here.
Magicka 1 and 2
Wizzards of legend 1 and 2
Wizzard 101
thank you. wizards of legend has been added to my list.
also looking for games where you don't necessarily play as a wizard, but a hypothetical wizard would play. like potioncraft as an example
Gemcraft series
Dungeon keeper series
Dungeon tycoon
Graveyard keeper
Dwarf fortress
Amazing Cultivation simulator
Rise to ruins
This might be a controversial choice, but I'm going to call "Baba is You" a Wizard game. You are using words of power to literally rewrite the rules of the game as you are playing it. That is 100% structurally a wizard game even if the theming has nothing to do with wizards. I'm also fond of "Tower Wizard" if you want a cheap idle game. It's all pondering your orb and improving your wizard's tower. There's also a silly multiplayer wizard deathmatch game that use voice commands where you must speak the name of a spell out loud in order to cast it. That one is called "Mage Arena." Though, I would only recommend that if you have friends to play with who would enjoy the gimmick. I also see that someone else beat me to mentioning this in a different reblog.
The last game I'll recommend is more of an honorable mention since I would struggle to call it a wizard game, it's just a game with a fantasy setting where magic exists. But I absolutely love "Thea: The Awakening." It is loosely a 4X strategy game but it keeps the scale contained to only one or two towns to manage and you play with a handful of named units who can specialize in a number of different things. So every unit matters, and new units can only be obtained through things like diplomacy, events you encounter while exploring, or when a new child is born in your town. But the most refreshing thing is that the setting takes inspiration from Slavic mythology, and it is so nice to have a setting that is not just yet another Tolkien inspired vaguely medieval western Europe. The presentation is lovely and gives the feeling like the game has been pulled directly from the pages of a storybook.
"Magic" and "Hex" skills are actually fairly rare, especially in the early game. So that's another knock against it being a Wizard game. But, once you get access to even a tiny amount of magic your options for resolving encounters increases dramatically, and you really feel like you've unlocked some deep arcane secrets.
I don't have time for tumblr discourse they're calling the very hungry caterpillar degenerate art over on twitter
good art is when something looks like real life, the more real it looks the more better the art. abstracted figures give my trad children nightmares, one time they were exposed to cubism and couldn't go outside for a week
part two: colour is junkfood
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how measurements work in canada (ie/ badly)
We have similar problems.
Here's a UK version:
(it gets more complicated than this but this is the basics that most people need...also there's an age disparity in that some older people will only use imperial and some younger people have never used things like stones and pounds)
5 minutes of research on what American troops did in Vietnam will make you understand why people called them baby killers
pinterest decided to show me that "you have two cows" metaphor for political and economic systems and it got me thinking about how these types of things assume a petit bourgeoisie perspective. "you have two cows", you are an owner of some modest amount of capital.
Obviously, most people under capitalism do not own any cows. Your boss owns a million cows and pays you a wage to milk the cows (the boss also owns the milk) lower than the value of the produced milk, and is incentivised to make the difference between the revenue from milk sales and the wages paid to you and other workers as large as possible
The facial expressions of everyone trying not to lose it are killing me
This is painfully American
Americans be like it is totally normal for an entire stadium (including military members) to stand at attention while a fast food clown mascot sings the national anthem
when we say "it is functionally impossible to parody Americans in a way that will actually insult them" this is the sort of thing you're up against. is your sick burn funnier than corporation burger clown sing national anthem baseball game? no?? of course it isn't.
I Defeated the Demon Lord but it Turns Out the Demon Army was Largely Unaffected and I Fell Victim to a Flawed Belief in Great Man Theory
honestly one of the top 3 best outcomes of my transition is that no one gives a shit about me anymore. I don’t get leered at in public (outside of clocking obviously), I don’t get sexually harassed by random men, I don’t get followed on the street or through malls by men, I don’t get called an ungrateful bitch for turning down a date, I don’t get sexually harassed at work or school, I don’t get random unsolicited nudes sent to me, I don’t get men being crybabies about me having a higher GPA than they do or making more money than they do, I don’t get disgusting comments about my body, I don’t get called a bitch or cunt or dyke. All the harassment and violence I have faced post-transition has always been because I’m transgender, not because I’m a man. Being invisible in public (RELATIVE TO THE WOMEN IN YOUR OWN DEMOGRAPHIC COHORTS) is an incredible privilege and I didn’t understand the sheer extent of that privilege until I transitioned. Men talk to me like a human being now! They ask for my opinion, they chat with me, they interact with me like a “normal person.” I became invisible in those interactions because I’m just treated like a person and not like a woman. If anything, transitioning made me hate men more, because it revealed to me how capable they are of talking to other people like human beings and not housemaids they can fuck and abuse.
So like the gall to complain about this is insane. Don’t you guys fucking remember what interacting with the world pre-transition was like? How dehumanised and violated and surveilled you felt? Ok so now imagine that there are still women in the world who experience that all the time. Now imagine there is a group of women who have to deal with all of that on top of also being the focus of a global extermination campaign, who have to deal with all of that sexual harassment AND transphobia AND violence at the same time. You want the privilege of being invisible while ALSO still being the centre of attention? What the fuck is wrong with you?
China openly prides itself on being a “meritocracy”. Individuals are given ample incentive to climb The Party Ranks and get benefits for doing so. At a certain level “anyone” can be elected but above that the choice for election doesnt come from theoretically anyone but a smaller electable group chosen by some or other process. All this combined, is this not exemplary of “careerism” and beauracracy that Marx (and Lenin, and many more respectable communists) all wanted to avoid at all costs?
well, i dont think i agree with you that marx said that, and if he said that it was wrong, lenin employed a similar system of upward appointment, and it was very succesful, technical matters require experts, the electoral system provides good oversight for the experts. I would also say that your description could be applied to any job, yes you have to have job experience and well proven credentials to be elected to the national congress representing nearly 2 billion people, it's not really an entry level position it requires a lot of experience, now to be frank i have not seen the word meritocracy used in any chinese government self description, in the chinese context it reaks somewhat of monarchism, but if one were to select someone off of merit does it not make sense to give them an entry level position, and if they do well chance for upwards movement, and if theydo poorly punishment? Can you really think of a circumstance where promotion and a proven track record isnt crucial for national level positions?
basically i think bureaucracy is great, the robust grassroots management structures required for socialism are basically one of its greatest strengths, the replacement of the burgers with proffesional managers is like, basically *the* thing that makes it socialism, and applying this same system to the state as well as enterprizes is really amazing while we can all agree the soviet union struggled to replace ageing cadres, china has had anything but the same problem, we have figures like xi jinping a very well thought and well spoken leader, whos time in municipal government payed dividends and provided a model for his policies moving forwards and i have no doubt that the reason he has developed such a solid skill set, is because he had to get his start small as a rural leader, and show his capabilities as he was promoted, this type of system of solid positive reinforcement and on the job training is a boon, and i see very little problems with it
Yeah, I think the major sticking point that people who are only familiar with liberal democracy have is that legislating and policy-making is a skill that needs expertise. Liberal elections are primarily a popularity contest where the qualities being evaluated are mostly rhetorical skill, a vague sense of moral character and shared values, and a general policy direction. The expectation, especially for any election beyond local offices, is that you're trying to vote for a general manager with good judgement, and that they will just hire experts to consult with to hammer out any actual details. Neither the candidate nor the voter is expected to have any meaningful or intimate understanding of legislation and policy concerns. I'd imagine the that the ideal outcome that most voters are hoping for when they cast a ballot in a liberal election is a feeling that "their concerns are heard." Meanwhile, the public expectation in China is that if someone is in a national office, its because they know how to do the job of that office well. I'd imagine the idea of trying to vote for who you think the best person for a national office is when you don't have intimate knowledge of how to do the job of that office and what that office deals with would be a little bit like voting on who gets to work at the hospital as a doctor without having a medical degree or any real relevant knowledge for evaluating medical proficiency. Needing to weigh in on that kind of decision either becomes an incredible burden as you spend the time necessary to come to an informed choice, or you just make an uniformed and frivolous choice. Neither of which are an ideal outcome.
