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Brennen. '97. Interests include sociology, video games, and funny pictures of chickens. Individualist Marxist, Egoist Collectivist. he/him. Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @hook_line_and_anarchy.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy 

[hook-line-and-anarchy]

If any of the 5 of you that use Mastodon or Bluesky want to follow me, I used Bridgy Fed to connect my Mastodon account to Bluesky.

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If you're on my blog and you're the kind of person who gets mad at people who didn't vote for the Democratic party, you aren't welcome here.

Marxism-Leninism is a fundamentally social-democratic, anti-communist ideology.

[atrenchcoatfilledwithbees]

“I asked ChatGPT —”

Okay well I asked the picture of Michael Jackson in my pocket and he told me to get the fries with my burger soooo

[hook-line-and-anarchy]

screencapping because op had replies disabled and I don't care to argue with someone but if I could eliminate one dog breed from existence it would be german shepherds without a doubt. I've had 3 unrelated extremely negative experiences with those dumb fucking animals.

[masochism101]

WantingSomethingICantHave.com

[lmaonade]

hi ! after talking with friends ive been convinced to do this. things are rocky with everything in my life, and eliminating as many financial burdens as i can is crucial to being able to keep a stable living situation for the future. im asking for major help. please share 💕

Donate to Help Jamie Pay Off Car Loan and Stay Afloat, organized by James Bowker

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[lmaonade]

please share!! please consider helping. i am desperate to contribute to our housing funds more and this car situation is truly making it impossible. i’m disabled and hardly get to work many hours at my labor job.

anything i can add to this is immensely helpful. please share !!!

[lmaonade]

feeling hopeless on this attempt, even small amounts help a lot to contribute. please continue to share, thank you and sorry for being desperate 🫩

[lawbutch]

I sat behind the same girl in class all year and I was painfully jealous of her beautiful curly hair and I assumed she had just figured out some hair routine I didn't know, or had more time in the mornings than me, or was somehow more disciplined or just lucky. And then my friend talked to her one day and found out she gets 500$ perms and highlights 3 times a year. The answer was literally just money. The same friend found out that most of our classmates who I thought were just naturally smarter than me went to private highschools that cost 25k a year.

This is all a metaphor to say that there will be times when you feel like other people understand something that you don't, or have some ability that you don't, or are better than you in some way because they've accomplished something you can't. And it's going to turn out that they're just rich and they spent thousands of dollars to make that happen. You are not bad, you are not broken, the system is just fucked.

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I’m obsessed with this video

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source

[em-iliart]

You know me. I do love a fish

[mythicdove]

if i could jerk you off through likes and reblogs i would. never doubt that

[darkspaceboytoy]

We are never fuckin beating fascism man

[hook-line-and-anarchy]

Could it get any worse: there's a dumb guy

[timberwind]

you can post on tumblr even when you're trying to take a break from social media it literally doesn't count. it's like pepsi max, or pescatarianism

[juicydangler]

[tomb-mold]

fire link with me

[ouchlord-vivaldi]

[facts-i-just-made-up]

"Damn fine flask of estus."

[ouchlord-vivaldi]

I could do this all day. Apologies @tomb-mold

[tearsofrefugees]

Clerks smile and 'flip off' security camera while 'sneaking' immigrants out of courthouse: DOJ

Two Utah court clerks have been dubbed "anti-ICE vigilantes" after they were allegedly caught "sneaking" immigrants out the back door of the

[redlipstickresurrected]

Lily Seika Jones aka Rivulet Paper (American, b. 1989, San Antonio, TX, USA, based Seattle, WA, USA) - The Wolf Bunny, 2026, Paintings: Watercolor

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Calling Ultima the single most consistently groundbreaking, pioneering, influential series of videogames in the history of the medium would be kind of an understatement (Akalabeth and Ultima I pioneering the idea of adapting tabletop RPGs to the medium of videogames in a way that established so many elements that would become intrinsic to the identity of the genre for decades, like the concept of grid-based first person dungeon crawling and tile-based overworld travel, later games establishing the mold for isometric top-down RPGs, Ultima Online being a critical tipping point in cementing the popularity of the MMORPG), but even among a series that consistently pumped groundbreaking videogame after groundbreaking videogame it's just completely impossible to overstate how massive Ultima Underworld's legacy stands over a huge chunk of the gaming medium, even if its effects manifest in subtle ways nowadays like I legitimately believe no individual videogame in the history of the medium has been as influential as it.

It's legitimately insane how many seemingly unrelated videogames can be directly traced back to Underworld in some form or another. Like, to get the obvious out of the way first, it established the DNA of the immersive sim genre, so if you like games like System Shock, Thief, Deus Ex, Bioshock, Dishonored, Prey, all of those games were either made by people who worked on Ultima Underworld (sometimes by the same studio even), or otherwise directly influenced by games that were.

But also, if you like any first person shooters influenced by Doom and other ID Software games? John Carmack was there when the demo of Underworld was first shown and decided he could create a faster texture-mapped first-person 3D engine. Which he did, at the cost of sacrificing true polygonal 3D environments in favor of the pseudo-3D that he would use for Catacombs 3D and Wolfenstein 3D, eventually resulting in the creation of Doom. RPGs like the Elder Scrolls or Gothic? It would take all day to list off how much they directly owe to Ultima Underworld. That videogame trope of finding out what happened to the occupants of a place through finding in-game logs and documents? It was established by Ultima Underworld and popularized by one of its successors.

That's without mentioning how many games directly cite it as an influence. Some already mentioned like Bioshock, Deus Ex, and Elder Scrolls, but also like. Half-life 2? Tomb Raider? Gears of War? Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines? All cite it as a direct influence in their game design.

Like of course a lot of these things are by virtue of being one of the earliest free-moving 3D first person videogames, when you're that early in the history of the medium you'll inevitably end up being the first to do *something* that otherwise someone else would eventually have ended up doing anyway, but no other game has a "first videogame to do [thing]" list anywhere as long and important as Ultima Underworld's.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Also it's legitimately unbelievable how technically advanced it was for its time. Watching a stone thrown at you by a goblin sail through the air in a realistic arc and bounce off the walls and floor is nothing short of surreal to see in a game that looks like this and came out a couple months before Wolfesntein 3D

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Ultima Underworld. I and II. By the way.

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Apparently a unity engine port of Ultima Underworld 1 came out earlier this year, and was recently updated to add mouse + keyboard controls (it originally only supported gamepad controls). So it completely solves one of the biggest obstacles to experiencing Ultima Underworld from a modern audience perspective, which is the archaic controls (there's a mouselook patch for the original game that makes it slightly better but even with it the controls are kind of awkward).

I personally am not interested in this unity remake because I think it's kind of visually ugly (the modernized UI font and new 3D models clash with the original visuals in a pretty awkward way that loses a lot of the original's charm)

But it's still a remarkable effort, and for anyone who sttruggles with the original's controls it might not be a bad way to experience an extremely influential game that still holds up as one of the best dungeon crawlers of all time.

Unity Underground by Kweepa

An engine recreation of the 1992 immersive sim classic.

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[oneheadtoanother]