another tidbit for #myst25: a teaser video of my physical Myst journal, which is how I’ve always kept in-character notes while playing the games. I’m finally scanning this sucker at hi-res so I can share it, hopefully I’ll have a site up soon!
These were all done with fountain and dip pens, thus the occasional ink blots and smudges—I only started doing the proper inked journals in college, with Myst IV, and the temptation to go back with the re-release and create new journals for Myst, Riven, & Exile is very strong.
Only a couple days left on the Myst 25th Anniversary Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2EwUP33
Awh man! This reminds me of my Mom playing through the original Myst (and SPQR, and Riven) and the notes she’d write herself about all the puzzles. I used to watch her play Myst and kind of sit in awe at it all (I wouldn’t get into the hardcore puzzle genre until later, but I never did beat Myst) and I really loved the journal that came with the original boxed copy of Myst (I think it came with a journal type instruction booklet/backstory guide? Maybe?) It kind of bums me out that she doesn’t really play video games much anymore, aside from the occasional puzzle/find the hidden items-type games. She used to play all the Zelda games, and beat them before me, too.
I could write a whole bunch about my Mom being my video game nerdspiration, but I digress. THIS IS COOL. I’M GONNA SHOW IT TO MY MOM.
This makes me so mad for reasons I don’t even know!
Terence note: I want to find whoever made this and kick them down a well and seal the well so whatever evil the resides inside them stays away from humanity forever
This amount of money could solve the entire planet's miseries, but the government blames its mystery spending on a "failure to correct system deficiencies."
Twenty-one trillion dollars. The Pentagon’s own numbers show that it can’t account for $21 trillion. Yes, I mean trillion with a “T.” And this could change everything. But I’ll get back to that in a moment.
There are certain things the human mind is not meant to do. Our complex brains cannot view the world in infrared, cannot spell words backward during orgasm and cannot really grasp numbers over a few thousand. A few thousand, we can feel and conceptualize. We’ve all been in stadiums with several thousand people. We have an idea of what that looks like (and how sticky the floor gets).
But when we get into the millions, we lose it. It becomes a fog of nonsense. Visualizing it feels like trying to hug a memory. We may know what $1 million can buy (and we may want that thing), but you probably don’t know how tall a stack of a million $1 bills is. You probably don’t know how long it takes a minimum-wage employee to make $1 million.
That’s why trying to understand—truly understand—that the Pentagon spent 21 trillion unaccounted-for dollars between 1998 and 2015 washes over us like your mother telling you that your third cousin you met twice is getting divorced. It seems vaguely upsetting, but you forget about it 15 seconds later because … what else is there to do?
Twenty-one trillion.
But let’s get back to the beginning. A couple of years ago, Mark Skidmore, an economics professor, heard Catherine Austin Fitts, former assistant secretary in the Department of Housing and Urban Development, say that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General had found $6.5 trillion worth of unaccounted-for spending in 2015. Skidmore, being an economics professor, thought something like, “She means $6.5 billion. Not trillion. Because trillion would mean the Pentagon couldn’t account for more money than the gross domestic product of the whole United Kingdom. But still, $6.5 billion of unaccounted-for money is a crazy amount.”
So he went and looked at the inspector general’s report, and he found something interesting: It was trillion! It was fucking $6.5 trillion in 2015 of unaccounted-for spending! And I’m sorry for the cursing, but the word “trillion” is legally obligated to be prefaced with “fucking.” It is indeed way more than the U.K.’s GDP.
Let’s stop and take a second to conceive how much $21 trillion is (which you can’t because our brains short-circuit, but we’ll try anyway).
1. The amount of money supposedly in the stock market is $30 trillion.
2. The GDP of the United States is $18.6 trillion.
3. Picture a stack of money. Now imagine that that stack of dollars is all $1,000 bills. Each bill says “$1,000” on it. How high do you imagine that stack of dollars would be if it were $1 trillion. It would be 63 miles high.
4. Imagine you make $40,000 a year. How long would it take you to make $1 trillion? Well, don’t sign up for this task, because it would take you 25 million years (which sounds like a long time, but I hear that the last 10 million really fly by because you already know your way around the office, where the coffee machine is, etc.).
If my mental arithmetic is right that’s like a trillion dollars a year, so (very) roughly 6% of the US economy has been being siphoned off by the pentagon per year over the last two decades unaccountably. And that’s in addition to the exorbitant overengorged budget they’ve had. USAmerica Delenda Fucking Est
Do you or your followers have any resources/guides to identifying white nationalists / hate groups in Canada based off the symbols they use? (specifically groups like S.0.O, St0rm A1liance, La M3ute, Atalant3 Queb3c etc)
I was curious too so I went to look them up based on the NCP letters, and hoo boy was that a quick but strange trip. Apparently the are the “New Constitution Party of Canada”. They describe themselves as “an all-inclusive federal party based on Libertarian doctrine, Christian values, and National Socialist ideology.”
I’m not sure how “all-inclusive”, Libertarianism, and National Socialism all work together (Big guess: they don’t). And I’m not sure who designed their logo/flag or why. I didnt want fo go too far down their rabbit hole, tbh.
March, 11th. While students were occupying a lecture hall in Montpellier’s University of Law, the Dean sent a fascist group helped by two teachers to beat up the students. Three of them ended up in the hospital, the girl in the picture with a fractured skull.
March, 27th. 4,000 students are sitting at Montpellier’s University of Art and Literature . We are voting the continued occupation of the University until all our demands are met. We make sure to include the French President’s resignation in our demands, to be certain that they will never be met. To this day, the university is still occupied.
April, 4th.
“Travaille, consomme et ferme ta gueule ! Et c’est quoi le message qu’on passe aux jeunes ?” “Tout est à nous ! Tout est à nous ! Rien n’est à eux ! Rien n’est à eux ! Tout ce qu’ils ont, ils l’ont volé ! Partage des richesses, partage des savoirs ou alors ça va péter !”
“Work, buy and shut the fuck up! And what’s the message you give to the youth?” “Everything is ours! Nothing is theirs! All they have, they have stolen! Share the wealth, share the knowledge or we will blow everything up!”
National day of strike. 2,700 people in Paris. 1,000 in Lyon. 2,000 in Montpellier. The workers joined the students, the hospital staff, the train and rails staff. Everyone marched, threatened by the CRS (security police) and smoke bombs. We had to stay masked because fascists groups were attacking people leaving the march.
April, 11th
Montpellier: Paul Valery University’s servers hacked, final exams pending
The Dean of my University (Art and Literature) has been a vocal opposant of our movement. In an effort to stop the occupation and threaten us, he has repeatedly refused to come to our meetins, has ignored the decisions made by the teaching staff and threatened to fire teachers who decided to march with us. His last effort has been regarding finals. Because the university is blocked since February (see the post I made), we didn’t have classes and almost no material to take exams. Final week was supposed to be from April 9th to 13th. The Dean ordered the teachers to create online exams for us to send. We received the subjects Friday 6th. I had to write an 18-page-long essay on animation in TWO DAYS. But today, something incredible happened. The plateform used by the university to communicate with students and send our exams was hacked by the protesting students. We can’t access it. We can’t send our exams. Furthermore, an assembly of teachers was held yesterday and they decided that they were going to play on a technicality. The Dean ordered them to make exams; he didn’t say if he wanted the teachers to grade them. A unanimous vote decided that they would give 10 to each student (we are graded on 20 and 10 is the minimum to pass) and bonus point if they give the exams.
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Again, I’m begging you, share this around. The governement is purposefully hiding what is happening because they’re afraid it’s going to turn into another May, 1968. Reblog, repost, I don’t care. I just want people to see it. I’m 20 and I’m risking my life when I march.
Message from the video games teacher: “Hello everyone. There are rumors of police intervention in the next 48 hours on campus. I’m asking you to share the information, I will personnally be on campus tomorrow all day, as well as Friday. I don’t want to advise you to come, I’d feel too responsable if something happened to you… I do however think that the more students and teachers are here, the less risk there is that the police will come…’
[MORE NEWS]
“New information: a staff meeting is organized tomorrow at 9am by the university’s Dean. We just had Sud Eduction on the phone and they informed us that the meeting is organized in anticipation, to celebrate a very likely victory of the police against the students at 7am. I will be on campus at 6:30am with other teachers to support the students in case the police does come…”
THIS IS SCARY OK. THEY ARE DOING THE SAME THING THAT THE LAW UNI DEAN HAS DONE.
Tomorrow, I will go at 6:30. Let the police come. If they get violent against peaceful students who haven’t touched ANYONE in the two months this protest has been going on, there will be consequences. We will take pictures, we will film. I’m a fucking cinema students and you can bet I’ll send my bloodied face to every fucking news station if they ever lay a finger on me.
Again, I beg you, share this, please. If I’m about to get my face broken, it better be for the greater good.
“No Prometheus-looking motherfucker is coming into my town and offering me a fucking stick! You’re lucky these old fuckers are holding me back, I swear to God!”
Pictures from the FILA and Pokémon Company collaboration. The collection is now available in South Korea. It’s unclear as to whether the collaboration will be available globally eventually.
If someone has been trashing your Detroit gas station for an hour, and cops still haven’t responded, chances are your business hasn’t enrolled in Project Green Light.
I’ve noted the privatization of police forces before. It’s happening in South Africa, but here in the USA, too. There was an article about the use of private police forces in Chicago, here: http://catalogingthedeclineofthewest.tumblr.com/post/150225967964/chicagoan-dissatisfied-with-police-coverage
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