#tragically

[grimygrimygrimy]

you wouldn’t lead me on

would you?

[earlgraytay]

I really wish that people had a better grasp on what The Average Person's Life was like pre-industrialization. If you're living in the global North the odds are good that your life is, in fact, better than a medieval king- yes, even with the political stuff- and would make your ancestors cry wild tears of envy.

The things that suck about your life are things that suck about the baseline human condition (at least since the invention of agriculture, but that's 10,000 years of humanity). Yes, including all the political stuff.

The baseline human condition is "being terrified of losing the harvest and starving", compared to that, losing a job is no big deal. (It's bad, it can be life-upendingly bad, but it's still not "you are guaranteed to die if you screw this up" bad for most people.)

The baseline human condition is "getting kicked around by a tin pot dictator", whether that be a king, a baron, a warlord, or a chief; it's taken centuries of social technology to get the world to a point where that's Not Normal.

The baseline human condition is "losing multiple siblings and/or children at a young age to diseases that are entirely preventable". That's a shocking tragedy now. The baseline human condition is "being in the pathway of said tinpot dictator's wars of conquest" and having to deal with soldiers' pillage, looting, and worse (even if they're nominally on your side). That is, again, a shocking tragedy-- it still happens, and happens in way too much of the world, but no one is going to tell you that it's normal.

I'm not saying that we can sit back and rest on our laurels. We can't. I've been calling the pre-industrial world the "baseline human condition" for a reason- unless you're very, very careful, that's what your society eventually reverts to. It takes a lot of people working very hard to make sure you don't have to live at the baseline human condition, and if you start slacking on that, you start backsliding into it.

How we treat each other- and how we use the technology, material and social, that we've developed to make things easier- matters. We can make the world even better than it is now. We can also make it significantly worse. The choice is ours.

...But if you know that you can reliably have food regardless of the season, you don't live in fear of a random attack killing you tomorrow, and you can listen to music on command whenever you want? You do actually live a better life than a medieval king. Because even kings and emperors were much closer to the baseline human condition than a random farm worker in Bumfuck, Iowa is today.

[emrysmorningstar]

Lucifer Morningstar?

Yuuuuuuuup.

That Star sure is Mourning!

[triptychofvoids]

self love

[interlockingpatches]

Chameleon (draft motif for interlocking crochet)

[fadedgreenmittens]

Scott Hunter being from Rochester, NY is so funny because him going to nyc? I KNOW that man has broke out in arguments with teammates and locals.

Scott Hunter is a Certified ✨Upstate NY'er✨

Its not a Black and White its a Half Moon (and theyre better😤)

Garbage Plates are his cheat day meal 100% well...Chicken Riggies also gets in there occasionally

He Says Documentar-ee/ Elementar-ee NOT Documen-tree/Elemen-tree

He absolutely refuses to acknowledge whatever the hell an 'Airsip' is, its called a 'Waterfall'

Scott Hunter has STRONG opinions on Stewarts (bc of high school mainly, and ice cream), AND Byrne Dairy (his hometown choice obviously)

Scott is a Wegmans man and will slander Trader Joes heavily - thats HIS childhood post tourney food stop. Scott cries when NYC gets its first wegmans

Scott has big opinions on Apples, and apple picking (no I wont elaborate)

If Scott Hunter has never eaten Salt Potatoes at a summer BBQ ill eat my left sock

Scott is adamant that Zweigles are the best hotdogs

They Dap up different and it absolutely throws him for a loop every time (even though he's been in NYC for years now)

Scott doesnt say he's from Upstate NY. He says hes from Western NY

Scott calls people 'bold' when they're acting out poorly. He also unironically uses the word 'wicked'. He also definitely says 'oop' when startled. its been caught when hes been mic'ed up during games👀

Scott is a Syracuse Orange fan (much to his own dismay... hes used to disappointment tho, he grew up a sabres fan)

Scott has done a finger lakes wine tour and gotten white girl wasted (he made his team do it with him the next time). they def went jogging at green lakes state park with raging hangovers

[croquettish]

Hey! So remember the whole wooden dog toy in the shape of a duck + buck's blood + collection of bawdy poems thing? I know there's a debate whether or not these items are Hans's because you can indeed find all of these when you first arrive at the Devil's Den. I'm on my second playthrough and I deliberately looked for this and can confirm they're all there before Hans is ever freed from Maleshov. However, these items all *return* when Hans gets to the Devil's Den! In exactly the same configuration, too. I now have two identical books and dog toys.

To me this proves it's a dev oversight that these items appear before Hans gets to the Devil's Den, and that we were always meant to link them to Hans' stay there. Because why else would Hans' arrival trigger the appearance of those items again? If they were meant to be left there by a previous occupant, they would have just stayed gone when I picked them up, right?

So yeah, not that I was really in doubt before, but this clinches it for me that Hans wrote the poems. And very likely made the dog toys too.

Just wanted to share this with you since I saw you posted about it before :)

YES!!!!!!!! I so, so agree. You're right, this just adds further proof that they're his. I really do think they decided to give them to him and a) forgot to remove them elsewhere (unless we're presuming Hans stole the book from Trosky lmfao) and/or b) didn't realize that we are insaniacs who would check shit like this.

Also let's be real, it'd be weird if we could find all those toys all over the Trosky region in all the places Hans might have been!!!