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I've used the dowsing rod to get two deep arrowhead deposits so far. The speed of mashing needed to get them was so intense that it hurt, and it took me over a minute of attempting to finally get the bar filled to the top in both cases. I used first person to get my position right very precisely, so this painful mashing is from the optimal position. I tried looking for solutions to this problem, but all I could find was for finding the right position, not achieving the right mashing speed.

There have been games I was unable to complete because of mandatory mashing checks I couldn't complete. Should I just make a macro that spams whatever key corresponds to the Y button at 10 Hertz or so and

I didn't know this fact about Coke, I had to infer the soda Robert and Prop were talking about from the fact that the Coca-Cola corporation has definitely executed people. It's not a bit, and I'm kinda pissed at the US legal system that Sophie even felt the need to bleep it.

I like blog posts. I read a lot of blog posts, and when I really like a blog post I may binge its author's blog until I physically can't continue reading them. (I've been reading Cory Doctorow's blog all day.) But I can fucking tell when something is being dragged out, when an idea could've been conveyed in far fewer pages. Why do nonfiction airport books keep getting away with this?

Is it just a prestige thing? Serious Idea People are above mere blog posts, so an idea that takes ten minutes or less to convey is not officially recognized until it's attached to a shiny paperback? At which point Serious Idea People will all finally recognize the blog post and treat it as isomorphic to the b

I haven't listened to Better Offline before, but some recent realizations I've had have got me interested in starting it.

The BTB 4-parter on the Zizians, and reading on TESCREAL, reminded me of what Dan Friesen from Knowledge Fight identified as a common characteristic of right wing weirdos: believing that sci-fi movies are real. Only particularly far gone conspiracy theorists think sci-fi tech has already been invented and "They" are hiding it from us. But a far more widespread belief is that everything in cyberpunk, which is typically set 20 years in the future, can actually be invented within 20 years.

The idea of what's scientifically possible is entirely driven by aesthetics, and ove

Herbert Hoover was such a reviled president that he gave us four terms of FDR. He's infamous for bungling the response to the Great Depression by raising tariffs and mass deporting latines and other ethnic minorities instead of doing anything that actually helped.

The Trump parallels are pretty obvious, and it wouldn't surprise me if Hoover was a Mussolini fan just like Trump is a Putin fan. This is enough history rhyming here that I'm curious how close it actually lines up the closer you look, where they're similar and where they're different. New gilded age, same as the old gilded age.

A conservative man and a liberal woman break up as politics causes tension in their relationship.

The man goes on a deranging journey into fascism. Everybody is out to get him, to take what is his, and they all deserve pain. The liberals pretend to believe in goodness and cooperation, but they are all socialist devils that want to end all life.

The woman goes on a clarifying journey into antifascism. So many injustices she had thought were just normal. The conservative pundits contradict themselves constantly, and the stated goals of conservative strategists on public websites are openly evil. How was this allowed? How hadn't she put it all together? How did she ever think any of this was

Basically, I was thinking up a draft of a cultivation webnovel I want to write someday and decided to incorporate Buddhism's three poisons as the magic system. Sacred arts is the act of selectively poisoning reality. I realized that I'd remade the top of Cradle's advancement system partway through and could not for the life of me think of a name for Sages other than Sages. Humans, sacred beasts, spirits, starting from different places yet all advancing to the same destination... Anyway.

Wrath: be too angry to die. Assert to reality that you are more resilient than you physically should be. Life is the unit of Wrath.

Delusion: make reality believe that you are able to do the impossible. I

I've divided fascism's common traits into three broad categories based on Buddhism's three poisons. The lists inside these categories are non-exaustive, just things off the top of my head, and many traits straddle the categories. They'ee sorted based on which category is most strongly aligned with the trait.

Delusion: newspeak, doublethink, impairment of cognition, malleability of history, popular elitism, anti-intellectualism(also hate), though terminating cliches, logical fallacies.

Greed: capitalism, laws don't bind the ingroup, slavery, obsession with power in general, elitism, hierachy, sexism(also hate), ingrouop supremacy, a catch all of "categorism" of greed elevating ingroups and

This is basically a prototype essay for what I might want to submit to an antifascist paper. Wondering if Coolzone Media takes submissions from college students who've never worked in journalism such as myself. It's partially adapted from an essay I just wrote for a philosophy test. Anyway.

In 1984, George Orwell coined the word doublethink to describe to ability to hold two conflicting beliefs simultaneously. In Ur-Fascism, Umberto Eco identified one characteristic of fascism is the belief that the enemy is simultaneously strong and weak: a specific execution of doublethink.

I posit that doublethink is the load bearing core of fascism as an ideology and movement and is critical to its mea

It occured to me a few days ago and because my brain was cooked from sleep deprivation, I thought it was a genius idea. Even if only for our own entertainment it's a good idea, but I think there's a decent chance it'd be politically effective. If the song doesn't break any laws, by not making any calls to violence, only insults, then it could potentially benefit from the Streissand Effect as the government tries to bad it anyway for violating the Comstock Act. (The restoration of which is part of Project 2025.) Also I like insulting Donald and Elon's dicks and would like to be able to do it to song.

Posting it here because I trust Vaushites to know the value of tactically calling a Hitler a

I'm currently 6000 words deep into writing notes for a fanfic that has been coalescing in my head fir years now, and it, like a lot of fantasy tends to be, is currently inspired by a ton of things I like all mashed together. None of those things, however, are Pokemon Mystery Dungeon fanfiction. I've only read two Pokemon franchise fanfics, and neither of those take any inspiration from other Pokemon fanfiction either. It's not strictly required that I do, either, but I still want to know:

PMD Fanfic authors, what fanfics do you wish you had read before you started writing your own PMD fanfiction?

My fanfic is planned to have a dark tone and a world that is particularly screwed: it started