Goes by SpartanNinja, Spartan, Ninja, Uncle Ninja, etc. | He/Him 27 yo | This blog will be full of fandom spoilers and art, plus plenty of politics cause a guy needs a place to vent with how fucked we are | Most importantly though, what is your Zombie Plan? |
i will never understand the insane takes against having games be more accessible
“does every game NEED to be accessible to disabled people? 🤨” yeah, actually
also the pissing and shitting over difficulty settings. just play the game on the normal difficulty dumbass it’s not for you
Same with stuff like screen shake, particle effects, flashing/lightning effects: “But the game would look terrible without them!”
Then Just…. Don’t turn them off then, dickface…
Meanwhile, *having the option to turn them off* would greatly increase the number of people able to play the game.
I’m really sad that the Long Dark, which is one of my favorite games, added a new feature with flashing lights that causes seizures. They added a warning, but there’s no option to turn it off.
So if this (unconfirmed!) report is true, then today is the end of Putin being considered a “strongman” leader. The only way that reputation could have survived was by killing or imprisoning Prigozhin. Instead, one of his underlings— literally his former chef!— stood against Putin’s desires and still got exactly what he wanted, without the Russian military ever laying a finger on him. Putin’s forces couldn’t stop the mutiny on their own, he had to address the nation on TV about the fact that the Russian government was being challenged from within, and even still that wasn’t enough to stop it.
The illusion of Putin’s invincibility and singular genius has been damaged in a way that will be tricky to spin for domestic Russian audiences. It’s now been brought out into the open that he operates the way most dictators do: sharing power amongst a coalition of allied stakeholders who possess the ability to alter the direction of Russian policy against Putin’s will.
The madman must have done it. He has no reason to retreat like this unless a deal’s been made, an outcome I’ve previously been assuming the Russian government would try to avoid at all costs because of how weak it makes them look. They would only agree to a deal if they couldn’t find a way to take Prigozhin out. The only questions now are 1) what the deal looks like and 2) if the Russian government still tries to kill Prigozhin anyway once his forces stand down.
It also sounds like a lot of Wagner fighters are unhappy with this outcome, and were hoping to take the fight all the way to Moscow. The most common emoji response to Prigozhin’s retreat announcement is 🤡
83,300 of your private mercenaries have reacted to your withdrawal from your coup attempt with a clown emoji
Universal basic income is essential if we want to build a bright future in the age of automation.
Seriously. The 40-hour work week was codified in 1940, before computers did anything. Per-hour productivity has more than quadrupled since then, but we’re working even harder, to live not all that much better. It’s absurd.
No, it’s not absurd, it’s deliberate. The ruling class wants us to work as hard as possible, so they have profits to skim and pile up.
I’ll reblog this every time I see it: Before the 40 hour work week, we had the 80 hour work week, the 100 hour work week. What got us 40 hours? Unions. Want a work week that reflects productivity levels? Unions. Want UBI? Unions.
i feel like a criminally underrated bumbleby interaction is the “go” scene from v6
the last bees scene we had before this one was during the apathy arc, where blake made a mistake in saying that she’d protect yang and yang took it a bit poorly. and now they’re HERE. they hadn’t gotten the chance to rehash what they’d been talking about at brunswick farm yet, but there still isn’t time to. they’ve been thrown into yet another mission, so the only thing they can do is set aside the Feelings discussion and keep moving forward.
we start the interaction with yang asking blake if she’ll be ok alone. no matter how weird things between them are right now, the first thing she feels is concern. no matter how weird things between them are right now, she will always prioritize blake’s safety.
blake reassures her truthfully — and with a hint of humor. this is likely reminiscent of the way they’d interact at beacon, and blake was probably just instinctively teasing yang the way they used to. but the last time blake had tried to reassure yang, she’d pulled away, so blake backtracks right away.
but yang isn’t offended because, i mean, there’s no reason for her to be. it’s not like blake’s wrong. and there’s so much to be said about the complete un-adam-like way that she didn’t overreact. she took the jab in good humor and told blake to go, trusting that she’d be back. no matter how weird things are, no matter how many unsaid words there still are, she decides to trust blake, and it’s all mustered in that one word.
my point is that. besides the fact that the way they look at each other here is SO gay, the implications in this scene are so beautifully subtle in a way that the more monumental bumbleby moments (namely the v2 talk, yang losing her arm for blake, the adam fight, and the confession/kiss) are not.
“what if people transition and then regret it?” ok. let’s do that with everything. no more straight marriages until the heterosexual divorce rate is below the detransition rates
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Hey you good? you reblogged this like three times now.
personally i think there should have been at least one episode where sokka collects aang and zuko and is like, “looks like we’re running low on supplies. time for a GUYS-ONLY field trip. three days of hunting and fishing and polishing our swords. y’know, manly warrior stuff. (aang, sotto voce: actually sokka i’m a vegetarian as you know–) you girls have fun sitting around braiding your hair and talking about your crushes” and then the entire episode is just zuko and sokka lying around by a river, plucking blades of grass and staring up at the stars confiding in each other their deepest feelings and most secret insecurities while aang braids flower crowns, and whenever the screen cuts back to katara and toph and suki, they’re fighting and screaming and hacking away at river pirates and evil spirits and legions of assassins and hired mercenaries with swords. you know, as girls do.
and when the boys finally drag themselves back to camp (they stayed up way too late discussing what true leadership really means and whether or not power always corrupts) they find suki and toph and katara lounging around with black eyes and fresh bruises and bloodstained weapons and sokka shrieks, “what were you guys DOING while we were gone???” and karata just shugs innocently and says in her sweetest voice, “oh, you know. just girly things”
they are absolutely still wearing the crowns and they don’t have a single fish to show for their efforts