DaveTLV @Surasanji@social.cleverlibre.org

@frankiesaxx That is your life now. It isn't a bad life.

@socialskeleton

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@SquidPresident@cryptids.online
This deserves a closer read than I can commit to at work. Looks very interesting, though
@frankiesaxx

@commandelicious

Yeah! I've been reading the dev stuff for the next updated to Stellaris. I am so looking forward to it. A crime system? Fantastic. One you can somehow integrate with your government? Also amazing.

So many new RP opportunities.

@SquidPresident@cryptids.online https://i.imgur.com/mI3LngZ.jpg

@commandelicious Blob is best way to play Paradox games. I love it in STellaris when my empire spans half the galaxy.

@socialskeleton Did the video not come through on this? Most upsetting.

Hey @socialskeleton , I found a thing you might like.

@SquidPresident@cryptids.online When it comes to art, I don't know. I feel like creatives should create whatever they want.

Trying to write from a different perspective might be one of the most honest ways to try and understand another person- at least, if it's done honestly.

That isn't to say it won't be a failure due to the lack of common elements- but at the same time, it might not be. I feel like a truly great writer might try to really internalize that struggle or pain and impart it onto the page.

Same as a painter or a musician would with their chosen mediums.

That being said, I do understand completely what you're saying and I don't totally disagree. There is a lot- a whole heck of a lot- of western literature written from that very stand point, and I think it be safe to say without looking at actual numbers that the vast majority of western literature is written from that very standpoint.

@socialskeleton Aren't bones mostly white?

@SquidPresident@cryptids.online

(I started writing this before your further clarification. I think we mostly agree- but I think it is still important to post, for me personally.)

Ah, see here is an important clarification.

''Intentionally isolated' as opposed to 'Pretty much anyone who is not a cishet white male'

My sticking point is in the first statement, really. This idea that that weighs experiences that neither I nor you have personally gone through. This is universal, as everyone experiences life in their own unique way.

If we assume an artist, in this case, creates from their own experiences than every artist is an individual and must be weighed as an individual. Since every person has a personal and individual experience in this world, than it is only fair to judge any individual as an individual. Their personal beliefs/sexuality/skin-color/religion/gender can't be the guiding light to judge them.

People are people. You weigh them based on their actions and behavior. The rest of that stuff shouldn't be a factor in how you specifically judge an individual.

Isn't that what we all want? TO be weighed as the human beings we are, and not by a string of labels?

I love my friends for who they are often because of those things they identify with. As long as those things aren't hateful or harmful, it only makes them more beautiful to experience.

So, on one hand I completely agree with you- inviting people with differing experiences into any space, creative or otherwise, is good and helps everyone grow. I just, personally, hate labels.

This is because I'm a Jewish man with pale skin, though. In my life experience I've been white when it is convenient and the rest of the time I'm a Jew: and all I wanted was to be just another person who was judged based on his character and not on a label.

@SquidPresident@cryptids.online I feel like this is somewhat unfair.

To say that an individual based on their gender, skin color, and/or sexual preference is "a certain way" or is more or less creative or visionary than another seems counter-productive to the spirit of what I think you're trying to say here.

I got myself a Nintendo Switch over the weekend. And wow, what a fantastic little console thing.

Of course, I got the new Zelda game, Breath of the Wild. The Legend of Zelda series is a series that captured my attention as a kid. I think I've played more games in that series than in any other series.

The first game I purchased myself was Link's Awakening for the OG Gameboy. I spent countless hours playing it.

Before that, we had the Nintendo- we got it in like 1988, or 1989. It was the first video games I played. My father got us the bundle with Rob the Robot. He's always been into tech toys.

Of course we got the first two Zelda games, too. I played those a lot.

A whole heck of a lot.

The first Legend of Zelda game created this love of exploration in me. The story telling was minimal in those days- all of it was in the manual. But, I made my own story as I went with this guy named Link as he sought to save his people from some ancient evil.

The second game I played a lot, too. It'll always hold a special place in my heart. I used to ask my older sister to help me with hard parts- and she always would. I've never forgotten it. It built a certain trust- because that was a trivial thing, and she *always* helped me. To this day I know I can trust my sister to help me. It's the small things like this that show ?

As I'm playing the newest game on this Switch console- Breath of the Wild- I'm reminded of my childhood in the best ways. The storytelling is a little more obvious now- but I like that. The exploration, though? It's just amazing. The world is post-apocalyptic, albeit a beautiful one, and the sparse open spaces are full of callbacks to previous games. It really is fantastic.

I fell in love with the story with Link to the Past. It was the second game I had for the SNES. We got a bundle with Super Mario World for the holidays. It was only two or three months later we got Link to the Past.

I've played Link to the Past about two dozen times, start to finish, and always loved it. It is absolutely tied into my nostalgia. It was an escape. My parents were getting divorced at the time, and I disappeared for hours into that game as arguments and bullshittery that I really didn't understand happened all around me. That game was a refuge. And escape. Link to the Past was a friend to me, and in a way the hero Link was a friend to me, too, by sharing his adventures with me.

So, that bring us to today. Now. Over the weekend I decided to get something for myself- it started random. I was thinking of a DAC since I recently got some really nice headphones. As I wandered through the store I saw the Switch and a copy of Breath of the WIld.

If they hadn't been together I wouldn't have purchased it.

I've played all weekend, and I adore exploring Hyrule. It's achingly beautiful, and feels very much like a painting with it's relatively light cell shading.

I recommend this game, wholly.

@commandelicious Nice.

And yeah, I saw that. Play what is fun for you, I'm along for the ride. ;)

A lot of neat new systems in Dharma, it looks like.

@radiohacktive
Neat.

I worked with Westinghouse assembling fuel assemblies for several months. Very neat stuff, nuclear sciences.