Vespair

Mitch Hedberg

When I was a teen I used to sometimes play "what's the worst thing I can possible imagine" as a kind of mental exercise. I really, really wish I could undo the years of playing this game, now.

It's based on D&D (but doesn't require any knowledge or lean on the game strongly at all), so it's small party combat.

I just think it's so visercal, so well-defined without being dry. At all times I felt like the picture of the fights was really being painted blow by blow, including deft movements and tactical thinking. It was never "they exchanged blows," it was always "Drizzt turned in perfect time to evade the hammer's swing, and maneuvered between the legs of the larger man to send the jagged edge of his blade through the man's back," only much much better because R.A. Salvatore is 100x better a writer than I am.

R.A. Salvatore's Icewind Dale Trilogy.

I don't know why this fell out of popular culture, but it's excellent and I haven't read a writer who writes better combat.

I liked the first Mario Kart for SNES, but honestly all the entries* after that haven't done anything for me and frankly I think none of them even feel like full games.

*I haven't played the newest for Switch 2, but it does look like it might have more to it maybe?

That is cereal, yes, but it's not exclusively cereal. Oat and nuts and fruit, even oatmeal and hot porridges are cereal - in fact my grocery store labels this section "hot cereals."

Okay actually too goddamn real

I just think it's boring that you think money is the only reasonable motivator for these people. There are other forms of compensation and appreciation. And it's not the only option available to us. It's crazy to me that people understand the idea of countries that have military conscription but can't fathom the idea of a system of workable civil conscription.

As I see it you successfully identified a problem and a solution, but that does not suggest that that is the sole or even best solution.

MAGA is based on American evangelicalism. To this form of Christian, being the perpetual victim is crucial to their belief. Acknowledging privilege makes it hard for them to see themselves as a cosmic victim, so they reject the idea.

Using the phrase "useless activism" says everything we need to know about the poster.

Tbh I think you can one time drop a very friendly but more direct: "hey have you guys thought about posting your stuff in a music community on Lemmy? It's like reddit but smaller and with a very engaged audience. I think they'd dig you there!" Or something to that effect. Just don't be a dick about it or spam them.

A lot of them don't know about or don't understand the fediverse. We need to be more proactive in asking this of the artists we love. I'll try to be better about doing my part to mention the fediverse to artists in my sphere, an especially good fit given the DIY roots of the punk/hardcore lineage of much of it.