snakesnakewhale

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[–] snakesnakewhale 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

3 plays great on my PC. I made the mistake of playing 5 first, so I found the graphics & mechanics a little underwhelming (I thought 5 looked pretty great). But the game is good; the villain seems to be the series' fan favorite.

4 might is the sweet spot between 3's gameplay and 5's graphics. 5 is gorgeous, but it's gameplay is a tad more kid-friendly than 3 and 4. And I love 4's James Bond villain.

[–] snakesnakewhale 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My impression is that Sega's always been pretty chill & receptive to interest in respectful revivals of classic IP.

It's been nice to watch a large company respond to that interest with more accessibility, and not less (Nintendo).

[–] snakesnakewhale 4 points 2 years ago

The obvious fix would be to deny student loans this special treatment.

The student loan industry is built on this exception, so eliminating it will be a big mountain to climb

[–] snakesnakewhale 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, do you happen to know what the current favorite is?

[–] snakesnakewhale 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Of course not, reddit doesn't have a product without its mods. The site itself provides no service or value, precisely because of its user anonymity. I don't share anything personal on it; you use reddit for its framework, nothing more.

The value is its aggregate, human-generated information. It's like a shitty Library of Alexandria, and it's meaningless without mods who (mostly) ensure that only (mostly) verifiable humans are adding to the archive.

Without mods, or with AI mods, reddit is no more trustworthy than Amazon's reviews. It becomes Dead Internet Theory manifest. Why the fuck would I visit a site like that?

[–] snakesnakewhale 1 points 2 years ago

I'm down tbh. What's it gonna do, be corrupt? https://imgur.com/a/nlqC7OB

[–] snakesnakewhale 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The majority, yeah. Users didn't go to third party apps out of spite toward reddit; I doubt too many will have hung around this long in the spirit of some symbolic D-day to stick it to spez.

[–] snakesnakewhale 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The AI facsimile of Impact is sending me

[–] snakesnakewhale 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snakesnakewhale to c/poetry
 

Wallace Stevens, 1959

That's what misery is,
Nothing to have at heart.
It is to have or nothing.

It is a thing to have,
A lion, an ox in his breast,
To feel it breathing there.

Corazón, stout dog,
Young ox, bow-legged bear,
He tastes its blood, not spit.

He is like a man
In the body of a violent beast.
Its muscles are his own . . .

The lion sleeps in the sun.
Its nose is on its paws.
It can kill a man.

 

Bett Williams, 2020

They're coming over
All the people from all the directions
The ones who keep their altars right
The ones who keep it clean
Who know how to do ceremony in a closed-up house
This is a closed-up house
All the doors in all the four directions
They're closed up tight
We do it this way
Keep our altars clean
All the relatives are coming over
Bringing chicken
All the ones on your side
Are filling up the house
For ceremony
That's how we party
In ceremony
Ceremony in a closed-up house

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Rooted & Radical, Louder Than A Bomb (youngchicagoauthors.org)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snakesnakewhale to c/poetry
 

"Louder Than A Bomb" is a great documentary about the Rooted & Radical Youth Poetry Festival in Chicago. Definitely give it a watch and obviously if you have access to the Festival itself, it's the largest youth poetry festival in the world.

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snakesnakewhale to c/poetry
 

Eileen Myles, 2017

humans have dogs

to hold a distant spot close

a star

a cool glow

for the

lonely

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[OC] Texarkana (self.poetry)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snakesnakewhale to c/poetry
 

by me, 2023

Because of the flatulence
of a paper mill nearby,
the wind is tinged with farts.

Plus old plumbing
a drainage bag,
and holidays have an inoffensive,
human waft of anus
like a perfume trail
in every room.

 
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Welcome abaord shipmates! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by snakesnakewhale to c/aubreyandmaturin
 
 
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Tiptoe (self.poetry)
submitted 2 years ago by snakesnakewhale to c/poetry
 

Ani DiFranco, 1995

Tiptoeing through the used condoms
Strewn on the piers
Off the west side highway
Sunset behind
The skyline of jersey
Walking towards the water
With a fetus holding court in my gut
My body hijacked
My tits swollen and sore
The river has more colors at sunset
Than my sock drawer ever dreamed of
I could wake up screaming sometimes
But i don't
I could step off the end of this pier but i got
Shit to do
And an appointment on Tuesday
To shed uninvited blood and tissue
I'll miss you i say
To the river to the water
To the son or daughter
I thought better of
I could fall in love
With jersey at sunset
But i leave the view to the rats
And tiptoe back

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