akkoma 3.19.0
And today Swedish gov’t reported that they’re gonna subsidize the fossil-fuel–based air travel industry even further. When it comes to climate change, it’s hemming and hawing and postponing and cancelling and budget cuts and self-congratulations over future goals and then never actually aiming for those goals. But when it comes to things that are bad for the climate there is always immediate, rapid, highly-prioritized action including taking on historically unprecedented loan debt.
—My liege, we need help!
—Eh, I don’t know, maybe, naw, we need to prioritize other things… We can’t be spending on addressing climate cha–
—But the thing I need is bad for the climate!
—Oh then hells yess! Why didn’t you say so?! Here’s a blank check.
I also caught up with Deltarune, beating chapter 5. Not in a particularly completionist way (I didn’t explore every hidden room but I found some, and I believe I got all the recruits this chapter but I have missed some in an earlier chapter) and the story made me sad. Which maybe is a good thing, skillful storytelling and all that? But it put me in a bad mood all night after.
Mechanically I thought the game was great. This might truly be the best video game of all time. It introduces new stuff and builds on the old stuff. But I’ve got to slag it a little for introducing the “release the A button” style timing for the boss fight, a mechanic I can’t remember seeing before in previous chapters and I had a very hard time with. It took me many hours to beat that dumb boss. Once I got past that whole first part of charge-release I beat the other stages of the boss fight in one try. Throughout the game I was really rusty on all the bullet hell elements and on how to sequence the fights (when to defend, when to act, when to heal, how to pace items etc); even though it’s only been a few months since I played chapter four I came at this as worse than a noob so I was pretty challenged. Well, it’s not news that I suck at video games. Still get to enjoy them.♥︎
Because of my War on Screen, I took a break from all “glowy” video games all summer, including all Retroid Pocket games (which is where I have Deltarune). I’ve only played a little bit on the original DMG-001 (where I only have one cartridge, it’s called Yakuman) which oddly enough even though it’s ghosty pea soup the screen is more relaxing for me. It does not glow. I took the Retroid back out because I really was in the mood for Deltarune but I’m not sure I’m gonna jump right into a new game just after. We’ll see. Maybe finish up Omori or Eastward or Mother 3, or start up a new playthrough of Sweet Home or The Guardian Legend, or just try to git gud at Wave Race on the GBC emulator (I figured out the RetroArch settings to replace the flickering with transparency), or more likely just let it be for a while.
Read’s chosen first name has been lost to history:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_General_History_of_the_Pyrates/The_Life_of_Mary_Read
And now there’s a Magic card permanently carving that other name into the game:
https://scryfall.com/card/acr/61/mary-read-and-anne-bonny
That is why Magic should not put real people on cards.
When we talk about solving climate change what they hear is akin to as if we would’ve said “Oh, why do you need doors or windows? Just walk through the walls with ghost powers” or “Why do you need stairs? Just stride up the clouds”.
That is how deep their programming goes.
They’re living in a completely cart-before-horse world where the economy as it currently works today is seen as the prereq for any kind of changes. Even though it’s in reality the other way around.
The Interior Castle. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones (and The Treasury of the Dharma Eye). Days of War, Nights of Love. A Pattern Language. Desolation Angels.
Books printed on pure dynamite that straight out scream how the growth treadmill to deadworld is lies and poison.
Here we have leaders who only a small minority of the population in “their” respective country actually approve of, and they’re perpetually “retaliating” by killing “one of them”. Or “ten of them”.