Literally just use Wikipedia more

Cool! I want to look into their work. This seems like something my kid should also know about.

Surprised at how young they started on this journey.

That was the meta? I just naturally gravitated to it. Guess I’ll stick with MK8 and stay winning.

I can’t now recall which of her books I read, but as a budding creepy kid at the time it was with a mounting despair. No, this is a cool book, it must be! Why am I bored? When does it get good?

Considering how sex is, emotionally, such a life affirming and intimacy driven act, I’d expect someone like an ancient vampire to crave a great deal of it but never really get the itch scratched.

Imagine it. You’ve lived so long that humans have stopped seeming real. The older you get, the faster time seems to go. You’ve long since forgotten the ones you once truly loved. New humans are so culturally different and apparently short lived that they barely even register as people anymore.

Ancient vampires would be starved for intimacy or any genuine connection. They’d fuck skillfully and often perhaps, but without passion or connection.

What We Do In The Shadows has a funny answer to this question.

It always felt unbelievable when an ancient vampire was super “with it”. At best they’d be too shitty and un-self aware that their ego would remain basically intact over millennia, otherwise any immortal is facing an eternity of future shock, derealization, and complete dissociation.

The only way to really face eternity would to have such a disordered personality that the very idea of other people held no particular meaning.

Sure, automation without basic income implementation policies may lead to cataclysmic wealth imbalances, but those who live in glass houses shouldn’t throw strawberries.

You will need to keep that hand iced. Maybe splint at night. If the skin breaks, get an ACE wrap.

Sorry, that sounds like a possibly risky amount of slapping you’ve been up to lately, especially if you’ve been (like most of us) in a low or no-slap lifestyle up until now.

There were dudes leaving this many books open during ancient history and people still think neurodivergence is new shit

What we did to the dodos, we should do to insider democrats.

Think about it. They’re a terminally complacent evolutionary dead-end of the dinosaurs.

Also, most of them you could easily murder with nothing but a hat.

In my job I’ve seen American ambulance bills that cost more than that. And if they used a helicopter or even just a fixed wing medevac it’s usually at least 10x as much.

Hell, I’ve seen routine injections billed higher than that come to think of it…

the sloth eats the moth

Apparently this is true? I’ll be emotionally processing this one for the next week. I wasn’t prepared for that.

Just a great, normal way to treat people

Did I overlook something in the article? They didn’t say how they know what ICE might do, only a speculative sentence about how they might do it.

Flirting is just part of seduction. It’s not just to “make intentions known”, people are more dynamic than that. Being flirted with will often actually create feelings that weren’t there before. If you enjoy how someone makes you feel, you open up and become closer. Merely being liked by someone can be quite flattering.

Oh shit, that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Shit.

Not my fav by any means, but I’ve really been enjoying the Kriegsfront Tactics demo this week.

Thanks for this rec, it looks delightful!

The piracy has already begun? Great news!

Knowledge-gated progression perhaps.

I kind of enjoy the abstruse, tortured jargon of “metroidbrainia”, but I would never use it in a respectable conversation.