Latest Posts by awaybyrail - Page 2
me: I have GOT to get weirder!
also me when I do get weirder: *visibly shaking* I'm going to be killed with hammers by everyone for being a freak.
"Would you rather use the app? :)" I cannot begin to describe how much I wouldn't
but on the positive side the photos you take of the armed police shooting you can have swirly bokeh
Opinions on the Zenit Photosniper?
they’re calling it ‘a great way to get shot by armed police’
I love cooking things and then not sharing them with people. For me, cooking is really an act of disconnection and hatred.
hilarious that the south korean soldiers seem to be getting absolutely clowned considering they’re supposed to be an all-elite super fighting force or whatever
lol. lmao, even
from another perspective, they're in another triple romance involving two men and a woman, of which there are like four in the whole series? solit and salm are explicitly lovers, autr and sahaule im not sure about, and lindon and svir are too, if we are counting lindon/svir/lindon's wife as one of those. just as a matter of parallels, i think it makes sense to at least consider the possibility?
i don't seriously ship hesychast and itinerant but its genuinely undeniable that my personal reading is that the believability of their feud comes from how their proximity is bordering, if not outright an example of, homoeroticism. the thick seam of hatred comes from the fact they're both bound inextricably with each other by circumstance and ideology, both agents of empire differing only in perspective but alike in aim. they're complementary in their discordance and share this complete refusal to acknowledge this as reality, engage in this charade of opposition because its continuance is the only way they can meaningfully diverge from the masquerade. do you understand. they cannot admit their camaraderie because its the only way to remain discrete, they cannot take comfort in each other despite being bedfellows in secrecy because to do so would be to be swallowed by their own cause. they have to define each other, have to perform animosity, because it's the only way to define their self
Disco Elysium Flow
ph: toma gerzha
HI Maia, i don't know if u answer questions like these but i feel like this is up your alley way... do you have a note taking software you would recommend/use that doesn't have AI bull shit in it and is somewhat okay privacy wise. I have grown tired of notion after my many years but every notes app I look into is screaming 'we use AI' at me. anyway, greetings...
i personally use obsidian and like it enough to pay for some of its features (which are all possible to achieve with free community plugins instead, there's like basically no reason you'd HAVE to pay them)
fuck your magic castle academy aristocratic bitch. im going to state-run magic polytechnic
to me the deserter seemed personally important because as an eastern european, i have met this guy irl. he is intensely familiar, down to the phrasing, sometimes (the whole "a liberal and a pederast" bit, oof) and DE acknowledges this literal old communist on an uninhabited island, acknowledges the reasons why he is the way that he is, and just straight up tells you "you cannot be this way. you have to find a way to become something else". that last bit is the difficult part, of course
playing disco elysium for the first time felt so familiar because it was made by communists. i kept getting the feeling of - i see you! i know you! every time i came across encyclopedia worldbuilding checks and recognized the tools of historical materialism brilliantly used. i wince when i see people describe DE as just being ironic about communism or whatever - no! this is the most communist game ive ever played!
sometimes i see people point to the deserter's character as evidence that DE isn't truly a communist work, but i don't think the deserter is meant to be a paragon of communism in the game. he's a revolutionary stuck in the past and that is his grave error. "The material base for an uprising has ended," "The historical condition for a revolutionary opportunity has passed. It will not come back anymore. However hard I try, whatever I do." but everything you've seen the game proves his statement wrong. DE's world still has the objective conditions for revolution because the working masses are sick of all the ruling order's shit, and there are plentiful opportunities to develop the subjective forces as we see in the communist quest that young people are willing to continue the communist struggle. but the deserter cant see that from his position and his trauma - ultimately this is what makes him fail as a communist because he has let go of the basic principles: that world is always changing; that change is made by people, through class struggle; that a communist must always be grounded and alert of their own material context.
the scene in the communist quest where you get through to steban and it tells you that "you're witnessing his ironic armor melt before you" - i think that was the devs taking their ironic mask off, too. i believe that because steban's reasons for his communism are the same as mine. we have to struggle even if it's hard and even if they kill us because this is what keeps us human. to struggle for freedom is the next best thing to actually being free. to fight for communism is to fight for the future. it is not about being imprisoned by failures of the past. in fact it IS about failure - because the movement is the working class's school in the struggle for power and we need to learn from each failure and move forward.
i just know that if my comrades and i were somehow in a room with the devs and we had to sing the internationale, we would all know the words. in different languages, but we'll sing the same melody and when we get to the part, the word "international" will be sung in unison. do you get me? i think disco elysium is to some young game-savvy communists of the world today as "what is to be done" was to lenin's generation. something something international communist solidarity...
there are definitely instances where you can hear the past - not sure about reaching into it, though. possibly it's just ghosts and echoes at the point it gets to your radio receiver. im not competely certain, and i haven't read pjol, though, so grain of salt
quick question to the lore masters: is the pale white or black? the paledriver says it's like looking into the ocean at night when harry asks how it looks. but it's called pale lol and in some canon artwork i saw it look like white clouds. i suppose realistically, the light should not be able to penetrate it at some point right? and if it's the opposite to things existing it makes more sense it's a literal hole in the world so should look pitch black?
I uploaded some of my art to inprnt where you can get them as prints, stickers or cards! :>
to go even further, im not sure that "the brain without sensory input" is right either. im not sure that there *is* a brain, while you are in the pale. maybe you are dissolved into concepts, just a memory that remembers its own self. and with the aid of some techniques, you are simply re-embodied in a different place where the pale meets material reality. and the effects of the pale on cognition are a sort of conceptual cross-radiation, where other things become part of this idea of yourself, and as you are re-embodied, you still carry them with you
quick question to the lore masters: is the pale white or black? the paledriver says it's like looking into the ocean at night when harry asks how it looks. but it's called pale lol and in some canon artwork i saw it look like white clouds. i suppose realistically, the light should not be able to penetrate it at some point right? and if it's the opposite to things existing it makes more sense it's a literal hole in the world so should look pitch black?
i dont think the "ocean at night in the dark" thing is intended to be in reference to color, necessarily - more just unseen immensity. my take was that porch collapse is meaningfully gray and vaporous, but within the pale itself, color is more metaphorical than anything. like it might be "the morning", "white light", "dark gray and orange" or whichever, but these are more ideas related to colors than colors themselves
quick question to the lore masters: is the pale white or black? the paledriver says it's like looking into the ocean at night when harry asks how it looks. but it's called pale lol and in some canon artwork i saw it look like white clouds. i suppose realistically, the light should not be able to penetrate it at some point right? and if it's the opposite to things existing it makes more sense it's a literal hole in the world so should look pitch black?
Have you guys seen the clip of Anderson Cooper reporting on the hurricane? He's crouching down, holding on to the earth for dear life?
Well turns out the hurricane made him pregnant. He's pregnant with the wind and rain now. CNN released a special report about how they gave him an ultrasound, and how his stomach is full of some new type of djinn or sylph or similar aqueous wind sprite.
He doesn't seem to be in any pain, but whenever Wolf Blitzer asks him about the child, Cooper just rubs his belly and mutters something about "forging a new link in the great chain of being"
Brutalism haters will say "Top 10 worst most evil buildings in the world, signs that humanity is doomed and a dystopian apocalypse is upon us lest by the Lord's mercy they all be demolished" and then show you 10 of the most gorgeous badass buildings you've ever seen in your life. every time
reblog this to let a curious kitten explore your dash
hey what the fuck. our temple!
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where was your first job?
Fast food service (McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, ect.)
Restaurant service (waiting tables, dishwasher, ect)
cashier/bagger at grocery store
life guard
I’ve never had a job
other (put in tags)
(Im currently trying to get my first job and I’m curious what the most common first job is)
CAUSES OF ENGINEERING DISASTERS:
"huh, didn't know that material behaved that way"
"well luckily *this* load case will never happen"
"I TOLD YOU. I TOLD YOU ALL. BUT YOU SAID THE FIX WAS TOO EXPENSIVE AND WOULD TAKE TOO LONG"
"you were using it to do *what*???"
"shouldn't we get this change approved by a regulatory body?" "nah"
"wait we were meant to inspect that part of the structure?"
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