ELO

Leave it to tumblr for a stupendous shower thought, lmao

I'm not sure. I've heard that some high schools no longer have typing classes, and there's apparently a rise in gen z kids who are unable to type the traditional, "touch type," way with all ten fingers and opt for the two-finger style or some hybrid quasi-effective style. They say it can be just as fast but I'm pretty dubious about that.

I certainly think it is valuable, and I hope it remains a required learned skill for kids, but as someone with dysgraphia—and much to my dismay, dyslexia—writing has always been completely miserable to me. Although I'm glad I learned how to write properly in both regular hand and in cursive, and I'm fully able to read it as long as it isn't excessively ornate, I'm so thankful I was able to learn to type as a kid. What a wonderous feeling it was to actually excel in my typing class. To this day it's one of the most worthwhile skills I learned at such a young age.

Thank you very much :)

I sure do: https://www.flickr.com/photos/88949688@N02/

The OG Dead Space completely blew my mind back in the day and probably is still the game to frighten me the most, but I tried to replay it—twice—and dropped it because of how much worse the controls felt than what I remembered. The juking necromorphs were much more irritating to dismember on replay. I thought about getting the remake but people say the controls are the same; and regardless, that's my own issue with the AI, not really the controls...

I don't normally care for roguelikes but I think I've put more hours into Noita than any other—and I've never even made it very far at all. I just panic my way through hoping I chose a good way down and don't have the dumbest wand in existence.

I think the only game I played for the first time during this year was Disco Elysium. And, like many others, I was wowed. I won't devolve into purple prose or string together a maelstrom of superlatives, so I'll just say this with possible slight spoilers:

Despite starting and stopping the game after being lambasted by the immediate consequences of my character's deplorable, ethanol-fueled behavior that hit way too close to home, I finally came back to it with the utmost enthusiasm. Harry's abject level of rock bottom that hits you over the head as soon as you start the game was so disturbing for me as someone with similar struggles. The helplessness to change your sorry state and to win over your partner's approval was so affecting. It makes me wonder how many people in the throes of addiction picked this up and put it down immediately from getting too triggered.

There is so much I would love to just go on and on about so I'll just hit some aspects that really stand out for me. One thing that I loved, so freaking much, was the wondrously imaginative nomenclature. One of the biggest killers for my immersion into a work of fiction is the vapid or lazy naming of the world—which is sadly often. I mean, come on: Revachol, Insulindian isola, Graad... Harry's rank as "double yefreitor" or all the character paths like "Electrochemistry"... I thought it was all so very inspired. Never mind the incredible inner dialogue of each upgrade character type—Half Light's biting dialogue is totally savage, Shivers prose of the world, Inland Empire's unhinged musings... unreal.

I went on much longer than I meant to so I'll just say the game world is just as inspired. It is enigmatically dystopian to the most agonizing degree. Which honestly felt just as alluring as deeply distressing for all the neat people you come across. And to segue to the last point of the characters/VAs: what a glorious menagerie of souls... I fell in love with some, wrinkled my nose at others, and found myself enraged at a few.

Hard to not write a novel, but what a freaking game.

Oh no, consequences for my actions! He has one of the most punchable faces I've ever seen. He's lucky most Asian people are cool and passive and never caught a pipe to the face early on—but ofc, people can only be pushed so far.

It isn't worth it. At least for me at this point. When you are dealing with the ineptitude of the simple-minded masses—which is either bandied at best or they are totally blinded by hatred from vacuuming up disinformation without an iota of effort to fact-check anything—the best hope is face-to-face discourse. But even then you are unlikely to change most peoples' minds that they have been deluded and taken for a ride—especially the older they are. Which is sad and frankly disturbing. One of the most disgusting things to me is a myopic person who is so intransigent, that they can't for a moment believe they might be mistaken about something.

From looking at the line I was in voting, it's no wonder this happened: these simple-minded geriatrics turned out in droves for their dictator.

GOP: Geriatrics for an Orwellian Power

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Thanks!

almost choked on my sandwich lmao