Alexis @LexYeen@vulpine.club

They Might Be Giants is a hell of a mood lately. First, a collaboration with Corn Mo entitled "No Cops."

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rnwjw8qghPk

Next, "Your Racist Friend."

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFGQdvYIJ0M

Karaoke version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoipqbfIDKk

And finally, "The Communists Have The Music."

Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A2-ACZhg_g

Music video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCGZEqk8Ak

Karaoke version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z_fVzb2u8o

Always remember the paradox of tolerance.

"The Alt-Right Playbook," by Innuendo Studios.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ

The topics discussed here are not unique to the alt-right in the so-called United States of America, but that sociopolitical environment is used as the basis for the majority of comparisons to modern politics.

http://interglacial.com/pub/text/Umberto_Eco_-_Eternal_Fascism.html - "Eternal Fascism: Fourteen Ways of Looking at a Blackshirt," by Umberto Eco

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/umberto-eco-ur-fascism.pdf - Ur-Fascism, by Umberto Eco.

Both of these texts will serve you well. The former more readily than the latter.

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Canto Bight was the best sequence of the sequel trilogy and I will die on this hill.

foxes 🤝 yeens

yelling

I'm tempted to, when I finally beat this game, snap the fucking cartridge in half and mail it to Nintendo with an index card note reading "Rohta Chiga Shrine made me do this."

And again. Most of the delay there was me sitting on menus to pause the game and calm down, with a bit of power-recharge delay.

Further than last time, again, but that doesn't fucking matter much.

And again.

Aaaand died again.

And to the gamers who like this sort of thing:

Who hurt you?

Game developers fuck off with one-hit-kill no-checkpoint full-reset in-engine-physics puzzles 2021 challenge.

So, for context?

I posted that, hit continue on the game over screen, and tried again. Within thirty seconds I had died again.

Did I make it further than last time? Yes, approximately five feet.

Does that extra gained knowledge in the layout of the puzzle matter? No, because my problem is not knowledge based - guides exist and I will happily use them - it is execution based.

As in, I want to do an [REDACTED]

I am rarely brought to the point of wanting to break things due to video games.

But when a game that I have been thoroughly enjoying snap-turns into an uphill battle against my own disabililty where every element of it seems precision-engineered to remind me at every turn that nobody gives a fuck about my disability?

Yeah, the rage shows itself a little bit.

Glad I'm not a Hulk, is all I'll say.

also the more agitated I become the more difficult fine motor controls become,

so,

yeah. there's that, too.

between the reliance on the physics engine, the precision timing required, link's one-hit status, and the fact that shrines RESET YOU TO THE START WHEN YOU DIE my dyspraxic ass is having some Diet Gamer Rage* right now.

*all the anger of classic gamer rage with none of the toxic -phobias

fuck the rohta chigah shrine

all my homies hate the rohta chigah shrine