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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 41m

Meadows is a Stephen Root-tier weirdo character actor and I'm always thrilled when he is in anything.

🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 43m

Saw the Eggers Nosferatu just now.

I am... not altogether certain what I make of it. My initial impression is that large parts of it worked and large parts didn't. Need to chew on it some more.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 10h

Got my COVID and flu shots. Bracing myself for a nice weekend of feeling like I fell down the stairs.

🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 14h

Oh, and the plant used to be a cat.

Unless of course you mean the other plant.

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

Rewatched Sinners for the first time since seeing it in theaters. Still a banger; glad I got to introduce my roommate to it.

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Report from Antifa headquarters

Currently inflatable dancing mascots are planning the next dastardly action by feeding burritos to the homeless this weekend

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

As ever I yearn for the Democrats that exist only in the Republican mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

behind the veil, I'm satisfied, but when I require multiple logical leaps for what I'm seeing to even be internally consistent, I feel like someone else's job is being pawned off on me.

Elden Ring is neat because the main game vs the DLC are about as clean of a line as I can imagine in that regard.

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

your worldbuilding in such a way that the reader does the work of making the narrative make sense for you.

The point at which one becomes the other is highly subjective, of course. Personally, when I feel like I've been given enough tools to construct a coherent personal idea of what's going on

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

I was being a little glib back there; I don't think a story that relies more on insinuation is necessarily bad (I do think "show, don't tell" is massively overrated as general advice).

I do believe that there's a very fine line between working more in implication and suggestion and just half-assing

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

which is often mistaken for having a good story.

I think the seams in that particular method of presentation are more apparent in Hades II because it's more... shaped like something with grander narrative ambitions than its forebears, even if really isn't even trying to be that.

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

Moreover, I feel like Hades II kinda feels more... Supergiant-y than the first game? With the kinda-sorta exception of Pyre, their pre-Hades games never had particularly compelling narratives? The protagonists were flat ciphers and their worldbuilding was vague, but the *vibes* were immaculate,

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

backhanded way!

The fact that there is *so much* contextual dialogue for so many little things that many players might never even experience is a feat! Maybe more a feat programming than of storytelling, but games are as much engineering projects as they are art, and I can appreciate both.

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

willing to meet the story where it is, instead of complaining that it's not a different story entirely (a perpetual bugbear of mine), but I also am just now overly enamored with what it does with them.

Honestly the story is most impressive on a *quantity* level? And I don't mean that in a

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

Ancient Greece would have taken from the myths in which he behaves that way.

My real beef with Hades II, frankly, is it often fails to really... do much, with the characters as they're depicted, outside of the House of Hades and the Crossroads crew.

I am, much more so than some it seems, perfectly

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

"Zeus is cool and good" or at least "Zeus is Zeus and gets to do what he wants because he is Zeus" is in fact much closer to the values of the people for whom these myths were their actual religion!

"Zeus is a tyrant and a sexual predator", while objectively true, is not a thing most people in

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

the alleged "sanitization" of Greek myth. Whatever grittier take one prefers is no closer in mindset to how these stories were told and interpreted by their original writers and audiences than the most whitewashed take you can imagine. Less so, in a backwards sort of way!

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

for offenses meriting a grudge of countless mortal lifetimes, eventually becomes possible, even likely on a wide enough time scale.

Does Hades II actually handle that *well*? Idk, as I said; haven't quite finished it yet.

I will say that I do generally get less bent out of shape than some about

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, the overall ethos of, eventually, letting bygones be bygones does make a sort of sense with immortal beings?

Fiction drawing from myth and legend makes much of the innovations in grudge holding made possible by eternity, but I think it's equally plausible that forgiveness, even

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

I'm kind of of two minds so far, having not quite finished the main story yet.

On the one hand, I just... am not as invested in the story as I was with the first one? But that's mainly for structural reasons: the first one had much more personal stakes, and a much smaller, tighter central cast.

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

Like, even my less radical friends realize this, yes? I'm not going to pretend balkanization is going to be a fun time, but it's both inevitable and necessary in any possible future in which any but the most depraved and ignorant parts of America survive.

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

The horror of it is obvious but it also goes to demonstrate that in this, as well as a myriad of other ways, this is not, in fact, one country, and probably never has been.

We cannot remain shacked to the shambling, fascist cancer that makes up at least 1/3 of this "nation".

Sarah ⚧ ✡︎ @sarahkorse.bsky.social · 1d

Can we just marvel at how fucked up a country has to be to need "sanctuary cities" for its own citizens?

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 1d

Michigan: Trans advocates seek LGBTQ sanctuary city designation for Lansing

www.wkar.org/wkar-ne...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, someone describes my type.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 2d

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