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Anndra

@anndra.bsky.social

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Gael, writer, translator, communist, mapgame obsessive. Glasgow-based He/him/e

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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 11h

it had the effect of making me look more kindly on games that normally wouldn't pique my interest at all, because at least they had an actual title and a theme and some sort of art style or whatever. anyway play the demos of Menace and Pathologic 3 which are buried among dozens of desktop idle games

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 11h

Steam Next Fest is up and I spent a while scrolling through some of the 3100+ demos to see if any looked good. I'd say a minority - single percentage points - looked like actual games rather than AI cover art scams, and an even smaller number interest me personally

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22h

or rather, he's playing it and I'm sat next to him lol

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22h

yeah I'm playing with Jon (who we played Darktide with)

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22h

you do, my friend

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22h

Up to Day 6 now and he's really Getting It and it's a pleasure to see

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 22h

Got a friend visiting me at the moment and we've been spending a good chunk of the visit with him playing through Pathologic 2 for the first time, with minor guidance and major moral support from me. He's loving it and so am I

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

this made me laugh so hard when I saw it happen live, and I just showed my friend this edit in person and he had the exact same reaction

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

good luck meeting Jo Binterview

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

once, lifetime

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

one last thing since criticism is being met with shutting down: of all the things about protestantism to attack, the 'democratisation of religion' aspect (such as it was) is surely not it. "I would side with the counter-reformation. I'm a progressive. Yes, we exist"

Dr Eleanor Janega
‪@goingmedieval.bsky.social‬

Seriously you can't just say "anyone who can read can do pastoral care" with a ancient document. Look what happens!!!

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

yeah it baffles me and I try to be charitable about it (as, no doubt, the platonic ideal of the virtuous priest would want me to be) but it's difficult

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

I did know this about you

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

I understand if people are attached to Catholicism for whatever reasons. don't pretend it's something different from what it is, though! the "straightforwardly better than Protestantism" meme increasingly common among the anglo left is a dead end for analysis and advancement

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

for instance: I am a Gael. I am deeply attached to this culture and language and identity. it would be dishonest for me to pretend Gaels were not complicit in colonialism in spite of oppression at the hands of others as well, and admitting this is necessary as a building block of solidarity

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

One of my most deeply held beliefs is that people have to be willing to examine the flaws of things they hold dear. whether that's religion, a political tendency, a national or cultural group, etc. this can be uncomfortable but it's necessary for a more mature understanding of what makes us 'us'

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

yeah a lot of 20th century European and Latin American history is specifically about institutional Catholicism being complicit in or blasé about fascism

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 1d

wearily making another tally mark in the "people for some reason thinking catholicism is resistant to fascism in spite of all historical evidence" column

Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 2d

Look, this is what Catholicism does so well. Yes girl, BRING OUT THE MONSTRANCE. MAKE THEM SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Martin Luther could *never*. He failed to predict the Trump Presidency and also is directly implecated. I am so serious.

Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 2d

Chicago priest Fr. Larry Dowling describes procession to ICE facility: “No one had the courage to speak directly to us. No one from Homeland Security could stand in the presence of the Monstrance holding the Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in the presence of Christ.”

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 3d

she's a fascist lol

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 3d

Bro blocked me for pointing out that she supports Trump, the strikes, and Israel’s genocide

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social • 1h
I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.
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Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 3d

hahahaha

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 3d

because you know that you just have to give them 10 nectar and they'll be your friend now. doesn't help that she feels like a carbon copy of Megaera the Fury but less fun. it all contributes to a feeling of the characters being rote and predictable and two-dimensional

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 3d

Hades 2 was obviously going to have this in some form too, as a sequel, so they couldn't pretend it wasn't there - but it's the exact same form of gift-giving and they introduce it immediately. it makes some characters who start out hostile to you - like Nemesis - extremely predictable this time

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 3d

one last thing: in Hades 1, the introduction of nectar and improving relationships with characters was something that surprised me as a player, especially some of the characters that it was possible to befriend. The game slowly revealing its hand in this department is something I enjoyed a lot

Anndra @anndra.bsky.social · 3d

yeah. and if you have more tolerance for the grind then you'll get on better with it. there is genuinely like three times as much resource faff as the first game, if not more