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🥨 Mr. Salty 🥨 @mrsalty.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 13h

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 · 14h

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

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

"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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 19h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

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 · 21h

Finally, someone describes my type.

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nobody @granddad.bsky.social · 2d

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

One of our all-time great Weirdo Character Actors; I'd put him up in the lofty heights of Stephen Root-tier in that regard. He's so great in this season of Peacemaker.

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

I sure hope so. Christ, we could use a break down here. Is Youngkin evil? Yes he is, but I cannot stress enough how much he is a feckless dipshit who couldn't be trusted to govern a pie-eating contest.

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

"The Court finds that the defendant's song is gas, and the plaintiff must pay his legal fees and hold this L."

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 1d

Drake’s lawsuit against UMG over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us" has been dismissed

"The Court concludes that the allegedly defamatory statements in ‘Not Like Us’ are nonactionable opinion, the motion to dismiss is granted”

They also noted that the song had a ‘catchy beat and propulsive baseline’

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

"Easy to Crash" is the main standout from that one

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Easy To Crash

YouTube video by Cake - Topic

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

"Frank Sinatra" is probably my favorite, as far as Cake Deep Cuts go.

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