I am playing on the open beta and enjoying a lot of the tweaks and balance changes. I have most DLC enabled as well.

I really wish that we (collectively) could learn to value moving more slowly and intentionally

I actually haven't met too many people who can share these types of memories with me, which is frustrating, but when I do get a chance to cross-check stories with someone, the overlapping details are rarely the quotidian or ritual aspects of the whole affair. They're about...the other stuff.

The supposedly secular summer camps I attended were, despite that secularity, relatively Jewish places, and that's worth examining on its own.

They were also a space where lots of bizarre sex and gender dynamics played out in unexpected and obviously problematic ways; also worth discussing.

I have avoided reading Sandra Fox's "The Jews of Summer" because I'm scared of being retraumatized in a way, but I think a lot of the knowledge and memories of these institutions is relatively clandestine and there's specific reasons for that, which are worth addressing out loud.

It was part of accountants' textual tools

Lore is nothing. Lore is what you make when you’re avoiding making art. Don’t make lore. Lote sucks.

they just had to fix the blocking. why all this.

cutting out the sidestory where kiryu empathizes with a trans woman despite his general confusion is. man. man oh man, that is a choice.

And don't fucking tell me I'm being paranoid by thinking the government is interested in compiling lists of known trans people. My birth certificate is issued by the State of Texas