TraumaDumpling

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the oldest album i know of from my favorite band, better known as Thee Oh Sees. i would never listen to this kind of almost folk music stuff if it were literally any other band. something about the echo-y effects and intentional dissonance, and the slight amount of keyboard backing up the acoustic? guitar... it captures the exact kind of existential vibes my mind naturally exudes (or seeks out at any rate). great music to meditate to imo. their newer stuff is a lot more psychedelic rock/punk than this and i hope to see them in person someday before any of us die or the nukes fall. i once wrote a fan email to john dwyer and got a pleasant response, i hope the people in the band are never revealed to have been significantly more evil than the average person (i don't trust any famous people, but honestly i would probably quietly and disgracefully continue listening even if they were, i will turn myself into the bad music takes gulag)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

going fast is fun and inherently cool, and anything that increases the chance of rich white people dying is also good for society overall. it's a win-win-win for everyone involved.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

didn't they just recently invest a bunch of money in OpenAI? they want to fire their programmers and replace them i think

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

scott adams: men are the inherently violent gender (Lyudmila Pavlichenko: am i a fucking joke to you?) which is a good thing somehow, except when brown people do it, in which case it is bad, but it is still good when we use our 'smart' (white) violence to stop their 'dumb' (brown) violence. I am very smart and correct because i am afraid to stick my fingers in my dads ass hole. if u disagree its implicitly because ur gay with ur dad lol

fucking 12 year old brained posting from a grown ass man

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

i wish i was allowed to ride bikes on sidewalks where i live, we HAVE to ride on the road here

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Please Mr. Xi, Inject Me With The Genetic Drugs And Turn Me Into Your Sleepless Cognitively And Emotionally Enhanced Super-Soldier Mecha Pilot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Kileak: The DNA Imperative (a PS1 game i've played emulated on DuckStation)

its a real-time FPS dungeon crawler where you in a mech (power armor? kinda hard to tell, but i think its a small mech more than a armor suit) explore a tunnel complex full of cybernetic combat drones.

the gameplay is kinda wack, you have to shoot like 30 or 40 shots (in single shot with the base weapon, a lot of rapid button mashing if you want to survive) at basically every enemy to kill them, the other weapons are super hard to find ammo for, and the tank controls in first person are pretty wild (in a fun way. you can move diagonally super fast for some reason. controls remind me of armored core 2), but it has such a sense of atmosphere its like one of those haunted PS1 videogames. Its basically like a slower paced Doom clone with more simplistic level architecture, most levels are linear corridors with some 90 degree turns and 4x4 and 6x6 rooms spread around. theres no jump or crouch or anything, just forward, back, strafe buttons with either L1/2 or R1/2 buttons, and you can't look up or down except by holding R1 and L1 to look up and R2 and L2 to look down at pre-defined angles. it doesnt matter since the game has aim assist, the crosshair moves to lock onto the enemy nearest the center/closest to you (not sure which).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

YES ninja were not standardized, 'ninja sword' is like saying 'gangster rifle', a criminal/terrorist/assassin will use whatever they have to accomplish their goal, they usually can't or don't build their own weapons. they don't have uniforms and tables of equipment like a military does.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (11 children)

THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FUCKING "NINJA SWORD", ninja did not have standardized equipment or tactics or leadership. They were assassins and spies, they would have no use or legal cover story to carry a sword and would be immediately caught.

a KATANA is a SAMURAI SWORD you fucking SWORD PHILLISTINES

why? BECAUSE IT WAS USED EXCLUSIVELY BY SAMURAI

they would EXECUTE YOU for OWNING A SWORD if you were not a samurai

Heck, the samurai would hide next to roads at night and MURDER RANDOM PEASANTS that crossed their path just to TEST THEIR NEW SWORDS

If it didn't kill in 1 stroke, it was a SHIT SWORD

and it was PERFECTLY LEGAL because JUST LIKE EURO KNIGHTS the samurai were WARLORD KILLER MAFIOSOS who survived by PILLAGE AND OPRESSION

you idiot anglos INVENTED the term SAMURAI SWORD because your IDIOT ICE MUTANT MOUTHS can't pronounce something as simple as "KA-TA-NA" so USE YOUR OWN WORDS IDIOT BRITS

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (3 children)

i already held my nose and voted for biden once, a credibly accused abuser of women who turned out to later materially support not only neo-nazi militias but the literal genocide of palestinians, so i'm instead going to learn from my mistake and never vote for anyone again in america. i should have learned this lesson from voting for obama and seeing him abandon every single campaign issue people cared about.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

i just want a tiny car with a head-tracking camera pod and no windows

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

it may have had a chance but it has the godsforsaken fortnite-cursed over-the-shoulder camera with no button to switch the side of the player character model the camera is on.

oh, you wanted to shoot around cover to the left or turn right around a corner without making yourself vulnerable? well fuck you then

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

pump actions are reliable but don't care any less about atmosphere than automatic actions, gas-blowback or recoil operated firearms produce their own gasses/forces (from the bullet propellant) and contain their own oxidizers (no need for atmosphere)

basically just get a power armor suit with a full-auto multipurpose flechette/microgrenade launcher mounted to one of the arms or your shoulder.

 

its october and the only horror movies i've watched are scream 1-3. they are ok for what they are (deconstruction of horror tropes via murder mystery), but i need something spicier. something existentially horrifying, not just a wrinkly monster chase or a crazy guy hacking up white girls. something that follows you out of the movie and changes how you think about the world for a few days before you're normal again. stuff that pulls at the threads of your understanding of reality. a lot of so called psychological thrillers do this but thats not specifically what i'm looking for as much as existential terror.

since i created this post i'll start with suggestions of my own

1 - SKINAMARINK

watch this without any research or info going in. all i will say is that there is limited dialogue and the amount of times you see a face or character asymptotically approaches zero. watch while stoned for maximum effect.

2 - They Look Like People

psychological thriller, avoiding spoilers but i'll say that it mayyybe leans into some problematic ableist tropes relating to mental health common to the horror genre. i have a friend that loves this movie and relates to it strongly for mental health reasons though so i might be over- or under- analyzing.

3 - The Lighthouse

monochrome period piece. 2 boys 1 lighthouse. you can probably predict how this goes but the execution is so worth it, the actors are amazing and the cinematography is excellent.

thats pretty much all i got, i haven't seen that many movies.

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