Bright lights make your pupils shrink

Astonishing listening to the news coverage of that story where the anchors were reading some terminally online nonsense from the teleprompter about Discord “Thug Shakers”

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Personally I’d be cutting off contact from him. No point reaching out to someone who doesn’t want to be in touch. He’s also given you an ‘out’ here by disowning you which makes the situation more simple on the surface. Sometimes you need to think about preserving your own wellbeing.

I don’t believe so but not expert enough on his discography to confirm.

I’m on a local Scottish instance called glasgow.social because the admin is relaxed about free speech without allowing it to become a total cesspool. Almost got kicked off treehouse.systems before I migrated because I suggested political violence was bad - even if left wing people were doing it.

I heard at an old company that being able to read DMs was an extra feature which needed to be paid for, and that my particular company didn’t have it.

That didn’t sound right to me. Especially if the employees could be misusing company property by bullying or selling drugs to each other or something. Surely there would be some legal liability they’d need to cover themselves for?

Probably towards the centre with a tilt towards liberalism but like both in terms of being socially and economically liberal. Ideal government would let everyone do whatever they wanted to until it interfered with anyone else doing whatever they wanted to do.

Neon Genesis Evangelion, Cowboy Bebop, Berserk (1997), Hunter x Hunter (2011), Ghost in the Shell (movie), Akira (movie), pretty much all of Studio Ghilbi.

Apart from EVA those are fairly good for keeping the creepiness to a minimum. I think Berserk at least contextualises it as being part of a brutal universe in a GoT kind of way.

Kill La Kill is probably the creepiest one I’d still say was good but it crosses the line a few times tbh.

Didn’t think I needed an /s on that statement but maybe I did!

Honestly I do like anime but I have to turn a blind eye to the creepy/ecchi shit in order to enjoy some shows. It’s just a fucked up part of Japanese culture. A bit like how Ignition Remix is still a banger even though R Kelly is a monster.

They are actually 10,000 years old but just happen to have a young body. It’s not a sleazy conceit at all.

Dread is fantastic but they really focused on the action elements of Metroid. This is fine since there are other games that focus on exploration but the stuff it does really well are things like boss fights. The last boss in particular is phenomenal.

SMT4 on the 3DS. JRPG perfection imo. I love the SMT combination of monster collecting and Fallout type post apocalypse.

I’m the same age as DOOM

Point Break would be my pick too despite the fact the early 90s had many sensibilities that look more like the 1980s to us now.

You can take solace in that fact you got a medieval King’s disease though!

Inflamed sacroilliac joints causing stabbing pains in my legs while on a city break where we were walking everywhere. Thought it was sciatica at the time but multiple MRIs later was confirmed to be something similar but different…

Never broken a bone so don’t have much to share in terms of the painful experiences.

I listen to a lot of the BBC Sounds podcasts… possibly because I’m boring and British.

My favourites are:

• In Our Time: 3 academics and a host discuss an academic topic in deep detail. Science, humanities, arts, etc. Some episodes are more interesting than others but depends on your personal interests. I like the philosophy ones because I studied it at university.
• The Today Podcast: UK news and current affairs.
• Screenshot: Film critics Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode discuss the history of cinema by picking a theme or motif to explore per episode, i.e. “Mermaids” was a recent one.
• The Digital Human: explores technology trends and how they affect individuals and society.

Different strokes for different folks I guess

As an aside I found it surprisingly readable and I’m not a huge LotR fan. Maybe I just like short story anthologies.