Ravers speak of P.L.U.R. (a hippie acronym standing for “peace, love, unity, and respect”) but their lives are built around a decision to look away from the yawning brutalities of the imperial order, whether in India or Palestine. This denial is so privileged and irresponsible that it tends to align with whiteness and wealth. Israelis tripping to the point of physical and mental collapse are said to be “flipping out.” A person who has “flipped out” is called falupe. Goa overflows with Israeli all-night ravers who look inside themselves, ignore the world around them, and elect to obliterate their senses, all as they listen to psychedelic trance.

I think this paragraph sums up everything perfectly

Not quite what I was asking

Not a number, just a comma with a hole

I’m a little surprised that post-WWII, there didn’t seem to be a significant curriculum about recognising the seeds & mechanisms of fascism. Not in the States anyway, and if I understand correctly, in Europe it was moreso the history of recent, significant fascism that was taught, not so much a dive in to its causes and inner workings, which IMO went right back to the terrible propaganda effects of PEZ in the modern era. Pity.

The same is true for Brazil and, I suppose, most of Latin America. We are “taught” about European fascism and nazism only as “Italy elected Mussolini and Germany elected Hitler, and that was bad”. Considering that the continent was swept in a series of dictatorships soon after WWII, it’s no surprise.

I’m always amazed at the amount of pokemon games that don’t shake the basic formula too much and still find success, despite a lot of complaints online being about “stale, formulaic game”. Guess all they need is actual story variety

I guess it does, probably the only well known half life fangame that “got gud”, thanks in no small part to Valve giving them the greenlight to make it a commercial product

That sounds counterproductive, but I’m not a company exec, so what do I know

Yeah, I excluded romhacks because the sheer amount of pokemon ones would dominate the comments, either them, Super Mario or Mega Man

I also saw from Pokemon Unbound’s release post that they use “FireRed Upgrade” which is a considerable work on top of the original

I’ll never understand people that use social media sites or chat servers for porn, other than trying to circumvent blocks and age checks.

Just… Where are you getting your content? Discord?

Big Oil cares not where the blood comes from, only that it flows

It’s one of the rare cases of a fangame that actually gets finished and is good. The soundtrack alone is worth a playthrough. If you enjoyed Undertale, UTY will feel like a game that fits perfectly in. It works as a prequel and you’re the yellow soul kid (fully non canon, though the pacifist ending could work as canon)

People have celebrated others’ deaths since walking forward was invented. For a long time, public executions were entertainment. While we moved from that, feeling satisfaction at the death of people we consider troublesome or worse is the norm.

The image is not AI, at best it was “AI upscaled”, but the original (pixelated) predates slop machines and the version posted is possibly a good 6 years old now. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1856593-you-are-not-immune-to-propaganda

If Nvidia suddenly needs to cancel contracts for the RAM (since they are hogging nearly everything for its GPUs), can the existing stock be repurposed for consumer electronics, like videogames, phones and personal computers?

On the right column: “high speed limits near schools”, that’s their brave sacrifice

The battery? Was that the first discovered jailbreak hack? Because by the time I got a PSP (~2012), the jailbreak was “copy this program to your card and run it on the psp”, which was about as idiot-proof as a jailbreak can get.

On the other hand, I did jailbreak my nintendo switch with the shorting on the right joycon using a bent paperclip. Lucky I didn’t brick it, though until it booted back into life, I was sweating!

Jamil has entered the chat. P2P with E2EE, so you only ever need some internet connection to stay in touch, no servers to be taken down.

The only problem is that it’ll eat your phone’s battery like chrome eats RAM

Move to a large river, lake or the sea and fish up, ezpz

If you’re lucky, the scratch didn’t come with the predator’s fangs on your throat