Ericthescruffy [he/him]

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Cake day: July 27th, 2020

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  • Okay, so I’m kind of speaking in ignorance because despite my embarrassing enjoyment of cape shit I haven’t yet seen the movie…but I am curious. I actually accept the author’s premise that Superman does have Jewish roots, but as we all understand here: Judaism and Zionism should not be conflated.

    So I can’t help but wonder then: if the name of the countries in question were changed… Just what gave it away to this writer that they were talking about Israel?

    If you recognize that they were talking about Israel and Palestine because it was a bunch of armed fascistic bloodthirsty well armed colonizers massacring farmers and women and children… How is that not straight up telling on yourself?









  • I think what the article is highlighting though is that while the material things he was offering are the primary reason for his victory…what’s genuinely wild and kind of a game changer is that its not even really accurate to say he won in spite of the third rail issues of Israel and antisemitism claims he was weighed down with. Its looking like there’s very little evidence to suggest that it even hurt him or had any impact at all. That should scare the shit out of the DNC.


  • You said everything I wanted to say, so bravo. I just really want to emphasize this point again:

    There is little point in making such a small gaming device these days, basically outside of retro niche do it cuz you can startups (more on that below)… because most modern smart phones are powerful enough to do everything a Vita can do, if you set it up for emulation, or just natively play android games.

    Seriously, I used to run n64 emulators on my phone from like 6 generations ago. I bet they can probably run them in 240hz in 3D now if you want. If all you want is a small tiny portable handheld gaming device then buy a USBC or Bluetooth controller/dock for your phone and never look back.

    The steam deck and the switch are the only viable future for dedicated handheld gaming because they actually bridge the gap between portability And console gaming.






  • What is the politics of Pac-Man?

    Just as a surface read: something about strength through consumption or nourishment to overcome obstacles and enemies. Also: ghosts are bad.

    I don’t think it’s a gotcha at all, but rather an important additional point that just because all art/media is inherently political does not also automatically mean all art/media is inherently deep or complex. The saying is less the idea that all art/media has secret political messaging and more an observation that because all art/media has human voices and creativity behind it it objectively means that it has their own views and biases baked into it.



  • I never knew that but fuck me does that track. Honestly between this and like 90% of the people my company employees I’m starting to wonder if country boys are all imaginary and it’s nothing but petty bourgeoisie cosplaying all the way down.

    Edit: fuck me. I made this joke to my SO and she laughed and said: “duh. Babe… do you think you can actually be that level of country bumpkin and own land???” It is all fucking cosplay. Even the people who live in cheap ass housing on this shit do it to get the homestead tax credit it sounds like.