moribund world
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yamamanamaI’ve learned from Flag Counter that I do in fact have regular readers and you’re probably all disappointed but, really, there’s not much to write about between the social distancing and everything in the entire state being closed for three months. To summarize, despite being blindsided early on, the Northeast has weathered it and the world is slowly slowly returning to normal, and the Southeast and West are handing like anyone who listens to the advice of shitty self-published science fiction authors and imageboard assholes would, that is to say, it's a complete catastrofuck. Gone are the days of easy travel. And I can't see much in the way of large-scale public events or films or sports or orchestral music.
On the other hand, not even the coronavirus can end Nello, apparently. Sadly, if it did go, it would probably just become a Chick Fil A.
I think that China may be the true sucessor to fascist Italy. China is the future. The coronavirus must be stamped out at all cost because it is a threat to China. Not so much in the west, where our fascists trend German or Evolan. To them, the virus is the great cleansing, which kills the undesirables and returns us to our traditional ways of life. You have fucking Joshua Mooooooooon and his Kiwi Farms and 9 Chan asholes hacking and doxing people involved with vaccine research and I don't know what the point of all this is.
Trump is trying to escalate protests but to what ends I can not say. Maybe it's about disenfranchisement. Maybe he just wants to vindicate his own rallies, or he thinks he can get a boost from people who are now more racist because their favorite bookstore or whatever burnt down. Maybe they know that Republicans are less afraid of getting themselves or others killed than Democrats are and are hoping to keep the plague going in order to depress turnout in November.
Oh yeah, and Hungary and Cambodia are using this as an excuse to abolish democracy.
To every evolutionary dead end pangolin, as well as every asshole behind QAnon, choke on our memories. To every model minority, I'm so glad your 'allies' are turning on you. Fuck you.
The greatest irony is that if it weren't for the pandemic (yes, I know that butterflies flapping their wings can cause hurricanes), if they just kept the Mayfair where it was at the beginning of May, we'd actually have a Mayfair on a nice day. I said that they did everything right. It's just that everyone else went wrong that day, including the weather.
Here are some songs I was listening to in the last year.
Amy Kucharik - Arrows & Slings
Mellonta Tauta - Nandù
Germaine Tailleferre - Concertino for Harp and Orchestra
Marry Me Jane - Lousy Lullaby - I didn’t exhaust everything reviewed on the War Against Silence
From a French compilation
Crista Galli - Yama-Ho
Sava - Tros Y Garreg
Love Sessions - Witch-Hazel
Artesia - Entrelacs
Anassane - Alias
Louisa John-Krol - A Retinue of Mandrakes
Gentle Temper - Triple Dog Dare
The Unicorn Princess - Autu
Carissa Johnson - Badlands
Radio Compass - On Fire
Geraldo and his Sweet Music - The Moon Was Yellow - The apocalypse came but not as we had expected.
The Ink Spots - Maybe
Nat King Cole - Orange Colored Sky
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Smile of the Beyond
Winter - Pretender
Bent Knee - Golden Hour
Clairo - Sofia
Calamine - Lovely
Lou Harrison - Symphony no. 2
Squirrel Flower - I-80
So, a lot of band discoveries this year are from The Ectophile’s Guide to Good Music. I’d say something about missing my usual avenues of discovery but that would be missing between October and May anyway.
Miranda Sex Garden - Lovely Joan
Eve’s Plum - Lipstuck
Voice of the Turtle - No Pasesh Por La Mi Pwerta
Chimera - Lately
Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 2 - you… are… my… lucky… star
Trespassers William - In A Song
Wild Painting - Distractions
Perfume Tree - Too Early, Too Late - it kind of sounds like Cocteau Twins collaborating with Seefeel.
A while ago, I thought I'd play a game of Fallout 2 as Jason Voorhees. Jinxed and gifted, high strengh, high endurance, high luck, low intelligence and perception, and enough perception to get the drop on people and enough agility to catch up to them when they start running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The worst are the loser junkies in The Den because they have approximately 20 movement points and no running animation.
You aren't allowed to hurt anyone in Arroyo so in my headcanon, he fell off the bridge and woke up as an undead abomination. I'd probably at least gain access to the Toxic Caves.
I learned some interesting things about Fallout doing this. Take jinxed. What it does is cause every other miss to be a critical miss. What's a critical miss, you're asking? Well, it depends on what kind of weapon you're using and what your luck is. Sometimes, you drop your weapon or miss your next turn. Sometimes you lose all your ammo or your weapon is destroyed. Sometimes you break your limbs. If you have 10 luck, you only drop your weapon or miss your next turn.
There's a room underneath Becky's in The Den. You can find two things down there: fuck and all. There are some Dean's Electronics at the Mariposa base but that place might be locked off to me.
The worst thing about having 2 intelligence is that you only gain 4 skill points each level. Monsters give better experience than people and monsters don't run away. Well, some monsters don't. I think there's a morale level. Wanamingos are surprisingly great because if you damage their limbs, they run away from you. Some people, like the Vault 15 raiders, will fight you when their limbs are hanging on by a thread and their vitreous humour is leaking out the backs of their skulls.
There's a great grinding spot out in the desert once you get some decent armor and a decent weapon. Try the weapon store in New Reno. He has a super sledge. Fun fact: nobody in New Reno cares if you kill someone not in their faction. I wonder if it's possible to provoke a mob war between the Salvatores and the Bishops.
I had to break character with mentats twice, once to gain access to the Stables and once to gain access to Vault City. Because there is no fucking way i’m playing as a murderous undead brick wall and not killing Myron and Lynette.
Awareness isn't necessary but it's nice to have. Better criticals, bonus hth attacks, dodger, and slayer are.
I had this revelation about mattresses long before the quarantine began but I never shared it with anyone.
In Fallout, they're everywhere but in real life, a mattress will only last a few years when exposed to the elements.
I don't know if I'd do this ever again but it was an entertaining enough diversion while I was stuck at home with nothing to do for three months.
On the subject of Mortal Kombat and masks,
burning question: So, when the Simpsons are watching Itchy and Scratchy, do they see it as a cartoon or do they see it as an realistic if oddly anthropomorphic cat and mouse with realistic over the top ultraviolence?
On the other hand, not even the coronavirus can end Nello, apparently. Sadly, if it did go, it would probably just become a Chick Fil A.
I think that China may be the true sucessor to fascist Italy. China is the future. The coronavirus must be stamped out at all cost because it is a threat to China. Not so much in the west, where our fascists trend German or Evolan. To them, the virus is the great cleansing, which kills the undesirables and returns us to our traditional ways of life. You have fucking Joshua Mooooooooon and his Kiwi Farms and 9 Chan asholes hacking and doxing people involved with vaccine research and I don't know what the point of all this is.
Trump is trying to escalate protests but to what ends I can not say. Maybe it's about disenfranchisement. Maybe he just wants to vindicate his own rallies, or he thinks he can get a boost from people who are now more racist because their favorite bookstore or whatever burnt down. Maybe they know that Republicans are less afraid of getting themselves or others killed than Democrats are and are hoping to keep the plague going in order to depress turnout in November.
Oh yeah, and Hungary and Cambodia are using this as an excuse to abolish democracy.
To every evolutionary dead end pangolin, as well as every asshole behind QAnon, choke on our memories. To every model minority, I'm so glad your 'allies' are turning on you. Fuck you.
The greatest irony is that if it weren't for the pandemic (yes, I know that butterflies flapping their wings can cause hurricanes), if they just kept the Mayfair where it was at the beginning of May, we'd actually have a Mayfair on a nice day. I said that they did everything right. It's just that everyone else went wrong that day, including the weather.
Here are some songs I was listening to in the last year.
Amy Kucharik - Arrows & Slings
Mellonta Tauta - Nandù
Germaine Tailleferre - Concertino for Harp and Orchestra
Marry Me Jane - Lousy Lullaby - I didn’t exhaust everything reviewed on the War Against Silence
From a French compilation
Crista Galli - Yama-Ho
Sava - Tros Y Garreg
Love Sessions - Witch-Hazel
Artesia - Entrelacs
Anassane - Alias
Louisa John-Krol - A Retinue of Mandrakes
Gentle Temper - Triple Dog Dare
The Unicorn Princess - Autu
Carissa Johnson - Badlands
Radio Compass - On Fire
Geraldo and his Sweet Music - The Moon Was Yellow - The apocalypse came but not as we had expected.
The Ink Spots - Maybe
Nat King Cole - Orange Colored Sky
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Smile of the Beyond
Winter - Pretender
Bent Knee - Golden Hour
Clairo - Sofia
Calamine - Lovely
Lou Harrison - Symphony no. 2
Squirrel Flower - I-80
So, a lot of band discoveries this year are from The Ectophile’s Guide to Good Music. I’d say something about missing my usual avenues of discovery but that would be missing between October and May anyway.
Miranda Sex Garden - Lovely Joan
Eve’s Plum - Lipstuck
Voice of the Turtle - No Pasesh Por La Mi Pwerta
Chimera - Lately
Howard Hanson - Symphony No. 2 - you… are… my… lucky… star
Trespassers William - In A Song
Wild Painting - Distractions
Perfume Tree - Too Early, Too Late - it kind of sounds like Cocteau Twins collaborating with Seefeel.
A while ago, I thought I'd play a game of Fallout 2 as Jason Voorhees. Jinxed and gifted, high strengh, high endurance, high luck, low intelligence and perception, and enough perception to get the drop on people and enough agility to catch up to them when they start running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The worst are the loser junkies in The Den because they have approximately 20 movement points and no running animation.
You aren't allowed to hurt anyone in Arroyo so in my headcanon, he fell off the bridge and woke up as an undead abomination. I'd probably at least gain access to the Toxic Caves.
I learned some interesting things about Fallout doing this. Take jinxed. What it does is cause every other miss to be a critical miss. What's a critical miss, you're asking? Well, it depends on what kind of weapon you're using and what your luck is. Sometimes, you drop your weapon or miss your next turn. Sometimes you lose all your ammo or your weapon is destroyed. Sometimes you break your limbs. If you have 10 luck, you only drop your weapon or miss your next turn.
There's a room underneath Becky's in The Den. You can find two things down there: fuck and all. There are some Dean's Electronics at the Mariposa base but that place might be locked off to me.
The worst thing about having 2 intelligence is that you only gain 4 skill points each level. Monsters give better experience than people and monsters don't run away. Well, some monsters don't. I think there's a morale level. Wanamingos are surprisingly great because if you damage their limbs, they run away from you. Some people, like the Vault 15 raiders, will fight you when their limbs are hanging on by a thread and their vitreous humour is leaking out the backs of their skulls.
There's a great grinding spot out in the desert once you get some decent armor and a decent weapon. Try the weapon store in New Reno. He has a super sledge. Fun fact: nobody in New Reno cares if you kill someone not in their faction. I wonder if it's possible to provoke a mob war between the Salvatores and the Bishops.
I had to break character with mentats twice, once to gain access to the Stables and once to gain access to Vault City. Because there is no fucking way i’m playing as a murderous undead brick wall and not killing Myron and Lynette.
Awareness isn't necessary but it's nice to have. Better criticals, bonus hth attacks, dodger, and slayer are.
I had this revelation about mattresses long before the quarantine began but I never shared it with anyone.
In Fallout, they're everywhere but in real life, a mattress will only last a few years when exposed to the elements.
I don't know if I'd do this ever again but it was an entertaining enough diversion while I was stuck at home with nothing to do for three months.
On the subject of Mortal Kombat and masks,
burning question: So, when the Simpsons are watching Itchy and Scratchy, do they see it as a cartoon or do they see it as an realistic if oddly anthropomorphic cat and mouse with realistic over the top ultraviolence?
