michaelwood.bsky.social
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JFK is worth watching for the absurd Donald Sutherland scene which starts off with Sutherland - playing L. Fletcher Prouty one of the film's advisors - saying "I could give you a fake name, but I won't, just call me X"
X is, of course, a fake name.
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Our inability to talk with any seriousness at any level about almost any subject has stopped victims being heard when they speak over the cacophony of giggles and memes.
Mark tripped my brain about that, but I hate how uncommon it is for anyone to say that any at all subject might have gravitas.
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having his parents fight and even if one were to think them funny, all they do is obfuscate the victims of the crimes being accused and centre the perpetrators and alleged perpetrators.
We talk about Andrew Windsor sweating and laugh, and in doing so fail to look with gravitas at the wrongdoing.
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which is stomach churning in how awful it is. Take a moment, if you will, to imagine the crime he is accused of and the seriousness of that, and what it would mean if someone in your community or family was accused of that.
And there is a meme about "Alien vs Predator" and talk of JD Vance...
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that everyone is enjoying the boom and not that their profit is coming out of the pockets of people on Main Street.
When it comes to selling a mass market product, they have misjudged the market when they increase game prices.
Very Recommend:
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/vulture-c...
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All of which is to say that since 2008 people in the mass economy have not had a significant increase in the amount of money they have for luxury purchases.
The Commander may or may not expect prices to stay the same, but the CEOs seem to think that because they got a fancy new Car/House/Divorce...
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while running, in effect, two (perhaps more) economies within it. It is obviously true to say that as the cost of cars and house go up, if you could not afford either before a rise, you can't after. Food and energy costs increase, eating more of the mass economy.
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Buying power, for the mass economy, isn't spiking in the same way that the other economy is, and the two have become detached.
Corporations speak in numbers detached from the mass economy and have become detached. We have a single "inflation figure" that covers this whole economy...
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I'm going to butcher this, so apologies to Grace Blakeley's Vulture Capitalism book, but we have a kind of dual economy. The CEO economy, which looks at the twenty years since 2005 (well, 2008 really) and sees one thing, and the mass economy which looks at 2008 onwards and is just flat lining.
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Well then my advice for the Metro system is probably not going to be that useful :)
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Learn the numbers, and learn some directions, and then just be prepared to bow because not only does it show respect, a lot of people will help you out and go far out of their way to do so, and that will be really surprising, because being British we've confused passive-aggressive for polite.
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Or if you would allow me, "Husband dear, would you like to retire early for the night for: sweating, straining a muscle, stickiness, and general feelings of distraction."
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I like the idea that all experiences should be broken down to the atomic and unimpressive, reducing things to less than the sum of the parts.
Mars Bars
* A LOT of fat
* Far too much sugar
* Glucose syrup
* a tiny amount of cocoa
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It was VRML once, and everyone will be wearing Google Glass, and living in Second Life, and living in the Metaverse, and Data Is The New Oil, and NFTs.
The name changes, the grift remains, and with all of those there is a core of something which is useful but so much which is absolutely not.
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The stories that game creates are the real version of smashing the Star Wars figures together. Darth Ackbar was a thing in one of our games.
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However, Spielberg was in the room, and he didn't criticise it, he said "George, I think it is going to make you a million bucks."
That seems like a moment where art and commerce were not best served together.
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It was De Palma who said it really, but it got me into Scorsese.
Like Cole says, everyone said it was terrible, and Lucas had to fix it and got lucky because his wife and Editor Marsha was able to stand up to him and without her, the film dies in 1977 it's so bad.
Honest people are great editors.
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@colewehrle.bsky.social talks about Lucas making Star Wars and him showing it to the Movie Brats. I love that story, and it gave me my interest in Scorsese because I erroneously believed that it was Marty who told him "George, I don't know what's going on" leading to the Flash Gordon Crawl.
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If you are a publisher / designer going to UKGE, by all means hit me up if you have a game you'd like me to look at. I'm a freelance tabletop writer who is lucky enough to write for a few brilliant publications. If you're there to play, hmu also! I really want to meet folks for games.
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Witchcraft, Gender and Marxism is very good.
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This is how we get "Andor 2: Many Bothans"
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Oh yes. Absolutely delicious.
I was just watching a video which thought Luthen meant himself, and the Bleeder he used.
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Who do you think did it? Because I was remembering "How nice for you" and thinking that Kleya, following behind, might have done it to save Luthen having to.
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You are making an argument for increasing peoples ability to speak English, but not for it to be mandated on arrival.
It's a great idea to learn to speak English in the UK, but people can learn to speak it and/or improve the way they do after arriving.
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"How about: do not presume to own a part of him because he occasionally makes you happy? How about recognising that adulation and persecution are two sides of the same coin?"
I think this piece by Johnny Liew about Salah makes the point as well as anything will.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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FoxyFox.
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This is my only Andor discussion, but I drew heavily on the idea that fascism corrupted the idea of love, in the same way Winston talks about his wife in 1984.
It ruins even the idea of love as a pure feeling, and wraps it in fascist loyalty.
But I'm not doing Andor discourse until next week :)
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I love a comment that starts with a line from the confidence trickster in The Music Mad. Really advertising his insincerity.
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Well any time you fancy it you'll find two very welcoming groups.
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Well that is a happy coincidence. If you are around South Leeds we meet up Tuesday night, and in Bradford on Wednesday. Both at 7. If you fancy some new gaming.
www.slbg.club
boardinthevillage.co.uk
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It feels like there is enough meat without L&L at first play. If you are hanging around West Yorkshire and fancy more games... :)
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Did you first play have the Leaders cards in it? I have taken a lot though the game without them first time and am wondering if that is the best way to do it.