silentio.bsky.social
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favourite city (or other place) you’ve been to
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C S Lewis died in 1963, famously on the same day as JFK and Aldous Huxley
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RETVRN
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idk, I may be confusing personal taste for moral judgement
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I watch a lot of old romance films on TCM, and even those are romantic/erotic fantasies in their own way, I think there’s something “healthier” in that they represent an idealisation of relationships that the audience can assimilate to their own lived experience.
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It often presents extremely intensified simulacra of these relations, like a highly refined drug. But they’re so distant from their flesh-and-blood origins that it can really warp your perspective if you get too immersed in it.
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This is probably a lot of anti-weeb bias on my part, but I often feel like there’s something subtly pernicious about how that subculture portrays romance/sex/relationships.
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Only semi-related, but I had an Olmec phase a few years ago. If that’s something you might be interested in, I’d recommend “The Olmecs: America’s First Civilization” by Richard Diehl
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I'm playing AoE3, personally
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It comes from the Silent Generation and Boomers who were teens or kids during that time. Notably people who were adults at that time (rightly) saw the 50s as an era of rapid social change and uncertainty!
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Trotsky had the same reaction
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Bracing for deranged sabre-rattling at Chile
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Arda is the West Midlands
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debate club brain
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This is false; a man's life is extended when he absorbs a woman's yin essence
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La Royale has entered the chat
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The practice of placing ashes has penetrated a lot of the mainline (unfortunately)
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They’re still not great but I feel like they have been improving the past few years
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Interwar Chile had the most insane version of this
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Have you by chance played The Last Days mod for M&B?
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As others have said, they are indeed usually profitable as movies. But the more important point is how they serve as advertisements for Disney theme parks, which is the real big moneymaker.
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for me it was Dvorak’s american suite
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well it helps that he was semi-plagiarizing the Anglo-Saxons for a lot of it
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bruh
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Good: Men of Dale
Evil: Corsairs of Umbar
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This was the foundational myth of Gamergate
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Ever read McTeague
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Anerican chuds think that white South Africans are groaning under Black oppression, meanwhile in real life the leader of the main Afrikaner nationalist party is running the country’s prisons
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It's only mostly true because a lot of sci-fi also equals reactionary
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FDR was preparing to set up American military government in France (unilaterally, without the UK's support!), so De Gaulle had to form a provisional government and rush to Bayeux eight days after D-Day.
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The thing is that Tolkien was exactly that guy
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The meagre remnants of German liberals (the German People’s Party and the German State Party) did vote for the Enabling Act though. A better refutation of this would point to left-liberal participation in the Popular Fronts of France, Spain, and Chile.
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I dunno man when I check back there even a lot of the posters I liked seem like their brains are slowly turning to mush
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Congregationalist ya dummy
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people love the idea that there are words with talismanic power that they can use to emotionally wound others with
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neither
why do Unitarians always get brought up before we do when we're six times more numerous smh
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“city on a hill”
you anglicans can’t use that, that’s OUR phrase
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François Coty, founder of the world’s biggest perfume company, spent the interwar throwing money at far-right movements
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It's very dense but actually significantly shorter than LotR. I think the real hurdle for most readers is that it's much more "medieval" in style than Tolkien's other works.
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Lewis is overrated as a theologian but as an essayist I think he is very good
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getting Morrispilled
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Good thing this didn’t happen! Lubitschbros stay winning 😎
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Video games are fundamentally ill-suited to exploration of character. It's also difficult to get around the fact that virtually all games are power fantasy in some form. The possibility for stories in games is pretty narrow.
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My pastor brought this up in a sermon recently
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Stronghold is at least *closer* to a manorialism simulator. Also it lets you build cool castles
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Nice write up (though my assessment of F+C is pretty much the exact opposite)
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There are people on /lit/ who read “great books” but that’s not the same as them engaging with texts in a good or productive way