Extending even farther, there’s nothing especially different about the American brain. Propaganda and social conditioning are natural to human cognitive bias and on the other side of the coin is our ability to learn.

Now the environment of conditioning and propaganda may be another story.

Congrats on the three months, buddy

The vibes are definitely different from Alien as a whole, but I liked the kids’ roles in how the synths are portrayed, and really how the show develops the factions of immortality, murky ethicality, beings as superweapons, and psychology of the self, all with a more relatable setting of earth and (corporate) society.

I get the qualms about it, but at the same time it seemed perfect to me in adding to the universe.

It’s kind of hard to go back to USA network shows from the time. Except for Psych. I’ll always be here for Psych.

Nooooo, I wanted to watch that! I wish we could have some good Asimov media.

Also by the end of the show, Jesse is one of the only characters making sense. I’d argue he does start there (not sure of the specifics they’re referring to), but his character dynamics with the world and Walt sort of flip.

Ew, Texas?

cached in their lead

There are so many dimensions to this

Does this mean we were conned into accidentally domesticating cats?

I forget about collective nouns sometimes

I wasn’t criticizing your grammar or anything. I didn’t even consider you might not be a native speaker! You legitimately got me thinking as someone who is lol but yeah English is wrecked. Especially plurals, damn Greek and Latin

Wait, do we each have one genital and genitalia refers to both kinds?

Not saying which way is pretty dumb, bravo

We’re so spoiled by graphical power nowadays. It’s easy to forget there was a time when a consistent 30 fps was like using 4k+ with high fps today.

Then again, I played some newer titles for the first time in a while, and the state of optimization brings some of the feelings right back.

Is it bad that part of me misses Ray William Johnson?

I heard (not sure how true it is) that the manga creator is politically far-right. That’s actually hilarious to me, and it might be the reason the message seems odd. The whole anime is like an essay on how shitty fascism is for the fascists, but then it takes a left turn while lying on its side, if you will.

You’re getting a lot of shit, but I get you. When the demons were introduced, I had a moment of “ayo what if Frieren is the baddie the whole time and demons are misunderstood”. The only thing is it quickly solidifies that the demons are just evil, even though I don’t necessarily like that one-dimensional narrative of good and evil.

It probably doesn’t help that I finished Attack on Titan just before so I already had elusive, internalized fascism on my mind. I think that’s sort of the point with Frieren though. She’s supposed to be capital G Good, which is inexplicably brutal toward evil, and that’s where the dimensionality comes in.

I… Did not…

WAIT NO, DI

Oh my god I’m so dumb. I was going to say aren’t touch typers the only ones in danger? And had to think several times before I realized.

… As if this remaps the keys…

And I’m

• a touch typer
• with a mechanical keyboard
• and a custom layout
• that I remapped in firmware and software for my laptop keys