brainrotdotorg:

kim kitsuragi would take bowling SO fucking seriously. that man would act like he doesnt give a shit about the game at first but every time he throws the ball he does the thing where he holds it up to his face before going into a deep lunge as he rolls it, he stays in the lunge until the ball hits the pins. if he gets a strike he will get the most smug look on his face. harry gets a gutterball and kim tells him “better luck next time, detective. we can put up the bumpers if you want.”

gotinterest:

Just to expand, it’s a bit disappointing that a lot of people’s take away about Disco Elysium’s themes of substance abuse is “Harry is ruining his life with drugs and alcohol because he’s so depressed and miserable and the ‘best’ thing to do for Harry is to make him stop taking drugs and drink because they are bad for him and if you don’t do that you aren’t taking care of him” because the game has way more interesting things to say about substance abuse than that.

It’s one of the only pieces of media I’ve encountered that actually allows addicts to be complex decision makers rather than just one note druggies with no agency who are completely controlled by their addictions. Addiction is not just about the physical change that occurs within the chemical receptors in your brain that leads to you craving more of a particular substance. Sometimes, choosing to abuse a substance is about practicality. Harry may have started drinking to cope with his bad break-up, but getting the police work done is why he started speed.

Yes, you can choose to play the game and never have Harry do drugs. But doing so can require you to make other sacrifices. And, depending on the goals you’ve set in your roleplay and what kind of person you want Harry to be… those sacrifices may be ones that you don’t want to make. You have to weigh the costs and benefits of staying clean and sober. Which is a far more realistic and practical look at addiction, to be honest.

heliophile-oxon:

violsva:

naberiie:

naberiie:

WHAT is that one poem (?), abt a modern worker contemplating the numerous forgotten who were actually responsible for all the ‘great’ deeds of history

found it!!

A Worker Reads History
Bertolt Brecht

Who built the seven gates of Thebes?
The books are filled with names of kings.
Was it the kings who hauled the craggy blocks of stone?
And Babylon, so many times destroyed.
Who built the city up each time? In which of Lima’s houses,
That city glittering with gold, lived those who built it?
In the evening when the Chinese wall was finished
Where did the masons go? Imperial Rome
Is full of arcs of triumph. Who reared them up? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Byzantium lives in song.
Were all her dwellings palaces? And even in Atlantis of the legend
The night the seas rushed in,
The drowning men still bellowed for their slaves.

Young Alexander conquered India.
He alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Was there not even a cook in his army?
Phillip of Spain wept as his fleet
was sunk and destroyed. Were there no other tears?
Frederick the Great triumphed in the Seven Years War.
Who triumphed with him?

Each page a victory
At whose expense the victory ball?
Every ten years a great man,
Who paid the piper?

So many particulars.
So many questions.

So I just went through three notebooks to find this, because I knew it was there.

I was at the ROM, about six years ago, at a special exhibit on Babylon. And there was a brick, formerly part of a palace. And Nebuchadnezzar, the one who built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, had had his name in cuneiform stamped on every single brick, to emphasize that he had built it.

And on this one, a workman had carved his own name, Zabina’, into the block too, in Aramaic. Here’s the brick. It’s 2600 years old.

even in another time

woolandcoffee:

aspiringwarriorlibrarian:

I’ve seen the Ursula K LeGuin quote about capitalism going around, but to really appreciate it you have to know the context.

The year is 2014. She has been given a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Awards. Neil Gaiman puts it on her neck in front of a crowd of booksellers who bankrolled the event, and it’s time to make a standard “thank you for this award, insert story here, something about diversity, blah blah blah” speech. She starts off doing just that, thanking her friends and fellow authors. All is well.

Then this old lady from Oregon looks her audience of executives dead in the eye, and says “Developing written material to suit sales strategies in order to maximize corporate profit and advertising revenue is not the same thing as responsible book publishing or authorship.”

She rails against the reduction of her art to a commodity produced only for profit. She denounces publishers who overcharge libraries for their products and censor writers in favor of something “more profitable”. She specifically denounces Amazon and its business practices, knowing full well that her audience is filled with Amazon employees. And to cap it off, she warns them: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.”

Ursula K LeGuin got up in front of an audience of some of the most powerful people in publishing, was expected to give a trite and politically safe argument about literature, and instead told them directly “Your empire will fall. And I will help it along.”

We stan an icon.

evilvillain123456789:

tomorrow’s schedule

7:30 am-8 am: wake up

8-8:30 am: drink a bowl of water with a spoon like soup

8:30 am - 4:00 pm: bring bronze age petroglyphs to life with my powers

4:00 pm-: haven’t figured out this part yet