had a dream last night that the new tumblr discourse was whether or not people deserved their urls and people were getting callouts and anon hate like “I can’t believe you have x in your url when I never see you actually post about them it’s pretty messed up that you’re taking that url away from other people who actually deserve it :/”
This was genuine discourse in 2012 you guys need to remember your history
“When the piece of a body is left (or a home is left) then the body begins being a constellation: one piece is there! one piece is there! If I leave my hair in the comb in my mother’s house & walk out the door to go to the airport, then all of a sudden the body is everything between me & that lost piece. The body is made up, then, of roads & crickets & azucena & mud. How large we are. How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & strangely rendered we are. Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered. I have been asking myself to be more attentive & porous—to pay attention to the way every inch of me is animal, every inch of me is earth. I am trying to remember this. Where is my cloud? Where is my sea? What do the lungs hunt? What does the eye have in common with the teeth?”
tumblr is probably the best website because you can say things like “hey. dont cry. suck her sloppy saturday wednesday ok?” and everyone will be like yeah this expresses a coherent thought
Something I find interesting is that Larian has actually been around since 1996, only a year after BioWare was founded. Divine Divinity, the beginning of the Divinity series worldbuilding (and one not based on an existing IP the way BG and SWTOR are), came out in 2002 (the same year as NWN), still very much in the golden era of classic RPGs.
Obviously they remained a much smaller studio for a long time, but I think a fair bit of that can be attributed to the fact they didn’t get taken over by venture capitalists and eventually notoriously ill-reputed corporate giant EA. It meant that Swen Vincke continued to gain just as much development and leadership experience as other legendary industry figures, but with full creative control and no corporate leeches breathing down his neck over quarterly profit margins.
So really, I’d say it’s more “BioWare sprinted, stumbled, and ate shit so that Larian Studios could step over their bloated corpse and win the race, Tortoise and the Hare style.”
It breaks my heart to see how underrated pigeons are. The fact that we had literally domesticated them, making them absolutely dependent on us and now that we’ve abandoned them, we treat them poorly when they try to coexist with us. It’s our responsibility for how they have adapted, how they can’t build nests and how they try to find food wherever we are. Please be nice to pigeons
Every once in a while a new music genre gets invented and people from all different countries are like this slaps we got to start doing that and combine it with our own music styles and that’s beautiful
There was a time when China got really into jazz and so did Ethiopia. Cambodia got really into Psychedelic Rock to the point that there’s now an contemporary American band specialised in this style of music. There’s a band from my hometown in Germany singing in Spanish and I know several early 20th century Japanese and Chinese artists were doing the same. Zambia had it’s own Rock movement. Ska is from Jamaica but I know Japanese, Basque and Spanish ska bands. You can probably find hip hop and rap in all languages of the world by now. I watched an entire documentary on the history of South American rock and roll. There is a Cuban orchestra mixing Mozart and guajira. Finnish tango. German covers of Irish folk music. Blues from the Sahara.
