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It suddenly occurred to me that there's someone out there whose job is to make monkeys fuck. Breeding programs, conservation efforts, zoo related stuff, etc. There probably an entire economic niche for simian sex support. Somebody out there trains for it, people get trained for it, paid for it, the whole nine yards.

"So what do you do for a living?"

"I'm the monkeyfucker."

"... what?"

"It's not the worst superpower but it's on the list."

It's still trucking along, at least. Dunno if there's much super major that's changed, but there's been a fair bit of development since 2017, and the warlord is at least sorta' in, now.  Had an update last month. Things seem to be slow but pretty steady.

Less fancy doesn't have a tech tree, iirc. Fewer turrets, too, I think. Overall a bit simpler, and I want to say the controls were actually a bit more forgiving, possibly just due to there being less moving parts to fiddle with. Been a while since I played it, but that version I could actually tolerate the controls for on my tablet. Not so the more developed one. The fancier ones damn solid with a proper control interface, tho'. Touch screen/tablet stuff just ain't that interface.

Turn off computer thing

Alternatively, if you're not using it get flux or twilight or use night light or... whatever. To cut the blue light out/down. Dim the screen, tint it so it doesn't fuck you up as hard. It'll do you some good, more likely than not. My sleeping habits used to be hella' screwed up, then I did a bit of maintenance on my lighting conditions and things got a whole lot better.

Quote from: Il Palazzo on October 22, 2019, 06:41:51 pm

Quote from: Kagus on October 22, 2019, 05:56:01 pm

For a single, horrified moment, I thought VN had risen from the dead.

it is not dead which can eternal lie.

And with strange aeons even death may die...

I shot the shoggoth,
but I didn't shoot the dythalla, oh no

yeah im not in my happy place anymore, part of my brain is trying to rewrite I shot the sheriff into a mythos parody and i don't know the song nor mythos well enough for it to be anything but a wiggling cognitive nuisance

Kindergartners themselves might not have been particularly racist (though only might, kids pick up on that shite pretty early, unfortunately), but the teachers or parents that thought it was okay? Probably. Kids I'd maybe give a pass for explicit awareness when they're still like six bloody years old or some crap, but that cuts off somewhere in the teens, if that.

Either way, that's fairly irrelevant to the actions of a 29 year old in the 2000s, which was apparently when trudeau was still pulling that shit. Or most of the people that wore or encouraged fucking blackface since it started snowing up in minstrel shows and junk. You can maybe make the argument of it being racism neutral years ago if you were talking about somewhere not North America or most of Europe or basically anywhere with a substantial english speaking population, or maybe pre-colonization, but on this continent the crap's been racist as hell from day 1 and it ain't slacked off.

Cowboy/indian stuff has its own problems, but we ain't talking that mess. We're talking something pretty specific and it's shit that's been unambiguously racist for its entire history in just about every context. Trudeau is or was racist, flat out. Maybe not the virulent lynching-doesn't-sound-that-bad sort, but the more passive sort that doesn't give a damn to the degree they'd trot out friggin' blackface, yup. It's pretty evident he is or was literally that.

Again, that might not mean other options were worse, but the blowback he's gotten on the subject is deserved. Maybe he's changed in the last twenty or so years, I'unno. Maybe he stumped hard on the problems making a good number of corpses out of canadian minorities and I just missed it. S'possible.

Doubt that last bit. Doubt it real fucking hard. There's precious few people that have ever put on blackface without being damn well sure it was racist. The implications were entirely fucking known 20-30 years ago, the potential repercussions for it just weren't particularly there and a lot of folks just didn't care. He could have changed in the interim period, but positing a position of ignorance is a goddamn farce.

General inaction on first nations stuff probably paints him (and much of the government, for that matter) as fairly racist in the current times, just as an example, though. Whether it's more racist than other choices when it comes to people who care about that sort of thing voting, well... that's another question.

Especially considering how few people call opossums anything except possums. I just now learned the one near bloody everywhere in the US is technically called the virginia opossum. Why, the wikipedia page doesn't seem to say. Also no one calls it that. Either of those words. They're possums. Just possums.