yeah youtube has like no info about Tanlorin aside from that one build video you mentioned, just ‘antiwoke’ culture war stuff looking for clicks, the initial announcement of the companions also had some complainers on their forums, I’m way more hyped about Tanlorin as a new companion for questing, skipped out on a few companions before, the purple gear is expensive, they take a while to level, and I got used to hanging out with Mirri for questing and Isobel as a tank for dungeons and world bosses

great card theory, big insights for serious political analysts

yeah twitch drops have always felt sus and weird to me as a marketing mechanism, if a livestream has interesting info then presumably you don’t need cosmetic incentives to attract an audience, and yet every large game dev company does it because ‘common marketing wisdom’ and ‘everyone else is doing it’

it’s weird how nowadays game dev companies treat twitch viewership numbers as a measure of a game’s buzz and how they sign deals with streamers to promote the game to their viewers, it looks underhanded and it’s out in the open but they don’t care I guess

question is… are you rushing to the corner store right now to buy some Doribos and energy drinks to get a wolf mount in ESO ???

yeah! was looking up some folk music trying to see what’s what, also found this Roma Hungarian group Kalyi Jag that has some good stuff

‘and here we have another image from the mid 2020s that encapsulates the decline of the collective west’

hey nice coincidence, I stumbled on that Batse tsyku tune recently too, this one is pretty nice also from the same label

very nice! this means I can give Stalin a break from thumbing up for a while, also comrade fly

some really nice mood setters in there

under capitalism in the US right now? I can see more unknown rich people getting into buying astroturfed campaigns to create political personas for the national scene and vaulting over any online streamers because they have more connections and probably more money to spend on this stuff, a bit like Vivek Ramaswamy or Nicole Shanahan, wouldn’t surprise me if one of the ‘All In’ podcast guys like David Sacks thought he can run too, this is not really copium though because I’m basically saying that ruthless capitalists would bump off the online narcissists in a competition for limited seats, also this would assume the public stops voting for career politicians, but that’s kind of already happening with the Republicans

how do we triangulate our way out of this one?

easy, we put this sticker on our Teslas

https://xcancel.com/SztabGenWP/status/1842161867029921867

Wiesław Kukuła, Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces (so ‘main army guy’ as far I can tell) to cadets during an inauguration speech for the 2024/2025 academic year at the Military University of Land Forces in Wrocław:

“The transformation is a process that we manage in such a way as to change the Armed Forces - from the ones we have now, to the ones we will need to win the future war. Everything indicates that we are the generation that will have to stand up with weapons in our hands to defend our country. And I don’t intend to lose this war, neither I nor any of you. We will win it,”

Some retired politicians were saying he should resign over that, libs and soc dems currently in power said he was out of line and should let the politicians make statements like that but also should not resign, and some of the conservative opposition said this is a good statement actually because it makes the Russian generals afraid lol.

good energy penguin takes it, bunny vibe would be a close second

there are a few horror/cursed type emojis out there that are pretty freaky

didn’t know we have a warren medusa, looks away

I don’t know that tune but it’s groovy also! I keep going back to maybe ten 80s italo disco tunes, feels like a bit of a hidden gem forgotten genre, weird there hasn’t been a proper revival, only other derivatives, it’s pretty catchy with its soaring synths

discovered the genre from this set a long time ago, it had a few 80s italo disco tunes mixed in but so well you kind of don’t notice he’s jumping back and forth in time, Casco - Cybernetic Love is a great one from there in that style

groovy and nice