A hundred percent, but the fact remains that journalists have a very hard time supporting themselves in their profession. A job that is critical (when done well) to an informed public.

It must be depressing knowing you could just take a TypeScript React bootcamp and probably double salary in a year. Like, journos have an important job. It’s just not lucrative, despite its value to people/society.

Just do your best.

“If you clean your room every day you never have to clean your room” that one neat freak aunt that I laughed at when I was younger but now I low key see the wisdom 👁️ 👁 👁️

sure why not

I thought this about myself and then I watch some old shit like Seven Samurai and I am sitting up straight eyes wide taking it all in.

But yeah, there’s no law against just not liking any of it.

1 screen it, or try to be ok missing things.

I see you also married someone from a fairie tale kingdom. Some people just seem to have a certain animal magnetism, ye

I’m just saying there are legitimate questions here and the people deserve to know the truth

First time with one of these? They are pretty cool, yeah

Is this a Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell reference? https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jonathan_Strange_and_Mr._Norrell

Oh I see it now. I’m just not used to them ever growing out before getting chipped or ruined somehow

I think most people see these illustrations online these days

I was thinking illustrator, like those who draw the often semi abstract drawing what go with magazine articles.

Have you heard of synarchy? An actually secret society controls the world via so-called secret societies (the ones you’ve probably heard of), even those with seemingly contradictory goals. Of course they’re so secretive that you’ve never heard of them.

Just kidding I’m paraphrasing a conspiracy nut from Foucault’s Pendulum (good read, but very Noun heavy).___

Yeah for this reason I worry about illustrators and concept artists. Those used to be dream jobs, now I’m not so sure they’re even jobs anymore.

What are the odds of a bird landing on your keys on a day when your nails are in perfect order are unbelievable

I agree with the person you were replying to, and I am glad that the Souls formula isn’t the norm (I’ve played all of them, and haven’t finished a one)…

But the Soulses get a pass from me personally, because their whole thing is about being present in the moment and overcoming what appear to be unbeatable odds. It’s the closest thing in modern gaming that gave me the feeling of being crushed by, and overcoming, the first Airship level in Mario 3.

That said, I’m not against accessibility option in a Souls game, so long as they’re optional.

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Very impressive

Close. Farming is labour, which is what gives economic value to the free gifts. The capitalists skim excess value from this process in the form of wage theft and other fuckery.

I’m simplifying, but yeah.

Hell yeah, this is the free gifts of nature in a nutshell.

[…] the “free gift of Nature to capital.” Capitalist exploitation and accumulation, as Marx explains, ultimately depend on capital’s usurping of nature’s gifts for itself, thereby monopolizing the means of production and wealth in its entirety

Probably better sources, but this is the first best one I found.