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You can also read This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff. It's on bookshop.org and, of course, on the Evil Empire website. It's all in the title, which is an ironic quoting of people who say what bubble-istas always say - what AI people are saying right now.

i honestly don't really understand why "some people prefer watching gameplay online rather than playing games themselves" is treated as such a taboo when being a spectator is considered a pretty mundane way to engage with most sports, game shows, reality tv or even just like. chess.

like the usual arguments are "not everyone can afford video games or have the software to pirate" or "you can be a fan of a game's story, but not it's gameplay" but also some people just have more fun watching other people be really good at starcraft or speedrun super mario 64, i don't think that's a particularly out of the box way to engage with the medium.

i know this argument is generally about story driven games rather than competitive multiplayer games, but alot of discourse is around how "gameplay is a fundamental part of video games as an artform" and i absolutely agree but i also don't think you need to hold a controller in order to appreciate a video game on a mechanical level in the same i don't think you need a driver's license in order to be a vehicle enthusiast, like it certainly helps but some people are just kind of autistic like that.

everyone in the notes saying ":(((((((((((((((((( but im right!!!!!!!" boohoo stop using an antisemetic term from 4chan

[ID: tags reading "slop is a 4chan term used to push antisemitism btw; if you're using slop as in insult youre using an antisemitic [term]; plase be NICE AND MINDFUL TO JEWISH PEOPLE; STOP USING THE WORD SLOP STOP USING ANTISEMITIC DOG WHISTLES; LEAVE US JEWS BE PLEASE!!!!" /end ID]

its kind of crazy that all it took for self shipping to become a recognizable trend in certain spaces was using a japanese word for it instead

So can we talk about the orientalism that plagues fandom and is present in the selfship community. Yume as a term blew up because of it, it's why white people give their self inserts Asian names and then get mad when someone tells them that's cultural appropriation. Asian terms (and especially Japanese ones) are seen as a cool aesthetic more so than something from an irl culture

everyone in the notes saying ":(((((((((((((((((( but im right!!!!!!!" boohoo stop using an antisemetic term from 4chan

Do you people even know about Prompto's photographs

I knew this was a genius mechanic at the time, but reading this makes me remember YES THIS WAS A GENIUS THING

I always think of the description I saw years ago: Self-imposed deadlines don't help me, because I know the person who set them, and they're full of shit.

both of them are me