AernaLingus

Also Scarborough's wife lmao

Coming from Japanese here, but I take 产 here to mean property as in 不动产 (lit. "immovable property" i.e. real estate), so 无产 = "no property" (non-owning or more literally non-propertied). The second compound is a pretty common device where you have a simple meaning that could adequately be expressed by a single character, so you just combine two characters with similar meaning so that you can get a two-character "word" (e.g. 決定 which is basically "decide-decide" and means "decide"). I believe one purpose of seemingly redundant compounds like this is disambiguation in spoken language, since either of the characters pronounced by themselves could have many homophones but when combined the meaning becomes clear. There are also cases where it can express a different nuance--in this case, 阶级 specifically means social class, whereas 阶 and 级 by themselves can have much broader meanings of "class" or "rank" (including stair steps, floors of a building, grades, etc.).

Broken down it's (traditional/simplified/JP)

無產/无产/無産 non-owning
階級/阶级/階級 class

Easy peasy! One of my favorite things about Sinitic compounds is that they tend to be a lot more transparent than their Greek/Latin counterparts in English. Idk what order hanzi are taught in China, but these characters are elementary enough that a Japanese kid who's made it past the fourth grade could parse out the general meaning. Also it's very cool that you can get cross-linguistic understanding both within the Sinitic language family and with the other unrelated East Asian languages like with the direct conversion to Japanese here (I could have also written it in Korean hanja as 無産階級 (무산계급)). Doesn't always work that way, but it is pretty damn handy.

(oh also the Pinyin is wúchǎn jiējí)

I'd recommend the line-up on sale right now on Steam except the one that came after RE5 and before RE7

As the resident RE6 apologist, I firmly believe that it is easily worth $5 for a somewhat janky and extremely campy action co-op experience if you have a buddy to play it with. And yeah, there's no "survival" aspect--this is definitely the game where they turned the dial too far to the "action" side, after which they swung towards "survival" back past RE4 for RE7 (excellent if that's to your taste--incredible atmosphere), and finally landed back in the crowd-pleasing sweet spot for RE8 (which I absolutely adore and beat like half a dozen times).

RE2R and OG RE4 I could easily recommend to anyone; perhaps not the latter if you're completely allergic to tank controls, but the game is tuned for that playstyle and it makes the encounters very intense. I also enjoyed RE3R, although it's not quite as good as RE2R and a bit on the short side. And I hear RE4R is great, but I haven't yet played it myself--would definitely recommend giving the OG a shot first, since the new REngine games have a different tempo and feel to them and the original holds up completely. I'd also recommend installing the RE4 HD texture mod if anyone goes for OG RE4--truly an incredible labor of love by a pair of dedicated fans.

Yes, sorry, wasn't clear with the way I worded that! I guess it's a little strange to say he vindicated himself--regardless it must feel good to finally be able to say it with his chest after holding his tongue for all this time.

"Stupid fucking mistakes, man."

“Nothing illegal happened, no pictures were shared, no crimes were committed, I never even met the individual,” Beahm claimed. “I went through a lengthy arbitration regarding a civil dispute with Twitch and that case was resolved by a settlement…But trust me when I say this…to all my haters that live and breath [sic] social media with zero real life experience, I don’t give a fuck about you. They want me to disappear… yeah fucking right.”

The words of someone who is definitely contrite.

Also,

Meanwhile, the cause for the ban remained a mystery, prompting years of innuendo, conspiracy theories and questions about why neither Twitch nor gaming journalists had been able to reveal the nature of Beahm’s violation. (Full disclosure: the primary author of this article, Rod Breslau, first learned the reason for Beahm’s ban from credible sources in June 2020, but chose not to report on it then due to the extreme sensitivity of the topic.)

holy shit, Slasher finally vindicated after all these years. That tweet became a major meme on Twitch, with some people assuming that Dr. Disrespect did something truly horrible (ding ding ding!) but plenty of others assuming he was full of shit and just grandstanding.

1. RE: ASMR, what most people think of as ASMR is only a small subset of what's out there. I also find those intentional trigger videos (where people are just tapping on or brushing various objects) uninteresting to actively offputting. My favorite types are unintentional ASMR (particularly people talking about technical things) as well as personal attention roleplay (not the relationship roleplay stuff, which squicks me out, but things like medical exams or customer service). Whether unintentional or not, verisimilitude is the key-- that's part of why disconnected triggers don't do it for me, but also I tend to be triggered by voices more than anything else

Here's a classic video which ticks all the boxes for me (unintentional, accented English, tasteful amount of tapping and rustling, and amusingly technical given the subject): table tennis racket inspection. Another unintentional classic which launched a million roleplay ASMRs is this cranial nerve examination; a big part of it is the soft speaking and high gain on the mic as well as the personal attention. Actually, I probably should have lead with this, but the modern ASMR phenomenon was born out of people discussing these various unintentional videos and then people deciding to have a go at making intentional videos that have similar effects.

Not everyone experiences the pleasant tingles, which is something to keep in mind. Personally, I experience misophonia to the point of feeling pain in my ear when people blow onto the microphone, so any videos involving that are right out, and other people will have similar non-negotioables. It's totally fine not to enjoy ASMR regardless of the reason, but I just wanted to share that there's more variety out there than you might think!

With the rest, I'm basically right there with you.

2. Never made an Instagram because I have absolutely no interest in posting or looking at people's photos, although 15 year old me would have been into it so I can't blame the kids for that.

3. What are the kids watching, out of curiosity? If it's the latest battle shonen stuff (e.g. Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer) then yeah, I have no interest because I don't enjoy that genre in general, but I wonder if there's any other series where we might have some overlap.

4. YouTube pushing vertical streams has been driving me nuts. I don't mind watching a YouTube short here and there, but it's just not a good format for 99% of what I want to watch even if I'm watching on my phone.

Walmart has fallen

Incredibly, this is real. Boggles the mind.

At one point as a child I had so many stuffed animals that they kept falling out of bed while I was asleep, but rather than leave someone out I solved this by putting them in a comically large mesh bag (thing was bigger than my body).

Every time I have to walk around in this heat I start fedposting in my head about the ExxonMobil execs who knowingly created this hellish reality while lying through their teeth about the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change just so they could have bigger yachts