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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's a reasonable assumption, but the website Trudge linked to in this thread has a timeline of SAND's history that starts in 2017 and ends in 2019 (although the "research" section of the website has links to, like, seminars and shit they've done since and they've maintained a presence on Twitter since 2022, so it's likely they just haven't updated the timeline).

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Yo, any folks on here got info about this SAND institute that sourced this video.

Trying to look them up only gives me the BBC article about this video which has this to say about them "This video was provided to the BBC by the South and North Development (Sand), a research institute that works with defectors from the North."

Something deeply sus about this, if you don't mind me donning the tinfoil hat a sec.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 63 points 2 years ago (10 children)

"You say Cuba is a democracy, but it's been rated 3/10 burgers by the Freedom Burger Institute (partially funded by the CIA, partially funded by the American Christofascist caucus), check out this Wikipedia page."

no-choice

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Games recently played:

Finally got 'round to playing Control last month, was a big fan of Alan Wake (less so Alan Wake's American Nightmare) so I don't know how this game escaped my attention for so long.

Replaying Hollow Knight, trying to get the secret ending from beating the boss rush.

Picked up Outer Worlds after having not thought about it at all since, like, the week it launched. It's a lot more lib than I remembered. That said, when I helped some trots fix their newspaper then overthrow a socdem the game didn't treat it like a bad ending, so it can't be that bad.

Games I'm anticipating this year:

Avowed - loved PoE 2, curious to see if Obsidian can keep the magic (pun intended) as a first person action RPG thingy.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 12 points 2 years ago

Treat flow interrupted, billions must die.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 37 points 2 years ago (1 children)

but aren't Mind Flayers asexual aberrations who reproduce through literal brain worms?

It's played as a joke with neither the PC or the mindflayer in question have any idea how mindflayers fuck. You get the option grasp one of the face tentacles and hope it's erogenous. That sorta thing.

Pyromancer - some people just want to see the world burn.

(That is the right capeshit villain isn't it?)

You don't need to imagine, Ricky Gervais exists.

Rambling, pretentious screed. Probably best to ignore this.

There's a lot of different themes in Romeo and Juliet and it'd do it a bit of a disservice to say it's about this one thing in specific.

But, Romeo's fickleness is a consistent through line.

Like, the first scene Romeo appears in is an argument between Romeo and his cousin Benvolio. Romeo is still pining over Rosalind rejecting him, and Benvolio tells Romeo that he'll thinks he'll fall for the next woman he meets.

"Be ruled by me, forget to think of her. By giving liberty unto thine eyes; Examine other beauties."

Romeo tells Benvolio that he'll never love another woman (note: this is dramatic irony, the ACT 1 prologue speech has already informed the audience he's going to fall in love with Juliet):

"The precious treasure of his eyesight lost: Show me a mistress that is passing fair, What doth her beauty serve, but as a note Where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? Farewell: thou canst not teach me to forget."

Romeo's closest friend is Mercutio. When he sees Romeo making a beeline for Juliet during a party they've snuck into he has this to say:

"Nay, I'll conjure too. Romeo! humours! madman! passion! lover! Appear thou in the likeness of a sigh: Speak but one rhyme, and I am satisfied; Cry but 'Ay me!' pronounce but 'love' and 'dove;' Speak to my gossip Venus one fair word, One nick-name for her purblind son and heir, Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid! He heareth not, he stirreth not, he moveth not; The ape is dead, and I must conjure him. I conjure thee by Rosaline's bright eyes, By her high forehead and her scarlet lip, By her fine foot, straight leg and quivering thigh And the demesnes that there adjacent lie, That in thy likeness thou appear to us!"

And, like, other than those two, the only person Romeo confides in is Friar Laurence (who I quoted in my previous comment).

So, both the events of the play and exposition from characters closest to him all take pains to highlight Romeo's tendency to fall into obsessive infatuation, only to immediately forget about them the moment the next object of his lust crosses his view.

That's not to completely invalidate interpretations of Romeo and Juliet as a tragic love story, just that it interpreting solely as that requires flattening out a lot of the wider themes.

Sorry for the text wall.

[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A reoccurring thread in the narrative is that Juliet is just Romeo's most recent infatuation and that he has a history of getting obsessive around women like that.

"Is Rosaline, whom thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken? Young men’s love then lies Not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes"

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