Rabbis from the US and Israel marched towards the Erez crossing carrying symbolic aid for Gaza and calling to end the war. The police blocked them a few hundred meters from the border, and arrested 7 protesters. source

Oh, a version of Season set in Middle Earth would work so well! That's the best idea I've ever heard

What would be your ideal Tolkien-inspired game?

Since I assume we're talking about video games here (and not One Ring 2nd e, which I honestly think is pretty close to the platonic ideal of a Lord of the Rings TTRPG, or war of the ring, a really really good boardgame), what will mostly be needed is an understanding of the themes of the books and of Arda for any game that engages with the wprld in a fairly direct, non-abstracted way (think something like the old War in the North action-RPG, to pick an example that was Alright if you can stand action-RPGs, or to pick the sort of platonic ideal for the worst thing to do with Arda, those fucking mind control ghost ranger in Nûrnen games whatever they're called), which I honestly don't really trust games as a medium, as immature as the artform still is, to be able to handle. But I'd like to see more artful interpretations of little-known parts, and I think that some sort of minimalistic thing that doesn't care too much about being all actiony and game-y, that doesn't have a large budget and so doesn't need to appeal much to the film crowd and that focuses on existing in world and experiencing some part of it - something a bit like Year's Walk maybe, but set in Beleriand before the fall, or in the North of the Third Age, or before the Fall of Arnor (maybe during the reign of Arvedui) - somewhere we haven't really seen in other media but we still have enough information about to be able to recognise and to see the richness of, and that takes like five hours to complete.

The main thing I don't want is what has been happening, which is triple-A action games set in Middle Earth, they have been universally awful.

The other way is of course to really lean in to the stupid game-y nature of it all and say like, "post apocalyptic survival and badebuilding game set just after the fall of Arnor, playing as the people who wound up establishing the Rangers" or something. That's funny as an idea but I think would fall into the trap of "not doing anything interesting with a very particular setting"

But mostly what I want out of it is to actually notice that I am in Middle Earth while playing it. If it could be set anywhere, it probably shouldn't be set in Arda - let the themes reflect in what you do with it, and don't reduce the world to a set of box-ticking Easter eggs.

What would be your ideal Tolkien-inspired game?

Since I assume we're talking about video games here (and not One Ring 2nd e, which I honestly think is pretty close to the platonic ideal of a Lord of the Rings TTRPG, or war of the ring, a really really good boardgame), what will mostly be needed is an understanding of the themes of the books and of Arda for any game that engages with the wprld in a fairly direct, non-abstracted way (think something like the old War in the North action-RPG, to pick an example that was Alright if you can stand action-RPGs, or to pick the sort of platonic ideal for the worst thing to do with Arda, those fucking mind control ghost ranger in Nûrnen games whatever they're called), which I honestly don't really trust games as a medium, as immature as the artform still is, to be able to handle. But I'd like to see more artful interpretations of little-known parts, and I think that some sort of minimalistic thing that doesn't care too much about being all actiony and game-y, that doesn't have a large budget and so doesn't need to appeal much to the film crowd and that focuses on existing in world and experiencing some part of it - something a bit like Year's Walk maybe, but set in Beleriand before the fall, or in the North of the Third Age, or before the Fall of Arnor (maybe during the reign of Arvedui) - somewhere we haven't really seen in other media but we still have enough information about to be able to recognise and to see the richness of, and that takes like five hours to complete.

The main thing I don't want is what has been happening, which is triple-A action games set in Middle Earth, they have been universally awful.

What would be your ideal Tolkien-inspired game?

Since I assume we're talking about video games here (and not One Ring 2nd e, which I honestly think is pretty close to the platonic ideal of a Lord of the Rings TTRPG, or war of the ring, a really really good boardgame), what will mostly be needed is an understanding of the themes of the books and of Arda for any game that engages with the wprld in a fairly direct, non-abstracted way (think something like the old War in the North action-RPG, to pick an example that was Alright if you can stand action-RPGs, or to pick the sort of platonic ideal for the worst thing to do with Arda, those fucking mind control ghost ranger in Nûrnen games whatever they're called), which I honestly don't really trust games as a medium, as immature as the artform still is, to be able to handle. But I'd like to see more artful interpretations of little-known parts, and I think that some sort of minimalistic thing that doesn't care too much about being all actiony and game-y, that doesn't have a large budget and so doesn't need to appeal much to the film crowd and that focuses on existing in world and experiencing some part of it - something a bit like Year's Walk maybe, but set in Beleriand before the fall, or in the North of the Third Age, or before the Fall of Arnor (maybe during the reign of Arvedui) - somewhere we haven't really seen in other media but we still have enough information about to be able to recognise and to see the richness of, and that takes like five hours to complete.

The main thing I don't want is what has been happening, which is triple-A action games set in Middle Earth, they have been universally awful.

Can't tell if someone making a hobbit themed Harvest Moon clone is absolutely genius or fucking terrible

would you trust your icon to babysit your children be honest

Palestinian kids mimic Israeli soldiers arresting Palestinian adults.

Noooo not Fergie

God, knowing anything about the history of anti-Semitism makes me so paranoid. Is that post talking about how "their stench" (of the US and Israel) is all over a bombing consciously playing of the notion of the foetor Judaicus or is it an accidental mistyping? Any odd phrasing gets my hackles up ("their stench", not it stinks to high heaven or anything else), and the rhetoric never seems to go away. I will err on the side of caution - even unintended discourse that traffics in Anti-Semitic code languge will help to mask intentional use of it and should be avoided at all costs by anyone of good faith. But is it on purpose? Should it be directly pointed out? Will It just make you look insane for anyone who has never encountered an anti-Semitic trope that was once widespread but is now rather obscure, and therefore make pointing out more obvious and dangerous rhetoric more difficult?

I hate it here.

I find Arab nationalists talking about the ill treatment of Mizrahi Jews in Israel especially interesting. Like why do you think there are no Jews (with a small handful of exceptions) left in the Arab states? What movement drove them out?

If you say "Zionist deception" I don't really know how to respond, but this is the only thing I've seen. Yes, it was those scheming Jews fault that our pseudo-fascist nationalist movement whicj gave exile and collaborated with SS veterans was viewed as anti-Semitic by Jews who lived there. Definitely.

Air an là seo.

Tha fiosrachadh mun bhlàr aig Calum Ruadh, a bhuin ris an sgìre, anns a' chlàradh seo. Gu truagh tha a' mhòr-chuid sa Bheurla, ach gabhaidh e corra rann às an òran 'Beinn Lì' a chaidh a dhèanamh air an là.

Is e an-diugh an 140mh ceann-là de Bhlàr a' Chumhaing, no Battle of the Braes sa chànain eile, ann an sgìre a' Bhràighe san Eilean Sgitheanach. B' ann eadar poilis Ghlaschu agus croitearan is cotairean an eilein a bha am blàr seo, is na Gàidheil a' strì son còirichean talmhainn a chaidh a ghoid orra leis na h-uachdarain mhòra - gu sònraichte cead-ionaltraidh Bheinn Lì a bh' aca air chleachdadh cho fada is a bha Gàidheil san eilean - fhaighinn air ais. Bha an gall mòr seo air an robh 'Sherriff Ivory' ann an Port Rìgh os cionn poileas Gallta a bha feuchainn ri croitearan a dhliùilt aontachadh air cìsean gun chead-ionaltraidh fhaighinn an greim sa Bhaile Mheadhanach, ach chruinnich muinntir na sgìre aig a' Chumhang - 'dorast' na sgìre mar gum biodh - gus blàr is amhreit a chumail riutha, le badain is maide is clachan. Fhuair na croitearan saorsa, is phiobraich am blàr soirbheachail seo Gàidheil eile, air Gàidhealtachd is air fhògradh, gus ceartas a sheasamh ann an 'cogadh nan Croitearan'. Is iad as adhbhar a fhuair sinn Achd na Croitearachd, a chuir crìoch air linn nam fuadaichean, agus is iad as adhbhar a mhair a' Ghàidhlig idir beò dar linn fhèin. Cuireamaid clach air an càrn, is sìos leis a' phoileas, cho fìor an-diugh is a bha e nan là-san.

[Dealbh: an càrn-cuimhne faisg air Camas Dìonabhaig san Eilean Sgìtheanach, air an urrainnear na leanas a leughadh: Faisg air a' Chàrn seo, air an 9mh là deug den Ghiblean 1882, chrìochnaich an cath a chuir muinntir a' Bhràighe air sgàth tuath na Gàidhealtachd]

who would you rather marry: tall blonde with double ds and long hair who believes the war in the Vendée (you can look this up on wiki) was majorly justified and should've gone on forever OR short mousy brunette with b cups and short hair who believes the Vendéen genocide was a crime against humanity?

While I disagree with both of these people, I think that leftists who seemingly get off on the mass violence they will impose on reactionary elements are generally repulsive and usually tend to eventually include me in the list of reactionary elements to be purged, so I suspect the second person, who might have a "lib" take here but probably some root for their politics in the sacredness of life and therefore is more likely to be a tolerable person, so I guess gun to my head I marry that person. Also why have you found a way to ask my opinion on french revolutionary violence that somehow manages to be weird about hypothetical women?

Holy shit this guy is like the social science version of that guy who invented leaded gasoline and cfcs

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its so disturbing how many people get appendectomies when there's no evidence that it even helps with appendicitis :/ hm? oh? no i know about that but it wasn't double blind so it doesn't count. you know. one of those double blind appendectomy studies where we give people with appendicitis a placebo appendectomy and the doctors doing it also don't know if they've actually removed the appendix or not at the end of the procedure. yeah nobody's done one of those so the evidence doesn't count and if looks like there's just no evidence for appendectomies :/ and some of the people getting them might be autistic so idk if they can really consent to having their body permanently altered... but of course you can't talk about any of this because of Woke nowadays...

Is coma leamsa fuck mu dheidhinn "exploring new writing, performance, song, and contemporary approaches to Gaelic arts", san fharsaingeachd ach gu seachd àraid is e air a shanasachadh agus le fiosrachadh sa Bheurla a-mhàin. Cho sgìth de "choimhearsnachd na Gàidhlig ann an Glaschu"