Ask game 10 because it's a weird question. I always get ginger ale on planes, what's with the dichotomy of apple or orange juice?
10. What drink do I ask for on a plane?
If they're doing complimentary drinks, usually coke, otherwise I just stick to water.
I don't drink most fruit juices, I find them too sweet.
children existing in public spaces is genuinely like. necessary for the continuation of society. it doesnt have to be your kids you dont have to volunteer at a daycare or whatever but you need to be able to tolerate the presence of someone who is learning how to exist as a human and interact with people
2. "Thoughts on veganism" - I like it, until white vegans open their mouths and say shit like how indigenous hunting rights are immoral, or that eating a chicken snack wrap is literally like killing a baby. I'm not any kind of vegetarian or vegan but I try to limit my meat intake and have a few meatless days of the week- but that isn't good enough for the majority of vegans, apparently I'm just as bad as Smith Washington who eats nothing but whoppers from Burger King. The purity shaming has to stop and sustainable living has to be prioritized over a complete abstention or nothing will be accomplished.
23. "Do you wear jewellery?" - Nope. I thought about getting my ears pierced until I learned that if you don't wear earrings enough they'll seal shut. The stuff I have tried just gets in the way and snags on stuff. If I found a nice ring that fit my aesthetic I'd probably try that, though.
29. "Preferred pasta noodle?" - Shells! Cause they're good at scooping up the sauce and making sure every bite is a good one. I'm honestly not a fan of most stringy pastas like spaghetti and linguini, if I'm making a nice meat sauce I'll cook shells or just macaroni to have with it cause it's simpler and twirling pasta noodles always makes a mess as it flicks bits of sauce everywhere.
If Shadowheart has the hots for Karlach, they flirt shamelessly with each other and I have a massive crush on both of them, why am I forced to choose only one?! Why can't we be in a happy lesbian throuple?!
PS. No, this is not Lae'zel, in case you were wondering.
The recent Signalis anticommunism discussion on here made me stumble onto your take about it from last month, and while I do believe that Signalis is very... normie anticommunist (you seem to disagree), your post made me really curious, but at the same time it was very vague, and a lot of people interpreted it as "Signalis isn't anti-communist, it's anti-authoritarian". Would you be willing to elaborate?
Oof didn't realize there was more discussion to it than I thought so I won't wade into the whole of that cuz that wasn't what I was responding to at the time. Also just to preface two things; for one I am a communist myself and that did effect my reading of the text a great deal and for two I didn't say anything about the "Signalis isn't anti-communist, it's anti-authoritarian" thing myself that was a later addition from other people (personally I don't like the term "authoritarian" as a way to analyze the faults of certain socialist states but that's neither here nor there).
What I was driving at is the idea that the DDR imagery (and beyond that, as others have pointed out it isn't solely pulling from that) is doing a lot more than simple condemnation or any sort of post-war triumphalism over "dystopian" socialism. We can read a lot based on what was given attention in the text, and I think the ways that DDR imagery show up in the game are shown with a rather loving, even reverent light at times (you don't create a bunch of intricately designed DDR robot girl ocs and name some of them after historical DDR special forces units because you totally despise everything the DDR stood for). This is intentionally contrasted with the rotting and decayed state we actively find a great deal of these things in, which provides a great deal of contrast between the lowercase i ideal and the reality of an execution which was tainted by the literal bleeding psychology of collective trauma and the attempts at domination of individuals.
What results is less a coherent world as such that can be dissected as one might dissect typical worldbuilding lore and more an emotional portrait which depicts a sense of portrayal at the way the history of the DDR played out, and you may disagree with parts of that (I do with certain parts as well) but it isn't intended to reflect a dissertation on the flaws of the DDR. It's an emotion first conceptualization of tainted Ostalgie and the hauntological traces of a future which was not allowed to be for reasons internal and external, through that lens it is, to me, quite ambiguous over whether or not the source object was a negative or a positive. Instead its a truly conflicted portrayal of the emotional state one is left in after both the (again lowercase i) ideals of that revolutionary state and its practical execution, warts and all, have passed into the realm of cultural memory.
(I'm sorry that's probably a whole lot of words to not fully answer your question but tldr I don't think Signalis is as anticommunist as a lot of people think it is, I think people are generally reading the diegesis too literally and not really delving into the full emotional depth going on with how communist imagery is used in the game)
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