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34. Last book you read

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier. I think it was a solid book for what it was, with serious effort to interview as many people as possible to assemble a comprehensive picture, but ultimately I'm probably not the target audience. I played World of Warcraft from the tail end of Vanilla to the end of Wrath of the Lich King, but otherwise I never really got into any Blizzard games and even though I liked playing WoW with friends, I was never a superfan or a hardcore raider or anything like that. I enjoyed Keza MacDonald's Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play a lot more, which was focused on the games and the creative philosophies behind them rather than corporate intrigue and work culture.

Tomorrow, I'm gonna take a hard right turn and start reading How to Sell a Genocide: The Media's Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza by Adam Johnson of fame (shoutout to @Hexamerous@hexbear.net for bringing it to my attention). Look forward to feeling uncontrollable rage and then hopefully channeling that rage into getting libs to rethink their unconditional love for The Gray Lady.

(also, I actually have a few of my responses to this kind of survey salvaged from my MySpace page ca. 2006...pure unadulterated cringe)

edit: actually, on the topic of talking to libs, can anyone recommend a good resource for learning to teach more gently and/or Socratically? I have an annoying tendency to ramble on and on, and while it might make me feel better I'm also acutely aware that it's an incredibly ineffective tactic (and at times even counterproductive).

31. Favorite candy

My favorite currently are mango lollipops coated in chili powder

25. fave animal

mine is CAT

35. Last movie Me: Project Hail Mary

27 a funny way you've gotten hurt recently

Poured boiling water over my feet trying to strain pasta

39 best thing that happened to you this week

Got payed, two weeks late, wasn't sure that would still happen

14?

mine is clearly 🅱️

53: A/S/L and I am going to put on my wizard hat

24. favourite quotes

mine is

During the cold war, the anticommunist ideological framework could transform any data about existing communist societies into hostile evidence. If the Soviets refused to negotiate a point, they were intransigent and belligerent; if they appeared willing to make concessions, this was but a skillful ploy to put us off our guard. By opposing arms limitations, they would have demonstrated their aggressive intent; but when in fact they supported most armament treaties, it was because they were mendacious and manipulative. If the churches in the USSR were empty, this demonstrated that religion was suppressed; but if the churches were full, this meant the people were rejecting the regime's atheistic ideology. If the workers went on strike (as happened on infrequent occasions), this was evidence of their alienation from the collectivist system; if they didn't go on strike, this was because they were intimidated and lacked freedom. A scarcity of consumer goods demonstrated the failure of the economic system; an improvement in consumer supplies meant only that the leaders were attempting to placate a restive population and so maintain a firmer hold over them.

If communists in the United States played an important role struggling for the rights of workers, the poor, African-Americans, women, and others, this was only their guileful way of gathering support among disfranchised groups and gaining power for themselves. How one gained power by fighting for the rights of powerless groups was never explained. What we are dealing with is a nonfalsifiable orthodoxy, so assiduously marketed by the ruling interests that it affected people across the entire political spectrum.

45: first thing you notice about a person (reading it as personality, otherwise its usually general shape from a distance)

My answer: whether they like to laugh :)

43. Favourite makeup look/routine

Mine is green foundation followed with purple blush

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29 - place you go when you want to be alone

Mine is the local beach. It's my absolute favorite place to be. It's where I want my ashes scattered. I spend my life in a service industry of sorts, constantly doing what others tell me, going where others tell me, dealing directly w customers. It's nice to leave my phone and keys in the truck and go wander alone. No need to talk to anyone, or have anyone talk to me. It's outside of cell range so nobody can contact me even in an emergency, work or personal.