I listened a long time ago and found it to be another male-dominated "dirtbag left" type podcast. They're all very well read, but they want the podcast to be accessible to people who aren't communists, so there's only so much they can get into.

Phasmophobia is brilliant because it's actually two games in one, depending on your knowledge and experience.

For the casual players, Phasmophobia is a horror "friendship" (I hate hate that term but it's basically a genre now) game. The ghost hunts are genuinely scary, the adrenaline rush of hearing a ghost walk past you on a hunt, having no idea if it sees you, being blind yourself... that's fun. That's scary. You get to fuck around and see your friends get spooked and killed by ghosts.

But if you want to be really good at the game, it turns into the best detective game I've ever played. Every ghost has three pieces of evidence that identify it definitively; by playing a difficulty where its impossible to obtain the third piece of evidence, you have to piece together what ghost youre investigating by observing behaviour. Having two pieces of evidence narrows down what ghost it can be, but after that, you have to look at how the ghost acts when it's hunting, how it interacts with the environment and so on to figure out what you're working with. It's so much fun.

Ok FINE I'll learn how to install linux

I really felt like these ghouls were invincible. I was waiting on the old fucks like Kissinger to die, but Kirk and his fellow fascists have gotten away with it for so long that I felt like I would never see them assassinated.

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I hope it hurts

"Ha! These brainwashed foreigners think we have functional infrastructure, those fools"

Honestly I thought this would be a slam dunk for Trump after the assassination photo, then he completely failed to capitalize on that, then I thought it would be a slam dunk for Harris, then she did absolutely nothing to make her likeable and got an endorsement from Cheney. How are both presidential candidates so bad at running for president

Israel launches strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen

"Our message is clear - for us, no place is too far," - Defence Minister Yoav Gallant

They are 1000000% trying to start an all-out regional war and get the US involved. Iran will be next unless there is retaliation

Ukraine - or rather, the Ukranian people - have already lost the war against Russia by basically every important metric. They have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, millions have emigrated, their domestic assets have been completely sold to and looted by American capitalists, and they are still likely to lose militarily. Ukraine will not recover for decades. But Zelensky and his ilk keep getting richer by selling off the country and the lives of the people to the American war machine, and the American capitalists keep getting richer by having a massive demand for their weapons and gathering information about the Russian military. Just fucking end the war, please.

The effort to bring her into the pantheon of neoliberal heroes was crazy. They had her speak at the UN and meet with so many politicians, and so clearly tried to get her on their side. But she actually has values, so she couldn't become another prop for them. Fucking based.

What fucking world are we living in when Vaush is one of the Americans with the best take on Palestine

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fucking incredible. federation was a masterstroke