Made a new Bloofy World video!
Posted 4 years agoAnother FattFatt-inspired abomination starring my OC, Berry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ziw-5OMfxA ^W^ It's got a helpless pet blubber blob, Cheesy Squeezies, public pampering, caressy cuddles, milky massaging, helpless humiliation, and embarrassing uncontrollable public naked flatulence GALORE! u/////w/////u
A song that might remind you of Undertale
Posted 4 years ago'Hello Again' by The Cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcXBcoF-2_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcXBcoF-2_I
A cat booped my snoot!
Posted 4 years agoRemember the snoot challenge from a few years ago-go? Well, one of my friends' cats bo0ped my sn0ot with his cat-hand! I refer to it as a "cat-hand" because he has polydactyly (which in cats is called "mittenpaw").
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What's your D&D alignment and Hogwarts house?
Posted 4 years agoI'm Neutral Good with Lawful tendencies and a Hufflepuff (Ravenclaw secondary).
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Why I'm not a pacifist: Addendum
Posted 5 years agoRefer back to my "Why I'm not a pacifist" journal entry for reference.
First, I should point out that I do recognize the difference between philosophical pacifism (and/or conscientious objection) and outright defeatism (and/or appeasement, collaboration, etc.). In this case, I have a little workplace-related anecdote that illustrates why "anti-violence" taken to the extreme promotes injustice, especially when any direct action is wrongly defined as "violence." Anyway, here's the story. Back in late 1998, I was 18 years old, in college, and working as a Housewares clerk at a department store in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Yes, I was a Housewares clerk just like Ash Williams from 'Army of Darkness'! I'd been told a horror story about something that had happened to a co-worker in another department. Some kind of chemical spilled on his arms and caught fire, so he ran to the back room, kicked the door open, and got back there to deal with it. They fired him, not for the accident, but because they thought that him kicking the doors open was a "violent action." It wasn't "violent!" It was "direct!" That's what you have to do in emergency situations like that. After that, he sued to get his job back, and surprisingly won. But they treated him like dirt ever since. Personally, I never would have trusted the so-called "law" enough to go through that trouble in the first place.
This was the mentality that the Clinton Administration had produced in general society, even in a red state like Indiana. Or maybe it wasn't even that. Maybe the world depicted in Demolition Man was becoming real even back then! Or before, rather. Not really a surprise seeing as how that was exactly the mentality it was satirizing. And this was only five years after it was released! I've said it before and I'll say it again. Demolition Man was a warning, not a blueprint. Also just a really fun movie. You watch it now and you wouldn't guess that it came out in the early '90s (aside from the actors being in their prime). It's timeless!
It wasn't just this ultra-liberal pacifism that made everyday life miserable and unjust, though. It was that combined with a certain sort of "Scrooge McDuck" hyper-conservatism. I'll cite an example that took place in the same workplace. This time, I was the one to get struck down. But it wasn't due to "direct" action being misconstrued as "violent" action. I should point out that I technically handled two departments - Housewares and Gifts and Lamps. This one night, my shift was nearing its end, and I had to use the restroom. I made sure both departments were organized, then went to the restroom. Came back no more than five minutes later to find both departments in disarray. Not only that, but the night manager was there. An old crusty coot in a suit. I've always hated these types. Old weak fossils with an ironic superiority complex. You probably know the type. The only thing worse than being a materialistic weakling with an authoritarian conformist mentality is being hypocritical on top of that (as if it wasn't hypocritical enough being an "authoritarian weakling"). Well, long story short, this old coot in a suit chews me out for those two departments being disorganized. Even after I'd explained the situation, it was as if he didn't believe that rude customers might have actually left the place in shambles while I went to the restroom. I think I got fired about a week after that, and I wouldn't be surprised if he'd had a hand in screwing me over. I asked them what I did to get fired and they told me - and I quote - "We don't have to tell you that." And it's true, they don't, because Indiana is an employment-at-will state. That means any employer can fire any employee for any reason or for no reason at all. Typically, they'll make up a reason.
Just a month prior to that, I'd been working as a cashier at a different department store and had gotten fired for yet another unjust reason. They fired me because my friend who worked in electronics, who they knew was my college roommate, had attempted to "borrow" an ink ribbon. They fired him, but also fired me, because of what he tried to do (perhaps assuming that I was in on it). That's why I went to work for their closest competitor, sort of as an act of revenge. No, I don't advocate vengeance nowadays, but I was in my late teens at the time and was ornery to the max. It ended up being futile anyway, though, because the regimes of all workplaces are essentially the same - cold, callous, and legalistic to the core. They never want you to forget how expendable and replaceable you are - how much of a worthless peon you are in their eyes. The way corporations are depicted in the Borderlands series is 100% sociopolitically accuracy. Nowadays, Big Tech embodies perhaps the most extreme example of this form of totalitarian corporatism.
It's not just Big Tech, though. Cancel Culture, and the mentality it promotes, also exudes this legalistic, lawyerly, employerly mentality. Now is that what you want to act like? A bunch of lawyers and employers? If so, then you can't realistically claim to be a champion of Chaotic Good because those institutions are Lawful Neutral at best and Lawful Evil at worst.
First, I should point out that I do recognize the difference between philosophical pacifism (and/or conscientious objection) and outright defeatism (and/or appeasement, collaboration, etc.). In this case, I have a little workplace-related anecdote that illustrates why "anti-violence" taken to the extreme promotes injustice, especially when any direct action is wrongly defined as "violence." Anyway, here's the story. Back in late 1998, I was 18 years old, in college, and working as a Housewares clerk at a department store in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Yes, I was a Housewares clerk just like Ash Williams from 'Army of Darkness'! I'd been told a horror story about something that had happened to a co-worker in another department. Some kind of chemical spilled on his arms and caught fire, so he ran to the back room, kicked the door open, and got back there to deal with it. They fired him, not for the accident, but because they thought that him kicking the doors open was a "violent action." It wasn't "violent!" It was "direct!" That's what you have to do in emergency situations like that. After that, he sued to get his job back, and surprisingly won. But they treated him like dirt ever since. Personally, I never would have trusted the so-called "law" enough to go through that trouble in the first place.
This was the mentality that the Clinton Administration had produced in general society, even in a red state like Indiana. Or maybe it wasn't even that. Maybe the world depicted in Demolition Man was becoming real even back then! Or before, rather. Not really a surprise seeing as how that was exactly the mentality it was satirizing. And this was only five years after it was released! I've said it before and I'll say it again. Demolition Man was a warning, not a blueprint. Also just a really fun movie. You watch it now and you wouldn't guess that it came out in the early '90s (aside from the actors being in their prime). It's timeless!
It wasn't just this ultra-liberal pacifism that made everyday life miserable and unjust, though. It was that combined with a certain sort of "Scrooge McDuck" hyper-conservatism. I'll cite an example that took place in the same workplace. This time, I was the one to get struck down. But it wasn't due to "direct" action being misconstrued as "violent" action. I should point out that I technically handled two departments - Housewares and Gifts and Lamps. This one night, my shift was nearing its end, and I had to use the restroom. I made sure both departments were organized, then went to the restroom. Came back no more than five minutes later to find both departments in disarray. Not only that, but the night manager was there. An old crusty coot in a suit. I've always hated these types. Old weak fossils with an ironic superiority complex. You probably know the type. The only thing worse than being a materialistic weakling with an authoritarian conformist mentality is being hypocritical on top of that (as if it wasn't hypocritical enough being an "authoritarian weakling"). Well, long story short, this old coot in a suit chews me out for those two departments being disorganized. Even after I'd explained the situation, it was as if he didn't believe that rude customers might have actually left the place in shambles while I went to the restroom. I think I got fired about a week after that, and I wouldn't be surprised if he'd had a hand in screwing me over. I asked them what I did to get fired and they told me - and I quote - "We don't have to tell you that." And it's true, they don't, because Indiana is an employment-at-will state. That means any employer can fire any employee for any reason or for no reason at all. Typically, they'll make up a reason.
Just a month prior to that, I'd been working as a cashier at a different department store and had gotten fired for yet another unjust reason. They fired me because my friend who worked in electronics, who they knew was my college roommate, had attempted to "borrow" an ink ribbon. They fired him, but also fired me, because of what he tried to do (perhaps assuming that I was in on it). That's why I went to work for their closest competitor, sort of as an act of revenge. No, I don't advocate vengeance nowadays, but I was in my late teens at the time and was ornery to the max. It ended up being futile anyway, though, because the regimes of all workplaces are essentially the same - cold, callous, and legalistic to the core. They never want you to forget how expendable and replaceable you are - how much of a worthless peon you are in their eyes. The way corporations are depicted in the Borderlands series is 100% sociopolitically accuracy. Nowadays, Big Tech embodies perhaps the most extreme example of this form of totalitarian corporatism.
It's not just Big Tech, though. Cancel Culture, and the mentality it promotes, also exudes this legalistic, lawyerly, employerly mentality. Now is that what you want to act like? A bunch of lawyers and employers? If so, then you can't realistically claim to be a champion of Chaotic Good because those institutions are Lawful Neutral at best and Lawful Evil at worst.
"Thuh" and "uh" versus "thee" and "ay"
Posted 5 years agoWhy does everyone talk like this nowadays? They say "thee" and "ay" in place of "thuh" and "uh." When the articles "the" or "a" occur before a word that starts with a consonant sound, they're pronounced "thuh" or "uh." If the word starts with a vowel sound, then it's "thee" or "ay." When you say "thee" or "ay" all the time, it sounds annoying and robotic, thereby possibly promoting disinterest in the listener. I minored in business management in college and I had to take a public speaking course, so this isn't me imposing my opinion on others. This is the objective "STANDARD" (spoken in Jack Scepticeye's Papyrus voice).
The internationalist left does NOT advocate "chaos"
Posted 5 years agoThe far-left advocates "order," not chaos. Change my mind.
Think about it. What faction uses censorship to control the flow of information and silence opposition? The far-right used to do this same sort of thing, but now it's the far-left doing it. They'll call their opposition "fascists" ("heretics" would be a more fitting term), then shut them down to prevent them from defending themselves against that accusation. It's basically reverse McCarthyism. If you don't know the difference between fascism and nationalism, that ignorance is on YOU. You don't get to wield that ignorance as a weapon against others, then tell them they're not allowed to defend their position. Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle were nationalists and they fought against fascism.
Nationalism is the new Chaotic Good. Change my mind.
Think about it. What faction uses censorship to control the flow of information and silence opposition? The far-right used to do this same sort of thing, but now it's the far-left doing it. They'll call their opposition "fascists" ("heretics" would be a more fitting term), then shut them down to prevent them from defending themselves against that accusation. It's basically reverse McCarthyism. If you don't know the difference between fascism and nationalism, that ignorance is on YOU. You don't get to wield that ignorance as a weapon against others, then tell them they're not allowed to defend their position. Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle were nationalists and they fought against fascism.
Nationalism is the new Chaotic Good. Change my mind.
The Alphyne dynamic (aka "sweet 'n' spicy")
Posted 5 years agoToby Fox really seems to like that "sweet 'n' spicy" personality dynamic. But who doesn't? Suselle is the new Alphyne, but Alphyne is still the standard-bearer. More nerd/jock pairings in pop culture! Well, Noelle and Susie are a bit different, but let's stick with "sweet nerd" and "spicy jock" for now. What other examples can you think of? They don't have to be the OTP. More often, they end up as BFFs. The dynamic works either way. Being a retro junkie, there are two that come to my mind. One is Scotty Smalls and Benny Rodriguez from 'The Sandlot'. The other is Jannis and Ellie from an '80s action-comedy called 'Feds'. Janis and Scotty are a lot like Alphys. Ellie and Benny are a lot like Undyne. An Alphys-like character can also be compared to Ickis from 'Aaahh! Real Monsters!'. Also, Benny is kinda like a cross between Undyne and Papyrus.
And how about Wonder Woman 1984? I mentioned this in a previous journal entry. That movie was basically Undertale characters cosplaying as humans. Diana is Undyne. Maxwell Lord is like a cross between Mettaton and Papyrus (the same is true for Donald Trump, but Choleric-Sanguine rather than Sanguine-Choleric). And Barbara Minerva is obviously Alphys. Almost like OG Alphys transforming into Underfell Alphys in a certain sense. If OG Alphys became a villain, she'd be a lot like Dawn Bellwether.
Now I'm not a Taoist, but there's definitely a yin and yang thing going on there. Plus, we get to see the pros and cons of both of those "polarities." That totally fits with the "blue and orange morality" concept (look it up on TV Tropes if you're not already familiar). Blue corresponds with yin. Orange corresponds with yang. That's probably why the lasers in Hotland are color-coded the way they are. That's why you have to be passive with blue (yin) and active with orange (yang).
And how about Wonder Woman 1984? I mentioned this in a previous journal entry. That movie was basically Undertale characters cosplaying as humans. Diana is Undyne. Maxwell Lord is like a cross between Mettaton and Papyrus (the same is true for Donald Trump, but Choleric-Sanguine rather than Sanguine-Choleric). And Barbara Minerva is obviously Alphys. Almost like OG Alphys transforming into Underfell Alphys in a certain sense. If OG Alphys became a villain, she'd be a lot like Dawn Bellwether.
Now I'm not a Taoist, but there's definitely a yin and yang thing going on there. Plus, we get to see the pros and cons of both of those "polarities." That totally fits with the "blue and orange morality" concept (look it up on TV Tropes if you're not already familiar). Blue corresponds with yin. Orange corresponds with yang. That's probably why the lasers in Hotland are color-coded the way they are. That's why you have to be passive with blue (yin) and active with orange (yang).
Why I'm not a pacifist
Posted 5 years agoI might be pro-pacifist in Undertale terms, but in the so-called "real" world (which might just be a simulation created by an extra-dimensional being, hopefully one with an Alphys-meets-James-Halliday-like creative whimsical mentality which would mean that all the evil and oppressive stuff is entirely our fault), I'm a martialist all the way. Allow me to explain why. Not to imply that I feel the need to justify myself. It's more about facilitating understanding. Anyway, I got beat up a lot as a kid. Like that's anything new, right? But it wasn't just that. It was the callousness of people in authority who let it happen and didn't do anything about it. That, in itself, would have been more tolerable (injustice has been the status quo for a long time) except that the so-called "law" has a tendency to persecute people who defend themselves. Why is that? Self D-FENS is a basic right of all sentient beings. If there's no SELF-defense, then there's no CIVIL defense. If there's no civil defense, then the dual leviathans of oppression (as above) and destruction (so below) will run rampant. In Trigun terms, I agree more with Wolfwood than Vash.
When I was a preteen in the early '90s, there was a series of events that led to my lifelong distrust of authority and law. There were these two brothers who were neighbors of mine and their entire family hated me and my family either for no reason or for some dumb reason that I didn't know about. One time, a group of us kids (and yes, a lot of us did wear striped shirts back then) were in the neighbor's back yard and the younger brother, out of nowhere, hit me in the middle of my back with a wooden board for no reason. Nothing was said or done about it, neither by his parents nor anyone else's. About a year later, the older brother hit me in the arm with a stick. I yelled a choice expletive at the top of my lungs and chased after him. And he ra-a-an...he ran so far awa-a-ay! Then the neighbor dad comes out of nowhere, allows him to run back to his house, but stops me. I try to explain the situation, but he talks over me (as "authority" types tend to do), saying, "Go home." No concern over the details of the situation. What this taught me was that authority is more concerned with policing what I say and not at all concerned with protecting me from violence. In legal terms, I'd been assaulted twice in this quaint little Hobbit-like neighborhood. Was I right to shout that choice expletive at the top of my lungs? No! Of course not! But it was a reaction to pain and adrenaline. Not making excuses here, but is that really more worthy of punishment than assault? According to "authority," yes! So if authority sides with the street thugs, then why should we trust it?
Some time after that, our house was burgled while we were gone. Not by those two brothers, but by a slightly different breed of predator. Everything they stole had belonged to me. My Turbo Duo and my 5-disc CD player were the top items. They'd also taken yogurt from the fridge, along with a spoon, and spat a wad of yogurt on the garage door, leaving the spoon in the side yard (thereby leaving DNA evidence). Apparently, a vigilant neighbor chased them off, preventing them from getting away with anything else. Call him a vigilante, but I don't think that's a dirty word. It simply means "watchman." This guy was an exceptional citizen if you ask me. I think he was a teenager when this happened. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the police persecuted him for doing his civic duty. They also believed that my older brother (from another mother) had concocted this plan and paid the burglars to steal this stuff. Of course, that was malarkey. Needless to say, the police were useless. Didn't do jack squat to apprehend the burglars. They had DNA evidence, but it didn't matter. We weren't on the township's "protected species" list. This was a rinky-dink lake resort podunk town. Not even a real "town." Just a "township." But a lot of rich or otherwise well-to-do people lived in the area, or were lakers with summer homes there. And as we all know, "Big Law" is in cahoots with "Big Money." Though these bandits represented another faction that wasn't necessarily a "protected species," the fact that we weren't of the "Big Money" faction meant that the "Big Law" faction wasn't interested in our problems.
What I'm getting at is essentially this: Those who say "you can't take 'the law' into your own hands" are weaklings and traitors and should be distrusted. Defeatism is treason against The People and against one's own nation, neighborhood, culture, or subculture. Natural Law is The People's weapon. Undyne and Wolfwood would both back me up on that. Keep in mind that I'm NOT saying that vengeance is justice. Self-dense, civil defense, and community defense are NOT vengeance. It's merely logical and practical. Something else I'm getting at is that the enemies that attack from above ("authority" and "law") are worse than the ones that attack from below (burglars, street thugs, etc.).
Also, I was an assistant Taekwondo instructor once upon a time. So it was sort of my "job" to train dorks to fight. I started Taekwondo when I was 10 years old in 1990 (the same year I was a Scout). The philosophy of Taekwondo emphasizes that the practitioner (or "taekwondoga") use their knowledge for the defense of justice, never for the sake of domination or vengeance. At the same time, I knew how the world worked, so I didn't defend myself against any of the thugs who ever tried to have their way with me. Instead, I'd use other techniques to mess with them. One time, when I was in middle school, someone punched me in my teeth and I laughed at them. Another time, someone did a halfassed chop strike to my neck. Somehow, my body anticipated it and the muscles in my neck tightened at the exact right moment, causing him to hurt his hand. Yes, he hurt his hand on my neck! He yelled a choice expletive and ran off.
Something else I'm getting at is that I was always an Alphys-like person, but didn't always have Undyne traits. My "inner Alphys" was always my "true self," so to speak. My "outer Undyne" was the part of me that I developed to protect my "inner Alphys." I'm pretty sure it works that way for most people. Maybe not with the same dynamic. There are a lot of different combinations of "inner" and "outer" personality dynamics, but I think you get what I mean, symbolically. I could go off on that tangent for hours and never get B0red!
When I was a preteen in the early '90s, there was a series of events that led to my lifelong distrust of authority and law. There were these two brothers who were neighbors of mine and their entire family hated me and my family either for no reason or for some dumb reason that I didn't know about. One time, a group of us kids (and yes, a lot of us did wear striped shirts back then) were in the neighbor's back yard and the younger brother, out of nowhere, hit me in the middle of my back with a wooden board for no reason. Nothing was said or done about it, neither by his parents nor anyone else's. About a year later, the older brother hit me in the arm with a stick. I yelled a choice expletive at the top of my lungs and chased after him. And he ra-a-an...he ran so far awa-a-ay! Then the neighbor dad comes out of nowhere, allows him to run back to his house, but stops me. I try to explain the situation, but he talks over me (as "authority" types tend to do), saying, "Go home." No concern over the details of the situation. What this taught me was that authority is more concerned with policing what I say and not at all concerned with protecting me from violence. In legal terms, I'd been assaulted twice in this quaint little Hobbit-like neighborhood. Was I right to shout that choice expletive at the top of my lungs? No! Of course not! But it was a reaction to pain and adrenaline. Not making excuses here, but is that really more worthy of punishment than assault? According to "authority," yes! So if authority sides with the street thugs, then why should we trust it?
Some time after that, our house was burgled while we were gone. Not by those two brothers, but by a slightly different breed of predator. Everything they stole had belonged to me. My Turbo Duo and my 5-disc CD player were the top items. They'd also taken yogurt from the fridge, along with a spoon, and spat a wad of yogurt on the garage door, leaving the spoon in the side yard (thereby leaving DNA evidence). Apparently, a vigilant neighbor chased them off, preventing them from getting away with anything else. Call him a vigilante, but I don't think that's a dirty word. It simply means "watchman." This guy was an exceptional citizen if you ask me. I think he was a teenager when this happened. Anyway, I'm pretty sure the police persecuted him for doing his civic duty. They also believed that my older brother (from another mother) had concocted this plan and paid the burglars to steal this stuff. Of course, that was malarkey. Needless to say, the police were useless. Didn't do jack squat to apprehend the burglars. They had DNA evidence, but it didn't matter. We weren't on the township's "protected species" list. This was a rinky-dink lake resort podunk town. Not even a real "town." Just a "township." But a lot of rich or otherwise well-to-do people lived in the area, or were lakers with summer homes there. And as we all know, "Big Law" is in cahoots with "Big Money." Though these bandits represented another faction that wasn't necessarily a "protected species," the fact that we weren't of the "Big Money" faction meant that the "Big Law" faction wasn't interested in our problems.
What I'm getting at is essentially this: Those who say "you can't take 'the law' into your own hands" are weaklings and traitors and should be distrusted. Defeatism is treason against The People and against one's own nation, neighborhood, culture, or subculture. Natural Law is The People's weapon. Undyne and Wolfwood would both back me up on that. Keep in mind that I'm NOT saying that vengeance is justice. Self-dense, civil defense, and community defense are NOT vengeance. It's merely logical and practical. Something else I'm getting at is that the enemies that attack from above ("authority" and "law") are worse than the ones that attack from below (burglars, street thugs, etc.).
Also, I was an assistant Taekwondo instructor once upon a time. So it was sort of my "job" to train dorks to fight. I started Taekwondo when I was 10 years old in 1990 (the same year I was a Scout). The philosophy of Taekwondo emphasizes that the practitioner (or "taekwondoga") use their knowledge for the defense of justice, never for the sake of domination or vengeance. At the same time, I knew how the world worked, so I didn't defend myself against any of the thugs who ever tried to have their way with me. Instead, I'd use other techniques to mess with them. One time, when I was in middle school, someone punched me in my teeth and I laughed at them. Another time, someone did a halfassed chop strike to my neck. Somehow, my body anticipated it and the muscles in my neck tightened at the exact right moment, causing him to hurt his hand. Yes, he hurt his hand on my neck! He yelled a choice expletive and ran off.
Something else I'm getting at is that I was always an Alphys-like person, but didn't always have Undyne traits. My "inner Alphys" was always my "true self," so to speak. My "outer Undyne" was the part of me that I developed to protect my "inner Alphys." I'm pretty sure it works that way for most people. Maybe not with the same dynamic. There are a lot of different combinations of "inner" and "outer" personality dynamics, but I think you get what I mean, symbolically. I could go off on that tangent for hours and never get B0red!
Attempt at reconciliation failed
Posted 5 years agoSo I got blocked AGAIN, but this time it was predictable. Not naming names here. This is less about people and more about competing sets of principles and ideals. My argument began with an opposition to the idea that Trump is a fascist. One is not a fascist unless they're trying to resurrect the Roman empire (I should have mentioned that in my argument). Also, Trump didn't instigate an insurrection. That was a spontaneous People's movement. Vox Populi will not be suppressed by any power foreign or domestic. In a somewhat similar fashion, Nixon didn't instigate Watergate. Anyway, that operation was justified because G. Gordon Liddy and company were trying to bust a prostitution ring that was a front for internationalist pinkos collaborating with Soviet spies. But now I'm going off on a tangent.
Back to the point, I think this person blocked me because I brought up "the Charlie Charlie Papa" (as Axton would call them). Either that or because I posed a question that was something to the effect of this: "If that's what you think of nationalism, then what do you think of global government?" Go ahead and give me your own answer to that question. Btw, yes, I'm a nationalist. But I'm a nationalist in the sense that Undyne is a nationalist. That is, a CIVIC nationalist. Ethnic nationalists despise us, and their ideals are moronic, so we don't appreciate being thrown into the same category as them. The Czechs and Slovaks of former Czechoslovakia who rightly resisted Nazi occupation were nationalists in this sense. We believe that all nations should be free. Of course, a nation isn't free unless its citizens are free. In an ideal world - not a "perfect" world but an "ideal" world (big difference there) - everyone would understand that the constitutional republic is the only viable form of governance. All regimes based on authoritarian collectivism must eventually be toppled. This brings us to the underlying nature of the conflict of our times - nationalism versus globalism.
This is a point that needs to be made so that those who aren't "us" can understand our ideals instead of assuming that our opposition is right about us being "fascists." Fascists value order over freedom. In fact, they advocate absolute order because they're authoritarian collectivists (collectivism can only be authoritarian, btw) and they seek to eradicate individual freedom. Their far-left counterparts are no different. From the perspective of the oppressed, it doesn't matter who's wearing the jackboot or what insignia they have on their uniform. But what sets true fascism apart from other, more generic forms of authoritarian collectivism is a particular motif. And that motif is based on the Roman empire. There very much are neo-fascist movements inside Europe. There's even an outlawed faction in the Russian Federation called the National Bolshevik Party who are literally CommuNazis! Obviously, their ideology is based on absolute "order." Order without justice is tyranny.
If you don't mind my using D&D nomenclature, maybe my point is that civic nationalism is the new Chaotic Good. But since it emphasizes Lawful Good ideals, perhaps it's really Neutral Good. At any rate, I'm pretty sure that we can all agree that Lawful Evil sucks. So why can't we come together in opposition to that common enemy? That's what the French Resistance did. They were made up of multiple factions who didn't agree with each other, ranging from anarchists to nationalists. The nationalists were called Gaullists, named in honor of Charles de Gaulle. This is the type of person we civic nationalists would prefer to be compared to. Unlike fascists, we value freedom over order. That's not to say that we don't value "order," but we certainly define it differently than they do. We also define it different than the far-left does. These days, the far-left seems to be more obsessed with "order" than the far-right! This is why we criticize both of them, and this gets back to the principle I mentioned early about the perspective of the people being oppressed. To them, it doesn't matter who's wearing the jackboot that's stomping on their face.
Note: If you want to get an understanding of the far-left's notion of "order," do some research on the Terror Famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s and the Killing Fields of Cambodia in the mid 1970s. Imagine that on a global scale, then you'll understand why we're skeptical of global government. What some call "utopia" others call "a police state." On a lighter note, Demolition Man was a warning, not a blueprint.
Back to the point, I think this person blocked me because I brought up "the Charlie Charlie Papa" (as Axton would call them). Either that or because I posed a question that was something to the effect of this: "If that's what you think of nationalism, then what do you think of global government?" Go ahead and give me your own answer to that question. Btw, yes, I'm a nationalist. But I'm a nationalist in the sense that Undyne is a nationalist. That is, a CIVIC nationalist. Ethnic nationalists despise us, and their ideals are moronic, so we don't appreciate being thrown into the same category as them. The Czechs and Slovaks of former Czechoslovakia who rightly resisted Nazi occupation were nationalists in this sense. We believe that all nations should be free. Of course, a nation isn't free unless its citizens are free. In an ideal world - not a "perfect" world but an "ideal" world (big difference there) - everyone would understand that the constitutional republic is the only viable form of governance. All regimes based on authoritarian collectivism must eventually be toppled. This brings us to the underlying nature of the conflict of our times - nationalism versus globalism.
This is a point that needs to be made so that those who aren't "us" can understand our ideals instead of assuming that our opposition is right about us being "fascists." Fascists value order over freedom. In fact, they advocate absolute order because they're authoritarian collectivists (collectivism can only be authoritarian, btw) and they seek to eradicate individual freedom. Their far-left counterparts are no different. From the perspective of the oppressed, it doesn't matter who's wearing the jackboot or what insignia they have on their uniform. But what sets true fascism apart from other, more generic forms of authoritarian collectivism is a particular motif. And that motif is based on the Roman empire. There very much are neo-fascist movements inside Europe. There's even an outlawed faction in the Russian Federation called the National Bolshevik Party who are literally CommuNazis! Obviously, their ideology is based on absolute "order." Order without justice is tyranny.
If you don't mind my using D&D nomenclature, maybe my point is that civic nationalism is the new Chaotic Good. But since it emphasizes Lawful Good ideals, perhaps it's really Neutral Good. At any rate, I'm pretty sure that we can all agree that Lawful Evil sucks. So why can't we come together in opposition to that common enemy? That's what the French Resistance did. They were made up of multiple factions who didn't agree with each other, ranging from anarchists to nationalists. The nationalists were called Gaullists, named in honor of Charles de Gaulle. This is the type of person we civic nationalists would prefer to be compared to. Unlike fascists, we value freedom over order. That's not to say that we don't value "order," but we certainly define it differently than they do. We also define it different than the far-left does. These days, the far-left seems to be more obsessed with "order" than the far-right! This is why we criticize both of them, and this gets back to the principle I mentioned early about the perspective of the people being oppressed. To them, it doesn't matter who's wearing the jackboot that's stomping on their face.
Note: If you want to get an understanding of the far-left's notion of "order," do some research on the Terror Famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s and the Killing Fields of Cambodia in the mid 1970s. Imagine that on a global scale, then you'll understand why we're skeptical of global government. What some call "utopia" others call "a police state." On a lighter note, Demolition Man was a warning, not a blueprint.
Undertale meets Claymation Christmas
Posted 5 years agoRefer back to my previous journal entry for reference.
Idea: Undertale (and/or Deltarune) characters reenacting the ending of Claymation Christmas Celebration. ^w^ Who would play the role of Herb? Gotta be either Alphys or So Sorry. Or would that be too obvious? What's great about those two is that they're majorly pamper-able (and in need of pampering because of their anxiety) but also have tender and giving spirits. So they both share a Toriel-like caregiving attitude, meaning that they'd just as soon pamper others! >W< At any rate, there gonna be wassailing GALORE and public pampering APLENTY!
Not saying for sure that I'm going to use this idea. Rather, I'm just throwing an idea out there. Catch it and roll with it if you wanna.
Idea: Undertale (and/or Deltarune) characters reenacting the ending of Claymation Christmas Celebration. ^w^ Who would play the role of Herb? Gotta be either Alphys or So Sorry. Or would that be too obvious? What's great about those two is that they're majorly pamper-able (and in need of pampering because of their anxiety) but also have tender and giving spirits. So they both share a Toriel-like caregiving attitude, meaning that they'd just as soon pamper others! >W< At any rate, there gonna be wassailing GALORE and public pampering APLENTY!
Not saying for sure that I'm going to use this idea. Rather, I'm just throwing an idea out there. Catch it and roll with it if you wanna.
Claymation Christmas Celebration
Posted 5 years agoWho else remembers this gem? I know it's more than a month after Christmas, but whatevs. Herb was always muh fave. He stuffs himself silly all throughout the movie and ends up as a bloated blimp by the end. Oh, and he's surrounded by a merry mob of festive folks who look like they wanna fatten him up even more and cuddle him while singing Christmas carols GALORE! ^W^
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The thought of that happening to me always makes me blush. u///w///u
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The thought of that happening to me always makes me blush. u///w///u
Censorship is for the weak
Posted 5 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUI6uuw017o
To call for or enact censorship is a surefire way to show the world how weak you are. The weak have become our oppressors.
To call for or enact censorship is a surefire way to show the world how weak you are. The weak have become our oppressors.
Wonder Woman 1984 isn't all that w0ke
Posted 5 years agoIt didn't strike me as being as "w0ke" as some reviews claimed. To me, it seemed like Undertale characters cosplaying as humans. Babs is obviously the Alphys. Diana is Undyne. Maxwell Lord, much like President Trump, has a mix of Mettaton and Papyrus traits (but lacks President Trump's Undyne-like philosophy and attitude). I like how they paired the Alphys-like character (whose evolution is a lot like Selena Kyle - another Alphys-like character - becoming Catwoman, but with a different motive) up with the Mettaton/Papyrus hybrid. Also, why do some folk think President Trump is trying to start World War III when the results he's achieved suggest the exact opposite?
So anyway, the movie was generic as all get out, but not necessarily w0ke. Well, except for Wonder Woman's remark about hating guns. Like it or not, guns are equalizers. And I don't mean the Tediore Equalizer (because we still haven't figured out how to make guns regen their own ammo).
So anyway, the movie was generic as all get out, but not necessarily w0ke. Well, except for Wonder Woman's remark about hating guns. Like it or not, guns are equalizers. And I don't mean the Tediore Equalizer (because we still haven't figured out how to make guns regen their own ammo).
Beets on a burger? Sure! Why not?
Posted 5 years agoLast week, I ate for the third time at one of my favorite restaurants in Warsaw, Indiana - Oak and Alley. They specialize in gourmet "craft" burgers. I had "The Taproot" which has beets, dill, and goat cheese on it. The goat cheese gives it a hint of a Greek vibe. Just so happens they have another one called "The Alexander" (the burger I had the first time I went there) which has feta cheese on it and goes for an almost gyro-like Greek motif. As much as I like The Taproot, The Alexander is still muh fave. Anyway, the beets weren't overpoweringly sweet. The dill wasn't too strong either, but I like strong dill because it has a fresh foresty vibe that tantalizes the taste buds. Anyway, I nicknamed The Taproot "The Dwight," but then I thought it could also be called "The Schrute." My buddy who was with me (who always teases me for my taste in oddities since he's the complete opposite) offered the nickname "Schrute Root."
Note: Doug Funnie was a fan of beets, referring to them as "nature's candy."
Note: Doug Funnie was a fan of beets, referring to them as "nature's candy."
Cats piling on me
Posted 5 years agoSometimes, when I watch movies and TV shows with the family who lives above me (who I'm friends with and we've been rewatching Stranger Things lately and Dustin is still muh fave), their cats will pile on me and snuggle with me. There are three of them and two of them have polydactyly (aka "mittenpaw" in cats). I love it when they curl up on me and purr. One is kawaii enough, two is better, but three is just ridiculous!
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Screw you, WuFlu Mk.2!
Posted 5 years agoI was sick for about three weeks. Got tested for The Coof and the result was "negative," but it was apparently wrong. Anyway, I'm over it now, and that means I'll be immune for a long time.
American Gladiators theme
Posted 5 years agoThis takes me back! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8HIAvySdbQ
Couldn't you imagine Undyne using it as workout music? Imagine this scenario. Undyne and Papyrus really wanna make Alphys feel super-empowered, so they all do a "Captain Freedom" style workout (assuming you've seen 'The Running Man'). They're all wearing workout gear styled after the American Gladiators. Alphys is in between them, so she can't escape. };3 Undyne is to her right and Papyrus is to her left. They're all really enjoying it, even Alphys, though she gets visibly tired as it goes on. A few seconds before it's over, she collapses. Undyne and Papyrus gaze down at her. In less than a second, Undyne immediately scoops her up, spins her around, and squeezes her, resting her fishy head on top of the liznerd's lizardy head, an extreme "uwu" expression on Undyne's face. ^w^ Meanwhile, Papyrus has a huge grin on his face, clasping his grinning skully face in his hands. Alphys's eyes are flashing back and forth between hearts and stars.
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Couldn't you imagine Undyne using it as workout music? Imagine this scenario. Undyne and Papyrus really wanna make Alphys feel super-empowered, so they all do a "Captain Freedom" style workout (assuming you've seen 'The Running Man'). They're all wearing workout gear styled after the American Gladiators. Alphys is in between them, so she can't escape. };3 Undyne is to her right and Papyrus is to her left. They're all really enjoying it, even Alphys, though she gets visibly tired as it goes on. A few seconds before it's over, she collapses. Undyne and Papyrus gaze down at her. In less than a second, Undyne immediately scoops her up, spins her around, and squeezes her, resting her fishy head on top of the liznerd's lizardy head, an extreme "uwu" expression on Undyne's face. ^w^ Meanwhile, Papyrus has a huge grin on his face, clasping his grinning skully face in his hands. Alphys's eyes are flashing back and forth between hearts and stars.
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Tested negative
Posted 5 years agoI got tested for the 'Rona and it came back negative even though I'm sick. That means it could just be a standard-issue flu.
I'm fighting the Coof
Posted 5 years agoI've been fighting the Coof all week and I'm beating it. Almost over it. Fucking Chi-Coms can't even make a biological weapon that works right! };-P Okay, okay. The 'Rona wasn't designed to depopulate nations. It was designed to wreck economies. Everyone knows that, right? So why are all the law-mongers going along with it? Oh, right. Because they're law-mongers and internationalist pissants. Don't be a cog in the machine of Magog!
Blocked for using an Undertale reference as a metaphor
Posted 5 years agoBlocked again. It's become a trend by this point. As per typical, politics and philosophy had nothing to do with it. My crime? I said that Professor Genki (specifically from Saints Row: The Third, not Saints Row 4) combined Alphys's ingenuity with Mettaton's showmanship. I only meant it as a metaphor (or analogy). That's right. THAT is what I got blocked for. That's how ban-happy certain people on FA are. Are they the majority? Or do I just run into them by happenstance, say the wrong thing, and get blocked? Also, this particular person had all the stuff listed in their profile that they ban people for and I didn't do a single one of those. Why are people so obsessed with rules nowadays and why do they issue "punishments" (read "banishment") even when no rule has been broken? You can't base a real system of "law" on unwritten rules. Are these types of people intentionally trying to illustrate unfairness? Unfairness begets disloyalty, and rightly so. Those who perpetuate unfairness deserve no loyalty. In my domain, we bury that shit in a nameless grave.
Attention you spineless cucks who get offended over nothing and resort to censorship in response (and yes, that counts as a form of censorship). YOU are the ones with the problem, NOT me. Your "one strike and you're out" ethos might be allowed online, but that mode of operation doesn't fly in the real world. If you act like that IRL, then you'll end up burning all the bridges you've ever built. Guess I should explain what that expression means since no one understands metaphors anymore. "Bridges," in this context, means "the connections people build between each other." Mine are strong and have remained strong for years - outside FA, that is (but the ones I've built here have held fast). Why? Because I don't ban or censor anyone, not even people who harass me. Heck, one person started an account just so they could leave a single lame shitpost (if you could call it that) on one of my pics just because it broke a taboo (even though that's pretty much what FA and DA are all about). Instead of retaliating in the predictable fashion and banning this person, I simply said: "Welcome to the jungle, baby!"
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So riddle me this: Who's the more "tolerant?" These spineless cuck ban-mongers who are overly sensitive in all the wrong ways? Or my rough-around-the-edges "John Bender meets Edgar Friendly" self? Speaking of Edgar Friendly, I should probably point out that Demolition Man was a warning, not a blueprint. Cancel Culture, and the weak mentality it produces, should be buried in a nameless grave.
Attention you spineless cucks who get offended over nothing and resort to censorship in response (and yes, that counts as a form of censorship). YOU are the ones with the problem, NOT me. Your "one strike and you're out" ethos might be allowed online, but that mode of operation doesn't fly in the real world. If you act like that IRL, then you'll end up burning all the bridges you've ever built. Guess I should explain what that expression means since no one understands metaphors anymore. "Bridges," in this context, means "the connections people build between each other." Mine are strong and have remained strong for years - outside FA, that is (but the ones I've built here have held fast). Why? Because I don't ban or censor anyone, not even people who harass me. Heck, one person started an account just so they could leave a single lame shitpost (if you could call it that) on one of my pics just because it broke a taboo (even though that's pretty much what FA and DA are all about). Instead of retaliating in the predictable fashion and banning this person, I simply said: "Welcome to the jungle, baby!"
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So riddle me this: Who's the more "tolerant?" These spineless cuck ban-mongers who are overly sensitive in all the wrong ways? Or my rough-around-the-edges "John Bender meets Edgar Friendly" self? Speaking of Edgar Friendly, I should probably point out that Demolition Man was a warning, not a blueprint. Cancel Culture, and the weak mentality it produces, should be buried in a nameless grave.
Fave count going down
Posted 5 years agoI just lost nearly 50 faves (and it's apparently still counting). What does that mean? Why would so many people mass-unfave my stuff like that?
Update: It went down from 1139 to 1095 and seems to have stopped. That means I lost 44 faves. But why would that happen?
Update: It went down from 1139 to 1095 and seems to have stopped. That means I lost 44 faves. But why would that happen?
Mew Mew Poly Dactyly
Posted 5 years agoIn cats, polydactyly is also called "mitten paw." The family that lives upstairs from me has two cats with mitten paw on both of their front paws. It seems to give them an advantage because it means two extra weapons, plus it seems to increase dexterity and grip strength when they climb up things.
Mark Hamill is an internationalist pinko cuck
Posted 5 years agoThe Frog Lady from "The Passenger"
Posted 5 years agoThis won't mean anything to you unless you watch 'The Mandalorian'.
I felt bad for the frog lady! "The Child" isn't callous, just negligent, but what irritates me the most is how it can't follow even the most basic instructions. It keeps eating the eggs even after Din tells it not to do so, which is essentially treason against its protector. Truth be told, I'm tired of Baby Yoda this and Baby Yoda that. I hope Din gets it to some place to call home by the end of season 2 so the story can move on to something new and different. Baby Yoda is useless baggage 90% of the time and, sure, the thing does move the plot forward, but does so by putting other characters in jeopardy. Plus, it's become a marketing mascot by this point. Long story short, I sympathize with the frog lady. And not from a "woke" or "snowflake" perspective. Also notice how Din's nobleness is on full display as he scrambles to get all of the eggs safely back into the protecty-majig, even while spider creatures straight outta Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel are scurrying all around them.
Also, I side with Gina against Pedro. And not just because she's a for-real human Undyne.
I felt bad for the frog lady! "The Child" isn't callous, just negligent, but what irritates me the most is how it can't follow even the most basic instructions. It keeps eating the eggs even after Din tells it not to do so, which is essentially treason against its protector. Truth be told, I'm tired of Baby Yoda this and Baby Yoda that. I hope Din gets it to some place to call home by the end of season 2 so the story can move on to something new and different. Baby Yoda is useless baggage 90% of the time and, sure, the thing does move the plot forward, but does so by putting other characters in jeopardy. Plus, it's become a marketing mascot by this point. Long story short, I sympathize with the frog lady. And not from a "woke" or "snowflake" perspective. Also notice how Din's nobleness is on full display as he scrambles to get all of the eggs safely back into the protecty-majig, even while spider creatures straight outta Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel are scurrying all around them.
Also, I side with Gina against Pedro. And not just because she's a for-real human Undyne.
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