kontextmaschine

Since it little pleased the king that his son, abandoning the controlled streets, roamed the countryside to form his own opinion about the world, he gave him a wagon and horse. ‘Now you need no longer go on foot’ were his words. ‘Now you may no longer’ was their meaning. ‘Now you can no longer’ was their effect.

Uh, have you ever seen Mallrats? Go watch Mallrats.

“swoop from overhead map down into first person view” is definitely the thing that’s gonna shout “2010s vidya”

people like “what if they 3D print the next generation of weapons” ok, what if they 3D print the last?

like, we’ve been doing modern war for a century now, lotta good ideas bottlenecked on steel or skilled labor that wouldn’t be an issue now

durable, doesn’t depend on access to built-up logistics chains (if EVEN you overran a base, can you fuel and repair gas turbine engines?)

there was a WIRED article a bit ago like “we TRIED to make an AR-15 on our own but not quite there yet”, and like, if your manufacturing tech’s “not quite there” on an AR?

YOU MAKE AN AK

expressions-of-nature:

by Nikolai Shahmantsir

overheard: “yeah I’d rather BREED with her, but who’m I gonna EJACULATE in, is the thing”

Christ do I HAVE to start in on 17776, this is gonna be SO tedious

caught some of the semifinals tonight, all the girls got their hair did well

I suspect the culprit… unrestricted franchise democracy

mitigatedchaos:

kontextmaschine:

I know exactly which missive from a friend two posts up prompted this and what the fuck, Facebook

I suspect the culprit… unrestricted franchise democracy

Interesting.

she listed today’s frustrations capped off with “i want to die”, I guess the algorithm thought it was performative but still worth directing attention to

they protec
they attac
those turtle boys
don’t cut ‘em no slac

someone was so thoughtful as to educate us

thenewinquiry:

Our August issue theme is PATRIOTS. Submissions are open until end of day Sunday–send us a pitch! 

Full submission guidelines here: https://thenewinquiry.com/submit-to-tni/

Here are some keywords to get you thinking:

Deflategate, Tom Brady, Colin Kaepernick, Comey Is My Homey, Reality Winner, Wonder Woman, Patriots For Hillary, Olympians, Ryan Lochte, The Internationale, Ode to Joy, flag-burning, “the working men have no country,” brotherhoods and fatherlands, There’s No Place Like America Today, half-time shows, apple pie, baseball, national parks, This Land is Your Land, This Land is My Land, Norman Rockwell, national treasure, America’s Funniest Home Videos, American Idol, Quantico, The Spook Who Sat by The Door, 24, Hamilton, Black Reconstruction, Black nationalism, Pan-Africanism, Buffalo Soldiers, Black Jacobins, Ahmed Mohamed, separation of church and state, freedom of speech, The Young Patriots Organization, veterans at Standing Rock, Native enrollment in the armed forces, turncoats, Redcoats, Redneck Revolt, the death of the Bolivarian dream, EZLN and Marichuy, a city upon a hill, the War on Drugs, trickle-down policy, super-criminal, welfare queen, USA Patriot Act, vigilante surveillance, police unions, Justin Trudeau, Westphalian sovereignty, alibis for intervention, Zionism and Anti-Zionism, Zionist pinkwashing, settler colonialism, shoot to maim, shoot to kill, torture, tabloids, cable news, “It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty,” border control, investor visas, O visas, Alien of Extraordinary Ability, deep state, state secrets, Native informants, confidential informants, treason, jury duty, cop funerals, voter ID laws, lynching, thieves, “Get the government out of my Medicaid!”, support our troops, Romanesque architecture, Jesusland, the death penalty, secessionists, Dixie, Manifest Destiny, the free press is the white press, Mall of America, Hooters, Minutemen, the white working class, missionary position, ketchup, melting pot, Phyllis Wheatley, “Cast down your bucket,” safety pins

Thank you, and we look forward to hearing from you, TNI

mattfrith:

Some simple isometric tiles for some buildings in various states of decay. I was thinking about designing some sort of board game with them but never really got round to it.

black-cat-aoife:

I feel the need to share this important piece of information I learned in the chocolate museum

Smokejumpers are cool, and when I went east to Missoula I def. noticed they were a bigger part of local culture, in the areas where most of the good jobs are with the Forest Service anyway. But past that, not really something I’m solid on.

sharpestrose:

jasper-rolls:

don’t put a fishing mini game in your game. just don’t. don’t fucking put any fishing mini game in your fucking game. no-one likes fishing mini games except the people who bought sega bass fishing and were forced to mentally rewire themselves to think they were having fun. it is never fun to sit around for 40 years waiting for a fucking garbage fish to pick up the lure. just don’t do it. don’t have a fishing mini game. just don’t. don’t do it. i can’t stress this enough. do not ever fucking do it

Well we’ve had some pretty intense wildfires lately and there’s speculation it’ll get even worse.

femmenietzsche:

TIL that H.G. Wells wrote a rulebook for miniature wargaming called Little Wars (A Game for Boys from twelve years of age to one hundred and fifty
and for that more intelligent sort of girl who likes boys’ games and books).

A… Little Wars game sees rival commanders bombard their adversaries with matchsticks, fired with little spring-loaded triggers in the tiny cannons. Careful measurements from where the matches land decide the number of victims.

This is looked on with disapproval by some modern war gamers, who prefer theoretical bombardments worked out with distance tables.  

Phil Barker, a celebrated deviser of modern games, acknowledges Wells’s role in “showing it could be done - and giving grown men an excuse to play with toy soldiers”.

But he adds: “Combat was based on shooting solid projectiles at the figures. Today, this would be discouraged because of the risk of someone getting a projectile in the eye, but it was the chance of damage to the finish of lovingly home-painted figures that led to the switch to less lethal dice.”