I'm my own deus ex machina | he/him

I am the only person who understands Metal Gear Solid V
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I would like to publicly announce that I don’t ascribe to record player fudd lore anymore. Go ahead and buy that shitty Victrola all-in-one player, it probably won’t hurt your records actually youtu.be/kZOj-eO8Mvw?is=B5Kl…
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No one believes Russell Brand actually raped anyone. That's what's terrifying.
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Kinda pissed off because America seems to have not researched school resource officer policy at fucking all. Trying to write a paper but you just can’t find studies of incident rates, response times, academic outcomes, etc before-after implementation. Nobody cared ig
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Everything I find reinforces my belief, but it’s all fucking anecdotal. Very few people studied this shit at all, and when they did, they came up inconclusive. Wdym we’ve been running this policy for 40 years with no provable outcomes? Are we all fucking idiots?
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Every study comes to a toss-up saying “There isn’t enough data.” How on earth do hundreds of school districts hire a campus cop across 40 years and not do a performance review? A budget review? An outcomes review?
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Former Teenage Hand Model retweeted
Very embarrassing for Julian. A one sided internet beef between two dudes who’s combined age is 99. The older one gave up on artistic integrity because the one they call melon said he shouldn’t use ai to make album covers. The song and album are not good so Fantano is 2-0
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Thank you QOTSA for releasing your worst and shortest album ever and then teasing even more terrible deluxe edition songs less than 2 weeks later
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Replying to @volkmardeadguy
Yeah, he admits it to Walt during one of their conversations in the lab
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GTA VI is a console exclusive that “targets 30fps” on consoles that were sold with 4k 120fps on the box. Super fucking embarrassing for everyone involved
Grand Theft Auto VI - targeting 30 FPS PS5 Pro - PSSR and ray-traced shadows supported Xbox Cloud Gaming supported & remote play support on PS5/Xbox rockstargames.com/newswire/a…
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I do think there’s a chance Trump 2.5 just rolls over and gives the left populists a field day, in hopes that he’ll avoid spending the last <10 years of his life in court and maybe even get to keep his name on a few buildings
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This whole second term has been about his legacy. He has 2 options now. Play Mr. Veto and spend the rest of his life answering to subpoenas and having his family’s pet projects and businesses torn down, or he can just sign whatever and keep building his ball room probably
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It’s been less than a week and he’s already rugpulling ICE for free, basically
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What if this is the end of the spiral? Paradoxical self-justifying autofiction? A demiurge that writes itself into being from outside our dimension. Scratch, Tom, Alan, all him, always traveling to and from a singularity beyond time to justify and grapple with its own existence
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I wonder if Alan is going to bring his life story full circle in AW3 (Wow look at that acronym). In AW2, he affected Alex Casey’s past with the Cult of the Word. In AW3, will he retell his own history to find Alice in the Dark Place, thus causing his past self to meet Alice?
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What if this is the end of the spiral? Paradoxical self-justifying autofiction? A demiurge that writes itself into being from outside our dimension. Scratch, Tom, Alan, all him, always traveling to and from a singularity beyond time to justify and grapple with its own existence
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Alan really is the modern archetype for this sort of character. A beloved storyteller and warrior who is both kind and cruel, struggles with self-obsession and his earthly muse. He’s a mythological hero who becomes a trickster god
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Obviously there’s plenty of literal dementia in AW2, but the dementia patients you meet are mostly harmed by Alan’s writing. Pat didn’t forget Wendy died. Cynthia didn’t lose the Angel Lamp or forget Tom’s job, it all changed around them, like Saga and Watery
I don’t think I’ve seen anyone discuss Alan Wake 2 being about dementia. Aging, sure. But the Dark Place is dementia. Alan loses time, his reality is makes no sense, he lashes out, hurts people, terrorizes Alice, but they still care for him. Everyone knows that’s not him.
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This is really what seats most of AW2’s story neatly into place. Everything is retconned. Tom did and didn’t exist, he was and wasn’t a poet, Diver’s Isle did and didn’t sink, Saga did and didn’t live in Watery. The town is made of people and places with competing histories.
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