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@haedraulics.bsky.social

24 / toronto / 🇻🇳 / public record of my cognitive decline currently organizing @verysincerelyyours.bsky.social

one of the biggest things i’ve learned from my work in politics this summer is to never take your own political education for granted. so many connections and ways of thinking seem second nature to me when they’re really not for most people, and the work and patience and exasperation it takes-

yakuza is such a funny franchise because it’s so dogshit at writing female characters but at the same time it’s genuinely curious and deconstructive about masculine norms and relations in a way that notably stands out from the rest of the games industry. first woke misogynist game

avatar movie was very intensely beautiful and i love all of my pookies dearly but it suffers from terminal marvel dialogue and breakneck pacing without much breathing room. very unsubtle in its messaging and overall feels catered to short attention spans but it was a fantastic visual spectacle

HELLO! COMMS OPEN! DIFFERENT TYPES AVAILABLE! One of my cats is sick, needs meds and on top of that we rescued a little kitty from the stray dogs in our neighbourhood. We need as much money as we can get to pay our bills. LINKS BELOW. SHARING IS SO APPRECIATED!

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everytime someone praises the verisimilitude of yakuza’s kamurocho map, i fantasize about a game set in saigon with a faithful recreation of it’s dense alleys and landmarks… i don’t even know what the game dev scene is like in vietnam but there’s a real appetite for digital tourism

the homosocial dynamics of the yakuza are captivating to me in the way military cultures are, especially with the exaggerated male-to-male performances of submission and the explicit familial language. there’s also something to be said about oya-ko sakazuki being comparable to weddings between men.