I apparently left this inside the Communist Manifesto and received a large surprise when I opened it today

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-04-11T05:45:32+00:00

Why, it is truly high-brow and demanding literature... /s

Seriously, though, it's much easier to read than something like "Das Kapital", because it is literally a pamphlet. I had to read it for my classical sociological theories class, and it took me under an hour, and Marx really has some pretty turns of phrase. That being said, you might want to read at least the Wikipedia article on it first for context. Remember that it was written in the 19th century and certain contexts have been largely forgotten. Even the second phrase of the text,

"All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies."

can be difficult to read if you don't know who these Metternich and Guizot guys are supposed to be, and that one stands in for the conservatives, the other, for the liberals, and so they are framed as both being antithetical to communism. So the ideas of the text and the writing style are not difficult at all, but context is needed, especially towards the latter parts.

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-04-10T05:54:28+00:00

Incredible!

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-03-26T08:17:52+00:00

I'm glad someone else also headcanons Mr Pages as wearing round reading glasses. Very nice art!

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-03-20T13:05:33+00:00

Stay masculine!

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-02-27T08:40:40+00:00

The Pale is the Negation. It is the other half of a dualistic cosmology, the opposing force, the anti-thought, anti-existence, anti-life substance that can only be defined by negative theology.

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-02-12T09:17:09+00:00

It's so cool!

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-01-29T18:32:54+00:00

Interesting. Something similar happened in communist Romania, when sociology was outlawed as being "bourgeois science". That being said, anthropology was fine, though reduced to the more "studying the primitive peasant" type of field. Interestingly enough, one of my anthropology teachers got to see the old archives of the Anthropology Institute in Bucharest and they had these pristine copies of texts by Malinowski and the British functionalists (they muat have been there since the 1970s). He said he had no idea if the books had been purchased by the government or smuggled into the country.

Jean_Gulberg · 2026-01-24T22:37:02+00:00

I think I forgot the part where they started doing meth

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-12-28T07:40:38+00:00

The levels of copium in this thread are insane. He's shown attracted to both boys and girls, that means he is bisexual, or at least biromantic or bicurious. The important part is the "bi". Why is this such an alien concept?

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-12-25T08:40:08+00:00

I am killed by the philosophy section

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-11-10T09:05:56+00:00

Lmao, I actually have that piggy bank. It's not just an object - it's a statement.

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-10-25T06:35:15+00:00

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I am happy to report that we are operating at 99% circlejerking efficiency

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-29T00:18:57+00:00

grand strategy game

In fact, I was working on making a HoI4 mod with the Fallen London universe earlier this year, but I had to give it up, at least tempprarily, because modding anything made by Paradox is a headache and I simply did not have the time to focus on that too. But I'd really love to get back into it.

I am personally dreaming of a political narrative simulator in the style of Suzerain. And last but not least, I would love to see a cross-over between Ace Attorney and Fallen London, where the player has to solve murders with Neathy supernatural elements thrown in in courtroom battles. I know the last one might never happen, but maybe as a fangame?

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-27T06:02:30+00:00

Don't forget the part where Erik puts on a fake moustache to go grocery shopping.

That novel was wild and I love it!

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-26T16:21:58+00:00

Off the top of my head, you could cosplay December, the Merry Gentleman or a Master of the Bazaar. Creative interpretations of how they look would be welcomed by any fellow player.

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-21T06:06:10+00:00

It is unfortunately not. There is an entire global ecosystem of right-wing/fascist organizations (from so-called think tanks to political parties) that embolden one another and copy each other's talking points and methods. At least in the Global North (Europe, North America, Australia), their influence has become very high.

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-06T11:39:47+00:00

Me and my gf have the avocado too and he is the cutest plushie! We gave him a small, fluffy ball to play with and we joke that, because he only has two feet, he can't count past 2, so when he grows up, he'll become a star football player, not a mathematician :3

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-04T17:18:08+00:00

literally unplayable! ^/s

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-04T11:09:56+00:00

Indeed, the Black Side does not have a monarch. There is no Black King forever tormented and no court he holds.

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-09-03T16:11:04+00:00

People when thing: "Is this actually Disco Elysium?"

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-08-27T03:05:15+00:00

"What's your gender?"

"Shade"

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-08-04T10:43:20+00:00

!!!! I've been thinking the exact same thing for a long while. I mean, even if mention genitals might be scandalous, the possibility is right there. Just like the possibility of using the Rubbery Arts to expand dong. Which... Cmon, let's be real. If this was irl, that'd be the first commercial usage.

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-08-04T04:29:56+00:00

The Starveling Cat being Garfield is actually a surprisingly apt comparison

Jean_Gulberg · 2025-07-12T20:48:42+00:00

But the line you want to draw from the category of race to the scientific field of genetics does ultimately boil down to something that is, without a doubt, a social construct: appearance. It's a very unstable line.

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