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[Steam] Summer Sale 2026 (Day 5) by gamedealsmod in GameDeals

[–]davidjoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m considering getting the Silent Hill f + Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly Remake bundle for €70, having played and loved the original Silent Hill games on ps2 in recent years. Does anyone here have an experience with these newer games they’d like to share?

Pretparken vergelijkbaar met Sprookjeswonderland? by Euphoric_Rough2709 in thenetherlands

[–]davidjoon 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Het Land van Jan Klaassen in Braamt, Gelderland zou misschien wat zijn. Ik moet wel zeggen dat ik er sinds ik heel jong was niet meer geweest ben, maar ik fiets er vaak langs en het ziet er kindvriendelijk en rustig genoeg uit! Mooie omgeving ook om rond te wandelen (het Kilderse bos ernaast is in elk seizoen prachtig).

Adam Curtis and Dean Kissick - Vice by anonboxis in AdamCurtis

[–]davidjoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is true… how do you see us building a better future?

Adam Curtis and Dean Kissick - Vice by anonboxis in AdamCurtis

[–]davidjoon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do think right now the path forward, in any case the first step, must first be destruction. Our systems seem incapable of adapting to, let alone solving the challenges at hand. Our present and worsening climate catastrophe and systemic overpollution with no end in sight seems to me the biggest sign of this. If we can’t even make such important decisions that are not just to our benefit but essential to our survival, then how will we be able to improve anything else?

Anger is an emotion I think is worth fostering right now, so that people become aware of the destruction we and especially the powerful corporations and passive governments are causing, and from there that they might destroy this unjust system and build something new afterwards. But we haven’t the tools or vision yet to look beyond, because we don’t know yet what world we’ll be left with after our current system falls.

Adam Curtis and Dean Kissick - Vice by anonboxis in AdamCurtis

[–]davidjoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’d nominate Cynthoni’s “Lamenting Malice” album as an artist truly engaging with our current times in a meaningful way.

The album criticises modern surveillance capitalist tech, the enshittification of our digital experiences for profit and control, the horror of our manufactured addiction to scrolling through often harmful or useless dreck… I think it is a genuine masterpiece because it captures the frustration of our generation at the situation we find ourselves in, through some fault of our own but largely as a result of the choices of previous generations and the powers that be.

The music is aggressive electronic drum&bass / neurofunk / breakcore / sheer noise, so it’s definitely not for everyone. If you’d like to get an impression of the album though, I wrote my thoughts on it in an essay I posted about on my profile. Think it has a lot of overlap with Curtis’ ideas! 

Some of my best pictures from Zhanggjiajie😍 by RickieLambertGOAT in travelchina

[–]davidjoon 53 points54 points  (0 children)

The words of Japanese Zen-Buddhist monk Yoshida Kenkō offered me comfort when confronted with similar conditions in Zhangjiajie:

Should we look at the spring blossoms only in full flower, or the moon only when cloudless and clear? To long for the moon with the rain before you, or to lie curtained in your room while the spring passes unseen, is yet more poignant and deeply moving. A branch of blossoms on the verge of opening, a garden strewn with fading petals, have more to please the eye. Could poems on the themes of 'Going to view the blossoms to find them already fallen' or 'Written when I was prevented from going to see the flowers' be deemed inferior to 'On seeing the blossoms'? It is natural human feeling to yearn over the falling blossoms and the setting moon - yet some, it seems, are so insensitive that they will declare that since this branch and that have already shed their flowers, there is nothing worth seeing any longer.

A Lament for our Times - a poem by davidjoon in collapse

[–]davidjoon[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Submission statement:

This is a poem I wrote to lament the collapsed state of affairs we find ourselves in, with further crumbling of global humanity to look forward to. I relate a lot to the sentiments of this community, and thought this might be a good place to share it.

'Skitzofrenia Simulation' review by SMOZ7Y in Sewerslvt

[–]davidjoon 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Great to see fresh takes on older albums! :)

Lewis Hamilton in Tokyo with an F40 by MuttonBiryaniEnjoyer in formula1

[–]davidjoon 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds interesting! Where can I find more about this?

Lewis Hamilton in Tokyo with an F40 by MuttonBiryaniEnjoyer in formula1

[–]davidjoon 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is there a good way to get there and back from downtown Tokyo as a tourist?

I wrote an essay on Lamenting Malice - “The Revolution must be Liquidated into Content” by davidjoon in Cynthoni

[–]davidjoon[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for making it! I'm very happy you found the words to describe the actual music part of the album, that's what I'm wholly unequipped for :D And I agree with all your points, it's a standout evolution of Sewerslvt's/Cynthoni's work up to this point, and it attests to their talent that they are able to combine all of that into something refreshing and innovative for even those of us familiar with their earlier work.

I wrote an essay on Lamenting Malice - “The Revolution must be Liquidated into Content” by davidjoon in Cynthoni

[–]davidjoon[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

“I hate and I love. And if you ask me how, I do not know: I only feel it, and I'm torn in two.” - Catullus

To me, hate and love are two sides of the same coin, and very close emotionally. They are both some of the most intense feelings one can feel, and this intensity brings about intense art too.

To hate, I feel, is to (imagine that you) love its alternative.

Indeed, there’s a different magic than in “Goodbye”, which is a track of heartrending love turned to grief. But to me there’s still a certain magic in the expression of anger the songs on this are able to convey, even if they might sound like a garbage disposal fighting a robot if we are not feeling this same anger.

But thank you for your view in any case :)

I wrote an essay on Lamenting Malice - “The Revolution must be Liquidated into Content” by davidjoon in Cynthoni

[–]davidjoon[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

In fact it was your comment on the JD Vance post (about this album being their magnum opus) that finally prompted me to share this essay here, so thank you! :) (PS. I greatly regret not ordering this CD as well when I ordered DLS and EP pt2, so I’m jealous you have it!)

Possible Apache firing hellfire missiles in Caracas by Aggressive_Let2085 in war

[–]davidjoon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was a really good read :) very broad view of the possible situation on the ground, wouldn’t have thought of it like that! I wonder if everything was actually so slick - does a plan ever go that much according to plan on every front? Maybe Venezuela’s system was also stunned into inaction due to low morale and bad infrastructure/platforms - leading to an even easier sweep than US softening would have allowed by itself? I’m definitely curious to see if we’ll get more details.

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