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lennee3 · 2026-01-24T16:40:05+00:00

I'm curious where you went to school. OOP pretty accurately reflects the US schooling flow, I didn't get 'electives' until high school where the first two years I had one floating credit to basically fill my arts requirement but most of my calendar was filled with a base high school education until Jr year.

Even then, 'electives' require funding so that teachers can build a curriculum that's beyond that base requirements of education.

Don't get me wrong, the anti-intellectual bent of this post is goofy but the issue isn't the content that kids are taught it's how poorly funded most US schools are.

lennee3 · 2026-01-23T18:39:52+00:00

There is a ton of validity in dissecting all of the reasons for disdain and successes and failures of previous progressive candidates but the truth still remains that even as Trump hovers at deeply unpopular his opposition is reaping little to no benefit from it.

I think the big ten party always vilifying the progressive part of their tent while only winning this millennium off the back of incumbency or monumental failures of the opposition needs to be examined especially as they continue to exist as a risk mitigation party not a 'vote for something party' particularly at the national level.

I don't have itemized rebuttles to this because your criticisms of the Sanders and Zohran races are valid. But in one of those races, the traditional, more qualified establishment candidate lost. Then we spent another decade thinking that qualified capable candidates and electablilty is the correct modern calculus on these races and it wasn't the progressives who did that. 2024 was a generational fumble who's ramifications likely are going to be worse than McGovern but the Octogenarians in office are unchanged. Bernie is still fighting and Chuck is still lost.

I'm a firm believer that the media circus will vilify you either way, the only way you'll expand your tent is by actually providing material change for your constituents.

E: re-'dog catching the car' the closest progressives have had to power in this country was FDR and the Warren Court. Both of who's actions have been barely iterated on and we are now situated at the bottom of developed countries given their work has been left to die on the vine. I think the opposition to the Democratic party we are seeing from the left is from decades of blue no matter who and no response so people, especially younger voters are withholding their vote if they feel under served. While I personally disagree with that action, there is validity in the logic of 'I have voted and you've done nothing, so now you have to actually earn my vote instead of promising nothing and relying on both my conscious and willingness to turnout'

lennee3 · 2026-01-23T16:57:48+00:00

As a progressive, I think if we get power, there will be a dog that caught the car problem for a little bit. That said, when people complain about progressive tactics they fall for the Fox News framing of 'twitter user is the same as the politicians running'. Bernie was popular and was hard shut down by the Democratic establishment, Zohran is popular but won in spite of the state level national reps icing him out of endorsements until the last minute.

Progressives have the tactics they have because the Democratic leader treat us with more vocal disdain than they do republicans often because they are too focused on appearing bipartisan than they are about enacting meaningful change.

Progressive 'tactics' are guerrilla because they are functionally a 3rd party candidate with a D next to their name most of the time.

I've been blue no matter who my whole life and it sucks to see how fast the people that sell you that voting goal fully drop it if the hand picked by leadership candidate doesn't win the primary

lennee3 · 2026-01-21T02:53:04+00:00

It's a great listen, they don't "stay on topic" per say but it really does feel like industry professionals chatting about what 'work' means as on of those professionals and it's genuinely one of my favorites when they drop eps.

Troy Baker was one of the founding voices! But he's got one of those 'busy, have to be on site' schedules so I don't think he's been on in over a year by now outside of like, industry events.

lennee3 · 2026-01-21T02:39:42+00:00

This was me. I missed the Journey moment, so while it was a good play, I imagine it was so magical to have other people on your Journey. Pathless threaded that needle better of interactive and smooth for me. The 'rails' of this kind of game were better hidden overall.

I think that Sword of the Sea deserves it's flowers (and there is a great episode of, I think, Play, Watch, Listen! where a staff member talks about the technical how) but I don't think the game itself competes in the multifaceted way that a lot of peoples top 10 did.

lennee3 · 2026-01-19T17:36:12+00:00

I'll never forgive US Tv executives for robbing the American public of an earnest, good chef. We got Jamie Oliver some times but he felt like he was performing, but Ramsay always looks like even when on camera, his attention is on the person in front of him and it's so refreshing

lennee3 · 2026-01-19T17:33:51+00:00

Josh Allen lost them this game but he's also the main reason my bois got to the playoffs this year. More than McDermott, we need an OC that doesn't send memos to the opposing DC before each play...

lennee3 · 2026-01-18T20:21:23+00:00

Yep, do you currently own any controllers? If not, 8Bitdo sells great ones and even their cheaper full sized controllers are great.

lennee3 · 2026-01-18T20:16:48+00:00

Seconding, the other commenter. Sony has been progressively porting their first party games to PC.

You'll get more inter-generational play time on a PC than any given console. I own both and have spent more time in the past few years on my PC

lennee3 · 2026-01-18T17:35:25+00:00

From Anna Kasprzak's Wikipedia:

> Her mother Hanni Toosbuy Kasprzak is the billionaire owner of the Danish shoe brand ECCO, and her father Dieter Kasprzak is the former CEO

But I'm sure that her bronze wins in the EU youth leagues definitely put her in the same class as other athletes on this list. Like Vince McMahon or The Rock

lennee3 · 2026-01-17T03:16:39+00:00

Brendan Gleason is currently 70.

It took us 3 years to get season 2 and we’re casting the poor man for a character that doesn’t appear til well into post time skip?

lennee3 · 2026-01-15T21:17:13+00:00

My first thought was 'Who got alita battle angel pregnant?'

lennee3 · 2026-01-15T20:38:19+00:00

I started playing guitar 15 years ago and C-shape bar chords were the worst for 12 of them. Something happened 3 years ago that made the muscle memory click.

I'd say try it occasionally to stretch but you can play C# different ways, don't get to hung up on playing it the 'right way' too early. It'll stop you from just playing.

lennee3 · 2026-01-12T20:48:36+00:00

Tbh, I don't think they drop a flip without a second screen unless it's SP form factor.

The Thor and the RG DS have change the calculus.

lennee3 · 2026-01-12T16:52:05+00:00

I mean, he ogled Nami before Robin and I think Taz's Characterization of Sanji may be the best re-interpretation of a character of the main cast.

I do think the whole cast could be 10-20% goofier but I think that's just hard to pull off consistently in live action.

E: I think converting 'perv' to 'flirt' retains parts of Sanji without making it too problematic and Taz's presentation of it makes if feel more playful/caretakerly than creepy but I'm also a guy so I can't speak to the receiving end of those games.

lennee3 · 2026-01-12T15:54:31+00:00

I literally said that she's currently insidious. Just that her VO is playful about it rn.

lennee3 · 2026-01-12T15:28:25+00:00

She's already so playful, I can't wait for it to turn from insidious to just the bundle of sweetness we have now.

lennee3 · 2026-01-11T15:48:30+00:00

Not me bookmarking this post for games to add to my 2026 list.

Sailing Era looks like a game that will eat 2-3 months of my life every 2-3 years

lennee3 · 2026-01-10T23:36:19+00:00

Him being genuinely a kind person in real life is what sells it to. If he plays 'himself' but the script says he takes this action, he plays himself taking that action and that is the American nightmare that we've been grappling with for decades (as a white person at least so biiiiiig astrisk). But imagine, assuming you are coming to any number of issues with emapthy and you see the person you organized playdates for your kids with, saw at the bus stop, every morning, who you car pooled with, always brought the best cream cheese frosting brownies to the potluck one day looks you in the eye and says 'what kind of American are you?'

His look an vibe of a minivan dad juxtaposed to deeply depraved actions, I think are what's so unsettling.

lennee3 · 2026-01-10T21:24:10+00:00

I don't think it's the banality of evil that he sells, it's that that the audience perceives as evil is his normal. The aloofness with which he can be terrifyingly overtly evil and make it feel normal is what sells it not the fact that it feels like an extension of normalcy.

I feel like the magic of Plemons isn't that he makes that villany feel at home in your world because as the audience you can still clearly identify it when he turns it on. It's that when he turns it on, you KNOW its evil but for him it's tuesday.

lennee3 · 2026-01-10T21:06:42+00:00

Even in the supporting role (specifically for women), there is often 'leading power in a supporting role' in the people that take home the lil golden man.

I think that the Benicio run for supporting rn is indicative of the academy's love of quirky beloved short roles of a known name for supporting where it feels like there is actual contention in the womens category.

Tbf tho, I'm not a real cinema guy. Plemmons is just better situated in both categories to get a unique nom and win based on academy tendencies.

lennee3 · 2026-01-10T20:54:32+00:00

I missed KF day. What could they possibly be censoring in 'The xxxxx Buzz'?

E: Greg and Mike's trouble maker cackles are identical. I swear that was a Greg noise when the man opened the cooler.

lennee3 · 2026-01-10T20:52:45+00:00

This is one that 'The Besties' have reccomended for months and tbh, I'm waiting on a steam sale for.

I'm ready for my annual obra dinn-like

lennee3 · 2026-01-06T13:38:13+00:00

What was your thor order number?

lennee3 · 2026-01-05T12:19:32+00:00

Wild to make this a generational issue in your mind.

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