I read these as well as Primo Levi's the drowned and the saved and I think it permanently altered how I view the entire world...

half-remembering a meme about how if you ignore the environment or assume it to be equal you'd come to the conclusion that most popes have been italian because of some genetic predisposition towards popery present in the people of italy. in isolation IQ tests are basically just that

alternatively we as a society could realize that fiction is about playing with dolls and that horrible things happening to them doesn't matter because it's all toys.

but that seems more complicated than just bringing back big box PC games and publishing books alongside them

Unlike the others, GOG said this. Also unlike the others, GOG is not American and thus has access to payment providers beyond just visa and mastercard.

I think it might be downwind of Epic codes but we are trying to get comment from Humble about it. aftermath.site/horses-steam...

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever