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Erato
@eratoheti.bsky.social
Bitter and paranoid. Mind the barbed wire fence thats just to keep the reactionary dogs out. Welcome in!

Sometimes I stream. I mostly plan to use this spot for game journaling!

Communist ☭
ill have to give this a try
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
aint that that game where u talk to the living statue but its chat GPT and its a text adventure game
November 20, 2025 at 2:58 PM
i want to amend something but im not 'haunted at my own pace' per se, im just haunted more by the spectre of communism than beauty. (i know its memey to say im just trying to keep myself honest here)
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 AM
nah dont be down on yourself you nailed it GG
November 20, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Somehow pieces like this reinform a strong appreciation I have towards some really classic literature like Gullivers Travels or Don Quixote. The fact people hundreds of years ago where able to touch on the grossness of man or her mental whimsy without this overbearing hatefulness. Idk.
November 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
I think the Repressor reveals the fact that whoever made this is more like BDD Boymoder than they want to admit. We are not on some time clock like that like calm down girl lol.
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 AM
the awkward beauty of that game is i think found in the face of conflicting motives. people are never quite on the same page. but at some point it becomes a good story about learning to love through banditry. you dont need to agree how to spend all the cash as long as you rob enough from the train ❤️
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 PM
but they persevere and find each other again, a lot of them do, because they realize how deeply intertwined they were. the awkward failure of the dutch van der land gang haunts them all.

the heteronormative reading is 'a relationship through thick and thin' and it never sat right with me.
November 19, 2025 at 9:14 PM
i was thinking on the way home that love often is about memory fusing in with care. john marston and abigail have a full on divorce before their wedding in RDR2 and he basically has to prove that hes overcome the rot of his past memories. abigail is basically trying to beg him to stop being a micah.
November 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
in fact i revel in it. it means i got through my 20s without letting that warlord of vanity narcissus into my mental palace and whore me out on the web for a couple benjis. not saying that its morally Bad to do but i just think it wouldve haunted me too much. i can haunt my soul at my own pace.
November 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
i just dont want to be confused with those dolls that hate themselves and think they should have never done it. thats not me. i do look like if saul goodman played snow whites Evil Queen but im chill with that. im not sitting around crying about my lack of prettiness.
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Im not quite all the way there like that though. Im what people kindly refer to as a girl failure (not a failed girl)
November 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Im a jew i dont know happiness. everything i do is out of spite unless its maths. Numbers are a beautiful thing.
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Youre real for that one
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
i end up hanging pieces in the process and its a Thing. also my general mental health is not great rn in part because im getting intelligence anxiety and stressing myself out as a knock on effect and have a horrible sleep schedule and other stuff going on so im retiring the chess project for now.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 AM
i think i will play maybe 4 or 5 games of rapid a day instead of like 30... this just isnt working and i have to admit part of the problem is long term impatience in a game. i just want a lot of winning games to be over because theres 6 minutes on the opponents clock and they are taking too long...
November 19, 2025 at 5:44 AM
plus they have drills for it like puzzles etc. so you 'feel' 200 elo points weaker because everyone else got 200 elo points better.
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
secondly im losing a lot because while trying to follow basic fundamentals like 'develop' etc. i seem to lose 1 more piece than my opponent by the end of the game and they play the endgame properly. it turns out 600s and 700s actually know how to do endgames now because they practiced during covid.
November 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
ok i give up on trying to marathon this, rapid games are usually around 15 minutes long and playing back to back chess games is not good for focus and climbing. so even if you went on a huge win streak youre looking at 30 hours of chess or so to go up 200 elo. it takes forever and so does each game.
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 AM
ok i finally got out of the really stupid and admittedly self inflicted sub 700 elo hellspace
November 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
sorry i spelled your name wrong i was just excited :<
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM