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i'm really close to pulling the trigger on a high-end steam deck for the holidays. thinking of it as a nice 10+ year investment on games since i've been historically locked on Nintendo consoles (aside from a brief PS3 excursion in college). the final bits that convinced me is:

a) it's apparently got emulation capabilities and built off of linux so even when i burn through the "big" titles, it's effectively a permanent library if the storage is big enough and might give my (also linux) laptop a bit of a break. (fe:fates revelation on the big flatscreen tv??? hell yes)

b) speaking of, having a way of playing PC titles on the TV with a gamecube/switch controller? so worth it alone for that reason.

c) it'll be a great way to complete 4chan's top 150 games of all time challenge which is genuinely something i want to try to accomplish. finally getting a chance to see what classic Halo is all about? dishonored 2??? RDR2? poggers.

between that and the recent gamecube + emulation spree i am set for life with games lol. anyway, games on the wishlist so far:

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I’m nervous at night when I take off my leg. I wait until the last moment before sleep to un-tech because I am a woman who lives alone and has been stalked, so I don’t feel safe in my home on crutches. How would I run? How would I fight back? Instead of taking Klonopin, I read the Economist. The tone is detached. There is war, but always elsewhere.

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When I tell people I am a cyborg, they often ask if I have read Donna Haraway’s ‘A Cyborg Manifesto’. Of course I have read it. And I disagree with it. The manifesto, published in 1985, promised a cyberfeminist resistance. The resistance would be networked and coded by women and for women to change the course of history and derange sexism beyond recognition. Technology would un-gender us. Instead, it has been so effective at erasing disabled women¹ that even now, in conversation with many feminists, I am no longer surprised that disability does not figure into their notions of bodies and embodiment. Haraway’s manifesto lays claim to cyborgs (‘we are all cyborgs’) and defines the cyborg unilaterally through metaphor. To Haraway, the cyborg is a matter of fiction, a struggle over life and death, a modern war orgy, a map, a condensed image, a creature without gender. The manifesto coopts cyborg identity while eliminating reference to disabled people on which the notion of the cyborg is premised. Disabled people who use tech to live are cyborgs. Our lives are not metaphors.

Common Cyborg (via queenlua )

(whole essay's worth a read)

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back when i was Hella More plugged in to comics twitter

i remember a post of an indie-comics artist-turned-pro-animator who posted "why did i choose the ONE medium that took MORE time than comics lolsob'

and god i feel their pain lmao. comics!!! never again!!!!

(anyway, currently at the 'moaning and dying in the desert editing stage' with the FE comic with the self imposed deadline of finishing this by next thursday....... it;s uh. gonna be close. part of it is i'm stressing out about [other freelance deadline]. i am staring at the work calendar rn debating if i ought to take PTO the day before knowing the propensity of working right up until the night before.... orz) 

ON THE POSITIVE side i drew two hawt ziharks in panels that weren't working before, and i did some needful simplifyin' this weekend. \o/