Tag: capitalism

• A lesson is learned; the damage is irreversible

  

  This post is the first in a series describing formative moments in my journey to the left. Content notice: liberal handwringing, white existential dread. A Lesson Is Learned but the Damage Is Irreversible is a webcomic by Dale Beran and David Hellman that ran between 2004 and 2013. It depicts a series of increasingly surreal,…

• Review: Disco Elysium

  

  This post contains spoilers for the 2019 video game Disco Elysium. And we drink / ever notice how drinking’s like war / cup o’ troops o’er the gums / to the end of our health, a campaign ‘gainst myself / armed with bourbons and scotches and rums — Moxy Früvous, The Drinking Song It was the…

• Ethical consumption and Hogwarts Legacy

  Preface: don’t buy the wizard game; don’t play the wizard game; don’t stream the wizard game. JK Rowling is a transphobic bigot and as long as she owns the Harry Potter IP, consuming it is a tacit endorsement of her worldview. Source. Choosing not to consume the game is a basic statement of solidarity with…