rustyfish

A video game has its own model of reality, internal to itself and separate from the player’s external reality, the player’s bodily space and the avatar’s bodily space. (1) The avatar’s bodily space, the potential actions of the avatar in the game world, is the only way in which the reality of the external reality of the game world can be perceived.

Back in university I had a couple of classes in linguistics and “medieval German”. At the end of every semester I had to write 1-3 papers, each one roughly 12 to 15 pages long. This was a requirement to questions that sometimes could be answered in like 3 pages.

So I started stretching one sentence into two. Two into four. They got longer and longer. Until they read like the most brain dead, pretentious shit imaginable. And I got goooood at it. So I recognise that crap when I see it. The author did exactly the same. Fuck that guy.

Yes. If the people of Ukraine are done with the vicious pounding they are giving Russia, its leaders and their already terrible image, it’s up to them to decide that. You have no saying in that. Nor made up statistics and lies about Ukraine and the Ukrainian people.