If you check your account page you should have a section to fill out your info + your shill-o-metre.

You need to level up the shill-o-metre in order to get a pay rise.

you get your pay roughly on 10th-12th every month.

I’m going with a Githyanki Melee focused Warlock build running pact of the blade with the plan being to use the lv 2 spell darkness with devil’s sight to fight enemies up close while having eldrich blast to fight at range and cover me when my darkness is down.

I’m downloading the game right now so it should be ready in a few hours. I’m pretty damn excited.

I mourn the fall of the USSR every single day because of shit like this.

“I wonder to which extent (the) CIA is responsible for the widespread of American-made cultural products, like pop music, rock and fast foods, and which artistic or cultural movements became influential through artificial means.”

I’m willing to wager they influence it far more than we think. Given military involvement in Hollywood and competitive FPS gaming it’s very much not out of the question for them to have influence in other forms of art and entertainment. Especially with china’s entertainment industry on the rise with tiktok blowing up and video games like genshin impact being immensely successful, we have been and will continue to see an increase in state interest and involvement in art and entertainment.

I was a “Free Market Libertarian” for most of my adolescence. Mainly because the selling point of individualism to a outcasted socially awkward autistic queer kid was a massive power fantasy. What happened was two things.

1. real life and experience with real people who didn’t hate my guts (no pun intended).
2. My vaguely socialist/social democratic irish republican father. I came from a pretty well off family of teachers and other academics so money wasn’t a major issue (until recently at least) and i was pretty sheltered as a result. Combine that with plagues like r/PCM and other internet personalities and you have a dumb kid who thinks he’s smart but unable to see through the bullshit because the height of her struggles was people at school thought they were weird and a couple of mental health incidents related to being outcasted or treated poorly. I had no real lived experience and as such just spouted bs because the internet forum guys made a half assed argument and i bought into it.

But then, real life happened. My friends start being directly affected by capitalism, as i got out more i started to directly see people struggling, as i got more involved with other queer youth and pride and the like it only became even more apparent and then, a mentor i looked up to and helped me so much through rekindling my love for reading and my love for the world takes her own life over the stress of keeping a stable living. That was the breaking point where i couldn’t lie to myself any longer. This is where my da comes in. I was ranting away about how abhorrent it was that a society could just let someone down that hard and how her death was completely avoidable and unnecessary it was. This lead to a long conversation of him telling stories of his involvement in left leaning movements and irish republican movements in his life. I was always pretty patriotic and that seed of an idea of “end all unnecessary suffering in Ireland” being a serious, attainable goal rather than just a naive fantasy really broke a lot of mental boundaries that liberal ideology had instilled within me. This lead to me to getting into different leftist spaces eventually reading lenin’s state and rev and joining r/genzedong.

I’ve come along way since then and I’d just like to thank you guys for being unfathomably based and stuff like book recommendations over the past 2 years of shitposting, it’s been a real inspiration to go out and make real change in the world.