Better yet, don’t even mention a child. Just invite all your friends to a Genital Reveal Party and see what happens.
Yes, it is I, reclusive author Thomas Pynchon
Better yet, don’t even mention a child. Just invite all your friends to a Genital Reveal Party and see what happens.
I motion we re-name them “genital reveal parties”
Same reason they invented Israel IRL: So nations around the world can turn away boatloads of Jewish refugees in the event of another genocide and so “the international community” can have a pro-West power in the Middle East.
I had a friend who had a Krait. Crewing up with myself in a deployed fighter and another friend of ours on the guns back in the Krait was lots of fun.
I wanted a Fer-de-Lance but was never in a system that had one while I had the credits to buy one
I never got the hang of bigger ships. I think the biggest one I had was a Type-7. I think I had a Federal Dropship at one point but I didn’t get any use out of it.
Lakon Diamondback Explorer
OR
Faulcon DeLacy Cobra Mk III (Specifically MY Cobra Mk III)
Nice story, tell it to reader’s digest!
So Epic games can just cut 830 people because they’re “spending way more than they earn” and nobody bats an eye. But when I cut 830 people because I spend way more than I earn, I’m “committing assault” and am “a menace to society.”
I’m no expert on the lives of the revolutionaries, but to take an educated guess: publishing.
There’s a lot of time to think when you’re in exile, and thinkers tend to write. They almost certainly struggled, as publishing isn’t the most stable source of income, but it’s something.
So the problem with thinking about “hippies” is that we’ve kinda been handed a shitload of people with otherwise nothing in common except a penchant for psychedelic drugs and a few hairstyles. There are probably more ways to do this, but I’m going to separate “Hippies” into 3 categories:
Youth Movement: The boomers understood that they were a generation bigger than any other and that they could affect some real tangible change in the world if they put their minds to it. They got burned out or otherwise found their place in flatland around 1972. Ideologically they had some sound footing, and even got some big wins (lowering the voting age to 18, abolishing the draft, title IX) but they grew up and the new kids just didn’t feel the same way.
New Communalists: An even bigger mixed bag. The New Communalists were eager to explore new ways of building communities and living together. Noble enough intentions, and it even led to some really cool stuff like the way we’re interacting over the internet right now. However, one of the new ways of building community they got really into was psychedelic drugs, and this is how we get into all the horrible things that people did in the name of “free love.”
And then there were The Freaks: They were libertarians before libertarianism had a foothold in American conservatism. They were in it for the sex, the drugs, and the music. They also often got confused for Youth Movement types because they were hairy, they were smelly, they smoked pot, and they were broadly critical of the US Government.
“Hippies” is term that really only helped the Nixon administration crack down on their political opponents with draconian anti-drug laws.
Edit: Come to think of it, there were probably a fair bunch of radical leftists among the Freaks, but again, who was actually listening to their politics? Besides, radical leftists and libertarians used to be able to find common ground in their exclusion from, and subsequent disillusionment with, American politics.
Ummm…what?
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It’s more likely than you think
One time I woke up first and heard my buddy talk in their sleep. I can’t remember all of it, but I remember they definitely said “If Batman’s still in the basement, I’m fucked.”
Umm…what?
I get that white women suck, but I don’t see why this was necessary.
Supposedly, the lost F-Zero Webcomic (the first time a proper ‘canon’ was established for Western fans) was much, much weirder.
What corporate-constructed ironic double-bills do to a POS
Posting about it makes me think he wants to be the guy who coined “…on my father’s sardines.”
Like if he didn’t think he’d recover, this ain’t the way to go about recovering.
This is the one with the anarchist total conversion mod