I’m glad he’s free but goddamn I don’t think he’s going to be straight for awhile, dude is really going to need some time to heal. Solitary confinement is torture and it’s crazy how the prison system uses it with such ease.

This week I have decided look into developing systems. I have seen a lot of productivity hustle-grind bros talk about developing systems to build habits and they aren’t 100% wrong. For the most of the year I have just been kinda freestylin’ without any real structure. Which is fine, but my goals and ambitions have grown quite a lot these last seven months so I think going forward I’m going to build a non-hustlegrind system that helps activate myself and actualize (that sounds so goddamn corny) towards the stuff I want to do. It’s going to take time, probably several different iterations but I think I need to develop a system/schedule to get myself where I want to go.

The O.R.C. System would be

Observe - Observe what I’m doing, good or bad, productive or leisure

Record - Write it down in my journal and planner

Change - Change what I’m doing so I can obverse and record different things in the future

The first was “buy” a planner, mostly because I needed something with a calendar. Something I can physically write in and see time progress. I already journal but I don’t really do it regularly so using a planner to just plan my days at the start and chronicling them in my journal at the end of the day is my first step in my building my system.

I’ll build and expand into the future, but I think keeping it as low-tech as possible and use the systems that have worked in the past is probably the best move. Computers and digital stuff is nice, but dudes throughout all of history have used pen and pad to improve themselves so I’ll try to do the same.

I don’t really proclaim my big bad goals anymore, I think it’s best for me just work today them and report on milestones or worthwhile updates. So I’m just going to keep my head down and focus on the process, and learn to love it (again sounds like corny dudebro hustlegrind nonesense but it’s true)

Nah you’re good man. No worries. :-)

I’m a black man and I use a substitute “Katz” because I grew up in an area where you used “katz” instead of “dudes”, “folk”. Just a regional/cultural vernacular thing. Nothing major

I ain’t mad at NEETS, I just feel bad for the katz who can’t choose to be NEETS. MOST of the NEETS I know are good and decent people but they all have rich parents. I know a lot katz who would love to just vibe and take things easy but they gotta pay bills. It just kind of a bummer that you can’t be slacker without external financial support these days.

No shame to the NEET comrades though, they ain’t hurting anyone.

That’s the thing that always rustles my jimmies. Whenever the lowly ghouls of the media class or economists say “The economy is strong, we even have data to show it. The Kings, Lords, and Barons are wealthy why don’t the surfs, slaves, and peasants say otherwise?”, I got in to a rage. When you talk about averages and means in a society built on vast inequality, it’s really easy for the numbers to skew upward. It’s just really disgusting that media try to whitewash the average person’s downward trajectory.

You may be in her DMs, but I’m in the Cold Sea venturing to defeat the Necrolord in his Ice Castle.

I’m 100% certain he’s going to publicly go from (D) to ® at some point in his career

This generally lines up with capitalist profit-seeking making everything worse, more vapid and bland. I agree with him largely. Mainstream shit is dumber and dumber.

Agreed. It’s really a bummer that “The Arts” (movies specifically) are so totally captured by MEGACORPS and Capital Vampires. I love supporting independent arts (again specifically movies), but it’s an ceaseless uphill battle for anyone those people to make it and even harder to get in front of people. Even if the people would like it, it’s just so damn difficult to get your art in front of people if you’re operating outside of the ever encroach domain of the modern Robber Barons.

The whole game is fucked up, and it’s fucked up because Hollywood (and of course Capitalism at large) made it that way. Art under capital sucks so much.

Imma go with Rogue (strangely I never played here, I played gambit and cyclops mostly). But it’s really hard to pick because that entire era of arcade themes were nothing but S-tier bangers.

No thoughts on pizza, just wanna say I love that TMNT have great legacy of games across the eras. I find it interesting the weird indie comic NYC ninjas have a better catalog of games than most of the heavy hitters from the big two publishers

I’ve been punching one in for them the last few times I was able. I don’t even believe in voting, at least on a national level. It’s easy to do where I live, so I do it for down ballot stuff.

Same here, Howie Hawkins and Jill Stien were my picks in my last two elections I think. It sucks knowing that pretty much every leftist thinker ever has some form of “Real talk, voting is kinda wack bro”. However still i wish there were meaningful alternatives to “Our party will make your life worse and we are Red” and “Our party will make your life worse and we are Blue”.

I really wish the Green Party was a worthwhile 3rd option in the US. They are far from our Hexbearian Leftist thought, but they are least sorta kinda not total garbage (in terms of their platform).

Productivity tech only helps your boss. It sucks so much everything in tech is doing nothing but make us less human and make more money for fucking vampire losers at the top.

Been playing since the EA. One of the few games I’m 420% certain that early-access was necessary. The game has really evolved and improved with each iteration. Just glad to see it hit that 1.0 release and getting the love it rightly deserves. It’s just classic good-ass video gaming. It’s weird and wholly itself which is what I want more games to be. I love when a game is committed to whatever it’s trying to be, and succeeds at it. Dread Disillusion to me feels like a video game version of TTRPG that never existed, and I mean in to be a good thing. It rules.

It’s crazy this dude is 78, dude look like he’s in his mid-50s. This further proves my baseless though thoroughly scientific theory that it’s not time that ages you, it’s impurity of heart. If you’re a good dude, you will remain healthy and hot for all your days. If you soul is free of the toxic venom of bigotry you will remain youthful.

It’s corny to say but it makes me think of EL-P on the RTJ4 album.

Funny fact about a cage, they’re never built for just one group So when that cage is done with them and you’re still poor, it come for you The newest lowest on the totem, well golly gee, you have been used You helped to fuel the death machine that down the line will kill you too

Big Boy is probably “low-tier” in the pro scene but I’d still rock B I G B O Y

EXACTLY! FUCKIN’ EXACTLY!

I’m so mad that housing is such a solvable problem/issue. It’s not some nebulous quandary of the soul, it’s a very actionable thing we can adress. We never do though, all we do anything other than shuffle human lives around.