
2025-06-05 14:28:12
Capitalists are all pirates first too until the look no longer suits their interests
Capitalists are all pirates first too until the look no longer suits their interests
I can't help picturing the scene in the Sistine Chapel as one of the #VizComic double-page spread parody of 1970s infographic cutaway drawing style things with which kids' papers were crammed with back then. Cardinals sitting around playing cards, doing jigsaw puzzles, having a fag, getting a manicure, rehearsing amateur dramatics productions of The Pirates of Penzance... arguing about…
Went to Small World Festival. Mostly dry and occasionally sunny.
Small World has such a nice friendly hippy vibe, lots of deadlocks and goths and pirates and beautiful face paints.
Bands all energetic and talented and mostly have been playing here together for 20 years in one form or another. All of 'em doing it for the love of it. Pony doing a great job of organizing the team to put it together.
One dude seemed pretty new, making up synth songs with his repeats and beeps and rapping from audience suggestions. Failed to photograph him well though. There's another 4 bands mentioned in the photo descriptions here.
Medically necessitated more or less total sobriety at the moment, so different whole thing. Those I knew well there mostly working, so lots of time alone dancing soberly and reading. Wish I was better at talking to strangers.
Still good times.
#smallWorldFestival #music #live
I'm very good at integral and differential calculus,
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous;
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
-- Gilbert & Sullivan, "Pirates of Penzance"
Skin Deep (PC)
There's a new pirate queen in space, and she has a hit out on you, insurance commando extraordinaire Nina Pasadena. Get out there and save those cats!
TL;DR: a fun FPS stealth-ish romp with a good sense of humor and mechanics.
Skin Deep is weird, but in a good way. For some reason this universe is populated with voxel cats that crew space ships, and it's your job to get tucked away in cryosleep until pirates hijack them. Then you're woken up and h…