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...one of my most fav #games is #arksurvival (cos like, running free crafting shit and playing with dinos!!!! radical!)...but my little hobo leg burner cant handle even the lowest of low settings for that one so i sub with #banished, which is really how i feel, and store my installed games on #playnite to subvert the "you will never really own this game" bs of the game usage licensure leasing #valve jerks of #steam...

Sometimes you just need to go home.

Banished and Stardew Valley together got me through my degrees several years ago now. They were both games that ran well on my very low spec, refurbished, inexpensive laptop and were just the level of immersion I needed. I'm trying out a mod I haven't tried before: DS Small Village. #gaming #Banished

Per #TheNewYorker

Are We #Sleepwalking Into #Dictatorship?

Liz #Cheney, the former congresswoman from Wyoming
and an ardent #conservative, is an #apostate for modern times. In a political party that has evolved into a personality #cult, her #apostasy resides in her #refusaltoworship its leader and in her defense of the #Constitution.

For such impudence, she was #banished and #votedout of Congress.

newyorker.com/magazine/2023/12

The New Yorker · Are We Sleepwalking Into Dictatorship?By David Remnick

I pretty much have CNN on 24/7 in my bedroom because it is the easiest thing to ignore, and I get breaking news relatively quickly.

When I woke up this morning, the story playing was about Trump's latest case-- the fraud one, if you haven't been playing along at home.

Anyway, it made me think. Since their New York business certifications have been revoked and a third party is dissolving their New York holdings... is this the 2023 version of banishing?

If it is, I'm down.

In the eighty years between 1788 and 1868, some 162,000 #convicts were embarked on #transport #ships and #banished to the #colonies to serve their sentences. The 337-ton #barque #Neva sailed from the #Irish port of #Cork on 8th January 1835 bound for #Sydney with 153 #female #prisoners of the crown. Joining them were 55 #children. When the Neva struck a #reef in Bass Strait, some 150 #souls #perished.

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