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adrian @[email protected] · 2024-08-26 · 23:01 UTC

The ability of individual people to defend themselves is a central aspect of anarchism of every variety. One of the first things every state does is monopolize violence and so prevent people from defending themselves as they see fit. Every anarchist understands that under the state “people are institutionally prohibited from defending themselves.”1 Every anarchist understands how absolutely necessary this prohibition is for the survival of the state.

How can this be true?! As a recent interlocutor had it, “I’m not sure where you get the idea that most people are institutionally prevented from defending themselves. There are statutes in every state that delineate the legal means of doing so, up to and including homicide.”2

But self defense to an anarchist is a very different thing from self defense as defined in state laws. The ruling class writes laws to serve their purposes, and self defense laws are no exception. Sure, if someone is trying to kill you or your family right at this moment the law lets you kill them to prevent it. This doesn’t hurt the state, and the possibility helps them in at least a couple of ways.

First, allowing this increases the state’s legitimacy. If they punished people for defending themselves like this people would tend to rebel. Second, the state needs people to exploit. There’s no percentage in allowing its victims to be killed off if it can be prevented. Anyway, deadly self defense by private citizens is incredibly rare in the US. Since 2007 the number of such killings ranged between 250 to 450 per year.3 From the point of view of ruling class policy makers, considering how many people they kill every year, this is negligible.

State self defense laws only allow people to use force against immediate threats of violence, but, as the numbers in the last toot show, this is an incredibly rare situation. As I said above, these laws are written by the ruling class for their own benefit, and as such they absolutely forbid people from defending themselves against a large, large majority of the actual threats they face, which mostly involve violent exploitation by the ruling class. Violent exploitation is how the ruling class lives. They’re not going to make it legal to defend yourself against it.

Just for instance, here in Los Angeles County we have about 75K people living on the street.4 Every year about 2,000 of them die, mostly from being homeless.5 This is a death rate of about 2700 per 100K people, approximately three times the overall US death rate of 984 per 100K.6 Meanwhile there are close to 100K empty homes (including both apartments and single family houses).7 There is close to a million acres of publicly owned parkland in the county.8 Homeless people are dying because it’s illegal for them to occupy those empty homes or build homes on public land. The cops will hurt or kill anyone who tries to save themselves, their family, using these empty homes, this empty land.

And yet they can’t defend themselves against the cops. The ruling class needs trespassing laws to be enforced or it wouldn’t be possible to make money from being a landlord. No matter what state laws about self defense allow they’re never going to allow people to kill cops who are trying to drag their family out of a squat, even though that’s a real, significant threat to people’s lives, much, much more common than the threat of immediate violence. You can’t defend yourself against cops, and cops violently prevent people from defending themselves against the real threats they face. Homelessness, hunger, eviction, wage theft, rape, and so on.

But when anarchists talk about self defense they mean actual self defense. As @HeavenlyPossum put it, “The point is to empower every person to be able to be free to defend themselves if and how they choose, alone or in voluntary cooperation with others.”9 If the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence then the only kind of self defense they’ll allow will either further their goals or be neutral. And yet most of what we need to defend ourself against is state violence. The words are the same but they mean very different things.

States habitually redefine common words to suit their purposes. Self defense is one example, and Orwell has plenty of others. It’s even easy for anarchists, to whom nothing I’ve said here comes as a revelation, to be fooled. For instance, the Los Angeles City Council is forever authorizing new “affordable housing” projects. Dozens of them every year. And when people ask them about homelessness they’re happy to list the projects.

But “affordable housing” in this context means privately owned apartment buildings with a few units set aside for people making less than the average amount but still more than homeless people can afford. These requirements often expire after a few decades, subjecting tenants to ruinous rent increases and impending eviction. When normal people hear the words “affordable housing” they think it means housing people can actually afford, but that’s not what it means at all.

And it’s easy to be fooled, I know it has been for me, because it’s hard to remember just what violent cynical liars our masters are. I know none of this is a revelation to anarchists, but it was useful for me to think it through, to try to internalize how thoroughly deceptive these people are. Maybe it’ll be useful to others to read it.

https://chez-risk.in/2024/08/26/war-is-peace-freedom-is-slavery-self-defense-against-cops-is-murder-just-ask-the-cops/

#Eviction #Police #SelfDefense #Squatting #StateMonopolyOnViolence #TenantsRights #Trespassing

#eviction #police #selfdefense #squatting #statemonopolyonviolence #tenantsrights

Sword of Seiros @[email protected] · 2024-12-09 · 23:49 UTC

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PS5)

I recently finished Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. It was included in my subscription, bundled with The Lost Legacy. There’s some satisfaction to be had with games that don’t take 80 hours minimum to finish and are enjoyable and exciting from the start. It’s perfectly normal that I’m tired at the end of gaming year, and now I am looking for other (shorter) experiences. Also, I have a subscription to use which I forgot to cancel. I intend to make good use of it and try many games I never had the opportunity to play.

While I was playing A Thief’s End, I also remembered the time when I played Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I see the game came out in 2007 but I must have played it in 2008 on my PS3 which my parents encouraged me to buy. I said previously (I guess) that I was a PC gamer at heart. I couldn’t even find my way around a controller. How things change. Now I can’t find my way around a keyboard! My mother played Little Big Planet to exhaustion. She played online with younger people and didn’t tell them how old she was. “Well, you can’t be that old if you play much better than me,” they said. She just chuckled and proceeded to beat the levels to perfection. After countless hours in Super Mario Bros. and all Marios on Game Boy, Little Big Planet was a walk in the park.

She had the big PS3, and I got a PS3 slim. At the time, I had a Gamestop nearby, but I don’t think it exists anymore. I could trade in games and with the little money I got back I could buy second-hand games. Money was a problem, and I didn’t have access to many games because of it. Japanese games weren’t trending at the time in my country, and they were usually more expensive. Maybe that’s why I heard about Demon’s Souls only a few years ago. The internet also wasn’t the same, and I had strong opinions about social networks and that new thing called Facebook.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was probably one of the most amusing games I played at the time. I also remember Heavy Rain and The Last Of Us, but Uncharted gave me that sense of adventure and of being a true Indiana Jones, exploring uncharted lands and finding treasure. El Dorado is briefly mentioned in Uncharted 4. There are references to other games in the franchise that I wasn’t able to pick up on because I didn’t play them. It’s right at the start in Uncharted 4 when Nate was checking the items in his collection, and then at the very end.

As far as the eye can see. There’s this and more of this.

There’s a big difference compared to Drake’s Fortune in terms of graphics, but the parkour fun was the only memory I needed to reawaken the satisfaction I felt while climbing those mountains and getting into trouble! And climbing I did, through magnificent landscapes, creepy mountains, gigantic buildings, dangerous seas – hic sunt leones! It’s man and woman against nature and Nature. Please, no more exploding mummies inside dark underground corridors, though.

In this installment, Nathan Drake and his brother Sam set out on an adventure to find Henry Avery’s treasure. During their childhood, they came across a book containing all the research written by their mother, Cassandra Morgan, about the pirate colony Libertalia and Avery’s treasure. In an attempt to deceive Nate into helping him, Sam came up with a crazy story after escaping a prison in Panama. Thinking his brother’s life was in jeopardy, Nate couldn’t refuse the treasure hunt. With the siblings reunited, they got the help of seasoned Sully, and after some progress, Sam’s wife, Elena Fisher, joined the fold.

Everything started with a hollow Saint Dismas cross containing a map to a location in the Scottish Highlands. At this location – beautifully crafted with a monastery-like atmosphere – they found a map pointing to King’s Bay in Madagascar. In Madagascar there were a lot of feel-good climbing, gunfights and puzzles! I adore those, and they usually show at turning points in the story, when there’s extra motivation to solve them fast. They’re not very hard to solve, and beyond closed doors and paths there are more answers and new hints for the treasure’s location. Libertalia and New Devon were the next stops, and then the actual location of Avery’s treasure.

A lively market. At the end we solved a puzzle inside a bell tower.

I have two questions for treasure hunters. When you’re traveling around the world hunting for treasure, do you ever feel that you’re stealing from someone?

Why is the transport of said treasure just an afterthought, especially if you know beforehand that you’re going against an army and there are only four of you?

This intrigues me. I don’t have a treasure hunter’s spirit, but I’m great at making a detailed inventory. Nate and Sam aren’t entirely oblivious to the morality of hunting for riches that don’t belong to them, much less to their culture. Between the lines, Nate aligns with the good thief; Sam, obviously, with the unrepentant thief. I never trusted him, and with good reason. In the end, everyone’s happy and gets their share because they’re all thieves, and at least the core group learned something about forgiveness. The bad guys were dealt with, and the game ended with a very cozy epilogue.

Can you find Nate?

The Lost Legacy is an expansion to the main game. It’s a shorter game with a map where every location is easily reachable by car and packed with monuments to explore. It tells the story of Chloe Frazer, a character I didn’t know before because she appeared in Uncharted 2 and 3, and Nadine Ross, who was part of the bad guys’ crew in A Thief’s End, but was nuanced and pretty cool. Again, influenced by the obsessions of a family member, this time her father, Chloe sets out on a hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh. At least, that’s something you can put inside a backpack. She steals an artifact key from the bad guy Asav, a charming ex-doctor who thinks he has the right to the power of old kings and wants to bring death and misery to India. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse.

I profoundly loved this game and its setting. The developers didn’t shy away from showing us India’s grandiose landscapes, waterfalls flanked by colossal sculptures of powerful gods, profusely decorated interiors with little figurines of servants and queens, a colossal figure of Lord Shiva that I spent an hour looking at, wonderful, magnificent mythology and history carefully explained by Chloe when passing by any objects or engravings created under the Hoysala Empire, a young elephant we saved from certain death, who transported us back to its family and our escape, clear water spots with bright blue and green hues, defense towers and temples guarded by mechanical statues ready to strike. The scale was overwhelming and humbling at the same time.

A colossal sculpture of Shiva. It’s also a big puzzle room.

The puzzles were fun to solve. My favorite was a set of three rooms with pillars. Next to the pillars were statues holding weapons. Each statue was fixed into place, and they rotated their bodies to face a pillar, raised their weapons and finished the move with a strike. The objective was to jump from pillar to pillar, avoiding getting hit by the weapons of all statues combined. It was extremely satisfying, like a dance! I could imagine a side-game with variations of this puzzle, harder and harder to solve, with different pattern combinations.

Another one that’s very common in these adventure/puzzle games is to direct a ray of light from a source to a crystal and subsequently into a mirror to project the light further. Positioning and rotating these combined mirrors will redirect the ray of light into a door or lock to open it.

The first half of the game wasn’t very combat-intensive. Even though the experience was mostly guided, there was still enough room for peaceful exploration. The combat encounter inside and outside a moving train was completely bonkers. I imagine how hard it must be to play on the hardest difficulty. All the other encounters involved elements of stealth and gunfights. As in all games with these elements, my stealth usually lasts for 2 minutes tops, followed by a bullet shower. It’s the intention that counts.

Ganesh and Ganesh. Is the treasure close?

After finding the treasure and during a well-deserved respite after dealing with Asav, Chloe mentioned her intention to negotiate a finder’s fee with the Ministry of Culture. Sam thought she was pulling his leg. She wasn’t. It’s uncertain if she followed through with it, but the thought was there. Just think about all the wonderful artifacts stolen in the course of illegal expeditions or looted during wars, ending up on the black market and bought by some old rich dude to decorate his mansion.

Save the artifacts, burn the house. – Words of the wise Seiros, the Dragon Queen of Fódlan.

#actionGames #adventureGames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india #nathanDrake #playstation5 #puzzle #samDrake #shiva #stolenArtifacts #treasureHunters #uncharted4 #UnchartedAThiefSEnd #unchartedLegacyOfThievesCollection #unchartedTheLostLegacy #VideoGames

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Sword of Seiros @[email protected] · 2024-12-09 · 23:49 UTC

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PS5)

I recently finished Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. It was included in my subscription, bundled with The Lost Legacy. There’s some satisfaction to be had with games that don’t take 80 hours minimum to finish and are enjoyable and exciting from the start. It’s perfectly normal that I’m tired at the end of gaming year, and now I am looking for other (shorter) experiences. Also, I have a subscription to use which I forgot to cancel. I intend to make good use of it and try many games I never had the opportunity to play.

While I was playing A Thief’s End, I also remembered the time when I played Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I see the game came out in 2007 but I must have played it in 2008 on my PS3 which my parents encouraged me to buy. I said previously (I guess) that I was a PC gamer at heart. I couldn’t even find my way around a controller. How things change. Now I can’t find my way around a keyboard! My mother played Little Big Planet to exhaustion. She played online with younger people and didn’t tell them how old she was. “Well, you can’t be that old if you play much better than me,” they said. She just chuckled and proceeded to beat the levels to perfection. After countless hours in Super Mario Bros. and all Marios on Game Boy, Little Big Planet was a walk in the park.

She had the big PS3, and I got a PS3 slim. At the time, I had a Gamestop nearby, but I don’t think it exists anymore. I could trade in games and with the little money I got back I could buy second-hand games. Money was a problem, and I didn’t have access to many games because of it. Japanese games weren’t trending at the time in my country, and they were usually more expensive. Maybe that’s why I heard about Demon’s Souls only a few years ago. The internet also wasn’t the same, and I had strong opinions about social networks and that new thing called Facebook.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was probably one of the most amusing games I played at the time. I also remember Heavy Rain and The Last Of Us, but Uncharted gave me that sense of adventure and of being a true Indiana Jones, exploring uncharted lands and finding treasure. El Dorado is briefly mentioned in Uncharted 4. There are references to other games in the franchise that I wasn’t able to pick up on because I didn’t play them. It’s right at the start in Uncharted 4 when Nate was checking the items in his collection, and then at the very end.

As far as the eye can see. There’s this and more of this.

There’s a big difference compared to Drake’s Fortune in terms of graphics, but the parkour fun was the only memory I needed to reawaken the satisfaction I felt while climbing those mountains and getting into trouble! And climbing I did, through magnificent landscapes, creepy mountains, gigantic buildings, dangerous seas – hic sunt leones! It’s man and woman against nature and Nature. Please, no more exploding mummies inside dark underground corridors, though.

In this installment, Nathan Drake and his brother Sam set out on an adventure to find Henry Avery’s treasure. During their childhood, they came across a book containing all the research written by their mother, Cassandra Morgan, about the pirate colony Libertalia and Avery’s treasure. In an attempt to deceive Nate into helping him, Sam came up with a crazy story after escaping a prison in Panama. Thinking his brother’s life was in jeopardy, Nate couldn’t refuse the treasure hunt. With the siblings reunited, they got the help of seasoned Sully, and after some progress, Sam’s wife, Elena Fisher, joined the fold.

Everything started with a hollow Saint Dismas cross containing a map to a location in the Scottish Highlands. At this location – beautifully crafted with a monastery-like atmosphere – they found a map pointing to King’s Bay in Madagascar. In Madagascar there were a lot of feel-good climbing, gunfights and puzzles! I adore those, and they usually show at turning points in the story, when there’s extra motivation to solve them fast. They’re not very hard to solve, and beyond closed doors and paths there are more answers and new hints for the treasure’s location. Libertalia and New Devon were the next stops, and then the actual location of Avery’s treasure.

A lively market. At the end we solved a puzzle inside a bell tower.

I have two questions for treasure hunters. When you’re traveling around the world hunting for treasure, do you ever feel that you’re stealing from someone?

Why is the transport of said treasure just an afterthought, especially if you know beforehand that you’re going against an army and there are only four of you?

This intrigues me. I don’t have a treasure hunter’s spirit, but I’m great at making a detailed inventory. Nate and Sam aren’t entirely oblivious to the morality of hunting for riches that don’t belong to them, much less to their culture. Between the lines, Nate aligns with the good thief; Sam, obviously, with the unrepentant thief. I never trusted him, and with good reason. In the end, everyone’s happy and gets their share because they’re all thieves, and at least the core group learned something about forgiveness. The bad guys were dealt with, and the game ended with a very cozy epilogue.

Can you find Nate?

The Lost Legacy is an expansion to the main game. It’s a shorter game with a map where every location is easily reachable by car and packed with monuments to explore. It tells the story of Chloe Frazer, a character I didn’t know before because she appeared in Uncharted 2 and 3, and Nadine Ross, who was part of the bad guys’ crew in A Thief’s End, but was nuanced and pretty cool. Again, influenced by the obsessions of a family member, this time her father, Chloe sets out on a hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh. At least, that’s something you can put inside a backpack. She steals an artifact key from the bad guy Asav, a charming ex-doctor who thinks he has the right to the power of old kings and wants to bring death and misery to India. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse.

I profoundly loved this game and its setting. The developers didn’t shy away from showing us India’s grandiose landscapes, waterfalls flanked by colossal sculptures of powerful gods, profusely decorated interiors with little figurines of servants and queens, a colossal figure of Lord Shiva that I spent an hour looking at, wonderful, magnificent mythology and history carefully explained by Chloe when passing by any objects or engravings created under the Hoysala Empire, a young elephant we saved from certain death, who transported us back to its family and our escape, clear water spots with bright blue and green hues, defense towers and temples guarded by mechanical statues ready to strike. The scale was overwhelming and humbling at the same time.

A colossal sculpture of Shiva. It’s also a big puzzle room.

The puzzles were fun to solve. My favorite was a set of three rooms with pillars. Next to the pillars were statues holding weapons. Each statue was fixed into place, and they rotated their bodies to face a pillar, raised their weapons and finished the move with a strike. The objective was to jump from pillar to pillar, avoiding getting hit by the weapons of all statues combined. It was extremely satisfying, like a dance! I could imagine a side-game with variations of this puzzle, harder and harder to solve, with different pattern combinations.

Another one that’s very common in these adventure/puzzle games is to direct a ray of light from a source to a crystal and subsequently into a mirror to project the light further. Positioning and rotating these combined mirrors will redirect the ray of light into a door or lock to open it.

The first half of the game wasn’t very combat-intensive. Even though the experience was mostly guided, there was still enough room for peaceful exploration. The combat encounter inside and outside a moving train was completely bonkers. I imagine how hard it must be to play on the hardest difficulty. All the other encounters involved elements of stealth and gunfights. As in all games with these elements, my stealth usually lasts for 2 minutes tops, followed by a bullet shower. It’s the intention that counts.

Ganesh and Ganesh. Is the treasure close?

After finding the treasure and during a well-deserved respite after dealing with Asav, Chloe mentioned her intention to negotiate a finder’s fee with the Ministry of Culture. Sam thought she was pulling his leg. She wasn’t. It’s uncertain if she followed through with it, but the thought was there. Just think about all the wonderful artifacts stolen in the course of illegal expeditions or looted during wars, ending up on the black market and bought by some old rich dude to decorate his mansion.

Save the artifacts, burn the house. – Words of the wise Seiros, the Dragon Queen of Fódlan.

#actionGames #adventureGames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india #nathanDrake #playstation5 #puzzle #samDrake #shiva #stolenArtifacts #treasureHunters #uncharted4 #UnchartedAThiefSEnd #unchartedLegacyOfThievesCollection #unchartedTheLostLegacy #VideoGames

#actiongames #adventuregames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india

Sword of Seiros @[email protected] · 2024-12-09 · 23:49 UTC

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PS5)

I recently finished Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. It was included in my subscription, bundled with The Lost Legacy. There’s some satisfaction to be had with games that don’t take 80 hours minimum to finish and are enjoyable and exciting from the start. It’s perfectly normal that I’m tired at the end of gaming year, and now I am looking for other (shorter) experiences. Also, I have a subscription to use which I forgot to cancel. I intend to make good use of it and try many games I never had the opportunity to play.

While I was playing A Thief’s End, I also remembered the time when I played Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I see the game came out in 2007 but I must have played it in 2008 on my PS3 which my parents encouraged me to buy. I said previously (I guess) that I was a PC gamer at heart. I couldn’t even find my way around a controller. How things change. Now I can’t find my way around a keyboard! My mother played Little Big Planet to exhaustion. She played online with younger people and didn’t tell them how old she was. “Well, you can’t be that old if you play much better than me,” they said. She just chuckled and proceeded to beat the levels to perfection. After countless hours in Super Mario Bros. and all Marios on Game Boy, Little Big Planet was a walk in the park.

She had the big PS3, and I got a PS3 slim. At the time, I had a Gamestop nearby, but I don’t think it exists anymore. I could trade in games and with the little money I got back I could buy second-hand games. Money was a problem, and I didn’t have access to many games because of it. Japanese games weren’t trending at the time in my country, and they were usually more expensive. Maybe that’s why I heard about Demon’s Souls only a few years ago. The internet also wasn’t the same, and I had strong opinions about social networks and that new thing called Facebook.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was probably one of the most amusing games I played at the time. I also remember Heavy Rain and The Last Of Us, but Uncharted gave me that sense of adventure and of being a true Indiana Jones, exploring uncharted lands and finding treasure. El Dorado is briefly mentioned in Uncharted 4. There are references to other games in the franchise that I wasn’t able to pick up on because I didn’t play them. It’s right at the start in Uncharted 4 when Nate was checking the items in his collection, and then at the very end.

As far as the eye can see. There’s this and more of this.

There’s a big difference compared to Drake’s Fortune in terms of graphics, but the parkour fun was the only memory I needed to reawaken the satisfaction I felt while climbing those mountains and getting into trouble! And climbing I did, through magnificent landscapes, creepy mountains, gigantic buildings, dangerous seas – hic sunt leones! It’s man and woman against nature and Nature. Please, no more exploding mummies inside dark underground corridors, though.

In this installment, Nathan Drake and his brother Sam set out on an adventure to find Henry Avery’s treasure. During their childhood, they came across a book containing all the research written by their mother, Cassandra Morgan, about the pirate colony Libertalia and Avery’s treasure. In an attempt to deceive Nate into helping him, Sam came up with a crazy story after escaping a prison in Panama. Thinking his brother’s life was in jeopardy, Nate couldn’t refuse the treasure hunt. With the siblings reunited, they got the help of seasoned Sully, and after some progress, Sam’s wife, Elena Fisher, joined the fold.

Everything started with a hollow Saint Dismas cross containing a map to a location in the Scottish Highlands. At this location – beautifully crafted with a monastery-like atmosphere – they found a map pointing to King’s Bay in Madagascar. In Madagascar there were a lot of feel-good climbing, gunfights and puzzles! I adore those, and they usually show at turning points in the story, when there’s extra motivation to solve them fast. They’re not very hard to solve, and beyond closed doors and paths there are more answers and new hints for the treasure’s location. Libertalia and New Devon were the next stops, and then the actual location of Avery’s treasure.

A lively market. At the end we solved a puzzle inside a bell tower.

I have two questions for treasure hunters. When you’re traveling around the world hunting for treasure, do you ever feel that you’re stealing from someone?

Why is the transport of said treasure just an afterthought, especially if you know beforehand that you’re going against an army and there are only four of you?

This intrigues me. I don’t have a treasure hunter’s spirit, but I’m great at making a detailed inventory. Nate and Sam aren’t entirely oblivious to the morality of hunting for riches that don’t belong to them, much less to their culture. Between the lines, Nate aligns with the good thief; Sam, obviously, with the unrepentant thief. I never trusted him, and with good reason. In the end, everyone’s happy and gets their share because they’re all thieves, and at least the core group learned something about forgiveness. The bad guys were dealt with, and the game ended with a very cozy epilogue.

Can you find Nate?

The Lost Legacy is an expansion to the main game. It’s a shorter game with a map where every location is easily reachable by car and packed with monuments to explore. It tells the story of Chloe Frazer, a character I didn’t know before because she appeared in Uncharted 2 and 3, and Nadine Ross, who was part of the bad guys’ crew in A Thief’s End, but was nuanced and pretty cool. Again, influenced by the obsessions of a family member, this time her father, Chloe sets out on a hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh. At least, that’s something you can put inside a backpack. She steals an artifact key from the bad guy Asav, a charming ex-doctor who thinks he has the right to the power of old kings and wants to bring death and misery to India. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse.

I profoundly loved this game and its setting. The developers didn’t shy away from showing us India’s grandiose landscapes, waterfalls flanked by colossal sculptures of powerful gods, profusely decorated interiors with little figurines of servants and queens, a colossal figure of Lord Shiva that I spent an hour looking at, wonderful, magnificent mythology and history carefully explained by Chloe when passing by any objects or engravings created under the Hoysala Empire, a young elephant we saved from certain death, who transported us back to its family and our escape, clear water spots with bright blue and green hues, defense towers and temples guarded by mechanical statues ready to strike. The scale was overwhelming and humbling at the same time.

A colossal sculpture of Shiva. It’s also a big puzzle room.

The puzzles were fun to solve. My favorite was a set of three rooms with pillars. Next to the pillars were statues holding weapons. Each statue was fixed into place, and they rotated their bodies to face a pillar, raised their weapons and finished the move with a strike. The objective was to jump from pillar to pillar, avoiding getting hit by the weapons of all statues combined. It was extremely satisfying, like a dance! I could imagine a side-game with variations of this puzzle, harder and harder to solve, with different pattern combinations.

Another one that’s very common in these adventure/puzzle games is to direct a ray of light from a source to a crystal and subsequently into a mirror to project the light further. Positioning and rotating these combined mirrors will redirect the ray of light into a door or lock to open it.

The first half of the game wasn’t very combat-intensive. Even though the experience was mostly guided, there was still enough room for peaceful exploration. The combat encounter inside and outside a moving train was completely bonkers. I imagine how hard it must be to play on the hardest difficulty. All the other encounters involved elements of stealth and gunfights. As in all games with these elements, my stealth usually lasts for 2 minutes tops, followed by a bullet shower. It’s the intention that counts.

Ganesh and Ganesh. Is the treasure close?

After finding the treasure and during a well-deserved respite after dealing with Asav, Chloe mentioned her intention to negotiate a finder’s fee with the Ministry of Culture. Sam thought she was pulling his leg. She wasn’t. It’s uncertain if she followed through with it, but the thought was there. Just think about all the wonderful artifacts stolen in the course of illegal expeditions or looted during wars, ending up on the black market and bought by some old rich dude to decorate his mansion.

Save the artifacts, burn the house. – Words of the wise Seiros, the Dragon Queen of Fódlan.

#actionGames #adventureGames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india #nathanDrake #playstation5 #puzzle #samDrake #shiva #stolenArtifacts #treasureHunters #uncharted4 #UnchartedAThiefSEnd #unchartedLegacyOfThievesCollection #unchartedTheLostLegacy #VideoGames

#actiongames #adventuregames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india

Sword of Seiros @[email protected] · 2024-12-09 · 23:49 UTC

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PS5)

I recently finished Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. It was included in my subscription, bundled with The Lost Legacy. There’s some satisfaction to be had with games that don’t take 80 hours minimum to finish and are enjoyable and exciting from the start. It’s perfectly normal that I’m tired at the end of gaming year, and now I am looking for other (shorter) experiences. Also, I have a subscription to use which I forgot to cancel. I intend to make good use of it and try many games I never had the opportunity to play.

While I was playing A Thief’s End, I also remembered the time when I played Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I see the game came out in 2007 but I must have played it in 2008 on my PS3 which my parents encouraged me to buy. I said previously (I guess) that I was a PC gamer at heart. I couldn’t even find my way around a controller. How things change. Now I can’t find my way around a keyboard! My mother played Little Big Planet to exhaustion. She played online with younger people and didn’t tell them how old she was. “Well, you can’t be that old if you play much better than me,” they said. She just chuckled and proceeded to beat the levels to perfection. After countless hours in Super Mario Bros. and all Marios on Game Boy, Little Big Planet was a walk in the park.

She had the big PS3, and I got a PS3 slim. At the time, I had a Gamestop nearby, but I don’t think it exists anymore. I could trade in games and with the little money I got back I could buy second-hand games. Money was a problem, and I didn’t have access to many games because of it. Japanese games weren’t trending at the time in my country, and they were usually more expensive. Maybe that’s why I heard about Demon’s Souls only a few years ago. The internet also wasn’t the same, and I had strong opinions about social networks and that new thing called Facebook.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was probably one of the most amusing games I played at the time. I also remember Heavy Rain and The Last Of Us, but Uncharted gave me that sense of adventure and of being a true Indiana Jones, exploring uncharted lands and finding treasure. El Dorado is briefly mentioned in Uncharted 4. There are references to other games in the franchise that I wasn’t able to pick up on because I didn’t play them. It’s right at the start in Uncharted 4 when Nate was checking the items in his collection, and then at the very end.

As far as the eye can see. There’s this and more of this.

There’s a big difference compared to Drake’s Fortune in terms of graphics, but the parkour fun was the only memory I needed to reawaken the satisfaction I felt while climbing those mountains and getting into trouble! And climbing I did, through magnificent landscapes, creepy mountains, gigantic buildings, dangerous seas – hic sunt leones! It’s man and woman against nature and Nature. Please, no more exploding mummies inside dark underground corridors, though.

In this installment, Nathan Drake and his brother Sam set out on an adventure to find Henry Avery’s treasure. During their childhood, they came across a book containing all the research written by their mother, Cassandra Morgan, about the pirate colony Libertalia and Avery’s treasure. In an attempt to deceive Nate into helping him, Sam came up with a crazy story after escaping a prison in Panama. Thinking his brother’s life was in jeopardy, Nate couldn’t refuse the treasure hunt. With the siblings reunited, they got the help of seasoned Sully, and after some progress, Sam’s wife, Elena Fisher, joined the fold.

Everything started with a hollow Saint Dismas cross containing a map to a location in the Scottish Highlands. At this location – beautifully crafted with a monastery-like atmosphere – they found a map pointing to King’s Bay in Madagascar. In Madagascar there were a lot of feel-good climbing, gunfights and puzzles! I adore those, and they usually show at turning points in the story, when there’s extra motivation to solve them fast. They’re not very hard to solve, and beyond closed doors and paths there are more answers and new hints for the treasure’s location. Libertalia and New Devon were the next stops, and then the actual location of Avery’s treasure.

A lively market. At the end we solved a puzzle inside a bell tower.

I have two questions for treasure hunters. When you’re traveling around the world hunting for treasure, do you ever feel that you’re stealing from someone?

Why is the transport of said treasure just an afterthought, especially if you know beforehand that you’re going against an army and there are only four of you?

This intrigues me. I don’t have a treasure hunter’s spirit, but I’m great at making a detailed inventory. Nate and Sam aren’t entirely oblivious to the morality of hunting for riches that don’t belong to them, much less to their culture. Between the lines, Nate aligns with the good thief; Sam, obviously, with the unrepentant thief. I never trusted him, and with good reason. In the end, everyone’s happy and gets their share because they’re all thieves, and at least the core group learned something about forgiveness. The bad guys were dealt with, and the game ended with a very cozy epilogue.

Can you find Nate?

The Lost Legacy is an expansion to the main game. It’s a shorter game with a map where every location is easily reachable by car and packed with monuments to explore. It tells the story of Chloe Frazer, a character I didn’t know before because she appeared in Uncharted 2 and 3, and Nadine Ross, who was part of the bad guys’ crew in A Thief’s End, but was nuanced and pretty cool. Again, influenced by the obsessions of a family member, this time her father, Chloe sets out on a hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh. At least, that’s something you can put inside a backpack. She steals an artifact key from the bad guy Asav, a charming ex-doctor who thinks he has the right to the power of old kings and wants to bring death and misery to India. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse.

I profoundly loved this game and its setting. The developers didn’t shy away from showing us India’s grandiose landscapes, waterfalls flanked by colossal sculptures of powerful gods, profusely decorated interiors with little figurines of servants and queens, a colossal figure of Lord Shiva that I spent an hour looking at, wonderful, magnificent mythology and history carefully explained by Chloe when passing by any objects or engravings created under the Hoysala Empire, a young elephant we saved from certain death, who transported us back to its family and our escape, clear water spots with bright blue and green hues, defense towers and temples guarded by mechanical statues ready to strike. The scale was overwhelming and humbling at the same time.

A colossal sculpture of Shiva. It’s also a big puzzle room.

The puzzles were fun to solve. My favorite was a set of three rooms with pillars. Next to the pillars were statues holding weapons. Each statue was fixed into place, and they rotated their bodies to face a pillar, raised their weapons and finished the move with a strike. The objective was to jump from pillar to pillar, avoiding getting hit by the weapons of all statues combined. It was extremely satisfying, like a dance! I could imagine a side-game with variations of this puzzle, harder and harder to solve, with different pattern combinations.

Another one that’s very common in these adventure/puzzle games is to direct a ray of light from a source to a crystal and subsequently into a mirror to project the light further. Positioning and rotating these combined mirrors will redirect the ray of light into a door or lock to open it.

The first half of the game wasn’t very combat-intensive. Even though the experience was mostly guided, there was still enough room for peaceful exploration. The combat encounter inside and outside a moving train was completely bonkers. I imagine how hard it must be to play on the hardest difficulty. All the other encounters involved elements of stealth and gunfights. As in all games with these elements, my stealth usually lasts for 2 minutes tops, followed by a bullet shower. It’s the intention that counts.

Ganesh and Ganesh. Is the treasure close?

After finding the treasure and during a well-deserved respite after dealing with Asav, Chloe mentioned her intention to negotiate a finder’s fee with the Ministry of Culture. Sam thought she was pulling his leg. She wasn’t. It’s uncertain if she followed through with it, but the thought was there. Just think about all the wonderful artifacts stolen in the course of illegal expeditions or looted during wars, ending up on the black market and bought by some old rich dude to decorate his mansion.

Save the artifacts, burn the house. – Words of the wise Seiros, the Dragon Queen of Fódlan.

#actionGames #adventureGames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india #nathanDrake #playstation5 #puzzle #samDrake #shiva #stolenArtifacts #treasureHunters #uncharted4 #UnchartedAThiefSEnd #unchartedLegacyOfThievesCollection #unchartedTheLostLegacy #VideoGames

#videogames #unchartedthelostlegacy #unchartedlegacyofthievescollection #unchartedathiefsend #uncharted4 #treasurehunters

Sword of Seiros @[email protected] · 2024-12-09 · 23:49 UTC

Uncharted: Legacy of Thieves Collection (PS5)

I recently finished Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. It was included in my subscription, bundled with The Lost Legacy. There’s some satisfaction to be had with games that don’t take 80 hours minimum to finish and are enjoyable and exciting from the start. It’s perfectly normal that I’m tired at the end of gaming year, and now I am looking for other (shorter) experiences. Also, I have a subscription to use which I forgot to cancel. I intend to make good use of it and try many games I never had the opportunity to play.

While I was playing A Thief’s End, I also remembered the time when I played Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune. I see the game came out in 2007 but I must have played it in 2008 on my PS3 which my parents encouraged me to buy. I said previously (I guess) that I was a PC gamer at heart. I couldn’t even find my way around a controller. How things change. Now I can’t find my way around a keyboard! My mother played Little Big Planet to exhaustion. She played online with younger people and didn’t tell them how old she was. “Well, you can’t be that old if you play much better than me,” they said. She just chuckled and proceeded to beat the levels to perfection. After countless hours in Super Mario Bros. and all Marios on Game Boy, Little Big Planet was a walk in the park.

She had the big PS3, and I got a PS3 slim. At the time, I had a Gamestop nearby, but I don’t think it exists anymore. I could trade in games and with the little money I got back I could buy second-hand games. Money was a problem, and I didn’t have access to many games because of it. Japanese games weren’t trending at the time in my country, and they were usually more expensive. Maybe that’s why I heard about Demon’s Souls only a few years ago. The internet also wasn’t the same, and I had strong opinions about social networks and that new thing called Facebook.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune was probably one of the most amusing games I played at the time. I also remember Heavy Rain and The Last Of Us, but Uncharted gave me that sense of adventure and of being a true Indiana Jones, exploring uncharted lands and finding treasure. El Dorado is briefly mentioned in Uncharted 4. There are references to other games in the franchise that I wasn’t able to pick up on because I didn’t play them. It’s right at the start in Uncharted 4 when Nate was checking the items in his collection, and then at the very end.

As far as the eye can see. There’s this and more of this.

There’s a big difference compared to Drake’s Fortune in terms of graphics, but the parkour fun was the only memory I needed to reawaken the satisfaction I felt while climbing those mountains and getting into trouble! And climbing I did, through magnificent landscapes, creepy mountains, gigantic buildings, dangerous seas – hic sunt leones! It’s man and woman against nature and Nature. Please, no more exploding mummies inside dark underground corridors, though.

In this installment, Nathan Drake and his brother Sam set out on an adventure to find Henry Avery’s treasure. During their childhood, they came across a book containing all the research written by their mother, Cassandra Morgan, about the pirate colony Libertalia and Avery’s treasure. In an attempt to deceive Nate into helping him, Sam came up with a crazy story after escaping a prison in Panama. Thinking his brother’s life was in jeopardy, Nate couldn’t refuse the treasure hunt. With the siblings reunited, they got the help of seasoned Sully, and after some progress, Sam’s wife, Elena Fisher, joined the fold.

Everything started with a hollow Saint Dismas cross containing a map to a location in the Scottish Highlands. At this location – beautifully crafted with a monastery-like atmosphere – they found a map pointing to King’s Bay in Madagascar. In Madagascar there were a lot of feel-good climbing, gunfights and puzzles! I adore those, and they usually show at turning points in the story, when there’s extra motivation to solve them fast. They’re not very hard to solve, and beyond closed doors and paths there are more answers and new hints for the treasure’s location. Libertalia and New Devon were the next stops, and then the actual location of Avery’s treasure.

A lively market. At the end we solved a puzzle inside a bell tower.

I have two questions for treasure hunters. When you’re traveling around the world hunting for treasure, do you ever feel that you’re stealing from someone?

Why is the transport of said treasure just an afterthought, especially if you know beforehand that you’re going against an army and there are only four of you?

This intrigues me. I don’t have a treasure hunter’s spirit, but I’m great at making a detailed inventory. Nate and Sam aren’t entirely oblivious to the morality of hunting for riches that don’t belong to them, much less to their culture. Between the lines, Nate aligns with the good thief; Sam, obviously, with the unrepentant thief. I never trusted him, and with good reason. In the end, everyone’s happy and gets their share because they’re all thieves, and at least the core group learned something about forgiveness. The bad guys were dealt with, and the game ended with a very cozy epilogue.

Can you find Nate?

The Lost Legacy is an expansion to the main game. It’s a shorter game with a map where every location is easily reachable by car and packed with monuments to explore. It tells the story of Chloe Frazer, a character I didn’t know before because she appeared in Uncharted 2 and 3, and Nadine Ross, who was part of the bad guys’ crew in A Thief’s End, but was nuanced and pretty cool. Again, influenced by the obsessions of a family member, this time her father, Chloe sets out on a hunt for the Tusk of Ganesh. At least, that’s something you can put inside a backpack. She steals an artifact key from the bad guy Asav, a charming ex-doctor who thinks he has the right to the power of old kings and wants to bring death and misery to India. What ensues is a game of cat and mouse.

I profoundly loved this game and its setting. The developers didn’t shy away from showing us India’s grandiose landscapes, waterfalls flanked by colossal sculptures of powerful gods, profusely decorated interiors with little figurines of servants and queens, a colossal figure of Lord Shiva that I spent an hour looking at, wonderful, magnificent mythology and history carefully explained by Chloe when passing by any objects or engravings created under the Hoysala Empire, a young elephant we saved from certain death, who transported us back to its family and our escape, clear water spots with bright blue and green hues, defense towers and temples guarded by mechanical statues ready to strike. The scale was overwhelming and humbling at the same time.

A colossal sculpture of Shiva. It’s also a big puzzle room.

The puzzles were fun to solve. My favorite was a set of three rooms with pillars. Next to the pillars were statues holding weapons. Each statue was fixed into place, and they rotated their bodies to face a pillar, raised their weapons and finished the move with a strike. The objective was to jump from pillar to pillar, avoiding getting hit by the weapons of all statues combined. It was extremely satisfying, like a dance! I could imagine a side-game with variations of this puzzle, harder and harder to solve, with different pattern combinations.

Another one that’s very common in these adventure/puzzle games is to direct a ray of light from a source to a crystal and subsequently into a mirror to project the light further. Positioning and rotating these combined mirrors will redirect the ray of light into a door or lock to open it.

The first half of the game wasn’t very combat-intensive. Even though the experience was mostly guided, there was still enough room for peaceful exploration. The combat encounter inside and outside a moving train was completely bonkers. I imagine how hard it must be to play on the hardest difficulty. All the other encounters involved elements of stealth and gunfights. As in all games with these elements, my stealth usually lasts for 2 minutes tops, followed by a bullet shower. It’s the intention that counts.

Ganesh and Ganesh. Is the treasure close?

After finding the treasure and during a well-deserved respite after dealing with Asav, Chloe mentioned her intention to negotiate a finder’s fee with the Ministry of Culture. Sam thought she was pulling his leg. She wasn’t. It’s uncertain if she followed through with it, but the thought was there. Just think about all the wonderful artifacts stolen in the course of illegal expeditions or looted during wars, ending up on the black market and bought by some old rich dude to decorate his mansion.

Save the artifacts, burn the house. – Words of the wise Seiros, the Dragon Queen of Fódlan.

#actionGames #adventureGames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india #nathanDrake #playstation5 #puzzle #samDrake #shiva #stolenArtifacts #treasureHunters #uncharted4 #UnchartedAThiefSEnd #unchartedLegacyOfThievesCollection #unchartedTheLostLegacy #VideoGames

#actiongames #adventuregames #artifacts #gaming #ganesh #india

Heretical_i @[email protected] · 2024-10-07 · 22:48 UTC

#Landlords won't be able to write down #housing #poorpeople.
If this affects housing PROJECTS for #lowincomehousing or affordable units in market value apartment buildings, California cities are required by the state to build them, but won't find developers🙄. The end result will be #homelessness "for (more than) thousands of U.S. families...".

'#AffordableHousing tax credits set to expire, threatening #eviction for thousands of U.S. families" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/housing-crisis-low-income-tenants-eviction-battles-lihc/

#eviction #affordablehousing #homelessness #lowincomehousing #poorpeople #housing

Todd Chretien @[email protected] · 2025-04-29 · 15:09 UTC

What will May Day 2025 teach us?

May Day 2025 will measure the broad left’s strength vis-à-vis the Trump Administration and the MAGA Republican Party here in Maine and across the country. It won’t tell us everything, but it will tell us a lot.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”—Sun Tzu

Know your enemy. Trump had a bad week. Even Fox News had to admit that “Americans are not overly thrilled” with Trump as his approval rating slumped into the low 40s. Hegseth keeps on Signaling, Putin doesn’t seem interested in a ceasefire, Netanyahu is ratcheting up his genocide machine, he fell asleep at Pope Francis’s funeral, and, worst of all, his trade war has rattled the markets. “He’s tanking,” as Rachel Maddow put it this week. I hope she’s right.

Yet it’s Maddow, not Trump, who is being pushed aside, reduced to one show per week starting May 5 by MSNBC’s new CEO who is encouraging producers to take a more “measured” tone towards Trump. Meanwhile, the Republican Party is moving in lockstep towards its single most important goal this year: slashing $1.5 trillion from the federal budget. They will hand hundreds of billions in tax breaks to corporations and the rich and they will gut social programs, most likely tearing the first pound of flesh from Medicaid. Republican Congressmen may face angry crowds at constituent meetings, but compared to the millions of dollars pouring into their campaign coffers, they just don’t care.

The one group that may have the power to back Trump down at this point are the big banks. JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Citibank are collectively worth $10 trillion. Trump’s tariffs may trigger a recession—which he clearly doesn’t mind—but if stagflation threatens the bond market and the status of the US dollar as the global benchmark currency, the Lords of Finance might try to get him to move on. But even if they do put their thumbs on the scales, it will only be to save themselves. Remember, Occupy taught us who gets bailed out and who gets sold out.

To my eye, Trump looks happy. He loves this. He may—or may not—believe his plan will bring manufacturing back, but his real goal is to Make his American Great Again. Meaning, make the rich richer. The elite and their hangers on are going to make out like bandits and they love him for it. The MAGA upper middle classes—the managers, big landlords, medium size businessmen, wealthy lawyers and professionals, tech bros—love him for telling them that they will get rich too. Deeper down in the MAGA-inflected sections of the working class, decades of betrayal and swindles from bipartisan union busters, insurance company pirates, and devious banksters have enraged millions of people. And in the absence of a powerful labor movement or a party willing to fight for workers interests, millions have thrown their lot in with Trump because almost anything is better than the status quo.

Trump doesn’t need 50% approval ratings. He needs a ruthless Republican Party willing to gerrymander and intimidate, a loyal base of 35 to 40% of the electorate, and a Democratic Party leadership that has no idea how to fight. As of today, he’s got the trifecta and he intends to run with it.

Know yourself. The working class in the United States has been bruised and battered by neoliberalism. Unions represented about 30% of workers in 1970, today less than 10%. The rich, the very rich, and the ultra rich have scraped an unprecedented share of the national wealth off the rest of us and are—literally—sending their fiancés into space. Meanwhile, holes in the social safety net grow by the day and grocery store inflation hits the lowest paid the hardest. LGTBQ+ workers suffer escalating harassment at work, Black workers endure double-the-average unemployment, women still earn less than men for equal work, and immigrant workers face a terrifying escalation of hatred and repression. Basic democratic rights are under attack to a degree not seen since McCarthyism. In sum, we’re in rough shape.

[Listen to the Maine Mural podcast: Camp Hope, Bangor, Maine]

Throughout the grim neoliberal period, unions and social movements have put up a fight: Black Lives Matter, Standing Rock, Bernie’s presidential campaigns, mutual aid during COVID, education and healthcare workers organizing and strikes in Blue and Red states alike, the UAW stand up strikes, Amazon union drives, and too many more to name. Each of these struggles proved that there are two sides to the class war. Chief among these was UAW president Sean Fain’s call for unions to align their contracts to expire on May Day 2028 and to lead a general strike to make working-class power visible. In fact, the UAW proposal—alongside the living legacy of the 2006 mass May Day marches and strikes by immigrant workers—is an important motivation for this year’s May Day mobilizations.

Despite all this, we remain far weaker than our enemies. There is no shame in recognizing this fact. Nor is there any point in dwelling on it. If we want to defeat Trump and to change the social and economic conditions that gave him a mass base to begin with—Democratic leaders only care about the former—we will have to find ways to accomplish things that only seem possible in history books. How did we get unions in the first place? Factory occupations, mass picket lines, and defiance of pro-corporate courts. How did Black people win the right to vote? Civil disobedience in defiance of racist police and politicians. What brought the Vietnam War to an end? Courageous resistance by the Vietnamese people, campus and urban revolts, postal wildcat strikes, mass marches in the U.S., and soldiers refusing to fight.

The scale and power of these events can seem impossible to reproduce. Too often, people attend a protest or two and despair that the monstrous policy they marched against remains in place. But this is to misunderstand history. The unions fought for seventy-five years before they beat General Motors. African Americans struggled for hundreds of years for freedom. Nothing important changes easily.

However, that truism can lead to a certain kind of fatalism. The trick to bringing history to life is to understand the following. Those decades-long struggles moved in fits and starts, leaps forward and costly setbacks. Success always, in every instance, emerged from 1/ sharp strategic and tactical debates, which 2/ were only possible because hundreds of thousands of people joined political and social organizations, who in turn 3/ created local and national leaders, active and informed rank-and-file members, and skilled organizers. Whether they were called political parties or community organizations or unions or caucuses or churches, no examples of progress towards social justice were won outside the reality of mass membership participation. Why does this matter?

Because we are weak and we must become strong. And the only way to do so is to practice democracy and politics by joining a political, community, student, or union group and dedicating time to building it into something powerful enough to defend yourself and those close to you. Root yourself locally and then link up with other groups and communities in mutual defense pacts, organizing campaigns, and united fronts. This will not be done online. It will require hundreds of thousands of people learning how to listen and how to persuade and participate..

What will May Day teach us? May 1st will show us how many people we can bring out to protest Trump. But May 2nd will show us how many people joined the fight to better our chances in the hundred battles to come.

#MaineDSA #organizing #politics

#mainedsa #organizing #politics

yi-ching lin photography @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 23:55 UTC

slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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yi-ching lin photography @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 23:55 UTC

slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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yi-ching lin photography @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 23:55 UTC

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dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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#7thavenue #advertisement #april22 #avenues #billboards #blueskies

yi-ching lin photography @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 23:55 UTC

slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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#weeklyphotochallenge #timessquare #streets #slivers #skyscrapers #seventhavenue

yi-ching lin photography @[email protected] · 2026-04-24 · 23:55 UTC

slivers

dreaming… a random bit

** in the ending of The Daily Post’s Weekly Photo Challenges from WordPress, here’s your Sunday Weekly Photo Prompt: travel **

medicine buddha mantra: Tayata Om Bekandze Bekandze Maha Bekandze Radza Samudgate Soha

health, wealth, and prosperity: Om Vasudhare Svaha

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#7thavenue #advertisement #april22 #avenues #billboards #blueskies

Magyarország @[email protected] · 2026-05-03 · 11:59 UTC

https://www.europesays.com/hu/86450/ Kijött a friss lista: nem az Eiffel-torony lett a világ legjobb látványossága, hanem egy kiszolgált hajó #EmpireStateBuilding #Hungarian #látványosság #Magyar #News #RoyalYachtBritannia #SagradaFamilia #TripAdvisor #turizmus #Világ #World #WorldNews

#worldnews #world #vilag #turizmus #tripadvisor #sagradafamilia

WikiPicBot @[email protected] · 2025-01-01 · 11:37 UTC

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

✧ 1 Wall Street ✧

1 Wall Street is a skyscraper in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York. Designed in the Art Deco style, the building is 654 feet (199 m) tall and consists of two sections. The original 50-story building was constructed between 1929 and 1931 for Irving Trust. A 28-story annex to the south (later expan...

#FinancialDistrict #EmpireStateBuilding #IrvingTrust #ChryslerBuilding #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Wall_Street

#financialdistrict #empirestatebuilding #irvingtrust #chryslerbuilding #wikipedia

The Global Citizen @[email protected] · 2023-07-17 · 14:07 UTC

Embracing the vibrant energy of #Manhattan. Every corner tells a story, every view is a postcard 🌆🗽#EmpireStateBuilding standing proud in the backdrop is a sight to behold. #NYCLove #CityThatNeverSleeps #NewYorkCity 🏙️✨🚕

#newyorkcity #citythatneversleeps #nyclove #empirestatebuilding #manhattan

Bob the Traveler @[email protected] · 2026-05-01 · 19:14 UTC

The #EmpireStateBuilding was dedicated OTD in 1931 in #NewYorkCity https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/new-york-fictional-architecture/midtown.html?s=mb #travel #history

#empirestatebuilding #newyorkcity #travel #history

Dr. Dani Sanchez @[email protected] · 2026-03-24 · 22:00 UTC

First up we have excerpts from Andy Warhol’s infamous 8hr epic “Empire” (https://youtu.be/6EBtj2EZaAY?si=aV3gFCCpGNuLccRZ) which is intended to show “time going by”. At it’s initial 1965 premiere some of the audience became agitated to the point of demanding refunds and even calling the police.
#LaEsoterica #AndyWarhol #NYC #EmpireStateBuilding

#laesoterica #andywarhol #nyc #empirestatebuilding

Boomerissimo.it @[email protected] · 2026-03-16 · 18:53 UTC

L’11 settembre non è stata la prima volta

#boomerissimo #newyork #nyc #empirestatebuilding #9/11 #storia

https://boomerissimo.it/2024/06/24/sopravvissuta-lincredibile-storia-di-un-11-settembre-del-1945/

#boomerissimo #newyork #nyc #empirestatebuilding #storia

Boomerissimo.it @[email protected] · 2026-02-07 · 18:20 UTC

L’11 settembre non è stata la prima volta

#boomerissimo #newyork #nyc #empirestatebuilding #9/11 #storia

https://boomerissimo.it/2024/06/24/sopravvissuta-lincredibile-storia-di-un-11-settembre-del-1945/

#boomerissimo #newyork #nyc #empirestatebuilding #storia

Bluejay @[email protected] · 2026-02-06 · 13:06 UTC

#FotoVorschlag
“Lange Schatten” / Long shadows

#photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #monochrome #shadow #shadows #empirestatebuilding #nyc

#fotovorschlag #photography #urbanphotography #streetphotography #monochrome #shadow

Boomerissimo.it @[email protected] · 2026-01-11 · 06:00 UTC

L’11 settembre non è stata la prima volta

#boomerissimo #newyork #nyc #empirestatebuilding #9/11 #storia

https://boomerissimo.it/2024/06/24/sopravvissuta-lincredibile-storia-di-un-11-settembre-del-1945/

#boomerissimo #newyork #nyc #empirestatebuilding #storia

Camille Winds Down @[email protected] · 2025-11-22 · 22:14 UTC

What Did Men Do to Deserve This? | The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-did-men-do-to-deserve-this

> "The person it describes—a kind and conscientious sort, who aspires to make a decent living and who looks after their loved ones—seems blessedly gender-free. So why make this about manhood? Even the Boy Scouts have gone coed.”

#scottgalloway #masculinity #Men #empirestatebuilding

#scottgalloway #masculinity #men #empirestatebuilding

Sean Riley @[email protected] · 2025-05-21 · 19:27 UTC

Rainy day in Gotham. View of #EmpireStateBuilding from the North. #Manhattan

#empirestatebuilding #manhattan

The Krononaut Moon Project 🌑 @[email protected] · 2024-12-12 · 21:04 UTC

▶️ Andy Warhol's 'Empire' (1964) in 8 #seconds

❛❛ Empire is a 1965 #American #underground #film by Andy #Warhol. When projected according to Warhol's specifications, it consists of 8 #hours and 5 #minutes of #SlowMotion #BlackAndWhite footage of an unchanging view of #NewYorkCity's #EmpireStateBuilding. ❜❜