Haha, yeah. I guess I figured if I was going to die or go on the run that now would be as good a time as any to tell my family I’m a communist.

Edit: Also just remembered a dream I had where I went on vacation to the DPRK and being really impressed with all the amenities.

I don’t usually have political dreams, but a while back I had a dream some Nazi group was taking over the country. I decided the best way for me to help the resistance was to infiltrate the ranks of the group and gather intel… despite not even being a part of the resistance movement and my only knowledge of covert ops being from playing 2 Metal Gear games. I remember walking into their compound and seeing their runes and racist slogans everywhere, and the people there looked more like a biker gang than a paramilitary organization, strangely enough. I remember thinking to myself that I was in too deep, knowing they’d probably torture me to death if they found me out. I remember leaving and sharing my fears with some loved ones and then I woke up. Honestly, probably the most frightening dream I’ve had in a while.

I also had a dream once where I was being chased by a giant hamburger that bit me in half when it caught up with me. Just goes to show the diversity of my dreams. 🙃

I started Stardew Valley again. I love the game to death, but I’ve never finished it even though I’ve logged over 200 hours in it. I feel like it’s because I try min-maxing everything and get discouraged eventually.

Other than that, I’ve finally started playing Cities: Skylines in earnest after owning it for years. Like others, I’ve recently fallen down the urbanism and sustainable city design rabbit hole, and I’ve been attempting to play the game with that in mind, even though car-centric city design is the only option in the game. That said I’m up to 20 thousand population with over 90% traffic flow 😁.

I had the physical release of that game. It barely ran on my family’s Windows Vista computer, but I remember it being pretty neat. If memory serves, in naval combat you can board and even ram ships.

• Heavy metal - typically traditional heavy metal and thrash, but not grindcore, metalcore, or deathcore
• Punk, usually hardcore punk, crust punk, or d-beat
• 70s/80s new wave/synthpop
• 60s Pyschedelic rock
• Synthwave
• Lately I’ve been interested in the overlap between country music, rock’n’roll, and blues that happened in the 50s
• Super old school hip hop, as in early 80s hip hop
• Very infrequently I might listen to some jazz

I find it amusing that in the same day, I may listen to Emperor, Manowar, Johnny Cash, The Buggles, Herbie Hancock, GISM, and Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick.

No matter how many billionaires go to space, remember that the first person in space was the humble son of a bricklayer and a milkmaid, and they can’t take that away from us.

Sad to see it finally happen, but I think we knew it was all inevitable given what happened to Chapo and MTC. Here’s hoping for a bright red future in Lemmygrad! ✊

Edit: Also big thanks to comrade Dessalines and everyone else involved for developing Lemmy. This is a fantastic site and it’s great we have a place to escape to.