The avatar movies are very funny for a lot of reasons, but one of them is the way that Jake Sully treats adoption. He takes blue Jesus into his family entirely, even though she is a clone of Sigourney Weaver, and not related to him biologically. She is treated as a full part of the family, her siblings call her sister and her parents call her daughter.

Then there's the white kid with dreads who was also raised by Jake and grew up on Pandora and spends all his time with Jake's family. But Jake is like. Yeah he's just some guy. Not my son idfc. I don't really fuck with him so I'm not adopting him. I'm fact I'm really considering killing him (this actually happens)

US is already in a soft recession, natural/climate disaster is a given, China is already making inroads in soft power as of 2025 (REDnote explosion in early 2025, "I'm in a very Chinese time of my life" is a dumb meme but demonstrates that people are becoming a lot less hostile to China), AI agent does something unexpected is very vague, idk what "another deepseek moment" means. Of the ones that aren't a given, I think a social media exodus is actually very likely. I've seen a lot of pushback on social media and a big push to touch grass. It might not be an organized thing, but rather people quietly logging off.

The most unlikely is AR glasses becoming good. They will always be for dorks

I watched some anti-SJW garbage for a couple months when I was around 14. I didn't go that far down the pipeline, I watched stuff like h3h3 and Amazing Atheist. I had literally no idea what they were talking about, I was 14 and had no context for politics, but I just saw other people saying they were good and funny and absorbed that opinion. Then I guess I realised pretty quickly that I didn't agree with any of it

I watched avatar 3 today and it's a pretty decent movie until the 3rd act, which is literally identical to the 2nd movie's 3rd act. Like the exact same situations, characters and setting.

No, 4 out of 7 chapters are currently released, with chapter 5 set to release in 2026

What can you say to recommend Requieum for Skyrim?

I played a lot of games this year, but literally none of them matter in comparison to Deltarune. Deltarune Chapters 3 and 4 released at some point this year and hijacked my mind like an evil fungus. It was simply incredible. The music is unparalleled, I truly believe that if you don't like a single aspect of Deltarune you will like the music anyway. Listen to the soundtrack if you haven't. Some highlights are Guardian, Ruder Buster and the Third Sanctuary. None of these are my favourite one, but my favourite comes with a very very cool narrative moment and I think its best to go in completely blind. The Third Sanctuary is unlike anything I've ever heard.

I don't want to say too much about the story because if you haven't played Deltarune, and Undertale was of any interest to you whatsoever, you need to play it unspoiled. Suffice to say that Kris might have unseated Asa Mitaka as my favourite character in fiction. I'm obsessed with them. Also they're the most visible nonbinary protagonist that I know of and helped me realise that I was nonbinary back when chapter 2 came out.

Undertale was a generational masterpiece. If you recall ten years ago, a popular discussion among journalists was whether or not video games are art, and people would always point to Undertale as proof of the artistry of video games. It was a paradigm changer. I was utterly obsessed with Undertale, and it was a very obvious 10/10 for me. So when Deltarune was announced, I was pretty cautiously optimistic, because nothing can really live up to Undertale.

But Deltarune is better than Undertale in every single way. Its the easiest 10/10 I've ever seen in my life. I thought it would be impossible to surpass Undertale, but Deltarune goes so far above and beyond. Its an incredible achievement.

Its one of those games where, when the credits roll, you know you've had something permanently changed in your brain chemistry. You'll never be able to relive the feeling of playing this game for the first time. Its like Disco Elysium or Nier: Automata, where the ending credits make me realise I've just witnessed something beautiful. Deltarune made me feel like this, but with the caveat that the game isn't even finished yet, its only halfway there. Seeing the message from the narrator and hearing Neverending Nights still gives me chills.

I'm always aware that the creators I love can fail even when they make something incredible. Tatsuki Fujimoto wrote my favourite manga ever, Chainsaw Man, and unfortunately I think part 2 just isn't as good as part 1. No one is infallible, and I'm always aware of the possibility of disappointment. But Toby Fox might be infallible I'm not gonna lie. Given everything that Undertale and Deltarune have delivered, I can't possibly imagine being disappointed by the final three chapters.

Sure, plastic bottles give you micro plastics, but at least the water tastes worse and it makes more rubbish

Honestly I found the 9s segments great because imo the hacking minigame was really well implemented. It flows so quickly between combat and hacking that it didn't feel like the pace was being destroyed, which really impressed me. That said I still like playing as 2b and a2 more. The hot robot game is so good

"Ha! These brainwashed foreigners think we have functional infrastructure, those fools"

Honestly I thought this would be a slam dunk for Trump after the assassination photo, then he completely failed to capitalize on that, then I thought it would be a slam dunk for Harris, then she did absolutely nothing to make her likeable and got an endorsement from Cheney. How are both presidential candidates so bad at running for president

Ukraine - or rather, the Ukranian people - have already lost the war against Russia by basically every important metric. They have lost tens of thousands of soldiers, millions have emigrated, their domestic assets have been completely sold to and looted by American capitalists, and they are still likely to lose militarily. Ukraine will not recover for decades. But Zelensky and his ilk keep getting richer by selling off the country and the lives of the people to the American war machine, and the American capitalists keep getting richer by having a massive demand for their weapons and gathering information about the Russian military. Just fucking end the war, please.