ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]

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Cake day: August 16th, 2024

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  • Been watching Legion. Very underrated how good it was. I think it’s amazing how well they adapted a pretty problematic comic character in the Shadow King without really changing him that much from the comics. Just the writing and casting is so good. The Shadow King being an ancient and scary psychic Arabic man who is hedonistic and a sexual predator. That’s pretty much what is he is on the show, but they make him so urbane and charismatic, while still so sinister and threatening. I think he’s probably one of the best Marvel villains put to screen.

    I really like that at times he throw anti-colonial language at David and the others, where he’s 100% correct that Charles Xavier was playing white savior messing around in the global south, while it’s clear he doesn’t actually believe it, being a 2,000 year old immortal tyrant. Also there’s a scene in season 3 where he’s in his mind palace playing piano surrounded by very muscular and clocky women and it’s like he’s just like me FR.


  • Pokémon Sapphire play through the rules I subjected myself to were:

    No non gen III Pokémon. (I bent this for awhile because Teleport is too useful to not have before getting Fly but eventually I swapped out my Alakazam).

    No Pokémon with the same type. This includes mixed types. I have a Blaziken so no other fire or fighting etc.

    No Pokémon with the same move. I replace the duplicate moves as soon as I can.

    No Pokémon in the storage box long term. My 6 Pokémon are the only ones I have, I will catch Pokémon temporarily to trade and release them etc, But I’m emptying the box as soon as I can. I have a family member playing Ruby so I have traded them good Pokémon like Kyogre and the previously mentioned Alakam.

    No legendaries

    The HM Pokémon has to be trained to the same level as my other Pokémon.

    I’ve got Sceptile, Blaziken, Swampert, Absol, Skamory and Linoone.



  • A historically accurate Steve Rogers would have never put the uniform back on in the 20th /21st century and instead became a Maoist third world-ist.

    Facts, his parents were Irish immigrants to New York in the early 20th century. At the bare minimum that means fleeing English colonial genocide and at the most possibly Irish Republican and socialist sympathies. His mother was a seamstress in New York, an often unionised and radicalized occupation due to events like the triangle waist factory fire.

    Steven was such an anti-fascist that he wanted to fight Nazis in 1941 before the USA had joined the war. He then fought Nazis all over the globe, alongside the USSR (and even saved Stalin’s life). He then went into the ice in 1945, missing the USSR being made the villains in the Cold War and the US recuperating the Nazis in the GDR and with operation paper clip.

    And due to the sliding time scale even more USA war crimes happen before he comes out of the ICE (roughly always 1-2 decades ago).




  • It’s been a while since I looked into but I think it’s not a rule at a national level, but the canton police have significant flexibility on whether they approve applications for semi-automatic rifles and handguns. So one place might have requirements that another might not.

    But for all manually operated firearms it’s pretty cruise-y.

    Edit: the more I look into there’s lot of different permits with overlap, shall issue or must issue etc. Swiss bureaucracy. Etc. But I guess my point is like if a persons want a pump action shotgun or a bolt action rifle they’d get it very quickly, and be able to keep it at home with ammo, for more complicated guns it might be harder.