Now we have the full series roster for Super Robot Wars Y, which will be the first SRW game released on consoles outside of Asia.
Honestly, I think I was expecting more truly new; the only real surprises here are the first and last ones.
Continue reading Thoughts on Super Robot Wars Y
Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance.
A day to remember the victims of the most violent expressions of transphobia.
A day needed more now than ever.
I don’t know why I didn’t already have a links page, but here it is. It has some of the non-Wordpress sites that had been on my old blogroll, along some other assorted links, mostly to older sites.
Isaac Asimov was long my favorite author both of fiction and nonfiction, and had some wise words in the latter:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
“When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.”
“What would you consider a good job?” Answered as follows:
“A good job is one in which I don’t have to work, and get paid a lot of money.”
When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be given an A+, for he had perfectly articulated the American dream of those who despise knowledge. What a politician that kid would have made.”
“Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, “How did you learn all this, Isaac?”
“From you, Pappa”, I said.
“From me? I don’t know any of this”.
“You didn’t have to, Pappa”, I said. “You valued learning and you taught me to value it. Once I learned to value it, the rest came without trouble.”
“When people thought the Earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the Earth was spherical they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the Earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the Earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together”
“History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing viewing, it made horrible living.”
I’m not in a great place, but I think I’m past the worst of it and getting better.
I’ve never really considered this blog to be primarily a political one, but with the number of political posts I’ve made it does seem wrong not to say something about the election results.
The main reason it’s taken me this long is because I had other things I was dealing with at the same time.
But I don’t have any depth to offer. Not right now. I’m tired.
On the Edge of Enlightenment 