boardbyboard [comrade/them]
the art style made me think that the DOTA 2 characters were from disney shows
also did the combine soldier steal the demoman’s gear?
it’s funny you mentioned House of Leaves. Because I thoroughly enjoyed IJ and did not enjoy HoL. I appreciated what HoL did well in terms of presentation but I don’t think the writing itself was strong to keep me hooked. IJ had the benefit of DFW being an extremely meticulous and hilarious author. Imo he has a way of writing intelligently that doesn’t come off as smarmy or pretentious or whatever, (he’s the opposite of what you might find in your average NYT article). He also claimed to have physically attended AA meetings and the like before trying to put certain scenes in the book which, at the time, was felt by me (it’s been years since I’ve read the book).
If u don’t want to power all the way through IJ I recommend reading DFW’s short stories or the various articles/essays that he had published.
oh and I should also add that I read the book over the course of at least 3-4 months.
it’s one of those things that I think appears accusatory but imo it’s a matter-of-fact observation. You aren’t born in the core with the opinion: ‘I approve of my raised stature thanks to exploitation of the global south’. It’s tough to describe, yes all proles in the core are ‘implicated’ but I give those kinds of statements a charitable reading maybe. In another way, I think it’s meant to enlighten rather than guilt
The central point norfield is making cannot be emphasized enough, because so many liberals and socialists in imperialist countries try very hard to put it out of their minds. h&M makes handsome profits, to be sure, but these are dwarfed by the state’s take, once taxes on wages and profits of h&M and suppliers of services to it are added to its VaT 14 iMPerialiSM in The T wenT y-FirST CenTury receipts. in 2013, the tariffs charged by the u.S. government on its apparel imports from Bangladesh alone exceeded the total wages received by the workers who made these goods. The state uses this money, as we know, to finance foreign wars, health care, and Social Security, and even returns a few pennies to the poor countries in the form of “foreign aid.” as Tony norfield argues, low wages in Bangladesh help explain “why the richer countries can have lots of shop assistants, delivery drivers, managers and administrators, accountants, advertising executives, a wide range of welfare payments and much else besides.”12 his blunt conclusion: “wage rates in Bangladesh are particularly low, but even the multiples of these seen in other poor countries point to the same conclusion: oppression of workers in the poorer countries is a direct economic benefit for the mass of people in the richer countries.”
:settlers: moment
I don’t like these new rules SHOW US THEIR USERNAME