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Gaming and In the News
9 Dec 2024 14:09I have had long Civ 6 playing sessions. I have been able to gain the Culture and Science victories in the Emperor difficulty. I also got into Miitopia on Switch again! I made new Miis for my current ship (which is Sethoscara). Maybe I can share some pictures later. Bottom line, Miitopia is so much fun, how could I have forgotten!
As for MMORPGs, a friend has been making me play classic World of Warcraft. I've never actually played it before. He keeps asking how I like it; well it's exactly like any other MMORPG. I don't even have anything to say about it, if you like MMORPGs you like it and if not, you won't. And my opinion on MMORPGs is and has always been neutral, so. It's an okay game. I have not much more to say.
However, I ended up making a new character on FFXIV last night. It has more fun character making possibilities, I guess? Let's see how far I can take it.
In the News
I wish and hope, a better future for Syria. I have 0 connection to this place but have been very much following the events the past few days. If only they can have a prosperous future starting now....
Also in the news: Tuoreet luvut naimisiinmenosta julki: Koko instituution asema vaarassa (New numbers on marriage are public: The position of the whole institution is at stake). Only about half of people now get married before they turn 50, and even after that the numbers don't get much better. Most marriages now are also civil marriages (non-religious procedures).
It's very good? I often speak about wishing to marry one day, but... My view on marriage is that it is supposed to be an agreement between the participants, and is nice to celebrate with friends and family. I dislike it being seen as some kind of a... family unit that holds up whole society, or god-sent, or such. Historically, what is a marriage? It is a relationship that has been publically announced: we are together. And people have celebrated that. So much bad has been attached to it later on, patriarchal systems of wealth ownership, religious control, heteronormative anything. So in a way, I am rooting for the "destruction" of marriage; and its rebirth as something closer to what it was originally supposed to be. Even cohabitation with a promise of loyalty to each other is closer to the "original" concept of marriage as opposed to whatever "Women own no property and are baby making machines" plus "hetero family units are the blocks that hold up the Fatherland" bullshit we've had to deal with for literal millenia.
But the revolution on marriage already started decades ago, when we decided it was supposed to be about love. It wasn't even about love for a long time but financial benefits, families' power dynamics, ensuring of heirs... It's always been funny to me how some blame gay people for destroying marriage. Wasn't it straight people who decided it was about love who destroyed it already in its patriarchal-religious
sense? And the patriarchal societies that destroyed the concept of marriage that came before them.
As for MMORPGs, a friend has been making me play classic World of Warcraft. I've never actually played it before. He keeps asking how I like it; well it's exactly like any other MMORPG. I don't even have anything to say about it, if you like MMORPGs you like it and if not, you won't. And my opinion on MMORPGs is and has always been neutral, so. It's an okay game. I have not much more to say.
However, I ended up making a new character on FFXIV last night. It has more fun character making possibilities, I guess? Let's see how far I can take it.
In the News
I wish and hope, a better future for Syria. I have 0 connection to this place but have been very much following the events the past few days. If only they can have a prosperous future starting now....
Also in the news: Tuoreet luvut naimisiinmenosta julki: Koko instituution asema vaarassa (New numbers on marriage are public: The position of the whole institution is at stake). Only about half of people now get married before they turn 50, and even after that the numbers don't get much better. Most marriages now are also civil marriages (non-religious procedures).
It's very good? I often speak about wishing to marry one day, but... My view on marriage is that it is supposed to be an agreement between the participants, and is nice to celebrate with friends and family. I dislike it being seen as some kind of a... family unit that holds up whole society, or god-sent, or such. Historically, what is a marriage? It is a relationship that has been publically announced: we are together. And people have celebrated that. So much bad has been attached to it later on, patriarchal systems of wealth ownership, religious control, heteronormative anything. So in a way, I am rooting for the "destruction" of marriage; and its rebirth as something closer to what it was originally supposed to be. Even cohabitation with a promise of loyalty to each other is closer to the "original" concept of marriage as opposed to whatever "Women own no property and are baby making machines" plus "hetero family units are the blocks that hold up the Fatherland" bullshit we've had to deal with for literal millenia.
But the revolution on marriage already started decades ago, when we decided it was supposed to be about love. It wasn't even about love for a long time but financial benefits, families' power dynamics, ensuring of heirs... It's always been funny to me how some blame gay people for destroying marriage. Wasn't it straight people who decided it was about love who destroyed it already in its patriarchal-religious
sense? And the patriarchal societies that destroyed the concept of marriage that came before them.
