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DOOM and Gloom: E1M2: Nuclear Plant

Despite the name there's not really a massive amount of nukage in this level, the wavy green texture only cropping up surrounding a switch that opens a secret, under a walkway in a room toward the end of the level, and in a small pool around another secret, which disappears when you hit a switch. What it does have, though, it two new weapons to be nabbed by eagle-eyed players; first, find a pretty well-telegraphed secret door (it's got a different texture than the surrounding wall) to open up a window and grab the chaingun from outside. Later in the level, shoot an unmarked section of wall in the dark computer maze to find the chainsaw. These weapons make a fun pair, both functioning as a wait to spit out a near-continuous stream of damage at far and close range, respectively. And you'll want to nab both of them, because this level really lays the low-tier enemies on thick. The shotgun is a great general workhouse for small group of low-to-mid-tier enemies, but when you

Physical Feedback Spotlight: TeenyGinger

With the advent of accessible porn distribution methods like pornhub, manvids, and chaturbate, the internet has seen a surge in amateur pornographers. Obviously lowering barriers to entry and getting more artists working in a space is always a good thing for the medium in question, as it allows for a larger variety of content to appeal to more people's individual tastes, and in the field of porn the particular effect it's had is an increase in personality-driven content, thanks to the distribution platforms' proximity to social media. For example, there's a pornhub user who goes by the pseudonym TeenyGinger , uploading mainly JOI-style videos, but occasionally vlogs or sex toy reviews (with demonstrations, of course.) The tone of these videos is uniformly positive; she makes an effort to convey a sense of herself and the viewer just having some fun together, with her JOI commentary coming across as very encouraging and each video ending with a bit of cooldown where sh

Suicidal Roasts: "The Cashing-In: The Student "Rebellion"" by Ayn Rand

The first essay included in The Return of the Primitive centers on the Berkeley "Free Speech Movement" protests of the 1960s, and it also forces me to commit a typographical crime in the form of a double end-quote due to how I format my post titles. The reason for this is because Ayn Rand is the Sargon of Akkad of the 1970s. More on that later. The more specific reason for this is because Rand wants to make it clear that she doesn't consider these students to really be rebels, she considers them to be conformists who merely appropriate the image of rebellion for the sake of branding and to feel cool, and for the first couple paragraphs and the title of the essay she'll persist in putting scare-quotes around the words "rebel" and "rebellion" to drive this point home. This is a consistent tactic of Rand when writing on movements or viewpoints she disagrees with; she modifies the aesthetic perception of the subject, usually while providing vague or