can’t really play them anymore because i ain’t got that time

but will always love coming home and playing persona 5. plus playing it in japanese also really really helped with my japanese skills

i’m currently on board for a (college) club and working on designing meetings/working to create community. do you have any tips on how to apply design thinking to work to create actually meaningful connections and value to draw people to come - i find a lot of people want to come but don’t find the time - which i think is partially because there isn’t enough value offered.

what no dialectics does to an mf

i just clicked cancel so now i gotta retype my comment 😭

it’s in chinese and it basically shows clips of foreigners vlogging and showing their reaction. i think there was a… russian? i don’t know what language the vlogger was saying(there were chinese subtitles tho), and it just went through a couple comments too. essentially detailing like comments about safety, infrastructure, rail, etc…

Hmm I don’t think i actually asked about GLF. Cultural rev he acknowledged it was a mistake probably overall, but it wasn’t like a completely bad thing but yeah that living in a time where if you said something wrong it would be very scary. Tiananmen didn’t use the term color revolution cuz we were talking in chinese but basically described it as such and like we can talk about it but the problem with talking about online is if you’re like wrong then it becomes baseless speculation and that’s not really okay. problem of national security and like being against dissident voices isn’t something unique to china either really. hong kong/taiwan were like why would they want to even have independence they’re in the grand scheme of things rather small islands and doing well under the current administration ig. i don’t remember exactly what he said but something about those lines.

so pretty much mostly in line with what i expected.

Yes probably. I asked if they were part of the communist party and they said they were part of the youth one.

i’m not sure what you mean by the “so… i’m on such a camp” could you clarify? do you mean that you are on a similar chinese government funded camp?

oopsies if i am misreading or reading too much into it but just a bit confused

i really liked this article. i’m pretty sure i’ve read it before but it was a good reminder.

something’s that stuck out to me was that he understood the material conditions of china really well. he mentioned how he doubts china would have survived june 4th without reform and opening up. he understood that capital wasn’t an inherently evil thing, contrary to moralism, and that it was something to be used to improve the lives of the chinese people.

another thing is it’s interesting to see “left” as what we refer to as ultras and “right” as well capitalist in general. it does make sense to see those things from their perspective having a socialist government though.

good read!