Nov. 13th, 2023

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"John Oliver discusses the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas."



In the rare moments when John Oliver dispenses with joking about Domino's or Yoshi or Ask Jeeves or whatever, he makes a pretty good (if blatantly obvious) point, the gist of which is this: Hamas is shit, Netanyahu and the current Israeli government is shit, and decades of American meddling is shit. It's the Israeli people and the Palestinian people who mostly hate all this shit and have to deal with all this shit on a daily basis. If the shit were ever flushed away, for good, once and for all, then it could very well be possible to actually get something good accomplished, but good luck with that, because way too many shitty people are way too invested in the shit remaining unflushed.

And yeah, saying "Hamas is Gaza" or "Netanyahu is Israel" is the equivalent of saying "Trump is America" or "Putin is Russia." Think about how utterly ridiculous those latter two sound. The former two are just as ridiculous and just as false.
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I actually stopped and watched the credits play this time (they're tied to your character while you still move around and such) after killing the Moon Lord, rather than mostly ignore them the way I did in my Classic world.

Another thing I did that made things more interesting was to switch the soundtrack from the normal one to the Terraria Otherworld soundtrack (i.e. the soundtrack from the new game that was, unfortunately, canceled years ago). The only annoying things about this is that you can't do it until the Party Girl moves in (and only after you've unlocked it by visiting a Drunk world at least once, which I did long ago) and that you have to visit the Party Girl every time you restart the game, since it goes back to the normal soundtrack by default on a fresh load.

Not counting some of the achievements, like completely purifying the world or doing all the Angler quests or drinking water while drowning or whatever, the only things I haven't done is beat the Empress of Light on the Master World, beat the Empress of Light fully in daytime (where she does one hit kills) on any world, and seriously try one of the unique world seeds, particularly the "Get fixed boi" world, which combines several of the others into one (and which kind of sounds like a real painchallenge even for anyone that has beaten a "normal" Master mode world).

I think, finally, that I'm kind of Terrara'd out for now, though. If/when I ever do play it again, I'll most likely use this same character (or, if I'm feeling particularly masochistic, start a new character) and try a "Get fixed boi" world.

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