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A friend of mine loves those expensive shoes that look dirty, I have no idea what they are called, but I am sure some of you know

 

Fender relic boots?

 

A scam?

 

Golden Goose sneakers, Google them, look at them, then look at the price

 

Is the goose in this scenario the shopper?

 

Absolutely

 

Do not let Murder Bryan see those

 

The leather channel was not kind to Steve’s shoes

 

no shoes have literally torn my feet up quite like a Hoka

much prefer Brooks even though they aren’t as beloved by podcast ad readers

 

My students decorated my door even though I don't wear jeans.

 

do any of your students wear jeans

 

I am not allowed to enforce dress code rules not in the handbook. We did ban furries last year, though.

 

Hmm wdym by them tearing up your feet? I'm curious

 

like literally bleeding. it was brutal. from one run in them.

i have weirdly flat feet so I'm gonna chalk it up to them just not fitting me but I've never had a single issue after like five years with Brooks

 

Flat feet are the reason I need to wear New Balance, as before I couldn't walk for long periods of time without feeling like I wanted to break my feet off at my ankles. I totally get it.

 

#Frank sth?

 

I think it's weird to watch or play The Last of Us given that it was created as an analogy to justify zionist genocide

 

How so? Are you saying that Joel is the Zionist and the Fire Flies are Palestinians? I don't get that at all

Plus the second game hits you over the head with how Joel wasn't necessarily in the right and that there are consequences to those actions

Either way, the fire flies were trying to trick a child into being murdered without consent, so I don't think that's necessarily a moral choice

 

It's not my analysis its the creators words:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/video-games/news/the-last-of-us-part-2-ellie-evolution/

The formulation for Ellie’s turn toward darkness can be traced back to the year 2000. Then in his early 20s, Druckmann witnessed news footage of a crowd lynching two Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. “And then they cheered afterward,” Druckmann, who grew up in Israel, recalls. “It was the cheering that was really chilling to me. … In my mind, I thought, ‘Oh, man, if I could just push a button and kill all these people that committed this horrible act, I would make them feel the same pain that they inflicted on these people.’"

The feeling faded, though. Eventually, he looked back and felt “gross and guilty” for his intense feelings. With “The Last of Us Part II,” he wanted to explore that emotional tumult on a didactic level.

“I landed on this emotional idea of, can we, over the course of the game, make you feel this intense hate that is universal in the same way that unconditional love is universal?” Druckmann says. “This hate that people feel has the same kind of universality. You hate someone so much that you want them to suffer in the way they’ve made someone you love suffer.”

The entire framing of this as a "lynching" is nonsense because these were occupying soldiers who went to Ramallah to taunt Palestinians during a funeral procession of a child occupying soldiers had killed days before. The "cycle of violence" framing, even if it acknowledges that the stand-in for Israelis isn't necessarily in the right, still incorrectly frames it as a conflict between equals. If only "both sides" could just stop living in the past, etc etc.:

As grotesque as Ellie’s actions have been, Abby has done considerable harm too. Yet, neither of them are defined by it, and both eventually wish to leave it all behind.

No concept of a fundamental injustice driving anything, just interpersonal violence and cycles of revenge. Like it's the Hatfields and McCoys. It's not.

more:
Why The Last of Us’ Alleged Parallels to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Are Creating Controversy
The Not So Hidden Israeli Politics of 'The Last of Us Part II'
Reverse Canary Mission - Neil Druckmann

 

Ah, okay, so Part II

I've never played it, but I've been watching the show and have read spoilers of where it all goes. While I agree with you that Neil's thought process and reasoning is fucked, I don't know that it's necessarily reflected in the story itself tbh. It seems that all the story really drives home is that revenge is bad, without actually implying what one side is Zionist while the other is Palestinian. Both sides are equally painted in the wrong. That may have been in Neil's mind and it's absolutely fair for you to hate that, but I don't think he fully succeeded in putting that message across in the story, if that makes sense?

Of course, I could be wrong since I've never played the game haha. Either way, I don't blame you for feeling that way.

 

I didn't play part II either because I wanted nothing to do with it after reading this lol. but yeah idk all of it is just tainted for me I just think of his words whenever it comes up

 

You can make small purchases on your phone but big purchases should be made on your laptop.

 

Why, so you can be sitting down while you're sweating over your life choices?

 

I use my phone far more than my laptop, so by extension most of my big-ticket purchases have been made on my phone

 

I feel like we had this conversation recently. I never buy shit on my phone. =