Linked List / January 2026

Freedom Fighters & Reaper Just In Time ➶

We tried two different Arma Reforger mods in yesterday’s livestream.

I like the Reaper Just In Time mod technically, but the narrative of the story doesn’t vibe with me.

Feels like I’m playing as the bad guys who already have all the best toys instead of starting from the bottom and working up slowly in Freedom Fighters.

I like playing as the “underdog”, I guess. Resonates more with me.

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

Yes, no matter how right the wall may be and how wrong the egg, I will stand with the egg. Someone else will have to decide what is right and what is wrong; perhaps time or history will decide. If there were a novelist who, for whatever reason, wrote works standing with the wall, of what value would such works be?

What is the meaning of this metaphor? In some cases, it is all too simple and clear. Bombers and tanks and rockets and white phosphorus shells are that high, solid wall. The eggs are the unarmed civilians who are crushed and burned and shot by them. This is one meaning of the metaphor.

This is not all, though. It carries a deeper meaning. Think of it this way. Each of us is, more or less, an egg. Each of us is a unique, irreplaceable soul enclosed in a fragile shell. This is true of me, and it is true of each of you. And each of us, to a greater or lesser degree, is confronting a high, solid wall. The wall has a name: It is The System. The System is supposed to protect us, but sometimes it takes on a life of its own, and then it begins to kill us and cause us to kill others - coldly, efficiently, systematically.

—Haruki Murakami

Need to play the mod more to make up my mind. Maybe it is actually something antiwar, like Spec Ops: The Line, or Far Cry 2.

I did love the gear and doll dressup with TACTICOOL gloves and TACTICOOL flashlights on helmets, etc 😂

And Grant’s experience disguised as luck!

Artwo replies:

You might be taking video games too seriously my friend 😀 Not that I’m any different, I can’t play pvp cause it’s too stressful for me 😀

Exactly! I can’t not take video games seriously, because they’re a medium of communication, and an art form!

Regarding PvP, I think you’d enjoy Arc Raiders a lot, with its PvPvE and aggression-based matchmaking system (if you are generally friendly and only fire after fired upon, you’re put in lobbies with players with the same playstyle).

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