(Paris, 1908-1986) French thinker and novelist, representative of the atheist existentialist movement and an important figure in the vindication of women's rights. Originally from a bourgeois family, she stood out from an early age as a brilliant student. She studied at the Sorbonne and in 1929 she met Jean-Paul Sartre, who became her companion for the rest of her life.
He graduated in philosophy and until 1943 he devoted himself to teaching at the lycées of Marseilles, Rouen and Paris. His first work was the novel The Guest (1943), followed by The Blood of Others (1944) and the essay Pyrrhus and Cineas (1944). She participated intensely in the ideological debates of the time, harshly attacked the French right wing and assumed the role of a committed intellectual. In her literary texts she revised the concepts of history and character and incorporated, from an existentialist point of view, the themes of "freedom", "situation" and "commitment".
Together with Sartre, Albert Camus and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, among others, she founded the magazine Tiempos Modernos, whose first issue was published on October 15, 1945 and became a political and cultural reference of French thought in the mid-twentieth century. Subsequently, he published the novel All Men Are Mortal (1946), and the essays For a Morality of Ambiguity (1947) and America a Day (1948).
Her book The Second Sex (1949) was a theoretical starting point for various feminist groups, and became a classic work of contemporary thought. In it she elaborated a history of the social condition of women and analyzed the different characteristics of male oppression. She asserted that by being excluded from the processes of production and confined to the home and reproductive functions, women lost all social ties and with them the possibility of being free. She analyzed the gender situation from the point of view of biology, psychoanalysis and Marxism; she destroyed feminine myths, and urged the search for authentic liberation. She argued that the struggle for the emancipation of women was distinct from and parallel to the class struggle, and that the main problem to be faced by the "weaker sex" was not ideological but economic.
Simone de Beauvoir founded with some feminists the League of Women's Rights, which set out to react firmly to any sexist discrimination, and prepared a special issue of Modern Times devoted to the discussion of the subject. She won the Prix Goncourt with The Mandarins (1954), in which she dealt with the difficulties of post-war intellectuals in assuming their social responsibility. In 1966 she participated in the Russell Tribunal, in May 1968 she showed solidarity with the students led by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, in 1972 she presided over the Choisir association, in charge of defending free contraception, and until her last days she was a tireless fighter for human rights.
Her abundant testimonial and autobiographical titles include Memoirs of a Formal Young Woman (1958), The Fullness of Life (1960), The Force of Things (1963), A Very Sweet Death (1964), Old Age (1968), The End of Accounts (1972) and The Farewell Ceremony (1981).
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A Wild West train heist extraction shooter with Tarkov values would rule
A wild west heist game would be a ton of fun.
You should check out Hunt:Showdown. It's a PvPvE sorta extraction shooter. It's really it's own thing. twelve rootin-tootin cowboys/wizards/cannibals/revenants/serial killers have been hired to collect a bounty. The bounty is a bizarre monster. In teams of 1-3 they enter the supernaturally infected Louisiana bayou where they have to fight zombies, monsters, and each other for the chance to bring down the boss monster, collect the bounty, and escape. All the guns are old timey cowboy guns. High-lethality, but you can't just put your machine gun at head level and laser people down. You have tons of tools and doohickeys to change the odds in your favor. There's a semi-permadeath system, where you have an account that levels up, but also a roster of cowboys who gain experience by surviving missions and, if killed, are dead for good. As they level up you can buy perks for them that change how they play in various ways. But, again, once that cowboy is dead they're gone.
It totally avoids Tarkov's gear fear bc every gun is viable and good within it's role. All guns except shotguns and the elephant gun are two hits to kill to the chest within their ideal range. melee is extremely lethal if you can close the gap. If you do die you can recruit a new kitted out hunter for cheap. Guns and gear are also cheap enough that if you win a game every now and then and aren't buying the super high end gucci stuff you're unlikely to run out of cash.
It's a really fun, unique game that totally changes up the battle royale and extraction shooter paradigm to make something unique and fun. The community is generally really friendly. The game has more players now than it did at release in 2018. It'll be getting a new map this year and an engine upgrade to Cryengine 5! There are routine events tied to the battle pass system, and each battle pass adds new free weapons and special missions with different conditions (the current one is a supernatural fog that rolls in and out, obscuring your vision. Players can join supernatural pacts that let them heal rapidly when drawing power from water, telefrag monsters, or go berserk to deal massive melee damage). it's a great game, one of my all time favs.
That’s awesome! I watched a YouTube video and the sound traps are very atmospheric grim. The chanting bayou magic vibes of the soundtrack is really cool too.
Good rec!
Yeah, the soundtrack is by the Port Sulphur Band, which afaik is made up of Crytek employees. Really good stuff, worth checking out on it's own.
And yeah, the game's sound, especially it's use of binaural sound to convey very accurate 3d positional sound using stereo, is unmatched in the history of gaming. Your ears are almost as important as your eyes.
You’ve sold me, my eyes suck and it gets me killed in shooters all the time.
Also, what’s with extraction shooters and in-house bands? Tarkov does that too
Sounds like you're a prime candidate for shotgun main and/or explosive crossbow. or just throwing dynamite at everyone.
The first couple of hours will be real rough while you're getting your sea legs. I suggest playing with a team of three, like join with randos, and tell them you're new and ask for help. The subreddit is also pretty friendly and should give you lots of advice, and there are a lot of good youtube tutes. The most important thing starting out is learning how to handle the AI, how the game flow works (clues - boss - banish - escape), and the mantra of "go as fast as you can as quietly as you can". The tutorial is worth doing, and be sure to take advantage of the shooting range to get a feel for how the guns work.
I’ll keep all that advice in mind. Thanks for putting it on my radar. And good shit, explosive crossbows are my favorite impractical yet cool af weapon
They're a lot of fun. You can blow people up, or blast open the door and set off all the traps they set. Ai investigate noises so you can train ai monsters on someone hiding in cover. The game has enough interactions between tools, ai, environment, and players that it feels like an interactive sim sometimes.