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QuoProQuid
@quoproquid.bsky.social
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he / him, 🏳️‍🌈 ✝️. i work on IR and security policy but mainly tweet about richard nixon, 60s americana, and film. design lead for TNO. makes silly election games.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · Nov 9
one of the things i like to do in my free time is to create short games about history and politics. here’s a few of them below. 👇
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 38m
as catholics, we are taught death is the end of one's earthly pilgrimage and we shall not return to other earthly lives.

regretfully, i have been revived with the Reincarnate spell, separating me from the community of saints and turning me into a gnome. which body will be raised on judgment day?
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 40m
holy father, i fucked up real bad and entered a contract with an infernal prior to my conversion. does that contract preclude the salvation of my immortal soul? does christ's saving grace have limitations in this fucked-up fantasy world we live in?

sorry for cussing, holy father.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1h
it's not clear to me if there is a commonly accepted master list with a clear statement of what each one's attitudes and goals are in their own words

i instead just have like 20+ webpages from different orgs all providing slightly different "primers" that veer toward jargon
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h
im gonna be real, i don't understand like 70% of the dsa caucuses and don't think it's super healthy that a bunch of members tell me that they steer very far away from them
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h
what precautions may i take to avoid being placed within a zone of truth without my knowledge?
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h
If I am a priest, I am bound by the seal of confession not to divulge anything revealed to me by penitents during Reconciliation.

However, I have been placed within the Zone of Truth by some bandits. What are my options and obligations to preserve the sacramental seal?
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 2h
while traversing a dungeon, my party and i came across and killed a mimic in the form of a treasure chest.

it is the lenten season, but a treasure chest is not an object with meat. may we cook and eat this thing or does the requirement of abstinence extend to mimics and similar creatures?
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 3h
i'm a faithful catholic trapped in high fantasy.

according to the catechsims of the catholic church, i am prohibited from using magic and sorcery even for restoring health. if i become a cleric or paladin for christ, am i still prohibited from casting cure wounds? does this extend to revivifies?
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h
ryan is not popular in the state either for separate reasons (losing, lobbying). party has a massive recruitment problem

and yeah, just speaking from personal experience, a lot of people in their 20s and teens are still pissed off about COVID.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h
barring unexpected developments, i don’t think any city in Ohio is well-positioned to become a second Madison
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h
the path back would probably look something like Kansas, which unfortunately had to go through the “Kansas Experiment” before they elected a pretty moderate Democratic governor
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h
i do also think the Ohio Democratic Party is really struggling to find its place right now. big cities like Cleveland are no longer big enough to support the rest of the party and while there has been movement in the affluent suburbs, it hasn’t been enough to break through anywhere notable
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 4h
I think that putting forth a woman who, in the minds of many Zoomers, is directly responsible for the disruption they faced in their early lives and made them sacrifice for the benefit of the larger population, was a bad idea
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 14h
boy general meetings sure are fascinating
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 19h
mr president, you must stop body shaming yourself.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
Trump: "I'm just a little busy. I'd love to go to Argentina. I'd like to be like Biden. I'd like to go to the beach. My legs are not quite as thin as his. My legs are slightly heavier, my arms are slightly larger. My body is a little bit larger than his. I'm not sure it would be appreciated."
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 23h
phenomenal that some in the us catholic church have been trying to court these people for years. real A+ recruitment from my spiritual leaders. tremendous magisterium for the faithful.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 23h
not that there aren't cases of heinous rhetoric on "the left" but it occurs to me that we've spent two years wringing our hands over antisemitism on college campuses emerging from disorganized protests while young republican leaders have been posting "HEIL HITLER" in their official telegraph channel
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 23h
yeah that sounds like your typical young republican
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
in the interest of public health, it may be prudent to think about a larger regulatory framework that sets forth specific parameters for how platforms can be designed and to whom they can be advertised—similar to how we treated cigarette packaging once upon a time
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
there's been some effort to counteract this in the States, such as NY's "SAFE Act", which requires platforms to secure parental consent before they expose children to "addictive feeds" but i don't feel this is sufficient

the issue is the architecture. it cannot be resolved with mere "consent"
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
idk if the issue are "screens" per se but, rather, apps and algorithms that are designed to captivate and hold user attention and foster unhealthy, compulsive engagement.

notification prompts, autoplay, etc. operate using the same principles as most games on a casino floor.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
the game plays like a Clocktower game, which involves a lot of being chased down halls by various enemies and hiding.

i think it's clearly taking inspiration from Cuphead but Cuphead went to some pretty extreme lengths to capture the 1930s rubberhose aesthetic
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
this isn't really helped by a relatively low number of frames per second which causes the game to feel sluggish and slow to respond to your prompts nor a script that is trying too hard to be disney fairy tale.

i admire the ambition, but i think it's not setting yourself up for success.
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
the disney 2D house style was possible specifically because of a vast studio infrastructure that i think anyone, let alone a very small team, would struggle to replicate

and i think the close-but-not-quite aesthetic brings to mind not disney but the direct-to-VHS knock-offs of the 1990s
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QuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 1d
im always rooting for independent games but "bye sweet carole" uses its "disney-esque designs and animation" as its main selling point and i don't really think they had the budget to fully pull off what they were going for
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