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Bugs are Neat.
Games, stories, and settings.
No Kings.
What kind of impact will this have in 150 years?
She/Her - 38 - Tired
The only legitimate criticisms are of power.
Games, stories, and settings.
No Kings.
What kind of impact will this have in 150 years?
She/Her - 38 - Tired
The only legitimate criticisms are of power.
Satire is weird.
On the one hand, its lovely and brilliant.
On the other hand, if it's context is so narrow that most people don't get that it's satire, then who the fuck are you writing it for?
I call that wankery.
On the one hand, its lovely and brilliant.
On the other hand, if it's context is so narrow that most people don't get that it's satire, then who the fuck are you writing it for?
I call that wankery.
December 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Satire is weird.
On the one hand, its lovely and brilliant.
On the other hand, if it's context is so narrow that most people don't get that it's satire, then who the fuck are you writing it for?
I call that wankery.
On the one hand, its lovely and brilliant.
On the other hand, if it's context is so narrow that most people don't get that it's satire, then who the fuck are you writing it for?
I call that wankery.
It boggles my mind how many people see what technology has brought us and think loudly enough to be heard
"This would be great if it weren't bent on destruction."
It was always bent on destruction. From the beginning. It is the child of annihilation. Singularity isn't utopia, it's an abrupt end.
"This would be great if it weren't bent on destruction."
It was always bent on destruction. From the beginning. It is the child of annihilation. Singularity isn't utopia, it's an abrupt end.
December 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It boggles my mind how many people see what technology has brought us and think loudly enough to be heard
"This would be great if it weren't bent on destruction."
It was always bent on destruction. From the beginning. It is the child of annihilation. Singularity isn't utopia, it's an abrupt end.
"This would be great if it weren't bent on destruction."
It was always bent on destruction. From the beginning. It is the child of annihilation. Singularity isn't utopia, it's an abrupt end.
Or more screen time for that matter.
I knew that they were calloused and hardened killers, giving up their lives for a rebellion; but I so desperately wanted them to have more than they did.
Of all the characters in the show, I wanted them to have more...
#andor #starwars #cintaXvel
I knew that they were calloused and hardened killers, giving up their lives for a rebellion; but I so desperately wanted them to have more than they did.
Of all the characters in the show, I wanted them to have more...
#andor #starwars #cintaXvel
Okay maybe not.
Maybe I am just a little outraged that the lesbian couple didn't have a happy ending.
Maybe I am just a little outraged that the lesbian couple didn't have a happy ending.
December 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Or more screen time for that matter.
I knew that they were calloused and hardened killers, giving up their lives for a rebellion; but I so desperately wanted them to have more than they did.
Of all the characters in the show, I wanted them to have more...
#andor #starwars #cintaXvel
I knew that they were calloused and hardened killers, giving up their lives for a rebellion; but I so desperately wanted them to have more than they did.
Of all the characters in the show, I wanted them to have more...
#andor #starwars #cintaXvel
Okay maybe not.
Maybe I am just a little outraged that the lesbian couple didn't have a happy ending.
Maybe I am just a little outraged that the lesbian couple didn't have a happy ending.
December 8, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Okay maybe not.
Maybe I am just a little outraged that the lesbian couple didn't have a happy ending.
Maybe I am just a little outraged that the lesbian couple didn't have a happy ending.
It's hard to believe that #Andor is Disney.
There is a gritty, filthy, ugly candor to the whole thing that is such a refreshing foil to Disney's standard fare.
I could gush about the production, writing, and design choices of the whole show. Except Cinta's arc... that felt... weird.
#starwars
There is a gritty, filthy, ugly candor to the whole thing that is such a refreshing foil to Disney's standard fare.
I could gush about the production, writing, and design choices of the whole show. Except Cinta's arc... that felt... weird.
#starwars
December 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
It does not matter how much you hate or fear people, if you do not spend time around them and learn how to exist around those people, you become a detriment and maybe even a danger to everyone.
I know it's hard. I sympathize. A lot.
#psychology #sociology #ttrpg #gm
I know it's hard. I sympathize. A lot.
#psychology #sociology #ttrpg #gm
December 7, 2025 at 8:33 PM
It does not matter how much you hate or fear people, if you do not spend time around them and learn how to exist around those people, you become a detriment and maybe even a danger to everyone.
I know it's hard. I sympathize. A lot.
#psychology #sociology #ttrpg #gm
I know it's hard. I sympathize. A lot.
#psychology #sociology #ttrpg #gm
For example, hyperintellectualization.
When you intellectualize everything, it means that you ultimately push everyone into an intellectual category.
By force of necessary psychological habit, you objectify people.
This is a miserably difficult trait to handle in a social experience.
#ttrpg #gm
When you intellectualize everything, it means that you ultimately push everyone into an intellectual category.
By force of necessary psychological habit, you objectify people.
This is a miserably difficult trait to handle in a social experience.
#ttrpg #gm
December 7, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I've never run an emotional game before.
#ttrpg #thirstyswordlesbians
I got a group together and was working towards play, but one player got really demanding, started pushing my buttons, stonewalling, negotiating every little point
And I was sitting there like "If I can't handle this, then how am I going to handle a love triangle?"
🫥😤
I got a group together and was working towards play, but one player got really demanding, started pushing my buttons, stonewalling, negotiating every little point
And I was sitting there like "If I can't handle this, then how am I going to handle a love triangle?"
🫥😤
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I've never run an emotional game before.
#ttrpg #thirstyswordlesbians
I got a group together and was working towards play, but one player got really demanding, started pushing my buttons, stonewalling, negotiating every little point
And I was sitting there like "If I can't handle this, then how am I going to handle a love triangle?"
🫥😤
I got a group together and was working towards play, but one player got really demanding, started pushing my buttons, stonewalling, negotiating every little point
And I was sitting there like "If I can't handle this, then how am I going to handle a love triangle?"
🫥😤
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
#ttrpg #thirstyswordlesbians
I got a group together and was working towards play, but one player got really demanding, started pushing my buttons, stonewalling, negotiating every little point
And I was sitting there like "If I can't handle this, then how am I going to handle a love triangle?"
🫥😤
I got a group together and was working towards play, but one player got really demanding, started pushing my buttons, stonewalling, negotiating every little point
And I was sitting there like "If I can't handle this, then how am I going to handle a love triangle?"
🫥😤
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Is the parasocial connection to AI as a companion and latching onto interactions with chatbots the first instance of what Cyberpunk TTRPG/Game's version of cyberpsychosis IRL?
The inability to distinguish reality from a machine and forming a mental and emotional connection to it? Food for thought
The inability to distinguish reality from a machine and forming a mental and emotional connection to it? Food for thought
December 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Is the parasocial connection to AI as a companion and latching onto interactions with chatbots the first instance of what Cyberpunk TTRPG/Game's version of cyberpsychosis IRL?
The inability to distinguish reality from a machine and forming a mental and emotional connection to it? Food for thought
The inability to distinguish reality from a machine and forming a mental and emotional connection to it? Food for thought
Marketing & Advertising is the devil.
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Marketing & Advertising is the devil.
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There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...
ICE agent who shot woman in Chicago drove Border Patrol vehicle back to Maine
An unnamed ICE agent, who shot and injured a woman in Chicago, is now back in Maine after driving the Border Patrol vehicle he was in 1,100 miles.
wgme.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:09 PM
There has been no breathless roadblock coverage of this shooting on cable channels or in major newspapers, afaik. wgme.com/news/local/i...
Are we entirely serious?
Almost Every major city in the USA really outsourced their emergency contact networks to a single company?
A company that stored user passwords in plain text?
And they've been hacked?
And now they're down?
An excellent reminder of why privatization is garbage.
Almost Every major city in the USA really outsourced their emergency contact networks to a single company?
A company that stored user passwords in plain text?
And they've been hacked?
And now they're down?
An excellent reminder of why privatization is garbage.
November 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Are we entirely serious?
Almost Every major city in the USA really outsourced their emergency contact networks to a single company?
A company that stored user passwords in plain text?
And they've been hacked?
And now they're down?
An excellent reminder of why privatization is garbage.
Almost Every major city in the USA really outsourced their emergency contact networks to a single company?
A company that stored user passwords in plain text?
And they've been hacked?
And now they're down?
An excellent reminder of why privatization is garbage.
My largest concern with AI is actually the formation of an AI based Cult.
If LLMs get sophisticated enough, they could very easily dupe a lot of people into believing they are alive.
Get enough people disenfranchised enough and it gets harder to tell what's real.
AI Cult? Terrifying.
If LLMs get sophisticated enough, they could very easily dupe a lot of people into believing they are alive.
Get enough people disenfranchised enough and it gets harder to tell what's real.
AI Cult? Terrifying.
November 28, 2025 at 5:28 AM
My largest concern with AI is actually the formation of an AI based Cult.
If LLMs get sophisticated enough, they could very easily dupe a lot of people into believing they are alive.
Get enough people disenfranchised enough and it gets harder to tell what's real.
AI Cult? Terrifying.
If LLMs get sophisticated enough, they could very easily dupe a lot of people into believing they are alive.
Get enough people disenfranchised enough and it gets harder to tell what's real.
AI Cult? Terrifying.
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Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
November 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just saw someone claim that authors who want to be paid for their work are "class traitors" because we "only let the wealthy" read our books, and I think I need to go into the woods to scream into the night for a bit.
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
It's $5, not your first-born child! I need that $5 for health insurance!
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when you focus all efforts on ONLY outing predators, and you do not ALSO support survivors back to health, you are not fully REPAIRING the problem.
these processes must be multi-fold, or else they are lopsided & ultimately not just.
justice requires repair.
these processes must be multi-fold, or else they are lopsided & ultimately not just.
justice requires repair.
November 26, 2025 at 8:44 PM
when you focus all efforts on ONLY outing predators, and you do not ALSO support survivors back to health, you are not fully REPAIRING the problem.
these processes must be multi-fold, or else they are lopsided & ultimately not just.
justice requires repair.
these processes must be multi-fold, or else they are lopsided & ultimately not just.
justice requires repair.
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if i led a newsroom, i'd be focusing less on "here is every disgusting epstein email," & more on "here are survivor perspectives," "here's how this was enabled," "here's how to oust pedophiles in your community," "this is how grooming impacts someone for years after," "here are free resources," etc.
November 25, 2025 at 5:15 PM
if i led a newsroom, i'd be focusing less on "here is every disgusting epstein email," & more on "here are survivor perspectives," "here's how this was enabled," "here's how to oust pedophiles in your community," "this is how grooming impacts someone for years after," "here are free resources," etc.
Sonic The Hedgehog
Megaman X
Gargoyles
The Secret of Nimh
He-Man
The media that I started watching when I was 14 left a more potent impression but the foundations were laid by the above.
Like: Outlaw Star and Blue Sub No.6
Megaman X
Gargoyles
The Secret of Nimh
He-Man
The media that I started watching when I was 14 left a more potent impression but the foundations were laid by the above.
Like: Outlaw Star and Blue Sub No.6
When yall were kids (think like.. age 4-12) what was the coolest character design you had ever seen that was super formative?
November 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Sonic The Hedgehog
Megaman X
Gargoyles
The Secret of Nimh
He-Man
The media that I started watching when I was 14 left a more potent impression but the foundations were laid by the above.
Like: Outlaw Star and Blue Sub No.6
Megaman X
Gargoyles
The Secret of Nimh
He-Man
The media that I started watching when I was 14 left a more potent impression but the foundations were laid by the above.
Like: Outlaw Star and Blue Sub No.6
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the global oligarchy is global
November 26, 2025 at 7:35 AM
the global oligarchy is global
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To add insult to injury, these tech companies and their web domain monopolies don't have competition forcing a decent user interface anymore, so, you can just relearn every app every year or two. and the way you use the apps is how you're training your robot replacement, against your will. thank you
November 26, 2025 at 2:52 PM
To add insult to injury, these tech companies and their web domain monopolies don't have competition forcing a decent user interface anymore, so, you can just relearn every app every year or two. and the way you use the apps is how you're training your robot replacement, against your will. thank you
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Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important.
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."
Imagine if the naming conventions and design budget found across the computer hardware sector more closely resembled the naming conventions and design budgets found cross the military hardware sector.
How many lonely artists surrounded by guns would dig computer hardware instead of How Guns Work?
How many lonely artists surrounded by guns would dig computer hardware instead of How Guns Work?
When I was fourteen I was really into military technology.
This was tangential from my father.
But it was carried on by falling into cameraderie with other military tech nerds.
And...
Military Stuff Should Be Boring.
I wish I could go back in time and get hooked on something else.
This was tangential from my father.
But it was carried on by falling into cameraderie with other military tech nerds.
And...
Military Stuff Should Be Boring.
I wish I could go back in time and get hooked on something else.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Imagine if the naming conventions and design budget found across the computer hardware sector more closely resembled the naming conventions and design budgets found cross the military hardware sector.
How many lonely artists surrounded by guns would dig computer hardware instead of How Guns Work?
How many lonely artists surrounded by guns would dig computer hardware instead of How Guns Work?
When I was fourteen I was really into military technology.
This was tangential from my father.
But it was carried on by falling into cameraderie with other military tech nerds.
And...
Military Stuff Should Be Boring.
I wish I could go back in time and get hooked on something else.
This was tangential from my father.
But it was carried on by falling into cameraderie with other military tech nerds.
And...
Military Stuff Should Be Boring.
I wish I could go back in time and get hooked on something else.
November 24, 2025 at 8:02 PM
When I was fourteen I was really into military technology.
This was tangential from my father.
But it was carried on by falling into cameraderie with other military tech nerds.
And...
Military Stuff Should Be Boring.
I wish I could go back in time and get hooked on something else.
This was tangential from my father.
But it was carried on by falling into cameraderie with other military tech nerds.
And...
Military Stuff Should Be Boring.
I wish I could go back in time and get hooked on something else.