my money is on making number of likes invisible,
just as like a toggle option or something

interesting. i never thought about weaseling* as the root evil of what people call metagaming.

*my table often references "don't be a weasel" from BitD

I don't know why metagaming is seen as such a sin.

Recent convo:
Me: I'm not gonna be here to play next week, so maybe my character could go off on this sidequest.
My GM: That's metagaming.
Me: Obviously! I am explicitly metagaming.

yeah, even just learning the concept of "attention economy" from you, has given language to name the specific layer of our current late-capital hellscape.

can't wait to read & recommend your book!

Should I be insisting all my niblings call me their "first-cousin-once-removie" instead of Auntie? LOL

lol, i have a running game where my friend & I compete about who gets told "happy halloween" the soonest.

I feel this is the same problem.

"Who are you cosplaying"

"Oh, its an OC from a really obscure fandom, real life."

Don't be fooled, DOG MOVIE is a goddamn documentary. It depicts the TRUE & ACCURATE lifestyle of the scumbag princess & the struggling tenderqueer FLAWLESSLY! I'm such a goddamn fan of this movie, I cannot talk it up enough!

DOG MOVIE fucking slaps so hard. I just saw it this at an underground film fest & it was absolutely far and away my favourite movie of the year of our lord* 2025

*baphomet

aww, thanks for highlighting this.

I know these terms are loaded, but I think of it as the Tenderqueer <---> Scream Queen dichotomy.

I do believe alliance is possible, & am ultimately glad to see people stating their asks to the public.

i feel like this issue is a tragic clash of neurodivergence.
As a person who;
- has little awareness or control of my volume
- has loud tics, like shouting & laughter
- I associate being told to quiet down with institutional authorities & class hierarchies (not saying you are those things)

Your IKEA product is your name, spelled backwards, with an umlaut.

yadnöm

obvi, it's a reindeer & lingonberry pemmican-jerky

my first and only penta was ages ago with an un-nerfed Morgana & imma be real, it was absolutely by accident.

but i still remember it feeling so good

i have a mandela effect memory of it being from Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land*, but i cannot find any evidence of such

*this IS where the word Grok is from, which meant something cool before you know...

if the House of Leaves was a punk house, everytime it mysteriously expanded we would just be like, "sick! we can add like; a practice space, a screenprinting studio, a zine library, or a grow op, AND two new roommates & their dog."

but what about the mice!!?!

(cause evertime you mention doing good things for everyone, someone will bring up a largely debunked experiment about overcrowded mice)

f yeah, this looks so cool

absolutely slain