bisexual transgendered freakazoid who oscillates. I'm not exactly sure between what but i sure do oscillate. so expect a variety of content
I mostly talk about/reblog games, ttrpgs, trans stuff, and silly goofs.
DNIs are dumb and don't work, so I won't be making one. That doesnt mean I dont reserve the right to block you for literally whatever!
"they're just trying to make people afraid of voicing their OPINIONS" Good. I want you to be as afraid of being transphobic as I was to transition. At LEAST that afraid.
hiring planes to write this in the mothfucking sky
use more olive oil
I didn’t even notice the url I was just like damn they’re right.
Especially Palestinian olive oil!
It is not only ethically better, it’s just all-around better.
Buy from:
Or just look for a local Palestinian-owned or Middle-Eastern-owned market! Al’Ard is a good brand.
Ha ha! You fool! You fell victim to one of the classic fictionalized transfem power fantasies - the most famous of which is "everyone is nice to the trans girl" - but only slightly less well-known is this: "shaving one time and never growing another hair for the remainder of the narrative"!
ok but characters never have to go to the bathroom in media. that’s not a power fantasy. that’s just “it would be inconvenient to the narrative to constantly show this mundane thing.” in my mind, most of the stories you’re describing are doing the same thing with shaving: it’s a powerful narrative moment the first time it happens, but after that it’s just boring and serves no narrative purpose. in media displaying the hardships in the day to day life of a transfem, your logic does apply, since daily shaving would still hold narrative weight. but elsewhere it’s just unnecessary.
Some day I'm going to run a trad fantasy dungeon crawler campaign where instead of unbroken ten-thousand-year dynasties, every time the player characters need to interact with the nobility, etc. I use a set of lookup tables to randomly generate the kingdom's current political situation. If the new results are irreconcilable with the old, there was a revolution while they were down in the dungeon and they didn't notice.
Fascinated by the idea that having a player character with a noble backstory accelerates the pace of political turmoil because each downtime counts as a separate instance of "interacting with nobility".
starting to think some of you are actually stupid for real
i am ripping my own skin off
Everytime someone dick rides FDR it's just like, that guy did internment, like it was under him and by him that Japanese Americans were rounded up and put in camps.
A means tested welfare system (that was just about calming down class tensions enough to prevent a worker uprising in the US, he literally described himself as the president that saved capitalism) doesn't make him a good person, he was still the white supremacist head of a genocidal Imperialist empire.
Each November, some people try to write a novel. Others would prefer to do as little writing as possible. For those who wish to challenge their ability to not write, we offer this alternative: producing a complete, playable roleplaying game in two hundred words or fewer.
This is the submission thread for the 2024 event, running from November 1st, 2024 through November 30th, 2024. Submission guidelines can be found in this blog's pinned post, here.
"Fusion Core," A Short Game About Mechs for 2+ players
One player is the mech. One player is the pilot. Any remaining players are HQ. (If there are only 2 players, come up with HQ's orders together.)
Players need: at least one d4, notepaper.
Roll for the mission goal: 1. Sabotage 2. Assault 3. Theft 4. Defense
Roll for the target: 1. Belligerent 2. Artifact 3. Outpost 4. Diplomat
Roll for what the pilot wants: 1. Family 2. Love 3. Safety 4. Home
Roll for what the mech wants: 1. Destruction 2. Destruction 3. Destruction 4. Destruction The mech is a weapon. It wants to do its job.
When on missions:
HQ gives an order.
Pilot attempts an action. Will action follow orders? If not, HQ will find a new pilot. Will action further mech goals? If not, mech will not respond. Will action further pilot goals? If not, too bad.
Mech carries out the action. Roll a d4. 1. Great Failure: +2 breakdown 2. Failure: +1 breakdown 3. Success: +1 score 4. Great Success: +2 score
Repeat.
At 5 score you win! Describe how you extract victorious.
At 3 breakdown you lose. Describe how you let everyone down.
It's always disappointing when a series makes a big deal about societal and structural problems in it's setting, making readers think it has interesting things to say about the subject, only to then resolve the problems by fighting The CEO of Racism, John Racist, so that all of society's problems would then get better because they promoted a new CEO.
If your response to the information "an alarming number of people simply cannot read well enough to function in the society that was built around them" is "wow I'm so much better than them" i think you need to kill yourself
It's not like education will fix every problem but it is almost certainly one of the most important things to push if we want an improvement in material conditions for everybody. Writing off your auntie because she gets overwhelmed trying to decipher densely packed text and "professional" language is not going to build a better future for anyone.
i love this team so much. this dude ballerina twirled around the first defender who came at him and then hurdled backwards over the next one, an entire grown ass man, like it was nothing. like he's in a goddamn sports anime. unbelievable
can you imagine the kind of bonkers athleticism you have to display to get an entire sideline of professional athletes to react like this
While the Onion buying InfoWars is indeed extremely funny, very few of the posts I've seen commenting on the sale have mentioned that the families of the Sandy Hook victims apparently agreed to voluntarily reduce their lawsuit payout as part of a deal to ensure that the Onion would acquire InfoWars wholesale, rather than having the company broken up and auctioned off piecemeal, as the latter course could potentially have allowed some of those pieces to end up back in the hands of Alex Jones' cronies.
Like, yes, it is in fact very funny that InfoWars is now a wholly owned subsidiary of the Onion, but the real props go out to the Sandy Hook families who saw the opportunity and willingly gave up the additional millions of dollars that could have been realised by stripping InfoWars for parts in order to make that happen.
(EDIT: Fixed a sentence incorrectly suggesting that Clickhole is still affiliated with the Onion – it totally slipped my mind that they'd sold it back in 2020.)
Are there any jrpgs you'd recommend for folks looking to kill time getting warmed up for the next FATT season?
pure stream of consciousness, not in any particular order or ranking:
Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Magical Starsign, Chrono Trigger, Skies of Arcadia, Grandia, Dragon Quest XI, Dragon Quest FF4, FF7, FFX/X-2, FFXIII, Breath of Fire III, Crimson Gem Saga, Radiant Historia, Chained Echoes, Tactics Ogre, Radiata Stories, Baten Kaitos, Tales of Symphonia, Tales of Vesperia, any Etrian Odyssey and Suikoden III. :)
This is from Primitive Technology, a YouTube channel full of unvoiced videos of a guy trying to build useful stuff from scratch out in the Queensland wilderness. He has a scientific approach and a clear love of nature, his work provides a great insight into what was possible for early humans with the tools and methods they had available to them.
reblogging to add even more context:
this is afaik the guy that started the whole “dude with a single simple tool builds a house out of only things he can find in the wilderness” style of videos!
now, what probably came to mind upon reading that are the exploitative, environmentally unconscious, and generally faked ones, but that’s not what he does. Those are imitations spawned by people trying to replicate the success of many of his videos, and not caring what they have to do in order to do it.
instead, his videos are educational, environmentally conscious, and also much more reasonable in scale since they’re legit. and from what i remember he’s not really in it for success, it’s more just something that happened incidentally.
lacrimosa
"why we build the wall" from hadestown is really gonna trip up future media analysis students. they'll be like "ah a piece of media from the 2010s referencing building a wall to keep out the poor, clearly this is a reference to the president of the united states from 2016-2020", and then their professor will have to be like "actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010"
how i hope this conversation goes from there is like:
"actually the concept album for this musical came out in 2010 and the original song was written in 2006"
"so she knew about the wall 10 years before Trump proposed it be built?"
"well, let's talk about that...
...but that wasn't when the wall was first built...
...this shift in the '90s marked the start of an enforcement philosophy called Prevention Through Deterrence, which basically says that if crossing is made more deadly, fewer people will cross (fact check: it just means that more people die on the journey). From the start, the purpose of the wall was not to physically to stop people from crossing -- it was to make it more deadly to do so.
...and we can also look at the song metaphorically and expansively, as a reference to the policing of migration, to company towns, to gated communities, and the physical and metaphorical walls that throughout history have kept people in and out and defined who does and don't belong.
"...how did you just say a hyperlink?"
"why worry about that when you can use this show as an entry-point into a deeper understanding of capitalism's investment in coercive control over human migration, and its long history in the United States?"
"so the song only seems prophetic because the long history of policing and militarizing the border has been ignored, and treated as an outsider position by Trump rather than the continuation of bi-partisan policy dating back decades? and it can be seen to reflect larger patterns of capital controlling people's movement in order to extract land, labor, wealth, and ultimately life from them?"
"and the song slaps"
"....and the song slaps"
thank you so much for this well-researched response tho because, as a texan, the very concept that trump invented the idea of the border wall made me kinda. reboot. not mad at op! just surprised at the difference in our life experiences
