Me reading: This poor character, my poor baby, I hate when something bad happens to them, they deserve the best.

Me writing: I'm gonna give 'em TRAUMA, and it's gonna be FUCKED UP, because GOD IS DEAD AND NO ONE CAN STOP ME!

the whole point of technology is to subvert "the natural order," because the natural order is disease and decay and suffering and famine

"In the 2010s, bans on VPNs were done by autocratic regimes, but today it is done under the auspices of democracy and “saving the children” - but in reality bans on VPNs signal an authoritarian attempt to crush political dissent.”

France Considers Restricting VPNs to Support Under-15 Social Media Ban - Decrypt A French official said the government is looking at ways to stop the use of VPNs to evade an incoming social media ban for kids under 15.

France becomes the latest country to float severe VPN restrictions in order to "fix" a bad age-verification law.

VPN bans and other privacy restrictions aren't incidental to authoritarianism, they're a a critical component in their formation.

As I read up on on the news what I will say is this:
Social Media is NOT secure. It is NOT your friend. It's not private.
Stop and think. If your thoughts are felonies -
Talk to people irl about it to process. Call someone. Get a fucking journal.

BUT STOP PLOTTING ON THE SNITCH MEDIA.

If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...

cait @cait.bsky.social • 5mo how come "realism" in games only applies to shit that sucks and not, for instance, the fact that most flashlights do not actually run out of batteries after 3 minutes, and good quality tools will literally outlive you if you take good care of them [replying] cait @cait.bsky.social if somebody sold me an axe that broke after chopping down 10 trees i would go back to their shop and beat the shit out of them June 9, 2024 at 6:10 PM

my self-regard is a metronome between towering ego and the self-deprecation of falling beneath standards for the divine

probably the pettiest and most inconsequential reason I have for being [redacted] at Charlie Kirk's fate, is that very soon he will be forgotten, and I will never have to be confronted with his malformed ugly mug again.

i will never get over how Arkansas is ArkenSAW but Kansas is KanZASS.

Deeply unserious language.

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

IMO the main problem with NIMBYism is simply that "this conflicts with my sense of aesthetics" just isn't ever a valid argument when weighed against the material needs of human beings, regardless of how closely those aesthetics hew to a societal good.

The f*&%ing library.

(to be fair and perfectly honest, the difference is a lot more than 0.001 puhcent)

me, a communist, reading Fabula Ultima, an RPG written by an anarchist

now *this*, this I could get behind, absolutely.

I think I might be miswired for certain kinds of horror that the general population seems to have, like some people have a disconnect between music and pleasure (www.eurekalert.org/news-release...), or how some people have aphantasia.

They're both clearly the result of a fracturing or hallucinating psyche whose "uncanny valley" fear center is both overactive and really, really insisting upon this one really specific fractal repetitive thing. Someone with OCD got locked in a monomanic hallucinatory loop; "it insists upon itself".

I've never understood how biblically accurate angels are supposed to be scary, but then what they are is "eldritch" the same way lovecraftian monstrosities are, and I never found those scary either. I found them weird and kind of funny.

reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland

To be clear, he's praising Draw Steel's insistence on making even more narrative things like Perks and Complications mechanically implemented and mechanically significant (unlike some other games).

But man I love finding someone on the same brainwave frequency as me.

making my way through the Knights of Last Call review of #DrawSteel, and:

"when things are just written down in your character sheet and they don't do anything, I think they are lame."

Derik Malenda manages to perfectly articulate all my feelings about elfgames.

or an autonomously functioning brain

it's such a weird thing that Netanyahu, a genocidal criminal, looks very much like a monkey

Two 15-year-olds arrested in connection with DOGE staffer ‘Big Balls’ beating in DC Two teenagers were arrested in connection to the attempted carjacking of a former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer known as “Big Balls.” Authorities said the 15-year-old suspects,…

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leave it to America to make the fall of America the most unbelievable, batshit insane dystopian scifi script you couldn't even intentionally imagine

This is what the Online Safety Act is doing.

How is this keeping children safe?