I do not always know what to do when I followed someone for Seemingly Pretty Good Takes and Similar Interests then it turns out they are wildly and intensely unhinged about something seemingly incongruous that goes real vile real quick

Only one of these 2 candidates had to win against an opposition supported by their own party. Only one is call themselves an “anti-Mamdani” democrat on their fucking campaign website.

The CIA spook literally said Mamdani “doesnt belong in her party” like 3 days ago so maybe get your people on fucking message if you wanna be in coalition. He had to run against another Democrat after winning the primary for fucks sake!!

Square Enix now that we are unlocking glams for all in 7.4 I'd love to also propose this other idea that is unlocking level 1 racial gear and hempen clothes for everyone because those highlander pants and elezen sleeves would look really good on me thank you

another change of pace. it is possible that I cooked. #bposer #bpose #hrothgal

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism. The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

It’s a beautiful day for the end of the pagan year. Here on the farm we celebrate this as New Year’s Eve, tomorrow being the start of another turn of the Wheel. Blessings to all who also celebrate this day.

Yeah I think about this a lot and my slow efforts to unlearn this behavior

See, the trick is that "the GM exists for the players' amusement, whose job is to ruin their plans for fun" and "the GM rules like a king, and the players exist to be their playthings" is that these SEEM like opposite maladaptive approaches to play, but they both result in the GM doing all the work.

This feels like the natural evolution of a ton of social issue arguments from Christian Nationalists that boil down to “the existence of non-Christians violates my religious freedom”

Public ownership of all teams.

Im actually frustrated at the replies to this in that theres people joking about broken it is in ways that miss how this reflects the nature of LLMs not doing what people say they do. Its not “making a game,” even a bad one, its making a series of images vaguely reflecting what a game looks like.

I think people talk shit on “Gen Z” wayyy to much on the prude discourse but anyone asserting any position on the “necessity” of sex/nudity/intimacy to the plot of anything is full of shit.

Angel hair, gross-textured bad excuse for spaghetti (which is also bad.) Short textured noodles are usually the best. Long noodles belong in broth and nowhere else.

a second day of the same discourse? no. no thank you. instead I need you to name your least favorite pasta shape

Honestly I just feel like Ive been “strong” for too long and spent too much time and energy “improving” to whatever standard with no actual reward. I need a month or two of being dogshit. Of seeking and getting what I want, selfishly, and being petulant and weak when I cant.

Gone Home Disco Elysium Kentucky Route Zero Honestly that might be it

About 80% of the vehicles available to normal retail motorists, including most of the most popular ones, should not be.

The more Ive thought about and seen dev response to discussions about it the more I think the ending of Expedition 33 is utter dogshit that retroactively ruins the game. Puerile pseudo-intellectual nonsense rooted in the same thought processes that make people think depicting evil is endorsing it.

I honestly find navel-gazing around the “nature” of fictional characters exhausting and pointless. They are fictional, components of a piece of art. They can be incredibly resonant, well-realized, and compelling but they are an expression, not an existence.

Im generally pleased with writing more focused on Theme than Lore but swear to god not every artsy horror narrative needs to be a tomato-in-the-mirror, actually-metaphorical meditation on grief

You cannot plan for this kind of idiocy because it is antithetical to the very nature and purpose of fiction, which is to connect us and to affirm the connection between us through voluntarily stepping away from the self to meet an artist who has done the same.

“I dont care what anyone says, I like that movie.”

I will never understand what is meant when a local business owner is referred to as "giving to the community" when they are...like, selling things for a profit, and as far as I can tell their "community work" is mostly promoting other profit-motivated businesses doing the same thing?

Personal tastes don’t get to dictate acceptability in art and theres absolutely zero reason to carry water for fash-adjacent puritanism.

Either the Forrest Gump original soundtrack, or Best Of Crosby Stills and Nash.

the things you have been taught matter the most in your life are not only largely irrelevant, but the endless, normalized pursuit of them is the source of almost all evil. They are humanities addictions, the gain of some turns into a well that can never be filled.

What happens when living together requires submission to abuse?

I hate every job. I truly believe I will never find a job that actually brings me joy at this point. I hate spending the majority of my time at a place I don't want to be doing things I don't want to do to generate wealth for people who don't like me. I'm not lazy. I just don't like work. Simple as.

"Great shot, kid! That was one in a million!" I just earned the Exhaust Port™ badge on my Disney x Tushy Interactive Bidet

losing my mind now that everyone else finally noticed that ezra klein is stupid

this is biggie and tupac for people whose rural hospital is about to close

Dems fail because the left will never want them due to the things they actually do, and the right will never want them due to things they make up in their empty lil heads

one of the funnier bits of Online is the extent to which the right's depiction of Dem politicians is everything the left criticizes them for not being the left spent years being annoyed at Obama for not being more confrontational! Michelle's "when they go low we go high" was mocked endlessly!

The inability to just tell the right wing to eat shit, fuck off, die mad about it, is based on a perverse belief that their incessant whining pissy moaning is something that deserves any kind of respect or civility.

I think people are really weird about their ships with the villains in FFXIV

God there's so many. There's a few that I've run, but I don't have anyone else who, like, casts a wide net on running interesting games so I have never been able to play. Unknown Armies, Eclipse Phase, WHFRP, pretty much all of my nuSR stuff that I've only GMd, Trophy, etc etc

#silkissue #silksong

Lol the person I was subskeeting here turned out to be truscum and, believe it or not dear reader, did not ever appear to meaningfully align themselves with anything other than self-aggrandizing vitriol

At some point I clicked on the wrong thing on YouTube and have recently gotten endless algorithm recs for shorts from what appear to be generally trendy/influencer-y cosplay girls who somehow manage to be simultaneously hot and yet utterly sexless in a way that is hard to describe

I successfully stopped myself from an adhd tangent onto my pet scorching hot take while talking to my spouse about a semi-related topic please clap

I really do feel homeless in the ttrpg space. And yeah, touch of whining here. I *love* that compelling art is being done with story games and adjacent work…but I rarely actually enjoy playing it! I have tons of fun playing dolls in fantasy land, but Im frequently disappointed with that scene.

I mean if its being pitched by a stranger “historical accuracy” is a touch of a red flag, frequently exists for them to stroke their biases or engage in trauma porn. A person I trust and know well? Id probably be into it.

Hi I’m a bothsides guy: I loudly enter a conflict of obvious one-sided oppression, seeking “dialogue” and “mutual accountability” between lopsided aggressors and victims. I inevitably devolve into supporting the more powerful badguys, because they are better at flattering and bribing me!

The “slice of the electorate” they fear alienating is the money, dipshit. Most Dem electeds are financial stopgaps.

38 and Im finally learning that sometimes its best just to block the unwell person imploding on main

Almost all creative industries with commercial output are financialized to the point where investor return is entirely decoupled from actual revenue. The people who benefit from the layoffs will no longer have a stake in the company once the impact of the layoff is felt in the sense of production.

without downloading any new images, where are you mentally?

the entitlement fans feel to the work of authors they purport to love rises to the level of sickness, in my opinion. sanderson is beloved because he vomits out words like a busted standpipe, hardly ever holding up Consumption