Man, @defector.com is just knocking it out the park with headlines recently defector.com/report-fifa-...

As a liberal parent, I think my kid changing their name every six months is a little irritating, but I respect it as an important part of their self expression. As an IT professional, I think it's built in security.

Free speech, amirite?

Stuff like this is why many of us will opt to never read your substack no matter how much we may dig you or what you do. Again, its a freakin’ Nazi Bar

The economy is fake. Everything about it. Smoke and mirrors all the way down.

Men are soooo emotional.

I don’t even like her or her music that much but when you realize that Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the CEO was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than half the people in the actual Epstein files, you do have no choice but to become this woman’s strongest soldier

So once again a man started a wildly successful harassment campaign against a female celebrity who didn’t actually do anything and the internet swallowed it full throated, and the whole thing is revealed to be concocted horseshit he can’t muster anything more than “sorry that happened I guess”

Get off of substack. I will not share your substack link. I won't share it even if you disguise it as a different URL. There are good alternatives. No, it's not easy, but your readership won't be rated as lower than that of a human trafficker and rapist.

As someone that spent a decade developing Vampire, she’s right.

The culture fandom creates is the one where u send literal death threats to random not even famous high school girls and your fave can't even go to the prom, because of how he doesn't want anyone to murder a teenager girl

IT'S ALL CONNECTED IT'S ALWAYS ALL CONNECTED

I've decided to innovate in the stale and stagnant RPG hater space and hate Apocalypse World for just being an MMORPG with no role-playing in it, just predetermined "moves" which I assume you push a button to choose from

One of our local popular guys in the hobby hates PbtA with a passion, because, quote-unquote, 'AW has sex moves'. Yes, that's his gripe with the whole engine.

I’m not saying that no one dislikes AW legitimately… I’m sure there are people who have tried it and don’t like it, and that’s totally fair. I am saying that everyone I’ve heard complain about it has run it like D&D. Well… they ran a worse PBTA like D&D and decided that meant they didn’t like AW.

TTRPG discourse is like: "Sell me on Apocalypse World. I hate it. Partly because the people I play with don't actually play according to the rules and I think that's the game's fault. Also, I've made up a thing about it I don't like. Also, my friends don't like acts of collaborative creativity."

Okay but also: I haven't had that many days off since Obama was in office. I can't even imagine what I'd do with an extra year to do a hobby. I'm sitting here working three jobs to make ends meet and squeezing in a fourth in a feeble attempt to EVER have meaningful disposable income.

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

Also nobody can find jobs and the jobs they can find don't pay well enough and overwork you. Also global fascism. And climate collapse. You know. Sad stuff.

You know what classic 90s show deserves a second chance? Millennium.

Read the fucking room, Lizzie.

No, both parties are not the same. One does the evil. One condones the evil and enables the evil and also often does the evil for the other. It's a symbiotic relationship.

we should have a third industry besides AI and gambling

Which came from Aerosmith's era of "singles where Steven repeatedly sings a word that starts with C," which also gave us "Crying."

This is coming from a guy who did a rehabilitation tour to sell us on one of the most hateful Republican women out there. One whose name we only knew because her dad was a war criminal they wanted us convinced was "moderate."

Days after the largest protest in US history: "Why aren't those fucking do-nothing leftists protesting now that Biden's not in power?"

"Why isn't there a Rogan of the left?" Ok here's Hasan "Hasan is an asshole why aren't there student protests" Ok there were and they got gassed, beat & expelled and high school kids right now're protesting ICE and the cops just beat em & try to fight em "Those kids are brats why isn't there"

I have a pretty broad understanding of human history, and I cannot think of a time when such a huge percentage of a society was so ready to form a popular resistance and yet was so utterly failed by the incompetent fools who could ostensibly lead it.

Did J.K. Rowling admit she was a trans man in her 2020 essay? Is this an "open-secret" in the trans community? (You can guess my fucking answer.) youtu.be/JNCeO7whnW4

Alice Isn't Dead is straight up one of my single favorite bits of media ever. I cannot express to you how much I want to develop an official Alice Isn't Dead TTRPG.

"It's a matter of prescience No, not the science-fiction kind It's all about ignorance And greed and miracles for the blind The media parading disjointed politics Founded on petrochemical plunder And we're its hostages"

"It's a matter of prescience No, not the science-fiction kind It's all about ignorance And greed and miracles for the blind The media parading disjointed politics Founded on petrochemical plunder And we're its hostages"

Remember, fewer than 200 Nazis were actually convicted at the Nuremberg Trials. Most of the best and brightest Nazis were given highly roles in the United States. Gavin Newsom's dad was one of their handlers. That Nazi joined the CIA due to his time as an intelligence agent in... Palestine.

I mean, they literally call Black and brown people fighting back in the Global South terrorists, and while projecting their own armchair personalities onto everyone else as well.

Remember, if you hold your thumb up and you can see the mushroom cloud behind it, you're in the radiation zone and need to evacuate immediately.

It's okay that we have gestapo so long as they wear gestapo name tags.

I fucking DARE the Democrats to actually rise to the fucking moment ONCE in their god damned lives.

The new Deathstalker on Shudder? Yes. Perfect. Wet puppets. Subtitles that read [flesh squelches] FREQUENTLY on screen. Jon Claude Goshdarn. Yes.

AOC has gotten so popular that the Democratic Party will have to coalesce and spend millions to stop her. And then it'll be the millions of people who wanted to vote for her who will be blamed for JD Vance's victory.

In before someone tells her to play another game.

*Eye twitch*

Excellent, ideologically consistent, thorough, and excellent explanation of the fascist adoption of AI.

As ever, I refer everyone to The Thread

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Live services have poisoned the video game well so much people no longer understand the concept of "a game came out, I played it, it's good, that's all"

"the soviet union was bad because they were cruel to the homeless, unlike in the US where they are cruel to the homeless because they are moral degenerates who deserve it." the liberals everyone!

K.A. Applegate serves a wonderful community service. She lets cis people signal their support for transgender people without actually recommending transgender artists.

Last night at the Bloomington Indiana Film Festival, I got to see #iHunt on a big screen. What a magnificent experience every filmmaker deserves to.

2. iHunt by @machineiv.bsky.social and @filamena.bsky.social. PCs are young people trying to stay afloat in this economy by taking monster-hunting gigs from the eponymous smartphone app. You may be fighting werewolves and vampires, but the real enemy is capitalism.