Caves of qud

I will always tell leftists to read the Jakarta method and killing hope and really process what we will be up against and what that means for the movements we build

We’ve finally discovered what’s wrong with Mamdani

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Glory glory hoagie threw ya glory glory hoagie threw ya

congratulations to mr sandwich

this is really fucking bad lol there's a long-running debate about how powerful the courts actually are and the extent of their ability to influence government and society. the conclusion i lean towards (exhaustively documented in Gerald Rosenberg's "The Hollow Hope") is that it's very limited...

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

one of the strongest links between capitalism and patriarchy is that any field or industry that becomes majority (or sometimes even significant-minority) women is economically devalued. teaching, nursing, legal aid, etc. and the reverse if it's taken over by men, like computer programming.

this fucking rules

i think "hypocrisy is meaningless" is correct. the mistake is thinking that every expression of disapproval or shame is the same as calling someone out for hypocrisy. you can just call them fucking losers and/or murderers, because uncool isn't a flex and evil is only a flex behind closed doors

lol

because most people don't actually like board games and the TTRPGs that aren't functionally board games are complete cultural unknowns

god damn it. i won't know for sure until i get home but this might explain some shit lol

Modern fascism sees Israel, an oppressive ethnostate enforcing ethnic homogeneity with genocide, as a template for the world. The ADL serves Israel, not American Jews. And so it's unsurprising it has allied itself with fascists. It is, however, very disappointing.

if democrats are serious about winning they need to learn from tonight and convert to islam

Yeah, I call myself a generic "leftist" because I'd calm right down if our country had a robust social welfare state + woke and gay. I do not need an American Lenin. But I suspect America will need an American Lenin because most politicians here would rather die than fix anything.

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

The Dwarf Fortress Siege Update briefly reintroduced an old bug where dwarf babies pilot their moms like mech suits until they die of dehydration because babies don't know what drinking is.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

Haha unless

every so often i remember the bit in, I think it was Fifth Sun, where Camilla Townsend points out that the British publicly executed an order of magnitude more people than the Aztecs sacrificed in the same time period

joining the game vs toy taxonomy war, on the side of the toys

good Reddit

right on the money. someone else putting effort into something without a gun held to their head means YOU might be socially expected to and for some people that's the most mortifying thing imaginable

that old "you cheated not only the game, but yourself" copypasta was expressing something completely correct, just in exaggerated internetty cadence, and we're living the consequences of the larger cultural attitude the backlash to it represents

i love The Princess Bride but honestly it's a good thing when young people aren't instantly aware of a pop culture phenomenon from 2+ generations ago. particularly because if they were it would suggest the existence of a Young Inigo Montoya TV show

i hate these fucking freaks so much man. for ideological reasons, obviously, but also just the honest resentment anyone would feel for someone who fails over and over, hurting others in the process, and never faces any consequences at all and in fact thrives on it

see i could get behind someone absolutely dunking on Dynasty Warriors for having the depth of the puddle if they were going to back it up in detail, but i swear to god it's never actually about the game

nowadays every app wants to be a platform, and platform logic requires that they become the *only* platform. that's why they all start as Specific: The Tool That Does A Thing and five years later announce they're rebranding as Totalizr: We Manage Your Life

you also just know that a decade from now all three genres will be dead, or unrecognizably mutated into a form with all the friction and nuance sandblasted away because the only way to survive is to constantly grow your audience at the *expense* of depth or uniqueness

Captain Torture

yeah all ROC or "rulings not rules" or any of the other proud slogans of ludic illiteracy mean is: i want the rules to be secret and based on informal social hierarchies instead of explicit and fair

como se dice "shitpost" en espanol? yo necesito practicar

I am cracking the FUCK up When Columbo was good, there was absolutely nothing better

so, uh, anyone want to visit Fort Knox with me just in case

amazing. my peanuts doesn't hort any more

I remember some people getting very angry when I suggested that claiming D&D doing well was good for everyone was trickle down economics applied to the RPG sector. It was, in fact, trickle down economics applied to the RPG sector.

one of the things i've learned from years of playing shitty F2P video games is that if your players are trying to automate gameplay to get a reward, you're the one who fucked up. either fix the incentives (preferable but harder) or design something that can't be automated

BRO WHAT

Alan Wake 2

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small brain: not caring about your audience big brain: worrying your audience will misinterpret your work galaxy brain: being impressed your audience knows how to read