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& Powered by the Apocalypse narrative wargame with:
- satirical scifi skirmish storytelling
- infinite respawn mechanics
- inspired by Planetside 2 & Starship Troopers
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I HATE THAT NOWHERE ON THE INTERNET HAS EXACT SEARCH ANYMORE. YOU CAN PUT ALL THE DOUBLE QUOTES YOU WANT AND IT STILL FUZZY MATCHES OR STRAIGHT UP DOES """SYNONYMS""". GOOGLE SUCKS NOW. EVERYTHING SUCKS ENSHITTIFICATION OF EVERYTHING.
“you’ll get more conservative when you’re older” were words spoken by the more privileged of a generation who were actually saying “i expect that you, like me, will acquire wealth and property as you age, and therefore stop desiring to challenge that status quo”
this is astounding to watch. fantastic GMing. so cool to see Deborah Ann Woll's simple use of the (classic) phrase "What would you do?" immediately put Jon Bernthal in a mode of total engagement.
humans love to imagine. love to play. she does such a great job cutting to that.
it's important to remember that this is war. this is violence. these people are stationed to commit violence to enforce the political will of this nation upon its populace—to ensure you don't fight back against institutional control of your body.
never mistake law for peace.
the sad truth is that while you can still play star wars battlefront II, you can never make star wars battlefront II as fun as it was while playing it on a PS2 at midnight during a sleepover with your best friend while the two of were definitely not supposed to be awake
there is one position for the US left, always: anti-intervention. no war, no country, no decision can be improved by US intervention. the goals of the US are to keep the world under the yoke of the imperialism, and everything else is for show. US out, always.
the sad truth is that while you can still play star wars battlefront II, you can never make star wars battlefront II as fun as it was while playing it on a PS2 at midnight during a sleepover with your best friend while the two of were definitely not supposed to be awake
it’s impossible to overstate the permanent public health damage of a sign that shows someone wearing a mask incorrectly with the label “you do you”. teaches a lasting misunderstanding of the purpose and function of masks for this and every future pandemic.
whether disney or sony should have spiderman, or what would be necessary for them to cooperate and merge for the production of spiderman, are not even the right questions
the answer is that spiderman was created in 1962 by the late stan lee and should be public domain by now
as a kid, i adored inventing my own jelly belly combo “recipes” and my wife was like…you know we can order jelly bellies, right? the box arrived 1. far bigger than expected 2. like this
from there………this dilemma entertained a 3-person autistic polycule for an entire hour
for everyone enjoying Planet of the Bass:
one of the comedians behind it (Kyle Gordon) has been doing the DJ Crazy Times bit for 2 years and the original still makes me break out laughing without fail
saw a car today with two bumper stickers: "RELAX YOUR SHOULDERS / UNCLENCH YOUR JAW" and "EAT THE RICH" and at first i was like "haha it'd be funny to read those as three part instruct-" and then i realized the car owner was clearly a genius
if there’s anything the UK and US elections are really hammering home this year, it’s the incredible power of mass media to manufacture consent at a nearly incomprehensible scale
to be clear, i’m not calling hank green a bad person for tweeting the words “next car.” i am saying it is a fundamental ideological assumption built into american society that we have to completely change if we have any hope of not roasting this earth this century.
being around judgmental people makes you more judgmental
sneering is viral. it's a coercive power dynamic: join in, and you too feel superior. refuse, and you implicitly join the target of ridicule.
it's very hard to avoid when it's around you. it's so much harder to be kind.
thinking about losing both DOOM & SOPHIE and it's like...both of these were artists that, even if you hadnt listened to their music, if you'd heard anything in the *genre* you'd heard them. they were that influential. your favorite artist's favorite artist. transformed rap & pop.
part of what's wild about all the criticism of "they'll only let a rep talk to us" is that absolutely every corporation does it!
corps won't give you statements unless you go through a trained rep! that goes unquestioned. but when people without power do it, it's suspicious/bad.
When protests are not about actually explaining your cause or trying to engage journalists who are there to listen.
@Peggynoonannyc
describes her visit to Columbia before the raid.
the only thing i have to say about the group of warren staffers getting accidental holocaust number tattoos is that i wonder if there’s a structural reason why there was no one around that group to tell them why that was a bad idea 🤔
thread: many people are now out on the streets for the first time. as such, let's talk very basic, everyone should know this, 'this should be general and not sensitive knowledge' protest, action, and street tactics. let's get organized and be effective!
i wish everyone involved in discourse understood that lesbian communities & culture have never been cleanly separate from gender deviance. this is true in ways that dont fit into the now-popular, impossibly clean sexologist definition of lesbian as "woman only attracted to women"
i let myself believe NFTs were a passing fad, in part b/c just thinking of them drains my soul, but their adoption & advertising boom is a reminder that:
NFTs are a natural instance of capital expanding private property given near-complete enclosure of existing forms of property
i love how dropout crew are clearly welcome to openly laugh while the camera is rolling. it gives some of the impression of a live studio audience, but also comes off as so uniquely genuine.
it’s absolutely hilarious to me that for all i’ve seen about Starfield on the timeline, i have not seen a single character name. not one. not a single time has anyone talked about A Character.
THIS IS THE ONLY DISCWORLD READING ORDER THAT MATTERS AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DONT START WITH THE RINCEWIND NOVELS. I RECOMMEND GUARDS GUARDS BUT YOU CAN DO ANY NOVEL ON THE FAR LEFT (GOOD GENERAL ADVICE)
“jess why didn’t you say a witches novel, or going postal, or monstrous regiment?” if i have to even briefly consider someone mutilating one of those books in this way i will descend into a depression from which there is no escape
the left needs to be studying katrina. as climate breakdown progresses, katrina aftermath will become the normal state of affairs. we need to be preparing for this.
also: i knew so little of this. imagine if the history of the katrina response was taught in schools?
the buried lede is psilocybin aka shrooms (specifically in the case of cancer pantients) and: chalk another one up for western medicine slowly rediscovering Indigenous medical knowledge made unthinkable by western methods of population control through criminalization
getting vaccinated does NOT mean this is your beautiful house. it does not mean this is your beautiful wife. you may get vaccinated, and then you may ask yourself, how did i get here? letting the days go by. same as it ever was.
i didn’t notice it until day 2 of owning this new package of measurimg spoons but please stare at it until you see it. i am losing my mind. this is a tumblr post of a package label.
what this election has given the US left is a slight reprieve—a slightly less aggressive offensive against us
when the enemy retreats, you advance. dems will be trying to make peace & keep the imperial murder machine functioning. it's our job to press the ceasefire & raise hell.
learning that 90% of the discourse that tears apart queer twitter was already argued extensively during the second-wave feminist movement has been both intensely liberating and intensely frustrating
i'm not interested in convincing, negotiating with, or winning over the right. i am interested in crushing their political power and then amidst new systems of universal services & access, offering them a path to personal transformation and communal healing.
when they tell you the truth, all you have to do is listen: "We [The Democratic Party] need a Republican Party. We need an opposition that's principled and strong."
they *do* need an opposition, so they have an excuse for not making meaningful change. "We" does not include you.
everyone is talking about the post office cops so i figure this is a good time to bring back the fact that i had NASA Special Agents knock on my door at like 9am while i was half asleep. yes, this is what their badges looked like. no, i wasn't sure they weren't cosplayers.
the US military has been policing the globe for decades & everywhere it has gone, more instability, more unrest, more destruction has been left in its wake. this is by design of course—endless war is endless profit—but if you think they'll ever accomplish anything, you're a mark.
there's no "side" the US can take that will every make its military or "diplomatic" actions a net-benefit. the goals of washington are to further american empire & the vast majority of political conflicts cant be solved by external military action even if it WAS well intentioned.
the fact that despite making the soviet ballerina bots, the atomic heart developers still managed to lose the demographic of “extremely online trans girls” indicates they REALLY fucked up
there's discourse, so: a thread w/ sources on holocaust & jewish whiteness. tl;dr is that:
1. whiteness is a shifting boundary
2. jewish victims of the holocaust were not white
3. many survivors & descendants have 'become' white
4. holocaust exceptionalism is a real problem
please, trans siblings:
a ban on serving in a violent apparatus of global imperialism is obviously not causally negative
it is a negative sign/meter/gauge of the climate against trans people
these aren’t mutually exclusive and we don’t have to tear each other apart today
many runescape items are the platonic ideal of that object. to this day wheh i think about “a bowl” with no other modifiers i immediately envision a runescape bowl.
my sister just told me that on career day nearly half of her elementary schoolers said they wanted to be youtubers and i have never been more terrified in my entire life
speaking of older lesbians i brought up the bi lesbian discourse w/ an academic advisor of mine who was one of the 1st out lesbians in her field & as expected she:
1. laughed
2. asked why people wanted to put hard boundaries on something that's clearly a continuum
3. moved on
fuck it mask entirely off,
#bernie2020
, i legitimately cannot believe we have a candidate who admitted on stage to the US military's role in the fascist coups of operation condor. i feel like crying.
"Occasionally it might be good idea to be honest about American foreign policy, and that includes the fact that America has overthrown governments all over the world in Chile and Guatemala in Iran."
@BernieSanders
#DemDebate
a subreddit pummeling a hedge fund into the ground is yet more proof that we got the stephenson cyberpunk future instead of the gibson cyberpunk future
7/ Then, it got real embarrassing. In April 2019, we tried to organize a kind of coup, but it became a debacle. Everyone who told us they’d rally to Guaido got cold feet and the plan failed publicly and spectacularly, making America look foolish and weak.
man i’ve never seen a better unintentional commentary on the direct integration of the legacy of real race science into the vast majority of fantasy ttrpgs and video games
part of why consumers feel so possessive over spiderman & threatened by this is that spiderman is by now a long established cultural touchstone. in the public mind he is already public property. "intellectual property" is just another expanding form of enclosure of public goods.
anyway: always remember the mickey mouse curve
copyright is a mechanism by which even culture and ideas have become property upon which capitalists can rent-seek. it is an ever expanding mechanism for privatizing the public. copyright is the enemy, here.
speaking as a jew: if you're looking for a term for a small minority of elite individuals who control the world's political and economic systems at the expense of the rest of the world's population, but *isn't* terrible and anti-semitic, may i suggest
"the bourgeoisie"
I am:
⚪️ a nonbinary person
⚪️ a woman
🔘 a man
of:
⚪️ no sorrow
⚪️ occasional sorrow
🔘 constant sorrow
I've seen trouble:
⚪️ none of my day
⚪️ most of my days
🔘 all my days
@jessfromonline
You can still do verbatim search on Google, you’ve gotta search something then drag right on the “images” “shopping” etc bar until you see “search tools” then hit “all results” and THEN hit “verbatim” it’s still there just buried under a deepening mountain of shit
if people want to decry "censorship" on contemporary SNL how about they talk about sinead o'connor receiving a lifetime ban from SNL in 1992 for daring to speak out against pedophilia in the catholic church
i wonder why that doesn't come up in lieu of someone using racial slurs?
when i said the dude had moved out, they told me to tell him to call them and handed me their card, and i shit you not
the header of the card was in battlestar galactica font
el*n musk calling saying that "decolonization" means genocide is one of the most far-right positions i've seen him express, and that's saying something.
this is 'we must secure a future for white children' level racism. consider what this means for him to say as a south african!
angel on my shoulder: this is a tragedy. this is a not okay. how dare you do this to a discworld book. how dare you do this to pratchett.
the devil: eh it’s a rincewind book that’s fine
every TTRPG that uses a party of player characters that doesn’t explicitly intend them to be strangers at the start of the game should have mechanics for establishing relationships between PCs at creation
there are benefits to knowing more, understanding a situation better, etc. but none of that ever contradicts the fundamental axiom that US involvement will make matters worse. our 1st responsibility as the left in the US is to stand in the way of US involvement however possible.
reminder that every american and especially—if there are somehow any following me—every american liberal should read "Unacceptable"
the people that lockheed martin builds missiles to kill are real, actual people
neither democrats nor republicans “listen to the science.” there is one political program among american elected officials and it is to sacrifice people for profit.
your
#1
responsibility as a (repeat) audience member for Hadestown is (spoilers?) is to try as hard as possible to truly believe that this time, it's going to be different
nothing scares the american state more than multi-racial coalitions. the FBI under hoover was obsessed with the danger of it, and fred hampton's efforts organizing the rainbow coalition were a huge factor in why they assassinated him. the state will do anything to break them up.
today i learned the qualitative sociological research software ATLAS.ti has a button with the picture of an old cartoonish bomb whose tooltip says "Click when frustrated" and when you click it, it plays a terrible voice recording of some dude saying "I hate computers." amazing.