#we are unity

[weareunity]

Im cry laughing why are some of you guys giving your host dictatorship rule. Its just guy who frontsalot. "No one wants to be host bc of all the responsibility" WELL MAYBE IT SHOULDNT BE SUCH A RESPONSIBILITY. OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING THROUGH HOSTS LIKE TISSUE PAPER YOU TOOK A PERFECTLY GOOD GUY WHO FRONTSALOT AND MADE HIM THE LEADER OF A SMALL COUNTRY

[mischiefsystem]

As a system we have experienced both like people seeing us as too much the same and not recognizing that each alter is their own person, but also like. People seeing us as way too different and not recognizing the whole like. We had a girlfriend who was like "its creepy that your alters share your memory its like they are spying on me" as if we were not also a part of this person she was having a relationship with.

I think thats why the concept of like. Every alter is a person, but the system is also a person is important to us. And its difficult to clairify what we mean since we are kind of using the word person to mean different things there since there isnt really seperate language for it other than "alter" and "system" and people dont inherently understand what that means which is the point of this lol.

And I think that can be a real struggle within the system community because for some calling an alter a person can make it feel like you are seperating them out too much and for some calling the system a person can make it feel like you are seeing the alters as too much the same. And honestly we struggle with both a bit, because society doesnt have this inherent idea of being your own person but still part of a larger identity, like its not the same as just a community of singlets so just explaining it as a community doesnt really work in in the same way since like. If you are shoving away an alter its bc you are afraid of what they are holding and afraid of that part of yourself and if you do that outsys youre just being a dick (which. It can still be being a dick insys its just also repression or something to reinforce dissociation from a trauma).

And I think this kind of thing is why there is like arguments within system communities about language and how to count it, I mean some of it is just repression and not accepting alters individuality or genuine thinking of alters more seperately than they are, or variation between systems on how seperate they are that people wrongly generalize to everyone, but a lot of it I think is like what ways a system has been misunderstood most commonly causing miscommunication

So clairifying that each alter is a person can feel pointless and pedantic if youve mostly been seen too seperately, and clairfying that the system is a person feels pointless and pedantic if you mostly have been seen as too much the same

So when you say x is a person it can feel like more of seeing systems too seperately or too much the same since if you only have been mischaracterized in one way then the way you arent mischaracterized can feel obvious so anyone drawing attention to it must be doing it *too much*

And its really really hard to talk about in a way that isnt too much since language is made for singlets, and language made for us isnt inherently understood so it feels like we need to translate it into this universal language that isn't as precise

But it feels really important because its painful to not be seen how you are

[cybergothvox]

Internet fame is overrated just post for your friends

[weareunity]

If that thang escapes aint noone taking it back to the zoo that little guys going to the animal shelter

That has to be the most humiliating way to describe one of Earth's most terrifyingly effective predators.

[smilepilled]

if your (trans-)feminism inherently excludes any minority group on the basis that one of their immutable traits makes them inherently evil, you are not a transfeminist. you are LARPing as one, but you aren't doing jack shit that has to do with feminism.

this includes trans people, nonbinary individuals, trans guys and transmascs, trans gals and transfems, intersex people (with or without any trans identity), gnc individuals, black trans people, brown trans people, asian trans people, indigenous trans people— and any combination of these.

if you exclude any group of people from your transfeminism or activism, you are not an activist. you are trying to seem like a good person while clinging desperately to your own hateful, putrid ideals. get better and over yourself

[auranym]

indie games are safe!!

good news! unity has walked back a lot of the runtime fee!

they made a blog post outlining their new terms, the link is here. but if you want a sparknotes version, here's the highlights:

1. the runtime fee is not retroactive. previously released games are safe.

2. the fee only applies to the next major version of unity. developers can choose not to upgrade if they don't want do deal with it.

3. the fee is opt-in and number of installs is self-reported. if they'd prefer, developers can instead pay a 2.5% revenue share. (for reference, unreal is 4%.)

4. interestingly, the splash screen is being completely removed. this is probably a way to improve their reputation.

overall, this is a HUGE improvement! but, if I remember right, there was not any revenue share before, so, we are not at the same point we started. unity will still be taking a larger cut of developers' revenue if they choose to use newer features. but, it is nowhere near as drastic as we thought it would be.

overall, I think we're in a stable spot now, but I also think unity has lost most if not all of the trust it had. especially with indies. there has already been a mass exodus, and I kinda hope that will keep going.

[sorin-sunchild]

I know it's petty but just blocked someone for making a post where the tag was 'trans mascs do better'. The content of the post you ask? Complimenting trans femmes on making good music.

Now, all art is subjective. You don't have to like any music by any trans person. But also, since art is subjective, it's weird to make a statement which suggests that all trans mascs who make music are not making good music. Why is that? Because they happen to be trans masc so you assume it's bad, or because they happen to post in genres you dislike, or because they just personally aren't making songs you like? Mentioning their gender and whether they were cis or trans isn't needed unless you have hang ups about trans mascs in general for being trans masc. Comes off as weird and competative.

Also, you can make a post which compliments trans femmes/trans women etc without tagging on something which insults trans mascs/trans men. It's easy, just don't talk about anyone except the group you intend to compliment. Sliding in a jab at trans mascs actually makes the compliment sound a little less sincere, like it was just a gateway into that jab and not an actual compliment with substance.

That's a good philosophy for anything, actually. Just compliment the one group. Don't have to tack on an insult or derision to another deemed 'opposite' in some respect. It's just that easy. Everything a trans person does isn't a secret competition with a trans person of a different gender.

It's a very minor thing, but so unnecessary and a peek into a mindset I just cannot deal with in this day and age.

[weareunity]

Extremly cool ending idea, and I absolutely agree with you that there is no way either demon has the siblings best interests at heart, unless they do incidentally.

My understanding of how the souls work is you become a grime soul when you view yourself as a bad person, and you feel guilt over this. You're willing to do things you see as bad, or feel you have done things that are bad enough you have an extreme negative view of yourself.

While a tar soul is someone who sees themselves as doing bad things, but no longer gives a fuck. They relish in the violence, they do not feel guilty. They know they are selfish and proud of it.

That is why a tar soul can hatch into a demon. They do not care about hurting other people, and can just feed on other peoples souls without feeling guilt.

Thats why I think there is absolutely no way that the demons goals can be anything but selfish. I suppose a person could change, but I would think if a tar soul has all the way hatched into a demon that they might beyond the point where they could change. And lord unknown like you said, has already shown a lack of respect for andrews consent by bashing his way through his memories, and the entity is shown to be fully willing to make ashley into its slave if she words a deal badly in one of the endings.

Got this ask about Andrew becoming Lord Unknown's servant and... honestly? I think that might be a good contender for a bad ending in Chapter 4 Decay.

I am of the belief neither demon has Andrew's or Ashley's best interest in heart: all their actions have pointed to them wanting to be more useful in what they claim will be a mutually beneficial relationship. It's why I don't really like to call what Lord Unknown does as "Demon Therapy" or anything: it's a forceful probing of Andrew's mind without his consent to "fix" him so he can hatch into an apparently more useful Tar Soul.

I think one of the most poignant scenes in all of 3A was how Andrew reacts to being shown... comfort from someone other than Ashley. I think it's a very important scene.

When I first played this I kind of gasped. The way the music stopped, and the transition from "Fucking Snoop" to "Something Terrifying" to "Something Kind."

Suddenly, you understand why people join cults.

I do not believe the demons have Andrew's or Ashley's best interest in minds, and I think Lord Unknown's personal desire is to sever Ashley and her memory from his life in some capacity. So I think Decay's ultimate bas ending will ultimately be an ending where Andrew lives without Ashley. An ending where Ashley is dead and he just... keeps living on as this thing's puppet.

There's this quote from No Longer Human I think about in regards to this specifically, now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness:

“Now I have neither happiness nor unhappiness. Everything passes. That is the one and only thing that I have thought resembled a truth in the society of human beings where I have dwelled up to now as in a burning hell. Everything passes.”

And that's Andrew with Ashley dead and his emotions hollowed out by this demon. And afterwards, Lord Unknown essentially tasks him with leading the cult,

Freedom from the person he has hated more than anyone else, but also the only person he's ever truly loved in any true capacity. No more of the consequences he has feared: if things get dicey, Lord Unknown will simply move him without effort.

Freedom from choices. Freedom from hatred. Freedom from love. There is no happiness, but there is neither sorrow. There is no hope, yet there is no despair. Simply... a simple existence and orders followed. Full indoctrination into a cultist way of thinking, leaving behind absolutely everything, even the sole thing that was precious to him solely for the sake of "peace."

Peace, and praise: that too is important. You did good. I'm proud of you. Wonderful work, Andrew. You did a good job. Your work is valued.

The complete and absolute obliteration of everything that made him Andrew graves. There is another text comparison I have, the ending of the script of Midsommar relevant to this as Dani fully embraces what happens and accepts being absorbed into a cult once and for all: "A SMILE finally breaks onto Dani’s face. She has surrendered to a joy known only by the insane. She has lost herself completely, and she is finally free. It is horrible and it is beautiful."

I can see Andrew like, in the future, being the cult leader. He's gaining more followers, and more important, actually knowing how the summoning works has gathered more souls and sacrifices for Lord Unknown. Hey, please imagine him talking with some of the new recruits or something-

"O-oh... s-sorry sir, didn't mean-"

"No, please, it's fine- no need to be so formal. Call me Andy."

But not Leyley's Andy. Lord Unknown's Andy. Someone incapable of happiness or sorrow, content to finally have obtained what he once thought he wanted.

... I doubt it'd go this way, but I guess that's how I'd want a Decay bad ending route to go! I've been meaning to talk about this since getting an anon almost a week ago, and I figured might as well finally share!

[weareunity]

Patient will not submit to treatment of being hit over the head with a baseball bat. Has been labeled non compliant.

[mischiefsystem]

Fuck your Pk;ap latch. *steals your face*

[weareunity]

I can explain

Being a system is fucking weird I just had to download the memory of why our browser is open to the google image search result for "ant sex" after a moment of Deep Confusion

[eugenedebs1920]

I know this may come as a shock to all of us but. Donald Trump lied on the campaign trail! 😳

Turns out, just like everyone said, that his tax plan would exponentially benefit the top 10% and leave the rest of us footing the bill.

He said no tax on tips: lie

He said no tax on overtime pay: lie

He said no tax on Social Security benefits: lie

And the Republicans are ready to jam this thing through. Why?

Because they don’t give a sh*t about the working class. They don’t give a sh*t about the middle class. They don’t give a sh*t about the elderly. And they sure as sh*t don’t care about the working poor.

We can only hope one day those who vote Republican will abandon their disdain for the liberal values of honest pay for honest work. The virtues of fair tax policies, even amongst the upper class. The integrity to show respect to all humans despite their race, sex, religion (or lack thereof), sexual preference, immigration status or gender identity.

Until then. The overwhelming majority of Americans will be stuck in this endless cycle of debt, overworked, underpaid, exploited and forgotten.

If we joined together there is no change, no success, no aspiration we couldn’t achieve.

The U in USA is for United. Let’s do that…

🇺🇸

[weareunity]

My whole system has psychological fictionkin if you have questions id be happy to talk about it! I dont have something pre-written unfortunately but I wanted to say for me we have noticed its frequently trauma related, where a kintypes trauma will emotionally parallel lived trauma (doesnt have to be similar events as long as it caused similar feelings, like a being trapped feeling from cant escape parents might lead to a kintype that has been kidnapped, or trapped in an arranged marriage). The brain aubconcioisly maps the loved trauma fewlings onto the character making their trauma feel real.

Theres more to ot than that but i just wanted to say something quick!

So uh. I’ve always thought fictionkin stuff was something that happened to other people but not me and I’m still somewhat confident in that. But.

Well. I have no idea how it works, so could anyone who has that going on explain what it’s like for you? I know there’s a lot of different ways people experience it, and I wanna hear as many different versions as possible

[palatinewolfsblog]

"We were all humans until race disconnected us, religion separated us, politics divided us, wealth classified us." - U.N. Owen

[fumifooms]

I don’t like minimizing the importance and gravity of Laios and Toshiro’s fight into just being a childish squabble, even if to a degree it is framed that way, because to both of them it has a lot of personal significance and emotional weight and runs very deep to their characters… The fight isn’t nothing it’s a LOT, they made up but it’s not something easy to express and to get over for either of them which makes it all the more meaningful! I’m on both sides but there very much are sides, there’s no "they’re both having a ball, Toshiro and Laios hand in hand yay" side to the fight, that comes after

The fight with Toshiro WAS very scary to Laios, almost existentially so, but it’s moreso the "I thought I’d made a friend!!" bit and my god. My god actually

Like it’s not "just" about oh his friend liking him less than he thought, THAT IS SO MUCH. It’s a bond he thought he had being a lie it’s all the time and moments spent together either being a lie from his perspective or marred now looking back. It’s not only being upset at Toshiro for lying but upset at himself that he’s so easy to fool, it’s being upset that there’s something so wrong with you that you can’t even tell if your "close buddy" even actually likes you or not, it’s like. Holding my head. He can’t trust his own vision of events that happened do you see. There’s always this film of distrust that it could be a lie that should be there when he interacts with people there’s always this sense of cloak and dagger to expect backstabs out of nowhere because you CAN’T see it coming you CAN’T you CAN’T there’s something about you which makes it impossible so you CAN’T-

He’s so scared of not being able to read people. He knows it’s a weak spot he has, he’s always known. All of these bits are centered around social expectations and betrayals, the assumption that he doesn’t belong either in society or with other humans.

And Laios’ level of awareness is actually sort of complex to analyze, but it’s there, there’s how out of him and Falin he was the one sensitive to the ~aura of hatred~ he felt from the townspeople, there’s of course his nightmares whispering to him about the mocking looks, and how yeah actually he realizes that his gold stripper coworker was taking advantage of him. There’s of course the Winged Lion speech about his trauma and how he fundamentally mistrusts/dislikes humans to some deep seated degree, this distrust that he still keeps under control always. There’s how pre-canon he often wanted to suggest eating monsters but never worked up the courage to bring it up with the others. There’s how he comes across as stoic when he isn’t being enthusiastic…… We don’t know how aware and wary he is exactly in the moment but we do know he has some anxiety around social stuff, and looking back he does notice and aughh augh, the sense you have to hide yourself to not get hurt, and be on your guard and shit and.

When you don’t know what to look out for and when to look out for it, the general ‘common sense’ of not always trusting people or noticing when someone’s messing with you becomes hypervigilance in social settings

"Man they really know what you hate huh." Being socially unaware literally plagues him, he knows, he knows it so well.

It’s so quick that it’s almost hard to digest how literal and blatant Laios summoning his monster to crush all the people who’ve hurt him is. His literal go-to coping mechanism for comfort in his literal monster-induced emotionally intense nightmare, saving him by taking away the upsetting element (the humans)

"Monsters are his coping fantasy, where they can whisk him away from humanity, all the hurt it’s caused him and its arbitrary rules" with the subtlety of a brick. Monsters are his comfort safe zone "because they kill humans" yes but no it’s because he pits them as the guardians against humans who to him are in the role of the agressors. To him they represent freedom from the shackles of what it means to be part of humanity, a fundamentally social species

[saydesole]

Roy Ayers 1940-2025

Rest peacefully Sunshine