theothersustem

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08/08/2025

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if you wiped every ICE agent off the face of the earth, a hundred million people would become safer overnight. if you wiped every furry off the face of the earth, the entire internet would collapse for good in a matter of hours. i know where my allegiances lie.

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He’s right, Susie

They’re right Susie

❤️ She’s right, Susie

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the mushroom kingdom is unironically an ethnostate. at first i was like "oh haha funny aren't mario games messed up if you think about them" but like. no it is fucking wild that the mushroom kingdom is framed as pure and innocent and light and ontologically good while bowser's much more racially diverse kingdom is seen as ontologically twisted and evil and dark therefore we need to do a forever war with them.

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what about horses. are they horses

everything is a horse if you are wrong about what things are

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(hit the image limit multiple times, check the notes for the full conversation)

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Fun fact: Arizona is the only place in the country where the state mine inspector is an elected position

Another fun fact: this is one of my favorite political ads of all time, straight out of 2014

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i feel like don’t appreciate how much of a triumph of game design shitposting Campaign for North Africa is. It’s not only the grandfather of projects like The UNO Amalgam Chemicards, 5D Chess with Multiverse Time Travel, EXTREME Monopoly, but surpasses them on sheer scale and effort.

I feel like people forget that Campaign for North Africa was in fact a work of satire, and not an earnest attempt to capture the complexities of warfare. Which makes its existence make more and less sense at the same time. Because like. I cannot stress this enough this game is from 1978?!? And is a genuinely staggering amount of rules and system design? Like. imagine sitting down in 1978, pre internet, and going “hmmm today I will commit to spending the next several months making the Evil Torture Wargame” and then getting it published. It’s deranged

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hi welome to my brain! ohhhh dont touch that thats the lid i keep on the constant, raging, mind-bending fury that i have to go to work. if u touch it wrong Everything Explodes so b careful lol

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wait a hot fucking second. is the phrase “this sucks ass” secretly homophobic /gen

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therapist told me that constantly thinking i must be faking my own neurodivergencies is kinda proof that i have some lol. like, neurotypical people dont usually think that much abt their own thought processes

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here’s my take on the magic vs technology thing: forces stop being magic and start being technology exactly when capitalism can exploit it for profit

part of the appeal of magic I think, especially in the modern era, is the idea that it’s a source of power that capital can’t take away from you. you can’t sell someone the capability for magic; you can’t mass produce it; its innate in all of us and it has to come from an individual really putting their heart into it.

the moment it’s possible for something other than a person to do magic, the moment that it can be mass produced and commodified and put on a spreadsheet, it ceases to be magic. it’s now technology, and that technology will be developed and expanded and produced to make companies money.

this post wasn’t about AI art when I started writing it. funny how these things happen huh.

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A reminder:

ICE is only 22 years old. It has been around for barely any time at all.

We could just fucking get rid of it.

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die french

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femme hartman

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ANT-Tenna and some game accurate(-ish?) ANT Tenna. I drew him normally once and then proceeded to exclusively bug-ify him.

It would be fun if he had to plug in his own AV inputs to the mic/his screen!

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yeah my profile is a safe space for queer people, but it's also a safe place for silly, lil fellas

you're full of whimsy, silliness and microplastics, and that doesn't go unnoticed, keep being a silly goober