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indie final bosses

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if i had a time machine, i would go back in time and recreate popular media that hadn't come out yet with an unmistakable degree of accuracy, post it online to public websites on accounts with almost no engagement, and then when the media actually comes out i'd comment on how suspiciously similar it is to my obscure work from years ago, to where it couldn't have been just a coincidence. just to do some trolling

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stockings

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the knight is definitely dess, right? right??

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i unlocked godhead

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i redesigned katya to make him [lesbian] awesome

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glare

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we love plant girls here

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being an intersex person who isnt a waifish hairless elf devoid of any visible sex characteristics i honestly think if i was a fictional character id be denounced as a transphobic stereotype

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i don’t think disabled people should be treated any differently from everyone else. and what i mean by that is people shouldn’t be made fun of for being picky eaters unless they prove they have sensory issues. people shouldn’t be forbidden from bringing their bags to stores unless they prove they desperately need something from it at all times. kids shouldn’t be forbidden from having phones in school unless they have paperwork proving they get stressed and need distractions to calm down. people shouldn’t be expected to give their seats to every elder that walks in unless they’re willing to deprive themselves of privacy and tell the whole bus that they have a disability.

forcing people to prove they have a disability to justify why they should be treated a certain way is not only a violation of privacy - as nobody owes you their medical history - but it’s also extremely harmful to people who are disabled, but they or the people around them don’t know it yet. “you’re an exception to the rule”? what if there are other people right now with the same problem, but it’s not a widely known fact? do they not deserve the same treatment?

accommodating disability shouldn’t be a non-concern until a proven disabled person shows up, it should be the default rule. kindness should not be conditional on people justifying why they deserve it.

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the sheer irony of leftists who simultaneously believe “everyone deserves a fair trial, innocent until proven guilty, acab” and “yep, luigi mangione definitely did it, guilty until proven innocent, no question the police got the right guy” and dont realise they're contradicting their entire ideology by acting like the suspect is already guilty

luigi mangione is not a revolutionary icon or a billionaire killer. he is innocent, and it will take a fair and non-rigged trial to prove otherwise, which we’re definitely not getting

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“not what the artist intended” this, “not supposed to be meant that way” that. have we forgotten that media analysis is not about what the author intended, but about what is actually communicated to the audience in practice? have we forgotten that you can’t read the author’s mind and know what they intended?

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indie cross is a modern equivalent of super mario bros z and i love that. just like we 90s and 2000s kids had our epic crossover fanfic web-animation with the characters we liked, 2010s and 2020s kids now have their own, with the characters they like

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my experience playing magic: the gathering as a beginner is looking at a bunch of cards and going “oh yeah, sounds good in my deck, synergises well with it” and then i play against an actual experienced player and we’re closely matched and it’s a good time and we both have fun

meanwhile, my experience playing competitive pokemon as a player of 6 years is spending days looking at a teambuilder, a damage calculator, a viability ranking and many smogon pages simultaneously, thinking so hard that smoke comes out of my ears trying to craft the most functional and synergistic team that covers all its weaknesses and accounts for every metagame threat, only to click play and get sent to meet god within 3 turns by the first low ladder player i encounter. and then just 2 weeks later a bunch of stuff is banned and unbanned and the metagame is unrecognisable from before and my team no longer applies

some competitive games are just built different

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i can never make a blanket statement of “i recommend this movie/book/show/game”. what i CAN do is tell you the appeal of it, and what personal preferences one would have that would make them like it, and let you decide for yourself if you’re the right audience for this movie/book/show/game

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we really need to talk about moral fascism and how it has divided the left and allowed far-right extremism to rise in the world.

“moral fascism” as i call it is behaviour, usually coming from left-leaning people, where they are “progressive” not because they want to help people and improve the world, but because they want to be better than others. moral fascists refuse to educate people, don’t believe in personal growth, and actively try to gatekeep their allegedly superior morals from anyone who doesn’t already know it, all so they can flaunt their superiority for knowing more than others do.

just like actual fascism, moral fascism is entirely focused on assigning value to a characteristic, defining people’s worth based on that characteristic, and making sure nobody ever gets to move up so the “high class” can keep its status. you either already have perfect morals to begin with, or you’re doomed to be “problematic” for life, never be educated or given a chance, thus pushing people away from progressive circles and into the more welcoming far-right circles.

i believe this is also one of the core ideals of “cancel culture” - people want to feel like they’re above others, so they try to ruin other people’s livelihoods, sometimes with truths, sometimes with lies, so they can be the “hero who defeated the problematic villain”. and of course, the idea of people improving or learning from their mistakes is nonexistent to moral fascists.

because of all of this, left-leaning communities globally are divided and fighting among themselves, which not only lets the right reign free and do whatever they want without true opposition, but it also drives away new and young people from even joining the left, which results in even more support for the right.

maybe the left needs to unite, and realise that even if some of us hate each other, we hate fascism more and we’ll make more progress by fighting that instead. maybe to defeat actual fascism, we need to defeat moral fascism.