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Making a shitty one-page RPG called Oh Shit It’s the Killer. The premise is simple: you’re a high schooler spending the weekend in the woods with your besties. The Killer is there also. He is trying to the Kill you

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i’ll say it a hundred times because some of you need to hear it a hundred times but the trick to liking yourself again is learning new skills and hobbies or returning to ones you had. it makes you so confident learning new shit all the time.

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MASTERLIST OF VETTED GOFUNDMES

My lists:

Verified GFM List #1

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Additional resources:

Hussein/Nairuz’s verified gofundme spreadsheet

@gaza-evacuation-funds

@gazavetters/their spreadsheet

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I can't lie, I find it very odd that posts cautioning people against donating to individual* campaigns and promoting the idea of supporting mutual aid efforts and community kitchens in Gaza can rack up 10k+ notes--while a post promoting a community kitchen (that I can personally vouch for) struggles to get 1k notes, and has barely pulled in a couple hundred dollars over the past week.

I actively try to avoid using guilting tactics in fundraising, but this is weird to me. It's like people are using these posts as an excuse not to do things they already didn't want to do anyway, rather than actually taking their recommendations on board...

*In my experience, these campaigns often support large extended families + their neighbours

MAQMAP is a community kitchen aiming to support families in the Mawasi Al-Qarara area.

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Im gonna be so real can yall actually talk about ways we can support trans women in the UK instead of giving all the attention to fucking JKR. I already know that Harry Poter sucks, I wanna know how to actually HELP people. Something something you have to love the oppressed more than you hate the oppressor

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“We need more complex female characters”

YALL COULDNT HANDLE HER

It’s crazy that her character flaw is thinking that if she ever expresses a negative emotion everyone will dislike her and yall immediately proved her right. Goddamn.

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everybody give it up for female characters who are WEIRD and OFFPUTTING. maybe even LOUD and UNAFRAID TO TAKE UP SPACE. round of applause. NOW.

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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This is who is leading the NYC mayoral democratic primary rn

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I hate agreeing with Tucker Carlson but what Twilight Zone hell hole did I wake up in where he's actually right?

-fae

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In one of my film classes last semester we had to tell a story in 3 pictures for a mini assignment so my friend and I did this

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“I’ve never seen you this upset about something.” - Zooble

Dysphoric rabbit?

+ this little trivia crumb

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it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

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like just making up random reasons to defend a contrary opinion does not make you smart, a visionary, or correct. ai is a labor issue, poverty issue, environmental issue, intellectual property issue, etc etc etc and trying to downplay that just makes u look dumb

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I'm alive... Kinda 🫠

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I jus had a trancendent idea holy shit. Okay so Caine crashout right? Usually when character with massive power break, it’s shown as flames spilling out of them etc, bursts of energy— but with Caine he’s already very unleashed. So I feel like it would be more compelling if his crashout made everything grind to a halt instead.

Like, Caine having such a massive fucking breakdown the circus buffers and freezes. He’s screaming and it’s dead quiet, because nothing can move, including the players. They’re stuck there frozen as Caine freaks out, because his Big Stupid Emotions are tearing the circus up like confetti

it would speak to his isolation, to. When he screams for real he’s the only one screaming, because Caine can comprehend nothing else. You’re living in gods veins and he’s having a heart attack.