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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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@jessicacruz added: #character 1 is a white woman #character 2 is a white man #character 3 is a poc

character: *isn’t 100% good or evil*

The Internet: hello naughty children it’s Discourse time

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3 components of worldbuilding:

1. The author’s kinks

2. The author’s power fantasy

3. The author’s political agenda

Plot and logic optional

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why must a fic be "finished" is it not enough for it to be lovingly daydreamed over a period of 6 months.

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I NEED YOU ALL TO KNOW THAT NOT ONLY IS MACE WINDU A THEATER NERD, HE IS ALSO A FOOD NERD. (Star Wars: Mace Windu: The Glass Abyss | Steven Barnes)

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For me this isn't even about empathy or sympathy (though there's value in those as well), it is just straight-up a human rights thing. Once you have decided that there is *any* category of human that can be treated as less-than-human you've said that humanity is conditional, and so are the rights that come with it. You've already lost, you've granted the fascists their point because *you agree with them* that some people don't deserve to be treated like humans.

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i just saw someone describe a disabled person as "someone with beautiful abilities" i cannot do this anymore

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thinking about dedra and syril and how fascist ideology promises women (white cis women, specifically) safety and security if they only follow their rules, stay in line, stick to the script, have blond babies and support blonde men. yes you can hold positions of power, but on the fascists terms and the fascist’s rules.

but the thing is the rules are always shifting! the goalposts are always moving! and submitting to a patriarchy, even if you ostensibly hold power within that patriarchy, means you are constantly under threat of male violence, because fascism relies on male violence, machismo, and action for action’s sake in order to maintain power!

and i do think it’s significant that star wars has continually shown intimate partner violence as the “point of no return” for its fascist/dark sided characters because folks. that’s how it starts. fascism begins with the abuse of family and ends with the murder of thousands

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Andor Appreciation Day 2 - Everyone Has Their Own Rebellion

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this is what happened at the end of revenge of the sith trust

istg if this posted twice i am going to lose it

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Jedi Actual Knights: Yesssss! I have had Thoughts on this. Mainly that in addition to Samurai, Jedi would also then have to be inspired by Steppe Nomads – riding mares to always have milk on hand, either having several horses to ride or getting off to give them a break, etc. Their horses probably wouldn’t be the best at carrying full-plate armored knights or charging – which would be another reason to use swords – but might have better endurance as a result. They’d always carry a little extra jerky and pemmican to hand out to people in need.

The Sith cult would be the opposite: full plate armor and their apprentice better spit-shine every gold-decked piece. They ride nothing but big stallions – to the point of ridiculousness with Palpatine – and since they don’t want to be stuck with a baggage train, they tend to bully, intimidate, steal from whoever they encounter to feed their big chargers and themselves – and burn the places to the ground afterwards.

jedi but they're actual knights

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My dog's really a study in Buddhism. He can see my muffin wrapper and he's miserable. Crying. He needs to eat my muffin wrapper so bad.

I get up and throw it away. He forgets about it immediately and happily goes to sleep.

You are not sad because you do not have a muffin wrapper, my beautiful boy, you are sad because you want the muffin wrapper.

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Generous African Grey Parrot Shares Food Tokens With Another Parrot So They Can Both ‘Buy’ Walnut Treats

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I think being autistic has made me realize how extremely hostile the environments we have designed are. And I don't mean "this environment is uniquely hostile to me because I am autistic" I mean that even normies are just existing in brutal, stagnant spaces, they have just internalized them as normal. We could have it all, we could live in such a beautiful and fascinating world, designed by humans and for humans who actually enjoy life and it's complexity and wonder. but even now it's like, seen as kinda hippy-dippy bullshit to have "excessive" indoor plants in a workspace or something