An unpopular opinion I have is that "Tech Noir" is a vastly better genre name than "Cyberpunk" for a *huge* portion of what we label as Cyberpunk This was not meant to find an audience but I'm not complaining

If you gotta cope, do it without quoting me for clout lmao

https://twitter.com/NikosGrilling/status/1557036441879937025

Like tell me it's normal to go online and call trans people evil for existing because video game character's story advanced

https://twitter.com/NikosGrilling/status/1557040289574961152

The thing about Bridget coming out is it's basically the same as when any known figure does. People claim ownership of our bodies, real or imagined. Think Elliot Page, about whom thinkpieces about the "loss" were written, problematized, etc

We are watching something similar now! There is an imagined "ownership" over femme bodies. We can't just celebrate it or let it go: instead, it must always be framed as a "loss" (to men, to femboys, to lesbians...) because by and large we aren't considered to actually be *in charge of ourselves*

To some people, Bridget being trans is unravelling a decade or more of online history like someone had swatted a fly among the dinosaurs and the timeline is altering as we speak and I'm here for it The actual literal origin of the "tr*p" slur came out of the closet and was happy and it's just destroying weird losers

I have a thread on that site. A lot of us do. You are just signalling that the minute we are "annoying" enough you'll justify selling us for serotonin in a way that doesn't impact the structures oppressing us. You are not just or fair or good. Log off. Literally legions of you lining up to be useful idiots for reactionary groups. I didn't even like that guy and I know better.

Literally only thing I have to say Some of yall would rat people out to the goddamn SS and cry about how it was okay in that instance specifically

Haha hey remember when the conservatives got mad that a Dr. Seuss book was just quietly allowed to go out of print. Anyway they're banning Maus Pointing out hypocrisy is pointless. They know they are being hypocrites. Point out what is consistent about their actions instead: they're just kinda banal racists and don't like that being pointed out

As the Official Ghost That Haunted r/Antiwork: No, it is not better to rebrand into "let us reimagine the 9-5 as a kinder, gentler boot" and the original message of being *against work under capitalism* - with all its hierarchy, alienation, exploitation, abuses - is still good I hated that sub and I wish I had a cent for every point of karma havested mindlessly with my content on there but don't imagine I drop the sentiment itself just because liberals saw weakness and took over

Thinking about how Basic D&D has "reversible" spells, so you could prepare a Cure but invert it to cast Inflict on the fly, and how this is awesome so naturally 5e ignores this for everything but one spell There's also another element: some spells can be *dispelled* if you know them, so if you know Blade Barrier you can cast it to dispel an active Blade Barrier in the world, and I really love that as a general rule? 5e has absolutely nothing like that either

I just got chosen at random to receive a first jab of Pfizer since they had leftovers. Hella I got ten minutes of warning and I'm sweaty and gross lmao

Hard Wired Island is Live and you can Buy the PDF

https://twitter.com/HardWiredIsland/status/1385209686744440841?s=19

Expect:

-political bias
-unsubtle critique
-a world that looks normal to the authors but is going to seem alien to Americans (free healthcare)
-you can pet the dog

It's a grand fucking irony of our age that people think Bill Gates is trying to implant us all with microchips when the actual conspiracy he is behind and which is completely open and on record is preventing open source vaccines, preserving copyright and slowing vaccinations This is like when people theorized that the buried research oil companies hid were water engines or some shit and when it turned out to be proof of climate change instead they just dropped that thread immediately

Anyone else remember that one guy on RPGnet who would post about his game, designed to teach kids about politics, that had Palestinians as ogres and the IDF as paladins? I forget his name but I remember him vividly What I especially remember is that he felt this was a nuanced take that accurately depicted both sides in this real world conflict and nothing could really convince him that that's not what he was making

Oh wotc is releasing a book on Tasha?

Hey remember how Tasha exists because a girl sent a crayon letter to Gygax and wanted a spell involving laughter and then he wrote the character around it to be an evil seductress "Most females do not play RPGs because of a difference in brain function" - Gary Gygax

When people treat employers as an immutable law of nature it pisses me off. Yes, that Karen got you fired. But who decided listening to a Karen was more important than keeping you on board. A human made that decision too. A human enabled that Karen. A third party is involved It wasn't a battle of a Karen and a poor employee, it was collusion by the employer that gives a customer more rights than its own employees. The power imbalance exists because the employer allows it to exist. This is not a law of nature. This is a human decision

Once again for the folks in the back;

LGBTQA+ labels are *guide*posts, not *fence*posts

They are *inclusive*, not *exclusive*

If you use them as exclusive labels you are betraying the core concept of why they exist and dividing L and G and B and T against each other. And if you're dividing LGB against T, LGBT against Q, LGBTQ against A, or just going old school with L against G?

Guess whose tactics you're emulating. Guess what that makes you.

The only thing more terrifying than horses on Tumblr is mushrooms on Tumblr People are like "zombification mushrooms so scary!" And I'm sitting here like "all fungi are intrinsically terrifying"

In that famous cross-dressing scene in FF7 it's stated that the people helping "know other people like that" and this means the underside of Midgar is host to a widespread queer community that isn't allowed in the upper city and that's a thing to think about late on Friday Also every character doused in Mako is very much in that zone at some point hmm

Fallout 76 is having a full on class war and I can't stop reading about this trainwreck Folks, class consciousness is awakening

Alright let's review this beast, Feast of Legends, also known as "the Wendys RPG." Doing it live.

Immediate problem number one: these are all the worker credits in the PDF. No writer, editor, playtester, layout or any work of any other kind receives a credit in the product. This violates what is called the "right of paternity", a so called moral right in publishing regarding authorship and attribution, so we are off to a strong as fuck corporate start

Something to understand about Hong Kong is, it's using all the "modern" riot "control" techniques.

Not only have they failed, the riots are continuing in part *because of the techniques used*. They have undermined the core principle of control; de-escalation. Modern surveillance tech Is escalation. It's a threat in and of itself. To use it to attempt to quell unrest misses the simple fact that it causes it.

What now occurs in Hong Kong will be a trial by fire, and the tech and data driven solution is failing in the worst way it can.