Hoper's Sentiments

Some people in this world are deserving of an early death. That doesn't mean that I have to be the one to pull the trigger, nor always wish that another person or force of nature will. Leaving conflicts with dirty but non-bloodied hands can keep oppositions at bay long enough to change the conditions that repress their potential to change.

These thoughts of mine cropped up while playing the opening section where Solid Snake infiltrates a Marine tanker to gather intel on a new Metal Gear. What would have been an open-and-shut case for non-lethality against seemingly unarmed Marines suddenly becomes less so as armed Russian forces invade the tanker, killing those Marines in the process. An understandable reaction would be to kill them before they can kill Snake. A justifiable reaction is to bear in mind that these enemies are likely indoctrinated by fascism or knowingly forced to serve a power that will kill them if they disobey. Killing them resolves an immediate problem. Knocking them out or tranquilizing them, on the other hand, may break through the propaganda thrust upon them, inspiring resistance, or prevent unwilling combatants unable to escape fascism from becoming victims of it.

Judge me all you want for the violent messages that I respond to "Juicy," the sexual harasser, and "sea," the rape apologist, with; I will not remain silent about evil out of a fear of being perceived as immoral:

After reading what these motherfuckers said, I urge you to leave comments that warn others of who they are on their above-linked Steam profiles. Not only that, but also to report "Juicy" to Team 6ix from the competitive Dead by Daylight scene, as they state that they're a player for the team on their profile:

You can attempt to contact 6ix by requesting to join their Steam Group and sending a friend request to its members.

If you can think of any other ways to hold "Juicy" and "sea" accountable, like reporting them to a higher authority in the comp. DbD scene, then I urge you to do that, too.

Wednesdays is the first piece of art that I've written about in the context of accessibility to be astutely accessible, not just somewhat or mostly so. Much of this has to do with its generally thorough approach to safety for people with different disabilities.

For those with OCD and/or PTSD, there are detailed descriptions of all of its mature elements on both its store page (where possible) and in-game menus, as well as in-game warnings for each chapter. Those with motion sickness have access to a, for me, rarely-seen-elsewhere setting to disable repeated animations in the top-down park-management-lite section of Wednesdays -- a setting with an icon that should have had its function explained from the start. And, those with processing-related disabilities can make use of different fonts and font sizes, as well as an auto scroll setting that has adjustable speeds. Unfortunately, for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, although there are visible onomatopoeias within chapters, captions for sounds made by Orco, the amusement park owner of a game within Wednesdays, and the lyrics for a song that plays at the end of the game, are nowhere to be seen.

Prejudiced scum like the reportable eponymous player deserve to have bad things happen to them, which should, at the very least, include them getting banned from their social media accounts:

However, rather than only hoping for corporations' uncaring moderation teams to take action in such cases, it's important to remember that we are capable of performing acts of justice ourselves: