Esoteric Merit

@siveine

could be fun too if this is the only way to get new characters. sure, you can clear the whole game with your starting party (and that's a cool enough flex that people will do it), but every time you TPK and recover you now have a new set of characters to mix and match with. maybe completing certain objectives or reaching certain depths unlocks new character options, but you don't get them until a new batch of heroes venture in. negotiating peace with the giant psychic spiders on floor 3 is cool, but then it becomes awesome when your party gets taken over by a puppet wizard on floor 7 and the rescue party has a giant spider in it and gets to start their delve from Spiderberg

Scooby-Doo taught us that humans are the real monsters. Fischer and Griess taught us that the largest sporadic simple group is the real monster

the among us show might genuinely be cinema i just watched a crewmate handle an actual fucking g-string

this show is rated tv-pg yet has shown multiple shots of a character flipping us off with both hands which has led me to believe every other tv-pg director is a coward

As a freelance video game dev, I use my real name, (Murder Who), in most online spaces now, rather than my pseudonyms. I still upkeep many of my pseudonyms, but many others have been retired as I have no places to use them any more. So my experiences might be relevant, but I'm not interacting with the 'mainstream' job market. Since I'm often openly searching for contracts, you might think my open anarchial politics, my trans & queerness, my being Indigenous, occasional thirst-posting, my activism (including news stories), might influence clients. And if it has, it's been invisible vis-a-vis them avoiding me before we ever interact. Heck, you might think being openly very anti-AI might influence some contracts negatively, but that really hasn't. What has influenced my contracts is just being present, talkative, and helpful in game dev spaces. And then the fact that I have a single name, that can be googled to find out a tiny little bit more about me, helps people recognize & remember me. (Hence why I use my real name everywhere now). And then "the person who helped me figure out the terrain3D plugin three months ago" gets put to the top of their list when they're looking over potential programmers & shader artists. Most of my contracts are spot contracts, like, "Oh, that's like, 2 hours work. Toss me a $50 and I'll hand over a bunch of scripts I already have and customize them for your usecase". Of the spot contracts, most of them are cleaning up AI code. Either so that it's clear enough that the client can understand the code again, or so that the codebase looks professional, or because the AI is no longer capable of iterating on the code. (See what I mean about anti-AI not effecting my work?) Theoretically, game devs should be under more scrutiny than many other jobs, as the intention is to get the work out to as many people as possible, and credit the people who worked on it, and scandals or political differences have huge effects on sales & visibility, not always positively. And I mean, I've actually had people check my references in this space, ("Did this person actually work on your game?"), whereas no one's ever done that in my entire rest of my working life. I'm not going to draw any wider conclusions about that, that's just been my experiences.

The thing I dislike about alt histories where real life monarchs have been made both gay and unproblematic is that it seems to imply that gay monarchs have not existed in history but if they did they would be cool. Which isn’t true. They have existed and they were just as bad as straight people. And I think it is disrespectful to real queer history to pretend that queer people have never been absolute bastards

stay safe

REPORT THIS PIECE OF SHIT AND GET HIS MEDICAL LICENSE REVOCED!

If I had a nickel for every series of genre-defining RPGs that debuted in the mid 1990s and has spent the last decade-plus endlessly iterating on remakes, remasters, and/or spinoffs of the fifth entry in the series, I'd have two etc.

You cannot be following me if you got a hogwarts house in your bio. Get a fucking grip.

Rugged individualism for thee, cushy collectivism for me.

Originality is the part that gets in, unintended, while you're trying to steal something and can't figure out why it doesn't look like what you're trying to steal.

Women will say normal phrases like "I am also remarkably well-preserved in the flesh" and their friends will tease them by saying that it makes them sound "like you're some kind of immortal lich or mummy"

Women will also say perfectly normal phrases like "I do think I manage to project a certain sense of youthful joie de vivre" and the braying hounds of Tumblr will tease her for "sounding like a pretentious 19th century gothic poet" and I'm begging you please be nicies to me

listen we all know a trans girl with mummy issues