LurksLikeABoss

Never repeated, never pointed to by any other passage, not even given in an index or glossary, just secreted away in a seemingly random spot like a game of Where's Waldo in a 200+ page text.

This isn't meant to be venting, it's genuinely perplexing that an approach so specific and so counterproductive seems to happen so often. What's the deal?

Most tabletop game designers are very bad technical writers.

“AI addiction” you mean “self destructive antisocial behavior enabled by predatory technology”

“Porn addiction” you mean “internalized sexual shame and desensitization”

“Sex addiction” you mean “self destructive promiscuity”

“Addiction” is a clinical fucking disease. These people are not diseased, by and large. Some of them are experiencing/committing maladaptive behaviors and trying to absolve themselves of responsibility for their actions. Some of them are just existing in an evolutionarily explicable way, but our Puritanical/Calvinist society thinks they should be ashamed for ever experiencing pleasure or gratification at all rather than sacrificing every scrap of enjoyment they can claw out of life and suffering all the time because humans are tainted by sin and have to do penance for living.

away and putting it on

the top fucking shelf.

"AI addiction" you mean "Over-reliance on a dubious source of information."

"Porn addiction" you mean "Enjoying media that some arbitrary authority considers too erotic."

"Sex addiction" you mean "Choosing to have sex more frequently or with more partners than is considered normal in a sex-negative, monogonormative society," unless what you mean is "Cheating on a partner to whom one promised exclusivity, the problem with which is the lying, not the sex."

And my manager was like no!!!! If that happened, I would drive to find you guys in my truck and we could eat stuff from my wife's garden and I would make sure everyone I know survived!! I would carry you all on my shoulders away from the zombies!!

Monday morning, Musk took to his social media platform, X, to lash out at Khanna for suggesting Musk’s deep cuts to USAID’s funding and workforce, while overseeing DOGE last year, may have led to millions of children dying.

It is oft-repeated that non-binary people don't owe anyone androgyny, but not nearly as often is it repeated that non-binary people don't owe anyone conventional attractiveness. I believe this needs stating because people do not believe non-binary people can be attractive, or anything other than [insert insulting stereotype here], at all. Or, if someone believes we can be attractive, then they often believe we must be perfectly androgynous and near-angelic and viewed as a total bombshell by everyone of all genders all the time. In essence, we are defined out of conventional attractiveness almost entirely, with a small handful of people allowing narrow exceptions to people who are very, very lucky and willing to conform to a specific look. This pairs poorly with the number of people who have been told their whole life that their worth is defined entirely by how beautiful they are and how well they conform to a gender. Of course there are a ton of people who are not willing to give up the thing that everyone values them for, in favour of choosing something that everyone thinks is ugly.

When we got our younger cat Skadi, her favorite toy was (still is, but she's calmed down with age) the rattley mouse. She would bring the mouse to be thrown for fetch so many times that not even two human adults in the house could keep up with her. So my partner started making puzzle boxes to put the rattley mouse in that would occupy her for longer.

So, we have a setup: mouse is in the puzzle box, puzzle box is on the floor, younger cat is trying to resolve the puzzle box, elder cat is sitting on the cat tree observing all this. Skadi spends about fifteen minutes trying and failing to get the mouse out of the box. She sticks her paw into the holes. She sticks her nose into the holes. She pushes the box to and fro on the carpet. She meows beseechingly for a human to come solve the problem. Sticks her paws into the holes again.

Finally, she gives up on the puzzle box and wanders over to see if there's any food to be had. As soon as she walks away the elder cat gets up from the cat tree, big stretch, jumps down, walks over to the puzzle box, hooks a paw under the edge and flips the whole thing over, spilling the mouse onto the floor.

But anime and video game boob jiggling is like. The most uncanny valley shit I've ever seen nine times out of ten. You would think people this horny about tits would have actually looked at some but I guess not.