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There's probably fruitful analysis to be done drawing a line between porn RPGs where you have to play badly on purpose to unlock the sex scenes and those shitty FMV games from the 1990s where the game is kind of nothing if you do everything right, but every single thing you can do wrong has its own unique death animation.

Like, I'm not suggesting that Brain Dead 13's target audience is actually people who are into instant-loss snuff porn, but it wouldn't take much to put it over that line, is what I mean to say.

I’m not trying to turn your kids trans; that’s stupid. I’m trying to turn them into socialists.

#for real tho! their gender is their business but class struggle is everyone’s business

ngl it's so based of jrpgs to frequently use the trope of "the god you spent your life worshiping turned out to be evil so now you gotta kill god and save the world"

Not even in the top 25 of the most morally wrong things Elon Musk has done but I am personally salty that mental associations with him may be tarnishing the beauty of space and our efforts to learn more about it in the minds of some people.

The fact that you can’t raise taxes on billionaires even slightly without them pouring money into fascist political movements is, of itself, evidence that billionaires as a class shouldn’t be allowed to exist in the first place.

I’d just like to point out that every single thing that has happened in the 6 years since I created this post has only reinscribed its absolute moral correctness in my mind.

In my experience, one of the reasons the idea of "brain gender" is such a persistent gremlin even in ostensibly progressive spaces is that a lot of folks haven't really abandoned the bioessentialist framework of gender, they've just modified it to include trans people, and trans-inclusive bioessentialism falls apart if brain gender isn't real.

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

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There is no actual, tangible reason why we allow people to starve, to be homeless, to suffer and die needlessly. Food is plentiful. Empty homes are plentiful. Medicine is plentiful. It’s hidden away behind constructs and we pretend those constructs mean something. There is an empty home and a homeless family, give them it. There is a sick child and common medicine to treat it, give it to them. There is a starving person and so much food wasted by corporations or hidden behind a dollar sign, feed them.

You have to resist the impulse to try and make yourself more sympathetic through debasement. When you've been wounded, there will at times be a powerful temptation to show your belly to the ones who wounded you and to plunge your fingers into the wounds and say "Look at me, look at what you have done, are you not ashamed," and you need to not do that because the answer to the question is no; if they were so ashamed, they wouldn't have done it. You will never, ever get anywhere by humiliating and sacrificing yourself in an appeal to ppl who already hate you. Don't do all that mess.

reblogging this to add that I often think about the old man yaoi mangaka on bluesky who said "the phrase that finally convinced me that the English language is truly beautiful was 'this shit is so ass'"