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695I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible
I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post
I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time
I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
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I bet there would be dramatically fewer conspiracy theorists in the world if kids were taught about the concept of falsifiability in school
like ideally they should be taught about the entire scientific method, what constitutes justified belief, general critical thinking skills, how to weigh evidence, etc. but literally just the concept of falsifiability would do a ton of good
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we should enforce highlander rules where if you manage to kill a cis white man you can take his job
imagine how fast hiring unfairness would be addressed when the alternative is murder of the privileged classes
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“unprofessional” is literally just code for:
- they weren’t white enough
- or, they weren’t cis enough
- or, they weren’t male enough
- or, they weren’t attractive enough
- or, they weren’t neurotypical enough
- or, they weren’t charismatic enough
“professionalism” is a smokescreen for white/cis/male/etc. supremacy
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Grace Vulpes Alopex
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fyi, women are hotter when covered in blood
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NanoRaptor@bitbang.socialSome terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip
(with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)
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to be clear what I’m basically trying to say is “popular media has gotten more and more violent, transgressive, and disturbing over time and I hope this is just a temporary trend. I also hope that censorship isn’t actually needed in order for there to be media that’s more toned down, for people like me”
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@nina_kali_nina that’s part of my point! I think GTAV and Witcher 3 are also part of what I’m calling the Newgrounds era. I think they’re deliberately dialing up the gore and violence - sometimes flippantly and sometimes seriously - in the same way that Newgrounds artists did
I think video games in particular have been doing this for a lot longer than TV shows have been - since even the original Doom was meant to be transgressive and shockingly violent. but I think it’s part of the same zeitgeist that led to shows like The Boys - it’s just that video games were able to get started much earlier than TV shows were, for whatever reason. maybe censorship for video games has historically been more lax than for TV shows, and only recently has TV show censorship been relaxed
but I think that now that so much popular media is doing this Newgrounds thing, people will get jaded to it over time and things will calm down
(the only alternative that I can think of is that art naturally gravitates toward extreme violence, and censorship is the only thing that stops it from going there, but I don’t like that possibility because it gives censorship a reason for being)
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@nina_kali_nina it starts with a parasite crawling into your eyesocket and about 10 minutes later you pull someone’s brain out of their exposed skull, and overall the violence feels extremely over-the-top to me, while also being flippant about how over-the-top it is. like it has all the gore of a horror game but it’s also got that slightly goofy lighthearted D&D tone
there’s also full nudity in the game and the character creator lets you customize your genitals, and there’s a lot of sex including (I’ve heard) bestiality with a druid in bear form. I think this part is great btw! but it’s also much more than I would ever expect a mainstream video game to have
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@ricko I loved the experience of healing in dungeons in WoW. if WoW wasn’t $15/month I would probably still regularly do that just because it feels so good to help others stay alive - and there’s no other game with healing that feels like WoW healing. often in hero shooters or MOBAs you’re expected to do a lot more than just healing, but in WoW I always felt like I could only heal and still be extremely useful to my team, and I love that
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ricko@tech.lgbt@kasdeya This is exactly why I pretty much always mained a Priest in WoW. When I wanted to solo, I switched to Shadow. When I wanted to do a dungeon or raid, I switched to Holy and got insta-queued for everything. (I never PvPed, so I never went Disc.)
I was never a truly great healer, but I was good enough to get even the worst LFGs through basically any dungeon. In LFR, I was never the best healer, but never the worst.
I didn't worry too much about mana efficiency or HPS or anything like that. If the tanks stayed up, I was doing a good job. If the DPS also stayed up, I was doing an amazing job. That was the only metric I cared about.
green bars and gold swirlies go brrrrrr
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kasdeya
kasdeyaWhen You’re Free From The Burden Of Winning
I’m ngl this is how I feel playing World of Warcraft when everybody else is memorizing rotations and optimizing their gearscores or whatever
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kasdeyathere was a certain era of internet art that I think of as “the Newgrounds era” - where you have a bunch of artists who are suddenly given absolute free reign to make whatever they want, with no censorship or limitations whatsoever, after living their entire lives up to that point in a stifling environment of censorship
and because of this new freedom they of course go absolutely over-the-top on gore, sex, violence, and other types of transgression - just to revel in their newfound freedom. a great example of this is The Binding of Isaac
nowadays we still have that level of freedom on the internet, but 2026-era internet art isn’t nearly as interested in transgression or shock value because the novelty wore off
and lately I’ve been wondering if mainstream art (especially TV shows and mainstream video games) is going through its own Newgrounds era, where shows like The Boys and Peacemaker - and video games like Baldur’s Gate 3 - are going for over-the-top violence and sex and shock value simply because they can, and because they’re reveling in their freedom to do it
if so that has me hopeful that eventually mainstream media will calm down again and go back to being more thoughtful and mature and maybe dial it back down to a 5 or at least a 7, instead of being at an 11 all the time
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Hey fedi, I’m looking for precise info and hard sources for Rowling’s support of anti-trans legislation and TERF groups, especially how much HP money goes towards laws that target trans women
my mom wants to write an article about books to read instead of harry potter and needs info to explain why someone would want to look for an alternative
also you can suggest books that would fit the topic
pls boost for reach
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Unclench your jaw.
Relax your brow.
Go get a drink of water.
See if you've taken your meds
Eat something.
Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing.
Because you do.
You're a wonderful person.
And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through
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@ilobmirt hm I think I see what you’re saying! I love the Doomguy x Isabelle stuff because I already love Doomguy but now I get to appreciate him in a new way, and it adds a lot to Isabelle’s personality so that I can like her too - even though I didn’t really care about her before
and I feel like your Nintendo example works a similar way where I don’t really care about Nintendo characters but if they were all gay trans communists then I would have much more reason to lol
so I wonder if that’s what it is - adding appeal to a character that the audience recognizes, but wouldn’t otherwise be interested in?
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