@revoluciana @kimlockhartga Tolkien himself thought about this and regretted his portrayal of the orcs in the end:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_moral_dilemma

The entire idea of "racial alignments" is subconsciously satisfying to imperial/colonist cultures because it echoes the same colonialist mythos that justifies living on/benefiting from stolen land. Once you see it, it's super uncomfortable, and since it caught on so broadly, it's everywhere.

Why is it okay to sneak up on and preemptively execute Ganon's minions in Breath of the Wild? "They're invaders, and evil, right?" Well, that's the Hylian story. But they clearly have cultures (no coincidence borrowing aesthetics from real human cultures considered "primitive" and colonized in the real world). Several areas of the world are even pretty clearly their homelands, whatever we might claim about central Hyrule. It's okay to show up and murder them all with no warning because "they'd attack me without warning if they saw me first?" Okay, but you're a known serial killer who stalks and kills on sight, of course they'd attack you. That logic works both ways.

The parallels with the Pope declaring all regions not in Europe okay to colonize because they were only inhabited by "infidels" and "pagans" (who were okay to enslave, even) are strong.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_doctrine

i wish all pharma execs a very luigi mangione

Rustacean-only poll: are you poly / practicing ethical non monogamy?

Underrated non-sexual kink: Making people happy

breathing exercises aren't enough I need to explode

#Sega #Dreamcast #Homebrew #Programming book is almost finished, I got 4 more days of spit shining to do. Content is there, I'm just polishing everything for 9/9. Im definitely gonna cross 500 pages because I still have a lot of images to add, and I'm at 475 right now.

11 damn years working on this, I cannot fucking wait to be done with this. Whoooo boy. #Book #gamedev #retrogaming

"Independence" is the greatest tool the capitalists have at prying apart the workers. Kiss your homies goodnight and forge a bond that cannot be broken

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme

being disabled in the united states is fucking exhausting

The most important thing I can tell you about writing or any other creative pursuit is this:

Give yourself permission to do it and don't worry about being "good" at it.

Life is short. Creativity is joyful. Just do it! Have fun. Muck about.

If you stick it out, you can get good at it over time, if that's important to you — but it doesn't have to be.

You can just play with creativity for the pure joy of it, too.

If it brings you joy, do it.

#Art #Creativity #Writing

i think i should replay parasite eve

@kasdeya we like when entities have several names, to be used in different contexts

it gives a kind of ritualistic je ne sais quoi to identity that we rather liked, but without the attachment to a belief system

i finally gold staked black deck shoutout to the cavendish that got hit with polychrome from the only wheel i decided to spin

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