Richard Dawkins calling himself a cultural Christian because “Christianity is a nicer religion than Islam” no you fucking moron, it’s cause you don’t live in a theocracy, have you not read a single fucking book about the Protestant reformation?!
NuAtheists discussing Christian extremism in 2006.
NuAtheists discussing trans people, muslims, or the women who accuse them of sexual assault in 2026.
What's funny is that we know from generations of experiments that human memory is ridiculously, cartoonishly malleable.
People manipulating their pictures like this are literally fucking with their memories. They will remember that event differently, because of the meddling afterwards.
Like, fuck, right wing fascists try and claim Superman, Star Trek and My Little Pony, there is no way to write a show they will not cling too. They whined about Wolfenstein being woke! You cannot read someone through art who actively works to distort reality to support genocide
I sometimes like to reflect the deep, deep, deep imprint World War 1 had on the British, like, one of their most famous cultural exports, trailing behind Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Who, is Warhammer 40k - and does 40k draw on WW2? Primarily, no! Primarily, it's pulling from the mud and trenches!
I'll just say abolishing ICE *is* the middle ground. Its existence was always extreme. They were always "baby's first death squad". Arguing that it can be fixed is utter cowardice.
Don't let them shift the Overton on issues like this. If the moral answer is not the center, then make it the center.
don't buy it, frankly. worldwide online study including baby boomers? too many biases there before you even start asking questions, surely. you'd have to survey each generation when they were the same age to compare
One reason I’m uninterested in the Platner thing is that I just watched thousands of school moms and nerdy dudes and queer people show unbreakable resolve in standing up to armed federal agents in relentless, terrifying confrontations, and thus don’t worry that my dorky affect precludes toughness
I ADORED Firefly at the time.
I could not want this less.
It doesn’t even work well for his backstory! He was partially raised by sex workers iirc!
The show, all less than one season of it, rested entirely on the shoulders of the characters, and you can't simply bring that cast back like nothing happened for a number of reasons at this point. Practically all you've got is banking your hopes on the IP itself, which okay man, best of luck I guess
if i had to pick The Most Star Wars scene in all of Star Wars, it's the imperial officers meeting in the death star in a new hope
a bunch of military guys are talking about politics, and also a wizard is there
that's it that's the franchise
ppl who still commission their favourite artists even in this era where everyone is broke and genAI is being pushed on us at every opportunity—you are appreciated more than words can express!!!
Meanwhile, Thatcher rode that war's "successes" onto more political success, allowing her to create a nightmarish hellstate that was so miserable, it created Warhammer 40,000
"wargame companies write games for competitive play primarily"
Wargame companies:
i love skaven so much
a two page spread from Must Be Tuesday Revised, showing the Connections rules for building relationships to other characters and using them to affect the Balance track. The art shows the game's sample Angel, Isaac, being hugged out of pressing the big Flood The World button by the sample demon, Tiffany
making serious progress finishing the arts for the full release of Must Be Tuesday Revived, and this one was simple but came out well
the full version will not only have all the art, but includes a bunch of new pages of guidelines, rules refinements, improved confrontation rules,
One of the crimes of AI has been the destruction of the beautiful "my nephew made this logo for me on his computer!" energy from all the hyper-local plumbers and taco shops. AI slop on white work vans is a crime against humanity.
FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.
The story of the last 25 years is that America, buoyed by the professional media apparatus, has gotten really, really good at completely defusing and ignoring mass protests that in prior eras would have been substantially more impactful
Going off the actual statistics, the protests against the Iraq War were some of the largest in history at that point - and the fact that that figure is memory holed is just another horror.
People went out, they made their voices heard...and they were buried, buried, buried
Being trans and black totally rocks but gyatt dayum is it a complete struggle. on the trans hand, i’m an acceptable target while on the black hand I’m the preferred target 😭 this intersectionality shit suuucks 😭
“US imperialism exploita US soldiers” is the “patriarchy hurts men too” of imperialism.
it decenters the actual victims, and makes invisible that while this group might sometimes get hurt, it also materially profits from the injustice and is the main group upholding it.
"Bad trigger discipline" is in that same spot as "this doesn't pass the Bechdel test" in terms of movie criticism because people have no idea what trigger discipline OR the Bechdel test's for.
Oh wow I can't believe the last girl alone with a serial killer is keeping her finger on the trigger.
Like, they most emphatically started it
Thinking about how the military primarily recruits from military families - and how...weird and culty that feels.
Anyway, there's a quote from a marine that comes to mind whenever anyone talks about "operation iraqi freedom"
shockingly people are capable of simultaneously,
1. Hating their government
2. Hating the people who bomb and sanction their country, making regular life impossible and murdering members of their family, even more
I think in the past, like, 150 years, there's been...maybe...three or four times across the ENTIRE planet where people were welcomed as liberators when they marched in and blew the place to shit.
Across literally hundreds of wars.
And even THOSE were decidedly "mixed"
"Artists peak at 30", "30 under 30", "by 30 you should" ridiculous. Arts industries capital craves young people to exploit and burn out. It doesn't want older artists thriving and guiding the young. It also doesn't want artists to exist. Stop letting cannibals tell you you only matter on a plate.
for all it matters from a bluesky gamer account like me: no war in iran. this attack is horrific and all decent people of the world must oppose it with no hesitation or equivocation about iran's government or nuclear programs. that's irrelevant to the pointless depravity of this bloodshed
