Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
Tits/teats are animal parts.
Mantergeistmann
3hr ago
When feminists brought up these concepts, I never interpreted them as meaning that a book that fails the Bechdel test is automatically bad, nor that a book in which a female character exists only to get murdered to motivate the male protagonist is automatically bad
Whereas the only times I ever saw it used was to imply or outright state that the book/show/game was bad and wrong.
Mantergeistmann
15hr ago
Every 'Want' Has Another Person's Name In It: This one is an audit at the book level. List every named woman in your manuscript. For each one, write a single sentence saying what she wants [you think "what a person wants" can be reduced to a single sentence?? - ed.]. Then look at how many of those sentences have another character's name in them.
Funnily enough, in The Stars My Destination, the male lead fails this test. What does Gully Foyle want? Until the very very end, only two things, really: To kill Vorga (which he then has to be taught (by a woman) means "the people behind/crewing her, not the hunk of metal ship itself"), and to have Olivia Presteign. I mean, there's also a point where he wants to escape, and a point where he wants to not be on fire, but that's a temporary situation which I assume doesn't count. I guess the film "Taken" also falls into the gender reversed category, huh?
I can't actually think of a single book I've read where the pattern is as she describes it, I must say.
Mantergeistmann
15hr ago
Its especially not a free speech issue since presumably there are plenty of other organizations she could have given the money to. UNRWA, for instance, hasn't been designated a terrorist organization (that I know of), and they're kind of the official Palestinian-helping org.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
The project 2025 in dem messaging was a hallucination that had nothing to do with it.
Not nothing. A decent chunk of the messaging was verbatim quotes, some taken out of context, some not.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
For example I guess that the new Anduril Arsenal-2 navy shipyards contract in Baltimore would not have happened without this kind of post-DOGE restructuring.
I'm not so sure about that. The USN is... well, not desperate, but they're having to scale up construction massively for tbe AUKUS program, and I feel like they'd have thrown money at anyone with a decent plan and a lobbyist or two in DC.
Mantergeistmann
1d ago
I think Jack Chick used that same philosophy as a comment about the Bible and the Catholic Church in his classic Death Cookie comic tract.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
I've seen at least a few people argue "let the sports bodies decide", only to change course once those bodies disagreed with them
I love the graph of "should states decide their own laws on gay marriage?" and how it completely flips as soon as the Supreme Court weighs in.
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
If deliberate, disrespect to what many consider an important symbol of the country (and cause to doubt her loyalty). If accidental, a lack of attention to detail, knowledge, and/or care about what many consider an important symbol of the country (and cause to doubt her loyalty).
I'm inclined to think it has neither of the two above implications/interpretations, and was just a standard mistake by someone and not a big deal (how many FAITHFUL AND LOYAL politicians would have paid attention and noticed?). The fact that her campaign responded to the allegations by making a deepfake, however... well, it could have been a panic response, but it does shift my beliefs closer to "deliberate, showing a lack of respect/loyalty".
Mantergeistmann
2d ago
My understanding from the writeup is that the pamphlet group and the website being linked to are separate orgs, with the pamphlet group being the "false flag".
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
the Transgender Education Network of Texas, or TENT
How legitimate was this group? Aka how were they received/perceived/reported on prior to this latest dust-up? Is the whole thing like "linking to the DSA's policy pages", or more "linking to a fake organization that parrots the discourse of (or is at least similar to) a real one"?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
For context, I've played (and enjoyed) Bloodstained, Aria of Sorrow, Dawn of Sorrow, Order of Ecclesia, and now (through the demo) of Belmont's Curse. I have not, however, played any of the Soulslikes, where I understand making the boss run back is a significant and deliberate part of the game.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
I mean, Carmilla's design says it wasn't a rating-driven decision.
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
ME2 was debatably the last good game BioWare ever created, so that may have been some of the cracks showing before the steep descent to the depths of Veilguard.
The main storyline of ME2 (aka pretty much everything to do with Cerberus and/or the Collectors) was where Bioware's writing started its downhill tumble, so...
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
Why wouldn't you just go to the settings and enable "respawn at boss doors"?
Mantergeistmann
3d ago
By "cheat engine", are you referring to the Belmont's Curse in-game settings?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
This new Castlevania has difficulty sliders. Which I appreciate? Like, maybe I don't derive value or enjoyment from four screens of running back to a boss I died to, and prefer respawning right outside the room.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
You mean beyond the roboadvisors that are out there? I assume there will at least always be a human to rubber stamp the AI's decisions, for accountability purposes.
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
I think Rose (in game, not cover art) looks fine?
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
says in casual passing alhamdullilah and mashallah and inshallah brother
I'm unironically a fan of the phrase "X and inshallah", when used to refer to not having any damn plan. Sounds niftier than "X and pray".
Mantergeistmann
4d ago
Used to be, kind of still is, depending on the context? Can also refer to Environmentalist Commies (green outside, red inside), or pro-Palestinians (presumably watermelons were/are grown in Palestine, and the flag has red/green/black like a watermelon w/seeds?).
Mantergeistmann
5d ago
Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou
I have nothing to add, just that I always love seeing any mention of it.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
You mean the world order where one country gets to blow up neutral ships as much as they want, and not a single country lifts a finger?
Well, per the laws of the sea, it's the responsibility of the flag nations (and only the flag nations) to respond. So flagless ships have no recourse. Or are you referring to Iran striking shipping?
Or the one where one country builds hundreds of artificial islands in the ocean and harasses anyone who gets close, and not a single country lifts a finger?
Yeah, I really wish there'd be a ton more pushback here, but there's sadly pretty much zero political will. Or public knowledge.
Or maybe it's the one where one country gets to turn another into a giant open-air prison, and not a single country lifts a finger?
Which one is this? I've heard people refer to Gaza that way, but it's a pretty false description.
Mantergeistmann
6d ago
Surprised he isn't getting involved in REGENT's Seaglider ferries, then, but I guess he doesn't live anywhere they'd be useful.
Great heroes need great villains, or at least great obstacles to overcome. The stakes and challenges have to be aligned to the abilities of the characters.
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