Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
3d ago
True on the witches stuff, Shrek 2 is basically Witches Abroad.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
Apparently there's a complaint among actual lesbians that their dating market is flooded with self-described queer women, whom they quickly find aren't actually particularly attracted to women or interested in sex with them, they just want to cuddle, do girly stuff, and talk about how much they hate men.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
He's an absolute mindblower if you're a teenager, though.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
Any of the following are good places to start:
Pyramids
Guards!Guards!
Wyrd Sisters
Reaper Man is good but it's best to read Mort first
Skulldrinker
15d ago
It also happened shortly after Anita and Feminist Frequency had gotten the pot nice and stirred up.
Skulldrinker
15d ago
Yeah, that's kinda GG all over. The horrible toxic gamergate harassers were all anonymous randos, while all the anti-team's lying propaganda and victim playacting came from, well, Named Elites with fancy health bars.
Ultimately, gamers as a community were test subjects for outrage-click journalism. In the lead up to GG, outlets and individual actors were discovering that if you shit on nerds, half of them will get mad at you, and the other half will knuckle under and get mad at the first half to prove they're "one of the good ones." Before white guilt was found to be WAY more volatile and easy to extract, they were going after nerdy male guilt.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
It was billed as "Inclusive" speed dating. They had other events that were "queer-only," and I think I saw one that was explicitly masks-mandatory. One event was called "baby queer speed friending." There's really no particular reason that queerness has any connection to being a maskie, but of course the two are highly correlated.
It's apparently normal enough that I was the only person at the event to roll their eyes and make a snarky comment about it. I only went because it was the most local and least scammy-looking speed dating org in the area. In one night I had three conversations that went hobbies->books->fantasy->"JKR is such a disgusting bigot."
Skulldrinker
19d ago
West side Chicago.
Skulldrinker
19d ago
The effects of slightly more COVID deaths would have been way less visible in people's lives than the effects of long-term lockdowns turned out to be, and scared people could have just stayed home; work from home could have continued for email people without lockdowns.
They could have just ended the lockdowns after two weeks like they said they would. Or after doctors declared COVID was less dangerous than racism. Or after the vaccines became available. Instead they waited til May 2023, and by that point maskies had become subculture; I still see maskies every day. I tried going to fucking speed dating last year, and they handed out masks and required proof of vaccination.
In the mirror universe, is there a subculture of people in perpetual mourning for those who died from COVID? They'd be indistinguishable from goths.
Skulldrinker
21d ago
The other problem is that the Trump administration by trying to take control of the narrative and slandering the victims before their bodies were cold effectively endorsed the killings.
I'll admit, that got under my skin more than anything else. It took the typical trump lying from tiresome bullshitting buffoonery to, well, hackneyed villainy.
Skulldrinker
23d ago
I agree; gold's value is societally determined. In cases of societal collapse, your gold will just be taken off your corpse by a spike-covered guy driving a car that's also covered in spikes.
Someone buying physical gold should really be buying bullets, vitamins, and canned protein.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
Is right now (after a historic crash) a good time to buy in on silver and gold? The underlying logic still seems sound (needed for electronics, inflation/weakening USD, increased international drama)
Skulldrinker
24d ago
I found there to be an annoying number of unasked questions and unargued arguments. Given that the hivemind can't even pick fruit (never mind that the tree WANTS you to eat the apples and crap out the seeds, this still counts as harm), the virus winds up being a pesticide that kills off an entire species, but also causes the target to tidy up after itself while it dies off.
Skulldrinker
24d ago
I've never heard a leftist snarl about space IRL, and trust me, it a leftist snarls about something, I hear it.
Skulldrinker
30d ago
But punk also used to not be associated with queer pronoun covid-awareness. And politics wasn't always such a fucking interpersonal torpedo, because it didn't take up 90% of peoples' idle dialogue.
Skulldrinker
30d ago
It's an unfortunance that also applies to Magic, the Gathering. Expensive, and you'll probably be the coolest person in the room, which is not good.
Skulldrinker
30d ago
I have bent over backwards to try and host spaces for people to hang out casually and meet without much expectations but also clearance to flirt, and somehow I virtually NEVER (like, once or twice in the past year?) get invited to spaces hosted by other people.
Where do you even find single people to invite to these things? Every party I've been to in the past five years has been couples plus a few sad single dudes.
Skulldrinker
30d ago
I can't in good conscience advise you to play Warhammer. The game system itself isn't very good, and it'll put you in contact with...low-quality people. The only way to play Warhammer is to already have friends who play and join them, ideally 20+ years ago.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
It's a still a thing. I'm just comparing its presence now to 2020 and not seeing much. They been subsumed by generic normie protesting and now I only hear about them as a boogeyman from boomers.
I thought the fiction was that they exist, but they're the good guys, it says it right there in the name.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
It's a standard badguy move to use resistance to force to justify further force with no actual reason for the initial force. It's also a standard braindead-institutional move to stay the course, grip the nettle firmly, the boldest measures are the safest, et cetera. I err towards incompetence.
They're there because of something to do with Somalis, who are almost all here legally.
The specter of AntiFa hangs heavy in the minds of conservatives; maybe there's a desire to re-litigate the last war and anti-ICE protesters can be called AntiFa with some squinting.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
I'll admit to some hyperbole there, but I'm pretty sure being a Leftist requires you to hate cops, and "I'm a Leftist and you must be one too" IS on 25% of the Hinge profiles I see.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
It's not about what cops actually do. Six years ago I had actual people I actually knew insisting that police were only invented as a concept to oppress black people and capture runaway slaves. People marched in the street without proper social distancing during a deadly pandemic, chanting that the police should be abolished (yes, sanewash that into "reform" all you want, that's what the people who claimed to speak for the movement said they wanted). 25% of all women's dating profiles have ACAB in them to this day.
Nevermind the attention from women he'd get when out in uniform.
Gotta double-check on that one. Their Hinge profiles are full of ACAB and I personally heard some woman I know talking about finding out her date was a cop and getting the ick.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
It's not even Red America being shit on, it's White People in general or Men in general. Sometimes they complete the trifecta and complain about Straight people. Since I'm the person they're talking to, I honestly can't tell if they're telegraphing that I should go away, or they just think this is how people interact.
Regardless of who the target is, it's still a fucking unhealthy and unbecoming amount of open vitriol for the people who claim they're all about Empathy/Niceness/Inclusivity.
It's funny you mention Tropic Thunder, this came up at work the other day.
two zoomers got all huffy because
Yes, it's a movie making fun of movies, the joke is that it's in bad taste.
No, I do know the history, I just don't think anyone was genuinely emotionally scarred by that film. People have just been told they're supposed to get mad when they see a pale face with something dark smeared on it.
That's what slipped out before I shut myself up, because I have to work with these people for a while. Downright disheartening.
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