Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
15hr ago
I thought wokescolding was invented during the protestant reformation.
Skulldrinker
16hr ago
Why would you do medical testing on a robot that doesn't have blood or organs? And why would it be a super-hacker?
Skulldrinker
16hr ago
Side thing: Why does the robot act like a little girl? Is it a cynical programming to make her an appealing product? No, I don't think cyberwarfare barefooted child robots are a consumer product.
My understanding is the game's story isn't really that deep or philosophical, so I'll do its own work for it. The android actually is a little girl; this is how you properly align an AGI, base it on human neural architecture and make it live life as a human. After X amount of time in an infant chassis, swap it to a cute little girl chassis, eventually give it an adult body. Then you've got a "Digital Native" artificial mind that can intuitively manipulate and hack technology while also identifying with and liking humans.
Kinda like in that shitty film The Creator.
Skulldrinker
17hr ago
The baby you carry in the game is actually a girl.
But the baby Madds is talking to in the 3-hour-cutscenes is his son, you, the Norman Reedus.
Skulldrinker
17hr ago
God Of War 4/Dad of Boy
Skulldrinker
17hr ago
If anything, the Pragmata "controversy" is an example of seeing the fake and gay culture war strings getting yanked in real time, or whatever metaphor you want, something something outrage farming, something something grifting. People say intentionally-outrageous things to get clicks, regardless of if it furthers their own stated ideological goals or even their reputation, because clicks are the sole aim.
This controversy has two elements to it: the pedo thing and the pro-family thing.
The pedo thing is just a cost of making anything with children in it, sorta like how anything anthro unfortunately attracts furries. Yes, they made the little girl very pretty. The bare legs/feet makes for a distinctive silhouette, but that also draws attention to her physicality. (Apparently pedos are really into feet, legs, and specifically the backs of knees, but that's precisely because those are parts of children's bodies that are typically exposed to view). Getting up in arms about accusing it of being a pedo game is someone actively trying to create generic moral panic outrage when there isn't any. If I run into someone in real life who goes off on an unprompted rant about how gamers are pedos and Pragmata is Incel Pedo Gamergate Misogyny Racism, I'll update my opinion and be disappointed.
The other element is a Hassan Piker line about how gamers (a lot of his audience and periphery audience, the guy is on Twitch) are pathetic losers something something. It's just outrage bait from an outrage baiter, what's annoying is that this naked-outrage-baiter hyperconsumerist grifting socialist gay-baiting himbo nepo-e-celeb gets fawned over and glazed by the NYT.
Socialists/Marxists shitting on the concept of the nuclear family isnt a good look for them, it annoys normies and sane people. Reminding normies that abolishing the family is technically on the Marxist platform is bad tactics when socialism is supposed to just mean "the government does nice things."
Skulldrinker
1d ago
The impression I have of fascist vs communist regimes is that unless you're a Jew or equivalent designated enemy category, the fascists will be satisfied with your lack of dissent, mostly you just don't get promoted over Party Members. Communist regimes extort ideological compliance out of the populace and expect you to, well, Signal your Virtue.
I'm sure there are all manner of counter-examoles from both directions, of course. "Regime" isn't a word with positive connotations.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
I don't think there's much of a connection between the dissent-suppression of communist regimes and the dissent-suppression of leftist wokescolding. The latter has more in common with busybody church folk, and bitchy high-schoolers of whatever gender. That they both use Marxist gobbledygook is...a coincidence? A historical artifact? Orthogonal? One of those.
Skulldrinker
3d ago
Because a conservative woman who isn't already married is a "Pick Me!" who's after hotter guys than me.
Because I don't want to listen to Jesus talk any more than I want to listen to BLM ACAB LGBTQ et cetera talk.
Because I no longer use online dating after going through a summer where 95% of my arranged dates flaked or ghosted me the day of the date, and this included the people I'd met IRL, and the only ones who turned up were obese or had all the personality of wet styrofoam.
Skulldrinker
4d ago
No, you do not, not in this case. It doesn't particularly stand out as anything other than proof to them that so many men are racist fascist orange man supporters.
Also, apparently listing "moderate" or "not political" are also regarded by women as proof of being a sexist racist transphobic bad person.
As in, made up?
I don't think normie westerners think in terms of things being "satanic" or not. Do you mean in the actual IRL church-of-satan sense, or the Satanic Panic sense? Or do you mean bizzarro-verse inverse Christian values?
Either way, all the satanic iconography and tropes are basically fanfiction.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
What about Pathological Altruism?
Skulldrinker
5d ago
How is a major metro area "hicklib?"
Skulldrinker
5d ago
I'm not looking for conservative, I'm looking for someone who doesn't ask me what my pronouns are.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
Chicago.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
I'm my area, the women demand that you are also a leftist and/or communist. Sometimes every single Hinge prompt in their profile is something political.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
I really only use it for a second opinion on homebrew RPG mechanics, and I noticed just these past two weeks it's much less coherent; it will imagine nits to pick and can't keep straight if something is positive or negative. I'm happy to just stop using it, frankly.
Skulldrinker
9d ago
People have been trying to present alternative-ideal role-models for masculinity for decades with nothing to show for it apart from softbois and performative males in the white population.
The Cosby Show didn't fix black guys, nor did all of Will Smith's oscar-bait drama films, and I don't think Tyler Perry has made much of an impact either. Even the determined black scholar archetype has become a racial-grievance-monger.
Skulldrinker
10d ago
Exactly. Waiting a measly 2.75 years seems a much better tactic for anyone who cares about long-term victory for their cause, especially since the Mickey17 assassination attempt is probably what secured Trump's last victory.
Yes, but those women all hate men unless they're gay.
I'm quite serious about this; the great proportion of the biological women who got into D&D, 5e specifically, are walking stereotypes of leftists with all the accompanying attitudes and annoying habits. Everything they don't like is a dog-whistle for something bad, every work of art is evaluated based on how queer it is, they're all "neurodivergent" as of six months ago, they formally announce their (she/her) pronouns in casual social interactions. The first words out of one of their mouths were a tirade about how someone gatekept her and mansplained her, another one would never go on a date with a man because "she doesn't want to get assaulted", then abruptly lavished affection on some random guy when he mentioned being gay. They're surrounded by the nicest, most cautious, most overwhelmingly leftist feminist anti-racist cis men you're going to find, and have nothing but scorn for them. These weren't people I was chasing or even chatting up, this was all ambiently observed. I have worse stories about the one I chased.
It's singularly upsetting for me that my fucking hobby puts me in contact with these people whenever I interact with any part of the hobby outside of my little NuSR club.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
Is there some sort of movement to stigmatize Ozempic? I haven't heard it smeared as right-wing yet.
Skulldrinker
14d ago
So, buried in all this is some woman treating GLP1 use by her friend as some sort of personal affront and betrayal?
I've thought about trying to articulate "gay" as a pejorative with "behavior that's gone so far up it's own ass it's forgotten the original point of doing the behavior." Which is nothing to do with men who have sex with men.
Under this metric, a peackock's tail, and being part of a magic superhero team who only chases after one guy, are both completely gay.
Skulldrinker
17d ago
Yesterday I tried going to a LGS to help some friends try out wargaming (specifically Grimdark Future, the actual rules for 40K as a game are terrible). The guy who was agitating for it in the first place didn't turn up, nor did another guy. Turned out, my only day off was also the day of a tournament, so there were no available tables and I had to cancel on the one guy who would have turned up. I should have just gotten lunch instead with that guy, but I was in a miserable mood by that point and didn't want to take the risk of being unpleasant.
My miserable mood snuck up on me. The last time I'd been to that store (it has display armies you can borrow and good terrain) it was 2021. I'd seen the store's policy was that either masks OR vaccination was required, it was a little ray of hope for me that we were exiting the pandemic/lockdown conditions; my J&J card would let me sit in a basement and play plastic army dudes unmasked.
But by the time I got there, there had been a slight uptick in reported COVID cases in the city, and the store had a new sign on the door; Masks AND vaccination required. The unvaccinated need not apply.
It was, frankly, one of the reasons I stopped engaging with 40K, MtG, and ("F")LGS culture in general, even when the pandemic ended. I hated how obedient and cowed most geeks were, and how over-eager store staff was to go above and beyond on Taking COVID Seriously; normies didn't have to deal with this, they could go to their sports bars and whatever else it is normies do without wearing stupid cloth things on their faces just to soothe the anxiety of neurotic hypochondriacs who were staying home anyways.
One thing I had liked about the culture of wargaming was how mixed the culture was; blue collar and white collar, some ex-military, some artsy people, all of them united by their appreciation of chainsaw swords and Catholic Space Nazi aesthetics.
Anyways, I go back to this place in the Year of our Lord 2026, and the entire staff, and 25% of the upstairs mtg/board game clientele, are still masking up. The entire staff is also trans, for some fucking reason. At least there were no masks downstairs in the crowded basement of cis male tourneyfags, (with more racial diversity than the upstairs crowd).
It just reminded me of bad times, and how if these people had their way, those times never would have ended.
Well, the pedos did factually come out of the woodwork for this game.
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