I'm still having laughing fits from his post, so sorry if there's typos in this.
I think what he's getting at is that all furry porn is gay bathhouse sex orgies, with slightly more literal bears. It's hyper-male-sexuality in the sense of bro-y casual sex where the guys drink beer and lose their keys fisting each other.
If characters are sexual they are grotesquely so, with comically large sex organs and insatiable appetites (again often literally, because eating each other is sexualized too). Non-sexual characters literally don't exist somehow, because the scenes bounce from frat party to shower room to bdsm club to meat grinder. Even the straight porn is gay male hyper-stimulus. All the furry transsexuals you see dress as bimbos and get enormous fake breasts because his fetish is at its core a hyper-male autogynophilic fixation.
And on the other hand your typical loli book has an awkward girl who looks like a potato thinking about her feelings for 30 pages (or 60 chapters if it gets serialized). She is possibly caught in a love triangle between her kindly vampire English tutor and a dark and handsome werewolf delinquent who rescued her from bullies on his motorbike. One or both of these relationships may be socially forbidden, heightening the emotional tension. When they finally have sex there will be closeups of hand-holding and flowers in the screentone background.
The way he said it is guaranteed to upset both sides (which is why it's so hilarious), but the basic truth behind it is undeniable.
Every time I see furry artists cancelling each other because one of them drew a guy fucking a cartoon dog that was only 17 years old in one of the Nickelodeon spin-offs, I become even more grateful that foxy Maid Marien didn't groom me as a toddler.
Wouldn't even have such a problem with furries if they'd stick to their own communities and leave the rest of us to play Blue Archive in peace. But the number of furry communist they/thems who do nothing but witch-hunt for artists who drew, said, or thought something "problematic" makes the entire community too toxic to coexist with. I can't imagine how awful it is to actually be a part of it.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Working here again now after a few hours of "whoopsie you broke reddit uwu" error messages
It looks like they finally disabled old.reddit, which was the only thing keeping it usable (sidebar features, the comments feed, etc.)
(It started working again after ~6hrs. Maybe a test run to check how much user engagement would fall off, maybe just a fuck up)
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Something only just occurred to me about that. If it's a crime to make an agreement with a bank about the value of your property as collateral, how is it not a crime to straight up lie about the prospects of a startup?
A bunch of people here probably have NVGs or thermal optics of some kind. I was hunting caterpillars the other day and got curious if they're as well-camouflaged outside the visual spectrum.
Can anyone check? I would literally comb through my cabbage patches decked out like a rainbow 6 character if it helped kill these bastards.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Interesting, that's a surprise. I know a lot of eligible people who either just don't file or don't bother to take the credit (because it's tiny for single people and probably audit-bait).
Guess I have a biased sample
Thanks, I'd heard rumors that was the case, but no evidence.
They need to take lessons from Hamas and intertwine their procurement with humanitarian groups. Mossad can't make your stuff explode if it was bought by the red cross and half the pagers went to the Charity Home For Puppies and Photogenic Orphaned Children Who Don't Want Their Dicks Blown Off
SteveKirk
2mo ago
I'm compiling a list of screenshots and links on my laptop to do an effort post on this. Will need to get a password reset or something so I can log in on there (don't know my motte password, just permanently logged in on phone)
But if you want to find it first it should be the most recent post where he mentions both cats and Medicare. Think twitter search still works for that, unless they've changed it again.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Totally agree. We have so many annoying cats that, frankly, only a bigot would be against eating a few of them, dont you think?
SteveKirk
2mo ago
I've been thinking all evening of what to say to this, and I just can't. How do you even see the responses to this and come to this conclusion? How do you watch lib journalists deny the Haitians even exist, falling back to more and more desperate lies as the truth comes out, and still turn this into "lying Republicans pounce"
Yglesias literally posted a rant about how it doesn't matter if it's true because Republicans "want to destroy Medicare", so people should lie or ignore it for Harris's sake.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
It's a lot of fun sharing stuff with people. The first time Steve Sailer dropped a like made my whole day.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Do you believe Wikipedia's list is fair? That's what matters for picking a source from it. My opinion about the list doesn't mean anything if I'm wrong about it (and by extension the quality of ProPublica)
SteveKirk
2mo ago
That's why I said to pick a green outgroup source from this objective list to avoid any bias on my part.
Sounds like a great idea! Why not fisk any outgroup news article that's from the same tier as ProPublica on Wikipedia's "reliable sources" list. That should make it a fair comparison, right?
(That's "generally reliable for all purposes because it has an excellent reputation")
Can't wait to read your post, am sure it will be just as insightful as the OP.
Having sex with a teen hooker in New Jersey is trashy. Having sex with an imported young callgirl on a private island makes you a man of wealth and taste (and connections), which is the whole lure of these exercises.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Depends how they inserted the pagers. Did they rig a specific batch bought by the Hezbollah office supplies department? Or did they send them to a reseller "known to supply to Hezbollah"?
If it was done the second way a lot of these could have been sold to totally random people.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Fortunately a lot of Australian food can walk in flocks for quite surprising distances! They wouldn't even have to become nomads
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Is the factorio expansion looking promising? Stuff like the quality modules seemed like a visit from the ☼Good Idea Fairy☼
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this includes people who just didn't file at all
At one point post-war euros were struggling to encourage 2nd shift factory work. Maybe it's a holdover from that.
Edit: and not-post-war too, re. Hitler. I remember hearing a lot of German factories were running one shift even during the war. Admittedly probably half due to material shortages and supply chain problems, but they could have been doing some extra labour substitution.
SteveKirk
2mo ago
Remind me to post about the new "training" requirements dem states are imposing on blue collar workers that used to run on apprenticeship+ license testing. You can probably already imagine what they are and the motivations for them.
Very soon going into skilled labor will be as locked down as going to college.
Been meaning to try writing about this, but it always comes out as old man yelling at clouds.
When I was a kid there was a ton of autistic joy in civ micromanagement, building recycling tanks in every city, telling which pop to work which forest tile to minimize overlap with other cities, you know the stuff.
My enjoyment of that has really soured as I've gotten older and peeked behind the curtain of optimization and gameplay loops to see what pointless busywork it all was.
Like early civ games gave you all these tools to play with, and every late-game turn ten year old you would spend hours clicking through dozens of bases to build them the new nanotech hospital you just researched.
But playing "optimally" actually meant not building any of that stuff, and tiling the map with an ICS grid of size 3 cities running free market economies for per-tile bonuses.
So optimal play is tedious and unexciting, and my casual play was just a baby hitting shiny buttons on a busyboard.
Dwarf fortress is an even better example because it throws the player into a mass of absurdly complex systems that often don't even work.
Players larp at optimizing and copy-paste received wisdom over and over on reddit: "hammers are good against undead because blah blah." When someone does real testing and reveals that blunt weapons are bugged and useless it doesn't stop the bad advice, because those people were only engaging the game mechanics like a kid playing alone with action figures and giving them cool +5 maces of smiting.
Multiplayer games don't get away with this because you're trying to out-think a person; there's still an evolving meta in StarCraft Brood War 26 years after it came out. But most of these complicated single player games now look to me like (at best) a tool to play with your imagination under someone else's constraints, or (at worst) cookie clickers with a lot of makeup on.
That's why I've stopped playing them to make time for other hobbies. Now if you'll excuse me, there's a cloud outside that doesn't know its place.
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