I suppose. Honestly, it was already kind of risky anyway, which I guess is why it feels stupid and petty to me. I knew already it’d be an enclosed space where almost nobody is wearing a mask - but god this puts it over the line for me no matter how desperate I am for IRL community with the sort of people I’ve been drawn to my entire life.
This is comically bad and honestly is much faster than I thought they’d go with this shit. I’m not really sure what to do now besides becoming a full hermit.
Fuck. I really wanted to start going to the goth club near my house. Petty complaint, obviously, I might end up getting disabled or killed by this, but fuck I was just about to start doing that.
Ah, yes, let’s just pre-emptively censor everything to appease the right-wing lunatics who crave a return to the American 1950s that exists only in their fucking minds, to the good old day of God and Family and Women in their Proper Place and No Queers and No Blacks and No Hispanics and No Autists and No Mentally Ill and No Homeless only Good White Christian Families doing Good White Christian things.
The cisheteropatriarchy is never going to accept people who do not adhere to it’s unachievable horrendous norms, no matter how clean and pure and pre-censored everything is. Pornographic material is always the canary in the fucking coal mine, and this was a direct attack on literally the least harmful form of pornographic material that has none of the fucking issues with exploitation and coercion as live-action porn - nobody is hurt by pornographic video games! People like you just refuse to give up the position of Morality Police making sure that all artistic and cultural products stay within your lanes of ‘culturally acceptable’ - you fundamentally agree with fascists like these people, you just nitpick the details.
Those 1% would’ve likely done it anyway, with or without the game. It also needs to be said that the vast majority of cis men who go on to sexually assault people aren’t playing porn video games anyway, they’re incredibly niche and in my experience are played by a roughly 50/50 split of archetypal mentally disabled people who aren’t going out enough to sexually assault anyone (like myself in the past) and queer people. The choking problem doesn’t come from porn video games, it comes from the intensely exploitative live-action porn industry, which is not in any way comparable to video games or any other type of animated pornography.
In my experience the majority of people who engage with rpe-kink (god I hate the filtering here) are rpe-victims, such as myself. It is a way of processing and reclaiming the trauma, and rendering the idea of r*pe so fuckin taboo that it cannot be processed and dealt with through kink is horrible practice that does nothing but make the lives of many victims a lot harder. Speaking from experience.
There’s nothing wrong with having a kink for SA anyway, which is the target market of games like that. 99% of the people who play those games aren’t going to turn around and go and sexually assault someone, this is the same logic as claiming that video games cause violence when they demonstrably do not.
Oh, fuck off. Schizophrenic people are almost never violent against anyone but themselves - advocating for the forced imprisonment of schizophrenic people in any context is completely unacceptable behavior for anyone who wants to call themselves a communist.
There’s no need to hero worship this guy. It’s not like his actions actually accomplished anything anyway. Adventurism is bad, and I’m not shocked that this guy had idiotic positions on ableism and nuerodivergency.
This is not true - allistic people are in fact real. The ‘Autism spectrum’ only refers to differing severity of various ‘symptoms’ in specific individuals, as each autistic person is unique. That term was never meant to imply that ‘we’re all a little bit autistic’ or whatever, that is simply categorically false, Autistic people are a distinct nuerotype from Allistic people, and that material and psychological distinction is the reason for our social oppression by allistics.
Read the article challenge:
This happened when he left Interplay, it has nothing to do with Bethesda. Not that I am a fan of their treatment of Fallout in the slightest, but this kind of thing is standard industry practice, not ‘vindictiveness’ on the part of Bethesda.
In fairness, the headline is very misleading, makes it seem like he’s not talking about like 20 year old events.
Dragon Ball Online did a lot of this stuff - Toryiama actually wrote the plot outline for it, it was set several hundred years in the future, featuring ancient Piccolo and Master Roshi still being around and stuff like that, and Dende, but otherwise all new people besides occasional exceptions for the time-travel heavy main plot - but gameplay wise it was very much the typical MMO.
For the record, your posts on this subject are a breath of fresh air. It’s so tiring seeing all the idiots on this website tripping over themselves to justifying their continued desire to lionize this guy.
Mostly all He/Hims too, but I doubt pointing that out would be taken very well. What a shocker that it’s he/hims that have no issue with their favorite special ‘heroic’ twink of the day being a reactionary acclerationist.
Only two, neither of which lasted longer than a week. I am very disabled and very lucky in that I can get away with not working - currently shooting for disability payments.
According to the 2020 census, Asheville’s population is 10% African American, 8% Hispanic, 4.5% mixed race, 0.6% ‘some other race’, 0.27% Pacific Islander, and 0.26% Native American.
That’s a full 25% of the population that aren’t ‘kkkrackers’, and god only knows how many of them, including the aforementioned ‘kkkrackers’, are deeply marginalized in other ways - being queer, nuerodivergent, disabled… being a member of any marginalized group in an area like Appalachia isn’t easy, and now this flooding has destroyed all their lives just as much as it’s made the ‘kkkrackers get soggy.’
Be serious. It’s a natural disaster in an extremely poor area by American standards. It’s not just fucking over a bunch of rich white people.
You’re close, but missing some details - the mass quantities of milk didn’t come to be for no reason, it was a massive increase of production during WW1. The US made a shitload of condensed milk to feed both their soldiers, and, more importantly, exported a whole bunch of it to the Entente.
After the war demand naturally crashed but all the facilities and logistics for this production still existed, and the Department of Agriculture didn’t want the dairy industry to crash, and they didn’t want all that industrial capacity to go away in case of another war where they needed a bunch of condensed milk again.
So, they put out a big propaganda campaign promoting this stuff to home consumers, and naturally, this led to a increase in popularity for more normal forms of milk as well - this compounded on itself over the next few decades with additional advertisement campaigns - both government backed and those backed by the dairy industry - to promote milk more. By the 50s/60s milk-drinking reached it’s peak, and because of the popularity over multiple decades it just kind of got culturally ingrained - particularly for children, but adults still drink a lot of milk too, although the numbers have been going down recently.
That’s the big picture cultural reason - as a mayo American myself, I drink milk because I like the taste and texture.
Speak for yourself? There’s nothing special about being blood related. I would absolutely do it, if I had any practical reason to, which I do not, would be a horrible decision. My family never loved me, after all, so I naturally am not inclined to extend them any special status or care.
If it’s a thin, fast-food style burger, I usually eat it crown down.
If it’s a thicker restaurant or home-make burger, I usually eat it heel up.
I have no idea why I do it this way, but this is my main pattern.
In my case it almost feels like my body’s reaction to heat has a screwed-up sense of how hot things are. I can’t take hot showers, for example, which are objectively not dangerous, because they genuinely feel like they are going to burn me - normal-hot-shower temperature water feels like like a wet hot pan, it’s like my cap is just lower. Ambient heat in the air and light doesn’t do that in the same way, but it can make walls and stuff feel like that, naturally.
I hadn’t thought of it from the overstimulation angle before, though, but now that I think about it I think you’re right, that is at least part of why I hate ambient heat and particularly sweating. Thank you for that insight.
No, they do not, and most of them aren’t willing to understand, either.
People, or at least NT people, with higher temperature tolerance are almost always assholes about it - I have weird heat sensitivity, I suspect on account of my Autism, and I only stopped getting constant shit for it once I basically entirely stopped talking to NTs.
The people in this thread are just seizing on an excuse to shit on people they perceive as weaker, or an excuse to shit on the English as if they are actually inherently evil just by existing. Or both.
None of those games are RPGs, the only sonic RPG is Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood and probably a bunch of RPGMaker fangames of varying quality. The rest of the GBA/DS Sonic Games were 2D platformer Sonics of varying degrees of similarity to the genesis titles
I demand a return of downvotes specifically so I can downvote this horrendous take
Yes, but his presence incidentally helped some political prisoners do a revolution and then he blew up the planet anyway.