"Ublacklist"
Started using an extension to blacklist sites from search results; I have about 40 blocked but "AI" slop still slips through the cracks here and there. Real problem is when the results are part of larger sites like Reddit (eugh), Pinterest etc. etc. where I'd rather not block the entire thing
Had a lot of old vhs's so a ton of the og star wars, animated hobbit, original willy wonka. I also watched the shit outta chronicles of riddick/pitch black/irobot, so even tho the movies are probably kinda poopoo in retrospect, your cool status is confirmed
Been a minute but I wanna say the Grimbeard vid is good too? He's usually pretty based
BAH GAWD IT'S SUPER HERO WITH THE STEEL CHAIR! Gohan and Piccolo as main characters?? Getting to do stuff????
only have to think about what they're saying for half a second
You're asking a lot of them here tbh
Just hit em with the "may I have your name?", certified unseelie classic
She just wanted to make sure we include Schleswig-Holstein in the roast as rightful Danish clay ofc ofc.
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2-6 PRAYERS
non specific 97 spoiler-ish
'97 included this completely correct statement, and I'm happy to say that they don't even pull a Killmonger swerve with Magneto - he gets some justice with only a little "you've gone too far Erik!" by the end. Him, Storm, & Rogue are the big heroes this time around
X-Men type setting
Remembering that bit in X-Men '97 where a justifiably pissed Rogue flew around destroying US military bases in revenge for spoiler stuff. Ofc Captain Amerikkka shows up and condescends to her about this going too far and how he's trying to "solve the problem through the proper channels". She then throws his shield over a fuckin mountain
I like it when the X-Men are allowed to be a force for change, and show that the status quo defenders are allowing atrocities to continue while they try to solve things at their preferred pace.
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I also happen to be playing a Pathfinder 2e campaign as a one piece style pirate crew fighting the world gov & capital. Much more fun than being a reactive force.
McCain was a fucking racist bastard piece of shit and comrade tumor should have killed him earlier
God I hate this fucking state, hate white liberals, hate . There's a huge population of palestinians (and arab americans in general) in MI yet not a mention of the ongoing genocide in the thread
on edge
"They got you too?"
At least the Hbomb stream raised money for a good cause (even if AoC was shit all along), this stream exists for no reason but for ghouls to soullessly pander to the youths.
I have played ttrpgs with people across the (cool) political spectrum - all the way from hardcore toothbrush stealing tankies to filthy anarchists: I don't understand how ancient beef that nobody at the table has been involved in is enough to make a fucking D&D game dissolve. Never seen something like this, though I have had to kick out creepy chuds for outing themselves saying some heinous shit.
when you just can't be bothered to read the actual text of the post
argonian main in every game, this is my favorite personally
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!debord-tired I'm so tired of the word "tankie" at this point
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
HROT, a boomer shooter set in a Soviet-era Czechoslovakia after some unspecified disaster, just released. I've seen some gameplay and read generally favorable reviews and quite like the Soviet industrial retro shooter aesthetic. Only thing that put me off is the (expected) litany of anticommunist reviews & general fan sentiment surrounding it. A slower, more Quake like shooter among the library of (very good!) fast paced boomer shooters is welcome.
rambling-about-post-USSR-opinions
This game raises the question I often come back to about whether my perspective and opinions on the USSR as a "Western" ML have merit in the face of the, lets say harsh, opinions of people who lived through the era (or at least lived in former Soviet countries).
I know the opinions of an imperial-core communist aren't worth shit in general lol, but I was wondering how y'all reconcile a pro-soviet stance and an opposing "lived experience" (yeah reactionary forces swooped in post fall but I think interrogating one's own views in the context of one's relation to imperial power is important)
Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway this was a post about a game >_>
It also has a funny horse in a gas mask! I thought it looked neat, has anybody played it or the demo?
It is available from the developers here:
massif-press.itch.io
The basic rules are available for free, or you can toss some support the devsâs way for the full version. Donât worry, you can get a plenty of mileage out of the base game, and theyâre not just paywalling all the cool stuff.
The game itself - You play elite mech pilots, the eponymous âLancersâ, under the galactic Union, a post-scarcity, post-capital body that spans hundreds of worlds. Outside the Union, however, still remain the remnants of fascism and unscrupulous capital, with various corporate states, cults, and fascist/imperial chauvinist holdouts claiming many systems outside its influence.
Lancerâs got mech combat, FALGSC, fighting unscrupulous space fascist corpro-states, fighting the corpro-states alongside striking miners, physically striking said corporate stooges with heavily modified mining mechs. Whatâs not to like?
If the idea of an RPG about revolutionaries in giant mechs taking the fight to slavers, corporations, and fascists with the use of physics defying armor and weaponry appeals to you, check it out.
(one of the writers also wrote kill six billion demons, which Iâve heard a lot of praise for but never read)
Lastly, Iâve included the foreword, which I found EXTREMELY refreshing for a tabletop game book:
âIn this book there are some fraught, difficult, or otherâ wise uncomfortable themes and content discussed. Lancer takes place in a setting recovering from millennia of cruel anthrochauvinist rule â a fascist, imperial, Earth-first ideology that had little time, space, or care to acknowledge beings or perspectâ ives that ran counter to their didactic tyranny.
We want to acknowledge that many phenomena and acts touched on in Lancer â slavery, exploitation, racism, directed hate, genocide, the stealing of indigenous land â are real phenomena, are ongoing acts of injustice and cruelty, and are not simply âfantasy" or âinteresting devicesâ to use in a roleplaying game. Their inclusion in Lancer is by no means a flippant choice, intended to be read as endorsement, or idle thought.
We think it important also to acknowledge that both Tom and I are writing from the perspective of straight, cis, able-bodied men. When writing Lancer, we wanted to create a setting where humanity is â in the narrative present â at once in a state of utopia and working to affect it. We imagine that Union isnât burdened by the same cultural definitions of gender that oppress and malign so many people who live under the umbrella of capitalism and empire and, as such, there is a wide spectrum of expression and identity in Union and among its constituent worlds.
At the risk of enacting further violence by depicting worlds and cultures where there are regressive or discriminatory stances on gender baked-in, we have decided not to codify in the rules how players may express themselves â please do note that this absence of canonical definition is absolutely not meant to be read as exclusion, but is meant instead to avoid flattening all possible stories into one âcanonâ definition of what it means to be gendered, transgender, nonbinary â to have a body in Lancer. We encourage you to play your characters how you see them, and consider them to be in-canon.
We hope that you create narratives and characters that stand against terrible abuses and prejudices. Lancer features no easy aliens to pass these transgressions upon, only other human beings; humanity alone are the architects of terrible cruelties, but we can also be the architects of better, more just futures and presents. [...]
We believe that ideas of liberation, of radical antifascism and anti-hate, can begin around the table with friends and end in the streets, at the ballot box, and in all of our hearts. Sometimes around the table with friends is the only place where liberation â where fighting back â can happen. This does not diminish the impact that it can have.
Thatâs why we made Lancer: to help people fight back, if nowhere else then around the table with friends.
In solidarity, Miguel Lopez and Tom Parkinson Morganâ