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[politijohn]

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Some good news!

[cash4bees]

I think the reason I still enjoy tumblr is that even though this all still pisses me off, I know that anything that makes me mad on here is 100% earnest. It's not ragebait or engagement farming, y'all are actually just that stupid sometimes

[desolendate]

im literally in tears what the fuck

[petitworld]

Lotus lake in Kyungju, South Korea

[sofuton]

[flebus]

being OCpilled is so fucking mortifying honestly. like oh... yeah..... heres my guy. i invented him. i can't think about anything else except for him this week. but he isn't cool or anything. he actually sucks. im just ill.

[cyborg-prince]

im trying not to be too heated abt this, but why, when *I* ask about being a lead, i’m told this whole spiel about a new 4 week training program that will be “very frustrating and very stressful”, that basically just because someone is good at their job (me) that doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll be good in a leadership position….and that I need to prove myself…which is a bit valid, I do tend to be reserved and could take more initiative.

but then. BUT THEN we have our *worst* performing team member, whose *only* pro is that he is almost always available to cover for a call off, whom everyone. EVERYONE on the team is freaking out over the possibility of him being an authority over us, basically demand to be a lead, and they just. let him start training…let him start leading certain shifts…but with me it feels like they were trying to scare me off the position? you know what actually……fuck you im just gonna clock in and out and not waste my time and energy trying to prove anything to you…since it clearly doesn’t matter for a man… : )

[i-fuck-audis]

MY FUCKING CAR

[chadzia-deactivated20180101]

No reason why the next Overwatch character can’t be a Greek Orthodox priest

this post is so important

[jizzfrosti]

Tracer:Alright everyone, lets show em what we’re made of

His Holiness Father Stelios:

[sleepytroll]

[cyborg-prince]

ax manages to find some way to torment ppl every year its actually incredible

[cipheramnesia]

Do you think the doctors in charge of Mitch McConnell's body and organs are like having a huge debate like, who gets to be the lucky guy to pull his life support? Is he an organ donor? I think if you told a bunch of guys one of them would get to hack up McConnell's corpse and pull out his guts, they'd start a fistfight to see who got the privilege. Imagine getting to put Mitch McConnell's heart into an incinerator. What a thrill!

[sirilyan]

I’m going to ask for some elaboration, because I’m not sure what’s supposed to be thrilling about throwing a rock into a fire.

[cipheramnesia]

It's what he would have wanted - McConnell has always backed fossil fuels.

[ot3]

The video game history foundation has just finished scanning every copy of the neopets magazine and added it to their archive. Super cool!

Why we scanned every issue of Neopets The Official Magazine | Video Game History Foundation

It might be a little silly, but Neopets Magazine is an important slice of a different part of gaming culture.

During its four-year run, Neopets Magazine covered the latest news and strategies for the influential 2000s-era web game. It also had a lot of articles about Neopets merchandise and trading cards. In fact, it’s mostly ads for Neopets products. Or long articles about Neopets lore. At best, it is mostly an off-topic magazine. So why did we focus on this magazine of our archive? Simple: it’s about the game’s audience. Neopets was, arguably, the defining girl game of the 2000s. An entire microgeneration of girls got their start in the world of digital entertainment by raising virtual pets and playing Flash games to get Neopoints. [...] Notably, many of the magazine’s articles are about creativity and customization. There’s shades in here of the gameplay styles that have become more popular in the last decade with the rise of cozy games and farming sims. My favorite quirk of Neopets Magazine is in the audience survey that came with some issues. In one survey question, they asked whether readers bought this magazine at a clothing store! That would have reached a completely different audience than we usually associate with game magazines. Can you imagine PC Gamer being sold at a Charlotte Russe? The point is that Neopets The Official Magazine represents a different slice of gaming culture, one that we know matters to researchers and to our extended community.

[softwaring]

made a pride flag using landscape photos ive taken <3

[captain-price-returns]

[transmechanicus]

Revealing the ignorance of my youth here, but who is this and what is she known for?

[boybeetles]

Anita Sarkeesian, feminist who interpreted media under a feminist lens. She did a series about video games and she was the subject of targeted harassment. That was the start of gamergate

[flurrin]

Minor correction, the start of gamergate was based around a different reporter, Zoe Quinn, but they were both absolutely violently threatened over their involvement in video game criticism and development. A hate campaign was started by Quinn's ex-boyfriend when he wrote a post falsely accusing them of dating video game journalists in order to receive positive reviews on their own game, Depression Quest, which led other bad actors to accuse all women in the industry (Zoe identified as female at the time) of perceived sexual immorality. Anita Sarkeesian's brilliant Youtube series Tropes vs Women in Video Games (which everyone should watch, right now) sparked a particular nerve for criticizing popular games of killing and/or victimizing any important female character (there is a CHILLING bit that borders on ludicrous where she describes the plots of a seemingly endless parades of games as "In [title], [male player character's] wife dies, and you then have to rescue [his] daughter."). That series did actually make a huge change in the industry, especially when touted by progressive legacy developers like Tim Schafer (Monkey Island, Psychonauts), who went on to expand hiring in his company to front women and minority voices, but the shift didn't really show for a long time and echoes of the sexism that plagues the industry at its core are still rampant.

[crazy-pages]

In all seriousness, if you live in the US and you aren't familiar with the misogynistic harassment these people in the game industry faced during Gamergate, you need to watch this series right now.

This was the beggining of the current form of the US fascist movement and it underpins the entire thing about it to this day. If you live in the US and Gamergate isn't familiar to you, you're missing critical history to understanding US fascism. I'm not joking even a little bit here, you will understand modern United States fascism so much better if you are familiar with Gamergate.

[cumaeansibyl]

Not an exaggeration. Gamergate led directly to the redpill/incel movement, which white supremacists exploited and colonized. Not to say that most of the white men in those movements weren't already racist to some extent, but that wasn't an active part of their politics until white supremacist recruiters came along and convinced them that the women ruining their videogames were part of the conspiracy to destroy the white race.

That's a very brief summary but you can go back step by step over the past decade and see how they did it.

[goingrampant]

Robert Evans, the host of anarchist podcast Behind the Bastards, suggests in his book chronicling the history of American neo-Nazism that Gamergate was, from the ground up, a neo-Nazi recruitment tool. Considering the antisemitic memes suggesting Anita Sarkeesian is Jewish (she's of Armenian-Iraqi descent), I'd believe it.

[whizpurr]

[men-iss-vess-ull-deactivated202]

when the ogre I hired to guard the castle complains that the longsword I gave him requires a level of control and finesse he isn't used to