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I was innocently buying a soda and a Kit Kat bar from a snack shop recently when the cashier said, "Oh, a Kit Kat! That's what I named my cat!" and then launched into An Monologue.

Nobody was behind me in line, which seemed to be a good reason for her to treat me to a five minute retelling of the identification, rescue, and argument over initial custody of Kit Kat, who was so small they thought when they first heard him crying for help that he was a bird and not a kitten in a tree, and is now fifteen pounds of "pure, sculpted lardass".

And I didn't mind, precisely, I wasn't bored or anything, but around the time she was bringing me up to speed on Kit Kat's current status it occurred to me that this woman is a cashier in a store that primarily sells candy bars and beverages. People must buy Kit Kat bars from her multiple times a day. Does she do this every time there's nobody in line behind the purchaser? Did I just have that I Own Several Cats And Will Enjoy Your Cat Stories look about me? Was it the first time it occurred to her that she sold the brand of candy bar she named her cat after? Was she new to the job of selling Kit Kat bars?

The idea that every time she sees a Kit Kat bar she is gripped by the urge, Manchurian Candidate style, to retell the story of Kit Kat the Cat, elevates her from a friendly cashier to a deep enigma. Truly there is no knowing the mind of another.

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IT GETS FUNNIER

I was in the same snack shop, which I'm in, like, once a month, recently. I only recognized her because I spent five minutes listening to this monologue in sincere wonder. But I did recognize her, so as I was buying a soda and a Milky Way bar (this time) I said, without thinking about how this would come across, "Hey, how's Kit Kat?"

She looked genuinely horrified and said, "What...how?"

"Oh fuck!" I blurted. "Sorry! You told me about him last time!"

This is still quite cryptic as responses go but she gave me a frankly frantic look of sudden recognition and said, "He's fine! You bought a Kit Kat! I was unmedicated!"

I did not inform her she is small town famous on Tumblr and instead just said, "Glad you're both doing well!" and we parted as confused and mortified friends.

Gosh she's fun. I hope she's there next time. I want to reenact the Spiderman Pointing meme with her.

#storytime

Sexualized female characters are hotly debated in the industry, but their counterparts, sexualized male characters are rarely discussed, and

Reminder that you can watch Michelle Clough's 2014 GDC presentation about male sexualization in videogames and you should because it's amazing

#game development #creative advice

The games industry is a pretty liberal place and I've been lucky to work a job where people's worst impulses are kept in check by the threat of HR. Overt misogyny is pretty rare, but you still have to deal with all of the casual stuff - I am interrupted all the time. Where people used to take me at my word, I now have to explain and explain again and still people doubt my experience. Something that previously would have been interpreted as direct, no-nonsense feedback is suddenly too harsh and I should be more considerate when talking to people.

I don't usually talk to friends about this but on a few occasions when I have, some of them tried to comfort me with something like "well, that's got to pretty pretty affirming right? people are discriminating against you same as any woman".

And other than that being kind of an annoying take, it fundamentally misunderstands patriarchal structures. Discrimination is targeted at women and minorities because they lack certain privileges. Being white, male, straight, cis, abled etc will give you a certain level of assumed competence, and when you start being perceived to lack those qualities you are also assumed to be less competent. In other words, being perceived as less of a man doesn't inherently mean you are perceived as a woman.

Few people being misogynistic in this field have taken their views from the 50s and has strong opinions about women in the workplace (although these people also exist! I have friends whose leads asked them if they planned to get pregnant. And let's not pretend all the sexual harassment suits didn't happen). Rather, they just see someone that's different from them. Someone they can't relate to, don't know if they could understand things the same as them. Someone they can't trust as much as people more like themselves.

So hearing "you should try and be less emotional" still doesn't feel great.

#gamesindustrynormal #transgender #feminism

strawberry-crocodile

also i keep hearing about how toby fox "hates asgore" and how hes direspected by the narrative and his trauma doesnt get attention and lemme just say.

yeah thats the fucking point

Asgore is the patriarch of the underground, a big (literally) white man who's in so much pain, literally a king. He's the kind of person that stories always focus on and care about to the exclusion of everyone else. How many stories have you seen that treat the King, the Husband, thr Father as the most important person in a story? It's soooo deliberate that we're presented with this tragic man who's burdened with power, and the narrative (and Toriel) have no respect for him. It is an exicit, stated plot point that him wallowing in his misery has done nothing but prolong the suffering of every monster in the Underground. Everyone in game talk about how great and nice he is but all he's done as king since Asriel and Chara died is sit in his empty house waiting for kids to kill.

Undertale is so great because it questions who's important and worth saving. Its a game where you talk to random encounters and help them with their problems. The point is to reject normative notions of whose perspective matters and say that you need to take responsibility for the power you have over others.

ITS THE POINT!!!! ASGORE BEING UNIMPORTANT AND IMASCULATED AND HIS NOBLE MANPAIN BEING SHOT DOWN IS THE POINT!

strawberry-crocodile

"Oh the pacifist route was rushed because Asgore's trauma wasn't given enough focus"

do not. address it

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here it is! the post that started a “me, an intellectual” hell frenzy, and is officially ⭐ the worst post of 2016 ⭐

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Rare Achievement Unlocked:

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Create a memetic phrase that still sees use for almost a decade afterward

#meta

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Miku 🎸✨

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From now on im tellin jobs I was General manager at Toys R Us. Who tf they gone call

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That’s actually a wise move that many people do practice. Don’t have enough job experience, but need it to get the job? Put yourself down as having had experience in a position in a company that is no longer in business, especially if it closed years ago. They literally have no way of verifying this (do not do this for chains wherein only the store closed, but not the chain). It’s a good way to fluff up your resume, just make sure you put down a position wherein you used skills you already have.

For instance, you can say you were a Personal Assistant – typing, data entry, responding to emails, taking phone calls.

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inspired tactic from our gm:

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#storytime

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kunosoura

my number one woman behavior is saying i’m fine with any pronouns and silently ranking people in my regard based on what they do with that information