Contrarian Anarchist Dipshit

Writer, Game Developer, and Essayist. Described as "The James Cameron of pretentious Youtube film criticism." TERFs fuck off

[theconcealedweapon]

"If they were really fascists, they'd be killing protesters."

And they are.

"If they were really fascists, it would be illegal to criticize them."

Greg Bovino openly stated that that's exactly what he wants.

[theconcealedweapon]

Also, they literally declare that opposition to fascism is terrorism. If you're anti-anti-fascist, then you're fascist.

[jarmes]

There’s also this undercurrent in this defense of modern American fascists that their words don’t mean anything, only their actions. You can’t call them fascist until they’ve won, and you can’t fight them until then because you can’t know their fascist until they’re all powerful

And that’s stupid. If someone says “I want to eliminate this ethnic group” that means they’re a genocidal monster who must be stopped through any means necessary. You don’t wait until theyve already created an ethnostate to criticize them

[lilyblisslys]

me with the. When she. When her. When the she her me

[mollyjames]

[orteil42]

given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that

[homestuckreplay]

I finally got around to watching Hook (1991) last weekend and honestly if Hussie was watching this in theaters at the age of 12 it makes a lot of sense to me that this would be a Formative Movie that went on to have a big impact on their work. this whole movie is about using the familiar children’s story as a backdrop to explore themes of staging and performance, and blending different mediums, because even though it’s a movie it’s engaging a lot more with theater and pantomime than with movies themselves. there are scenes that do this very explicitly, like the opening scene where the protagonist’s daughter is acting in a school production of Peter Pan, but the more interesting scenes are where it weaves the performance into otherwise ‘genuine’ scenes – Tinkerbell forcing Peter to do the ‘clap your hands if you believe in fairies’ while very obviously playing dead, Hook’s boat functioning like a stage complete with cues for the carpet which his stagehand misses and needs to be double-prompted for, and Hook and his men setting up a mock baseball game to prove to Peter’s son that he can really succeed. all that is super relevant to what I’m going to write about for the end of act 5, so I might have a good excuse to talk more about this movie there

Hook cares a lot about the importance of imagination, the idea of passing back and forth between ‘normal’ and fantasy worlds and the way those worlds impact people, and spends a lot of time considering the relationships and often conflicts between adults and children. it’s ultimately pretty conservative in that it comes down firmly in favor of the nuclear family and promotes children forgiving their parents no matter what, and I definitely wonder how Homestuck is ultimately going to fall regarding that – I'm hoping it will have a more interesting perspective but without knowing the ending it’s really too soon to say. anyway I enjoyed Hook a fair bit despite that conservatism; I’ve never had strong feelings either way about Peter Pan so with that in mind it was a pleasant surprise and I can definitely see myself watching it again for some more in depth thoughts! rufios’s definitely cool enough to give a guy more self esteem. 8/10

[transgenderer]

i think it's easy to hate on software because it's objectively less cool than hardware and theres a lot more potential for slop and adversarial interactions (exactly because of the cheapness that makes software so wonderful) etc. id like to suggest you take a moment to think of all the wonderful software in your life. wikipedia, your navigation app of choice, editing software (image music video etc). social media depending on how you feel about that. google.com. thank you software. if you like, share some beloved software in your life. mwah

[qcharlie]

please god watch this right now

[aflo]

I'm imagining a world where RPGMaker somehow made it as the de facto codebase for software and you have to navigate your banking app by walking around in a huge room full of NPCs named "make deposit" and "make withdrawal" etc and there's loud as fuck stock music playing

[aflo]

[shencomix]

YIPPEE!!!

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

no more historic events this decade that is ENOUGH, i’m putting my foot down

[alettertofutureme]

History is not done with us yet my friend

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

I have received all manner of threat, up to and beyond “I will play a flute carved from your femur,” and yet this is the first time I’ve felt truly threatened

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i knew posting this in 2022 was risky but holy fucking shit

[sailatina3]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[ayeforscotland]

I’ve been in absolute tears cry laughing at this for the past 15 minutes.

[houndmother]

we simply do not give enough attention to the fact that the US is. Shooting itself in the foot at every turn. not in a individual incompetence way, not an an orange idiot in the White House Way, but in a “the US spent a century designing a world order where everyone was either reliant on the US or terrified of the US (often both) and now people at every level of federal government are destroying that system” way. While USAID very much did in fact contribute to like, food and medicine and whatever to people in need around the globe, this was not out of the kindness of American hearts, this is an arm of liberal empire. the carrot so to speak. and as for the stick, the point of having a military the size of the US military is not to use it. It’s to park on peoples lawns until they stand down. when you use it, and then lose, or deliver anything other than immediate and crushing defeat, you illustrate to the people whose lawn you’re parked on that spending billions of dollars isn’t enough to win a war necessarily. Iran could have closed the strait at any point, but they didnt bc the USA would bomb the shit out of them. When they get bombed first, there’s no reason not to close the strait. The US played its hand and it came up wanting. this is to say nothing of the damage to alliances with other liberal democratic countries. the people currently in power swallowed USA propaganda hook line and sinker, believed in it so completely, that theyre shaking the foundation of what lent that propaganda its believability. to say nothing of the fact that their aims are despicable, their methods are just. an embarrassment to empire building. they took a perfectly good empire and started lopping shit off. they’re trying to increase the output of a machine by ripping cogs out of its still-running engine.

[guillotinedream]

Its so funny when chuck says “you never mattered all that much to me” because he only says it entirely to be a hater. Because he knows his brother loves him and despite everything wants to reconcile, but he hates him so much he’ll say anything to get him to leave. It’s such an obviously false statement because his psychosomatic illness is immediately triggered and he kills himself accidentally. Jimmy mattered so much to chuck that he died over it

[interestingmistakes]

Reblogging this manually. Op doesn't want credit for fear of being terminated.

[sunspotpony]

@staff

[azspot]

“Because the truth is, tech doesn’t have an image problem. It doesn’t have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What’s wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn’t successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What’s wrong is that he’s trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that’s designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn’t that you haven’t told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them.”

— The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech

[reading-writing-revolution]