Quentin Givens

Mining Farm Operations Engineer. Chip Production Specialist. Broadcast Student. (26)(He/Him)(Atheist/Exvangelical) All views expressed or endorsed here are my own, and do not represent those of any current or past employer.

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Since it's been a while since I was originally on Tumblr:

In this house,

-Worker's rights over billionaires' rights.

-Sex work is work.

-Bodily autonomy is a human right.

-Housing is a necessity, NOT a commodity.

-People who can't work don't deserve to die, and should be allowed a decent quality of living.

-Cars aren't evil, but public transportation should be far more available than it is.

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The sheer number of bot follows, by itself, is enough to make me regret making a Tumblr account.

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One of the biggest reasons that buying from a content creator is better than regular porn is that the person in the video/pic/etc personally gave me permission to see it. Even if it's motivated by money, being invited to see makes it feel so fucking good

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Out of all of the religions that exist, how did the two most popular ones BOTH end up being based on books and traditions that treat consensual sex like an equal crime to murder?

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This orange-headed man was greeted with a drop kick nearly every time he walked in his front door. Are you telling me he'd be surprised if his dad shoved him underwater and counted to 100 to "keep him on his toes"?

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My first ever radio news broadcast felt like a slow-motion train wreck, but it's been surprisingly well received.

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I got around to trying Dark Souls 1 this morning. I've heard a lot of people say that it's impossible to get into after DS3 and Elden Ring, but that's really not the experience I'm having. Yes, the pace is a bit slower and things like roll cancelling are gone, but once I adjusted to the pace of the controls (took about a half hour) I feel right at home. Plus, the Undead Burg of DS1 isn't nearly as slow as the High Wall in DS3, which for me is a huge plus.

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I'm really glad that "Joseph and Aseneth" hasn't been popular with Christians in 200 years. It would have been a mountain of extra ammo for attacking lesbians, asexuals, and trans men.

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It's very backwards to me when other Ex-Christians say "I'm MORE like Jesus AFTER leaving" as some kind of brag or own.

Like, if you left a group on purpose, isn't it weird to be like "i'M MoRE SimiLAR To GLORious LEADer ThAN YoU PuNY FAIthFuLS"?

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It's been scheduled this morning. I'm going live for a few minutes on Extra Music 102.1 FM this Monday, December 5, at 11:00am.

Be sure to tune in if you're in the Pike's Peak region!

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do me a solid and just reblog this saying what time it is where you are and what you’re thinking about in the tags.

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some of yall will be like “i dont care about your dreams, i dont care about your spotify wrapped, i dont want to hear about your interests, dont you dare talk to me about your trauma,” and its like. what do you even have friends for. bc it sounds to me like you dont give a shit about anything that makes them a person. what do you talk about.

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With how often people complain about how 343 handles Halo, I never hear my own biggest issue:

343 pushes the fantasy elements HARD and forgets to approach it as a war story at all.

The original Halo games' narratives were war movies in a sci-fi fantasy setting, not sci-fi in a military setting. That is, it was a war story first with fantasy set dressing. The earlier books and Halo: Reach took this approach the strongest, but that was the priority for Halo's story for Bungie's entire run.

Basically all of the grounded but glorified approach to war that you'd expect from an American propaganda film, but set in a sci-fi universe with sci-fi bad guys.(another example of this style of story is the movie Battle: Los Angeles)

Even in the more fantasy leaning parts of the original trilogy, the UNSC and the Covenant had the appearance and feel of a functioning military, especially in terms of how characters interacted with each other outside of combat.

The sci-fi elements on the humans' side were also much more grounded than 343's interpretation. Outside of spaceships, the games, books, and other media always mostly showed humans using technology that, to some degree, already existed in the real world at the time, only inserting sci-fi on the humans' side where it was necessary for gameplay or to facilitate events in the story.

343's portrayal of how military personnel (Spartans moreso than normal soldiers) interact may as well be ripped from an MCU film, and most of their sci-fi leans WAY harder into fantasy than Bungie ever would have.

Beyond the contents of the narrative itself, I grew up in a city with a population that was 2/3 active military and veterans, and I went to a public high school that was on an active military base. Tons of people everywhere from ROTC to the actual military preferred Halo over other games because its story portrayed military personnel more accurately and respectfully than more "realistic" shooters like Battlefield and CoD. I've heard from other people that this sentiment didn't end at my hometown.

Halo Infinite managed to correct or compensate for a lot of the problems with earlier 343 titles, and Halo Wars 2 brought back the best of the old visual elements, but I'm worried that what made Bungie's Halo stories stand out might be gone for good.

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Why is all vegan pizza thin crust? Not everyone who avoids animal products is a health freak. What about stuffed crust? Deep dish? Normal crust?

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After all the accommodations that Bleach and other mid-2000's anime localizations made for western religious audiences(i.e. "Soul Reaper"=死神(death god)), it is fucking beautiful to me that the main villain's name in Bleach's final arc is literally just the tetragrammaton(YHWH, יהוה‎) written in Kana(ユーハバッハ).

Ywach may have covered it up, but my inner McCatholic™-raised weeb feels vindicated.

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Kenpachi when the Quincies show up

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