Beautiful and Terrible as the Cheesecake Factory

this machine makes forks in a really weird way Another rat leaving the Twitter boat. Indie RPG designer, former podcaster, full-time technical writer, one-time journalist. Once was too poor to join a cult. he/they. Games at https://understory.itch.io/

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[ironedorchid]

Kelly Link, 21st April 2026

[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.

[sarahmackattack]

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

[quendergeer]

girl you erected a mysterious black monolith that contained all the knowledge your culture had ever collected were you hoping he'd develop rudimentary tool use

[6qubed]

"the hell is that thing? better pinch it. ...hm. pinch ain't workin'. don't like that. goin' back to bed"

[baddywronglegs]

E306 is the e number for tocopherols. Also known as vitamin fucking E.

E numbers mean this thing has been approved for human consumption in the EU and long names mean someone in a lab figured out what its chemical structure is.

You know what's easy to pronounce, natural and doesn't have an E number? Lead.

Companies who tell you their food has no E numbers or chemicals you can't pronounce in are preying on your ignorance.

[mandywondering]

They're just after your E175.

So, E300 is vitamin C. E153 is "I was cooking some toast and it got burnt". E500 is sodium bicarb (aka baking soda). E948 is got dam oxygen. E1510 is ethanaol.

(and E175 is gold)

[lelif]

on survival

-// @aridante // @orivu // @buzzkillgirls // ? // ? // richard siken// @cemeterything // moomin, tove jansson// @disenchanted-killjoy // isn't that enough, shawn mendes// @ prettytheyswag on twitter// @ coletyumuch on twitter// ? // ? // bird by bird, anne lamott// undertale// @strawberrycircuits

[contemptible-scoundrel]

is high jump kicking peoples dogs punk

[lord-of-the-noodles]

no, to punk is to love

[contemptible-scoundrel]

I love to high jump kick peoples dogs

[drlombriz]

won’t a high jump kick miss most dogs? they’re usually kinda low to the ground

[contemptible-scoundrel]

whats not clicking

[depsidase]

[wizardshark]

the stars on the american flag are actually asterisks for all the restrictions on the freedom it boasts

[wizardshark]

12 year old post comes back yearly like clockwork or perhaps a calendar

[captain-price-returns]

I think this might be one of the most incredible, unsettling and symbolic photos of today’s America I’ve ever seen. I can’t stop looking at it. It’s perfect.

[thickness-protection-program]

"just go to a food pantry"

"get a second job"

"start your own garden"

"stop buying name brand"

"don't get your nails done"

"learn to budget"

"live within your means"

Temporary individualistic fixes will never solve systemic issues! God forbid EVERYONE eats and not just me!!

[theinstagrahame]

None of these things are bad practices.

But they're kinda the same playbook plastic manufacturers took with recycling. (Honestly it's the same tack all companies have taken since like the '70s). But Coca-Cola makes like tens of thousands of times the plastic waste that you make annually.

We can reduce how much we drive, but the US Military produces tens of thousands of times of the carbon emissions that you make.

Sure, tens of thousands of us recycling everything that we can, and using our cars as little as possible, would be net positive for the world, but in the time it's taken to write this post, both organizations have done more damage to the planet than I will with a lifetime of mistakes.

It's not bad to save, garden, and budget. But like, we can have both. We can fight for systemic change while making our lives better.

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[beardedmrbean]

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[demilypyro]

saw someone post something stupid but she was only 23 and transfem so like that's a normal age to be stupid it's okay

[prokopetz]

Discussion about Types of Guy in tabletop roleplaying groups is always "the Rules Lawyer", "the Method Actor" and never "Guy Who Always Plays A Human And Invents New Setting-Specific Slurs For Their Character To Call A Specific Type Of Nonhuman Characters" even though I see the last one a lot more.

[prokopetz]

At some point you've gotta sit a player down like "okay, in our fantasy game you played a guy who hates elves and made up new slurs for elves; in our transhuman cyberpunk game you played a guy who hates robots and made up new slurs for robots; I think your actual goal here is just to be a guy who says slurs".

[parkayquarts]

"what if someone regrets transitioning" if you are 18 or over in free country usa you can walk into any tattoo parlor and ask for a tattoo that will be on your body forever and ever and ever and they will give it to you with the understanding that if you dont like the result or you regret it later that's your fucking problem and not theirs