Oh NO i'm GAY

Listen, my tags are garbage and minors shouldn't be here. Go home.

[gayweeddaddy69]

why do you hate swifties so much

because they aligned themselves with the treacherous count dooku

[styxbugg]

Happy pride month

[silvermoon424]

This tweet read me to filth

[mf-dude]

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

if anything happens in your life you should start having strange thoughts and beliefs

[theretrocritic-deactivated20230]

[imsobadatnicknames2]

This is something I and other tabletop bloggers like thydungeongal have said repeatedly in the past, but I think it bears repeating.

If you don't like WotC due to the recent scandals they've been involved in (such as the OGL thing and sending the Pinkertons to someone's house) and you are serious about disrupting the economic and cultural stranglehold they have over the entire tabletop hobby, pirating D&D products is infinitely less important than exploring, discussing and platforming games and creators outside of the D&D 5e ecosystem.

A person who pirates every single D&D product but continues to exclusively play, discuss, talk, and blog about Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition is not doing as much as someone who religiously pays for every D&D product but also gives some of their precious time and attention to games that aren't D&D, especially if they have any sort of platform or audience.

[maximumzombiecreator]

Over the past few years, as people have observed how 5e is pulled between different groups of people who want entirely different things, a lot of folks have suggested that WotC should split the game into different versions, bring back the basic/expert split, etc. And while that would improve the game considerably, they won't do that for one simple reason: their market dominance is entirely based on people treating D&D as the only choice.

D&D is a crunchy, combat-centric game built for dungeon crawling that is primarily played by people who don't want any of that. If they were choosing a game, they would choose something else. So the 5e social ecosystem is built to create the illusion that 5e can do anything, that it's an easy game --the easiest game!-- and learning anything else would be too difficult, and other games are for gatekeeping nerds.

But that illusion is really fragile. Reading a single other game is often enough to shatter it. Playing something else, something that actually suits the gameplay you're going for or brings new and exciting ideas to the table, can change someone's view of TTRPGs forever.

If you're skittish about other games, there's plenty of great games that make their rules available for free. There's no commitment lower than downloading a free pdf to look over some time. And you could end up discovering something amazing, something you'll love! Even if you don't, the mere act of considering another option is enough to start eroding the grip Hasbro has on the industry that makes all their bullshit practices possible.

[puppygirllaika]

so. i just learned that my entirely me-written resume flags as being AI-written by automated HR systems for a few writing quirks and the fact that i followed all the rules of good resume writing, which is apparently a telltale sign of AI use in this fucking hellworld. i've been desperately applying to jobs that i am massively overqualified for for months with no response, not even an interview, and now i find out that at least part of the reason is because some fucking moron decided that following the rules every career advisor has given me for a decade means i cheated and should be disqualified. the ai bubble cannot pop soon enough. what the actual fuck.

[puppygirllaika]

"frequent use of action-result sentences. bullet points all start with action verbs. no career gaps." girl what the fuck are you talking about. that's just resume writing advice being followed. i just did what i was told. it's a fucking resume. you're supposed to do all that stuff. what the fuck do you mean it looks ai generated and wouldn't pass basic detection systems?????????? for following the resume writing rules????????????

[puppygirllaika]

wishing every AI bro and ceo a very [REDACTED]

[puppygirllaika]

Okay since this has blown up i feel the need to point out the following:

This was not some exhaustive study where I uncovered a great secret, i just ran my resume through a few resume-focused "AI Checkers" and they returned positive results.

The quoted advice, about action-result sentences and career gaps and all that, were advice I found across a range of career-building and resume-writing websites talking about the "hallmarks of ai-generated resumes" that HR managers tend to toss out, or which are automatically filtered for using resume-scanning software.

I have no way of knowing if, or what portion, of my job rejections have been caused by this issue. It could be all of them. it could be none of them. It's probably somewhere in between. the job market is fucked rn.

I think people are latching onto this because it feels like an easy out, and honestly that's part of why I posted about it, venting some frustrations and blaming them on the immediate thing before me. I do absolutely hate AI and the fact that my writing sometimes gets flagged as ai written just for being, like, competent. I despise it. But it's also disingenuous to really claim "Aha! I've discovered the secret reason I haven't gotten a great job despite months of applications! it's all because of AI!"

like. people are reacting to this in the comments like it's a piece of investigative journalism, not a vent post about Economy Fucked, Jobs Fucked, AI Fucked, World Fucked, Get Me Out Of Here. Please take it with the appropriately speculative grain, or rather tablespoon, of salt.

[catcrumb]

[boringkate]

If you do hardcore porn and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

If you do tastefully suggestive lingerie pics and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

If you're a barista and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

People that do full service sex work are cool as fuck!

[autoserketphilia]

Not gonna lie, part of the reason I'm so interested in 40k is that the Night Lords and Raptors (the jetpack unit type not that one Loyalist chapter) are so fucking sick and right up my alley and sadly, 8ecause I cannot wear spiny midnight 8lue power armor covered in the 8ones and skin of my enemies and fly across the sky screaming with 8ig fuckoff claws, I must live vicariously through pieces of plastic.

[autoserketphilia]

(Art by octosoup on Twitter)

8eing this would heal me to 8e honest. I would not complain a8out anything ever again.

[sirgarrowman]

I have nothing to lose so I'm also into Warhammer now...yeah

I love (platonically🥲) my beautiful rabid wife

[kane-turu]

Saw this on Twitter and I obligatory need to share it

[crazy-pages]

So she actually said that she does not see the appeal in Senshi at all and that the panty shots weren't intended to be horny - she just has a neighbor who looks kind of like him and does laundry in his underwear. Which she finds kind of weird and offputting, and put into his character to be funny.

But that's the thing. She doesn't exaggerate or grotesqueify or alter people's bodies to fit some standard. (Except insofar as she draws different species differently, and those are exquisitely practiced to ensure they have the same diversity of appearances that humans do.) She just presents people exactly as they are, complexities and oddities and all.

It just so happens that when you present people exactly as they are, what you present will be beautiful and alluring to many. Even the things you yourself might find weird and offputting. Honestly I think it's a touching example of how you don't have to see the beauty in everyone for the beauty to be there, simple honesty is enough to let the wonder of people's humanity shine through.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

#i think we should put this post next to the interview where she said she doesn't want to eat the food in the series cuz she's a picky eater#and file them both under 'you don't know an artist from their work'#and maybe you don't need to!#maybe all you need to know is that ryoko kui is Good At What She Does#idk I don't like the implication that artists (and women especially?) can only create from personal life and feelings#some people have imagination and craft#kind of a tangent but. there you go.

no but you're very correct

[yoyoyopt]

[mangonetics]

[prokopetz]

Squinting grumpily at the latest "system-neutral fantasy sourcebook" trying to puzzle out which specific version of Dungeons & Dragons the author is picturing when they imagine a perfectly generic RPG.

[rollingforstew]

@crackerjackalope exactly my immediate thought as well that I went to the tags first just to see is someone else was on the same page. Why did the do That.

[tonyzaret]

[bisexualmagnum]