El Diablo es Puerco

Eurovision, Star Trek (esp Voyager), Star Wars, Medieval reenactment, Pokemon, Reptiles, Comic Books, Wonder Woman, Drag Queens, lots of gay shit.

[liorlenn]

So. I’ve been laughing about this like all day and I need to talk about it. My gay ship just went canon in the most male power fantasy game of all time.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 recently released (I’ve been playing it, it’s good). It’s an RPG set in medieval Bohemia. You play as Henry, a blacksmith’s son. The first game, released back in 2018, starts with your village being burned to the ground and everyone either is killed or has to flee. The rest of that game is you trying to, among various things, deal with your trauma and get revenge. It’s a very well executed story in my opinion.

A notable character in the game is Lord Hans Capon, who was a real guy but the game version is a bit loosely based on him. Hans and Henry become rivals then friends. Their noble/peasant dynamic is reminiscent of Arthur and Merlin in BBC Merlin (though I would argue the class dynamics are far better executed and more nuanced). Like ten people including me decided to ship them.

The first game was a bit rough but overall good. It garnered a decent audience, including a notably large audience of straight white men who really like medieval history but not enough to know much about it beyond swords are cool. You get the picture.

The second game is announced. Those guys I mentioned are super excited!

Well. As it turns out there’s going to be a homosexual relationship in the game, according to an announcement made by the director at the end of January. Uh oh. W-well as long as it’s not the main character-

Cue release day, February 4th. IT IS!!!

HANS AND HENRY. It’s THEM! They have sex ON SCREEN. No nuance about it (though it’s important to note this is an option you have to CHOOSE).

The guys go crazy. KCD has gone woke they cry. And to make it worse there’s *gasp* a black man in a Bohemian court! DEI!

I can’t believe Warhorse Studios did it. I’m genuinely amazed. I have never been so vindicated in my life.

Everyone play this game for the love of god. The combat is tough but there’s plenty of guides online. It’s worth it I promise.

[dayntee]

This post has singlehandedly put this game directly in my cart. Like, it basically pressed the button for me and everything.

[snackalus]

Fun fact gamers, gay people existed in the late middle ages

[gehayi]

So did black people.

[turtle-stack]

brb, buying this game series

[cookietastic]

AI really has made people forget sometimes people just do whacky art like that

[cookietastic]

Putting $10 on that if this came out today people would call it AI

[cookietastic]

Where’s that Batman comic panel where the artist put bathroom is really fucked up like the tub was infront of the door and people were like this is AI and…the comic came out before AI art was even a thing 😭

[cookietastic]

found it lmao came out 2016

[cookietastic]

I like the plunger infront of the door( that’s block by the tub)

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

The funniest thing about this is that many, many mainstream comics have separate people do pencils, inks, and colors. And then there are proofs when ppl add the words.

As many as four people may have worked on these things and just. Gone with it.

[prokopetz]

That separation of roles is actually the source of a lot of errors of this sort, not something that could have potentially prevented them; the penciller's composition is ambiguous, the inker wildly misunderstands what the penciller is going for, the colourist compounds the inker's errors by slapping down the first colours that come to mind, nobody involved has time to communicate with anybody else because the deadlines are unreasonably tight, and they're all so underpaid and overworked that nobody gives a shit anyway, and before you know it, what was probably intended to be a panelled wall, a towel rack, and a mildly interesting pattern on the linoleum becomes a door behind the bathtub, a levitating shower curtain rod, and a rug that extends under the toilet.

[userjohndeacon]

THE MUPPETS (2011) dir. James Bobin

[guerrillatech]

[hoothootmotherf-ckers]

can people please stop filming the entire fucking world around them for public consumption? and especially random fucking strangers who you did not ask???

I work at a park and man the front desk. and I'm photographed and filmed a lot. I'm talking easily 20+ times per day. most of the times, it's parents filming me swearing in their kids as junior rangers. which. they're intending to film their kids. what they get is me and the back of their kids' heads.

there's this recurring problem that like. people forget we're real people? like yeah you're filming your kid, but you're filming me interacting with your kid. I could count the amount of times someone has asked me permission to do this in the past year on one hand. and sometimes that's after they already start filming.

Like, I'm not an actor. I did not agree to this. You could be a dick and make the argument that I'm a public figure, but I'm not. This is not a persona and my uniform is not a costume. I'm a person trying to do my job and help people and teach them about science and history. And you know what makes it harder to do that? The knowledge that anything I say or do could end up shared with thousands of people. The fact that if I fuck up the wording of this kid's junior ranger pledge, or I sneeze, or make some basic mistake, it's not just a funny or embarrassing moment for me and this one family. It could end up on tiktok.

And okay, those are the people intending to film their own kids and not thinking or caring about the collateral. What's worse is the people who film everything. A few times a week some guy walks into the visitor center, phone already horizontal in front of their face, narrating what they're doing and seeing. They come up to the desk and ask me questions, phone in my face. They take wide establishing shots of the visitor center and every visitor in it. None of us agreed to this! None of these people consented to be in your youtube video! We are not the fucking set dressing of whatever travel instagram story you're making!

I don't know where I'm going with this. This is really only the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes people ask us to repeat what we just did - swear in their kid, or explain a detail, or hand them a fucking map - so they can get a second take, and they're already filming so if we say no we look like the asshole. Sometimes we're asked innocuous things like to point out a landmark, and next week there's a photo of us in the 15,000 member Rangers Pointing at Things facebook group (yep, real thing). One time my entire 45 minute evening program was filmed without my permission and I was informed after the fact. This happens all the time, and I'm giving park ranger examples, but this happens to so many people in service work or public positions every single fucking day.

I guess just, next time you go to film in a public space, take a second. Think about who you're about to film, if they agreed to that, what might happen if a video of them went viral. there's a reason I'm not out as trans at work. And then, maybe. don't. or at least fucking ask.

[thewitchqifrey]

DUNGEONS & DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES 2023, dir. Jonathan Goldstein & John Francis Dale

Bonus:

[mikkeneko]

Love the third panel with Edgin nodding like “yep, this is who she is as a person”

[catchymemes]

[makahitaki]

[aquilacalvitium]

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

This is how they dehumanize every single Israeli. This Chabad Rabbi was murdered for being a Jew, but they cannot help themselves but to make themselves feel good about their antisemitism.

Zvi Kogan Z"L was 28. He did his mandatory IDF service likely probably years ago, probably years before he went to the UAE in 2020 where he has been ever since.

This man has been in the UAE for 4 years and there is no indication that he served beyond his mandatory period and no indication that he served in Gaza.

Almost 30,000 likes. thats as many jews as lives in my entire fucking city.

[applesauce42069-deactivated2024]

They did this to Hersh, who was murdered in a tunnel as a hostage, who was kidnapped from a music festival. all these ghouls need is a picture in an IDF uniform and they can wipe their hands and say we did it! I knew that dirty kike deserved to die! its fucking atrocious and it makes me sick.

[arandomshotinthedark]

Look, I'm going to say it because I'm fucking sick and tired of people screaming about things they refuse to actually understand-have actual proof of wrongdoing. Merely serving doesn't mean much of anything because there's a lot militaries do that isn't combat related. And even if it is combat related, that doesn't automatically mean war crimes.

International Humanitarian Law and LOAC have specific definitions to try and govern warfare as much as possible. By constantly saying x soldier (or whatever branch) is doing a war crime, you are breaking down those laws to the point they may as well not exist because you don't actually care about war crimes; you only care if you like the people doing it. It's war crimes if you don't and completely justified if you do.

And furthermore-let's say he did do war crimes. It still doesn't mean it was okay for him to be murdered for being a Jew. Because that's why he was murdered-I strongly doubt his murderers knew anything other than him being Jewish. And, I want to hammer this home-victims don't have to be perfect!

[charnel-grounds]

[musicallisto]

tumblr communists' reaction to the situation in venezuela, especially those from the US or western europe, is extremely bizarre. OF COURSE the united states is responsible for a good portion of the political turmoil latin america has suffered in the past century (countless coups to set up puppet governments, the somoza dynasty in nicaragua, the chicago boys in chile, etc) and i hate american imperialism as much as you do, but refusing to acknowledge the violent dictatorship and repression that's currently going on in venezuela is a stupid and lowkey infantilizing take... like, you know a leftist man, thrust in any position of power, no matter how "progressive" he may call himself, can (and more often than not WILL) be greedy and corrupt. you know a socialist government can be authoritative and violate human rights. you know this right.

[musicallisto]

like "america has a history of political intrusion and destabilization in latam for imperialist reasons" and "this is NOT about fucking yall" are takes that can and SHOULD coexist, and the fact you believe 1. only the alt right can be totalitarian and inhumane, and desiring democracy is somehow an extremist view(???) and 2. this is an opportunity for you to self-flagellate about how much the big bad usa is At Fault For Every Evil In The World really tells me nothing about your interest in latin american people and all about your ethnocentrism

[warningsine]

[mariacallous]

[spinelessdemsandwhinyrepublicans]

[asneakyfox]

going insane hearing talk about whether harris did enough to "earn" votes. no candidate has ever or can ever earn my vote because a vote is not a payment i send to a politician and it's stupid to think about it like it is. exact same thinking error that leads to people talking about not voting like it's a boycott. if anyone earned my vote it's the people i tried to use that vote to protect

[asneakyfox]

you never owed kamala harris anything. you owed it to your fellow citizens of the world to vote for harris.

[asneakyfox]

kamala harris is not even close to being the person who would have benefited most from her winning the election, and she's even farther from being the person who will be hurt the most by her loss, which makes thinking about it in terms of "but did she deserve my vote?" disastrously stupid. she simply is not the person whose deserving matters at all here

[quantum-dragon]

Exactly tbh

[keitrinkomfloukru]

[whoscallingwhoafraud]

[theonion]

Today’s Historic Front Page: November 6, 2024

[thebreakfastgenie]

Listen to me. Listen to me right now. Two years from now people are going to tell you to vote for Democrats in the midterms. And you're going to shut the fuck up and do it.

[galadriel1010]

One of the things we learned yesterday was that Republican women did not break for Harris the way we hoped. They were able to put aside their own personal values, beliefs and even risk their own safety to keep a Democrat out of the White House. The left wing, once again, was not able to do that.

The problem was not the platform. People who said they wanted to punch Nazis but couldn't even vote against Trump? There was no platform that could unify them.