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So Aprrently people like my content enough that they want an alternative way to stay in touch with me when i get banned again so here is my d iscord. I dont know if its user or display name so have both 子不是字 zi_not_zee_4955

danielkahndyke

the op linked the study in the replies & i’ve been skimming it & it’s actually rlly rlly interesting to think abt

https://e1.nmcdn.io/assets/pushkin/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/Wait-theres-torture-in-Zootopia_-Examining-the-prevalence-of-torture-in-popular-movies.pdf

danielkahndyke

like this sentence from the introduction alone is fucking crazy. “approximately half of adults in the united states think that torture can be acceptable in counterterrorism.” what!

trans-girl-nausicaa

we need a cultural revolution in america.

autogynophelia

One of the ways transmisogyny manifests is in default-uncharitable interpretations of ambiguous meaning.

Last week I was at a meetup where I was the only transfem. I checked the groupchat when I arrived and there was a message from the organiser: "We have a newcomer called X, can you look out for him if you get there first?" I located X, introduced myself, sent a message to the chat say, "I have located X," and continued to talk to him until the organiser arrived. When the organiser arrived, she was not happy with me. It turned out my phone had autocorrected, "I have located X," to, "I had located X," which the organiser interpreted as me passive aggressively telling her that I had already done the thing she was asking about. Her conclusion: I was unreasonable and aggressive in responding to her reasonable request. My explaining what had happened didn't convince her otherwise.

A different occasion last week: in a local trans groupchat, a trans man sent a link to a drag event happening in our town. A few people said they were already going, some said they might go. Then a trans woman replied saying, "Thanks, but I don't really like drag." Her tone was immediately called into question. Her words were assumed to communicate: "I think you are a terrible person if you like drag," even though she never said that. Several non-transfems who had never even heard that drag might not be universally-beloved by everyone were upset to discover that fact. A trans woman simply saying she didn't like this thing became A Big Deal.

Meanwhile, at a different event again, a trans man told a group that he was straight and attracted to women, but he wouldn't feel comfortable bringing home an "AMAB woman" (yes he actually said that). It was quickly brushed over, and after he had left even trans women tried to defend him by saying "he probably didnt realise people would be offended" etc etc. In contrast to the examples above, he is not even aware that anyone was upset by what he said, never mind worrying about what consequences he might face.

Whenever I go to an event, I often spend the next 24-48 hours ruminating over every single thing I said to check if I did anything at any time that could even vaguely be construed as annoying to anyone. I have often put this behaviour down to severe anxiety, but I think I am realising that it is actually a rational response to a world where even the slightest social misstep could be blown way out of proportion and result in my later social exclusion. It's one of those things that existed long before I was aware of my own transness but while I was nonetheless transmisogynised by society, a crippling fear of the slightest imperfection that I assumed everyone else felt too but apparently they don't. I guess when other people go out of their way to smoothe over the damage your words or actions might cause, you don't need to stress about that damage because there are no consequences to it! It sounds very nice to be able to live like that.

roguesquirrel

prokopetz

If they ever do a second season of the Among Us cartoon they 100% need to riff on how the kill animations in the source material imply that there are multiple unrelated types of impostors and play it up like it's another alien body-snatcher situation, then the actual killer turns out to be, like, a guy with a knife.

ouroborosorder

This is my Sword of Detect Sword. It’s supposed to glow when a sword is nearby. But it’s inclusive. So. It’s basically just a glowing sword. Anyway yeah this is why I got kicked out of enchanting school

smallercommand

Unless this was a semester project, this sounds like a great over-reaction. Failure is to be expected!

ouroborosorder

this is all i can make

boccher

ibuposten

boccher

the-secret-transfeminist

Transfeminist: [explains transfeminism 101]

TMEs: ugh how dare you you're saying I'm not even oppressed at all [long comment just shitting all over whatever you just said]

Transfeminist that makes sure to cater to TMEs: [explains transfeminism 101 but while coddling TME feelings and making sure to give them their equal attention cake]

TMEs: omg thank you SO much<333 thst dirty amab before tried to downplay my oppression but YOU get it!!<333

transsexual-feminism

I've been put into that second category many times, despite my own attempts to the contrary. I will never be "one of the good ones" for you.

terriblewomanyuri

little miss baitbait would like to ask you what you’re doing with that fishing rod

zitongzi

Turning you into little miss vorebait

bideogaymes

The shooting occurred Sunday afternoon outside a Walmart in Senatobia, according to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation.

literally yesterday. all because someone called the police about DIAPERS being shoplifted.

Black children deserve to live and be safe around ALL people, around the world but something so simple is routinely denied to us on the daily by people more concerned with making sure their group doesn’t become the next underclass in which the entire modern world operates on its dehumanization.

im so sorry to this baby, their family, and every Black family dealing with the horrors of antiblackness, having our freedom or lives stolen from us every day.

meanwhile, LAPD shot and killed a Black woman’s dog after being called by her neighbor for being “too loud” during the Knick’s game, one of the biggest basketball event in years.

i seen more comments by nonblack ppl showing sympathy for the dog than the Black woman in the video literally hugging her beloved pet’s dead body in tears while a mob of LAPD officers stand around and watch her dispassionately.

what the fuck.

sludgebitch

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barikios

prokopetz

what would a ttrpg that prioritizes roleplay and actually functions as such look like? i've played a few that claim to be "rp forward" and every time the mechanics meant to facilitate roleplay ended up impeding it - and meanwhile i've had perfectly rewarding rp experiences in crunchier systems with no mechanical social encounter support at all. is there really a way to build rp into a system that works, or is it just a unicorn idea?

"Proiritising roleplaying" doesn't mean anything – it's a piece of vacuous marketing text targeted at people who've constructed their identity politics upon arguing about the correct way to pretend to be an elf.

The basic problem is that the term "roleplaying" is, itself, not well defined; in practice, it means whatever the person trying to sell you something wants it to mean. Here, for example, by invoking the presence or absence of "mechanical social encounter support" as the distinguishing feature of self-styled "RP forward" systems, you seem to be implicitly defining "roleplaying" to mean "set-piece encounters in which a player character attempts to persuade an NPC to do something for them without resorting to violence". Is this justified? Is playing out the process of hitting each other with sticks not "roleplaying"? Why not?

What most people mean when they toss the term "roleplaying" around in the context of tabletop games is something in the vicinity of "roleplaying is when we do things I'm interested in doing, and not-roleplaying is when we do things I'm not interested in doing". As all game rules are unavoidably opinionated about what player characters ought to spend their time doing – indeed, arguably this is the only thing that rules can meaningfully express opinions about! – the question of "does this system 'prioritise roleplaying'?" is typically reducible to "does this system agree with me about what kind of game I'm playing?". Games are then sorted into "priorities roleplaying" and "does not prioritise roleplaying" based on which side of the answer to that question they fall on for the person doing the sorting.

This is the ultimate root of a lot of this "the best sessions I ever had never touched the rules at all" stuff. For a variety of reasons, many people have genuinely never experienced playing a tabletop RPG whose rules agree with them about what sort of experience of play they ought to be having, and in some cases they can't even imagine what that would look like. If you and the system you're using disagree so badly about what kind of game you're playing that "engaging with the rules" and "engaging with my desired experience of play" are mutually exclusive activities, it's not surprising that ignoring the rules entirely would be your best play.

In this light, your question of "what would a system that really prioritises roleplaying look like?" translates to "what would a system that actually agrees with me about what kind of game I'm playing look like?", and that's not a question I can answer unless you're willing and able to get a lot more rigorous about what you mean when you say "roleplaying".

creatingblackcharacters

but Europe isn't racist! 😒😒😒

Swore I answered this 🤣

sawbuckplus

witch-hattery

Honestly, I feel like the word "capitalism" should be retired because it means completely different things to both sides.

Pro-capitalists mean decentralization of control and individual freedom in how people use their own labor and resources.

Anti-capitalists typically seem to use it as an all-purpose scapegoat and boogeyman to blame things on.

odiabonecessario

From the way that they use it, capitalism seems more like an omnipresent entity who's in charge of everything

susanoos-wife

Capitalism just means "a society where I have to work in order to live" to most people who use the term.

tlaquetzqui

The only correct meaning of capitalism is “industrial employment”. By the “free trade and private property” definition, the pre-reservation Navajo were capitalist and the “American School” in political economy was not.

We should in fact retire the term. Not least because modern entrepreneurial economics is as different from 19th century industrialism as that was from 18th century mercantilism (which is the context “capitalist” was first used in—and was absolutely not free trade).

stoptheantisemitism

Kinda weird how all of the comments under this post defending capitalism are being made by people who are also okay with both genocide and colonization. Both of which are things that capitalism allows thorough exploitation.

Funny how it always seems to be the case

milf-king

I love how none of these idiots can even define capitalism because wtf do you mean "the only correct meaning of capitalism is industrial employment" dhsjhdksjdd actually capitalism is when you have a job in a factory 🤓

But the funniest part of this is how none of them understand that anti capitalist are criticizing the social relation between capital and labor. Who owns productive assets, who must sell labor to survive, and whose interests production serves and how that leads to things like alienated labor (what the original tweet in the screenshot was basically saying)

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