Grant_us_eyes
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Grant_us_eyes
14d ago
Quite. Naming your system after a fantasy tool that was once used for good and has been corrupted by evil and thus dangerous to use with skeptical returns should have everyone giving you a side-eye and going 'Bruh'.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
Do you have any idea how difficult it is nowadays to track down the actual Code Noirs in regards to treatment of slaves in the American South?
To quote;
VI. We forbid our white subjects, of both sexes, to marry with the blacks, under the penalty of being fined and subjected to some other arbitrary punishment. We forbid all curates, priests, or missionaries of our secular or regular clergy, and even our chaplains in our navy to sanction such marriages. We also forbid all our white subjects, and even the manumitted or free-born blacks, to live in a state of concubinage with blacks. Should there be any issue from this kind of intercourse, it is our will that the person so offending, and the master of the slave, should pay each a fine of three hundred livres. Should said issue be the result of the concubinage of the master with his slave, said master shall not only pay the fine, but be deprived of the slave and of the children, who shall be adjudged to the hospital of the locality, and said slaves shall be forever incapable of being set free. But should this illicit intercourse have existed between a free black and his slave, when said free black had no legitimate wife, and should said black marry said slave according to the forms prescribed by the church, said slave shall be thereby set free, and the children shall also become free and legitimate ; and in such a case, there shall be no application of the penalties mentioned in the present article.
Now, there is a valid arguement to be made that the enforcement of said laws wasn't exactly strict, or that there wasn't fair and equatible treatment thereof. But you can't say that, by the written law on paper, that the situation was a case of 'It's free real estate!' for people to do whatever they want with thier female slaves.
And, yes, this is only one case of a very specific state in regards to thier treatment on slaves. But it was also put to paper in 1724. I don't have the time to invest to track down and compare all Code Noirs from that particular time period, or do a comparative analysis on how things changed over time leading up to the Civil War.
Grant_us_eyes
15d ago
If you strech the time period back to 1930, you could make an argument that 1930 to 1990s represents a solid degradation on gun rights, from the twisted origins of the NFA Tax Stamp in 1934, the Gun Control act of 1968, the fucking Hughes Amendment, and culminating in the assault weapons ban in the 1990s.
Grant_us_eyes
22d ago
I've been a little bit at a loss as what to sink my teeth into as of late, so I've mostly been playing a slightly-modded run of The Long Dark to work on getting my 500-day acheivement.
If anyone has the urge to play a survival walking game, I do endorse it, even if I think Hinterland has been a little shizoprenic in terms of how they've been developing the sandbox side of things as of late.
Grant_us_eyes
24d ago
I'm a little skeptical of this, mostly because I've never seen it in action.
I have, however, much to my shock, seen examples where women in a pre-established group reacted in a surprisingly vitriolic manner to someone who's much more attractive suddenly popping up out of nowhere.
Grant_us_eyes
24d ago
College nowadays is just a mechanism to take advantage of tribal nepotism and entry into higher strata of social circles and connections.
Sadly, I learned that one far too late.
Grant_us_eyes
24d ago
Personal theory: AOC (or her handlers have her) dresses down deliberately to make her look worse than she actually is, because alot of women tend to disfavor women that look better than they do.
Zendaya is still ugly, though.
Grant_us_eyes
25d ago
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
Battletech was my first introduction to table-top wargaming. I remember playing with it as a kid, with the battlemech setup sheets that, uh, were just a little bit litigatious.
Years later, when I finally get a bee in my bonnet and start looking into painting miniatures, I decide to cut my teeth by purchasing a box of Mechwarriors and start looking into see what's been happening with the IP lately...
...only to find that it's decided to go a similar route as Warhammer 40K and go woke and gay.
For fuck's sake. By this point having anything you love become widespread and popular is a curse rather than a blessing.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
Counterpoint; Is this because they enjoy old things or just that everything new nowadays sucks?
It's one of the refrains I've seen in the video game arenas I frequent; 'Why would I be giving money to people who hate me when I can just keep playing older games?'
If I can crack open a twenty two year old game(holy shit) and get what I feel is a better Star Wars experience than anything that's come out since then, is it because I like old things or that everything nowadays that is bad?
Even worse, while it seems to be very easy to run across good video games nowadays in the indie market, given how much exposure they get, finding good books that are very male-coded is quite difficult. I can think of atleast two recent authors off the top of my head that are very male coded(KD Robertson and E William Brown) and while not exactly high-brow, they're still fun, good reads.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
I want to argue otherwise, but then I remember the entire book-shredding subplot and the prevalence of black box engineering and just throw my hands up in defeat.
Grant_us_eyes
26d ago
I guess we're in the Eclipse Phase timeline, then.
Better than Pantheon, I suppose.
Really hard to beat The Devil's Spear. That sheild drop moment is just utter perfection.
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