Skulldrinker
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Skulldrinker
1d ago
I may read too much sci-fi, then, because I was all-in on the jargon.
The audiobook has good delivery with distinct voices for all the characters; Spindel and Cunningham talk quite differently while both being stemlords.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
I tried reading Alien Clay. Didn't quite finish it; repetitive prose and ideas, some degree of oppression porn, . Felt like Avatar written by an ecologist who is also a labor-of-my-body lets-have-a-commitee-meeting marxist rather than a blue cat native-american fetishist who likes submarines. The creatures were initially interesting, but then the planet becomes an anonymous blob of empathy breaking through the false consciousness, solving the coordination problem, and overthrowing the bootlickers. I think my personal grudges prevented me from enjoying it. TL;DR "What if [bad thing: hiveminds] is actually good?"
I liked Blindsight much more.
Skulldrinker
1d ago
All my examples come from IRL interactions in Chicago. It happens with randos, it happens with people I meet socially.
Three separate people said "ewww, there's a lot of white people around here" while wandering around the north side with me in 2020. Way back when I brushed it off, and went on to regret associating with them after how they behaved later.
Skulldrinker
2d ago
That guy who got shot in Kenosha was initially a Local community leader who saw some sort of argument happening in his community while driving and stopped to assist in restoring harmony to his community, then cops tried to assassinate him.
People in cities are still viciously tribal, though. Tons of them can't get through a casual conversation without mentioning how much they hate Trump, ICE, tech bros, cops, billionaires, conservatives, white people (while being white), rich people, straightness (while being straight), or men, and give you weird looks if you don't join in. And that's if you can even get them to talk to you.
My friend group here, despite being very adjacent to the LGBT community, has no actual LGBT people in it. (At most, It has the occasional straight chick who talks about Queerness a lot). And this isn't because we keep the LGBTs out, it's because none of us are "cool" enough for them; we dont speak in reddit-isms, too much of our conversation isn't about politics, and when one of them does wander in, we dont relentlessly praise their LGBTness like I presume other straight people do, we keep playing D&D. Oh, and the system we use doesn't have Tieflings in it, that's a big barrier. This suits me just fine.
Despite being full of minorities and anti-racists, the neighborhoods are still racially sorted somehow. It can't be the fault of conservatives, since there's none of them here.
Tribalism is alive and well in cities. By comparison, people outside of cities don't quake in performative fear when someone they don't know exists in their general vicinity, they don't constantly screech about all the things they hate, and what LGBT and People of Color that do exist there seem far more willing to socialize with non-queer/non-of-color people without making the entire interaction about queerness or of-color-ness.
Also, HP did describe the Elder Things as Men of a different age, they were ultimately people and more a subject of awe and fascination than horror. He arguably hated them way less than black people.
Skulldrinker
6d ago
Have you considered implying that your identity is trendier than it actually is? Any native American ancestors? Maybe use a neopronoun? You can stop using it later and if anyone objects, tell them you're fluid and they're a bigot.
Skulldrinker
19d ago
Back when they first started getting big, it was foreign/third world markets; people wanted the phone to be a computer since they didn't have anything else. Also, simpleminded bigger=better. A small phone might sell in the US or Europe or Japan, but nowhere else.
Now everyone has become a third-worlder in their phone habits.
Skulldrinker
20d ago
Even then, it deserves a 40% for having been turned in.
Skulldrinker
22d ago
I dislike Rian Johnson's writing tone; it's very flippant, very contemporary in a way that will age it poorly, and seems tuned for getting Leftists to clap like circus seals.
Skulldrinker
22d ago
Q was trolling them; calling them violent and savage would get under their skin the most. He's plainly not against violence, he's against boredom.
Skulldrinker
25d ago
Try the Mexican/Puerto Rican stuff. It'll be packed into a brick, not in a can.
Skulldrinker
29d ago
The spike in religion-talk seems to be coming from the small subset of already-religious (in a very meticulous, autistic way) men talking more about it, plus aesthetic posturing about Based-ness. So, the talk is all talk.
Compare red-pill Islam- that's just peddling redpills to the existing Muslim online young men.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
This depresses me more than Hasan Pikers' popularity.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
I don't think Candace Owens is any sort of useful metric here; she really is an attention grifter. Does she have fans? Honest question.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
I see young Leftist Maskies every day.
The last time I went to a speed dating event (2025 summer) they required proof of vaccination and "encouraged" masks.
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Skulldrinker
1mo ago
THC gummies before bed, the Indica ones.
It's really only among the Hasan Piker crowd. So, Twitch Tankies with Islam overlap.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
I am happy to report that life as a Western atheist is actually quite pleasant.
In terms of not being subject to Christianity, yes.
It's a deep personal irony for me that while I had my minor annoyances with Christianity as a youth, most of my atheist grievances were secondhand. The personal grievance was being forced to engage with it at all; a lot of time spent being bored, bored enough to dwell on how in addition to being boring, it contradicted all the science/natural history stuff that I was actually interested in. In a conflict between Jesus and Dinosaurs, Jesus didn't have a chance.
Now, as an adult, I actually have experienced being subject to an oppressive ideology that deranges the people around me in obviously unhealthy ways.
Everyone assumes I share this ideology, but also talks constantly about how much they hate/fear those who don't, resulting in a vibe of "You better agree with me, or else". I get to hear incessant little digs about my immutable characteristics that imply they make me a Less-Than. Sometimes I even get a backhanded compliment that's the equivalent of "Wow, you're very articulate for a Black."
Just about everyone (as in, a social peer, not a rando) who's been interpersonally foul to me in the last six years has used ideological lingo while doing so. And didn't suffer social consequences for their foulness, once more because of ideology, and my immutable characteristics that are disfavored by said ideology.
So yeah, all my under-justified dislike of Christianity has been redirected into a quite-justified dislike of, you guessed it, Intersectionalist Leftist-ism.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
In fairness, killings of women are way less likely to be a mutual combat where the victim could have as easily been the murderer had events gone differently.
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
On what basis do you declare the Cathars "obviously wrong"?
Skulldrinker
1mo ago
Leftistism needs to be compatible in-practice with chasing trends and having a corporate email job where you make pivot tables and do agile paradigm shifting. That means being okay with AI, just like how they were okay with Teslas/Musk in 2020.
Skulldrinker
2mo ago
In order for women to mock men for playing D&D, they'd have had to know what it is, and plenty of women plainly like some element or other of the concept of the game (they like roleplaying tea parties).
The main issue was that they wanted nothing to do with the men that played it.
Skulldrinker
2mo ago
Yeah, I'm at the front lines of it. Every few months, we get a scare where a leftist theater kid or a straight woman who keeps talking about Queerness turns up and calls things problematic or harumphs at someone's accent.
Skulldrinker
2mo ago
I would love for D&D to be taken away from WotC and put in the hands of someone who will make some fucking content for it.
Also, this battleground isn't dead, the 5e player-base is fucking ridden with leftists that will eat up queer land acknowledgements. There legitimately is a market for their products. The biggest blow they took lately was the OGL fiasco and how it made all the big-deal podcasters (who have mostly drifted towards being Leftist or Leftist-safe if they weren't there already, to my understanding) try to swap to third-party systems.
It's not even Red America being shit on, it's White People in general or Men in general. Sometimes they complete the trifecta and complain about Straight people. Since I'm the person they're talking to, I honestly can't tell if they're telegraphing that I should go away, or they just think this is how people interact.
Regardless of who the target is, it's still a fucking unhealthy and unbecoming amount of open vitriol for the people who claim they're all about Empathy/Niceness/Inclusivity.
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