Skulldrinker
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Yes, but those women all hate men unless they're gay.
I'm quite serious about this; the great proportion of the biological women who got into D&D, 5e specifically, are walking stereotypes of leftists with all the accompanying attitudes and annoying habits. Everything they don't like is a dog-whistle for something bad, every work of art is evaluated based on how queer it is, they're all "neurodivergent" as of six months ago, they formally announce their (she/her) pronouns in casual social interactions. The first words out of one of their mouths were a tirade about how someone gatekept her and mansplained her, another one would never go on a date with a man because "she doesn't want to get assaulted", then abruptly lavished affection on some random guy when he mentioned being gay. They're surrounded by the nicest, most cautious, most overwhelmingly leftist feminist anti-racist cis men you're going to find, and have nothing but scorn for them. These weren't people I was chasing or even chatting up, this was all ambiently observed. I have worse stories about the one I chased.
It's singularly upsetting for me that my fucking hobby puts me in contact with these people whenever I interact with any part of the hobby outside of my little NuSR club.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
Is there some sort of movement to stigmatize Ozempic? I haven't heard it smeared as right-wing yet.
Skulldrinker
5d ago
So, buried in all this is some woman treating GLP1 use by her friend as some sort of personal affront and betrayal?
I've thought about trying to articulate "gay" as a pejorative with "behavior that's gone so far up it's own ass it's forgotten the original point of doing the behavior." Which is nothing to do with men who have sex with men.
Under this metric, a peackock's tail, and being part of a magic superhero team who only chases after one guy, are both completely gay.
Skulldrinker
7d ago
Yesterday I tried going to a LGS to help some friends try out wargaming (specifically Grimdark Future, the actual rules for 40K as a game are terrible). The guy who was agitating for it in the first place didn't turn up, nor did another guy. Turned out, my only day off was also the day of a tournament, so there were no available tables and I had to cancel on the one guy who would have turned up. I should have just gotten lunch instead with that guy, but I was in a miserable mood by that point and didn't want to take the risk of being unpleasant.
My miserable mood snuck up on me. The last time I'd been to that store (it has display armies you can borrow and good terrain) it was 2021. I'd seen the store's policy was that either masks OR vaccination was required, it was a little ray of hope for me that we were exiting the pandemic/lockdown conditions; my J&J card would let me sit in a basement and play plastic army dudes unmasked.
But by the time I got there, there had been a slight uptick in reported COVID cases in the city, and the store had a new sign on the door; Masks AND vaccination required. The unvaccinated need not apply.
It was, frankly, one of the reasons I stopped engaging with 40K, MtG, and ("F")LGS culture in general, even when the pandemic ended. I hated how obedient and cowed most geeks were, and how over-eager store staff was to go above and beyond on Taking COVID Seriously; normies didn't have to deal with this, they could go to their sports bars and whatever else it is normies do without wearing stupid cloth things on their faces just to soothe the anxiety of neurotic hypochondriacs who were staying home anyways.
One thing I had liked about the culture of wargaming was how mixed the culture was; blue collar and white collar, some ex-military, some artsy people, all of them united by their appreciation of chainsaw swords and Catholic Space Nazi aesthetics.
Anyways, I go back to this place in the Year of our Lord 2026, and the entire staff, and 25% of the upstairs mtg/board game clientele, are still masking up. The entire staff is also trans, for some fucking reason. At least there were no masks downstairs in the crowded basement of cis male tourneyfags, (with more racial diversity than the upstairs crowd).
It just reminded me of bad times, and how if these people had their way, those times never would have ended.
AI as it is right now is a gimmick I want people to get bored with, like NFTs, "Blockchain" everything, and 3d Films/TVs. I also have a deep personal disgust reaction towards how it's apparently impossible to get an LLM not not call things Chef's Kiss or declare that it as [X] Energy, and the general way so much of its output is designed to give the impression of comprehension while not comprehending. Or when it touches certain topics it suddenly becomes cautiously, obsequiously, orthodoxly pozzed, and mysteriously stops trying to lick my ass. I realize I only used text generation on free and, for a while, one step above free models, and not using it to code, which seems to be the most impressive practical function it has.
I want to step into the turbolift and say "Deck 12," and have the computer reply with "Deck 12,"
I do not want to hear "Sure buddy, I'll get right on that. Deck 12 has some serious Starfleet Energy to it, it's an excellent choice. Dare I say, it's downright Chef's Kiss."
The other day I was watching Sharpe's Rifles on Plex (only place I could find it), which has commercials every now and then (the only time I see commercials), and way too many of them feature creepily-animated AI-derived CGI critters that make my skin crawl. I'm distressed that so many other humans seem incapable of recognizing or rejecting AI slop; their reaction seems to be "This thing is awesome, it tells me exactly what it thinks I want to hear!" completely oblivious to how horrific that is.
Skulldrinker
11d ago
TL;DR young woman at UK university is indistinguishable from young woman at USA university (frothing leftist, Marxism, Gaza, BLM, ACAB, disdain for boyfriend).
Skulldrinker
12d ago
I am surprised (again I'm not a good predictor) that such an economically disenfranchised college graduate population (if that 43% is accurate) haven't solidified into any kind of a political movement yet.
They did. It's called being a Leftist. It has next to nothing to do with advancing their interests, but it's what everyone picked, and without economic security, it's too risky to pick anything else and wind up a pariah.
Skulldrinker
15d ago
Do you get annoyed when someone says they "built" a PC? They didn't make a single part, they probably don't even know what a "PCB" is! They just slotted it together like Lego.
Building a PC is a technical task apparently beyond the median human being. What IS worthy of annoyance would be someone talking about how they built a PC by buying an Alienware gaming laptop.
The first and only time I encountered Infinite Jest, it was the guy so dedicated to social climbing he became a gay black communist to pick up college-educated white chicks. And he had suddenly started talking about infinite jest without ever mentioning anything about infinite jest. I was just there when he reliably brought it up with the same lines in every interaction with a new person. He was 30 though and knew exactly what he was doing.
I was frankly confused as to why he was so obsessed with a book he wasn't actually reading and couldn't explain what he liked about it.
I like genre trash, and am not embarrassed about it, and I have very low tolerance for performative waffling.
Skulldrinker
26d ago
Just to make sure I follow, is the TL;DR of this that it's illegal to not maximally encourage trans/queerness in therapy, even when neutrality is what the client is asking for?
Or is this sort of therapy really just laundered gay conversion treatment?
Skulldrinker
27d ago
Well, someone is telling them that being "very liberal" requires shitting on stuff from a very specific list that someone put together.
Skulldrinker
27d ago
Yeah, this. "Girls Need Role Models" thing has been beaten on the cliche drum for decades, and in the Girlboss era of screenwriting you'd have to be living under a rock to not notice it.
In my personal life, I've even noticed a reflexive poisoned-well disdain among women for anything empathetic towards men that feels downright-coordinated; Blade Runner 2047 is Misogynistic, Frankenstein is Incel. Basically anything with Ryan Gosling in it makes them uncomfortable, and I don't know what the vector for all this groupthink is. I just know that I can't get through a casual conversation about film with a woman without them shitting on something that spoke to me. Or praising something for being "so queer" when they themselves are obstensibly straight.
Skulldrinker
29d ago
Once bitten, twice shy; is there a way to engineer scenarios where they get bullied or otherwise mistreated by diverse and inclusive wokescolds?
Exactly. Waiting a measly 2.75 years seems a much better tactic for anyone who cares about long-term victory for their cause, especially since the Mickey17 assassination attempt is probably what secured Trump's last victory.
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