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Volition@volition.bsky.social |
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jongleur and writer of games a "huge problem to a sane world"
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Volition
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gotta love polsci discourse about who did watch the us presidential debate (the politically engaged) vs who didn't (the uninformed) like politics to these people really is 'imagine a late night tv show'
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somehow one of my biggest priorities in that game is to get as many scenes where the characters call them "brainworms" as possible
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This crowd has seemingly had a feminist movement lately of a sort (at odds with Blanchard's intense antifeminism,) but it really feels so wholly defined around heterosexuality.
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The "brick isn't a slur, it's just a say of keeping the real dolls safe" has always felt so alien as a discourse, like knowing respectability politics is a trap feels like a lesson you learn early on.
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Volition
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Feeling really isolated and dealing with medication withdrawals. Not in a good place rn.
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love the concept of "patriachal people" as if it's just a vibe and not a specific system
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to those men who complain about trans women, it's a feature, not a bug
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constant badthoughts
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I am urging Blair to walk into the fucking sea
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he was literally the head of the american state
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Disney Prime Video +
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X-Men (Series, 1992 - 1997)
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Volition
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new form of medical gatekeeping: you need two medical professionals to confirm you are not the honker god
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i just never got the appeal of the latter and always wondered if there's something wrong with me
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James Cordon, no longer merely upsetting to the general population, now also upsetting his own fans.
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But at the same time, even if they may still be arbitrary and give the police and the courts discretion, they are much more limited in scope, focusing entirely on entertainers, and treating it as a proxy battle with transness. They don't want cis, gender conforming people caught in the crossfire.
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One interesting thing is that the article does suggest that these anti "drag" laws will likely be nullified over time, and that in such a case, they should be reformed. This obviously brings to mind the recent anti-drag laws in the US.
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divine feminine balance shit combined with a weird association between 'gentlemen' and trans women
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(Probably also weird to refer to the org as being "Australia and New Zealand" too, for that matter.)
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Feels like they're pretty deliberately taking the RANZCP out of context.
www.ranzcp.org/clinical-gui...
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paying to have a 'body positive' experience just really makes it seem like you're just paying a levy on your body to make it more acceptable
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This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?
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"recognising" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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"She is always ready to fight men with her fists, and can punish those who illtreat female prostitutes." Truth Sun 11 Jan 1903 Page 4
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"They went to theatres, took private boxes, talked with this man and that, and whether dressed as men or as women, contrived, it would seem, to convey the impression that they were women." The Queensland Times Thu 25 Aug 1870 Page 4
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like i think we see this shit so often because it's like, the one time "online stuff" becomes serious because the police sometimes get involved also is an extremely useful way for oppressors to make themselves out to be the victims because death threats are seen as more serious than systems
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I feel like at this point of online discourse, a lot of people genuinely view "death threats" not as referring to threats to someone's life, but as invoking someone's death (or sometimes even just using expletives) while being derogatory to them.
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Antitransmasculinity definitely exists, though.
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I don't think you should trust sexologists to know what's normal, and also it's definitely not good to treat "normal" as "good."
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On that note, a lot of the "Games journalists suck at playing video games" discourse seems to carry a resentment that Gamers™ are better at beating games than journalists, and are thus apparently more qualified for a job they see as "Being paid to playing all the new games."
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It's amazing how cleanly people seem to think they can demarcate "valid accessibility options" and "easy modes added because game journalists are n00bs."
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the number of the (mister) beast
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this is just feeling like qanon for people who love imperialism but need to have social justice framings for why it's good
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at some point these threats feel especially gleeful like they barely even have to pay lip service to the "opposing biden means being right wing realistically, consider a horseshoe" anymore
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putting an x in the right box, why did we peasants not think of this?
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i liked those garfield comics where he's being tortured and played with by the ontological concept of mondays it's comforting to know that i'm not the only person being victimised by abstract ideas
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so I just got sharked out of a pretty lucrative gig that I was relying on to carry me for the next two months. I hate to ask but can y’all kick me a few bucks so I can make it through the rest of this hellmonth long enough to find another gig? CA: $amiyatzin Venmo: @amiyatzin
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Volition
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im like 90% sure this one scene from game of thrones ended up being so infamous because it tried to randomly lean onto that trope as the conclusion to its story in a way that exposes how shalllow it is (apologies for cursed inspirational quote format)
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Volition
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I wish I wasn't alive right now I can't handle this.
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feeling bored and dysphoric i think that's how death note started idk it's been a while since i saw that
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I do think it does a lot, but more in how it shifts awareness for people who'd otherwise be limited to their direct communities and traditional media, rather than being a form of activism in of itself.
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there's people who argue that gaiman did very little with the book and that all of the good ideas were pratchett's but i think it's people trying to basically associate all the bits they enjoyed with someone they can pedistalise instead
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he tweeted "trans women are women" at some point like, you know, the thing loads of vaguely progressive celebrities have done i never got the sense he had a partocular reputation as a trans ally, except in perhaps the good omens fandom
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But some players will still cling onto the idea that having an easy mode will diminish their achievements, having built an identity around having satisfyied a developer-intended play experience. Games are still seen as something to 'beat,' as if the game itself is an adversary, after all.
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Something else that's shifted significantly in this period is that what 'video games' even means to people has dramatically shifted. Nobody played Space Invaders (1978) for the narrative, when this is very common for people playing games today.
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This quickly spread into video games, becoming a mainstay even when it's become vestigial over time. Competition in Super Mario Bros games today, for example, is focused on speedrunning or on challenge runs rather than on trying to 'clock' the scoreboard.
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These games needed something to draw in children, for whom offering prizes was no longer an option in games that were not purely 'games of skill' (which carnival games rely on.) In 1975, we see the US' Spirit of 76 as the first game designed to track the High Score of players, to foster competition.
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Even in Japan (where Sega moved to from the US due to its flexibility with coin operated game laws) these games with luck elements had to offer prizes which can be exchanged for monetary value off premises, and in 1954, the law requires panchinko parlous as licenced business to forbid under 18s.
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One of the big draws of early arcades was the fact that one could often win prizes from these games, but naturally a lot of them fell afoul of gambling laws, with even games with skill elements such as pinball being targeted by these laws.
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The infamous You Cannot Beat Us ad aired in Australia in 1987, but was designed to appeal to an existing concept of why people play video games, one informed by the fact that video games were initially associated with amusement arcades.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX4M...
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I think to understand the hostility to accessibility options in video games you probably have to understand how much the Gamer™ identity was originally built around the idea that one would gain accolades around Being Good At Games, and that this was basically a thing since the beginning.
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