I used Plime before reddit, around 2008. Hard to even find info on it these days, not that it was anything special; same general setup as digg or reddit or lemmy.
Eris235
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I mean, yeah, 95% of the Sith are cartoonishly evil, and the remaining 5% are still edgy assholes. So the Sith are obviously worse than the Jedi.
But the Jedi are also stodgy authoritarians, who teach you extremist stoicism, in that Emotions are Bad. Like, their whole 'we know better, just do what we say' thing is so patriarchal and non-constructive. They really do a good job of digging their own grave, and then calling it 'inevitable fate' that the universe 'must swing the opposite way after the Jedi held sway for so long'. No, you all just did a terrible job 'ruling the galaxy'.
So, I think a lot of the appeal of Grey Jedi are that, no, feeling emotions is not bad, you stuck up assholes. (though yeah, a lot of people do just want to be grey jedi to be edgy.)
People that say, "Oh, dune's just another white savior story" are kinda right. Except, its a deconstruction/critique of 'white savior' stories in a lot of ways. Like, the book's theme is that what Paul is doing is fucked up. Though, its not overly stressed in Dune book 1; its not uncommon for people to miss that point. I do feel like the hammered home a lot harder in books 2 and 3; anyone who doesn't get the point that Paul's actions are shitty, won't really even get the plot of them, and will probably just drop the series.
Glad someone else shares my opinion on Gravity Falls. I've had it recommended to me a lot, and man, the wackiness/cringe is an impenetrable barrier to me getting into it at all.
Relatedly, I'm always surprised at how few people know the word Yonic. Phallic I feel is pretty well known and widely used, but it seems like Yonic isn't well known. (just and phallic means looks-like-a-penis, yonic is looks-like-a-vagina/labia)
Glad to see this; was going to comment this exact story.
Fwiw, the forum thread about Mermaid 'farming' was the exact type of Gamer joy at how 'transgressive' they are that you see around the 'rimworld is warcrime simulator' Gamers. Just reveling in how 'funny' it is that the found a way to automate raising, breeding, and slaughtering of human-like pawns for virtual cash-money.
Lmao yeah
ChemE, working in construction, and like, even though my work results in actual stuff getting built, it feels like its 90% paperwork. Invoices, purchase orders, payroll, quibling over contracts and payment, trying not to sign anything describing scope outside of how I priced the scope, etc, etc, etc
Real struggle not feeling like even ''''real'''' trades aren't mostly capitalist filler most days
did recently catch a bullshit building owner pushing us to break building codes and accept switchgear that'd be a bomb though, so that's cool. Like, it'd legally be bad for us if it did kill someone, so even CHUD's should have been motivated to say 'fuck no', but it's still nice to be able to say 'WTF, no; we need to delay this job and spend hundreds of thousands of dollars getting better gear so we're not accessories to fucking murder'. Fun part is is saying that should be the actual EE's job, but they signed off on it (like morons), so I got to be the one to say it, which like, getting to flip out on people when you're legally and morally justified in doing so is a pretty good high
Started playing in 6th edition, and hate the new age of sigmar edition; feels like they saw 40k was selling better, and figured if they made fantasy more like 40k it'd do better. Which, 40k is good, but I prefer fantasy for the mechanics. I like needing to wheel inflexible blocks of units around, and having a more in-depth magic phase.
So yeah, really looking forward to tge Old World they're working on, tho if ypu haven't seen the Ninth Age project, it's pretty cool; basically an open source fantasy 9th edition, though of course they sadly need to shuffle names and lore around.
Warhamemr 40k is pretty fun, though I'm a bit more of a Fantasy player myself. Both work pretty okay on Tabletop sim; though I've been wanting to give The 9th Age a try.
Used to be real into Magic, though I've fallen out in recent years, mostly due to rapid-release fatigue combined with not being social, due to the thing.
Good that they've had this stance reiterated again (I seem to remember a near identical statement by them a year or two ago). But they're still shitty to fans, shitty to employees, and shitty about their IP. So I'm just gonna go ahead and still play piratehammer. Plenty of support these days, between VTTs, 3d printer-friendly models, and the excellent 9th-age.
Last I saw, Covid death rates were still almost double that of influenza. And that's even with (generally) higher vaccination rates for covid over the flu.