If this is real, this person seems pretty cool but I hope they don’t tell their mom

i like how the video contrasts the addictive MMO style shitfest with the “addictive” actually fun Vampire Survivors. it’s nice to see people separate out dopamine fests from, y’know, addictive and unenjoyable dopamine fasts (not a typo) that are MMOs. Because like, who doesn’t love a good dopamine fest

edit: the word for something that’s so good that you can’t put it down is “compelling”, i don’t know why it just isn’t used to describe games?? (except stories in them)

I wish Starbound was a horizontal progression terraria :(

I do like me some number go up but I prefer big changes like bigger projectiles or something proper like that over percentage bonuses. Or extra tools to do something actually fun like buildcrafting

Clarification: neither I nor the writer of the post believes that transmasc people (are treated better/don’t experience as much transphobia/whatever weird take), the OP was just pointing those out as flawed beliefs. I would at least hope they don’t subscribe to them, given they seem to be transmasc themselves

I hope it was clear that I am agreeing with everything here! I guess my descriptor of it as different incarnations of misogyny would be inaccurate, but like you said, I view it that way because the patriarchal violence done to men is specifically done to turn them into doers of violence. Patriarchy by itself is like a whole system bent towards subjugating the lower reproductive-labor class and it doesn’t care about hurting or subjugating anyone, even people not part of that class, if it has to to do its main goals. And when you add capitalism on top of it…

terraria is fun though

no, liking things that aren’t pedophilia is CRINGE

We must do what is practical, what is “practical” happens to be compromising with Nazis, that type of logic etc…

That said, it doesn’t appear that OPs issue here is with people sounding like reactionaries, it’s more against the performative misanthropy of comments like “Kamala voters get the pit.” I’m inclined to read that charitably as venting and not as a literal call to murder millions of people and respect the fact that the people engaging in that rhetoric online might be perfectly normal in real life

This is what I meant, there’s a tendency for me and others to read said comments more literally despite it not being intended as such

insurance just pulled me life support but it’s ok!! I know they can’t afford to pay all that

i agree with this, it is much harder to do questionable things in the name of hopelessness if people surrounding you simply aren’t hopeless

as long as you stay away from criticizing the games i like even softly i am up for both

im beginning to think there’s something sinister in the concept of practicality

there is a suspicious lack of animation among lesser evil types to start creating any sort of militant organization to help those in Palestine. you’d assume if the average bluehitlerite cared as much as they say they do we would see a huge anti imperialist party be born over the last couple months.

ofc if someone has been animated into believing such change is possible before this point despite the odds they’re perceiving, they are either extremely malleable due to social currents or otherwise just fascists hiding behind a mask

it’s the domestic policies bit, the logic is that the left can’t do anything and if they try to ask for different foreign policies it’ll achieve nothing. so they are voting for a more comfortable position in the imperial core because they think it’s impossible to affect the comfort of those outside of it (defeatism when it comes to anti-imperialist policies)

logic can’t break people out of that brain prison because the defeatism is emotional, it’s an internalized helplessness created from decades of violent repression of the left

the whole “everyone who is doing lesser evilism is basically a hitler follower” thing is starting to genuinely piss me off. no these people specifically, like in OP, are not saying “might as well” because they’re trying to justify their preference for domestic vs foreign lives. they’re saying it because they are still used to a US with absolutely no organized left or worker’s power. they don’t see themselves as sacrificing anything because they think the left is completely incapable of doing anything in the US and that there is no leftist cause to sacrifice. this isn’t the position of a hitlerite, it’s the position of a leftist who genuinely thinks no positive systemic change is or is currently possible. i understand getting annoyed at online proselytizing blue MAGA types but implicitly lumping actual comrades who still have misplaced faith in lesser evilism in with them is not a salient analysis of material reality, the leftists voting for KKKopmala because they think collective bargaining is entirely out of reach and every person they know keeps yelling at them to do so are not at all comparable to Blueman Bloodmouth salivating over palestinian death counts

edit: of course it’s still extremely bad to be defeatist to the point of being complicit with a genocidal regime, but i do genuinely think the animating force in this case is defeatism rather than pure seflishness, so they’re far more redeemable than most types. Of course it’s up to OP whether it’s worth the time for them to do that

valid, please just be kind to yourself

you have a lot of time, there’s no need to be worried

Idk if I’m reading this correctly but, If this is about some sort of compulsive fear you might be trans: You have no obligation to pursue transition just because you are experiencing things that could be interpreted as possibly a trans experience. You don’t even have to be trans if you don’t want to be. It’s about liberating your gender identity, FOMO doesn’t make sense with it, you are not missing out on anything by not forcing yourself to do things

But that said, I would also think about why being trans would be scary. If it’s just a fear you aren’t exploring yourself enough (FOMO), then see above. But if it’s a fear of being trans in and of itself, you might want to interrogate that. If you have some sort of idea that being trans is, deviant, unnatural, a mental disorder, etc, you might be more anxious about it than you should be

thank you

also tbf i don’t think its like explicitly ableist. it’s just. very reminiscient of some weird things people say