CaesarVincens
@caesarvincens.bsky.social
Gamer and game modder; I've put way too many hours into Paradox Interactive games. I'm online in most places with this username.
Yet another in the "Everything is Gender".
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
was talking in a Discord about the political valences of video games, and observed that at least in the fandoms I was broadly part of, for the past 20 years "what are the politics of this game" has in practice reduced to "what are the gender politics of this game" and literally nothing else
February 8, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Yet another in the "Everything is Gender".
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
As Ellie notes, a game can be right-coded in its themes and gameplay, but if there is a non-cishet-white male lead (or even just major non-romance character), it's almost automatically considered left-coded.
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“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 11:04 AM
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
Whiteness is defined by who is excluded, so any heritage can become the "other" (yes, that one, too) as is convenient for white supremacists.
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Whiteness is defined by who is excluded, so any heritage can become the "other" (yes, that one, too) as is convenient for white supremacists.
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I am supremely disappointed by this. Readers don't want this. Librarians don't want this. Libby either doesn't know their audience or doesn't care. Either way, it's not worth me keeping installed.
Our official policy provides clarity on our AI usage and the broader impact of AI on the book industry as a whole. Read OverDrive's full policy here: https://bit.ly/4be33jB
January 13, 2026 at 3:18 AM
I am supremely disappointed by this. Readers don't want this. Librarians don't want this. Libby either doesn't know their audience or doesn't care. Either way, it's not worth me keeping installed.
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It’s a form of pareidolia, I think; people have a very hard time with the absolute void at the center of what’s happening, and so the pattern matching wetware, with literally no guidelines, goes ballistic.
January 5, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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“How do I explain trans people to my kids”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
December 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
“How do I explain trans people to my kids”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
mate, what are you explaining? “Kids, this is Mr Jay, would you like to wave or fistbump or shake hands?”
what is there to explain beyond “here’s a person”
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
Chatbots are perfect examples of the broken clock metaphor, except that each time you look at it, the hands have moved randomly, and sometimes to impossible positions.
December 11, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Chatbots are perfect examples of the broken clock metaphor, except that each time you look at it, the hands have moved randomly, and sometimes to impossible positions.
I joined a banking app for a referral bonus and just got the first installment. This was the last part of the email. I'll be sure to keep that energy.
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I joined a banking app for a referral bonus and just got the first installment. This was the last part of the email. I'll be sure to keep that energy.
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Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development
November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Seeing this chart as an impressionable young man was a formative moment in my political development
Devereaux describes how we are in an in-between moment: of autocracy and fascism, not approaching, but present, not completed, but in progress.
Our challenge is to meet the moment and not shy from it, to not pretend that we can wait for someone else to meet it. Action and inaction are both choices.
Our challenge is to meet the moment and not shy from it, to not pretend that we can wait for someone else to meet it. Action and inaction are both choices.
I found this exchange, at ~ 55 mins in (youtu.be/m7X0t-MGnUU?...) in the Dispatch Pod telling - how it captures the different vibes I get from center and center-right friends.
In particular, Kevin Williamson's declaration, "we're not waiting for the emergency to get here, the emergency is here."
In particular, Kevin Williamson's declaration, "we're not waiting for the emergency to get here, the emergency is here."
Farm bailout, ICE Tactics, and the Cat Lobby
YouTube video by The Dispatch
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Devereaux describes how we are in an in-between moment: of autocracy and fascism, not approaching, but present, not completed, but in progress.
Our challenge is to meet the moment and not shy from it, to not pretend that we can wait for someone else to meet it. Action and inaction are both choices.
Our challenge is to meet the moment and not shy from it, to not pretend that we can wait for someone else to meet it. Action and inaction are both choices.
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If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 19, 2025 at 2:25 PM
If you’re in a creative field and you don’t lift up the work of your peers, you can’t expect people to care about your stuff
I looked at some comments, and it really is a lot of cut and paste, all claiming fraud and illegal voting, a vanishingly small problem here in the USA.
I added my own handcrafted comment because voting is important to me and I believe it is important to make voting easy for all eligible citizens.
I added my own handcrafted comment because voting is important to me and I believe it is important to make voting easy for all eligible citizens.
You may not think this is a big deal, but the commenters who are cut & pasting in language to add burdens to millions of voters think it's a big deal.
Part of the regulatory process is the count and review of proposed regs. Make your voice heard.
Part of the regulatory process is the count and review of proposed regs. Make your voice heard.
Have you commented yet? Follow the link and click on the button that says "Comment."
The Election Assistance Commission is considering requiring us to show passports or other proof of citizenship when registering to vote using the federal voter registration form.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
The Election Assistance Commission is considering requiring us to show passports or other proof of citizenship when registering to vote using the federal voter registration form.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
October 19, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I looked at some comments, and it really is a lot of cut and paste, all claiming fraud and illegal voting, a vanishingly small problem here in the USA.
I added my own handcrafted comment because voting is important to me and I believe it is important to make voting easy for all eligible citizens.
I added my own handcrafted comment because voting is important to me and I believe it is important to make voting easy for all eligible citizens.
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You may not think this is a big deal, but the commenters who are cut & pasting in language to add burdens to millions of voters think it's a big deal.
Part of the regulatory process is the count and review of proposed regs. Make your voice heard.
Part of the regulatory process is the count and review of proposed regs. Make your voice heard.
Have you commented yet? Follow the link and click on the button that says "Comment."
The Election Assistance Commission is considering requiring us to show passports or other proof of citizenship when registering to vote using the federal voter registration form.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
The Election Assistance Commission is considering requiring us to show passports or other proof of citizenship when registering to vote using the federal voter registration form.
www.regulations.gov/document/EAC...
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
October 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM
You may not think this is a big deal, but the commenters who are cut & pasting in language to add burdens to millions of voters think it's a big deal.
Part of the regulatory process is the count and review of proposed regs. Make your voice heard.
Part of the regulatory process is the count and review of proposed regs. Make your voice heard.
No speech data survives
Works on my machine
power outage during anneal
October 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
No speech data survives
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everyone would agree that if you believe in what is right, it doesn't matter if it's controversial. i would go a step further and say: you should not even concede to the *idea* that what you believe is controversial.
trans rights is only controversial if you act like it's controversial.
trans rights is only controversial if you act like it's controversial.
October 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
everyone would agree that if you believe in what is right, it doesn't matter if it's controversial. i would go a step further and say: you should not even concede to the *idea* that what you believe is controversial.
trans rights is only controversial if you act like it's controversial.
trans rights is only controversial if you act like it's controversial.
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Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.
EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...
October 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.
When someone designs/describes their "ideal society", it often comes with the assumption that they would be at the top.
Instead, we should do so with the assumption we would be at the bottom.
Instead, we should do so with the assumption we would be at the bottom.
When you could code silly quizzes on Facebook, it was FULL of "what would you be in medieval times?!" etc.
I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"
People got SUPER mad with it.
Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree
I made one that nearly always answered "died as a child", "died in childbirth", "lived and died as a servant"
People got SUPER mad with it.
Everyone assumes they'll be at the top of the tree
The subtext of ‘we should be more like Dubai’, beyond the obvious racism, is ‘I should have a servant’.
October 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
When someone designs/describes their "ideal society", it often comes with the assumption that they would be at the top.
Instead, we should do so with the assumption we would be at the bottom.
Instead, we should do so with the assumption we would be at the bottom.
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One of the challenges in trying to write something about Hegseth's speech at The Quantico Disgrace is you have to listen to the whole speech but it is very difficult to listen so much and not have the style of speech bleed into your writing and you *really* don't want to write like Hegseth talks.
October 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
One of the challenges in trying to write something about Hegseth's speech at The Quantico Disgrace is you have to listen to the whole speech but it is very difficult to listen so much and not have the style of speech bleed into your writing and you *really* don't want to write like Hegseth talks.
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I never thought I'd hype about a LLM, but they've done it.
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 4, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I never thought I'd hype about a LLM, but they've done it.
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“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
September 29, 2025 at 9:15 PM
“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”
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John Searle will be best remembered for his major contributions to philosophy, such as his argument that landlords as a class are discriminated against as much as Black people, and his "Chinese room" argument (that you should never leave him alone in a room with a Chinese student).
September 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
John Searle will be best remembered for his major contributions to philosophy, such as his argument that landlords as a class are discriminated against as much as Black people, and his "Chinese room" argument (that you should never leave him alone in a room with a Chinese student).
Check out what NEF has done to push #Victoria3 to its limits. 20 Billion GDP in only 100 years!
It'll be interesting to see what NEF does on the new patch.
#vic3
It'll be interesting to see what NEF does on the new patch.
#vic3
I Created a 21.3 Billion GDP Global Economy in Victoria 3's 1.9 Patch!
YouTube video by NEF
youtu.be
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Check out what NEF has done to push #Victoria3 to its limits. 20 Billion GDP in only 100 years!
It'll be interesting to see what NEF does on the new patch.
#vic3
It'll be interesting to see what NEF does on the new patch.
#vic3
An important lesson to learn, and one that seems less known than it should be.
Sometimes in a contest, the other side was just better or luckier or started from insurmountable advantage.
Sometimes in a contest, the other side was just better or luckier or started from insurmountable advantage.
this is a lesson that is omnipresent in pop culture and yet lost on a subset of centrist pundits
September 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
An important lesson to learn, and one that seems less known than it should be.
Sometimes in a contest, the other side was just better or luckier or started from insurmountable advantage.
Sometimes in a contest, the other side was just better or luckier or started from insurmountable advantage.