Paraphrasing a Discworld quote (I think from Night Watch): if you make exceptions for good reasons, you’ll eventually make them for bad reasons. So no exceptions ever.

Absolutely. Any side dish that requires chicken broth can sub in vegetable broth no problem. We have a vegetarian friend, so everything besides actual meat dishes is vegetarian safe. And even then, sometimes we use veggie meat.

Memelord: god of the internet, information/misinformation, mockery, compassion

Edgelord: ML’s twin, god of hatred, violence, cowardice, “irony”, extremism

DEATH

Miss Fire: goddess of law, war & weaponry, esp firearms

Ant others?

The Swamp Beast: ruler of bureaucracy, politics, corruption, & stagnation

Lady Liberty: goddess of luck, justice, & gateways

Uncle Money: god of extreme wealth, avarice, & cruelty

Saint Dolly: patron of music, family, generosity, love

Saint Fred: patron of humility, children, learning, faith

“I went through it and so do you”
Vs
“I went through it and you shouldn’t have to”

I remember a while back someone said that letting YT autoplay would always eventually result in RW political extremist vids & I was like, sir, I watch ASMR & woke nerds play games. I never get political shit in my reccs. That you do says more about your algo than a general truth.

Algos don’t just created isolated bubbles, but also reduce the “immune system” of the ppl in those bubbles. Anything that breaches containment, so to speak, is MORE shocking since it’s contrasting w/ the samey-samey the algos feed them.

Hell, Hamsterdance & YTMND probably wouldn’t!

Same. Back before most people got siloed into social media sites & Big Tech-curated webpages, there was a LOT more weird, crazy, disgusting shit out there just waiting to be stumbled over. Goatse wouldn’t become a meme if it was posted today, simply b/c algos would prevent it.

Absolutely. And by and large, all RPG system products are available as pdf’s instead of some proprietary file type, so they’re (generally) accessible by all. And a rising number of games are online only nowadays, using free software/sites. As few gatekeeping roadblocks as possible.

The clawing, howling void inside him will never be satisfied, no matter how much adulation he (thinks) he gets or how much power he attains. And the subconscious knowledge of this drives him to greater & worse depths of depravity & vanity. He is utterly devoid of goodness or care for others.

Too bad the FPTP nat’l voting system we use inevitably results in 2 dominant parties. It’d be better (tho not w/o its own probs) if we did some form of ranked voting &/or parliamentary government.

Not just 1 generation at that. A lot of reporting in votes in 2024 showed that a sig minority of D voters hate them too & were voting to spite the Rs. Honestly, that’s where I’m at. If a viable DemSoc candidate/party appeared, I’d jump ship in a heartbeat.

And I know I have no way of proving I had those precog dreams to anyone. Hell, I didn’t know they were precog when I had them, just that I remembered them for being so vivid/weird and then it matching something months later. And in no way important, either.

See, I do know that some psychic phenomena is real b/c I’ve had a handful of precog dreams. They were of totally innocuous but uniquely recognizable places that I had never seen before. *That said*, I don’t think that psi/precog is necessarily *controllable*. No future dreams in demand.

Duh, it would help to post the video

youtu.be/p2ZdeIKJA8c

I bet the only reason it hasn’t gotten references in mainstream pop culture is because of the CC license, which most media companies aren’t going to touch with a 10’ pole. SCP *adjacent* or *inspired* stuff like Soma or Control, absolutely, but direct references? Nah.