Recent content by Charlaquin

As with most of the problems facing humanity today, the technology itself is not inherently harmful, but it is extremely dangerous when turned towards reckless pursuit of profit and centralization of power above all other priorities.

Oh, I do agree that the internet has never been a worse place than it is now, with the centralization, the automation of moderation, the algorithmically driven direction of traffic, the proliferation of AI-generated content… it has all come together to turn the internet into a giant...

Social media is certainly bad for people’s mental health. I’m not convinced the pre-social media internet was all that much better though. Plenty of us wandered into some truly horrific content in those Wild West days… Faces of Death, the pain sequence, rotten.org… not to mention the...

It really isn’t. It’s an aesthetic that is waning in popularity, because newer audiences find it uncomfortably reminiscent of real-life bigoted rhetoric. Since WotC is in the business of making money, they have made changes to their product to accommodate the aesthetic preferences of the...

Big fan of this take. This also helps give an explanation to the “Mos Eisely Cantina effect.” No one wants to be an adventurer; it’s dangerous, thankless, and drives people away. But if the common folk already distrust you anyway because you’re a drow, or an orc, or a Tabaxi, or some other type...

In the first season the bullies tried to literally murder Mike

like I said, I didn’t care when they called Erica’s character a “rogue” instead of a “thief” in season 4, because it’s a different name for the same class, so whatever. But, this bit in particular bothers me because if they’re bringing up classes that didn’t exist at all yet, then they picked...

And you responded with a bunch of completely unrelated rambling, defending against an accusation I never made - namely, that you dislike when media changes - and immediately went on to… complain about the ways D&D changed. I think in tennis they call that an unforced error.

To be fair, the exaggerated degrees of bullying are partly coming from the show’s influences - Steven Spielberg, Stephen King… possibly other artists with different spellings of the same first name… anyway, murderous bullies were a staple feature of the entertainment that Stranger Things is...

That sounds awesome!

I didn’t? Looks like a question to me. Who’s the one making assumptions here?

This is a fascinating way to answer the question “are edgy kids saying Blue Sky Platform instead of woke now?”

The Blue Sky community is literally just the Twitter community who were tired of all the nazis there. Not hard to go further left of “I would prefer not to talk to nazis.”

Is “Blue Sky Platform” what the edgy kids are saying instead of “Woke” these days?

The thread is about a romance book. Maybe you’re not familiar with the genre, but sex is like… the point of romance books. They have lots of other stuff in them, and they don’t always have actual “on camera” sex, but they’re still fundamentally and primarily about sex.