Lucy Lutece

She/her wlw || Cooking, film, and games || DNI minors || Fuck irrational hatred

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@snowconedeitee They gotta drop either spike or Sato tho for next year :(

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@slime_machine Great goons

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@ShyoWager Every single time, for the past 5 years

I was 14 when my team last won a major event, IM 20 NOW

next stage it'll be our time....

[cozyhammer40slay @Loudwindow]

Deadlock idea: instead of standing around while respawning, everybody gets idle animations. Some tap their feet impatiently, checking their weapons, smoke break, reading a magazine, eating a hotdog, fending off angels trying to take them to heaven etc.

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@SanMar39610117 @ComicGirlAshley It was a missed opportunity that they limited it to 3 endings, but OP asked for a story where the choices matter, and as far as ME3 goes, the story is absolutely different based on how you played the previous two. only a game like D:BH has the range of options like that

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@pierbiwierbi Hi miss pierbi idk what timezone ur referring to but im pst and around oracle/phantom usually

[Atrioc @Atrioc]

@WhiteHouse the deficit isn't shrinking because of a manufacturing boom, but because of a massive outflow of gold.

We aren't increasing productive capacity. We're exporting printed dollars and other countries are using those to buy out our vaults.

[sarah @sarah_frags]

“game changers drama”

It feels a little weird to be writing about this right now; I mean, trans people are seemingly always dealing with needlessly vicious persecution but given the fact that the unironic genocidal dictator currently running a certain country has literally just decided to officially allow his extrajudicial secret police to target anyone that “looks trans” – days after the supreme court ruled that adult trans healthcare bans are legal – it just feels a little frivolous to be talking about my funny little scene in my funny little video game. Nonetheless, if I’m being honest, I don’t know what the fuck to do about that and the more I think about it the more scared I get that we are all wasting our time here and that, maybe, just maybe, that is one of the most evil things we could be doing at the moment.

Anyway I was also lowkey thinking a lot about the recent YFP incident and really just the discourse around gender identity in GC in general. I feel like we have basically been having the same discussions for years and more often than not they seem to only really make the scene look bad, be horribly misconstrued by people on the outside looking in, and actually accomplish very little in terms of advancing GC as a program in val/evolving the concept for the future. I truly think that a majority of you have the scene’s best interests in mind, but these are incredibly complicated discussions to be having, and we should be really careful about our intentions when we talk about this stuff.

I really do think GC in val has actually been incredibly successful. If the goal was to develop talent of marginalized genders due to the discrimination they face in esports, maybe even to inspire certain young people that would’ve never had an interest in competing to give it a try, I think these have undeniably been accomplished and if you really want to see more women competing at the highest level of gaming these things probably do scale. One of the problems we seem to run into, in NA at least, is that you probably don’t want to invest into a scene that seems to be constantly involved in witch hunts debating the legitimacy of players’ identities. Every single time you do this, you make me scared that one day these types of programs might simply decide that the only solution is to determine eligibility by “birth sex” or gender markers on ID or some shit, I mean some regions already do to my understanding.

Obviously this is a horrible solution, we’ve had this debate for years. There are countless gender identities that, even if you don’t necessarily present outwardly queer, if you were to ask your random tier 3 team to simply show you basic respect and acknowledge your identity, you would experience a good chance of just getting dropped or perma misgendered or ridiculed and dehumanized. Maybe all of the above. On top of all that, there are numerous reasons that trans people might be struggling to get official documents or healthcare (like the highkey genocide) and gating their access to this environment in the most critical years of their careers effectively defeats the purpose for them. Personally I fucking love trans people. I am a trans person. This scene changed my life and I am eternally grateful. I want to keep seeing more and more people of all different kinds under those bright lights standing up and yelling across the stage.

I don’t think anyone has a perfect solution, maybe there isn’t one. AnyKey isn’t perfect but honestly man they do a pretty decent job, and I’m just at a point where I feel like we are beyond this. Who are you to say that someone isn’t trans enough to play in GC? Obviously if people are outwardly misogynistic, hateful, dangerous, etc. they have no place in the scene and every gaming community kind of has a responsibility to deal with bad actors, but vagueposting and debating people’s identity is legit gross. Surely if we are truly sure that someone in the scene is disingenuous in their identity, we have actual compelling evidence that can be shared through official channels so that these people can’t just rebrand? I’m sure that a few people have done these things you allege and it sucks, but the beauty of GC is that a few shitty noobs larping cannot defeat the purpose of the program. Is it really worth forcing more trans people to debate the validity of their entire existence – especially now – as, for many of us, our lifesaving healthcare is being taken away, and we legitimately have to worry about being kidnapped with no legal recourse in the “world’s greatest power,” all the while you are effectively shooting your own scene in the foot?

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@femdasirl Hii I want more ppl to q deadlock with!! Dm me here or I can share disc

[StockMarket.News @_Investinq]

Americans just hit a record $11.8 billion in online Black Friday sales, up 9.1% from last year, with Salesforce reporting $18 billion in total spending across all channels. Sounds bullish until you realize who’s actually buying.

The top 10% of earners are now responsible for nearly half of all consumer spending, the highest share ever, while the bottom 80% are basically treading water financially. That stock market sitting near all time highs is creating a wealth effect where rich people feel richer and spend more, even if their actual income hasn’t budged much.

Baby boomers with substantial real estate and stock portfolios are boosting their holiday spending by 21% this year which is driving most of these headline numbers. Meanwhile, when you adjust for inflation, the actual amount of stuff people are buying is barely growing roughly 40% of this spending growth is just prices being higher, not people buying more things.

The weird part is that consumer confidence is in the tank, people are anxious about inflation, a weakening job market with unemployment around 4.4%, and employers basically freezing hiring. But spending keeps climbing anyway because the economy isn’t the same for everyone anymore. If you own stocks or real estate, you’re crushing it in 2025. If you’re in the bottom 80% making less than roughly $175,000 annually, you’re absorbing higher prices on food struggling with rising credit card debt, and increasingly turning to buy now, pay later just to afford the holidays.

This K shaped economy is fundamentally fragile, when wealthy consumers feel rich because of rising asset prices, they spend like crazy, but the moment the stock market stumbles or that wealth effect reverses fast. The real question isn’t whether Americans will hit record spending, wealthy Americans will keep doing that. The question is how long the rest can hold on before it all snaps.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Holy sh*t

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

And follow the ad’s creator @_joejacobson_ so Elon can’t silence them!

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@SuperProtoMan ts is TUFF!!!!!!

[Borderlands @Borderlands]

You only live... twice. ✌️

Watch "YOLT" - the Official Character Short for Rafa - the Exo-Soldier of Borderlands 4.

https://t.co/Adnqv72Frq

[Tempo | Pokeaim @JoeyPokeaim]

@MoistCr1TiKaL i saw the stream man, you def have potential. hmu if you wanna get in the lab. @Thunderblunder7 and I will make you untouchable

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@ccaitvikisses Not horny but vi and cait sharing a bike doing the Akira slide sounds cool

[Lorelei @Normalssbbbx]

Kinda wild that the people who say they love me the most refuse to stop doing something that’s so hurtful

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@Normalssbbbx Yikes so sorry that's disgusting

[Lucy Lutece @LR_Lutece]

@Schaffrillas Got pretty into Wes Anderson movies because of your reviews of them <3