@ArmoredNorman This was by no means a raucous party. It was about as tame as things get. The experience really etched itself into my memory though. As hyperbolic as this may sound, it really felt like one can’t do anything anymore, like fun was something dismantled root and branch
@ArmoredNorman Years ago, a few friends drove out to visit me. It was summer, around 10pm, we sat in my driveway, drank some beer and played mellow music quietly from a little speaker. Within 15 mins, a cop showed up - actually a very nice guy, who seemed sad to tell us we had to pack it up
@FischerKing64 Unfortunately, it seems most of our authors are incapable of articulating worlds worth escaping to. One might say “just read the classics”, but we really do need good literature of our own time, otherwise we read and only feel more firmly trapped
If you imagine there’s anything obvious about “human decency” separable from the Christian revolution, you’re not only a crappy atheist, but also an inveterate idiot
In the 3rd and 4th centuries Christian authors had to explain in their writings why women and slaves should have an equal place in the afterlife to emperors and men.
The claim that contemporary Western ethics are just universal inclinations is evidently false.
@Kneelku@2Philosophical_ How is any crime committed in a definite time and place with a beginning and end an “infinite crime” that calls for infinite punishment?
ACKS II by @archon is arguably the most impressive achievement in OSR gaming (if not RPGs in general) of recent years. You can’t discuss it on r/RPG or r/OSR though, because the mods maintain a “blacklist”. That fact alone summarizes the poverty of Reddit as a whole
@jaacknffc Abortion is leverage for feminists and immigration advocates. Let’s put it that way, given that the moral monstrosity of the practice isn’t obvious to you
@reddit_lies They’re just miserable people with small spirits. Reddit should be held legally accountable for the fact that people like this might have turned out okay had it not been for the existence of this wretched platform
@MaxxPrax Ten years after conversion and you’re here whining and posting AI slop. Paganism is horoscopes and crystals for men. You’d have been better off just becoming a materialist, at least that doesn’t involve worshipping the MCU
Sam Hyde rocks. He has been and still is the only funny and innovative right-wing comedian alive. Grifters throwing him under the bus now would be ashamed of themselves had they any shame to begin with
@reddit_lies Damn. If he didn’t have a cogntive-emotional style that is super imaginative and a very narrative-driven brain, none of this would have happened
I laugh at feminists who actually think the handmaids tale is some living dystopia.
It is the complete opposite.
Let's imagine an alternate dystopia: women are fed hormone altering pills from teenage years to make them infertile through their prime fertility years, whilst they work to deliver profits for mostly male elite bosses. And if they accidentally get pregnant, the baby is killed so they can continue to generate profit.
It's a good plot. It is just real life. Not a work of fiction
Being pro-life has ironically made me significantly more misanthropic because it means being constantly confronted with the average modern person’s bottomless selfishness, their default posture of narcissistic navel-gazing, their pathetic cowardice when faced with any hardship, their clueless solipsism that is the source of their puerile, vapid, counterfeit notions of happiness and fulfillment.
By nature you are ordered toward the other, yet you live only for yourself. Your life was a free and gratuitous gift, yet you hoard it like a miser. Maybe no one ever told you: you are not that interesting!
@fandompulse I don’t know how it’s possible to make a historical epic (based on the Odyssey, no less) that I wouldn’t be excited to see, but they’ve accomplished that somehow