Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social

Senior QA Engineer @EpicGames working on the @UnrealEngine. Personal account, views my own. Human simulacrum. He/they. Profile pic by Lil Chan.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

If you possess a functional set of male gonads, now would be a good time to seek medical sterilization.

We cannot allow the burden of the loss of bodily autonomy to fall entirely on a single sex.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

2016 felt like a knife in the back.

2024 feels like a knife in the gut.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

Wanting "consequences" for other people's sex lives is weird, NGL.

(Incidentally, aborting an unintended pregnancy IS taking responsibility. Imposing life without careful deliberation and intention is both irresponsible and immoral for all parties concerned.)

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

I'm going to the gym more frequently now than ever before. Because the world is just... too much.

[Haus of Decline @hausofdecline]

My immediate reaction to every major world event now is "I don't know what the future holds, but I probably gotta start doing more push-ups"

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

I couldn't live with the shame, the guilt, knowing that every single pain they must endure and every pain for every child they have must endure is MY FAULT. It's too much.

The negative moral utility approaches infinity as the generations increase.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

You know, I probably would have enjoyed being a father. Probably would have been pretty good at it too.

But I couldn't conscience bringing a child into being.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

@CaseyExplosion Reminds me of why they cast him in Myst III: Exile.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

I think one of the biggest sources of evil in the world is the notion that somehow a stranger’s life is less valuable than that of the familiar.

[Jarrett Poole 💾 @Notcrucial]

This paragraph goes so hard.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

Maybe this is my neurodivergence, but I don’t understand people who operate in bad faith. I mean, I understand they exist and know that they’d try to subvert others with bad faith, I just can’t empathize with where they’re coming from.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

“Splinters”a poem:

Memories, sharp and jagged
In the mind they are snagged
They are pain
They are rage
They remain
They engage
They will pester
As they fester
Pinch them out
What’s this about
They won’t dislodge
I cannot dodge
That which is embedded
Has my stability shredded.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

"But it comes from love!" is the protest.

As if love somehow justifies murder.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

The more I think about it, the more I come to believe that the impulse to value one's own child's life above that of someone else's child's life is the root of so, so much evil.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

I reflexively get irate when someone talks about what they'd do to "protect" their own kid against some imagined threat.

Like that isn't part of the same spectrum of thought that leads to bombing someone distant stranger's kids into oblivion for the same reason.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

@HazelMonforton We could call it "Driftis" but reverse the order and you get "Error".

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

@GreatCheshire Oh yeah, Wing was a lot of people's entry point to Gundam fandom. Something about the pilots having a "boy band"-like dynamic.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

@the_nerd_skull He's a grifter. He says stupid sh*t because it gets eyeballs on him. Hate-clicks are still clicks. Then he uses some portion of that attention to crowdfund.

He knows what he's saying is asinine.

[JC Lau @drjclau]

So in a few years when there’s a massive gap in the industry from all the games that were never made by the people who got laid off at the studios that were shuttered, who’s going to make your games? Where’s “shareholder value” going to come from when you’ve cut to the bone?

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

Woke up at 2:30 AM. Resigned myself to not getting back to sleep at 3:00 AM. Got up. Now trying to get some work done.

[Colin Ferguson @ fearlessson.bsky.social @FearlessSon]

@Will_Overgard