LiquidGhost

TTRPG and Sword & Sorcery enthusiast. I sometimes code.

[GenZDev @dev_gen88926]

mfs when they try to manage

> 9-5
> gym
> 10 hrs of sleep

all together:

[Not Akira @AkiraToriyama]

Now I understand why Link went through all that trouble to save princess Zelda. 👀

[LiquidGhost @LiquidGhost95]

@Clint_Davey1 And then we have Warhammer Fantasy, which is maybe even more archetypical but heavily slept on :c

[marv @Jesus_fan3]

@moekaboobs

[quinn 🍁 @moekaboobs]

yeah im sure its the haircut that you like about them

[𖦏 @emoshoota]

in order to remain kind you must crash out at least once a month

[RAW EGG NATIONALIST @Babygravy9]

I genuinely believe Adrian Smith's "Horus vs the Emperor" is a more impressive figurative painting than anything else since the end of World War II.

[⋆ @lowkeyalbert]

Having a good day as an adult is literally:
• got paid
• ate something good
• nobody annoyed me
• went home
• sleep

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Even if a game vanishes from the GOG storefront, it never leaves your library.

Exactly as digital ownership ought to be.

[Dictator @dictxtor_]

the level of inner peace you need to achieve to avoid getting ragebaited by your mother

[Feru ✭ @ferupity]

As a grown ass man I’m not working 10 hours to come home and argue with a fat bitch

[27. @dimvji]

having an intrusive thought and shaking my head to show the mind readers i don't approve

[femiiiiii. @femiiiszn]

being able to tolerate the sound of your own voice in a video is probably the highest form of self acceptance.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

Cyberpunk was intended as a dystopian warning about untrammeled corporate greed that begins messing around with the very definition of humanity, reducing body and soul to extensions of technocapital in pursuit of profit.

Which is actually kind of what happened. It's just that instead of cyberoptic implants, neural jacks, boosted reflexes, and chrome arms that can punch through concrete, we got social media colonizing our attention loci with slot machine engineering, the reduction of human relations to algorithmic discourse, and ubiquitous surveillance turning every square centimeter into owned space.

But if you go back to the original literature, the Gibson and Sterling novels that kicked it all off, this devitalized void is there in the background, as the default state in which most of the population live. The protagonists enjoy picaresque adventures in the neon-lit shadows, but these are mostly criminals and corporate mercenaries, the only classes who still enjoy some modicum of freedom in the tightly controlled cybernetic society. Most of the population are normies.

There's a Bruce Sterling novel, Islands in the Net, that makes this dichotomy between the relative freedom of the criminal underworld and the cloying conformity of the corporate network explicit. The story concerns the closing down of the last few islands of cultural autonomy, at the hands of a junior executive belonging to a global corporate monoculture that resembles the absolute worst of Effective Altruism and striver credentialism. Her explicit goal - or rather the goal of the egregore which she serves as an implement of - is to draw the world into a safe, sterile, rational, controlled social order, all for humanitarian reasons of course. They are fighting poverty, lawlessness, superstition, racism, and disease! And absolutely no one will be allowed to escape their ministrations. All of this should sound very familiar...

But at the same time, for all the aimless ennui of this time, that criminal underworld still exists. Corporate mercenaries are a thing. There is a thriving subculture of computer hackers. People are beginning to experiment with biohacking in various ways. These are all edge cases of course, most people don't live this way or even really know it goes on, they are very much plugged into the matrix as it were, but then such characters were outliers in cyberpunk, too.

[Ernst Haeckel Groyper @HaeckelGroyper]

Millennial moidslop where men act foolish and mock themselves because this is 'manly' or whatever—manliness as permitted by feminism, where men are permitted to be performative stupid and brutish but never to embody competence or grace or anything that justifies male power.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.

[ً @artfuIchaos]

learn to disappoint people or they’ll design your life for you.

[Aesthetica @Anc_Aesthetics]

Right now China and India are plotting to send millions of their citizens to this country on temporary visas so they can gain citizenship and have these new citizens vote in their interests and run for office to advocate for their interests. They will be voting by the millions from Mumbai and Beijing. They will be used as a chain migration vector to bring in dozens of family members who will bring in dozens more. It will be a hostile takeover of this country.

Any Republican administration that doesn't immediately recognize this threat and ban all visas from these countries is not fit to rule this country.