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shaving isn’t even like remotely close to the biggest issue feminism needs to tackle but it’s just astonishing to me how the most lukewarm bare minimum of normalizing natural body hair on women is met with such pushback from “progressives” on here. like that’s why i keep bringing it up. like if you fucks can’t get behind “women shouldn’t feel like they have to shave and shouldn’t be groomed into shaving” then what the hell can you be counted on for? nothing, clearly
hatesex sounds fucking awesome. unfortunately though i don't want to fuck any of the people i hate because i hate them
attaching something to an email is so scary. what if i accidentally put hard-core porn in there. i don't think i have any downloaded but what if i do and i attached it to the email. what then.
we used to make fun of men for making boobs and butt art. we used to critique misogyny in media.
Okay I get what you're saying but that's not the point of the post. I'm specifically talking about sexism as it pertains to the narrow and objectifying ways men creators depict female characters in media. Sex positivity is a mute point because straight men have never had their sexuality policied. They've been encouraged to be as open and free about wanting to fuck women and the kind of women they want to fuck forever.
The way people demonize seagulls is actually unreal. Almost all of their natural habitat has been destroyed (almost all coastal areas have been developed, destroying natural sand dune ecosystems) and they're doing their best to adapt. They're literally just trying to survive. You're in their home. The vitriol some people have for these gorgeous sea birds just because they're not shy about snatching food if you're not cautious is insane
Seagulls live in post-apocalyptic scarcity, where all their natural habitats and food sources have been decimated by humans. The fact that they get all Beyond Thunderdome when we eat food at them is very much our fault.
I think a lot of people in the indie TTRPG spaces who think of their TTRPGs as art kinda have a David Cage approach to the idea that TTRPGs are art, in that they don't actually think ordinary mainstream TTRPGs like D&D, Pathfinder, Call of Cthulhu, etc. are art. They think TTRPGs could be art, but only if somebody who never lowered themselves to fully engage with the mainstream entries in the medium came in and showed them how to be art - everything before that point being just mindless waste.
The result is that they try to make some really deep and meaningful shit without knowing that it's been done before and done better by entries just barely below the surface level, and without knowing basic things about the inner workings of the engines of the medium itself that make them function.
If I want to make this observation into something actually constructive, I might say, like, instead of making your first very TTRPG something that you think has never even been attempted before and will blow everyone's fuckin minds instantly, your first TTRPG should probably be a really basic remake of Basic D&D (like, D&D1e) from the ground up with your own tools and knowledge. When they teach you video game design in college, they don't sit 101 students down and tell them to make something completely original, they tell them to make, like, really basic platformers and shit. You have to know how to make Super Mario Bros. before you can make The Game That Changes The Way You Think of Video Games Forever.
(The one small problem with the comparison is that entering the hobby of TTRPGs through D&D5e and its fucked up play culture as your first game actually really demonstrably makes you a worse player, game master, and designer with a ton of really bad habits to unlearn. I don't think the same could be said for, like, Super Mario and Fortnite in video games.)
Per some feedback I have received on this post, I admit I may have been a little off-base here and been too quick on the draw with my assessment my fellow indie TTRPG designers. I'd like to amend my statement about you having a "David Cage approach" now that I have been enlightened to the fact that a good number of you also fully think D&D is degenerate art.
Quick reading comprehension test for some of you.
1: Does this post say “You have to like D&D?” Yes or No.
2: Does this post say “D&D is a good game.”? Yes or No.
3: Does this post say “Everything meaningful in TTRPGs has already been done by D&D?” Yes or No.
4: Does this post say “Every TTRPG should be a carbon copy of D&D?” Yes or No.
5: Does this post say “You are a Nazi if you don’t like D&D.”? Yes or No.
6: Does this post say “D&D is not racist.”? Yes or No.
7: Does this post say “Criticizing D&D for being racist is wrong.”? Yes or No.
8: Does this post say “Criticizing D&D for being racist and that alone is the same as considering it ‘degenerate art.’”? Yes or No.
Answer key under the cut.
This one needs to go right next to the Baltimore accent with the Aaron earns an iron urn.
In case anyone hasn't seen it