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#“Figurehead of a bunch of murderous assholes” wasn't an option so I had to go with “something else”

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As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

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There is so much amazing about this. It's an archeological museum in 530 BCE or so. Also, the exhibits are labeled in three languages. Also they apparently had replicas on display for some things, much like modern museums do.

Humanity has not really changed that much, and some of the ways in which we haven't changed are really good.

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To be fair, American Christianity boos the words of Jesus because they think he's not manly enough (possibly because he's now part crackers and wine?)

"Christ on a cracker" well actually I think you'll find Christ is the cracker. And also the wine. But you wouldn't know that you fucking protestant heathen

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If your story somehow gets popular enough, you might actually change how things are done in that state b/c everyone except for three pedants will just assume you're right.

It’s funny when American authors come up with a new European nation so their main character can be a secret royal without the pain of researching a real nation. We should all start doing that with North America, just make up a new state. My protagonist lives in New Utahioshington which is the 51st state and located between Delaware and Maryland

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This is literally how I played my feral druid. Ze never met a problem that couldn't be solved by turning into a bear.

I don't think I could be trusted with shapeshifting powers bc I would just turn into a bear and attack things with my claws at any minor inconvenience. it would be my go-to solution for everything

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Doctor: $140,000 a year

Furry artist on Patreon: $160,000 a year

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please please never stop being annoying about that one thing you really care about

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"You take everything so literally!" Ah, yes. I suppose it would be much simpler if I just assumed that everything anyone says has an implied backended double-meaning, like I'm the Alice in a wonderland entirely populated by passive-agressive hookah-smoking caterpillars. That would be far less stressful for all parties

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Obviously this game would also need a large selection of guns, none of which are useful in any way as the game doesn't contain any bullets.

You instead collect them as trophies as you explore.

Metroidvania where every upgrade is a dash upgrade. I-frame dash. Air dash. Phasing dash. Aimable dash. Multiple dashes. Various elemental dashes. Bosses only take damage from dashing into them. Every interaction is a dash; at the start of the game you can't press floor buttons because you don't yet have the ability to air-dash downward. Later on you learn the Dash of Comprehension, which lets you translate ancient inscriptions by bonking the inscribed object with a dash.

#Although honestly this reminds me of the old Ultima games where you fought by walking into people

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Fuck, 9 years today since Terry left us 😢.

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Spider-Man: MENACE

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Playing Dragon's Dogma for the first time in anticipation of Dragon's Dogma 2 coming out, so this has dragon's dogma spoilers and also please don't spoil anything after this for me.

Being given a "fight and die or sacrifice your one true love" choice that loses a lot of impact because my one true love is apparently this absolutely useless waste of a dude who I kept having to save, and not, e.g., the person who called me "her love" and kissed me and I gave a special ring to. Or the person I gave flowers to, who is working hard to help me. Or the person I helped out a number of times. Or the one who lives with me and brews me alcohol (I don't drink it, but it's the thought that counts) Nupe, it's this one chucklenut. I don't remember his name or really want to. I can only assume the game is forcibly heterosexual, which is odd because like I said, this one girl was VERY into me despite being married to a murderous asshole.

So I want to be heroic and fight the dragon but also I actually wanted to stab the guy before I found out that was a plot option, and I feel like it might be better to do it now when it's someone I really, really don't care about?

#dragon's dogma

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ok i've been called a sex freak tranny too i get where you're coming from but like also please be more careful with extremely vague posts about Problematic Kinks

no. people's openness about what two consenting adults can do in private has no bearing on how likely they are to be child abusers or close ranks about child abusers & thinking there is some correlation is a sign that your stance on sexual abuse is mediated more by disgust reaction and aesthetic associations than by structural analysis. there is a pretty hard and obvious line between not condemming consensual sex acts between adults and being a pedophile and thinking that it's some sort of spectrum or slippery slope there imo speaks poorly to your conceptualization of why SA is a bad thing.

people love to say that X or Y kink Normalizes Abuse, but, like, actually think about communities where sexual abuse is 'normalized' in society. is the problem with the catholic church that it's too pro-kink? is the problem with US professional gymnastics that it's too pro-kink? is the problem with the amish that they're too pro-kink? was the problem with the british entertainment industry in the 1970s that it was too pro-kink? is the problem with the prison system that it's too pro-kink? &c. &c. &c.

sexual abuse doesn't happen because people are degenerate perverts and everyone is too accepting of that, sexual abuse happens because society is full of institutions that give adults structural power over children and men structural power over women. giving credence to the former, even in the form of thinking you have to be "super careful" about perverts, is a straightforwardly reactionary position.

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I'm going to choose to believe this is from the next Stardew Valley update.

abandoned space elevator

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Basically, it boils down to this:

The preponderance of evidence is that most trending callout posts on Tumblr alleging sexual misconduct by trans women are fabricated by the same relatively small group of bad-faith actors, and that these bullshit callout posts outnumber the legit ones by a considerable margin.

If you think you can tell the legit callout posts and the bullshit ones apart just by looking at them, you're almost certainly wrong.

Like most mechanisms of social control which are based on ostracism, callout posts tend to be most effective against people who are already in a position of vulnerability, and concomitantly, tend to have no significant long-term effect when deployed against people in positions of power or authority.

What all this adds up to is that even leaving the moral dimension of the act aside, from a purely pragmatic perspective, reblogging that callout post accusing a random trans woman you've never heard of of being a dogfucker or what-have-you is an action which, in a worst-case scenario, will contribute to ruining an innocent person's life, and in a best-case scenario, is likely to accomplish nothing whatsoever.

Folks often justify reblogging callout posts without performing due diligence under the rubric of "better safe than sorry", but any realistic assessment of the likely outcomes will tell you that the true "better safe than sorry" course of action is to keep your damn mouth shut!