Posts by hystericempress@plush.city
(DIR) Post #A9kVW0DcJHe7bnAq9Y by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-04-18T21:45:31Z
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"hey, bea, whatcha thinking about"that time a Sonic game sampled a speech by Malcolm X for a stage theme"wait, wh-" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlCK5RWO54E
(DIR) Post #AA5thcBUUOmEjt6mo4 by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-08-07T18:26:34Z
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was reading an article that had some salient points about the creative class who labor under 'blue oligarch' hyperelites and how they've stratified cultural capital in a way that closes off advancement to the undereducated, but then it ended with 'the solution is Joe Biden'ugh
(DIR) Post #AA5thcjWRs00RR1xqq by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-08-07T18:26:51Z
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"could the problem be that poor young people increasingly recognize that the petite bourgeoisie are exactly as complicit in their hardships as the hyperelites they operate at the behest of? ...no, they just don't love Uncle Joe enough, the hicks"
(DIR) Post #AA5thdASphY9mzdTqS by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-08-07T18:27:07Z
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by ignoring much more straightforward explanations of class antagonism, like the increasing wealth and education gap between rich and poor, you reify a view of reality where some invisible guarantor of cross-class 'respect' is more valuable than 'people having enough to live on'I don't fucking care if the guy who owns Zoom 'respects me' in some nebulous, unquantifiable sense, I care if I have FOOD, SHELTER, and MEDICINE, you impossible, imbecilic yahoo
(DIR) Post #AAC5xg5E7pz7raMcoS by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-08-10T20:34:35Z
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Kanamori has ended up being my favorite character in Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken, because she deftly illustrates the importance of having a competent, observant producer on a creative project who'll fight for the rights of her subordinateswhenever you're dealing with the cat-herding of keeping a bunch of creative people on task, it's important to have someone whose primary role is to keep everybody focused on the three key goals: 'on-time, on-budget, and without destroying our lives'
(DIR) Post #AAC7aPoscwAmfcklUm by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-08-10T21:25:17Z
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@otyugh as someone who works in a creative field for a living: these would still be problems that existed even with infinite budgets. a major point of the series is that fundamentally, art is not 'for' the creator, it's for an audience, and that you can spend eternity on some gigantic overblown thing and end up A) exhausted, B) frustrated, and C) without anything you can show to anybody because there's no way to make something 'perfect' in translating it from your mind onto a page.
(DIR) Post #AAC91h8mR5tKABdJSq by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-08-10T21:26:29Z
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@otyugh like, yes, everyone deserves to have their basic needs met, but when you're trying to make something that actually Gets Out There, things that are extremely overwrought and ornate and 'perfect' just don't get FINISHED because if you can't accept imperfections or flaws, you'll just never be done making it.
(DIR) Post #AAvhRzWihO0A1xLmr2 by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-09-01T20:50:42Z
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I'm so weary of the internet trollification of political activism. "I got you mad, therefore I automatically win" is such a dead-end, circlejerk, zero-sum approach to human existence and I could not be more exhausted of it.
(DIR) Post #AC4HAJbDH8lfoxFju4 by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-10-05T21:42:56Z
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I'm so unbelievably bored of cynicism, and I try every day to fight it with every weapon at my disposal. The only emotion I want to confront the world with is delirious wonder at its breadth and complexity.
(DIR) Post #AD2suqiVfViUdkIx0a by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-11-04T03:40:08Z
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Dune is absolutely buckwild because in the exact same story it'll be like 'evil murderous sex nuns are trying to kidnap your sperm with Power Word Nut' and then also drop shit like this on you
(DIR) Post #ADTdcIMosaEjNHNoQq by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-11-17T01:49:47Z
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increasingly for extremely high-powered pick-up-and-play tabletop RPGs I find myself really enjoying Godbound. using what are largely a variation on extremely simplified 1st Edition D&D rules and then making every ability you can get something that just straight-up lets you break those rules in creative ways is an absolute blast
(DIR) Post #ADTdjyjzjVbaozt2dk by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-11-17T01:51:10Z
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to put this in perspective: there's an ability you can get called "Undying" that does EXACTLY what it sounds like, at 1st level, and it's not even necessarily an optimal choice
(DIR) Post #AFgBt4YC9g19Ng0JsW by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-01-21T22:53:53Z
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sorry, cryptobros, the only 'perverse incentives' I need for hyperinflation are a bike pump and a raised eyebrow
(DIR) Post #AGFZuIUdq3tNul7EFk by hystericempress@plush.city
2021-11-20T19:02:43Z
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ever notice how it's ALWAYS a sanctimonious white guy asking people under direct threat of violence to 'just behave more peacefully,' like that's going to make people whose first response is coercive force spontaneously develop compassion for people they profit from harming
(DIR) Post #AHQvPvnrCARlniHUwa by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-03-15T04:51:13Z
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I can sum up the entire message of Turning Red as "POST CRINGE! YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT SUBSCRIBERS!" and I'm Very Here For Italso as a queer furry who struggled with a family that placed unrealistic expectations on me it definitely got the waterworks going
(DIR) Post #AHQvPwKTEuXDQrXXmK by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-03-15T05:07:18Z
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also, the idea that this film is too 'limited in scope' is laughable if you possess any sense of interiority whatsoever. 'having an internal life you have to balance against the needs of external presentation' is literally the most universal-ass social concept common to humanity
(DIR) Post #AJYfhcZKJuWaH9DSV6 by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-05-17T23:08:04Z
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"Bea, where do you get writing inspiration for your creative projects?""I like to think my work draws from textured, realistic sources."
(DIR) Post #AKhIcWFBoG5XO60b5M by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-06-21T00:38:59Z
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gonna note once again that describing people's religion as a 'fantasy' is a shitty thing to do when there are much more temporally-relevant reasons for why they're behaving like a complete pylonplease try not to resemble 'angry atheist youtube man' as much as possible, thanks
(DIR) Post #AKhIcmGUFCdJ4kjrKS by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-06-21T00:39:21Z
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you can have ALL KINDS of objections to a religious doctrine. you can object on interpretation of scripture, you can object to the tenets of an individual sect, you can object to a religious group as a mortal hierarchy. but please don't immediately go for 'this is fake lol'
(DIR) Post #AKhIctc0vZ0nrXreM4 by hystericempress@plush.city
2022-06-21T00:39:28Z
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it turns out personal beliefs aren't 'fantasy' just because they're intangible. social gender roles aren't 'tangible.' if you're nonbinary you already KNOW the gender spectrum is not physicalized except insofar as we believe it to be. learn to apply that to other concepts, please