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(DIR) Post #B9NZo3605ImPIPlfU0 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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Hmmm
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@lunathemoongirl must be something about wolves
(DIR) Post #B9OVk9jpF11M51FBSK by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde this article looks very different to me now, all defacements have been removed
(DIR) Post #B9OVy7nfFAea7hhTfc by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@lritter yeah I used developer tools
(DIR) Post #B9OW3cViURugomvSXQ by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde quite the GLOW tribute :)
(DIR) Post #B9OWGtuf6FsaYTvVBI by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@lritter exactly
(DIR) Post #B9OaBnVBuJtT2bpoKe by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde was an amazing show. jenji kohan is the best.
(DIR) Post #B9UMTPS5pXhRFoeItc by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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First three episodes of the second season, and every couple of minutes it's been: Someone on screen: "but what do we do, as comrades, with this obstacle outrageously introduced by clueless bosses who don't give a shit about our opinion and punishes us for daring to have ideas and as a result runs the project into the ground while shamelessly exploiting us?"Me: "unionize obviously! They aren't able to do shit without you, you're holding all the power, even a vague threat of a strike will completely change the balance; and for the bosses it doesn't cost anything to listen to you, and you are already a team that has each one's backs all the time so you should easily be able to pull that off!"Someone on screen: "I know, I'll try sucking up to the boss / throw someone else under the bus / cry in the corner but smile in public / all of the above"
(DIR) Post #B9UN5dZ7nzXM1wANtY by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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It's as if the showrunners, in 2018, were forbidden from even making any hints towards characters considering collective action. The way it's such an obvious and easy solution to literally every single problem they're having in these episodes (as if these problems were designed to promote unionization), and everybody does and says anything but that.
(DIR) Post #B9UNGprYQOdpM47tyK by owl@u8.is
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@IngaLovinde but what if One Guy saves the day
(DIR) Post #B9UNGq2Bmr9Ft36OY4 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@owl he doesn't though! Things just keep deteriorating.
(DIR) Post #B9lpytdDULFcOtxDwe by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@lritter but have you seen "Reservation Dogs"?
(DIR) Post #B9lqHg8fsU2i3Xcma8 by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde haven't had the opportunity yet but it's on the list
(DIR) Post #B9lqLT38UAFGcPqB4i by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@lritter you really should
(DIR) Post #B9lqVRgWPkxHHX1MGW by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde on our next disney+ subscription then
(DIR) Post #B9mLIETfIyCP8OBe88 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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If I had a regular traditional manly masculine husband with whom we didn't have sex for a while (and with whom we never discussed sex-related matters, and on whom my legal residence in this country depends) and I wanted sex, so that I would pay a male sex worker to come to our place under the guise of being a plumber fixing some plumbing, so that when my husband would return home from work he would see me with that plumber in a decent but suggestive and somewhat flirty setting and would get jealous and kick the plumber (who is actually a sex worker playing a plumber for this exact purpose) out and fuck me senseless because apparently jealousy also makes men excited...(I wouldn't because this is such an unhinged plan but still)...but the husband, upon returning home, with unreadable facial expression and voice carefully kept neutral, offered the plumber a drink, and then sat on a chair opposite a couch where me and plumber were sitting borderline inappropriately close to each other, and then still with that unreadable neutral expression and voice asked the plumber if he wants to kiss me, and then asked me if I want to kiss the plumber...I would be terrified to death. I would shit a ton of bricks. I would be in a spiral of panic. Because clearly this deceiving calm is just hiding a white hot rage that can burst out at any moment, right? Because if I answer wrong or look wrong or blink wrong, he's going to erupt at the plumber and likely at me and beat either one or both of us senseless and also probably file for divorce which for me will result in deportation.This fear is a reasonable reaction, right?That's not because of the history of family abuse in my childhood?It would never occur to me that there is any possible answer to this "o my dear and esteemed husband, of course I don't want to kiss him, I only have eyes for you and never for anybody else".If for some unfathomable reason I would accidentally say "yes", and the husband with that unreadable neutral expression said "then come on, kiss him", my life would start flashing in front of my eyes, because clearly I'm not getting out of this alive and unscathed. I wouldn't be able to think of anything but how it's all over for me.On screen, the wife and plumber start to kiss passionately (while I was mentally preparing myself for husband to start a furious destruction). As they're kissing, the husband approaches them and starts to kiss wife's back, too. Apparently he was excited by (but conflicted about) idea of having a threesome with another man (and as we later learn, idea of maybe having some contact with another man).This is in 1980s.How can this be real?
(DIR) Post #B9mLhY5rVg1dDD7o00 by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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Like, the obvious reaction to "would you maybe want some [expensive alcohol] to drink" is to say "oh no dear sir, I'm sorry, actually I was just leaving because I have an appointment with some other residents with their own plumbing issues right now".Because saying "yes" will most likely result in "OH YOU WANT TO DRINK MY ALCOHOL?!! MAYBE YOU ALSO WANT TO KISS MY WIFE?!!!! WHILE WE'RE AT IT, WHY NOT ALSO FUCK HER YOU PIECE OF SHIT?!!!!!!" followed by broken limbs at best?
(DIR) Post #B9mMFeE7DIjG4zFFMO by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde can confirm as a straight man, these are the conversations i have with claude ;-)
(DIR) Post #B9mNJY4q7T8g7SKXBI by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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@lritter you mean as a straight man putting himself in the plumber's position, or in the husband's position?
(DIR) Post #B9mOk7SRIVflKkbPo8 by lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place
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@IngaLovinde the husband. "would you like to write my code? OH YEAH?"
(DIR) Post #B9nUyuekKNi3ynwOPI by IngaLovinde@embracing.space
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So they have a threesome (husband, wife, and plumber who is actually a male sex worker she hired not for sex but to play a hot plumber in order to provoke a bit of jealousy in husband). And husband starts to pay attention to the plumber, and eventually focuses on the plumber and the threesome is not very straight anymore, but the wife doesn't seem to mind.The husband does mind though. Next morning, he's horrified at the thought of having had sex with (gasp) a man and of having liked it.But he's not gay, of course he's not, no homo, he's just a straight guy who must have just been seduced by this gay plumber. So he demands the management company to fire the plumber, only to learn that actually that's sex worker and not a plumber.After that, he assumes that of course he's still not gay, no homo, totally straight guy who must be just under the corrupting influence of this decadent place (Las Vegas) which turns him gay. (Meanwhile we've just seen an underground queer gathering next door being hatecrimed; that's how decadent and corrupting and gay-making this place is.)So the solution is obviously to leave this place they both already have so much invested in, and to move to California where he'll be free of that corrupting influence and won't be turned gay and will have steamy sex (no other men, no threesomes, no homo!) with his wife again.And so they left, and everybody lived happily ever after.Well everybody except for 60 workers that worked there for years and had to be fired with no severance and no notice because the husband decided to pull out all the money (after previously insisting that he should be the only one holding the purse strings) because he couldn't bear the thought of maintaining a business in a place that turns you gay (it's all the place, I'm telling you!)The end.(Husband and wife are the positive characters here, heroes even.)