It's Me. Dan.

Oh, that too. I only saw it in the few years I was in religious school, but it was wild that even grown adults didn't understand science.

Wild how worse that got, huh?

The overwhelming sadness and anger I would feel whenever I met a kid at school who had parents that told them "video games are how the devil lures you in".

About everything and anything. If it isn't this mess with Itch, then please look to help in your local communities, be a part of change and help even if it doesn't feel big or meaningful.

Sometimes the greatest crack in the wall comes from a simple act of kindness.

You NEED to care about this. Yes, put the phone down and keep yourself from doom-scrolling, but we do not have the room to look away any more. It's well past that point, and the more people calling, taking action, and fighting for those rights the better.

Please give a shit. I'm begging you.

Not only that, but the push for pornography in the 1970s and 1980s, heck even in the 1990s, helped to save many of the rights artists are currently in threat of having stripped away but these archaic, homophobic, and bigotry-laced decisions.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/f...

If the race to erase 18+ content doesn't seem important enough to you, I cannot stress enough how important adult content has been to free speech and the growth of fandom.

Gundam was saved by female fans wanting to see Char and Amuro smooch. Let that sink in.

This. They said it so much better than I did with that weird article from Polygon with the swimsuit DLC.

But there is a taxi in that Onett Smash stage!

I brought my family to DC for the Cherry Blossom festival.

The first thing I saw when I exited the L'Enfant Plaza Metro was a gang of youths dressed in Shark-themed bodysuits fighting a yo-yo swinging kid with PSI powers in front of a video arcade.

So forgive me if I doubt that crime is down

I was laid off from CR this morning. My manager was not present and I was locked out of all of my accounts before the meeting with HR even ended, so I couldn't give anyone a heads-up or say goodbye

I'm starting job hunting immediately, but if anyone needs a senior-level designer, let me know ✌️

LinkedIn quietly removed references to deadnaming and misgendering from its hateful content policy LinkedIn quietly changed the language of its hateful conduct policy this week, removing a line that referenced a prohibition on misgendering and deadnaming of transgender individuals.

Reminder that LinkedIn is a cesspool of bullshit that requires you to pay for their website in order to "get a job" www.engadget.com/social-media...

"Come to Daddy" shirt for Mouthwashing. The whole cast is represented in a chaotic grungy clipart aesthetic. Acid green, yellow, and red ink on a black tee.

Bonus sticker for the "Come to Daddy" shirt featuring Anya with lung veins behind her forming angel wings. It says "Mouthwashing" across the sticker

The "After the Crash" lenticular magnet set. 6 magnets, featuring Anya, Curly, Jimmy, Swansea, and Polle. The "before" shows their appearance before the ship's crash and "after" shows their appearance after the crash

Close-up of the Anya lenticular magnet

lots of new Mouthwashing merch at @fangamer.com! I designed a shirt and a set of lenticular magnets
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Like.. what the heck am I doing if I, someone who only has maybe a week's worth of journalism training under his belt, knew that and also knew that Elena being added recently were a big draw for some old school fans to return, but a staff writer consciously wrote that description?

We're cooked.

I'm not defending locking yourself in your room, or whatever the term originally eluded to, but I am gonna call out people being hypocritical and terrible.

Especially articles like this when so many games being released are getting roasted for being something they are not trying to be.

And yet I know people claiming that they are sex positive or an ally use "gooner" as an catch-all insult for someone they don't like, or in a lot of cases for artists they don't think well of bc of their content.

But they only use it for others that talk about adult topics, never themselves.

But nah, we gotta' look at the artists making 18+ content or silly referencing skins that happen to reveal skin as "gooner" because OBVIOUSLY the only reason people play SF6 is for gooning.

I don't care if you're a pervert or whatever the fuck you do behind closed doors. That's your business, but unless what you're doing is causing harm to you or others?

Stop being fucking ignorant and labeling anything "risque" as gross or wrong and get your head out of your misogynistic asses.

Second, the idea that anything sexual is inherently bad.

This fucking kills me because this is a big reason this whole Itch.io thing happened. A lot of it is homophobia and transphobia fueled, but it's also a shit load of awful gate keeping.

First, let's point out the misogyny here.

I realize Chun-Li is a fictional character, but the only thing that makes her outfit a 'gooner' skin is you calling it as such.

It's a fucking swimsuit. But no, anytime a female character shows skin, it's for people to jerk off to, according to Polygon.

The dumbest article primer I have ever read. It is a screencap of the new swimsuit DLC of Chun-Li from Street Fighter 6 with the article description of "Street Fighter 6 doubles in players after adding 'gooner' Chun-Li skin.

We really have to have a talk over how this sort of writing is the new "slut shaming"; labeling things as degenerate and the mass villianizing of media characters for having revealing outfits as "gooner bait".

How did someone consciously write this and think, "Yup. That's a good description."?

I'm surprised the administration didn't add a ton of Magic Eye posters to replace the painted portraits in the halls of the White House.

If you're going to pave over the Rose Garden to make it look like a mid-90s mall food court, commit fully or go home.

So, I made the right choice! Good, good.

You would think adults in tabletop gaming would understand emotional maturity, fairness, honesty, and not taking a game that features comic book characters or video game nods seriously.

Oh, how nieve I was lol

This skeet spurred by someone asking me, "have you tried going to a Friday night MTG?" and my immediate response was, "Yes, I have attempted self harm before."

I'm sure there are good spaces for it, but I personally have yet to find a non-toxic encounter with MTG. Well, TCGs in general.

Me, circa 1997: Magic the Gathering? Pah! That'll never take off! Now this Star Wars card game?? That's going places! We're gonna' be shooting Greedo with Han in the Mos Eisley's Cantina until we're in our 50s!

The cruel and terrible irony of people saying that "America has a cancer" while the country's administration is doing everything to eradicate studies and funding for combating cancer.

Yup. As a Bmore native, this is accurate.

I did say aloud to myself in my worst Chris Sabat Vegeta voice, "Yes, Adam. It's super peak."