All discourse aside, it does amuse me that "Dave" has apparently been a stereotypical "annoying bisexual dude" name for at least the last thirty solid years. I wonder how far back that goes, and whose fault it is?
I'm sorry, but I simply cannot take a Lord of Darkness type character who looks like a 22-year-old twink serious. Give me an eidolon of Outer Night who's old as fuck and built like a professional mall Santa decided to start hitting the gym on weekends and we'll talk!
Any time someone tries to convince you that this or that queer discourse is too dumb to be real, remember that "cishet men are pretending to love cock in order to infiltrate queer communities in sufficient numbers to constitute a discernible demographic" was once regarded as a plausible scenario.
People even wrote songs about it: web.archive.org/web/19991007...
Whenever someone on here is like "no actual queer person would have an opinion that bad, so they must be a straight troll", I'm reminded that when I was a kid, the prevailing opinion in many queer communities is that most bisexual men were cishet dudes faking it for clout.
Conducting an empirical study to determine exactly how close a solo journalling tabletop RPG inspired by classic first-person shooters can get to directly asserting that the gun is your dick before itch users start including it in collections of kink games.
Welcome to my new solo journalling RPG
Piss Chapel
There are people out there who want to go to the Moon specifically because they want to pee on some notable bit of lunar geography. I've met several. Pissing on the Moon isn't just a meme – for some, it's a life goal!
The trouble with fantastical architecture is knowing there are people whose highest aspiration is to pee in strange places. Your setting features a vast spire of iron and bone thrusting into the heart of an endless storm? It also features someone whose deepest fantasy is pissing from the top of it.
Today's aesthetic: that goofy Cookie Monster pantomime that stage actors do when they're pretending to eat something so that folks way in the back of the audience can see them "chewing".
They're pretty sore about the heroes constantly making fun of their disability way back when now that they know that's what that was, too.
YA TV show that does the power-scaling thing where each season needs a new villain to keep ahead of the heroes – then the final season's villain turns out to be season one's Wacky Professor type again, except they got an ADHD diagnosis and got properly medicated and are now tremendously dangerous.
New Gameplay Trailer!
[in-engine cutscene]
[protagonist running across a field]
[player mashing through some dialogue]
[protagonist petting a dog]
[another in-engine cutscene]
[protagonist climbing a ladder]
[player navigating a menu]
[monster screaming at the camera]
[yet another cutscene]
(2/2) People who act like Nicolas Cage actually did all the stuff you see in Nicolas Cage movies are generally transparent that they're doing a bit, but there's a specific subset of Tom Cruise fans who seem to sincerely believe that Tom Cruise actually did all the stuff you see in Tom Cruise movies.
Fans acting like media are documentaries of fictional worlds is of course a phenomenon that's older than film, but the interesting thing about modern actor-centric fandoms is the sincerity gradient. (1/2)
Bottom surgery lets you breathe underwater.
Whenever I see a joke about estrogen letting you double jump, some gremlin voice in my head assumes we're talking metroidvanias and tries to figure out the full upgrade tree. Laser hair removal grants an iframe dodge. Using she/her pronouns in public for the first time confers +50% fire resistance.
Supervillain monologue where it very gradually becomes clear that the science facts they're dramatically declaiming don't actually have anything to do with their current evil scheme and they're just taking advantage of a captive audience to rattle on about things that interest them.
You need to understand that I still have Kickstarter rewards sitting in my garage boxed up and ready to ship from a campaign that concluded in December of 2013.
Running a crowdfunding campaign is a fantastic insight into certain facets of human nature because you'll learn that people who only check their email once every 6 months are not in fact a rhetorical fiction. They walk among us, and they pledge hundreds of dollars for rewards they will never claim.
It's on the sci-fi side of things, but I must mention Asimov's story "The Billiard Ball", regarding the effect of a field which negates physics. hackneybooks.co.uk/books/74/118...
The local wizard got sick of rivals dropping big rocks on them to circumvent their Anti-Magic Field and invented an Anti-Physics Field instead. We're not sure what happened next, on account of nobody who looks at it can remember what they saw, but there's probably a paper in it if you figure it out.
The weirdest part is I keep bumping into folks who correctly recognise this trope as a form of tokenism, but rather than objecting to the cowardice of the writers, they conclude that the problem is the existence of bisexual people.
I'll be the first to argue we don't need to see a character fuck to count as queer rep, but if I see ONE MORE bisexual character who's allegedly tremendously sexually adventurous off-screen, but is coincidentally always single or with a conventionally acceptable partner whenever they're on camera
You can't own a skeleton, man. It's one of God's creatures.
Like, yeah, we did a storyline about their evil renanimated corpse, then later changed our minds and retconned it so they were never in the coffin in the first place, so *whose fucking skeleton was that*?
It's fun to watch the lengths comics will go to in order to kill a character off "for real" while leaving the door open to walk it back, but it's especially fun when they DON'T leave that door open, then walk it back anyway.
Electronics packaging is bad enough, but lately I've noticed an increasing tendency to package even food in absurdly heavy plastic. Like, at least with electronics you can see what they're trying to accomplish, but food? Is there a widespread problem with folks pilfering individual slices of cheese?
I would play this, as long as the gruff bearded men’s testicles are realistically simulated.
