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3 core beliefs of be kind be weird eat berries

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

#hmmm i think 14ish? maybe? & it was definitely transformers #i remember the first fic i read. it was delightful

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I turn to the camera, one leg crossed over the other on a barstool, and address you faggily

we need, as a nation, more art with shithead women protagonists.

And please understand when i say this I do not just mean "women who kick ass" or "women who suck". I also don't mean 'butch' though god knows me we need Butches in art.

God we need more butches in art. The flowers don't bloom in spring without butches. You're all doing incredible.

But before I lose track of what I was saying to think about butches, when I say shithead i mean something very specific. I'm talking about women with boots they got out of a dumpster, who know how to take a beer cap off with a stolen zippo lighter. I'm talking women who suck. She's cousin to but not the same thing as a failgirl because she actually 100% intended to drive that car into the side of that house.

I grew up watching Tankgirl, which may explain some of the very specific things wrong with me in mostly fun ways, and I don't know if it's a good movie but god it stars a glorious heroic female shithead. I wish there was 20 more like it.

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#😭😭😭

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Bloodborne is an amazing game because you are never given a diegetic choice to question your surroundings. You're a foreigner in a strange town, you're hated by everyone, you're given strange substances, and you know what you don't do? Ask any fucking questions. The beasts starting slashing and you just fucking roll with it.

A lesser game would give you a voiced protagonist, dozens of scared and confused voice lines, text prompts displaying fear and confusion and revulsion. Not Bloodborne. You kill and get killed in a horrific place with almost no semblance of realness left to it and you either roll with it like the game expects or you stop.

It's this lack of asking that is so poignant. After a while the game slips away because to a point you really do embody the character; you also just arrived here and decided to pick up a weapon without asking questions. Is it human nature to swing an axe just because it fits our hand? Do we question the means that brought us here or do we see them to their ends? This lack of choice and reflection is one of the best pieces of commentary that Bloodborne makes about systemic violence, because both we and our characters took part in it thoughtlessly.

#bloodborne #top tier game fr

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Comfortable being sat on by his large wife

#everything reminds me of Them

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I think about this tweet all the time because they would've been SO powerful...

Like Brendan IS the lovable "oaf" superhero, and Sandra IS the no-nonsense, competitive journalist. The VISION:

#oh the POWER they'd have #brendan fraser #sandra oh #tweets

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i love gifs that don’t loop. they had a story to tell and now they’re done

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Piping Plover chicks

Meaghan Garrahan

#oh my GOD #LOOK AT THESE BABIES #reptilia #charadriiformes #charadriidae #charadrius

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A plan is now in motion to airlift the 2-year-old orphaned orca calf trapped in a Canadian lagoon following the death of its mother to a sea pen, in hopes of releasing it when its family (a known pod of Bigg’s transient orcas) pass by. This is similar to what was done with Northern Resident orca “Springer,” who was successfully released and has gone on to live a normal wild life (even raising two calves!) Best of luck to this baby and everyone involved!

#good for her!!! #mammalia #artiodactyla #delphinidae #orcinus

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A small victory to celebrate for today

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You know how companies used to make flour sacks with pretty flower patterns on them because mothers would make dresses out of them for their daughters? We should bring that back. Paper bags designed to be reused as wrapping paper. Jars of jam designed to look nice filled with pencils or homemade sauces. Fabric that's high quality enough to use as a patch.

Give things a second life!!

#i love reusing pasta jars & mason jars as drinking glasses