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we need the voros twins to make a short form series on Da Kapital to truly get people to understand theory

shoutout (the) Gnorp Apologue

one of, it not the only, idle-roguelike out there

also the longer it goes the more colours are on screen the prettier it gets which is

also omits 6:16 in LA

other people have already covered other aspects of this, but I’ll chime in on that last point - knowing the person or not after they transition shouldn’t really factor into it once you find out they’ve transitioned (apart from obviously having to clarify who you’re talking about to e.g. your family but in an ideal world that would be a one time thing).

I’d also add that while you will find trans people who are somewhere between ‘ok’ and ‘cool’ with using their deadname to refer to pre-transition, I think it’d be hard to find someone who would be adamant about using one name before and another name after - on the other hand it’s pretty easy to find a lot of people who will not want to be referred to in that way at all, and all things considered I would look to respect her wishes even if you no longer know her.

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what did they mean by this

to be fair, the creator/writer has said that he formulated the plot while he was working in an office - they might not have set out to strictly write a show purely critiquing labour from a marxist perspective, but at the same time it does seem like a natural conclusion that the show arrives at based on how the show tries to tie so many threads back to the alienation at the base of the concept

why is always when some shit like this gets posted i see a bunch of reactionary comments on hexbear like ‘oh well i guess we all have to date someone born the same SECOND as us HUH? I better tell my WIFE I’m a P*DO because there’s two years between us!!’ like come the fuck on

i get it, idpol’s gone wild and the youth are nutso but do you really have to throw out the nuance?? maybe i’m misreading things but it feels like some of yall get really defensive when this topic comes up, and as a result we can never have any valid discussion about this topic without someone throwing some reddit-level bad faith thing at you for saying ‘yes, there is some truth to age-gap discourse’

people who are disabled, old people, people with textural issues

but im glad you responded in good faith to what i was saying and found a way we can just dismiss them all

plenty of people have problems chewing or digesting food, which is why they’d go for something softer and guaranteed to be safer like boneless chicken

its very evident from their other replies that their metric for ‘good’ art is ‘is it beautiful?’ and their definition of ‘beauty’, in turn, is simply ‘does looking at this release dopamine or not’

deeply unserious person

this is what it always comes down to

they don’t respect artists, they don’t respect artistic labour but they so desperately need and want the fruits of said labour and so the only option left is to cheat and lie

hell, it’s evident in the last sentence of their reply - that they see ‘Artist’ as a profession that is getting ‘Obsoleted’, as if the only reason art exists in the first place is because we as a society have been too archaic, and we would jump at the chance to drop the creative process in a heartbeat

complete and total alienation from creativity as a human experience

its not even that they don’t have the creativity - its that people have been so poisoned by commodity capitalism that they feel like their art ‘doesn’t count’ unless it looks like ‘real art’ that can make money

people are so isolated from the creative process that they think they can dump it entirely, as if all it is is just knowing how to scribble on a page

its more like the pizza shop calling you out when you’re cooking frozen pizza and calling yourself a chef

all power to you if you want to just consume slop, but dont complain when you turn around years later and the quality of everything across the board has gone even further to shit cos you were so happy you could type in words and see anything you wanted for all the 15 minutes of dopamine it gave you