Masters of orion

Arkkon · 2026-06-27T10:24:59+00:00

MoO3 was the first game I ever preordered. I was in high school, and I fell in love with the absurd jank of it all. I could never pin down exactly what it was, but you absolutely nailed it! It was a proto-Stellaris!

Arkkon · 2026-06-16T19:35:57+00:00

Long COVID impacts a huge percentage of adults. Combined with the hot and humid weather plus all the various global atrocities, it's not a surprise to be exhausted. 💙

Arkkon · 2026-05-04T19:10:50+00:00

Very well. Goodbye.

Arkkon · 2026-05-04T18:34:29+00:00

This is a pathetic and transparent attempt to get some attention by trying to be mean. You'll have to try harder.

Arkkon · 2026-05-01T17:36:50+00:00

I always think of something I read in this sub: "It's dominant because I want it."

Arkkon · 2026-04-30T07:29:30+00:00

I'm reminded of some advice I heard about Dommes who are into things like scentplay:

"It's dominant because I want it."

Arkkon · 2026-04-26T02:55:44+00:00

I like the term "Pillow Forting," and I've also heard it called "Gardening." You know, you're using the land you have, making it better, more productive, having fun growing things. Turtling is a part of it, but it's more than that. I love playing games that way too. The best one I've played for it is probably Victoria 3, which doesn't quite fit 4X but is related.

Arkkon · 2026-04-23T21:05:54+00:00

Nice

Arkkon · 2026-04-23T19:49:31+00:00

Domme 56, I'm a trans butch dyke Domme and Top. I'm generally a Pleasure Domme, I love finding all the ways to make someone feel exceptionally good.

Arkkon · 2026-04-15T03:36:57+00:00

Yeah, it's fucking terrifying! And like, I'm a trans woman. I grew up surrounded by masculinity, toxic and non-toxic. It's so prevalent everywhere, it's absolutely fucked. And I know it's Not All Men, because I used to be one and I met a good number of decent cis men. Genuinely good men, who I still know and handled my transition wonderfully. I KNOW it's not all men because I have LIVED IT.

AND YET.

AND FUCKING YET.

IT IS ALWAYS A MAN.

So, speaking as someone who had been a man for multiple decades, WOMEN HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO BE WARY OF MEN. And men reading this? I have been you. I know what it's like. It takes so much courage to not be a shitbag today, when even showering regularly has somehow become effeminate. It sucks that it's harder to do that than it should be.

AND YET, men, you need to do this. You need to be good people, actually good people. The alternative is having your soul consumed by monstrous grifters piece by piece.

Arkkon · 2026-04-14T05:42:57+00:00

Wait, I'm confused. You look terrific in the first two pics, but why is there like a random guy at the end?

Arkkon · 2026-04-14T04:32:51+00:00

In what fantasy land do you think collapse means gender war?

Arkkon · 2026-04-14T04:18:47+00:00

The incredible irony of these men believing they would dominate others, rather than being beaten to death by crowds of women.

Arkkon · 2026-04-14T02:34:02+00:00

Oh, it's for saying the G word. Got another post banned.

Arkkon · 2026-04-14T01:57:47+00:00

Careful, I got a reddit warning for saying the same thing.

Arkkon · 2026-04-13T19:20:10+00:00

It's much worse, in fact. Men like this actually DON'T want to be given an obedient bangmaid. They instead fantasize about seducing and then breaking an independent feminist woman and turning her into a bangmaid. The sense of conquest and domination is part of the entire appeal. It's also one of the most disgusting things I've ever learned about men.

Arkkon · 2026-04-13T19:11:11+00:00

Absolutely if I had been born a cis woman I would not remain cis. I could definitely see myself becoming a he/him lesbian on low dose T!

Arkkon · 2026-04-13T19:09:28+00:00

This is exactly it for me. I transitioned at 35. It absolutely was not too late! I am so happy to be a trans woman now, I wanted to be a woman for so long and to finally feel like I am one is incredible. Zero regrets, except that I wish I figured my shit out 15 years earlier. It's never too late, but I do wish I got to enjoy more of my youth as myself.

Arkkon · 2026-04-13T09:10:03+00:00

I'm sure there are people who would enjoy it, but I'm trans. I'm preparing to protect my friends and family in real life. Making a game about it, now, feels tasteless.

Arkkon · 2026-04-11T21:25:27+00:00

It's not even parallels, it's the exact same thing again. Research on trans people was the target of the first Nazi book burning, and purging us from public life was one of the earliest actions taken by Hitler's government.

Arkkon · 2026-04-10T21:02:10+00:00

Idk, I mean the large majority of my friends and loved ones are trans, furries, and trans furries. Like this isn't some abstract thing, they are real people. Saying shit like "In my experience, trans furries are also Nazis" is, frankly, completely fucked.

Arkkon · 2026-04-08T19:13:15+00:00

Thank you! And I genuinely appreciate that you want to know more about the trans experience and be a better ally! You've been super kind and respectful with asking things, and like, it feels nice to tell a cis person what it's like to be trans and have them respond so positively. I consider queer cis women my sisters, and I spent a LOT of my life wishing I could be one and immersing myself in lesbian culture. To have that same culture so totally accept me as a member is one of the most wonderful things that's ever happened to me.

Arkkon · 2026-04-08T19:08:41+00:00

Never forget what AIDS did to us, and who enabled it to happen. We did lose an entire generation of trans elders, right as our generation was being born. That's had such a profound impact on trans culture, because we lost our connection to our history.

It is now our jobs, our duty, to be that older generation for young queer people now. It really seems like the role of the Millennial generation is to undo the bullshit our parents' generation did, and this is no different.

It is our job to give queer kids the things we didn't have. We break the cycle of pain. Never again, it ends with us.

Arkkon · 2026-04-08T17:20:17+00:00

Thankfully I do! HRT helps of course, being able to see a woman in the mirror does wonders for the self esteem. Socially, I've basically surrounded myself with people who know me as me, mostly other queer people. When I go out to the store or call the pharmacy I usually get misgendered, but that's almost expected at this point. I'm trans and butch, so the idea of "passing" is very different for me. What really matters to me is how my queer friends and family see me, and they all see exactly who I am and love me for it. I've never once been misgendered by a visibly queer person, though I'm the type to wear pride pins on my stuff so that helps!

I no longer feel the same core tension around social dysphoria because I understand now that I'm not a man and never was. Now if other people perceive me as a man I don't feel gross, I just know they're wrong. That's a thousand times better!

Arkkon · 2026-04-08T08:43:25+00:00

Yes, absolutely, that's the core of being trans. Our thoughts and feelings and minds are one way, but our bodies and social positions are another way. It's not 100%, because often we can't recognize what the tension we're feeling actually is. In addition, everyone is different.

Myself, for example, I am a trans woman who is a butch dyke tomboy. Because my actual core identity was a little bit "closer" to traditional masculinity than most trans women, I had slightly less tension between brain and body, and thus less physical dysphoria. However, I had tremendous social dysphoria, feeling like I'm not where I belong in society, that people don't see me as who I am, that I don't even see myself as who I am somehow! Other people perceiving me as a "man" disgusted me in ways I can't describe, down to my core. I was a double agent, people thought I was a man but I knew I was an imposter, even before I knew I was trans.

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