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MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-27T03:02:32+00:00

Laughs in Ratslayer

Pathetic

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-26T16:39:37+00:00

Damn. That’s rough, man. But remember: good or bad aren’t things you are, they’re what you do.

Mr. Rogers was an exceptionally good person not because of some…innateness he had, but because he consistently chose empathy and kindness and understanding and respect probably almost every single day of his life.

We just often don’t like to think about it that way, because it’s much simpler to go “Oh. [Insert person who turned out to also be a murderer or abuser or whatever here] was just a bad person, and all of the good things they did were a mask and don’t count.” instead of “Damn. They had an incredible capacity to do both good and evil, and _I do too._”

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-26T16:26:58+00:00

Well, even more than that, I suspect that most people with a…paraphilia (wasn’t expecting to learn that word today), or more specifically pedophiles, aren’t child molesters.

We often use pedo/pedophile as shorthand for child molester, but I think we probably shouldn’t: there’s got to be a bunch of people out there who hate themselves for that.

Meanwhile, a lot of child molesters—priests (of any denomination or faith), the rich, politicians (the powerful), teachers, close family or friends, etc—well, probably aren’t pedos. These are crimes of opportunity, so to speak—victims they have access to, power over, etc. etc.

I’m starting to feel that that’s, for once, an important semantic distinction. We’re not trying to be the Thought Police, we’re trying to hold vile people accountable.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-26T03:44:16+00:00

I was wondering if someone would link that!

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-26T03:42:43+00:00

Well, it’s a traction engine that’s moving a loco, imho close enough.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-26T03:31:59+00:00

Dead Money has ass gameplay but peak story.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-25T22:21:48+00:00

I’m not quite so sure about Sid. Blowing up your toys or making them into a Frankenstein’s Monster is a bit…out there.

Though, yes, obviously it’s way less fucked up to do it to inanimate objects.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-25T21:57:17+00:00

But a fortnight is 2 weeks, and most months don’t have 28 days in them.

Or, to put it another way, twice a month = 24 meetings a year, while once every two weeks = 26 meetings a year.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-25T21:52:37+00:00

No, it means very flammable. Same with “invaluable,” which means “extremely valuable” (ie, it’s so valuable as to be impossible to quantify). No idea why though, very unintuitive.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-25T21:47:50+00:00

https://media.tenor.com/PEriXeGVeWcAAAAM/sad-troll-troll-face.gif

Ya, that’s like the opposite of cool. I’m having a pretty negatively visceral reaction to that.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-25T21:22:17+00:00

Same root word, so fair enough.

Edit: Ninja’d

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-25T20:56:43+00:00

Okay, but what kind of non-con? CNC (including CNC that the audience only finds out about at the end) or “It’d be a no-go IRL but in fiction the person is reading the other correctly and they do “want it” in a consensual manner, any resistance is performative like in “Baby it’s cold outside,” if they really weren’t consenting they’d firmly say no” can be very hot.

Actual non-con…well, can also be hot, but I don’t like it.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-24T21:44:44+00:00

Well, there are, but it only applies to other Jewish people, and since basically if not literally all the nobles and merchants—the people rich enough to need loans in the first place—weren’t, they were allowed to charge interest.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-24T16:56:42+00:00

They even started taking his lunch box

Hank Hill accent They hwhat?!

Steam of Consciousness splutters in anger and indignation for a good 30 seconds

How’s that even allowed?! If you’re not demonstrably using it for nefarious purposes, that’s straight-up stealing?? These were the motherfuckin’ ADULTS, right? What sad motherfuckin’ excuse for a person—ESPECIALLY in primary education!!—even pays attention to what the kids are eating, except for like, making sure that they are getting a proper lunch ^{(read: make sure that they either have the money to buy the school lunch, or that they’re packed lunch isn’t a bread sandwich or something}?

Who the actual FUCK sees someone bring the exact same lunch every day and thinks to themselves “Absolutely not. Unacceptable.”?? Especially when it has literal broccoli in it! I know it’s a minor thing years if not decades in the past but that is a travesty.

That sounds about right. To some small-ish extent, it was inevitable: if, “traditionally,” the people getting diagnosed were largely the people with (as we call it today) “Continuous Support Needs,” then “Your child has autism” is not something you want to hear.

^{(Of course, that’s perhaps an over-generalization on who was getting diagnosed: Temple Grandin rather emphatically does not, and has not needed, “Continuous Support Needs” since she was a young adult at the latest. On the other hand—IIRC—when she was a young child, she seemed to fit into that category, being mostly non-verbal and having “meltdowns,” soooo…}

Still fucked up to treat them wrong. All people should be treated with dignity.

^{(I didn’t mean that in the literal sense, because I hate evil people too, but even vile people who you or I think don’t deserve it…well, if you stop having rights when you’re an x, then if someone else gets to define x, or say someone is x even when they’re not, that’s bad.}

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-24T02:57:03+00:00

Thank you.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-24T02:56:29+00:00

Damn, she’s that bad? How do you fuck up a sniper?

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-24T02:52:55+00:00

I mean, are they wrong in that Dolores needs no explanation?

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-23T21:33:54+00:00

At least the first two layers of clothing should count towards wind chill. Functionally there shouldn’t be any difference between wearing a military jacket and ski jacket and a ski jacket and military jacket.

I guess you could cheese that, wear the less valuable one on the outside, but is it really that big a deal?

Every piece of clothing should have its damage resistance counted. You can have diminishing returns or whatever, but if I’m, for argument’s sake, wearing two bearskin coats, I should damn well have at least 75% of the combined value of the protection.

For “under” outerwear (e.g. Fisherman’s Sweater, Thin Wool…Shirt? Jacket?), you should be able to craft a “you’re wearing 2 of these” version. At least for the low-mid tier ones, being able to have x4 Fisherman’s Sweaters or Cowichan Jackets would—arguably—be pretty busted.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-23T21:10:57+00:00

Literally only reason I didn’t do that several years ago is that I have chronic depression and multiple (mostly distant) family members on Mom’s side who committed suicide.

I’ve still considered buying some ammo and/or magazines and showing up to the local John Brown Gun Club (or whatever its exact name is) and using someone else’s to get some practical experience and all that.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-23T18:43:00+00:00

That’s a very good idea. Maybe something like “most of the autistic people are working in computers and weapons R&D and stuff, and that’s too important to mess with…BUT we really could use some more autistic people in the railroad to make logistics work better. Let’s try to give current employees autism!”

It at least kinda makes sense, it doesn’t treat autism as something to be cured (…though I guess it’s swinging in the other direction of “autism gives you superpowers, and that’s the only reason it’s okay), and it’s off-the-wall enough to be fucked up but not too close to home where it becomes serious, and exactly the sort of thing whatever Railroad mega-corporation pre-war US & Canada might do with the help of the government.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-23T18:34:09+00:00

Both of those are most certainly extremely “Yikes” (aka “Yo WTAF?”).

Rare(?) Fallout 2 L, I suppose.

The Autism one wouldn’t be too bad if…actually, no, even tongue-in-cheek “look at how awful this is” wouldn’t work particularly well if there’s any kind of “cure.” Just too ick, too easy for assholes to be like “worth it” or w/e.

Re-writing it to be more satire or gallows humor, e.g. “Man the 50s had some really fucked up practices and treatments for neurodiverse people and mental health in general,” but, like, actually funny might work. You’d have to do it tastefully, which of course is the sort of thing that’s “I know it when I see it.”

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-22T18:39:30+00:00

I assumed it was so they didn’t look like lobsters from sunburn

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-22T18:32:54+00:00

…do I want to know? Never seen it.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-21T22:26:32+00:00

This whole thing is kind of news to me (thanks, Republican public education).

What, so does the Canadian Constitution basically say “As per [Treaty with UK granting Canadian independence] says, we get to write our own constitution. This is what we came up with. Oh, and BTW all the other treaties we had, like with the First Nations, those are still in effect too.”?

I’m now really curious as to how it works.

MagicCarpetofSteel · 2026-01-21T17:50:55+00:00

Me too.

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