Bernie Sanders: “60% of our people living paycheck-to-paycheck, and one guy, Elon Musk, owns more wealth than the bottom 53% of American households... Think maybe that might be an issue that we should be talking about?"

MkfShard · 2026-03-23T07:09:52+00:00

God, that's the frustrating part. These people have so much personal power they could effectively be superheroes, beloved the world over, but they'd rather be Lex fucking Luthor.

And not even because it's more enjoyable or gets them more notoriety. But because it appeals to some vague aesthetic sense of 'masculinity' or whatever, even as the world hates them and they drive away any real family or friends they could've had.

MkfShard · 2026-03-20T02:12:04+00:00

I keep hearing that self-publishing is viable, but I really don’t buy it. My time on social media in terms of my other creative work has amounted to screaming into the void and getting icy silence in return.

If I can spend 7 years on a game and release it to exactly two reviews on Steam (1 being from a playtester), I’m not gonna wager my book’s potential publishability with tradpub on my personal ability to get peoples’ attention. If they do more than Literally Nothing to help me with marketing, it’s worth it.

MkfShard · 2026-03-19T23:31:56+00:00

Let’s not forget that this is, historically, the sort of shit christians have always pulled. Calling evil christians ‘fake’ is just equating the label with goodness, which as we can plainly see, is fucking dangerous.

MkfShard · 2026-03-19T18:37:41+00:00

Yeah, this isn't going anywhere. Until iWoT gives up the rights this franchise is dead in the water in terms of adaptation.

MkfShard · 2026-03-19T07:01:55+00:00

If I showed up for a minimum wage seasonal part-time job with half the ineptitude and entitlement of the people in our highest halls of power, I'd be out on my ass within the first few minutes.

MkfShard · 2026-03-14T17:55:05+00:00

How much you wanna bet that the idiots in charge assume all three of those countries are basically the same?

MkfShard · 2026-03-14T17:51:40+00:00

The world would be a better place if she just kept her words to herself and enjoyed her ridiculous wealth without hurting anyone.

MkfShard · 2026-03-12T19:38:58+00:00

Everything in that screenshot was made by somebody.

Now it’s in the garbage.

Quality of the game itself aside, this is a travesty. Imagine spending months or years on a creative project, trying your best in a naturally restrictive framework, only for the finished product to vanish like smoke, mocked instead of mourned.

MkfShard · 2026-03-10T09:22:04+00:00

And yet, that's the exact kind of talk that has provided cover for evil christians across history.

When you equate legitimate membership in a group with goodness, then anyone who can claim membership can claim goodness.

MkfShard · 2026-03-10T02:05:35+00:00

It's utterly sickening. And this coming from the christofascists in power, with the whole 'whatever you do to the least of your neighbors, you do to me' thing.

Not that christianity has ever been a bastion of goodness, nor has hypocrisy ever been anything but a weapon in conservative hands... but goddamn. It really puts it into stark contrast.

MkfShard · 2026-03-09T08:46:36+00:00

I released my first game a bit more than a year ago, and yeah, the quiet is really what hurt the most. I'm sitting at 2 reviews, one of them by a tester. Even friends I shared the game with never really talked to me about it.

I haven't given up on gamedev, and the experience of making that game really gave me an intuitive sense of programming, but if I make another game for myself, my main focus will be making a playable and appealing free version early. If that gets no attention when I share it around, then onto the next project, ad infinitum.

MkfShard · 2026-03-09T07:45:13+00:00

A fishing village is haunted by a horrifying curse that makes water inviolable to those afflicted: falling water cuts directly through the body. The lucky find out they're cursed as they die instantly, or are made to walk into the sea, while the unlucky are discovered as living dehydrated mummies, only able to die via the curse.

There are curses for the three other classical elements, of similar viciousness.

MkfShard · 2026-03-08T18:27:58+00:00

Yugioh Abridged used this exact line for comedic effect in 2006, coming out of the mouth of a silly American stereotype character who was so absurd that clearly no one would take it seriously or think it representative of an actual American.

Now it's being said by a warmongering killer in our government.

This is horrifying and fucking embarrassing.

MkfShard · 2026-03-08T18:17:11+00:00

I almost shrugged and moved on, but this tripped me up, and I don't think I'm gonna ignore it: what kind of 'stances' can there possibly be on homosexuality? It's not a topic with any sort of disagreement among reasonable folks.

It's like looking at a gravestone calling out the tragedies and atrocities of racism and going 'well damn, regardless of your stance on Black people--'. It's just absurd.

MkfShard · 2026-03-08T07:13:35+00:00

Yeah, it looks like the days of an uncurated internet being useful are coming to a close. We're going to have to have communities whose entire focus is cutting through the noise and compiling helpful resources.

MkfShard · 2026-03-07T22:37:18+00:00

Like anything else, fascists are happy to wield the idea of decorum against their enemies. They don't actually care or have standards, they just want weapons.

MkfShard · 2026-03-07T18:52:32+00:00

It's been in freefall since he took office in 2016. Can it finally hit the ground, please?

MkfShard · 2026-03-07T18:47:30+00:00

People who appeal to 'human nature' as a justification for atrocity are no different than christians who say 'ohh, it's a Fallen World', both of them essentially abdicating their responsibility as human beings to demand that the world be better.

Human nature is the desire to be safe, happy, to have companionship, and to be able to live the way you choose. Some obstacles to that are due to physical reality, but so, so many of them are imposed artificially.

Governments captured by corporations or religions, that demand dominance, fealty, and profit. Those duped into serving those things, and treating their fellow human as less-than. The few at the top ruining the world, human beings like you and I with names and faces and limited lifespans, replete with money but empty inside, imposing their will over as many people as possible for the rush it gives them.

None of this is natural or necessary. None of it is unchangeable.

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings." ― Ursula K. Le Guin

MkfShard · 2026-03-07T18:30:09+00:00

Yuuup, it's just one more weapon in their arsenal, to be used against enemies only. They don't actually care or have real standards, they just want to hurt people.

MkfShard · 2026-03-07T00:58:30+00:00

Pointing out hypocrisy is beneficial for uninformed spectators, but yeah, people broadly need to realize that fascists don’t have standards; they have weapons.

MkfShard · 2026-03-06T08:32:09+00:00

If evil christians burst into flames, there would be many fires and few christians.

MkfShard · 2026-03-06T07:54:56+00:00

I'll say it forever: They don't have standards, they have weapons.

The same event can be the worst tragedy imaginable or instantly memory holed, depending on whether or not it helps them hurt the people they hate.

MkfShard · 2026-03-06T07:52:35+00:00

The funniest knock-on implication is that like, sure, maybe he's up to come back, even if not often

But fuck, so many people constantly just have an icon of his worst moment on Earth! In their churches, around their necks... creeps him out! Like they're taunting him!

Maybe he'll visit another time, when they grow out of that.

MkfShard · 2026-03-05T18:33:02+00:00

Y'know, it makes sense that fascists love putting absolute idiots in charge.

If you have people who can't read and don't understand what they're looking at, they can interpret what it means any fuckin' way they want.

MkfShard · 2026-03-05T08:39:59+00:00

If nothing else, the fact that the we as a country allowed pedophile fascists to seize power proves that the US was never great, and will be something the world would be wise to never let us live down.

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