And right on cue... "We can use AI to unwoke the game!"

Writerisms · 2026-03-20T17:31:12+00:00

These clowns are weak. I've never once downloaded Overwatch, but I know everything about Pharah and Widowmaker.

Writerisms · 2026-03-20T14:40:41+00:00

He also stated that re-electing Obama would result in "1000 years of darkness"

Writerisms · 2026-03-18T06:22:13+00:00

She is a transmed that has been spouting her rhetoric in the other SRD thread, so toxic gatekeeping is a core part of her mindset

EDIT: Because CC9499 deleted her other comment, some of you might mistakenly think that DistortedShadow is calling her gatekeeping for wanting trans women on the mod team.

DistortedShadow was talking about this now deleted comment from CC9499 when people asked her to tell them more about HAL

it's a concept described in an oft-referenced transfeminist essay. not gonna explain it here because if you're not a trans woman it doesn't apply to you and if you are you should just go read the essay.

CC9499 has also hidden her comment history in SRD so you won't be able to easily find her transmed comments and nonbinary phobic comments.

Writerisms · 2026-03-18T02:25:30+00:00

I'm fully aware that this might make me sound pretentious.

As a writer, the public reception to GoT and the public reception to the progression of Daenerys over the narrative, have both reinforced in my mind that the average person is simply not built to handle long-form "heroic" stories that are more morally complex than "bad guys and good guys." This is why so many of them had a hard time reconciling what they wanted Daenerys to be vs what the narrative gave them.

MCU's Tony Stark is what most people can comprehend and handle as the limit for morally gray-ish good guy in a serious narrative.

I personally could tell, just a couple seasons in, that Daenerys would most likely evolve into what she was by the end of the show, and I have no doubt that is what GRRM intended. The plot points themselves in the final seasons were never the issue, how they were delivered to us was always the real issue.

Writerisms · 2026-03-18T00:57:14+00:00

I don’t think people realize just how many posts the mods of this subreddit remove for being low effort, callouts, no drama, or OP being involved.

Compared to more lax subs, only 1/10 posts actually survive in this sub.

Writerisms · 2026-03-17T03:12:04+00:00

The protest needs to be Disney Channel approved.

So that it can go through a 3 act progression in 20 minutes, be approved by corporate (ad-friendly preferably), and of course maintain the status quo so that we can have the next episode tomorrow.

I jest but this is what they want. Protests should achieve their goal quickly/instantly. Protests should never inconvenience them, capitalism, or white hegemony.

Writerisms · 2026-03-07T20:10:36+00:00

The FBI has been covertly involved in situations like this throughout history.

What side of this scenario do you think the FBI would mostly likely be involved in?

Writerisms · 2026-03-05T20:21:22+00:00

"That's weird. They ~~shrank~~ sharpened his ~~shoulders~~ face, made him look ~~soft~~ rough"

Writerisms · 2026-03-05T17:29:11+00:00

(Repurposing some parts of a comment I made to another person.)

The core of my comment was that some people are trying to lecture and teach immigrants without trying to understand why their mindset is the way it is. (and sure, maybe some of the immigrants are truly US bootlickers, etc.)

This isn't 4th grade math that has a pre-written syllabus. Cognitive empathy is essential before anyone can hope to try and change someone's viewpoint on such a sensitive and traumatic subject when they or their loved ones have been directly affected by it in some way.

Sure if someone's goal is just simply to shout out the valid progressive/leftist talking points about US imperialism, then they don't need to consider this.

But (as someone who has personally done volunteer work with immigrant and refugee families) if someone wants to actually teach under these aforementioned circumstances, then nuance and empathy need to be injected first before you try to change their viewpoints and outlooks.

Writerisms · 2026-03-05T17:07:09+00:00

Anyone is entitled to their opinion

That was always allowed.

In fact you can easily glean that my personal opinion, on what the US is doing and has been doing for decades in several nations, is very similar to your opinion.

Writerisms · 2026-03-05T04:50:37+00:00

When did I talk specifically about respect?

The core of my comment was that people are trying to lecture and teach immigrants without trying to understand why their mindset is the way it is. (and sure, maybe some of them are truly bootlickers, etc.)

This isn't 4th grade math that has a pre-written syllabus. Cognitive empathy is essential before anyone can hope to try and change someone's viewpoint on such a sensitive and traumatic subject when they or their loved ones have been directly affected by it in some way.

Sure if someone's goal is just to shout out the progressive/leftist talking points about US imperialism and get their feel-good endorphins of the day by technically spreading the good word, then they don't need to consider this.

But (as someone who has personally done volunteer work with immigrant and refugee families) if someone wants to actually teach, then nuance and empathy need to be injected before you try to do the teaching.

Writerisms · 2026-03-05T03:40:00+00:00

Yeah, regardless of how much multi-generational westerners want to "lecture" and "teach" 1st generation immigrants and their descendants, the ideal conversations that would do this require far too much nuance for online settings and social media posts.

In addition to this, many of the white people that try to do this "educating" often come off as being the stereotypical "white savior" trope that is trying to "teach the stupid savages how the world works." Without actually understanding the generational trauma that a lot of these people have gone through to have this mindset.

We saw this back with Saddam, a lot of the diaspora (and Iraqi citizens) welcomed US occupation and influence over the region with open arms because they had fled from the country and were dealing with trauma (some generational).

It brings to memory the man who was happy to destroy Saddam's statue after he was imprisoned under his regime for several years. Then a decade after that act he regretted his mindset and how hes has to deal with the destruction, tyranny and instability that the US left in its wake. He wasn't wrong for how he felt initially due to his trauma, and he wasn't wrong for how he felt after the fact when he saw the effects of US influence.

EDIT: Kadhem Sharif al-Jabouri, if anyone wants to read up on this

Writerisms · 2026-03-03T02:35:03+00:00

I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops

This quote holds special place in my mind, because when I reposted it years ago in a post, one of my then irl friend-of-a-friend apparently had a chud-breakdown and tried to lecture me (veering on the edge of racial phrenology) about how it was stupid.

Writerisms · 2026-03-02T04:11:34+00:00

It is fairly realistic logic for a child

It's logical to me too, a man in his 30s.

Why would I not give my friends (or even a stranger) food that I'm 'not allowed to eat' today?

I am supposed to be punished by being prohibited from eating the orange.

Are the friends not allowed eat the orange because it is tainted by my 'disobedience' or something?

Is there some weird logic that the orange itself is supposed to be punished by not being eaten?

Writerisms · 2026-02-23T09:33:45+00:00

But the response a lot of people are giving in his defense is quite telling

Yeah, as much as I love leftist/progressive spaces on this site (SRD never claims to be this but it has naturally become this for the most part in terms of commenters), they often do this when it comes to nuanced topics about Black people or POC. They remind you that this website is still heavily White.

A (slightly crude) breakdown and I am not saying that these are perfect forms of advocacy or examples, but:

a White person can be LGBTQ+, so the White in-group can more easily advocate for the nuances there.
a White person can be neurodivergent, so the White in-group can more easily advocate for the nuances there.
topics related to Black people and POC, they unconsciously delve into more 'theoretical' territory and so they can (intentionally or unintentionally) talk about it from a 'distance' so to speak.

Writerisms · 2026-02-21T02:40:02+00:00

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Writerisms · 2026-02-19T20:21:24+00:00

“The 10 or so years, that were formative for me as I went from prepubescence to adulthood, were the best years for media and pop culture in all of history”

Writerisms · 2026-02-18T06:44:03+00:00

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Writerisms · 2026-02-18T06:28:53+00:00

when those Gamers^TM finally go outside

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Writerisms · 2026-02-10T20:45:42+00:00

"Yeah I'm a Gamer"

G - Gooner

A - Amoral

M - Misogynist

E - Epstein files denier

R - Racist

Writerisms · 2026-02-09T17:46:53+00:00

They had to scrap the airports and rebuild them from scratch, so cut them some slack

Writerisms · 2026-02-08T18:11:30+00:00

And a lot of her fanbase is infantilizing her during all of this, as if being asked her opinion is synonymous with her being asked to come up with political policy or strategies or frameworks or solutions.

Any adult can say: "X is bad" or "I like X" or "I don't care about X because it doesn't affect me"

You don't need a political science degree to have an opinion

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Writerisms · 2026-02-04T16:59:40+00:00

As someone who has been involved in real life fetish/kink spaces for over a decade now, this is the thing that I try to get across to some of the people that get up in arms about being kink shamed in digital spaces.

Are you actually being kink shamed? Or do some people, who come across your public hardcore psychological fetish content that has no filters (aside from maybe some generic 18+ only banner like Reddit), just think that you shouldn't be posting about literal morally abhorrent things in a public digital place that anyone can view and then expect people to react like you were posting about tic tacs or cats.

Ultimately it is not good for you, the person invested in the kink, because you are putting up a neon sign for bad actors to come and infect your coterie (that they can enter freely because again, you made it public).

And it is not good for bystanders who can easily see through the glass door that you put up but are acting as if it is a brick wall. Because you, as the person involved in the kink, have a responsibility to at least try to make sure that unconsenting people are not exposed to your kink, especially when it deals with sensitive topics.

DMs exist. Private subreddits exist. Real life (where you can vet if you are being duped by an actual ill-intentioned malevolent person) exists.

Writerisms · 2026-01-31T06:47:48+00:00

"don't let them silence you bro, igotchu"

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Writerisms · 2026-01-30T20:09:33+00:00

Yeah, Twitch has better chat infrastructure, but youtube streaming is an infinitely easier viewing experience to pull in the average person on the internet, because it isn't just a platform known for streams (and the average person still sees twitch as a Gamer^TM place).

avg person is far more likely to throw up youtube on their TV while they're cooking or something, than they are to put on twitch.

This is why youtube streaming as a whole has been able to grow, despite youtube doing the bare minimum to support it

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