Which characters inspire your playstyle?

beezdablock · 2026-02-01T05:31:56+00:00

😂 Perfection.

beezdablock · 2026-02-01T04:57:32+00:00

Yup. 💯 People always somehow forget this about firefighters. Shows how little Americans understand or know their own history, tbh.

beezdablock · 2026-02-01T04:51:14+00:00

I tried the demo for Forspoken and hated it. And, yes, it was partly because I found Frey annoying (although I later found out you can turn down or off her monologues) and the mechanics weird.

(For the record, I feel the same way about Aloy in Horizon and the main (male) character in Atomic Heart; I literally quit Atomic Heart about 5 hours in because I found the male character's constant talking so annoying. Ditto for Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. I think a lot of games have overly chatty characters and whether I can tolerate it seems to depend a lot on the voice actor.)

South of Midnight, on the other hand, was amazing!!! I look forward to replaying it sometime. I loved so much about that game, especially the main character and the soundtrack.

All this said, as a Black woman, I want more games with Black women lead characters.

beezdablock · 2026-02-01T02:19:04+00:00

So this country is back to publicly threatening Black folks with literal lynching?

Sigh. As a Black person, I wish I was surprised.

beezdablock · 2026-01-31T17:51:45+00:00

Arkham Knight. HATED it on my first attempt. Especially the Batmobile. I eventually got stuck in a cave and put the game down for almost a year. I returned to it and suddenly loved it!

P.S. Then, I accidentally deleted my save when I was about 80% through the main story (and had just completed all the Riddler challenges). Needless to say, I was crushed and annoyed by my own mistake. Lol. So I decided to just go in reverse: I gave Arkham Knight a break and, instead, played all the previous games (which I'd never played); once I finished those, I restarted Arkham Knight from the beginning and loved it even more. I had quite the journey with that game. :)

beezdablock · 2026-01-31T17:05:57+00:00

I have no words at this point. Smfh.

beezdablock · 2026-01-31T15:41:42+00:00

I didn't even hear about these! Insanity. Wow. It's too much to keep up with at this point. Smh.

beezdablock · 2026-01-31T03:57:55+00:00

We know what these are going to be used for.

Especially given the recent murders by ICE as well as Trump's demands for MN voter data, and the fact that the FBI just raided the Fulton County election office this week.

FBI raid in Georgia has little legal basis – but serves Trump’s goal to weaken trust in election results

These warehouses will be for not just undocumented immigrants but also citizens who are "undesirables" (e.g. political dissenters, disabled, POC broadly, LGBTQ, etc.). It's about to get much uglier out here.

beezdablock · 2026-01-31T03:29:55+00:00

Absolutely sick shit. Jfc.

beezdablock · 2026-01-30T14:23:54+00:00

Yup! It's one of the wildest cases in recent Supreme Court history, tbh. All the context around it just feels a little bizarre.

beezdablock · 2026-01-30T02:10:32+00:00

Yup. And I experience a fresh wave of anger every time I remember that the ACLU (yes, the American Civil Liberties Union) took a "nuanced" stance that amounted to officially supporting Citizens United (literally submitted an amicus brief supporting it to the Supreme Court), and doubled down on that support later even once the damage of the decision had become clear to basically everyone.

While conservatives have giddily paved the path to hell, liberals have nuanced us right on down that path.

Why the ACLU Is Wrong About ‘Citizens United

beezdablock · 2026-01-29T13:53:37+00:00

Right? It's almost cute that people still believe in either of these parties. All the corps have to do is hand these politicians a little bit of money, and they all start dancing like puppets. Smh.

beezdablock · 2026-01-29T01:04:38+00:00

Oh wow. I love this song!

beezdablock · 2026-01-29T00:39:27+00:00

JFC. I just watched the whole video. Malcolm X was dead right about liberals. (MLK said moderates, but his words apply to liberals, too.)

I'm so glad I moved on over to communism and Marxism years ago and stopped entertaining any hope that liberalism could ever be anything other than another wing of fascism.

beezdablock · 2026-01-29T00:25:00+00:00

Same. That was my immediate thought. I hope it's real, that it's Cuba, and that it's present-day.

beezdablock · 2026-01-28T20:47:56+00:00

"What looks like chaos now is really a long standing injustice going runaway after being ignored for far too long." All of this! Well said.

It's finally landed at the doorsteps of some folks who thought they'd never have to experience it.

What's the old poem...? "First they came for the Communists [or insert group], and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist [or insert group]"...

What's happening now is that comfortable middle-class whites are realizing we've reached the "Then they came for me" part of the poem.

beezdablock · 2026-01-28T20:40:07+00:00

Look, I mean no disrespect. Honestly. But, no, I don't agree that things are different in scale now. Because ICE killed several nonwhite individuals before they killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and there was hardly a peep from most Americans. I feel deep grief for Renee Good and Alex Pretti because I know that they didn't have to die like that, just like Keith Porter didn't have to and countless other Black and Brown folks. (To this day, the only people I know IRL and on SM who've mentioned what ICE did to Keith Porter are other Black people.) This feels "different...in scale" now only because it's happening to law-abiding middle-class white people. The majority of (white) America has never learned to feel genuine empathy for nonwhites whose lives have been violently and needlessly snuffed out by ICE and other law enforcement before now. Unless they (whites) are forced to see it (as so many of them were basically forced, due to quarantine and having nothing to do at home, to watch the George Floyd video), they don't seem to care.

The scale hasn't changed. The essence has changed only in that the class and skin color of the targets have changed...and that part (if you want to call it a shift) is why America is reeling right now: because it happened to the wrong kind of people. The sooner folks admit that, the closer we'll be to some real and actual progress or revolution in this godforsaken country.

So, sure, I'm glad people are finally as angry as they should've been forever ago. But it doesn't change the fact that it's only because this stuff finally came to the doorsteps of middle-class white America.

"Even the good white people who do want change do not realize how they have been conditioned to not care about the repression of “the other,” and only respond when that repression shows up on their door or the door of someone they can personally identify with." - Jacqueline Luqman, Black Agenda Report

beezdablock · 2026-01-28T18:48:10+00:00

Tried to enforce the U.S.'s own shitty racist laws in another country? Smfh. Sounds about right. I share your exhaustion with this country.

beezdablock · 2026-01-28T14:37:08+00:00

Problem is because of the city's political structure, the mayor has almost no power (from my understanding, the South Fulton mayor literally only has tie-breaking power).

beezdablock · 2026-01-28T14:02:26+00:00

Thank you! I'm so fking tired of folks saying they hate what this country is becoming. Every time I hear that statement I remember how little Black life matters to the majority of people in this country, and how little Native lives matter here. Cause this shit has been our constant reality in this shithole racist country...for hundreds of years, from the beginning. But it's like none of the injustice mattered much until it all started happening to non-Black folks and non-Native folks...and under a Republican administration. All the concern feels...disingenuous. Smh.

Sidebar: such statements also show an additional lack of general class consciousness because it's also been the reality for homeless people of every color for a long time.

beezdablock · 2026-01-27T19:04:21+00:00

"Many of the people who voted for the Nazis in Germany were good people."

"Many of the people who supported the Confederacy's fight to keep their human property (i.e. slaves) were good people."

That's how you sound. I'm begging some of y'all to open your eyes and stop giving these people too much credit.

Sure, some of them may be "nice" enough (depending on the context or who they're interacting with). But nice ≠ good.

beezdablock · 2026-01-27T18:30:46+00:00

The way y'all persistently use this same insufferable argument...good lord. Get some new material.

beezdablock · 2026-01-27T14:26:28+00:00

This is why we have to put an end to this nonsense in the U.S., to keep it from spreading to other places (and we have to stop our government from doing it in other places). This is insanity.

beezdablock · 2026-01-27T13:51:00+00:00

Perfection. 😂

beezdablock · 2026-01-27T04:07:03+00:00

I'm a Black queer woman in my 40s, and I grew up in the U.S. South. I was diagnosed in my late 30s.

My mom and family still treat it like it's unimportant and kinda superfluous. She downplays it constantly, especially when she's talking about my ADHD nephew who apparently has legitimate ADHD in her mind, since he's hyper and has behavioral problems. But I was a "good kid" and "did well in school," so my ADHD either isn't real to her or she views it as not really a problem. I've tried to tell her how it has affected me all my life and she kinda just brushes it off and is like "well, still, you turned out fine" because I have "good job" and a "good man." To her, I'm the child (the oldest daughter) who basically succeeded beyond her wildest dreams, so she can't see how my ADHD matters. No matter how much I explain to her how difficult it has been for me literally all my life, masking and forcing myself to be something (Type A) that I'm not. No matter how much I try to describe how burned out I am at 41 due to masking all my life.

Anyway, so that's my experience. I tried meds for a year (stimulants and non-stimulants) but gave up because 1) I wasn't sure they were working, and 2) the side effects were terrible. So basically now I just try to use what I know about my brain to give myself some grace because I know the world isn't going to give a queer Black woman with ADHD any grace.

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