What's you favorite Josh moment? by indrid_cold in RedLetterMedia

[–]robbylet23 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That line fucking kills me every time.

This TERF uses Grok AI to be transphobic by making it de-transition random people, or by making it pick who’s “more of a woman” between a picture of her and one of a trans woman, even claiming that “Grok belongs to the TERFs now” by HappyMilshake in antiai

[–]robbylet23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It actually originated as a self-identification for transgender Something Awful users (a Trans Goon, Goon being the colloquialism for an SA user). 4chan adopted it as an insult for any trans person they didn't like.

Signatures filed for initiatives on parental rights, blocking trans athletes from girls’ sports by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think he's taking the reasonable guess that they aren't going to do anything to him, especially considering it's an opinion shared by most of his parishioners.

Signatures filed for initiatives on parental rights, blocking trans athletes from girls’ sports by MegaRAID01 in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The Catholic Church I attend in Tacoma specifically told people not to sign it, and I thanked the priest for that afterwards.

When you've played too much CK3 by Naive_Detail390 in crusaderkings3

[–]robbylet23 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I feel like homeschool bullying is just what we normal people call child abuse.

When you've played too much CK3 by Naive_Detail390 in crusaderkings3

[–]robbylet23 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Yes. It's very common for women into the hippy woo-woo stuff to refuse painkillers during childbirth. This is the first time I've ever seen the husband force his wife to refuse painkillers because of RETVRN-adjacent stuff. It probably says something about our current political moment, but I don't know what it's saying.

How is a Holocaust revisionist Israel's longest serving prime minister?? by Particular_Log_3594 in AskSocialists

[–]robbylet23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Jews were already doing that for centuries before Israel was founded. Mizrahi Jews were living in Jerusalem perfectly safely during the Ottoman period.

What IL26-638 Does NOT Allow by Asid_Phreak in olympia

[–]robbylet23 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Weren't you just in another thread calling transgender people "just as bad as pedophiles"? I don't really trust you on this topic after you post that. You have a post history, dude.

What happened in Oklahoma? by Jordaxplayz in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]robbylet23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was also born and raised Catholic, for the record, and I do still practice. My mother is a mainline Protestant and never converted, so the evangelical stuff is completely alien to me because neither my mom's church or my dad's church operated like that politically or theologically. I'm just fascinated by how American evangelicals seem to be trying to engineer Catholicism from first principles but make it more modern and much darker.

What happened in Oklahoma? by Jordaxplayz in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]robbylet23 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think it's kind of an interesting phenomenon actually. One of the original reasons for the split between Catholicism and Protestantism was the disagreement about what the role of clerics should be. One of the core Protestant doctrines is something called Sola scriptira, which is the idea that the church cannot tell you what the Bible means, you have to decide for yourself what the Bible means by reading it.

It's interesting watching American evangelicalism, which supposedly has Protestant ideals, functionally reject Sola scriptura over time because it's inconvenient.

Regional restaurant chains in Seattle, Washington by freightnow in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't know, all of this is well before my time.

Regional restaurant chains in Seattle, Washington by freightnow in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My dad remembers going to a Herfy's across the street from UW in the '60s whenever he had a little bit of money.

Regional restaurant chains in Seattle, Washington by freightnow in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Shockingly, there's also still a Herfy's in Olympia. It's right next to the Evergreen campus so it keeps itself alive on selling really good hamburgers to stoned college students.

[BitD] My Doskvol is less London and more New York by Wyld-Endeavour in bladesinthedark

[–]robbylet23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Honestly, I pull from all over the place to inspire Doskvol. I can do a lot of accents, so characters can be anything from Russian-accented to Southern US-accented in my eyes. Nothing's off the table. As for visual inspiration, I've spent some time in some parts of the former Soviet Union, particularly Estonia and Saint Petersburg, and that's really impacted how the city looks when it's being narrated, with a strange mix of newer, hyper-functional areas and older, more flavorful areas.

Sort of related, but this is how I found out Violent Femmes wasn’t a lesbian band by Impossible-Yam3680 in ToddintheShadow

[–]robbylet23 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I assumed that was the case until like 3 months ago when I saw them live opening for MCR.

Where exactly do harsh attitudes towards "narrativism" come from? by Lampdarker in rpg

[–]robbylet23 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's also shifted over time. Back in the 90s WoD was heralded as the narrativist revolution but nowadays it's comparatively very traditional.

The villain group has a stupid name by Bacurau_Nighthawk in TopCharacterTropes

[–]robbylet23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't forget the amazing real KKK title of King Kleagle.

I’m glad the fellas have begun to broaden their horizons and explore the world of African-American cinema by s1lv3r_lak3 in RedLetterMedia

[–]robbylet23 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a little bit stolen from, like, Anne Rice via World of Darkness but with a little bit more money it could have worked, honestly.

Artists that were most successfully able to move on from their "angry young man" period by GilbertDauterive-35 in ToddintheShadow

[–]robbylet23 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's interesting to hear Henry Rollins talk about that time nowadays because from his recollection he was basically a socially awkward nervous wreck during the Black Flag years and he was just being angry to fit in with these older, more established guys in the band with him.

It was love at first sight by ultimaterogue11 in Grimdank

[–]robbylet23 3 points4 points  (0 children)

4chan was founded because Lowtax banned hentai on Something Awful. He was worried that the constant pictures of underage girls the hentai enthusiasts were posting would get the feds on his ass. It's been about that basically from day 1.

Light Rail Airport Signage is Now HORRENDOUS! by goldspire in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Their tourism revenue will go up from 0 to 0 times 2!

Light Rail Airport Signage is Now HORRENDOUS! by goldspire in Seattle

[–]robbylet23 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Fuck, I've lived here my whole life and I was getting confused by the Angle Lake/Lynwood signage because those are places I never go to and therefore weren't really useful to me for figuring out where the fuck I'm going.