@RiotDoll
@hexbear.neti think shunting off non rational belief into a category of "bullshit not worth exploring or interrogating" is kind of, i dunno, itself ignorant? you can at least take the approach of people who study these matters academically, and separate your ego and emotional responses from the equation and seek to actually, not just approximating marx fourth hand, actually try to understand the phenomenon before jumping to this kind of shit.
astrology fits this category for me - it's not remotely productive for anyone to silo yourselves off from understanding for a lack of "getting it" - you're not omniscient, there's shit you don't know. Human tendencies towards these phenomena, whether imaginal or real, and you already know what you think about that, are not something to just go "lol i dont get it fuck all that noise" because you wanna actually reach people and find common cause with them, you refusing and even being hostile to this shit is gonna lose people who might, despite your assumptions, be radically useful.
you know, when i was a younger, worse person living a different gender, i ran into a skit he did with uhh, filthy frank i think? and i thought it was funny
he did like, two more okay videos with kinda funny concepts before pivoting to a drama guy, fucking boring. i couldn't invest myself in youtuber drama. Then that inane fucking podcast
i realized he sucked pretty early, i just kept hoping maybe the bad take machine would do some funny stuff a bit more, but nah that idiot knows how his bread is buttered and it's not being funny or interesting, but being an incredibly deranged unselfaware narcissist so whatever
for love of my father and a distaste of his brainworms i'm selfishly gonna hold his ass down and make him drink deeply of the mystik röt
what's the justification on critical?
when i transitioned i lost all interest in his content, which was looks at calendar SIX YEARS AGO jfc, but he used to be kinda fine if deeply himbo, what happened?
They called them fuckin' plutocrats so let's embody the motherfucker and transform this death into rebirth
Are you me?
My parents were way too edgy to ever take a satanic panic seriously, but other than that i felt this post deeply.
I picked up the riven remake recently and it was like flashing into my 10 year old self just absolutely in awe of that fucking game.
My first exposure was playing at a rich kid's house, using his sister's copy. Was wild shit and I got home and basically insisted on getting it for ourselves.
Gonna go play some more in a bit, awesome op.
I'd teach if they'd listen because some of them are pretty nice and just really stuck in the toxic worldviews of modern masculinity and it'd almost be an honor to lead them out of the wilderness, but also i'm skeptical most of them can do the inner work
i ran out of content right before the 1.0 announcement
did they unfuck the dire and unfun act 3/postgame content because this game was a delightful ride until the end of act 2 where resource gathering advances into deep tedium and the fights got worse
the entire late game needed at least one more fuckin' pass and im skeptical they did it is all