Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid!
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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
@dgerard @mii the There is no Antimemetics Division series is particularly good.
@Dtl @dgerard @mii
The world-building in that narrative thread is extremely chewy. :D
Because of the silo-ed nature of the OCP bureaucracy, no-one really knows how many times that the world has been destroyed and re-built. :D
@Dtl @dgerard @mii
@cstross
There’s another good example in The Secret World :D
https://www.secretworldlegends.com/
It’s an early and ongoing experiment in machinima that stands out as being one of the few MMO’s that was publicly LBTQ+ friendly. :D
It is known from interviews that some of the writers are fans of @cstross as is evidenced by the world-building for the main story arc. :D
@Dtl @dgerard @mii @cstross
The game mechanics are similar to most tactical MMORPG’s, but it’s the quality of the storytelling that stands out. :D
In the first section that you are sent to explore, the player is acting as an investigator/cleaner in an HP Lovecraft story. :D
What is also interesting from the pov of gameplay, is that you can only make some of the choices once in the main story arc. :D
Want to make different choices, you have to start again with a new character. :D