GuerillaGrue

@GuerillaGrue@hachyderm.io

Transperson. She/Her preferred, They/Them fine.

I do art stuff, and music stuff, and writing stuff. I love video and tabletop games, and hope to some day incorporate that into Something That Makes It Big.

Very Political.

Photo: cartoon image of woman, blonde curly hair, broad toothy smile, three quarters turned to face right.

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GuerillaGrue, to random

I'm 37 today!

Rather than asking for gifts, celebrate with me by playing some free games!

Cats Hidden in Jingle Jam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2608050/Cats_Hidden_in_Jingle_Jam/

An Arcade Full of Cats
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2368470/An_Arcade_Full_of_Cats/

Moonring
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373630/Moonring/

Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
https://store.steampowered.com/app/407900/Princess_Remedy_in_a_World_of_Hurt/

Frog Fractions
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1194840/Frog_Fractions_Game_of_the_Decade_Edition/

Himno
https://store.steampowered.com/app/931690/Himno/

Vecter
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1175140/Vecter/

Skye
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1214360/SKYE/

William and Sly
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2684790/William_and_Sly_Classic_Collection/

Excaliburian!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1739530/EXCALIBURIAN/

GuerillaGrue, to random

I still 100 percent cannot fathom why people act like the GTA games are worth even touching.

They control like ass, the writing in them is generally inconsistent and incredibly nihilistic.

All they are is sandboxes where people get to murder other folks without cause or reason, listening to the screams of their innocent victims as they're mercilessly maimed and tortured for your amusement.

I get that folks want stress relief and to "just have fun," but GTA is just a disgusting way to do it.

thomasfuchs, to retrocomputing
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io avatar

For a while in the 1980s there was a weird obsession about stacking things on and under computers

Clunky external expansion box for your clunky IBM PC that goes under PC making the PC a tall boi.

GuerillaGrue,

@thomasfuchs I mean... I'ma be honest, there ain't a day goes by I didn't wish there weren't still a market for cases designed to sit under the monitor, even nowadays. Thin as monitors are, most of 'em still have a base broad enough to justify at least an ITX if not full MATX motherboard's footprint, and with just a little bit of horizontal design that could easily translate into a powerful under-the-monitor system.

Instead, that's where we put sound bars now?

Why not both?

shrug

GuerillaGrue, to random

It may be 9 PM, but that's no reason I can't enjoy a nice cup of English Breakfast tea, right?

GuerillaGrue,

(No lie, I'm not even drinking it right now: just enjoying letting the steam off it soak into my sinuses.)

Maybe this'll help me stop sounding like Abby from NCIS after a 30 year pack-a-day habit and a gallon of rye whiskey.

It hurts so much to laugh right now, which is a bad thing, because my roomie @joycemelton is goddamn hilarious and she's sending me into bloody coughing fits right now.

(It's just seasonal sinus issues, folks, so no need to worry too much.)

What're y'all's favorite teas?

blogdiva, to random
@blogdiva@mastodon.social avatar

HEY! ANTIFA!
HEY! COMMUNISTS!
HEY! SOCIALISTS!
HEY! RADICALS!

let's celebrate these electoral wins that look small to some of y'all, if not completely antithetical to your definition of radicalism.

why?

HARM REDUCTION IS POLITICAL WARFARE.

because it is a BFD for us, the targets of racist, misogynist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic harm.

self-care —from the privacy of health care to the public sphere of voting— is an act of political warfare

so celebrate today's wins

GuerillaGrue,

@blogdiva

This, so much.

A lot of folks who are like "everything or nothing" keep forgetting that the way the right got where THEY are wasn't everything or nothing -- it was slowly chipping away at norms, at expectations, at the resolve of those they opposed.

Folks can claim it's just the lesser of two evils... but pushing those evils to be less and less over time is a worthy goal.

The Overton Window didn't get where it is overnight, and we can't swing it the other way overnight either.

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

Painful Truth:

It doesn't actually hurt you or Thanksgiving to see Christmas stuff for sale in October, you're just grumpy.

GuerillaGrue,

@RickiTarr

I'm cool with seeing the Christmas stuff, I just get... okay, yes, grumpy... when they move the Halloween stuff out a week before Halloween to make room for it. Like... if we're gonna do that, start offering Halloween stuff in, like, June.

Heck, do that anyway -- Halloween is the best holiday.

GuerillaGrue, to random

Was curious, so looked up numbers on stuff (like I'm wont to do.)

I was TRYING to find a figure of how much value there was currently in the world in terms of money and possessions, but that seems to be a difficult figure to find.

Oddly, I could find an estimate for the value of the world as a whole, though: about 5 quadrillion dollars.

Or, if you split that between every person currently alive... around 635,000 USD per person on the planet.

Kinda ridiculous, ain't it?

1/2

GuerillaGrue,

Admittedly, the numbers are suspect, given the fact that, y'know, money isn't real and all that. But still, I think that really helps to emphasize just how much bullshit everything about how the global economy works is.

Like... there should be no homeless people.

No hungry people.

No people without medical coverage.

Not just in any given country, no -- there should be nobody in the world we can't cover for all of that.

Instead, we have multi-billionaires and poverty.

Just... ugh.

2/2

Nonya_Bidniss, to atheism
@Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to avatar

Penn Jillette (Penn and Teller): "The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do murder all I want, and the amount I want is zero. The fact that these people think that if they didn’t have this person watching over them that they would go on killing, raping rampages is the most self-damning thing I can imagine." [

GuerillaGrue,

@Nonya_Bidniss

In my opinion - and experience - the reason that highly religious people - those who define themselves by their religion - don't understand things like this, is for the same reason they don't like evolution, or books, or so many other things.

They want whats, and are terrified of whys.

Why wouldn't someone want to rape or murder? Because hurting others is bad. Why is it bad to hurt other people? Because humans are social animals, etc.

"Why" begs understanding. "What" doesn't.

Terra, (edited ) to random

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    GuerillaGrue,

    @Terra I'd say I fit all but three (the "same song" one, the safe foods one, and the "why isn't everyone as blunt," one, though I do struggle mightily with why people find it so easy to lie to folks.)

    I've been told by people all my life I was some form of off. I've always just chalked it up to being an anxiety case though.

    That said, I did ruin a piece of restaurant decor for a whole room full of people -- including one of the owners -- the other day by pointing out part was upside down, so.

    jeffowski, to random
    @jeffowski@mastodon.world avatar
    GuerillaGrue,

    @jeffowski

    Counterpoint:

    Currency exchange is itself outdated and unneeded, and should be terminated.

    Car boot sales? Give things you no longer need to others.

    Tips for workers? How about they have their needs met without relying on such things?

    Like... I know it's not gonna happen any time soon -- people like their numbers and stuff -- but for real. Cash has no more intrinsic value than digital stuff does -- it all only has value by agreement that it does.

    And they can track cash too.

    GuerillaGrue,

    @jeffowski

    Every bill has a serial number, meaning that -- should anyone (agency, employer, etc.) WANT to track any given bill... it's possible. Every single exchange, probably not: but projects like "Where's George" exist specifically because these numbers allow for them to.

    Currency is no more sacred an exchange tool than gold, or whatever other thing is in vogue with survivalists at any given time (alcohol, bullets, whatever) and arguably less useful and valuable long-term.

    shrug

    GuerillaGrue,

    @SocialistStan @jeffowski Hence my (admittedly being a stickler) precise wording of "they CAN track cash," not "they DO track cash."

    GuerillaGrue, to random

    I can't News today. Just... fuck the world and all of the bullshit from all the assholes who just wanna hurt other people because they're selfish pricks.

    If you need me I'll be playing horror games about zombie viruses and stuff, 'cause at this point I almost feel like that's a more uplifting vision of the future than putting up with all the bullshit.

    eniko, to random
    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar

    Just unsubbed from a channel on YT because they did a negative review of a show I like, which is fine, but then also edited it into like a couple dozen shorts because YouTube be pushing shorts, so I'm basically getting hate for this show injected into my eyeballs every time I open up my subscriptions feed (cause you can't hide shorts anymore!) and it just felt really bad

    GuerillaGrue,

    @eniko I've done similar.

    What annoys me is when you find someone who does something like game reviews, and offers a lot of generally insightful thoughts on things like level and encounter design, etc. only to start pretty much every video off with some statement along the lines of "I played the game on hard, which is how everyone should play, and if you don't then what are you doing on my channel."

    Just... a super disrespectful thing that hurts the actual value much of his other review holds.

    britt, to random
    @britt@mstdn.games avatar

    When someone calls me ‘high functioning’ because I can intellectualize what I’m going through…

    The rage. The restraint.
    It’s immeasurable.

    sigh

    GuerillaGrue,

    @britt And, of course, that always comes with the (USUALLY) unspoken addendum of "if you can vocalize it then it's clearly not as big of a deal as you want to claim it is."

    revoluciana, to random
    @revoluciana@chaosfem.tw avatar

    A cishet guy in my FB timeline lost a bet and has to spend all day wearing the jersey of a sportsball team he hates.

    At first I didn't understand why it was such a big deal. It's just sportsball. It's just clothes... oh.

    This must be like the cishet guy version of dysphoria.

    I'm coining this as 'Sportsball Dysphoria'.

    GuerillaGrue,

    @Cassandra @revoluciana

    No lie, I got yelled at once when I was in high school for wearing the Wrong Sportsball Top.

    We were at Dollar General, and one of the lunch ladies from my school saw me there and berated me for wearing a Texas Longhorns tee shirt and not an Arkansas Razorbacks shirt.

    Like... come on lady, I'm not even wearing it for sports stuff, I'm wearing it because I liked the colors and art design better than the too-busy designs of the Razorback stuff.

    buru5, to tes
    @buru5@mstdn.games avatar

    this map took for me to finish, was lost when i was simply missing a stairwell on ten passes. i did learn how to use items and the map on an xpaddder controller though.

    also, the dragon-fist-machine-gun-red-thing-with-spike-on-it looks nasty; hair, phallic, looks like some stuff.

    all this is making me want to do is play again which i think i'll do tm

    skeleboys with armor jump our hero
    gross weapon
    spooky scene

    GuerillaGrue,

    @buru5 For all its fantastic qualities Heretic most definitely isn't an easy game. The level designs can be ridiculously twisty (even for a DOOM engine game,) and some of the traps make Sandy Petersen seem like a reasonable, well-intentioned human being.

    I still love it, though, especially in a solid source port.

    GuerillaGrue,

    @buru5 Oh, for sure. I've never made it past like the second level in the hub of Hexen; it's just a bit too much of a mess with too little guidance.

    Hexen 2 is flippin' awesome though.

    GuerillaGrue,

    @buru5 I've always felt so! Generally I turn off bilinear filtering for textures in any game before maybe 2006; I feel like the crisp look of the pixel textures is almost always better than the blurry filtered effect.

    GuerillaGrue, to random

    Woke up this morning wanting to do some stuff in Blender!

    Except I haven't even started Blender in 15 months, and none of my changed controls still work in the new version.

    sighs

    Welp, looks like i'm buildin' a donut again.

    I unsubbed from BlenderGuru over his buying into the whole crypto/NFT world hardcore, but his tutorials for the damn program are good.

    Chrishallbeck, to comics
    @Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social avatar

    Pineapple

    GuerillaGrue,

    @Chrishallbeck I would absolutely eat that.

    At that size though, hear me out: replace the crust with the pineapple.

    grumpygamer, to random
    @grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

    I did a quick calculation and I've spent close to 98,000 hours making video games. Making video games! Not curing cancer or establishing world peace, but making video games.

    GuerillaGrue,

    @grumpygamer

    You say that like it wasn't worth the effort. I can assure you that there are plenty of us whose mental health was vastly improved by having your games available when we needed them :)

    autoerot1ca, to LGBT
    @autoerot1ca@kinky.business avatar

    FIVE SEX PANICS

    In the 19th century there was a panic about masturbation and its effect on the nation on both sides of the Atlantic.

    At the beginning of the 20th century there was a panic about women's liberation, in sex and politics, destroying society.

    By the mid 20th century there was a panic about sexual liberation and free love.

    Later, in the 70s and 80s, there was a gay panic and gays were presented as predators and deviants.

    Now, in the early 21st century, there is a trans panic and its trans and non-binary people who are seen as the social threat.

    These are five separate panics across over 150 years, But, actually, they're not separate at all: they are the same panic generated by the same people that comes again and again and again in waves. Its a panic generated by the sexually puritan and socially authoritarian whose politics is that of coercion and control.

    This tendency is the ultimate enemy of all lovers of social and personal freedom.

    GuerillaGrue,

    @autoerot1ca

    I first read your headline as

    FIVE SEX PIANOS

    And while your information is sound and valuable... I'm kinda disappointed it wasn't the other one.

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