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AfterthoughtC

@AfterthoughtC@kbin.social

He/ him. Cis male.
Likes monster taming, turn-based RPG and simulation video games.
Also into tabletop RPGs and game design (Godot, RPG Maker).
If you want to trade steam keys.

AfterthoughtC, to random
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To anyone that follows me here on kbin: I've moved to a combination of lemmy and mastodon.
Mastodon: @AfterthoughtC
Lemmy: Afterthought_C@lemmy.dbzer0.com

MoBlack, to random
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People in 2020: "We have to vote for Biden so we can push him left once he's in office."

Me in 2023: "If Biden doesn't move to the left of openly supporting genocide in Palestine, I won't feel comfortable voting for him."

Those same people: "No that's not allowed."

AfterthoughtC, (edited )
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@MoBlack Those people will tell women/ immigrants/ queer folk etc. you must keep voting Biden for harm reduction but Palestinians must completely disvow hamas because of their violence and homophobia. Biden deserves unconditional support but hamas does not even deserve critical support.

AfterthoughtC, to RPG
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I was playing Cassette Beasts the past few days and I found that Animon Story's TTRPG system could probably be easily modded to Cassette Beasts' setting.

MoBlack, to random
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Every time there's a flare up in Palestine I'm reminded that most of my fellow anarchists are pussy pacifist lifestylist marshmallow people who couldn't organize a reading group, let alone a revolution

AfterthoughtC,
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@MoBlack Careful Mo. Some purplewashers might accuse you of toxic masculinity.

MoBlack, to random
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If you are an American and you are shocked and horrified by Hamas bombing targets next to civilian centers, making arrests as they see fit, and so on, boy do I have news for you in terms of what your tax dollars allow the Israeli military to do every single day :)

AfterthoughtC,
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@MoBlack Chivalry at the end of the day is a privilege for the oppressors

MoBlack, to random
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I guess today is time for our yearly reminder that the number of people the United States killed in response to 9/11 dwarfs the number of people killed in 9/11

AfterthoughtC,
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@MoBlack Happy all buildings matter day

AfterthoughtC, (edited )
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Some scattered thoughts on my end:

EFF and the people that support them will tell women, racial minorities, disabled, queer etc. to not do anything about their harasser in the name of holding up net neutrality. They will tell marginalised folk that 'corporations are not on your side' as if they are too stupid to realise it on their own. If you ask them what they should do instead to protect themselves they will just say it is not their job to stop harassment. If not they will tell you to report to the police (lol). Reason is that they don't see marginalised folk as people with a stake in this that you should negotiate or listen to and they don't see their current defense infrastructure as real, they see them as a pawn they might need to sacrifise in the long game they are playing. Innuendo Studios covers this mindset in his 'Cost of Doing Business' video. Text version for the hearing-impaired. Use this Tampermonkey script to remove the login popup.

Imagine a white women that is currently being abused by her husband. She calls the cops and said cops manage to handle the situation well despite the current problems. Now imagine a bunch of not-so-wise people telling the abused women in question that her method of getting herself out makes her pro-police brutality/ pro-prison industrial complex/ a racist bitch. That is the type of justice/ progress rules absolutists like EFF over here operate on.

EFF apologists also disingenuously mix the approval of individual actions with approval of the system. In this case 'individual corporation refusing to serve kiwifarms' to 'corporations in general can control what is written'.

Some people in that comment thread say the banning is pointless because they can just create their own instance on Tor. However Tor is even less accessible than the mainstream internet so their libel and slander reaches less ears. Isn't it still a victory of sorts?

AfterthoughtC, to politics
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You know how one of the common symptoms of fascism is that they will describe their enemies as both weak and strong.
What would you call someone that describes themselves as both weak and strong?

For example "vote for me and I can definitely protect reproductive rights but actually bureaucracy prevents me from stopping the people trying to knock down reproductive rights."

AfterthoughtC, to singapore
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Question to others: did anyone find the mental health awareness marketing that went on here, for lack of better term, hollow?

AfterthoughtC,
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It's a circlejerk now isn't it? Not just because it is filled with nazis but if you are not logged in you can't search, you can't see full threads and you can't view tweets in date posted order. People with no twitter account cannot interact with it in full so unless you want to market to nazis what reason is there to continue operations there?

BoardGameBloke, to boardgames
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Should any blank counters be included for the to be considered complete? I think so.

Why not take it the next logical step and include the empty countersheet sprues and counter clippings too!

Bonus Grognard points for putting the counter clippings in a baggie or counter tray.

AfterthoughtC,
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@BoardGameBloke I suppose the sprues can help with counting each part. "One token, two tokens..."

AfterthoughtC,
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Meanwhile in China women telling their friends to bring their boyfriends to go see it as a litmus test

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Is anyone else in the “trough of disillusionment” part of the Generative AI hype cycle yet? The stuff they output is not good. It takes longer to fix it than writing articles from scratch, IMHO.

Maybe it's a function of caring about the results.

https://fortune.com/2023/08/01/can-ai-chatgpt-hallucinations-be-fixed-experts-doubt-altman-openai/

AfterthoughtC, (edited )
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@MoBlack What would be your reply to the AI-hypers that use the 'it's not AI it's capitalism' argument? Would it be useful to ask them how ai implementation would look like under communism/ socialism/ anarchism?

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models (www.theguardian.com)

Employees say they weren’t adequately warned about the brutality of some of the text and images they would be tasked with reviewing, and were offered no or inadequate psychological support. Workers were paid between $1.46 and $3.74 an hour, according to a Sama spokesperson.

AfterthoughtC, (edited )
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The way AI advertisers constantly call others not on board Luddites reminds me of what somebody said on badly written magic systems in fiction. It was something like they focus more on making the most complex system rather than actually asking if it will add to the story. Then when the story fails to reach an audience these authors confuse the apathy with real life anti-intellectualism.

AfterthoughtC, (edited )
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I feel a lot of the 'separating the art from artist', and by extension anyone claiming to be fighting 'cancel culture', is ignoring that the people trying to distance themselves from terrible creators and figures are not the ones behind their society's own broken justice systems. Like blaming a victim of a crime for reporting the criminal and getting them jailed or fired and not their own government for the country's terrible prison conditions or poor unemployment safety nets.

AfterthoughtC,
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I should probably try pick it up again

AfterthoughtC,
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I read that in 2012 a bunch of authors (names included Anne Rice, Kiera Cass and Carroll Bryant) made this website called Stop the Goodreads Bullies, a harassment site disguised as an anti-bullying campaign. Goodreads failure to protect its users/ bowing down to them by changing its policy to say that reviews about author's behaviour was off-topic caused people to migrate to booklikes. Were you part of that migration?

skinnylatte, (edited ) to singapore
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If I wasn’t mad at the politicians for Singapore for their homophobia, transphobia and hypocritical morality, I would be okay with them having affairs because I really don’t care. But they’ve said that queer people are morally deficient, so I think it’s fair game to say they don’t live up to their own standard

But also, skeptical enough to know this is probably political theatre (both parties are disciplining leadership for affairs)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/two-singapore-ruling-party-lawmakers-quit-rare-political-drama-2023-07-17/

AfterthoughtC,
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@skinnylatte Also wanting to take action against 'cancel culture' while still maintaining tough-on-crime laws

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