Pastelbat @pastelbat@awoo.space

@theoutrider a good floof!

Aha, I have got two people interested in reading Ada Palmer's Terra Ignota books now~

They are very, very good near-future-ish SF, written as a chronicle of then-recent events by an unreliable narrator. A lot more focus on the social and cultural aspects than a lotta SF.

There is shiny technology, but there's far more well-written radical changes to things like government/state structure, standards of living, taboos and gender, and how the people percieve the past.

(also um, All The CWs)

@daylight Nice!

Deck crafting for Commander is so much funnnn, and it's so neat to see what people come up with

@theoutrider @bentosmile Games Workshop's accidental contribution to the "British English / American English" schism

@theoutrider You've gotta admire Alison's dedication to the M.C. Escher aesthetic

@variance what is/was Revision? Searching "Revision 2019" on DuckDuckGo gets me.. Predictably irrelevant results ><

@hokaze@queer.af "eye contact", I think.

@theoutrider "Metal Gear Sword Violence" would have been a vgood name for the game also

(Also, I have an enduring admiration for the designer at Platinum who has such passion for "Weaponized High-Heels")

There's this whole meta/pseudo scientific debate that's got that "can't look away from this awful thing" fascination on a cultural level, of

"Only humans do X! Human Nature is totally a scientific fact now!"
"Not all humans do that..? Also: This animal does."
"..Well only humans do Y! We found Human Nature!"

Like, the past 30 years of:
"Language is what makes Humans special! No other animal can do that. It's Human Nature!"
"Actually, we found a bunch of animals that can use language in the exact way you specified."
"Yeah. Well. Like. They don't.. Uh, ask questions! So it doesn't count."
"The parrot just asked what it looks like."
"..I hate that parrot."

I look forward to this reaching more & more abstract levels. Like, by 2050 having:

"Yeah well.. Humans uh.. Make Acid Trance EDM! No other animal does that!"
"Actually, there's a Bonobo that just released an album.."
"Pff, that's just normal Trance, it doesn't count."

@LexYeen@snouts.online Agree, empathy.

https://medium.com/@dr_eprice/laziness-does-not-exist-3af27e312d01 is also a good article on the whole.. Cultural concept of 'lazy'

Tbh whenever anyone say "lazy" it I file it in the same category as saying "hysterical" or "possessed" or "imbalanced humors" or whatever

It's an outdated term for a set of phenomena that no one really understood the causes of when it was in vogue.

It still being in vogue is.. Something-something cultural failing and easy narratives appealling to people.

@diodelass I.. Want to play this game so much now.