one of the shitty thing about that erica moen trans dude comic (apart from the whole comic itself) is that it's had a disclaimer at the top from a few years back about how she's had lot of talks with people who've told her how hurtful it is to go around objectifying people like that, and that's she's really sorry about it and has grown as a person and doesn't stand by it but is leaving it up so it doesn't seem like she's just trying to hide having said it.
But then it really feels like she keeps on dipping back into that sort of objectification with so many of her recent comics. Just sucks.
I'm still pretty far from being caught up somehow, but I finished listening to last week's Totally Reprise.
"I should be on more, I like this show." "It's a good show, I think, anyway." "Yeah." "Eh." "Yeah, fair."
"I'm holding myself back from making a super, like, obscure wrestling reference." "Thank you." "Okay." "Why? Like, what changed?"
"I feel like buying the Homestuck book is like, extremely normie now."
"But then I saw that it was a flag draped over another flag, which I think is a crime? But it's probably fine." "It seems like you have to burn one or both flags now." "No, it's fine, one is just topping the other."
"Hey, what if the cartoon squirrel said fuck, and wanted sex."
"We're only a month away from a hundred episodes of this shit."
"I have not been on all of these, but you two have, and you're coming up on about 200 hours of talking about Totally Spies!" "That seems... fine and normal."
"You two are the core of this, I'm just, I'm the moon, circling you."
"But that's for cowards, and Clover ain't no fucking coward."
"Mandy obviously has not had her memory erased, you know, today"
"Do you really think GLADIS would do that shit? That's way beneath her."
"There was definitely a point in this episode where I like, looked at Molly and like, this is why Jerry destroys her."
"Like, imagine someone chewing like five sticks of gum with their mouth open, it's bad." "Yeah, they got that big league chew."
"I mean, I guess LAMOS parked the sub on like the edge of the continental shelf."
"GLADIS is a future reader, she probably made these nail files with, you know, three settings: couch, submarine, and rope."
"I definitely did write during this episode, and thought it multiple times, uh, that Alex is moe." I mean that's pretty undeniable.
"I love that Clover canonically sucks!" "It really just kind of makes you believe in yourself, right? Cause you can be like, man, Clover sucks and she's a spy? Maybe I can be something, too."
"They all have their own Jimmy Neutron brain blasts of their own lives."
"Pris, stop showing me cat videos while I'm recording."
"Sam needed to know how to tie safe knots."
"I would like to give my theory for why Alex and Clover did not take it," "Okay." "They never want to have like, even the possibility of untying a knot" "Oh I see, sure." "that they are tied in, because that would kind of ruin it a bit if they knew that they could get out"
"I have a different theory for why they didn't take the class." "Cause they already knew. That's what I'm saying." "Well no, I just think they were busy, they were all tied up."
"Hey, you wanna see a bad thing I couldn't stop looking at?" "No, but sure."
"There were so many times during this episode where I thought Terrence was going to say, Jerrence!"
"What if we added Jerrence to the Totally Spies wiki? Do you think anybody would challenge us?" "I think it would be challenged instantaneously, I think we would hit confirm, and by the time we refreshed the page it'd be reverted." "You think so? I don't know" "I'm doing it right now!"
I'd put R. Daneel Olivaw in charge of the Illuminati, he's already got experience doing that kind of thing.
"I said that, and immediately realized how dumb that sounded. Was hoping I would just be let off the hook." Are you new here or something?
"You know, why do we have meatball subs? Why don't they just do that? Why don't they just make meatloaf and slice it thin?" Well great, this question is going to haunt me for the rest of my life now.
damn, it must be hard to talk about the superbowl if you've been injected with a nanomachine culture
"Ashley, I'm not going to like, skin a woman, to make a bracelet."
VENUS EARTH AND SOME OTHER PLANETS
"One, Jerrence is still up."
"Two, I'm learning that Jerry does have a sister called Sherry, so let me just give you, Sherrence." I made this joke on twitter, but it was because the person who reverted the Jerrence edit was named Sharon?
"I can't wait to meet Sherrence." That's my favorite Train song.
one of the shitty thing about that erica moen trans dude comic (apart from the whole comic itself) is that it's had a disclaimer at the top from a few years back about how she's had lot of talks with people who've told her how hurtful it is to go around objectifying people like that, and that's she's really sorry about it and has grown as a person and doesn't stand by it but is leaving it up so it doesn't seem like she's just trying to hide having said it.
But then it really feels like she keeps on dipping back into that sort of objectification with so many of her recent comics. Just sucks.
She hired a "futa" artist to make a porn comic on her sex ed blog where a woman magically grows a dick.
There's been a running thing of Dan dying to the last boss, Vinny beating it and then Dan not showing up on the victory screen 'cause he's dead. Last week they managed to beat the game with both of them alive, and this week it looks like Dan was finally going to beat a game while Vinny was dead.
Only for Dan to get a free life from beating the boss.
Which Vinny promptly stole.
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Oh shit, this week's punch-up is Fat Lip
I've never been so excited to spend an hour bussing to work
the snake stories are all a couple of pages back but i came home from school once to find a six foot carpet python in the living room. we think it moved into the ceiling after the floods. that's my snake story
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so I'm playing battletech
weird seeing something presented in the lore of that game and thinking "huh, it's like 40k but without the adoration of fascism"
I looked into it: wh40k and battletech launched very vlose to each other in the early 80s. at the time, battletech and its fandom took themselves seriously while 40k was a seen as a parody of genre tropes
now 40k is the one that's held as sarcosanct by toxic grognards who read the setting at face value, and battletech has dared to reimagine itself into social relevance
obviously battletech still carries a lot of baggage from the 80s, but the new game has done a lot to update it
weird seeing something presented in the lore of that game and thinking "huh, it's like 40k but without the adoration of fascism"
I looked into it: wh40k and battletech launched very vlose to each other in the early 80s. at the time, battletech and its fandom took themselves seriously while 40k was a seen as a parody of genre tropes
now 40k is the one that's held as sarcosanct by toxic grognards who read the setting at face value, and battletech has dared to reimagine itself into social relevance
obviously battletech still carries a lot of baggage from the 80s, but the new game has done a lot to update it
Rob Zacny actually had a pretty great quote at the start of the Waypoint campaign - "It was the 80s, so cultural appropriation was a goal, and not something to be avoided." The modern interpretations seem to clean up a lot of that stuff, but I thought it was pretty funny.
weird seeing something presented in the lore of that game and thinking "huh, it's like 40k but without the adoration of fascism"
I looked into it: wh40k and battletech launched very vlose to each other in the early 80s. at the time, battletech and its fandom took themselves seriously while 40k was a seen as a parody of genre tropes
now 40k is the one that's held as sarcosanct by toxic grognards who read the setting at face value, and battletech has dared to reimagine itself into social relevance
obviously battletech still carries a lot of baggage from the 80s, but the new game has done a lot to update it
I also wouldn’t conflate the new videogame by HBS with Battletech in general. Like, I am loving what HBS is doing with the Battletech in terms of focusing on the diversity in the setting and bringing that to the fore.
But that is something HBS is doing, not Battletech in general.
There are those toxic grognards in the Btech fan base just like there are those in the 40k fanbase. And they are pissed off ar HBS for the inclusion of a “they” pronoun. And good, let those people get pissed off and I hope they stop playing Btech.
I guess what I am saying is don’t confuse this awesome new but essentially third party game with the franchise entire.
weird seeing something presented in the lore of that game and thinking "huh, it's like 40k but without the adoration of fascism"
I looked into it: wh40k and battletech launched very vlose to each other in the early 80s. at the time, battletech and its fandom took themselves seriously while 40k was a seen as a parody of genre tropes
now 40k is the one that's held as sarcosanct by toxic grognards who read the setting at face value, and battletech has dared to reimagine itself into social relevance
obviously battletech still carries a lot of baggage from the 80s, but the new game has done a lot to update it
I also wouldn’t conflate the new videogame by HBS with Battletech in general. Like, I am loving what HBS is doing with the Battletech in terms of focusing on the diversity in the setting and bringing that to the fore.
But that is something HBS is doing, not Battletech in general.
There are those toxic grognards in the Btech fan base just like there are those in the 40k fanbase. And they are pissed off ar HBS for the inclusion of a “they” pronoun. And good, let those people get pissed off and I hope they stop playing Btech.
I guess what I am saying is don’t confuse this awesome new but essentially third party game with the franchise entire.
This is good to know, but more importantly, everytime you type out "Btech" I read it as "blech" and wonder what you're so disgusted by
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I'm not sure that you could reasonably call a Battletech game created by Jordan Weissman's company to be "third party"
HBS’s Battletech is helped a lot by being set in a space country that they created for the game. It’s well away from the space samurai of the Draconis Combine and only brushes up against the space Fu Manchus of the Capellan Confederation. It gave them some freedom to be a bit more explicitly diverse than BT has been.
I'm not sure that you could reasonably call a Battletech game created by Jordan Weissman's company to be "third party"
They don’t publish the mainline books for the game. They aren’t in charge of the current storylines. They aren’t putting out the new novels, tech manuals, and content for the game.
The ownership of Battletech is a complicated ass thing and a hot mess, but HBS is certainly not at the helm of the franchise.
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The Mysterious Package Company thing I got for a friend was kind of cool, but this seems like an odd fit to me.
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I got the impression most of the reactionary crowd around battletech are just general gamerscum, not hardcore fans
and even if this is an exception to a rule, it's still a very popular, seemingly lucrative example, which might indicate a change in general trends and esteblish a new "baseline" for what the product and the settings are - which in turn will esteblish a unique demand for it
unlike 40k, which seems lightyears away from creating anything reflective or restructive regarding the known issues in its setting
I got the impression most of the reactionary crowd around battletech are just general gamerscum, not hardcore fans
and even if this is an exception to a rule, it's still a very popular, seemingly lucrative example, which might indicate a change in general trends and esteblish a new "baseline" for what the product and the settings are - which in turn will esteblish a unique demand for it
unlike 40k, which seems lightyears away from creating anything reflective or restructive regarding the known issues in its setting
I’d love to see a Battletech Revival and Renaissance launched on the back of inclusivity and diversity.
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the ending to this week's TAZ has got a powerful energy to it
That's a better collective to own them than say, Amazon, i guess
I dont really have any other feelings on it
Well considering the article mentions that a former Clear channel and iHeartradio exec is being made CEO, my expectations for the long run are lowered. Butut for now it's still fine I guess.
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if everyone had the collision physics of new super mario bros, and the entire game was one contiguous race through every level with (maybe not 100, but like 32 or something) people that would be cool as hell
I guess I don't know why...you would buy a podcast feed app? literally all it does is pull podcasts for you and...sorts them
Also it's a paid app. Separately on each platform. Like, imo it's worth it, but it's a profitable product in and of itself, outside of the valuable metrics you can collect with it.
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But then it really feels like she keeps on dipping back into that sort of objectification with so many of her recent comics. Just sucks.
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"I'm holding myself back from making a super, like, obscure wrestling reference." "Thank you." "Okay." "Why? Like, what changed?"
"I feel like buying the Homestuck book is like, extremely normie now."
"But then I saw that it was a flag draped over another flag, which I think is a crime? But it's probably fine." "It seems like you have to burn one or both flags now." "No, it's fine, one is just topping the other."
"Hey, what if the cartoon squirrel said fuck, and wanted sex."
"We're only a month away from a hundred episodes of this shit."
"I have not been on all of these, but you two have, and you're coming up on about 200 hours of talking about Totally Spies!" "That seems... fine and normal."
"You two are the core of this, I'm just, I'm the moon, circling you."
"But that's for cowards, and Clover ain't no fucking coward."
"Mandy obviously has not had her memory erased, you know, today"
"Do you really think GLADIS would do that shit? That's way beneath her."
"There was definitely a point in this episode where I like, looked at Molly and like, this is why Jerry destroys her."
"Like, imagine someone chewing like five sticks of gum with their mouth open, it's bad." "Yeah, they got that big league chew."
"I mean, I guess LAMOS parked the sub on like the edge of the continental shelf."
"GLADIS is a future reader, she probably made these nail files with, you know, three settings: couch, submarine, and rope."
"I definitely did write during this episode, and thought it multiple times, uh, that Alex is moe." I mean that's pretty undeniable.
"I love that Clover canonically sucks!" "It really just kind of makes you believe in yourself, right? Cause you can be like, man, Clover sucks and she's a spy? Maybe I can be something, too."
"They all have their own Jimmy Neutron brain blasts of their own lives."
"Pris, stop showing me cat videos while I'm recording."
"Sam needed to know how to tie safe knots."
"I would like to give my theory for why Alex and Clover did not take it," "Okay." "They never want to have like, even the possibility of untying a knot" "Oh I see, sure." "that they are tied in, because that would kind of ruin it a bit if they knew that they could get out"
"I have a different theory for why they didn't take the class." "Cause they already knew. That's what I'm saying." "Well no, I just think they were busy, they were all tied up."
"Hey, you wanna see a bad thing I couldn't stop looking at?" "No, but sure."
"There were so many times during this episode where I thought Terrence was going to say, Jerrence!"
"What if we added Jerrence to the Totally Spies wiki? Do you think anybody would challenge us?" "I think it would be challenged instantaneously, I think we would hit confirm, and by the time we refreshed the page it'd be reverted." "You think so? I don't know" "I'm doing it right now!"
I'd put R. Daneel Olivaw in charge of the Illuminati, he's already got experience doing that kind of thing.
"I said that, and immediately realized how dumb that sounded. Was hoping I would just be let off the hook." Are you new here or something?
"You know, why do we have meatball subs? Why don't they just do that? Why don't they just make meatloaf and slice it thin?" Well great, this question is going to haunt me for the rest of my life now.
damn, it must be hard to talk about the superbowl if you've been injected with a nanomachine culture
"Ashley, I'm not going to like, skin a woman, to make a bracelet."
VENUS EARTH AND SOME OTHER PLANETS
"One, Jerrence is still up."
"Two, I'm learning that Jerry does have a sister called Sherry, so let me just give you, Sherrence." I made this joke on twitter, but it was because the person who reverted the Jerrence edit was named Sharon?
"I can't wait to meet Sherrence." That's my favorite Train song.
She hired a "futa" artist to make a porn comic on her sex ed blog where a woman magically grows a dick.
I find her apology suspect I'll say.
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Only for Dan to get a free life from beating the boss.
Which Vinny promptly stole.
I've never been so excited to spend an hour bussing to work
In which Miel, Demi, and Whit are confused by Canadian slang
weird seeing something presented in the lore of that game and thinking "huh, it's like 40k but without the adoration of fascism"
I looked into it: wh40k and battletech launched very vlose to each other in the early 80s. at the time, battletech and its fandom took themselves seriously while 40k was a seen as a parody of genre tropes
now 40k is the one that's held as sarcosanct by toxic grognards who read the setting at face value, and battletech has dared to reimagine itself into social relevance
obviously battletech still carries a lot of baggage from the 80s, but the new game has done a lot to update it
Rob Zacny actually had a pretty great quote at the start of the Waypoint campaign - "It was the 80s, so cultural appropriation was a goal, and not something to be avoided." The modern interpretations seem to clean up a lot of that stuff, but I thought it was pretty funny.
he's also threatening to mess with wolf populations.
I also wouldn’t conflate the new videogame by HBS with Battletech in general. Like, I am loving what HBS is doing with the Battletech in terms of focusing on the diversity in the setting and bringing that to the fore.
But that is something HBS is doing, not Battletech in general.
There are those toxic grognards in the Btech fan base just like there are those in the 40k fanbase. And they are pissed off ar HBS for the inclusion of a “they” pronoun. And good, let those people get pissed off and I hope they stop playing Btech.
I guess what I am saying is don’t confuse this awesome new but essentially third party game with the franchise entire.
This is good to know, but more importantly, everytime you type out "Btech" I read it as "blech" and wonder what you're so disgusted by
They don’t publish the mainline books for the game. They aren’t in charge of the current storylines. They aren’t putting out the new novels, tech manuals, and content for the game.
The ownership of Battletech is a complicated ass thing and a hot mess, but HBS is certainly not at the helm of the franchise.
The Mysterious Package Company thing I got for a friend was kind of cool, but this seems like an odd fit to me.
and even if this is an exception to a rule, it's still a very popular, seemingly lucrative example, which might indicate a change in general trends and esteblish a new "baseline" for what the product and the settings are - which in turn will esteblish a unique demand for it
unlike 40k, which seems lightyears away from creating anything reflective or restructive regarding the known issues in its setting
I’d love to see a Battletech Revival and Renaissance launched on the back of inclusivity and diversity.
Also it is impressive that they have comissioned an even lamer music intro
hhhhuh
I dont really have any other feelings on it
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ahaha oh man that would have elicited a MUCH bigger reaction from me
Well considering the article mentions that a former Clear channel and iHeartradio exec is being made CEO, my expectations for the long run are lowered. Butut for now it's still fine I guess.
if everyone had the collision physics of new super mario bros, and the entire game was one contiguous race through every level with (maybe not 100, but like 32 or something) people that would be cool as hell
Also it's a paid app. Separately on each platform. Like, imo it's worth it, but it's a profitable product in and of itself, outside of the valuable metrics you can collect with it.
I do like their early stuff though