Shymain [they/them]

"It's not hope until you put your p in a hoe." -- Nagito Komaeda

iirc he said that modern japanese games suck. here's the video. i've always kinda thought that Phil Fish was more of an asshole than a racist but like certainly i would understand why one might think him to be a racist asshole.

then gamergate decided to target him for some reason and the Single notable shitty thing he did got massively lost amongst the mythos invented by the gamergaters, as per every GG target

e: thinking back, i believe he became a target because precisely the western vs japanese games thing was a big culture war point at the time. GG portrayed japanese games as full of sexy big tiddy women, with True Gamers (men) as the target audience, contrasted with western games that were increasingly cucked by blue haired liberals and sjws getting their hands on the development process and censoring all the hot women or whatever. phil fish got smeared as being virulently racist because he was on the opposing side of GG, not because he was doing some sort of novel racist overgeneralization -- the whole games industry was having this discourse at the time.

also he vocally defended zoe quinn. that was probably the main thing.

The liberals are doing it AGAIN and it’s making me furious! People all over Twitter who have been like relatively good about Palestine are suddenly handwringing about “River to the sea,” “There is only one solution! Intifada, revolution,” and “Honor our martyrs,” claiming that these are all basically calling for genocide of Israelis and glorifying Hamas. It’s just so transparently people wanting to support Israel so they can stop feeling bad about the ACTUAL REAL GENOCIDE Israel is doing RIGHT NOW to the Palestinians. Fuck all these people, I hope they all suffer and die so they can feel a tiny fraction of what the Palestinians have had to go through.

Continually my mind is drawn back to Red Sails’ essay on how Brainwashing isn’t real and people intentionally buy into propaganda to justify that which they already want to believe.

I've seen way too many white women on Twitter hearing a rally chant with the word "intifada" and immediately deciding that actually protestors have gone too far. Seriously, right wingers are convincing them that "There is only one solution! Intifada, revolution!" is actually a call for genocide -- and it's so transparently because these kkkrackers sincerely hear an Arabic word and think it sounds inherently menacing and evil and violent. It precisely reflects the way they think about Arabic people, and they don't even realize it, because these "progressive" liberals are just as racist as the rest of this far right hell hole of a country. This shit really frustrates me! Deep down, most white people in America really do think that people in the Middle East are lesser humans. What do we even do about this? How do we fix a country that is rotten and evil to its core?

mostly i just sit here while my internal voice goes AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

it's like a form of self torture. part of me says if i'm doing this then at least i'm not succumbing to decadence while the greatest evil in my lifetime happens.

i got into tea recently so i've been trying a bunch of samples and that helps distract and calm me a bit

Honestly, I think it's good that he's stunlocked on this issue -- people are gonna be constantly going in and out of the stream and there are very few live coverages of these events that are adamantly opposing the IDF propaganda. Hasan provides the service of making sure as many people as possible will hear that this massacre was committed by the IDF. Nothing else has really happened since then, either.

BTW, if anyone here is an active Wikipedian, feel free to contribute to the ongoing edit war over this line in the new article: "Hamas has been known to store munitions inside hospitals, mosques, and schools in the past.[12]" This is the easiest WP:SYNTH of all time since the source is not referring to the current events and thus including it is clearly attempting to make connections rather than neutrally collect reports on what is happening and what claims have been made.

e: success! As of a minute or two ago, consensus was reached to remove this line. Anticipating that the admin will unilaterally decide that it's valuable background and add it back in (since they're shoveling IDF propo into the article rn) but it's worth celebrating the small victories, I guess. Gotta keep track of the stars that exist in the overwhelming darkness of the night sky.

solidarity forever to our comrades fighting for truth and justice

Fucking Jimbo always pulls this shit. "Wikipedia, and good Wikipedians, will wait for evidence, for the arguments to play out..." Yeah, okay, buddy -- let's just take the IDF's word that the bombing of a hospital they threatened to bomb was actually just someone else. Elsewhere on Wikipedia they'll gobble up atrocity propaganda like the good dogs of the US Empire they are, but document a crime of the Empire and its periphery and suddenly it's time to "wait" and be neutral. Fuck you, Jimmy Wales.

The editors fighting to keep the line "The Guardian reported that "the scale of the blast appears to be outside" the capabilities of Hamas.[2]" in the newly-created Wikipedia article are goddamn heroes. Zionist propagandists are fighting with all their might to turn this page into genocide denial and this line does so much in stopping that.

e: It's been removed by an admin that goes by the moniker "Neutrality". Immediately afterwards, this admin added in like 3 paragraphs of IDF claims. Fuck this fascist pig dog.

e2: WE LOVE OUR EDITOR COMRADES! The line is back after several editors rightfully noted that Neutrality was violating NPOV.

hoooooly shit. the comments sections of the one post left up are insane and evil. is straight up just an IDF psyop at this point. burn that website to the fucking ground

Donated to PalestineRCS and PCRF. Solidarity forever to all oppressed peoples around the world.

Thanks for the resource friend

So I've been trying to find information on things I can materially do at this moment. I know there's not a lot but if I'm going to be watching in horror as the worst atrocity of my lifetime unfolds, I'd like to at least be doing something. I looked into BDS for lists of products to boycott since Zionists are so convinced that BDS is like an astronomically evil force, but I can't find more than like, Sabra hummus and HP products? Most of my results when I search for what to boycott are filled with anti-BDS propaganda. Anyone have a good list?

Beyond that, I've been watching out for protests in my area and trying to speak out in whatever limited capacity I can irl. Including education of people I know personally (my mother was a full-on right winger 8 years ago and now she's rightly saying that Israel is doing genocide against Palestine, which is massive progress). What else is there to be done? I feel fundamentally wrong and sick about just fucking around and playing games or whatever at this moment in time.

Maybe I just need to get over myself lmao who knows

seconding the one comment from last thread that mentioned sufjan’s new album — it’s hit me very hard emotionally. it’s been a definite reprieve from worrying about the world at wide and helped me stabilize a bit. love forever to suf

I know a lot of people are tired of analogue horror but man, I really enjoy Kane Pixel’s stuff. Especially this one, it just has fantastic aesthetics and atmosphere, really gets to me in a way that most horror doesn’t. Very good video and well worth the watch.

is this kind of activity legal? no person should be this based

Yeah, for real. It's one of the worst games I've played in recent memory. First five cases just drag on so inordinately long despite being incredibly simple. The final case is like a Layton story but done incredibly poorly. Glad that I have a CFW switch and didn't have to waste a single cent on this trash.

it's like they're trying to cook up the most morally repugnant possible stances at this point

Entirely off topic, but based as fuck Malenyev pfp