I make books, comics, tabletop and indie video games. really into making fake swords and armor with robots. senior narrative designer at a game studio.
I did a dog pics thread so I figured I’d start a WIP props/3D printing/making thread too!
Just FINALLY finished sanding the second Empress Dagger (from Monster Hunter World) - now I just have to mold, cast, and paint the entire things (though I did some resin color tests!)
fuck billionaires always, but this guy (mark cuban?) has started an online pharmacy that offers life-saving drugs for cost + 15%, making some drugs like 2000% cheaper, so this can actually save a life and people should be aware, the site is.
I’ve been silent about this for almost my entire career and i can’t do it anymore. Sorry if this is rambling and messy, I’m scared shitless to out an industry legend like this but I can’t live with the secret anymore 1/2
I don’t care what kind of nerdy “gate” it is - they’re on the losing side of history. Games, comics, anime - our nerd shit is for everyone. Bullies and bigots fuck off. Four years into the fuckers trying to tear me down and I’m still out here & supporting others. Fuck em.
Hey, if you wanna say GamerGate led to this without acknowledging that GG was a symptom of the larger systemic bigotry that has always existed, an extension of DV, and the failure of online platform holders to act right, I really don’t appreciate being used like that!!
PSA: “Terf” isn’t a slur. Terf will never be a slur. Terf stands for trans exclusionary radical feminist (feminists who treat trans women like they “don’t count” and misgender them among other things). If anyone tells you terf is a slur, they prolly are one! Ok thanks bye.
Is it now? The last 7 years of my life would like to have a word with you...
All the times I brought casework to you as a trained, trusted partner in your own internal processes that you ignored or handwaved would like to have a word with you...
I’m rooting against him.
my lyft driver asked what I do for a living and then refused to believe that I can program. when he asked what I “really do” I said he caught me and that I’m a sex worker who specializes in dick torture and humiliation and he suddenly doesn’t want to talk to me anymore. Weird.
"I cannot live another day without air conditioning"
"Says tomorrow's gonna be hotter"
"Hotter?"
"Like yesterday."
"Yesterday? Yesterday you said you'd call sears."
"I'll call today"
"You'll call now."
"I'll call now."
Reactivated, but not really back. This is the one and only thing I have to say publicly about the last few weeks. Love and healing to those affected - piss and pus for opportunistic creeps.
cw: suicide/abuse
when conversing with another person in their 30s, I like to throw the word “glomp” into conversation to see if they react with mild confusion or a dawning horror as they recall a deeply buried part of their history best left lost to the sands of time
If anyone hasn’t done it yet, someone should make a list of every politician who is saying X number of deaths is worth stimulating the economy rn and make the stink cling them for the rest of their careers. If no one else wants to, I’ll start putting one together after work.
I know people don’t want to hear this but considering *every single convention* during Covid has come with a tweet about someone testing positive and then knowingly going and masklessly interacting with people anyway, that means you need to account for that in your risk model.
when you’re totally off Twitter and come back to a tl hollering about “milkshake duck” or “shrimp cereal” you can appreciate that from a distance this site sometimes reads like a neural net trained on the fever dreams of an omg rawr MySpace kid from 2004
but then you see a Nazi
Jesus Christ the messages im getting rn from other people he’s hurt. I had no idea it was so bad. Im so sorry I waited this long to come forward but now whatever happens to me I don’t think I’ll regret it
Since Escape Rooms seem to be doing super well can we have some fuckin obstacle courses too? Like legends of the hidden temple type shit you can pay to go to
Officially done giving any interviews about GG. See any of my work if you need quotes. Let me move on from here on out, yeah? My life has been derailed while I’ve explained the hows and whys of what happened for the sake of the greater good for *four years*. I’ve given enough.
[clears throat]
please give me a setting where there’s extremely archetypical dragons - they’re powerful, magical, and majestic.
except all of them deliver their lines with the shittiest accents New England has to offer.
Give me dragons with Boston and Jersey accents. Pls.
@realDonaldTrump
i am determined to live longer than you just to do extremely gay shit on top of your grave. you should thank me, no one else will visit.
Hey since a ton of third parties are throwing their 2 cents in on GamerGate here’s a reminder that I wrote the (hugo nominated) book on it, the alt right, how it connects to a history of online harassment and is doomed to repeat itself, and what we can do to STOP that.
“Please vote” buddy, 5 out of 9 sitting justices were appointed for life by presidents who lost the popular vote and the democrats are in power after picking their candidate based on who’s turn they thought it was because it was a blue no matter who year. What else you got?
Also sorry to everyone who I’ve avoided bc they seemed to know or be friends with him. I didn’t think less of you I just knew he wanted to shit on me whenever possible from what had circled back to me like the blacklisting and stuff and was worried you’d hate me before meeting me
“Guys”
- crummy plural pronoun
- smacks of gender
- y’all exists and does everything it does and more
“Mortals”
- inclusive of all living beings
- tricks the undying into outing themselves in protest
- bonus little a momento mori, as a treat
shoutout to
@rianjohnson
for understanding what I've been yelling about for the last 4 years better than the architects of the tech that allow it to happen uncontested <3
@swankmotron
I’m always amazed how few people know about Gamergate. It’s not only the key to understanding so many violent harassment campaigns going on today, it’s lots of the same people angry about the same stuff using the same playbook.
Sorry I’ve been MIA this month. My dad was given weeks to live and I had to rush back home to upstate ny and get what time I could have left with him & process. He passed last night. It’s hard to see someone larger than life go. But I’m so glad I got to say goodbye.
the biggest distributor of games is afraid of taking too much of a stand on *rape* and y’all still wonder about our harassment and representation problems and why nothing is getting better
Tesla should hire me to make games for them because I definitely won’t just commit corporate espionage in order to steal the secrets that will finally realize fully automatic luxury gay space communism at all
hot tip: don't detain families either.
"but people illegally coming to the US will strain our social support structures blah blah blah my tax dollars abloo bloo bloo"
my dude, I've got bad news about where prisons get their funding from for you
Shoutout to the hundreds of followers I lost over stating that GG would’ve been a bad breakup no one heard about if America wasn’t bigoted as hell and online platforms didn’t allow the alt right to recruit & organize on them.
That was *literally the point of my book*.
Hey, if you wanna say GamerGate led to this without acknowledging that GG was a symptom of the larger systemic bigotry that has always existed, an extension of DV, and the failure of online platform holders to act right, I really don’t appreciate being used like that!!
Pro tip: banning Alex Jones is less of a first amendment issue than banning spam. Spam is way more defensible as free speech but we all agree we don’t want it and it’s not the intended use of the platform. Do you want nothing but dick pill ads or do you want moderation?
who you bang isn’t a marketplace or an economy and anyone who insists otherwise is a fucking creep who can only view intimacy as a transaction and you gotta run the fuck the other way friendos
the threat of automation has already begun to hurt the blue collar workers. since the advent of auto save, Mr Resetti has found his family trade devalued while the families of raccoons running the speculative real estate industries get richer. In this Ted Talk I-
Amazing. If Joe Crowley can't win re-election even after embracing almost every left-wing proposal from a $15 minimum wage to Medicare-for-all, then there's really nothing mainstream Democrats can do to placate the far left.