siliconereptilian

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tabletop rpg obsessed, particularly lancer, icon, cain, the treacherous turn, eclipse phase, and pathfinder 2e. also a fan of the elder scrolls and star wars, an avid gamer and reader of webcomics, and when my brain cooperates, a hobbyist writer.

 

the urge to share my creations versus the horrifying ordeal of being perceived. fight of the millennium. anyway posts about my ocs are tagged with "mal's ocs" (minus the quotes). posts about or containing my writing are tagged with "mal's writing" (again, sans quotes). posts about my sci-fi setting specifically are tagged "the eating of names". i'd pin the latter two if they were actually among my top 15 most used tags lol. fair warning, my writing tends to be quite dark and deal with some heavy themes.

 

avatar is a much more humanoid depiction of my OC Arwen Tachht than is strictly accurate, made in this Picrew. (I have humanoidsonas for my non-humanoid OCs because I cannot draw them myself and must rely on dollmakers and such, hooray chronic pain)



shadsy
@shadsy

I try very hard not to engage in the take economy, but I saw someone on another platform say that GDQ is bad because speedrunning is a hobby of the aristocracy.

My brother in christ do you know how many speedrunners are underemployed trans people in their 20s



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in reply to @shadsy's post:

Yeah, 100%

It's very much "these people do things in their spare time that I don't do, therefore they must be crazy". At least this is more understandable--i'm assuming this take is coming from someone who believes the speedrunners are out there doing all the usual stuff AND speedrunning on top of that, which you would indeed need aristocratic levels of wealth to do. (You'd have to hire people to do a bunch of stuff for you.)

No, they're just weird and counterculture.

(That's good, as far as i'm concerned, and it's not like this is the first counterculture movement to exist... but...)

I do have thoughts about how GDQ as a company profits from unpaid labor, but that's a broader issue with fundraising in general.

Speedrunning is about buying one used video game and playing it for seven to twenty years. It is the gaming equivalent of creating sturdy workwear out of vintage clothes.

why do the takes lately always seem to accuse completely random things of being either bourgeois, #fromlebadcountry, or pedophillic? i mean the second kind of take is really useful for rooting out horrible racists but man, all of the takes are like this.

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