Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Like half the load order is dedicated to bringing the creatin club content up to the standard of "feels like it fits in the game." Thanks, Todd.
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Like half the load order is dedicated to bringing the creatin club content up to the standard of "feels like it fits in the game." Thanks, Todd.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I made this. It can be used as a load order on its own or as a gameplay base for you to build on with your waifus and fancy graphics and whatnot. Unlike my previous load order, it's actually pretty stable.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Honestly, I am morbidly curious if Canadian intelligence’s threat assessment changed when they saw the US military invading LA and DC. Just in terms of “would they say ‘yessir,’ if he told them to Do It,”
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Tbh, as a taxpayer, I’m glad I don’t have to pay extra for goon squad gooning in public. Some things are best kept between you, an old sock, and a disgusted God. Why should you pick my wallet to do it?
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I’m glad we’re all in agreement that people pointing guns at me without being paid overtime is wrong, but I’m a little concerned that we’re not on the same page whether it’s the gun pointing part or the paid overtime part that makes it wrong.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
“They call it the friend-enemy distinction, folks. Big, strong men would come up to him with tears in their eyes and ask Herr Schmitt, what if I just want to kick somebody and he said go ahead, we can always make up a reason later. He’s being recognized more and more.”
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Ellie, with love, people were looking for a reason to cancel you for a while, thinking anything you say here is going to change anyone's mind is mistaking cause and effect.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
He’s thinking too small. In the limited edition Trump bibles, every noun will be replaced by Trump. And on the sixth Trump, Trump created Trump then he made Trump from the Trump of Trump.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
congrats to the folks saying Kamala wouldn’t have been better, you da real anti-imperialist mvps
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
There exists no way to suggest the troops might be The Bad Guys in acceptable political discourse. Therefore the media must reason its way backwards to the desired outcome.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Look, I have some Dark Angels. I’m not judging anyone for being into 40K. But the Imperium is clearly the “protagonist” faction despite the grimdark and occasional satirical element. I mean, *gestures*
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
An insurrectionist pointing guns at you and buying you a one way ticket on the USS The Implication is itself a crime.
noctouyan 🔸🏳️🌈🇺🇸 (@noctouyan.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
some kind of confederacy, built upon a shared crime
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I think there’s a threat of authoritarian consolidation on the American model, which looks more like the first reich than the third reich. A thousand petty little kingdoms and principalities which owe allegiance to the emperor. A HRE of used car dealers. A Worst Guys You Know union.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Not a clue.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Can we really afford to be wasteful in this economy?
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Women hold men to impossible body standards like “someone wouldn’t be hung at Nuremberg if they made you look like this.”
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
He’s probably literally stronger on the left if he was at all in decent shape before because it takes mass to lift mass. Fat man strength is real.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Who does evolution say you can trust to bag a buffalo, the guy who looks like he may have eaten a buffalo at some point in his life or the other guy? The answer may surprise you!
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Cave girl brain say no fat man no can provide for tribe good.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
The after pic looks genuinely malnourished. Like you stuffed a famine victim full of roids.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I admit as a Christian, I’m coming in with some bias, but I suggest not worshipping the antichrist.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Palestinians and trans people on here are expected to fill the role Jesus does for Evangelicals where their suffering is holy and absolves you of sin so you can do whatever, (not how it works, but I digress.) And look, I failed at being a son, expecting me to be the son of God is a bit of an ask.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
With only six easy payments of six dollars and sixty-six cents, you too can own a limited edition Trump Bible and complementary golden calf.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Look, this guy is obviously the antichrist.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
The good ending for 40K is the Emperor getting plugged into the Golden Throne early after slipping on a banana peel while Prime Minister Malcador and G-Man geek out over bureaucratic procedure.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I think you *can* make a case for platonic love just cuz I worry about the message we send by saying "loving your friends is gay," but I'm not going to pass up an excuse to post this.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I assumed he was referring to the Krakoa arc rather than the comics as a whole, but yeah.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, obviously not, but I think it's worth noting how goddamn gay the loyalists are too because LGBT = Slaanesh = degeneracy is conventional wisdom among the far-right wing of the fandom.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
luv to modify my body to alleviate dysphoria while aggressively lashing out due to daddy issues and putting my gene seed in dudes
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
The main difference is that Krakoa is aggressively queer by virtue of being aggressively queer and the Imperium is aggressively queer by virtue of being so aggressively unqueer it somehow circles back to being aggressively queer.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Krakoa is the Imperium of Man for leftists. "Do not do this cool thing which half the writers go out of their way to justify and which all the characters you identify with are anywhere from complicit to enthusiastic participants. The lesson we're trying to- oh, fuck it. Fine. Have fun, kids."
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
"It can't be an Israel metaphor because the mutants have a unique history of persecution and a spiritual tie to the land!" Well, dang. You got me there.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
"But you see, the metaphor breaks down because the Avengers are useless!" True. The only non-mutant Avenger that was actually useful to Krakoa was Iron Man, a billionaire American capitalist arms dealer with whom they enter a marriage of convenience.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
"Is the Mossad hitman who pitched 'a land without a people for a people without a land' a Zionist," the greatest intellectual debate in human history, concludes he must not be because no country with a man named "Mister Sinister" in the government could be untrustworthy.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
mod description: This mod allow u 2 kill serana me: Cuz it'd make no sense for me not to go "Ah! A vampire! and instinctively start stabbing from a RP perspective, right? mod description: Because she am bitchiness character so I eat her lungs
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
This may be the most Russian mod ever made.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
It is "European governments literally issue public health warnings when it's this hot" degrees Celsius.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I think everyone’s on edge these days and some folks just can’t handle it and self-destruct. Not making excuses for anyone, just saying this sort of thing seems to be happening with disturbing regularity lately.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Gotta respect a creature that sees letting a little thing like brutal cannibalistic decapitation get in the way of pussy as a skill issue.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
God grant me the confidence of a bug who thinks “Sure, every other male in the history of the species got his head ripped off upon the completion of mating, but I’m built different.”
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I honestly forgot who Taylor Lorenz was. I assume she’s someone vaguely left leaning on the internet with some degree of infamy?
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Just use Vortex this one time? I promise not to tell anyone.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I tried to cut the bloat, but the ducks stayed.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, I find playing around with mod load orders more engaging than playing the game at this point.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
www.nexusmods.com/games/skyrim... Skyrim load order I've been playing around with if anyone wants to try it out and offer playtesting feedback.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Ornstein to Artorias upon seeing Smough for the first time:
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
You have more information about your life than I do, so I will take your word for it.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
They perversely see Team Breaking Things as fulfilling their part of the social contract and Team Fixing Things as violating it for not fixing the mess.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Your Name.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I think -and to be clear, this is a confession, not an accusation- denial is itself implicitly one of those negative things because you’re framing trans femininity as a fail state for masculinity on some level, even if you try to dress it up in progressive language to fool yourself.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
The electorate breaks things to protest the fact things are broken then has more broken things to get mad about, causing them to vote to break things in protest. Many such cases!
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, I did too, but “this is just a weird pervert thing,” is an egg denial moment, you’re just targeting yourself.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Any tips on dressing, presentation, etc.?
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Shamelessly stealing that reaction image for later.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I am absolutely scared shitless at the rapidly approaching prospect of teaching while trans tbh.
DON'T FOLLOW ME (@yyangmills.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
There are actually, disturbingly late, British pop race science illustrations from magazines listing the Ethiopians as a subset of the white race!
Philo 🔜 EF (@opfuchs.gay) reposted reply parent
*takes a bite of delicious spaghetti al pomodoro, glares in Milanese at the Neapolitan* You may live...for now
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Northern Italy isn’t even convinced southern Italy counts.
Dr. M.A. Davis (@mikedavis.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
"hey what about us" "sorry Ethiopia we're not convinced Italy counted to begin with"
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Read theory: direct.mit.edu/isec/article...
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
It’s pretty funny how for a time, whiteness basically operated by Highlander rules. Japan, you have defeated Russia. You are now white and the Russians are Asian. Turks, you’re on thin ice. You had better not lose the next war.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Broke: Western forces deployed in Asia due to the deteriorating security situation. Woke: Asian forces deployed to the West due to the deteriorating security situation.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Like, yeah, the armed forces are in an unfair no-win situation. We should’ve thought of that before electing a constitutionally ineligible insurrectionist found civilly liable for rape who openly wants to rule us like a king. Idk what to tell you.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Nobody wants to admit we’ve reached a Constitutional fail state where there is literally no way for the military to follow the Constitution as written.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
“If you divorce the military from political leadership and the political ends it is used to achieve, it is apolitical,” I say as the National Guard occupies the capital. Yeah, man, good point. Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, the play was great.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
It’s almost like said culture was reliant upon a social-political context and when said social-political context broke down, it became a morbid farce.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s probably cope at least in part, but I also suspect I got morally lucky.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Sometimes I wonder what things I’d have gone along with or stayed quiet about and justified it to myself by saying I’m needed and what if someone worse replaces me, it’s for the greater good, etc.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I basically see failing the polygraph as a blessing at this point tbh.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Elden Ring
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I still remember finding a fantasy book at the Joseph Beth in Lexington about that sort of thing as a child but being too scared to buy it for reasons I could not articulate at the time.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s a very cis thing to fantasize about scenarios where a man becomes a woman in some way where it’s not her “fault.”
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I’d be lying if I said I didn’t have similar moments.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
It’s a social contagion I caught on social media in the 2020s that went backwards in time and made me really interested in gender transformation fiction as a child. Physicists say time might be nonlinear, right?
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
“I can’t be trans because I have chosen a career path and area of expertise where it would really suck to be trans.” Well, I was half right.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
It’s very annoying when you semi-subconsciously build a prison for yourself as part of the repression process and when the egg cracks anyway, you’re like “damn, this *is* a well-made jail,” when trying to escape.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I think almost everyone who’s older than, say… 27ish… has one of those shameful egg denial moments due to the culture we were raised in. I still have some internalized issues I need to work out, in truth.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
@lastpositivist.bsky.social That’s your theme music playing.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
In retrospect, this was the logical endpoint of the U.S. military’s “apolitical” culture in a time of asymmetrical polarization. Turns out it, “Khorne cares not from whom the blood flows” with extra steps.
Just Barely Barning On (@hughdelendaest.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
THE CRAZED CACA CONSUMER THE DASTARDLY DOODOO DEVOURER THE EVIL EXCREMENT ENJOYER THE FREAKY FECAL FEASTER THE GARISH GUANO GOBBLER THE INFAMOUS ICKY-SLICKY INGESTER THE MAD MANURE MUNCHER THE NEFARIOUS NUMBER 2 NIBBLER THE SICKLY SHIT SNACKER
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Uh. Yeah. That’s totally it. I’m definitely not too dense to have even considered the hanging because I stayed up irresponsibly late last night and my brain hasn’t absorbed the coffee yet.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
3 AM, FromSoft Headquarters, around 2019: Miyazaki: God, I am so tired. This is our fourth all-nighter this week. You have any ideas for this villain, George? George RR Martin: Uh. Let’s call him the stinky poo rapist. Miyazaki: Fuck it, I’m putting it in. George RR Martin: *snores*
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
TLD is funny because every other edgelord in a Dark Souls game has some DEEP and TRAGIC hidden lore where SOCIETY IS THE REAL EVIL and then there’s the Loathsome Dung Eater, who really does suck and who society was entirely justified in persecuting.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
EXCLUSIVE: The Loathsome Dung Eater in talks with JD Vance about cabinet positions should the president be incapacitated.
tobioboi.bsky.social (@tobioboi.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
And they go deep into radical politics to convince themselves how their feelings are all a lie? Idk man sounds like half the trans people I know
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
His name literally being Bill Reich is the most on the nose comic book thing I’ve seen since Anne Marie Slaughter suggested starting a war.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
May I know the book, please?
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
This is not the same thing as “haha, I bet the guy at the truck stop who called me a slur is trans.” I have an actual case here.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
If I told you in the abstract I suspected a neurodivergent person whose favorite anime was about a man and a woman switching bodies, who is active in the furry, gaming, and channer subcultures, and who is related to a trans person they are weirdly resentful towards was trans, you’d see it, right?
Ed (@notdred.bsky.social) reposted
Ok but “don’t let anybody see him and loudly play a song that he likes” is solidly a Weekend at Bernie’s move
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
He started it.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
The three downloads, zero endorsements is *chef's kiss.*
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
I enjoy the fact that somewhere a guy was like "The good people of China MUST have localized Nazeem summoning capabilities."
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social)
Not sure what I did to piss him off, but he's got that dog in him. I'll give him that.
Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty (@irhottakes.bsky.social) reply parent
I mean, the thing is that he is signing up for a job where they strap you to a hollowed out missile and light an explosion under your ass in order to hurl you into the void at Mach 20, so like… you can make the case above average cardiac endurance is a nontrivial qualification.
Jovial Heist (@jovialheist.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
At one point his fake heart monitor slips off and you see his erratic heartbeat during a workout and he collapses. I took it as the movie saying he does indeed have a heart issue.