MGTOWs reinvent the Handmaid’s Tale, with bonus creepy incest overtones

@ kupo

Brexit 1776

We were just talking about that this morning. That lead on to a discussion about who was doing the exiting. Which in turn lead on to our usual (every time we discuss this) conversation about how really it was a fight between English people on the American side and Hannoverian mercenaries on the ‘German’ side. ?

America, where even our earliest national stories are about whinging about the taxes needed to provide necessary services.

I can’t find the source now, but someone smarter than me once pointed out that the so-called Founding Fathers were “the 1% in breeches”, which explains a lot, really.

I’ve just come across a Christian conservative website called ‘The Stream’ and I’m not sure if it’s satire. It looks like satire, but it’s getting really hard to tell these days. Look at this as an example.

https://stream.org/handmaids-tale-hate-speech/

@Alan

It works that way in the United States also, at least in most states. If, for example, someone gets punched after calling someone a slur (or an insult or extreme disrespect) to that person’s face, the courts might decide that the face-puncher isn’t guilty of any crime.

@Alan:

… really it was a fight between English people on the American side and Hannoverian mercenaries on the ‘German’ side.

As a descendant of (among other things) German Palatines who fought on the United Empire Loyalist side… yeah, I can see that. Yes, I could legally use the ‘U.E.’ title.

Of course, things get mixed up a lot later. My great-grandfather with the German surname was a priest in the Church of England. My great-grandfather with the Irish surname was also a priest… but he was Presbyterian. (And his first church was actually with the United Church of Canada, because few towns had enough Presbyterians to justify a church of their own, so the Presbyterians, Methodists, and a lot of the individual Congregationalist churches got together and formed their own ‘umbrella’ church so that together they could found churches out in smaller towns.)

@js
@peevee

This stuff is beyond ridiculous, it’s hard to imagine people get paid to write this kind of hogwash. It makes The Onion look believable.

Schnookums Von Fancypants, Not a Yeti or a Chupacabra | July 3, 2017 at 2:16 pm
In reference to the whole “That’s not me, that’s just the character I play on Youtube!” well…I think Kurt Vonnegut had something to say about that sort of thing:

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”

Or, to paraphrase one of our regulars (I don’t recall exactly who said it, but I know they’re a reg): “You can fuck a goat ‘ironically’ or ‘for the lulz’, but at the end of the day, you’re still a goat fucker.”

@Alan

Bart Sibrel didn’t leave even after Aldrin asked him to, then Aldrin punched him. A few years later Sibrel was found guilty of vandalism for damaging someone’s car because she refused to pull out of a parking space he was waiting for.

https://web.archive.org/web/20120224145824/http://www.newschannel5.com/global/story.asp?s=10799169

@ shnookums

Hey, it was practically cost price anyway!!! 🙂

Funnily enough it was actually less of a tax increase and more of a reduction in a tax rebate that lead to the price increase. There’s also a long standing rumour that Twinings may have been involved or at least paid the protesters off (none of their tea was thrown overboard).

Axe,

Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!!!

@Troubelle from a little while ago, about game development: I don’t know if you know this, but Unity is free! The full featured thing, you can even make games that you sell in it. I think there’s a cut off if you raise or make more than 100k$ in business revenue, but you’d have to actually look in to it.

Here’s the link to unity. There are lots of tutorials in it, as well as assets you could use as placeholders if you didn’t want to model your own.

I really enjoyed Night In The Woods, which is a video game made by people who didn’t even live in the same city. While it’s hard to work remotely like that, if there is a will, there is a way!

If you’d like to try your hand at smaller games, or if your main interest in making games is story, there are a few options to make Visual Novel style games. They don’t have to be just dating sims! The more I play bioware games, the more I realise that they are just super elaborate Visual Novels, really.

There’s Ren’Py, which has a pretty nice forum attached to it.

I wrote down more things to make visual novels, but that’s at home. Argh! Sorry! I think you could use twine. Yep, you can! And it can be simple, or get more complicated with variables and stuff if you’d like.

Here’s an interesting book on game design. It’s called ‘The Art of Game Design: Book of Lenses’.

One anecdote I really enjoyed from it was about how the author was making a Pirates of the Caribbean ride for Disney. One of the construction people came to him and said “Where do you want the air vent?” And he was like “Why do I care?” Then he paused, and was like “Have it blowing in their faces! It will reinforce the feeling of being on a ship.”

And I was like A) That’s really neat, using small things to reinforce the experience. Things people won’t even notice consciously, but will make a big impact on how they feel in the moment.

B) You have never been on a SAILING SHIP. The wind should be coming from behind. XD So be creative, but check your sources I guess haha.

Good luck doing whatever it is you want to do!

OH I have one more story here, that might help. I was working in a studio, and my department had some down time. (I’m not in gaming though, sorry.) Anyway, another department was SLAMMED, so I was volunteered to help out.

It was not a glorious department. Everybody is always on it, and they have to pull everything together while assets aren’t ready yet. No one knows what you do, so you can’t tell people and have them go “oh, that’s cool” even though you are *essential*.

But it was my job, so I did it, and did it the way I was told to do it. I took notes. I made a document that had the answers to questions I asked.

Later, when the fella who was heading up that department moved to a much cooler one, he needed help again. He asked me if I wanted to transfer over, since he knew I was a hard working and could follow instructions when doing things that were not fun.

So now I’m in a much cooler department at work! So even if you get a job that doesn’t directly tie into where you want to be, the connections might help you get there.

And if they won’t, the experience will be excellent material to make games out of.

SORRY TEEEEEL DEEEER. Hope this helps, Troubelle! You seem to have a good head on your shoulders, so I’m sure you’ll figure it all out.

@Alan

Happy Treason Day!!! ?

One person’s treason is another person’s love of country.

And now our countries are BFF.