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The year is 2095…

Following final victory of the Good Feminist People in the Great Gamer War, the old archetype of Man has been abolished.

Seeking to end sexual oppression, and empowered by novel tissue engineering techniques, the possession of a penis is limited to only those who can prove they are sufficiently Woke, enforced by a powerful licensing agency.

In practice, those with power in the corrupt government are those who can ensure their license remains in effect, no matter what crimes they commit. These same patterns of abuse are used to justify the licensing regime, while leaving social and financial power unexamined.

David Florence’s license has just been revoked.

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Anonymous asked:

There may or may not be a god. We're working on building a few of our own, to neutralise the threat posed by any preexisting gods. We hope to be in a position to withstand any divine hostilities by around 2085, but in the meantime diplomatic and economic countermeasures must make up the balance.

Man, this is a bit too close to some worldbuilding I did where, in the wake of a supervolcano eruption, a bronze-age civilization flipped from being polytheists to being anti-theists.  The Storm the Heavens and Cast Down the Golden Thrones kind of anti-theists, not the internet article writing kind. (A cult expanded in the wake of the catastrophe and became the new religion.)

They are to train over multiple reincarnations for the literal, not metaphorical, battle at the end of time.

Anyhow, the good news is that gluten has been deemed one of their unholy foods.

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Concept: A setting in which Moe Monstergirls and Handsome Manpires exist simultaneously next to terrifying abominations and soul-burning inhuman demons hiding in human shells that would ordinarily be used as subversions of the Paranormal Romance Genre versions of the creatures.

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[kissingerandpals]

Imagine Freud reading your political discourse

What would he say about you

[mitigatedchaos]

Sigmund Freud is given a printout of my blog.  This is the first thing he sees:

Like, I’m sorry bro, but my internal simulation of Freud just throws an exception error.

[samueldays]

I imagine he might say something like “This blog is a reflection of miti’s parents getting divorced and the resulting disruption imprinting on an impressionable child”. Clearly, when you noticed their breakup process, you started coming up with increasingly wild schemes to keep them together, or bring them together again after they divorced. Ever since, you have been afflicted with a permanent mania for grandiose plans to reorganize society that stems from this displaced desire to reorganize things so that only your parents could get back together again, which you subconsciously imagine they would do if you flicked all the right switches.

[mitigatedchaos]

昔々 (a long time ago),

In a country not entirely unlike Japan, there was an old city called 古い市. And in this city there was the dojo of the Shinkansen School of Martial Arts. So powerful was the Shinkansen School that that it dominated the entire region, and no other schools were practiced.

Among the masters of the Shinkansen school was a great blind monk. So familiar was he with the Shinkansen School that he could anticipate the moves of any student through a combination of sound and kbowledge of Shinkansen Martial Arts alone.

One day, a challenger from some place that is definitely not the Ryukyu Islands appeared and challenged the blind master.

The challenger took but one step. The blind master, used as he was to the patterns of the Shinkansen school, tripped without the expected counterweight of his opponent, fell off the platform, hit his head on a rock, and immediately died.

The blind master is the simulated Freud of the above post, as my parents never divorced, nor were they ever close to divorce.

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[argumate]

When Obi-Wan Kenobi wants to disable the tractor beam, he goes to find the tractor beam settings, which are a physical part of the Death Star (conveniently located above an abyss with no hand-rail) not a panel in some dialog box.

When Jyn has to realign the antenna to transmit the plans, the controls for doing so are a physical part of the tower (conveniently located on a windswept gantry jutting out into space) and are specific to that task alone.

Star Trek may have its tricorders and iPads, but Star Wars doesn’t even have text messages! If you want to send a message, you record a hologram of yourself and give it to a droid to deliver to the recipient.

Humanity has a hundred thousand years experience with carefully constructed special purpose tools, while general purpose software has only become a thing in our lifetimes; we still don’t know how to integrate it with our mythmaking, and perhaps we never will.

[mitigatedchaos]

Using the manual override is what you do if you don’t have legitimate access credentials.

And if you have some piece of big, heavy equipment like a starship, then you want a manual override, right?  

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It’s possible for a dead character to have great influence on the plot without being undead or some other form of not-really-dead.

In real life, such things are echoes, or mechanisms setup beforehand.

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Many years ago, I observed a discussion between an acquaintance and his father.  The father said that the shows the son watched did not deal with death.  The son said that Dragon Ball Z did deal with death - that the characters had died at such and such time, and were trapped in the spirit realm.  But the father said that, as those characters came back, and so on, that they hadn’t really died, not in the way we understood it, and that the work didn’t really deal with death.

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Anonymous asked:

when are continuity complaints justified vs. just nitpicking?

thefeelofavideogame answered:

I will explain

by means of Star Trek reference

In Star Trek, you can’t beam through the shields.

This is established. Can’t beam through the shields. It has been a plot device multiple times. Entire episodes have hinged on it. The Enemy in TNG is a good one, one of the big Romulan episodes.

So, whenever an episode (or movie) fucks up and has someone beam through the shields, I think it’s valid to call them out on it cause they used it as a plot device and drew attention to it previously. Expecting a production or author to remember their own plot points is not too much to ask.

If Peter Parker wore a red shirt once in Issue 360, then later they flashback to events and it’s a green shirt, that isn’t something worth complaining about.

Now, if he wore a red shirt, and wearing that specific red shirt distracted some bull-themed super-villain specifically by being red, then yes, by all means be annoyed they forgot that, cause it wasn’t just a detail, it’s a plot device.

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Misc SF Moral Ideas

Here, did you want some background ideas for you science fiction?  In-universe, violating some of these could be considered morally unthinkable.

• Abortion is banned, but everyone is born naturally sterile unless they get a procedure to allow them to have children.
• Meat-eating from animals is banned except for a few “traditional” cultures.  This actually includes the Amish and a few "historical,” pasture-based farms.  Everyone just eats engineered meat grown in tubes instead. 
• Similarly, aside from a handful of traditional farms, the vast majority of milk products are created using tissue engineering and modified bacteria due to perceived animal consent issues.
• Predator-prey relationships still exist in nature, but prey animals have been genetically modified to lose awareness after sustaining a sufficient level of injury.
• Prison is considered cruel and inhumane.  Instead, convicted criminals are fitted with internal cybernetic restraints that are monitored by AIs and physically prevent them from engaging in certain actions.  (Alternatively, it weakens, dampens, and delays their motor actions.)
• Alternatively, prison is considered cruel and inhumane, instead, convicted criminals are subjected to a regime of corporal punishment, but otherwise are allowed to roam a small, isolated town. 
• It is unthinkable that someone would choose for their child to be monosexual instead of bi- or pansexual.  It has not yet been classified as child abuse.
• People are almost immortal.  It turns out population explosion isn’t a risk because wanting to have lots of kids is not genetic, but primarily social.  Thus, it’s only considered a weird thing some women do.  To meet population replacement goals, most children are grown in vats and raised by the state.

Moral progress, you guys.

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[wirehead-wannabe]

I saw the title “The Virgin Suicides” the other day and now my brain noise keeps saying “The Virgin Suicides vs The Chad Homicides”

[mitigatedchaos]

The Chad Homicides, which claims to have been written by “An Actual Rat”, is perhaps one of this year’s most unique books. Following the story of internationally acclaimed drug dealer Chadwick Bristol, who is pulled against his will into a series of murders of “alpha males”, The Chad Homicides draws us in to an engaging set of conspiracies loaded with colorful characters,

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Rhyme of the Sixth Child

@shieldfoss

Can’t get your core mind thread remotely hacked if it’s not wired to an antenna

Everyone, sing along:

The inputs aren’t together with the outputs
And the outputs aren’t together with the inputs
For each task a dedicated subsystem
You are the network,
You are the tree

The display is for displaying
The arm for throwing
The display doesn’t choose
Where the arm is going

Memories are their own network
Stored inside your brain
Hardlink only can dive your memory
Dead or dying in crimson rain

You are the network
You are the tree
What’s you is you,
and what’s me is me

Firmware is manual update only
The touch of the cord inside,
Validated and crypto-signed
Is the only right way for parts to sing

The songs of the aether are broken
A great storm that seeks to consume all it sees
Broken hearts and broken minds
If thy let it in to thee

You are the network
You are the tree
What’s you is you,
and what’s me is me

I mean, admittedly I kind of left out the rhythm entirely in translating it, but you get the idea.  Every good child, raised by high-aptitude-scoring parents, is taught this at age 6.