Moonworm

It's a feral hog that shoots bullets out of its nose. Highly dangerous and a little absurd, but that's Qud for you.

Pirashku was an adventurous mutant with lightning in his veins and a want in his heart. He felt a kinship with artifacts and how they too coursed electric inside, so he grabbed his cherished electrobow, Cyclops and set off to learn their secrets in the Jungles of Qud.

He fell in with a tinker in the salt marshes and quickly proved himself worthy of introduction to the cult of Baruthram. He even made it to their doorstep with a collection of treasures from the time of the eaters in tow. But, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed as he was, the slugsnout's leaden eruption was still faster than he.

Made sense to me at the time, but two years of genocide on I just don't care anymore. There's something to be said about the pushing of the symbol as part of the zionist project, too, but honestly I don't even think that's really important as more than an academic point. It just feel gross to be precious about this this far along.

Rocking out silly theme builds in Caves of Qud and then drawing some of them. I keep trying to make professor pikachu work, but he's just so squishy.

The game still has the weird tension of wanting to play like a roguelike with permadeath but also having a central storyline that takes time to complete. I've got a roleplay mode and a pretty survivable classic character that I got past Golgotha with if I want to keep going further into the game, but for whatever reason now I'm just enjoying rolling up new mutants and seeing how far I can get before I get sleepy or too cheeky trying to rob the chest behind half a dozen turrets.

You could do some interesting stuff if there's a section of vampires who aren't required to participate in violence to enjoy the benefits of their condition, while another number has to perpetrate it in order to reproduce their number. There's a perverse ethic to it, that some number of people have to be literally fed to the monster, but this enables more and more people to have lives of superb luxury and safety. Add a wrinkle or two and you've got a nice short story or novella right there.

Absolute fucking horseshit when we're talking about massively expanding our energy use to fuel AI datacenters and total surveillance. It's like scolding people for not recycling while increasingly making everything single-use plastics.

These are scary internet pedophiles, who are inherently othered as opposed to the good ol' boys on your local schoolboard or whatever. I don't think the willingness to ignore heinous things when expedient socially or politically precludes being disgusted and outraged by them otherwise.

As for what comes from this, I don't really know though. More control and surveillance of internet activities is in accordance with broader goals. I doubt that they'll come up with anything that particularly helps with online grooming or abuse, but it will look good probably.

I liked this build a lot but I didn't realize my character would steam itself shooting fire while in water.

It's a very positive profile. The quote is from a section where the interviewer asks him for thoughts on a series of people.

Grindr

Also yeah this sounds like a bisexual guy with a girlfriend

The clear conclusion I draw from this is that he doesn't want police officers doing so much overtime, which is something I agree with. It is consistent with his plan to shrink the scope of what police handle in the city, which I think is only beneficial. Even if we desire the complete abolition of police and believe that this must be achieved via revolutionary action, the diminishing of police ubiquity and de facto decrease of funding creates better conditions for such action.

A lot of people would rather turn their nose up at anything with the semblance of a mass political project because it fails some criteria and is therefor "tailist" and "social fascist", yet will themselves offer no alternative plan beyond vague calls to organize. Organize what exactly? This is left as an exercise for the reader, though we can wonder whether anything organized by such contemptible imperial subjects and liberals will ever pass muster for the principled do-nothings.

There is little conclusion I can make besides people either making continuing excuses for their inaction (and, if you are engaged in organizing with the PSL or something, great! keep it up. I'm not talking to you.) or that they are, whether they realize it or not, accelerationists who can only hope that things will break correctly or who do not care for their own lives or those around them. What does it matter to you if NYC elects a socdem or a demsoc or a selfsuck? Do you need it to fall down fast enough that people get a smack on the bottom that makes them into good, principled communists? At a very basic level I do disagree with this idea. This is a large and mobilized group of people active right now that should be used as best as it can to advance the political consciousness of the people involved and watching and to achieve whatever material gains can be had in the city. I have concerns about the campaign and the potential for recuperation of Mamdani as a political figure. I neither think we should ignore this nor throw up our hands and say, "it is already a lost cause." This is a moment to hold tight and wring as much as can be wrought from the moment. I hope that the people in Mamdani's campaign and its leadership have this mindset.

This is big truck equivalent of bimbofication.