I’ll probably just keep using Heroic because it unifies libraries. If it ever becomes possible to bring in the steam library as well, it’d be great.

There is an option to ‘hide the shorts shelf’ on the website. And if you are on the app I’d suggest switching to the revanced project’s patched version which also has a ‘remove shorts’ option.

Copious amounts of drugs? No way to get all these divergent views to come to joy without chemical enforcement.

Used to love BtB, but the ads kept getting more invasive so I stopped when they got their Netflix deal and started even putting in-track ads on the YT versions.

I have a few that I mildly enjoy:

• ‘Hardcore History,’ ‘Common Sense,’ and basically anything else with Dan Carlin - His style is engaging and fun. He turns mountains of history into climbable hills. He doesn’t have ads, just a post-roll ask for a dollar to keep things going.
• Final Show Films - various TTRPG actual play recordings from their twitch streams. Leans more toward characters and less toward the action hero style most of the time. Lots of systems, settings, etc. Great examples of avoiding meta-gaming. Preroll patreon ask only. Queer friendly, if that matters to you, but usually not focused on it if that sounds like their focus might be in the wrong place. Hours and hours of content you can enjoy whilst doing chores.
• Push the Roll - Call of Cthulhu improv based on patreon suggested titles. Has Ross Bryant, pretty much the best thing ever to hit the TTRPG actual play world since microphones and dice.
• Werewolf Ambulance - Two friends BSing about horror movies and occasionally others. Not deep, but nice. No ads.
• Better Offline - Ed Zitron maligning AI companies endlessly. Fun when he does it with a guest. Mildly informative if not.

I had more at one time but they often die or go bad somehow. These are the only ones I can recommend at the moment.

Only ever met one other persons who had ever even heard of her but I have a particular love for the works of Jaqueline Carey. The Sundering duology is gorgeous moral greyness with epic fantasy scale and yet personal characterization. The Kushiel series (the parts I have read so far) is the intertwining of political thriller, historical fiction, magical realism, BDSM romance, and again, has both epic scale plot and personal characters. I recommend the Sundering to everyone and Kushiel’s Dart to anyone old enough their mother won’t come around and attack me for exposing their son/daughter to the sexual parts of the book. There are others but those ones always come to mind when I see/hear this question.

Never impossible, but not happening yet. I have a suspicion things will shift more as the cold warriors inevitably succumb to the limits of mortality. All the power and money in the world still can’t stop the power of time.

It has to be possible, though. Some places seem to manage some kind of sanity, at least.

Yeah, I’m with you on the direction to approach from, if slightly different in tack. I was just amusing myself. Hopefully I wasn’t causing you too much annoyance.

‘Undisturbed’ is doing a bit of lifting there. The same could be said of a person, generally speaking. Leave most people in a room, they won’t hurt anyone either. It’s just a matter of what circumstances make each dangerous. If you put bullets in a room and set the room on fire, they act as little bombs. If you do that with a person, it makes them less dangerous, because they’re dead. If you put a person in solitary confinement for years on end, they’ll come out mentally disturbed, and possibly violent. Do the same with a bullet, and it comes out presenting the same hazards as when it went in.

Just to have fun by being a bit pedantic, the a bullet is a possible source of toxic lead, and if you are using the colloquialist ‘bullet’ to mean a charged cartidge containing a bullet, the gunpowder charge makes it a tiny bomb, which can be dangerous as well, even without a gun, especially when exposed to idiots with hammers or fire.

It seems you don’t understand what they’re talking about. It’s not about the individual thumbnail and personal taste regarding the one individual image. It’s about the class of thumbnails that utilise/follow the ‘clickbait’ model, a system of manipulation developed and actively encouraged by the attention economy of ad-based media which has a broadly pleasant-feeling but long term negative effects on the users and society.

Not wanting to engage in or encourage the process of social harm is not a ‘personal issue.’

Eh, what version are you quoting? I looked this up because I wanted to see what comes after the elipses, and found Matthew 3-5 to be

⁵ Then Jerusalem, all Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.

Edit: found it. It’s 6-5.

I remember I heard about the L thing, but then immediately looked at my little hands and thought ‘…But which way does the ⅃ go? That tells me nothing.’ Then I spun them around like finger guns akimbo and it made it worse. I think I was ~4.

Debian. I want that thing to be so stable they forget they ever had problems.

Almost took an interest in learning Gregg but then I found Elian Script and while it’s not a shorthand, I liked it more so come back to it more often.

A newspaper in a niche script is kind of a funny idea though, writing something meant to be broadly informative in a format only the few can understand.

Here is a PDF of the book.

No one is afraid of the gays. (Well, no one who isn’t mentally ill.) They are afraid of some locus of power, which, despite what some pundits claim about the force of the ‘woke mob,’ gay people do not have significant power. Some person or group of people have power in their life, and those boys are willing to sacrifice other peoples’ happiness, safety, and sometimes even lives, so they can virtue signal to the powers that be. "See? I’m attacking the scapegoat too, so I must be a good guy. I’m certainly not hiding a thousand secret sins that might make me an outcast. How could I be? That’d be hypocritical because then I’d be evil like him. So I’m attacking him. See? This proves I’m good.’

Doki Doki Literature Club I went in blind. I got through the first chapter and got so pissed off that there was no option to be a better friend to hopefully prevent the first negative event. It made me drop the game. Years later I learned about the game from an analytical video essay and I reposed that was probably the War Games style winning move.

The Finals
Another player spouted off unambiguously Nazi BS. I reported them. I doubled back to check. They hadn’t been removed after weeks. I don’t play a game that doesn’t even do the bare minimum of removing the open, unambiguous Nazis.

The Red Lantern/ Heavy Rain These can be grouped. I have a rule which says ‘If I’m not making a choice of what to do in your game, I’m already not playing your game, I’m fighting your game to get the chance to play it, so if you can’t show me something damned quick to make me want to fight for it, it’s time to walk away.’ It pushed me away from Chicken Horse. It kicked me out of Heavy Rain too. The Red Lantern felt like it was mechanically sound but the connective tissue was not there. It’s good design to tell a player, ‘you can sacrifice resource A for a chance at resource B, or don’t. Your call.’ It’s terrible design to say to a player ‘Yes or no?’ with no details, no context clues, or even false context clues and the question actually being in reference to something extremely significant.

Ark
Way back when it was nearer the peak of its popularity, I tried it. I played for a bit. Learned about just how much grind it takes to make even a little crapshack, and how shitty the mechanical design is, and dropped it. Really, there have been many like that, dropped for just not being good/fun. Hell Let Loose was like that. Battle royale games are like that. Civ-likes that aren’t Civ are like that. All the intentional skinner box games are like that.

Maybe because, by and large, floppy dongs are goofy-looking things that have value in shock comedy while vulvas generally aren’t and don’t. There seems to be something innately, or at least deeply culturally, confrontational or violating about a penis, like every time one is revealed it should come with a ‘haHAAA!’ like a melodrama villain, while only the most angry, furriest, and most unkempt of vulvas has anything like that kind of impact.