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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
a lot of itās that, but itās also got some really good horror writing
@dgerard @mii the There is no Antimemetics Division series is particularly good.
@Dtl @dgerard @mii
The world-building in that narrative thread is extremely chewy. :D
Because of the silo-ed nature of the OCP bureaucracy, no-one really knows how many times that the world has been destroyed and re-built. :D
@Dtl @dgerard @mii
@cstross
Thereās another good example in The Secret World :D
https://www.secretworldlegends.com/
Itās an early and ongoing experiment in machinima that stands out as being one of the few MMOās that was publicly LBTQ+ friendly. :D
It is known from interviews that some of the writers are fans of @cstross as is evidenced by the world-building for the main story arc. :D
@Dtl @dgerard @mii @cstross
The game mechanics are similar to most tactical MMORPGās, but itās the quality of the storytelling that stands out. :D
In the first section that you are sent to explore, the player is acting as an investigator/cleaner in an HP Lovecraft story. :D
What is also interesting from the pov of gameplay, is that you can only make some of the choices once in the main story arc. :D
Want to make different choices, you have to start again with a new character. :D