The power level curse where your characters get too powerful for there to be meaningful stakes?
Definitely not one of the most heavily armed states in the USA.
WTF?
I’m impressed by the way some threads now have "-2" new comments. How does that work?
Who knows? They seem to know all these people personally, so I guess they attend rationalist cuddle puddles in SV or something.
I ran into them online a year ago when a Twitter follow shared their last essay with some acerbic comments about the lengths (both in the mental & absurd word count senses) they were going to do deny their desire to transition & they appeared in the comments after I made a snarky remark along the lines of “methinks the lady doth protest too much”. Still quite proud of that one.
(Follows link to authors blog, reads blogroll)
JFC. Kathleen Stock. They have the entire universe of gender studies to choose from & Kathleen Stock is their philosopher of choice.
They’re up to their armpits in a pit of self-loathing of their own making & unable to take any of the proffered help because their self-imposed ethical system doesn’t permit it.
Profoundly sad is exactly what it is.
wat indeed.
Twenty minutes, in a language you hadn’t seen before? Sure.
When the SV techbro culture goes mask off & you realise you’re surrounding yourself with the worst possible people.
pja
joined 1 year ago
I already wasn’t going to read this screed, but now I’m definitely not going to read it. Sheesh.