Ok bootlicker.

Ever since I switched from text to voice I feel like my characters lost some of their… Verbosity.

But last night I bon-mot-ed a minotaur (as my ascended animal swash-bard unicorn) by saying “Oooh, a fellow hooved creature! … Sorry about your appearance, fella.”

And rolled a crit.

And it felt awesome. Playing Swashbard is awesome.

I wouldn’t know. The only Okra I ever ate was the one my mother made when I was a teen. And it was slimy and gooey and got my autism going crazy.

Nowadays I don’t eat dishes that have it, or do but push it aside.

Okra is the most unpleasant vegetable I ever did eat

But if it helps save the world, it’ll have my eternal respect.

My most iconic character (in the shared imaginations of my friends) is my sorceress pirate gal from a Final-Fantasy style campaign.

Our party included:

• A tragic Samurai looking to avenge his father who got war-crimed.
• A rogue who had their name stolen and is basically a blob of pure self-hatred.
• A warrior monk looking to develop her strengths so she can protect the weak
• A former slave who spent hundreds of years in slavery and wants to punish the slavers.
• A knight who lost all his memories except the traumatic memory that resulted in all the other lost memories.

… And then there was my gal. A magic college professor who decided “**** it, I’m tired of being boring. I’m gonna go and be a sky pirate, and I want to die an epic death”. She is the team mom.

It makes sense, I’d just never seen it. My brain sees ‘zoom’ and thinks ‘business, work’.

Me and my role-playing mates are also on that VTT+VoIP-Call life because we live kilometers away from one another.

whow, RPG over Zoom. Didn’t know people did that. It was always Discord for us. (WELL, Skype in the way back when times when my back didn’t hurt but y’know)

That’s great for you but I fucked up my hearing by listening to Linking Park on maximum volume in the cheapest Chinese earbuds a third world teenager’s allowance could buy circa 2006.

… And getting stuff from YouTube takes 3% less effort.

What makes a bootlicker is that they continue to lick the boot even when it isn’t paying off in the slightest.

But you are right, there is no longer any reward for participating in society. The wealthy have forgotten fear.

Life under Capitalism was better while there was a sizable Communist bloc on the other side of the world. The fear that the commoners might wake up and make their voices heard by force of violence resulted in all manner of concessions. Unions were stronger, public services were estabilished, workers’ rights were signed into law. Then the Soviets showed weakness in the eighties, and the Capitalist class was quick to invent Neoliberalism and begin the slow but assured gutting of all those concessions. While manufacturing consent through the media and convincing people that this was what they actually wanted.

Now we see the end result.

As for what to do about it, I don’t fucking know either. Because the only thing that is known to work would require a mass movement of a size that I don’t think even can be achieved nowadays. Society is too fragmented. People are too propagandised.

I have basically embraced doomer hedonism. Life will not get better, so I make a point to just enjoy myself as much as possible, I have no intention of breeding more slaves for their flesh-mill, and I personally hope to die young. (to a definition of young anyway, I’m this close to being legally considered ‘middle aged’)

The real uplifting news is bootlickers getting kicked in their metaphorical shins in the comment section.

Ah I wouldn’t know about THAT. I just download and convert epubs from the likes of z-library/libgen, and have done so since getting my first Kindle circa 2012

What for? Cuz loading pirated books is trivial?

Only if you want to synch reading progress between multiple devices.

I agree.

Run by an open fascist who actively and proudly boosted the Trump campaign = Pro christianity, d’uh.

This guy’s a specialist in saying the quiet part out loud, tbqh.

I’d honestly accept them moving to blue-fucking-sky.

Anything is better than the current state of Xitter.

The excuse to shit on people not like themselves and pretend it is “righteous” and “Not toxic”, I imagine

It’s what most religious concern trolls love about it anyway. Plus in another post they said “religion is an example of non-toxic anti-lgbt” which is like. VERY telling of how they think.

Religious folks who aren’t in it for the excuse to be hateful? You will find them at like. The temple. Or some church-bound charity op. As opposed to hanging out in social media starting shit with people.

I’m anti-religion because religion is an oppressive force by its fundamental nature. Using fear of the supernatural to keep the plebeians obedient.

But of course a fascist would think differently, because your ilk believes repression is good actually.

Now go eat a whole barrel of shit <3

Methinks their cowardice in admitting to what they are is so they can skirt the instance’s rules. Also lots of whining from them about “biased modding” because fediverse administration won’t accept out-and-proud fascism (not in decent instances that people actually want to use, anyway). I imagine this is like their third or fourth alt account after getting their shit kicked in, for being correctly identified as a fascist.

Backseat modding is fine too

Nobody wants you here, fascist. Go back to gargling Elon Musk’s balls on Xitter.