Wandering Adventure Party

We’re getting takeout, and leaving this for tomorrow me.

Annnd the car won’t start. Well, fuck today then.

@mikoto@urusai.social

And I am concerned that narratives about culture in modern society (probably in any country) are becoming naively straightforward

I think this is the natural response of most people who experience chaos. The vast majority of people are (in my opinion) addicted to order and stability in a way that is extremely unhealthy to our world. Complexity means variations, which means greater opportunity for chaos. That unnerves many people, and so they will willingly burn down the whole world down just so long as after the fire, tomorrow's ashes will be the same as today's.

Change is the only real constant. I wish most people were taught the absurdity of trying to control the world and make it static, especially when many of them do not wish to remain in the same place themselves.

@Dio9sys@haunted.computer I am not in the BDSM community, but I am to (with incomplete information) understand that this is actually something of a sore spot for them. At least in the US, I gather that you can still be prosecuted for domestic violence and battery even if the 'victim' consents.

Of course, at that stage it really boils down to the prosecutor; only one that's pursuing it as a prudish or personal vendetta is going to continue pressing the charges since they then also have to discredit the victim's testimony in the ensuing trial. A tall order.

Recommendation: If you do this, shop around the BSDM clubs local to you until you find a local prosecutor participating, then do the fight under these rules in their jurisdiction. You can then have some comfort that they won't press the charges, and you'll have some nice blackmail to seal the deal.

@Dio9sys@haunted.computer It really depends on your jurisdiction, I think. Some places flat out ban fighting, while others require that a fight between willing participants be conducted exclusively away from the public. If there is some kind of perceived prize, they may even require you to get a license like a sporting event.

and you'd best not kill him. I imagine you'd still be liable for a manslaughter charge criminally, and definitely wrongful death civilly.

IANAL, you'd have to read your local laws and consult an attorney. It's probably ill-advised though. Alas.

@peachymist@labyrinth.zone honestly The monster of the week style episodes were always my favorite with the X-Files. I used to love Supernatural for a similar reason before it became nothing but demon and angel bullshit. I would totally watch a show that was just an anthology of monster episodes.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems that’s about right in my book.

I view CW as a conduct of compassion, but even so it is something I do out of kindness. It is not my responsibility to filter someone else’s feed nor create a perfect content bubble. That’s how it goes sometimes.

@mikoto@urusai.social

will hopefully be better distinguished and deepened as sociological and historical analyses become more refined.

I hope so as well.

but I have to admit that they are overly idealized

That would be on purpose, I think. Nitobe was writing for a western audience (it was originally written in English) as a diplomat in an age where Japanese diplomacy was deeply concerned with earning recognition and a place among its western imperialist peers. I think he was definitely doing a bit of myth making. That it ended up being translated into Japanese and became something of a canon-piece for Japanese Nationalism is a bit funny to me.

I guess I am saying I would never read it with anything but cynicism.

@grass@freeradical.zone I can think of a couple of games which do this well, like Doki Doki Literature Club, where "play throughs" are really just meta-stages of narrative development. But in general a lot of games that do this only change the last few scenes of the ending, or bury it so deep into the game that it's still a problem.

@mikoto@urusai.social

I have to agree with the misleading sentiment. The west isn't very good at distinguishing samurai as 'job', and samurai as 'class', which were both things with nuance. Maybe because it's made equivalent to knighthood, which is not an entirely apt comparison. We are all often still dealing with how much of the west's conception is colored by Nitobe Inazō's _Bushido: The Soul of Japan_.

@sidereal@kolektiva.social @Air_Quotes_Comedian@kolektiva.social They only have such a bad reputation in the US because vending machine operators operate about one level above Wormtongue in levels of decency. It's an extremely cutthroat world that seems to attract the worst people.

@babble_endanger@freeradical.zone It's a joke, but it's real. It's important for leadership to demonstrate they operate under the same framework, that mistakes happen, and that it'll be handled reasonably.

@grass@freeradical.zone in general I but don’t like going through the same 10 hours of content to reach a different place. It’s just to pad out length and it feels pretty disrespectful of my time, on top of being … boring.

I know undertale has a meta reason for it, but for most games it’s just an unfun waste of my time.

When I hear that you have to play a game twice to get the “good” ending, I begin to lose interest…

@sakurajima@sakurajima.moe thank you for the hard work !

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe I kinda have complex views of this.

I generally feel that like literature, poetry fell into a trap of academic and class isolation. Like literature, it became too over analyzed and sanitized, and through the vehicle of public education, was reduced from a vehicle of expression to things on a test with a correct answer. Poetry's gift has always been that it's something that one can turn out and consume quicker than a book or a play; a tiktok of expression. But its teaching caused it to fall from common favor, then drop from curriculum("Why are we teaching this?"), leading to a state where very few on the street can tell a 'good poem'.

I think the rise of free-form is a symptom of popular collapse rather than a cause. Disorganization and ambiguity follow a collapse. Those who are 'professional poets' operate in near voids compared to their past peers, and people coming to it now are far less versed in the particulars of structured poetry. You're far less able to bend the rules when every oink on the street knows the rulebook. Without that feedback, It's essentially anarchy.

I'd argue this is why Hip hop remains. It did not collapse in the same way, and so, it retained a 'society' that governs it. It remains popular in the public eye, and thus enough people know the rules when an artist goes off script.

@mikoto@urusai.social the two easy conceptual fixes:

* if it’s set to followers only, and the target is not a follower… they shouldn’t see the message.
* If the target isn’t a follower, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to make follower-only replies to them.

This is actually part of a long standing complaint about Mastodon: @-ing someone always brings them into the message. This causes people to accidentally include others in DMs for example. The whole mechanism has caused nothing but heartache.

The master’s philosophy serves the master’s interests. I suspect many of our deeply held beliefs are well crafted to keep certain people on their thrones.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe I mean let’s be real here though. The leeches of the 1700s aren’t pure; they’re surviving latching onto patients who were just pumped full of mercury, arsenic, opium and nightshade. I think grandpa leech has got more fight in him than we credit here.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems It pisses me off when the Aliens suddenly drop me off at the Waffle House. Like, the nearest one is a 13 hour return drive, and who wants to do that after getting in a fist fight at 2 in the morning?