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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 6m

it remains extremely funny that the radical centrists hold this guy up as the proof no, really, we can totally win over moderate republicans, the race scientist is sometimes bitchy about people on his own side being crude

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 13m

your insistence on the need to subjugate your racial inferiors to be safe is in fact racism, sam. it is why you are currently ruled by the man you spent the last year hyperventilating about the certainty he was going to do october 7th to you, personally. you are in a bizarre, lonely bubble.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 15m

oh hey, an ethnostate apologist blaming the horrors his emotional support ethnostate is committing on the evil Jews who corrupted his pure vision. what novelty.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 27m

underrated in this whole grotesque mess is that this, right here, is why zionism was always a doomed ideology. it does not matter if the ethnostate is Israel, and the speaker is a philosemite. ethnostate apologia always ends in someone blaming the Jews for making the master race program look bad.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 29m

progressive jews saying "but we still want an emotional support ethnostate" while whining about Netanyahu takes the whole thing full circle, with ethnostate apologists whining about how the master race could have had their perfect ethnostate if it wasnt for the evil Jews who corrupted it.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 34m

every one of which have included "it is the sacred and necessary right of one race to dominate its inferiors," yes. there is not a nice liberal version of the prayerbook at Our Lady Of Botha Did Nothing Wrong.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 38m

"Ethno-supremacist nazism is racism. The type I imagine where all the untermenschen have politely learned their place is cool though"

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 2h

bsky.app/profile/bryc... beat you to it

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 10h

Phil Sheridan was a very good light cavalry commander. relatedly, after he was done kicking the Confederates' asses his last contribution to history was the phrase "the only good Indian's a dead Indian." Taylor may not be related but hoo boy theres a shared talent for dialogue that doesnt age well

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 10h

Nathan Bedford Forrest was an awful shithead, and also one of the Confederates' best generals because he grasped how light cavalry operations actually worked while all his contemporaries were up their own asses with this "honor" shit get there first, kill 'em while they can't kill you back

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

tragically as far as a quick google in this benighted age is concerned, no they do however share an interest in how cool it is to have a gang of guys on horses just run up and beat the shit out of a bunch of people who 1. have it coming* 2. can't meaningfully fight back

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

lae'zel meanwhile should just get a dialogue option reading "...who told you you could speak to me, skeleton"

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

really should be a religion check for either Shadowheart or Gale to pass where they get to respond with "you are THE cautionary tale about giving yourself away to the first vaguely compatible people you run into, Jergal. ever hear the one about how people in thatch houses shouldn't throw firebombs"

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

incredibly, yes. internet being internet like 3/4 of them are repurposed horny Sims mods so the characters can be put in skimpier clothing but more functional ones also exist.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

a number of short kings in the civil war were worthy of your respect and indeed abject terror. Phil Sheridan, for instance, one of the few guys in the Union who made Nathan Bedford Forrest say "i should be somewhere else by the time he shows up." McClellan gives the rest of them a bad name.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

in retrospect the reason my first run went as long as it did probably is down to the romance system's getting patched breaking it so i didn't have to reject any of the characters i ended my second pretty soon after I had to tell Wyll "look man i'm just helping you with the demon horns thing"

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

(there is a reason Lee's insane winning streak ends the split second Grant gets put in charge of the Army of the Potomac. if Grant had one flaw, it was that he never saw a raise he wouldn't call. this resulted in a Lee who had bluffed his way through the war to that point starting to lose BADLY)

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

as Lee learned, no, in fact, that is the opposite of what you had to do with McClellan guy was so petrified of ever losing a fight that Lee could take insane gambles confident in the knowledge no matter what he did, McClellan would retreat back to where he felt more comfortable the second he could

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

the romance is not compulsory, the worst that happens to you is an old skellington saying "boy you sure are alone huh" at one point in act three but it does suffer from a tragic case of "you will have to reject any character you are too nice to because the game assumes that means you want to bone"

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

a tragic case of "you were the subject of the internet's first irrational hatedom, and also grew up to be someone who had that degree of hate coming." a man who suffered from temporally misaligned contempt.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

critical detail. Jon Hamm But He Was 5 Foot Even. there's a reason McClellan loved a good parade review. he got to sit on his horse and watch men be shorter than him.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

(BG3 is notable for including two of them: Astarion is Her But She's A Gay Vampire Boy Now, Shadowheart is Her But Actually It's Mommy And Also Dog Issues This Time)

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

i commented elsewhere that the gay vampire in question is heir to a long, depressing RPG tradition. Girl The PC Can Fuck The Daddy Issues Out Of has been a bad stock character for a while. changing her gender has not changed that said character's fans are always the worst part of the game's fanbase

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 11h

they wisely decided not to linger TOO much on it because it could go to a very misogynist place. but having a character who is literally in love with and rejected by The Concept Of Power is such a good bit yeah the concept of power loved you back. very, very briefly. now what.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

i choose to believe that the first thing they tell you after initiating priests of Mystra into the Higher Mysteries is "okay, heads up, the goddess has just absolutely dogshit taste in men. if she is seeing somebody just smile, nod, and under NO CIRCUMSTANCES tell him about his predecessors."

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

i wonder how they do his story if you play as him as an npc in the party with you they do an amazing job with it gradually becoming clear the nice helpful guy you've been traveling with is the kind of wizard the goddess of magic could fall in love with completely and utterly mad with ambition

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

i've heard worse endorsements for me to follow someone

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

somewhere inside me there is a video essay on Mass Effect 2, Daddy Issues, and Games Trying To Figure Out What A Theme Is thankfully we have long since passed peak video essay so there is no risk of it ever being unleashed onto the world

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

Captain Von We Rewrote This Guy Like Four Times Trying To Figure Out What His Deal Should Be

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

thankfully there is Gale, who is just the fucking worst (laudatory)

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

'they might be doing something interesting here.... ah fuck, no they aren't actually.' see also Shadowheart and "got kidnapped by an evil cult that tried to turn her evil," much less interesting than "was genuinely raised by an evil cult that she really believes in."

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

they do some smart stuff with Astarion! the bit where he is confused and horrified to discover he does, in fact, still have boundaries is an excellent bit of character work! it's what made me significantly more annoyed when it turned out his core motivation was Fantasy Daddy Issues!

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 12h

may very well be that i am too cynical here there are so many goddamned iterations of The Girl You Can Fuck The Daddy Issues Out Of out there in RPGs, and their fanbase is always just godawful. genderbending that character was a laudable attempt at solving the problem. the work continues.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 13h

i confess to holding the belief that when someone has designed a character from the ground up explicitly to oneshot a bunch of cishet women who think "i can fuck the trauma out of him and also turn him straight" it is a flavor of queerbaiting i'll grant it's a weird usage tho

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 17h

mike's go-to to get attention for a minute now has been "jeffrey epstein did nothing wrong" so this is not ENTIRELY out of left field

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 18h

?fond? memories of John de Lancie talking about how "jesus christ I thought the Star Trek nerds were bad" after he did a spot on My Little Pony

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 18h

i have never read any gay vampire fanfiction and have no inclination to start, friend. you are someone who was successfully queerbaited by Wizards of the Coast and is now making it everyone else's problem

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 18h

you're the one insisting that the apology is, itself, the wrong thing to do, friend. i know. it is upsetting that the woman paid to write gay vampire fanfiction about your video game husbando does not share your headcanon. in time you will heal from this tragic emotional injury.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 18h

"these are the kind of people who would call an author a sex criminal because she didn't describe their I Can Fix Him gay vampire's backstory the way they wanted" is the kind of thing someone would make up to make fun of Asterion fans it has actually happening is a particularly cruel and meta joke

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 18h

you very rarely see someone try the full 180 degree rotation from "it is awful that I had to make you do this" to "it is also awful that you did it at all" inside the same post knowing that this is all about a gay vampire designed to sell a video game to twilight fans does explain a few things tho

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 18h

hi confused, i'm Bryce Youngquist

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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 22h

A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes

A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 21h

and yet you can repeat him with perfect fluency! isn't it neat what ethnostate apologia does to people.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 21h

still amazing that you've got Goebbels on record reciting exactly the same line of bullshit about the lefty international press having it out for plucky little Germany that Israel defenders still use today

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 21h

welcome to the fun part of ethnostate apologia, mark. only the proper nouns ever change. rest of the script has been identical since you and yours were howling about how Germany had a right to defend itself from the monsters who did November 9th.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 21h

the grimmest comedy is that ethnostate apologia always ends with you, here, Adam. a pasty dork saying he imagines a beautiful utopia ruled over by a master race could have worked, were it not for the corruptive influence of evil Jews ruining everything the problem is not Jews. it's the ethnostate.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 21h

this is a motion pointing out that when you say "but what if the ethnostate of my imagination, where the inevitable -doesn't- happen, came to exist one day. what then" you are engaged in a transparent delusion that makes a mockery of any pretense to being anti-racist.

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Bryce Youngquist @bryceyoungquist.bsky.social · 21h

the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, for being insufficiently right-wing. the riots succeeded, incidentally. the people who gang-raped an Arab to death on camera were released, and the poor dumb prosecutor who dared try to treat that as a crime has been jailed for that offense.

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