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Cake day: October 10th, 2023

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  • Funnily enough, ignorance is a valid excuse here. You can’t be expected to investigate the companies behind every single product you buy or use in the day to day, but that’s not what were talking about here.

    We’re talking about Brandon Sanderson, specifically, and how his tithes to the Mormon church significantly contribute to the open oppression and abuse of LGBTQIA+ communities. You, buying your mistborn and stormlight archive books, are DIRECTLY supporting that behavior.



  • Because there’s nothing wrong with enjoying the franchise as long as you aren’t supporting it.

    Books are available secondhand. Games and movies can be pirated. It doesn’t cost anything to talk about a shared interest with friends.

    Just don’t give them money. Don’t go to their theme parks. Don’t buy the merchandise.

    You can like a thing and still make a conscious effort not to support the creator. You just have to be clear about the why if anyone asks you about it.


  • I made the same decision with Brandon Sanderson and his fuckin fanclub takes it extremely personally when I point out how problematic he is as an author.

    Yes, his writing is good. Yes, his writing is remarkably inclusive with regards to sexual orientation, disability, and mental illness.

    However, Brandon is a Mormon first and foremost, and actively tithes to his church. That means a significant percentage of ALL Dragonsteel profits go directly towards the suppression and disenfranchisement of LGBTQ+ programs, sex education, and effective mental health services.

    He might write a good story, but his IRL politics are repugnant.








  • I never understood this take. Like, did you not actually listen to the shit he said when you “liked” his shows? Did you not see the skit where he went on a morning interview and told his female interviewer that he was going to jerk off to her later and there was nothing she could do about it? If so, how was it actually surprising to hear he jerked off infront of a female coworker after he told her he was going to do it? You can separate the art from the artist all you want, but at some point you have to realize that all that art came from somewhere.







  • Chromehounds was the greatest mech game on shitbox 360 and you can’t change my mind.

    The sheer variety in player created metas was glorious to behold. Sure, you could play how the game encouraged you to play and hang your weapons in “normal” configurations. But you could also bury whole teams in indirect fire with a triple double from across the map. You could build a little punchy boi buggy with a dick piston, cockpit, wheels, and nothing else. You could even try to sweat the meta in the chicken leg howitzer or the turtle up in the armored crab.

    The only limits were creativity and spacer availability lmfaooo