The extremely, ugly public turn against trans rights, especially among prominent liberals and centrists, doesn't fully make sense until one realizes that it's elites attacking overwhelmingly working class demographics to punish us for our defiance and try to crush any hopes for autonomy.

They don't want their own games. They want us to not have our own games.

"If you want to see Gay characters in games, learn to make games!" Well, We took their advice and got into Game Dev and they're fucking Mad that "Everything is Gay Now." and they still can't fathom getting off their own asses to make the games THEY want to play, they just want to bitch.

so fragile that this had them mad for years.

No one had 'hobbits defeating the empire' on their ye olde middle earth bingo card. 🧑‍🌾 🌋

Five mice plugging in a USB drive so that a sixth mouse hacker can whisper dramatically into a thimble connected to another thimble by a little bit of thread: "I'm in."

Been done

The only genuinely adult take on Batman was the 1966 tv show. Everything since on tv and the movies has been for 14-year-olds of all ages.

Part of the adolescent appeal of comic book continuity is an a world you can make sense of and master by ordering facts (which you access by buying/consuming a bunch of stuff.) Couple that with the impulse to make characters like Bond or Batman “mature” and “realistic” and it all feels very damp.