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Edit: I haven't added entries to this page for a long time, but I think it's worth keeping stickied, just as an introduction.
Any blog should start off by introducing its subject, but in theory, Utilitarianism is quite simple. It’s a theory of ethics under which you should take whatever actions will lead to the greatest happiness for everyone involved. There are no other rules or restrictions–just make as many people as happy as you can make them.
So to make this more interesting, let’s go over some of the things Utilitarians DON’T have.( Read more... )
Arknights posting
Mar. 16th, 2026 03:27 amDriving rivals out of business by claiming their properties are haunted.
Murdering political inconveniences and claiming ghosts killed them.
Funding massively profitable ghost-hunting shows.
Mifune is the most successful Scooby-Doo villain of all time.
Murdering political inconveniences and claiming ghosts killed them.
Funding massively profitable ghost-hunting shows.
Mifune is the most successful Scooby-Doo villain of all time.
Annoyed at Midnight Suns
Mar. 15th, 2026 04:28 am“As of the June 2023 game update, there is a known issue where the Ancestral suit does not appear in the chest that is supposed to contain it. This issue happens 100% of the time and cannot be avoided.”
From a dream
Mar. 5th, 2026 07:29 pmBroadly speaking, sapients are divided into two categories. Those like elves may use magic, but they function perfectly well without it. Those like fire elementals have magic integrated into their natures.
Shadow elementals belong to neither of these categories. They bear their name because they’re recognizably “of shadow” in the same way that light elementals are “of light,” and they can do things with shadows that parallel light magic. But shadow is the absence of the light element, not an element in itself, and the things shadow elementals do are fundamentally not magic. No one has an explanation for this, save perhaps the shadow elementals themselves, and they aren't telling.
Shadow elementals belong to neither of these categories. They bear their name because they’re recognizably “of shadow” in the same way that light elementals are “of light,” and they can do things with shadows that parallel light magic. But shadow is the absence of the light element, not an element in itself, and the things shadow elementals do are fundamentally not magic. No one has an explanation for this, save perhaps the shadow elementals themselves, and they aren't telling.
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Mar. 5th, 2026 06:18 pmLooking back on my old posts. Among other things, I said I was sick of people who darkly hint at points they never actually state. A reblog darkly hinted that when I said other bloggers use dark hints, I was lying and conspiring against them.
I’m playing Esoteric Ebb
Mar. 4th, 2026 05:54 amD20 rolls often feel too swingy to me, and this is worse than usual because stat bonuses cap out at +5 for most builds. Give me a DC 20 roll, and no matter how much equipment I pile on, I’m screwed on a roll below 15. (Granted, I’ve seen circumstance bonuses that are something like +17, but that’s not exactly common.)
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Mar. 3rd, 2026 09:09 amI didn’t get very far into Tavern Talk before I got bored, but violence is the trap option when dealing with the werewolf, and violence is the trap option when robbing the vampire, and violence is the trap option when collecting chimera spit, and I have to wonder if violence is ever good in this game.
I’m playing Yokai Landlord
Feb. 27th, 2026 05:42 pmThis game is Frieren levels of fantasy racist. Every time someone says maybe there are Yokai who aren’t evil, it turns out this latest Yokai also wants to murder or mutilate humans.
I’m playing The Monstrous Horror Show
Feb. 26th, 2026 04:05 pmI’m so sick of people lying that their favorite porn games have great stories and characters. This works pretty well as shock-horror, but the characters so far have one personality trait each, and the sexism is bad even by porn game standards.
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Feb. 26th, 2026 12:52 amI briefly posted about how horror allows its protagonists to make mistakes you wouldn't usually see in other genres. I'd like to elaborate on that a little more.
I read a fantasy novel where the main character breaks a giant metal chain and nearly decapitates their love interest with it. No one is actually harmed. This is a typical fantasy novel mistake.
Horror can have a main character who isn't even thinking about violence fuck up in a way that ends up with a body count.
(Okay, horror and also Tales of the Abyss. And tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, but tragedy as a genre is pretty much dead now.)
I read a fantasy novel where the main character breaks a giant metal chain and nearly decapitates their love interest with it. No one is actually harmed. This is a typical fantasy novel mistake.
I watched a military movie where the main character shoots some civilians he thinks are enemies. This is a typical military movie mistake.
I played a horror video game where the protagonist needs to cross a street, but no matter how long he waits, the cars never stop zooming past. He throws a dummy into the road so cars will stop. A driver swerves to avoid it, crashes into a lamppost, and dies.
Horror can have a main character who isn't even thinking about violence fuck up in a way that ends up with a body count.
(Okay, horror and also Tales of the Abyss. And tragedies like Romeo and Juliet, but tragedy as a genre is pretty much dead now.)
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Feb. 25th, 2026 11:03 amIt amazes me that we've developed a way to assign new meanings to any word, and we use it solely to reference sex acts and genitals. Take the people who referred to the movie Pocahontas as "Poke Her Hontas." "Hontas" isn't even a word, and yet it's taken as a given that this sort of sentence is sexual. Plural* confirms that it means "poke her breasts." And you can do this with almost any noun or nonsense word!
Most of the time when I read a post by an asexual person who doesn't understand what was sexual about some statement, the statement in question is along the lines of "poke her hontas."
*It's unusual to see this sort of redefinition for testicles unless it's set up in advance.
Thinking about an Owl House fanfic
Feb. 25th, 2026 12:28 amThe Owl House is fantasy-horror-comedy, which means the main plot is mostly fantasy-comedy, but there are a bunch of horror-comedy jokes that are never really addressed and would make the Boiling Isles look like an absolute hellhole if you took them seriously. This fic, The Angel of the Owl House, does its best to explain away or modify all these jokes so the setting becomes just fantasy-comedy. The one thing it cannot get rid of is all the cannibalism. It ends up just going "It's a different culture, and they do things differently. They don't kill wantonly, but eating what you kill is normal here."
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Feb. 21st, 2026 09:44 amAt this point, I’m willing to just throw out the concept of bad identities. Femboy? Whatever. Transracial? Who gives a shit. They never seem like as much of a threat as the people who want to purge bad identities.
A dev's response to my bug report
Feb. 20th, 2026 05:54 pmDO NOT USE THE 'LOAD SAVE' OPTION WHEN RETRYING A BATTLE!
I have done a little troubleshooting and found that this bug is taking the player to the SAVE screen rather than the LOAD save screen. Any save file you attempt to load on this screen is actually being saved over rather than loaded.
I have done a little troubleshooting and found that this bug is taking the player to the SAVE screen rather than the LOAD save screen. Any save file you attempt to load on this screen is actually being saved over rather than loaded.
