There’s a great scene in Harry Potter and the Natural 20 where they find the Mirror of Erised, and Milo the Human Wizard gets to use his ranks in Code Breaker, which he’s never used before. He busts out the pen and paper, ready for a difficult d20 check that will test the limits of his stats. And then he realises it’s just backwards. He’s so disappointed.

There was a card game where the elements of the periodic table were monsters and you had to ionic bond them to win. It had a tie in book series.

Becoming a dragon is so 2014. Try fucking a dragon instead.

(Crashing you “computer” doesn’t usually fry your CPU, just crashes the software, nor does 100% CPU load necessarily crash your PC, just keep the CPU cool and within safe ampere/voltage)

Yeah, but brains aren’t computers. If you deprive a human of sleep for long enough, they die. If you play loud music at all hours of the day, they get stressed out and become mentally and physically ill. Forcing a human to process too much auditory stimuli is the organic equivalent of overclocking a CPU. And for organics it’s bad and dangerous. https://www.medicaldaily.com/torture-methods-sound-how-pure-noise-can-be-used-break-you-psychologically-318638

Imagine billions of people thinking at 100% capacity about every detail of your butt.

At that point you have become the oppressor class.

In the original version of the script, the point wasn’t to use humans as batteries, it was to use them as processors. The Matrix runs on human brains, and all the leftover brainpower is used on real world problems the machines were dealing with. They turned humans into the computers.

So, trying to overload the processing limits of the Matrix would just kill people. They’d drop dead from the mental strain. Best case scenario, you give everyone in the Matrix a hangover before the automatic safeties kick in.

Good idea!

Finally, a chance to ask a question drag has been wondering about for years

What’s a starseed? Drag tried to Google it a while ago and couldn’t find a straight answer.

That’s fucked up

Drag thinks identity politics are still alive. “Trans people shouldn’t be put in concentration camps” is gonna be a controversial statement in 4 years.

If you don’t like discussing politics, you may be suffering from Allism Spectrum Disorder.

Allism, also known as Allism Spectrum Disorder, is a pervasive developmental disorder which impairs a persons social, communicative, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral function. The symptoms of allism range from moderate to severe and are lifelong; however, with intensive treatment and early interventions, the presentation of symptoms can be less severe. Currently, there is no cure for allism; however, therapeutic and dietary interventions in the research stage of development are showing promise.

Pervasive difficulty with discussing topics of substance; often reduces conversations to superficial, trivial details (e.g. deflects discussions of meteorological patterns or climate change to the current, observable state of the weather)

https://psychcentral.com/blog/aspie/2018/09/allism-spectrum-disorders-a-parodyl

(Yes, this is a joke. A true one, though)

Smiles serve a social purpose of indicating enjoyment to other people. This person is alone, and they don’t know they’re in a comic, so there’s no point in them smiling. They might be autistic and only smile for other people’s benefit.

Drag likes the smell of dogs. It smells like warm soft friendship.

Though if women are females, and females are women,

But neither of those is true. Some “females” identify as men, and some “non-females” identify as women.

Also, think about the difference in the meaning of the words. One is an identity. One is biology; physical machinery. You know when corporations refer to people as “consumers”? It’s gross, right? Reducing complex three dimensional people to an economic function. Reducing people to a biological function is also gross.

Most people get weaker as they age. But that’s because most people sit on their asses all day. Serious injuries do accrue, and they do make it harder. But back pain at 30 isn’t the way humans are supposed to work. The people who refuse to accept old age, and who keep working on their fitness, are the 60 year olds who run marathons. Not everyone gets to have that option, but it’s only the people who are both lucky AND stubborn who do. Nobody who lies down and accepts the passage of time gets to age gracefully.

Brains work the same way. People get lazy. They think what’s happening is inevitable. They stop exercising, and their fitness diminishes. Self fulfilling prophecy. The dumbest old people drag has known were the ones with low self esteem. The ones who believed in themselves stayed sharp.

It can be both! A lot of women, such as JK Rowling, think the only worth they have as women is having a uterus and being conditioned to think less of themselves by a patriarchal society. If trans women are valid, that means women don’t have to exist for making babies. That means women can be raised to have self esteem. The fact that these things are an option, and these women didn’t get to have that privilege, breaks their hearts. Growing up trans is traumatizing, but these TERFs only focus on the privileges, like not having to deal with periods. They’re jealous. Too jealous to accept it. They have to believe that womanhood is suffering, or they’d instead have to accept that the suffering they endured was unnecessary.

Due to claims that drag is always changing the subject to drag’s pronouns, drag has a rule about talking about drag’s pronouns on threads that aren’t about them. Drag will only talk about drag’s pronouns if somebody says “I want to change the subject to drag’s pronouns”. Drag isn’t going to change the subject to drag’s pronouns, somebody else has to, and clearly state they are doing so.

Drag wonders why that woman chose to say females instead of women. It’s a very odd way to phrase it, and the only practical consequence of the change is to exclude trans women. Was that the intention?

And the voters who chose this.

Valid. Drag refused to look at any ads anyways, because fuck ads. Do you have a more ethical suggestion?

No, they had a plan to resist fascism, drag already told it to you. They didn’t have a plan to stop fascism, that’s a different conversation in which drag agrees with you. But drag thinks resisting fascism is a good enough thing to vote for. We don’t need a perfect outcome in order to go and do something good.