If I pull that off, will you die? 
All the best games are not just political, but explicitly and unashamedly leftist. https://t.co/aUv9bM1ljM
— VƎX Werewolf #OpenDnD (@vexwerewolf) January 20, 2023
All the best games are not just political, but explicitly and unashamedly leftist.
- Disco Elysium
- The Metal Gear franchise
- Most of Borderlands
- Hitman World of Assassination trilogy
- Doom (2016)
- Fallout 1, 2 and New Vegas (Bethesda ones less so)
EVE Online is an ACCIDENTALLY leftist game. It presents a society functioning entirely on right-wing free market capitalism. It's fricking miserable to play. It's a hellscape. Everything sucks. And that happened organically, as an inevitable outcome of its premise. You could argue, if you were a fricking idiot, that Bioshock isn't "really" leftist because the plot simply DECIDED that Andrew Ryan's libertarian utopia failed. EVE Online just said "okay have at it" and within five years major power players had literally recreated OPEC.
Most games, even if they're right-wing, are pretty low-key about it. They'll be vaguely nationalistic military fetishism like Call of Duty.
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The right-wing mindset is a very poor fit for any kind of dev work, and most non-right-wing devs don't want to put that shit in their game. The main reason for this, of course, is that right-wingers are basically incapable of making art.
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TL;DR: Former #G*mergater turned furry lolcow. The 
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pipeline stays undefeated. She gets dunked on by leftoids, rightoids, and coomers
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Rdrama rightoids absolutely sneeding. Leftist collectivism is superior to individualist rightoidism.
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Well duh. In most games you play as the good guy, in real life leftists are the good guys, ergo most games are leftist. Makes sense to me.
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This but unironically.
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Huh?
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If a game portrays a government, military, or corporation in any kind of negative way, it’s obviously a political left wing game, duh.
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If the game has a powerful main character it is Nietzschean
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Depends, If it’s a bad unpopular game it’s a rightoid power fantasy that glorifies Nietzschean thinking, if it’s a good popular game then it’s a brilliant leftist deconstruction of games that are a rightoid power fantasy that glorifies Nietzschean thinking.
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"chosen one" stories are fascistic
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No sweaty that is the 2016 mindset and has since been updated.
Leftoids love those things now.
Government because they are "The Experts" who bring you "The Science" that tells you to stay inside and be afraid.
Military because they should be used against those Alt-Right Chuds that did a 9/11 on 1/6.
Corporations because they changed their US Twitter profile to have a pride flag in it.
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If only the UAC had a DEI officer
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Right wing is bad anything good is obviously leftist
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This explains why Leftoids are always telling Rightoids to shut up and stop mistrusting the government
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The r-slur could only come up with one sentence:
A techbro refuses to accept responsibility for the inevitable consequences of his plan to drill for Satan Oil in Literal Actual Heck
Everything bad is muh capitalism
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But the problem was actually caused by putting a woman in a position of power
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Fricking Doom’s story was an afterthought made up in order to make the premise of “Marines but in space killing Demons” make sense.
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Xhe's not wrong, but imagine thinking that dunking on techbros is a Left Wing position
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The Aral sea was drained by famed capitalists, the USSR.
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I came to comment this exact game. Wtf are these people on?
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300 CCs pure Copium
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The reason your character travels to heck is to avoid being vaxxed.
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i thought he travelled to heck because tr*mp was elected president
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Basic company got greedy for a new energy resource plot and destroyed everything around them
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If there’s one thing rightoids are known for, it’s their obsession with trying to find new forms of energy
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Yet no mention of Wolfenstein
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That one got me as well.
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A milquetoast democracy and dictatorial r*pe enthusiasm are presented as comparable outcomes in this deeply leftist fantasy world
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Only if you’re stupid. The Legion is clearly only an option for stupid evil players. Smart evil side with Mr. House.
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They intended to make the Legion a bit more of a viable alternative but they had to cut almost all the content planned for east of the Colorado River. Although Josh Sawyer will never admit this now since he's swung to the extreme left since then and wants to rewrite history.
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You get Legion fame for ripping a teddy bear up in front of a little girl. They aren’t morally grey or anything. They’re pitch black.
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They struggle with this in every RPG where you're allowed to be evil. They mean to make it complicated but it always ends up just being a peepeehead.
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You would like Tyranny, the CRPG where the evil path is the well-developed one. You start out as a relatively benign ruler compared to the ethnic supremacists and pillaging male feminists, and you have to make bigger and bigger sacrifices if you want to keep those people at bay until you're straight-up murdering infants in their cribs and saying to yourself "Yeah it looks bad, but this will save lives down the line."
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I've heard it was kind of meh. But that was coming from RPG Codex
and they don't like anything from after 2000.
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This happens in every game with moral choices - in Mass Effect the renegade choices range from takes-no-bullshit-military-man to psychopathic space Hitler.
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Closed fist open palm in Jade Empire was supposed to be a more morally ambiguous choice, but that also turned into nice guy/meanie. I think different independent flavours of good would work better. Like Republican, Democrat, or Libertarian. A drug addict is terrorizing school children for drug money. The Republican solution would be to shoot him. The Democrat solution would be to attempt to reform him. The Libertarian solution is to tranq him and dump him in the wilderness with a gun and a map back to civilization.
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I think Infamous Second Son kinda does this. Your moral choices are basically moderate revolutionary and rightoid’s antifa nightmare
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Paragon/Renegade was supposed to be more about by-the-book idealism and loose-canon cynicism, but of course they fricked it up.
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It also turned into nice guy/meanie.
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Why should that girl get a teddy bear? Emotional attachments to random objects is unhealthy and it’s better she learns that now instead of dying trying to get her bear back.
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matrix was about being trans
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I prefer the Scientology interpretation
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In order, I prefer
House >>> Independent > Legion >>>>>>>>>>>>> NCR
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Shit taste is shit.
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Swap NCR and Legion and you're correct
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Mr. House is the only chance New Vegas has at surviving while retaining it's identity as well, and he's a staunch capitalist. NCR is incompetent, the Legion obviously wouldn't permit the degeneracy of Vegas, and while Independent is a fun power fantasy it would never last with constant betrayals, sabotage, and the courier knowing frick all about running literally anything.
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New Vegas is a dump
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Also the fact the only proper state (NCR) is barely functioning and laughably incompetent.
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That’s because their supply lines were just blown the frick up. The Divide is what used to be where they got their stuff from, but someone set off a nuke.
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Not even just supplies, military command is laughably idiotic, Oliver is a complete moron. Kimball is driving the NCR off a cliff, and his death/retirement is the best thing that can happen for the NCR.
Weirdly enough, NCR is in a better spot in the House and Freedom endings because they force the NCR to look inwards and fix shit before it's too late.
It's been shown that the NCR is having problems back in California as well, untrusted currency (thanks BoS), rising crime due to most of the NCR's forces being in the Mojave, obvious corruption; it's why the NCR is desperate in the Mojave and the dam.
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uhhhhh sweety you're forgetting billionaire-ran hyper capitalist technocracy.
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MGS is left in a more Japanese sense I would say. Notice the hard anti-nuclear message in it. Very post-war Japanese mindset.
Also Kojima went hard-wanking in Peace Walker, and that game is shit.
The only part I can consider Left in New Vegas is the dev team not being able to flesh out Legion more, but I don't think they shoehorn themselves in really much.
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The best ending is frick you I run Vegas with my robot army.
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Smdh
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MGS V had you fighting commies in Afghanistan and IIRC actively supporting based Lion of Panjshir. Who cares if the main plotline was leftist, it was crazy anyway, I just like seeing T-62s go boom.
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Not a vidya nerd but isn’t the central conflict of Metal Gear being that men should kill for their own reasons rather than being puppets for powerful shadow orgs? And it presents this via a private military’s attempts to take down a global cabal.
Kojima definitely just wanted to be Michael Bay but still.
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Hard to take muh illuminati or whatever as actual political take, instead of crazy plotlines.
And I just like seeing dead snowBIPOCs.
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The main theme (through all its convoluted twists and turn) is about "the boss" and her legacy that war is heck and how soldiers are manipulated to die in pointless conflicts for the interest of rich bankers.
Two former friends, Big Boss and major Zero, thought they could fix this in their own way. The former wanted a country of soldiers where men of war would fight for their own causes and rights, not for wall street. The latter created AIs that started the illuminati and later on started a permanent war so that war is peace.
In the end Solid Snake was the one to fulfill the boss' hopes by diamantling the illuminati's permanent war
Defintely, or at least be John Carpenter; solid snake is a copy of Snake Plisquin from escape from new york
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Is this because leftoids are so boring and feeble IRL that they're trying to appropriate characters they think are cool?
It's like stolen valour when I think of the average leftist. Complain all day on the internet demanding free stuff for doing nothing. Maybe goes to a trans rights protest and wave a flag. Pat themselves on the back for doing great deeds. Thinks they're fricking Doom Guy.
They're living out little power fantasies in games and thinking "Yeah I'm leftist and I like this leftist game!"
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Have you played any oh them past the first one? All of them since 2 are woke as shit. The new tales from the borderlands has a fat wheel chair
as a character. The beast talks about nothing other than how much s*x she has.
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No they fricking aren't lmao I've played all of them for hundreds of hours a piece. The pre sequel literally has us controlling the awakenings of the genocidal fascist corporate dictator PLUS it makes you relate to.
Having shitty diversity jokes isn't woke,it's realistic. These are all basically award winning murderers, I don't expect them to be smart or cool. Also a woman making s*x jokes isn't woke you fricking crybaby
And again, they're still colonizers coming to foreign planets and destroying the native species with rocket launchers. Not very leftist of them. So shut the frick up about the only game series I play
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I've also played them all. The pre sequel also has a lecture about how the friend zone isn't real and how it's a sexist concept and toxic masculinity, a lesbian who has you murder someone who won't stop hitting on her after telling her she's a lesbian, and one of the main characters ends up married to that same lesbian.
The "colonizers" in the game are the corporations who are 100% of the time the villains in the series. You kill and fight against the colonizers. Shitty diversity jokes is all leftoids do.
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A game all about the anti-government/anti-New World Order paranoia of the 1990s is left-wing? Zoomer, please.
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That is where I learned the word “fascist” from
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It was very leftist of me to get the Illuminati ending and continue the status quo.
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I was actually kind of shocked to find out most of my friends didn't pick the Tracer Tong ending. What was the point of tearing down all the Majestic Twelve organization if you're just going to put some other buttholes back in secret control?
Also, like it'll be three years tops before civilizations crawl out of the information dark age the ending causes.
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It's like the one ring in LotR, everyone thinks they can handle absolute power in a fair and just way
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Day Of S*x is an-prim
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The game that frames political ideology as total copes for burnt out losers to abandon their faults and personal problems? The game that also mocks communism and leftism as failures that destroyed the setting?
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Man now I wanna play it again. It was so satisfying to find out the sniper was a commie coomer
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I wish the political quests were more fleshed out. I played a superstar hustler art cop and the ultraliberal quest was really short compared to the commie and centrist quests. Fascist one was actually really funny if hard to roleplay a racist lol
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roleplay?
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I didn't like calling my detective partner a chink every interaction we had.
The chill asf talk with the black supremacist at the end of the game on how to find women and get sober was really fun tho..
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“I am Icebreaker.”
“No you are fricking not”
“I am no longer Icebreaker.”
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Really? I played the opening act on the pier and felt it was straight propaganda. Does it get better later on?
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You find more references to communist atrocities (a wall pockmarked by bullet holes where a firing squad took place for example) plus the Unionists on strike are said to have been on strike for months by intimidating businesses to give up funds and taking bribes by allowing drug dealers to smuggle drugs. The Union leader and his brother have swapped leadership for years by being the only 2 options on the union ballot.
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Sounds good I will give it another try
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You see, Doom has heck, which is an obvious reference to the late stage capitalism we find ourselves in
I am very smart
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It also had the big bad corp using diversity is our strength lines but with demons and how they prefer being called “mortally challenged” instead of undead because it’s less offensive and these people sneeded about that around the time it came out.
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Lmao yea I remember that, it's crazy. It was such a simple, passing phrase that no one even paid attention to until people started seething at it
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This is the ultimate midwits take, that only left-wingers criticize capitalism, neoliberalism, the US government, the military industrial complex, income inequality, and environmental destruction. They can only fathom right wingers as neocons and believe that everything that alludes to the contrary is a vast conspiracy to defraud voters, that everything that contradicts their priors is because the right will say anything for power so all their rhetoric should be disregarded as bad faith.
Also lol at saying right wingers can't make good art when CS Lewis, Erza Pound, Mishima, Salvador Dali, Tolkien(supported Franco), Lovecraft. They just want to feel superior for the art that they consume, not even create just pacifically engage in.
I respect the shittiest writer infinitely more than the most esteemed consumer, Artaud was right to a degree that we're only now learning. Death to Eunuchs which have infected our society as intellectual and artistic dead end. RDrama writing club when?
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I mean by strict modern definitions, every famous writer before 2000 was a massive rightoid, including the communists. Marx believed in the second amendment and racialism.
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Marx has that entire book on the "jew question" too lmao
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Read the Magyar Struggle if you want to see Marx and Engels advocate ethnic extermination
https://marxists.architexturez.net/archive/marx/works/1849/01/13.htm
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More dramatards need to know about this, it has incredible potential for generating commie cope
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which would be fine if modern leftists accepted that times change. but they're mostly ideological purists and history revisionists.
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LOL no, Marx believed in the workers maintaining a heavily armed militia after the first revolution so that they will be ready to stage a second revolution against their erstwhile allies, the democrats. The whole "firearms must not be surrendered" passage is from his prophecy of how the communist utopia will come about. He absolutely didn't believe in a blanket right to bear arms that could be used by people not loyal to the party.
Oh yeah, big time. He believed England was civilising India, Russia was civilising northern Asia, Mexicans are lazy and deserve to lose territory to Americans, and that the communist revolution will destroy entire ethnic groups that are inherently anti-revolutionary.
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The Magyar Struggle is a wild essay which I never see anyone aknowledged even though it should be a slam dunk against Marxcels. The entire idea of Völkerabfälle essentially justified the extermination of ethnic groups in Communist states.
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Wow thanks for mentionning this, great essay and topic from comrades Engels and Marx
Makes me think of Soviet/Russian mathematician Shafarevich writing about "small nations" and saying that there's always a small cluster of people in every country that just want to destroy society
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That sounds like Engels wants death squads for African Americans
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There's something so deeply wrong with marxism, I can't put my finger quite on it.
it's so cold and inhuman at times, even though I share some of its analysis and objectives for the future
When reading about historical Marxists like Lenin or Trotsky they think like aliens or religious fanatics, it's quite bizarre
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The historical determinism and placing themselves above morality, speaking about occurrences completely devoid of the morality of it and instead proposing it purely as cause and effect like chemical processes. The passive language toward the most extreme brutality committed akin to writing a mathematical expression. It feels like Marxist just declare themselves agents of causality allowing them to act without any mercy or empathy, just glassy eyed golems for a vague zeitgeist. They treat human like numbers and politics like mathematics which renders this myopic view which is skin crawling to see rationalized, reading their writings is discovering that every horror that occured was accounted for and determined to be acceptable even before the first bullet was fired.
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Well put. I think it's exactly as you write, plus the clash between the humane world marxism dreams of with the inhumane way they talk about how to get there.
I think there is a case to be made that Marxist socialism is the final child of the enlightenment, an ideology of pure forms and systems with nary a place for humans.
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I doubt a writer would actually share a project here if they ever wanted it published under their real name. A lit hole would be nice though.
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it wont be actual books it would be short stories and shit poetry.
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Sneed.
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I tried to make /h/books but failed at funding
. As someone who plays a lot of video games even the best video games don't touch me the same way a good book has so bragging some gay is leftoid isnt that big of an own
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There should be a hole where people post flash fiction made themselves or by AI and people bet on which it is. Might be a fun bit.
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I'd be down.
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I already got started
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I would donate to a writing hole.
I would spam my unbearable fanfiction and literature recs
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