sex and leaving one piece

[amw]

This weekend was Steam's big autumn sale, and as usual i bought a bunch of games that were on my wishlist that were at such a good sale price i couldn't pass them over, but it's also quite likely i won't play them for months. I see it as part of my entertainment tax - i spend a lot of money on music, games and books that i don't often enjoy to

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[daphnep]

that's what art is, right? The entertainment we made for ourselves that was better than sex.

This idea is going to stick with me for a long time. 😆

[geminiwench]

This is the nexus of topics that I could talk about all day and all night.

My mom is not cis-gendered, and... I am sorta realizing that right now in real-time!
I got a huge education from her when I was growing up because I saw the way she was treated for being being "feminine-enough".. and not really interested in femininity, really at all. She's a cowboy, damnit!

She's also asexual, and an artist, and she went to college and took sociology/anthropology classes (even though she dropped out when she got pregnant.. like a lot of women do)... and so she had a lot to say about what we watched on TV growing up about the way women were portrayed, the way men are portrayed, the way sex is portrayed and how UNREAL it all was. And not just unreal or fantastical... but actually quite GROSS.
So I was way ahead of the curve when it came to my classmates for doing things like noticing gender roles/gender norms, identifying sexism, identifying the patriarchy and its unspoken rules, identifying dangerous/coercive sexual situations/behaviors, and what

[king_of_apathy]

'the gimmick is that you are an individual living at a pivotal point in human history, and you explore a vast map influencing events in a way that will lead to a better outcome in the future. You do so by single-handedly murdering thousands of people.'

Yep, that's Assasin's Creed in a nutshell! I played AC2 (renaissance era Italy), AC4 (pirate era Caribbean) and AC Syndicate (Victorian era London) and enjoyed them all. But it always felt like a huge stretch to try to make you out to be the good guy while murdering hundreds of guards who are just trying to earn a living.