“BioWare’s games have never been known for their multiplayer. While it hasn’t been nonexistent, it’s clear that in their time with Electronic Arts, the focus has shifted away from the character and story-focused roots of the studio (the aspects of their games most fondly remembered in the critical sphere) and toward guaranteed income generation via microtransactions and retaining player interest over time.
A game whose sole purpose is to “keep me playing” is not a hook in and of itself. What I loved so much about earlier BioWare titles was their commitment to a world that had a beginning and end, and the stories told within that structure. Losing that structure in favor of a “forever game” in the mold of Destiny would be a loss for more than just a studio, but for the landscape that BioWare helped shape.”
opposite of depression nap. depression awakeness. refreshing the same three websites over and over. there’s nothing new on any of them. eight seconds have passed and it feels like a century
white people are racist by default (in the united states as well as other countries). are you white? congrats, you’re racist, and here’s the explanation:
you grew up in a racist society -> you were socialized to be racist thanks to racism being a dominant ideology -> you benefit from racism -> you’re racist no matter how much u think you’re not.
unlearning it is going to be a constant battle and u will never unlearn it fully. accept this. it is ingrained in you as a result of your upbringing and the media you’ve consumed. the sooner you come to terms with your own racism, the sooner u can better yourself. recognize the problem in yourself instead of setting yourself apart from those “other” white people.
I fux heavy with the White people who keep putting this post on my dash
This applies to all social structures by the way.
You’re a man? You grew up benefitting from sexism. You’re straight? You grew up with homophobic ideals. You’re cis? You grew up with transphobic ideals. You’re able bodied? You grew up with ableist tendencies.
The process of unlearning all of the ideology you were surrounded by is what activism is about. Do it.
And even if you’re not privileged under a given social structure, you might still have a lot of internalized things to unlearn
Our society teaches us to hate the oppressed, if an oppressed person says that what you believe or do is harmful and they tell you – don’t get offended, learn and do better
The important thing here is, nobody’s blaming you (the general “you”) for this. I think a big part of the reason people get so offended when they hear these attitudes is because it sounds like “you’re a horrible person and support these things”. That’s not what it means, and that’s not what you are.
But society feeds us a steady diet of memetic poison almost from the day we’re born, and for each blend of poison there are groups who are more or less immune, groups who are harmed in ways they don’t really notice and groups who suffer horribly from it. It’s not your fault that you’ve been fed poison, and nobody is blaming you for having been fed poison.
It’s just… the poison is there, and because you’ve been fed so much of it, it’s in your bloodstream and your lips and your head. And you might not notice it’s there if it’s not harming you or visibly harming others around you, and spread it without realising that’s what you’re doing.
That’s why it’s so important to recognise and identify harmful ideologies for what they are and learn about the harm they do, so you can start checking your first reaction and changing the ways you’ve been taught to act and think.
Additionally: being a thing is no guard against acting -ist against those things.
Disabled people say ableist things. Queer people say and do queerphobic things. Trans people say transphobic things. We all have our internalized shit to unlearn.
At a convention the other day, I had a conversation with a Blind friend who was most of the reason why I learned how harmful using the word blind to mean anything except ‘actually factually limited in sight by disability’ is harmful. I told her about what I had seen in myself and thanked her for being an advocate who changed my language.
I am disabled. I acted in an ableist manner when I used the word ‘blind’ incorrectly, and I had to correct it.
This Tumblr idea that you cannot ever act in an -ist manner toward a group you are part of is just wrong, and it prevents people from growing.
Life for the medieval peasant was certainly no picnic. His life was
shadowed by fear of famine, disease and bursts of warfare. His diet and
personal hygiene left much to be desired. But despite his reputation as a
miserable wretch, you might envy him one thing: his vacations.
Plowing and harvesting were backbreaking toil, but the peasant
enjoyed anywhere from eight weeks to half the year off. The Church,
mindful of how to keep a population from rebelling, enforced frequent mandatory holidays.
Weddings, wakes and births might mean a week off quaffing ale to
celebrate, and when wandering jugglers or sporting events came to town,
the peasant expected time off for entertainment. There were labor-free
Sundays, and when the plowing and harvesting seasons were over, the
peasant got time to rest, too. In fact, economist Juliet Shor
found that during periods of particularly high wages, such as
14th-century England, peasants might put in no more than 150 days a
year.
As for the modern American worker? After a year on the job, she gets an average of eight vacation days annually.
What happened? Some cite the victory of the modern eight-hour a day,
40-hour workweek over the punishing 70 or 80 hours a 19th century worker
spent toiling as proof that we’re moving in the right direction. But
Americans have long since kissed the 40-hour workweek goodbye, and Shor’s examination of work patterns reveals that the 19th
century was an aberration in the history of human labor. When workers
fought for the eight-hour workday, they weren’t trying to get something
radical and new, but rather to restore what their ancestors had enjoyed
before industrial capitalists and the electric lightbulb came on the
scene. Go back 200, 300 or 400 years and you find that most people did
not work very long hours at all. In addition to relaxing during long
holidays, the medieval peasant took his sweet time eating meals, and the
day often included time for an afternoon snooze. “The tempo of life was
slow, even leisurely; the pace of work relaxed,” notes Shor. “Our
ancestors may not have been rich, but they had an abundance of leisure.”
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