One of them is conspicuously unfiltered in a way that's initially played for laughs, but it later transpires that they have this tremendous hangup about being perceived as true to themselves and they think oversharing is the same thing as being authentic.
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ME: Does it really seriously explore the impact of ubiquitous cybernetic enhancement upon bodily autonomy, or does it employ bodily autonomy as a metaphor for the artist's loss of intellectual freedom under the corporate state?
THEM: It definitely does the first thing that you said.
There's a certain subset of freeform RP fans who seem to believe freeform RP is some sort of esoteric knowledge and not, like, one of the most popular online hobbies in existence, and that TTRPG fans only do what they do because they're literally unaware that freeform RP is an option, [...] (1/2)
ME: I'm looking for a work of literary cyberpunk that seriously explores the impact of ubiquitous cybernetic enhancement upon bodily autonomy.
THEM: I have a work of literary cyberpunk that seriously explores the impact of ubiquitous cybernetic enhancement upon bodily autonomy.
(1/3)
Web series where the leads are constantly having emotionally open conversations about their needs and traumas, except it quickly becomes clear one of them is wildly mistaken about their own motivations, one perfectly understands themselves but is lying on purpose, and one is just kinda saying shit.
You'd expect pretending that you think "of the Devil" and "We Know the Devil" are the same game in order to annoy people on purpose would be a bit that has a hard time landing, but it turns out that these two fandoms represent a demographic Venn diagram with a very specific overlap.
(3/3)
ME: All right – show me your work of literary cyberpunk that seriously explores the impact of ubiquitous cybernetic enhancement upon bodily autonomy.
ME: *looks inside*
THE WORK: *employs bodily autonomy as a metaphor for the artist's loss of intellectual freedom under the corporate state*
I won't say starting to cross-post stuff from Tumblr to Bluesky has made my average post length any shorter, but it HAS been interesting to watch the average amount of editing I need to do gradually decrease as my long-winded bullshit spontaneously organises itself into multiples of 300 characters.
It's always wild to find out that an author of transhuman sci-fi is an outspoken transmisogynist. Like, pump the brakes, buddy – you think personhood is mutable but gender is innate?
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(2/2) [...] which produces the very entertaining phenomenon of freeform RP advocates blundering into tabletop RPG discussions fully expecting to be received like the protagonist of a Jack Chick tract blowing the unbelievers' minds because it turns out they've genuinely never heard of Jesus.
