In the near future, you are making dinner because you are about to meet your girlfriend’s dad for the first time. All you have in the kitchen is cooked frozen steaks. In walks your girlfriend and her dad, Gordon Ramsey.
This isn’t a prompt, this a fully finished horror story
Gordon ramsay, knowing this is not a high end resturaunt and you cannot afford to buy high end steaks, and that you do not claim to be a professional chef, appreciates the gesture and even gives some pointers on how one can cook on a budget and you all have a great time.
sorry i cant go to bed i have to hang out with my friends online. yeah we’re all just posting at the same time. yeah this is actually the most important thing we could possibly be doing with our time
It doesn’t get talked about enough, but This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a rad example of how you can adapt game design to your surroundings.
Basically, This Discord Has Ghosts In It is a digital larp. It’s Phasmophobia played by chat. Your group creates a discord server to function as a haunted house, then you all explore it, building new ‘rooms’ out of channels as you go.
Some players take the roles of ghosts, and are muted but can affect the environment in the haunted house.
Other players take the roles of explorers, and can talk, but the ghosts are all listening.
Discord wasn’t built to be gamified this way, but that doesn’t matter.
As long as you can guarantee consistent behavior from a thing, you can build mechanics off of it.
Anything in your environment can be turned into a game.
And in this particular case, it’s a really good one!
The mechanics lend themselves well to the kinds of pacing, limited communication, and untrustworthy setting that any good ghost story needs.
As someone who doesn’t like most sexuality microlabels…… if you focus on the fact that the no fly list leaker is “cringe” in any way (i.e. the fact that it’s a therian, uses ~weird~ pronouns, or uses microlabels) and not on the fact that we now know that the no fly list includes a high number of Muslim toddlers, you need to log off
“But it/its pronouns dehumanize nonbinary people!” The FBI is running scared, Maia can do whatever it wants.
“But I disagree with how it uses labels!” There are an overwhelming number of Arabic names on the list, 99% of which no reason to be there except for the fact that the TSA is violently Islamophobic. Worry about labels LATER.
“But Maia thinks she’s a cat! That’s craaazy–” WE HAVE THE NO FLY LIST IN OUR HANDS. STOOOP.
People.
The point of the op was making wasn’t to discuss the transphobic stupidness of the comments against Maia (not saying it shouldn’t be shut down/mentioned, people should stop harassing it), its that it doesn’t matter WHO the leaker is.
The takeaway should be the rampant Islamophobia in our government. That’s it. Innocent people, innocent children are being treated as criminals and the one time we, the public, have a semblance of power, it’s wasted on semantics and needless infighting.
Look at the bigger picture here.
Good addition, because the replies are dissolving into a whirlwind of defenses of Maia’s various identities that are drowning out *actual Muslim people* chiming in with their experiences in American airlines.
My original point was that Maia’s identities are not the point of any of this, and we need to focus on the implications of the leaked list’s contents. Your stance does not matter as long as you are not a) attacking Maia herself or b) allowing yourself to be swept up in petty discourse.
