he/him. 29. 🏳️🌈 Bi. Poly. Call me “Nick” or “Cuckoo” for short. I talk about literature on youtube, tweet about RTS games, and kiss
@ChitteringThing
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What The Good Doctor thinks autism is: "XY means you're male. XX means you're female. bleep bloop. Science"
Actual autism: "Wait, why is pink a girl's colour? What's the reason? I don't get it. Why are you laughing? What's funny about this? Nothing you're doing makes any sense."
Most anti-gay, anti-trans and anti-POC rhetoric is just a post hoc justification for behaviour that bigots never intended on justifying until they found out they couldn’t get away with it scot-free.
That’s why it’s all so easily debunked, and why debunking it won’t convince them.
Before proposing something radical that sounds good in ideal circumstances, always ask yourself “How would a fascist exploit this?” cos honey if you allow people to legally murder each other you can bet your ass the fascists are gonna be on that in no time
@RyanPetrie17
Neurotypicals see autistic people caring about rules and logic and assume that it's because they're robotic and unempathetic and "thing-oriented" but actually it's because we're trying to make sense of neurotypical behaviour, which has no logic and is arbitrary
I was happy to watch ads on youtube up until they more than doubled the number of ads, showed me more and more unskippable ads, and failed to vet advertisers to make sure they weren't showing me ads for actual no-redeeming-quality scams
If you think the “say a slur or everyone dies in a bomb” scenario is an interesting moral problem, just wait until you hear about the “adopt leftist policies or everyone dies in a climate crisis” scenario. That one’s a real doozy
@kimpossiblefact
Some white people really are just waiting on bated breath for an opportunity to say the n-word without feeling like a racist and it's really bizarre
This is also the actual reason you should be against capital punishment on principle. Forget about whether or not a criminal “deserves to die”. If you let the state kill people *at all* then they’re obviously going to try to leverage that power to kill their political enemies
The point has been made repeatedly, but I still cannot get over how "there is a market for labor, sometimes market conditions change, and companies actually have to participate in that market" is being covered like some crisis that requires desperate and unorthodox measures.
If bigots actually cared about truth or justice, they would change their minds when their shitty bell curve theory gets debunked. Instead they stick their guns and just find a new post hoc theory to justify whatever it was they were going to do regardless.
@PhilosophyTube
At my warehouse job (minimum wage, rotating casual contracts, random shifts, no advance rosters), I got to carry around boxes of perfume that were worth more than all the money I had in my bank account.
We had shelves filled with palettes of the stuff.
@RyanPetrie17
I'm slowly coming to believe that the experience of being NT is just having 100% unwavering confidence in everything you do even in the face of material reality
@InnuendoStudios
As someone who studied genetics in uni for fun, the "chromosomes" argument always frustrates me because literally one of the first things they teach you in genetics is that genes are actually largely non-deterministic and environment plays a bigger role in phenotypes than genes
When weird right-wing nerds nostalgia-bait about a time before everything became "political", yes they really do think that "politics" only started when they began paying attention to it lol lmao rofl
People complain about overly long and handhold-y tutorials and “games that essentially play themselves” forgetting that 95% of gamers will just quit if you hand them a dynamic and deep gameplay system without babying them into it first
A significant portion of monogamous relationships: *absolute fucking disasters*
Society: “oh well, it happens”
One polyamorous relationship: *has some normal problems*
Society: “you see this is why poly relationships are bad and nobody should have them”
@OneRadChee
*a Japanese character is lgbt*
Anime avis: "This is western chauvinism! What about traditional Japanese culture?!"
*a Japanese character is depicted loving McDonalds*
Anime avis: "This is wholesome and cute. Nothing political here!"
Liberals and leftists hate orange juice. They prefer apple juice. Why? Because orange juice frees your mind and apple juice makes you complaint and passive
@AlanaFeral
Average transphobe: "Why do I have to see all this trans stuff all the time???"
Also average transphobe: *literally goes out of their way to see trans stuff all the time*
@biggestjoel
Every medical form I’ve ever filled out has the question “are you/have you ever been pregnant?” and I’ve always answered “no” and never thought twice about it. What was this guy’s problem?
You’d think if leftists really were as cringe as right wingers say, they wouldn’t be using the exact same goddamn screenshots of the same four or five random people from EIGHT YEARS AGO
You may look at this image and go "wow, GradeAUnderA's content aged pretty poorly". You would be wrong because this is a screenshot from an new video he's uploading in FUCKING 2024 bro
@InnuendoStudios
The way it was explained to me:
Imagine you met a man with only one arm. His phenotype is he has one arm. Would you therefore conclude that his genes code for him only having one arm? No, because it's likely that he had two arms but lost one during his life in an accident.
American cops are the biggest cowards on earth, but they’ll go on tv to whine and cry about how they “risk their lives everyday”
The only people’s lives that are at risk are the civilians around them who have to deal with cops discharging a full mag at the slightest provocation
Duchamp played a joke on the art world to make a point and a century later conservatives are still mad about it. If that’s not art, I don’t know what is
@PhilosophyTube
Honestly, you speak candidly about a deeply unpleasant personal experience and some people just see that as an invitation to be needlessly cruel. Hope this hasn’t dissuaded you from speaking about your own experiences in videos cos I find them very valuable
@Lucid_BirdApp
@nathanTbernard
It’s the Carlgon effect.
“I’m a disaffected leftist. I criticise the left and only the left because the left has abandoned its values.”
Centrists: “Seems believable.”
Does anyone else get terrified by the thought that once you die it’s most likely nothing but blackness, silence, numbness, and thoughtlessness for an infinite amount of time?
Right-wingers can't justify their behaviour, so they have to escalate every single goddamn "problem" they're "solving" to a mythic scale
"Making likes private" becomes "saving men's relationships" becomes "increasing birth rate and stable nuclear families"
Yes, you shouldn’t support creators who use their profits to find anti-LGBT causes. It was true when it was Orson Scott Card, it’s still true with Scott Cawthorn, and it’ll remain true whenever the next beloved creator with “Scott” in their name turns out to support homophobia
I remember back when JPeterson was still relevant, a talking point of his that irked me was "only successful people should be able to change the system because they'd know how to do it properly" as though no successful person would take that opportunity to only benefit themselves
@ShammyTV
I once thought comedians told jokes knowing that they were offending people, but then they started complaining all the time about people who were offended by their sets as though they didn't think deliberately making offensive jokes would offend anyone
I think what the "yellow paint discourse" is missing is not the intelligence of gamers, it's the patience of gamers. The problem isn't that gamers can't figure out where to go, it's that completion rates for games are incredibly low across the board because players give up easily
1. No
2. The whole reason she became famous in the first place was because of how bizarre it was that she faced the most vitriolic online backlash most people had ever seen simply for being a feminist with some videogame opinions
@InnuendoStudios
That's just the basic example to introduce the idea of genes and phenotypes differing, but there are loads of reasons why genes don't get expressed. You can't just look at a person's genetics and make deterministic statements about what they are. That's not how genetics works
@Hbomberguy
@DUSKdev
Movie: “Isn’t it messed up how this guy hurt so many people, betrayed everyone who ever cared about him, didn’t even make himself happy, and more-or-less got away with it because our systems fail to deliver proper justice?”
A million white guys: “So aspirational!! Sigma male!!”
@vexwerewolf
I wanna know what happened to make wotc go from “very shitty but at least the games are fun” to “jesus fucking christ what the fuck” in the span of a few years
My favourite thing about Internet Historian fans is they're still pretending like he's some kind of gigachad when, uh, no he's a lazy fuck who tried to stop you from finding out he stole shit cos he's a fucking coward lmao
on the plus side, no one can steal these NFTs with a “malicious smart contract”, they have to take the mug from the break room when no one is looking, like a normal asshole
Even when I was a child, I was capable of empathising with bugs and insects, and these days I am convinced that empathy is a skill that neurotypical people just assume they have because they occasionally get sad for someone else
I dip one fucking toe into Warhammer and my fucking friends want to drag me the rest of the way in while also telling me the whole time I shouldn't get into Warhammer what the fuck is going on??
If the thing is unpopular: “It failed because it’s woke.”
If the thing is popular: “It’s not woke.”
If the thing is popular and they can’t deny it’s woke: “This shows the degeneracy of our society.”
Cities were built wider and wider and public transport was gutted to manufacture more demand for cars so everyone would spend their entire lives paying for fuel, insurance, and car loans. And that’s before you consider how many people get permanently injured or killed in crashes
Today I picked up a murder mystery novel where it’s 100 out-of-order pages and you have to rearrange the pages into the correct order to solve the mystery
I feel like this is exactly the kind of technology that professional criminals and enemy combatants will already have tactics to counter and that it's really only going to be effectively used against the general population by the state.
I wish more queer nerds would just read books fr There's so much faggoty shit out there in the world of paper and no I'm not talkin soft YA romance Call Me By Your Name shit, I'm talkin 1800s trans man get given a mastectomy by his girlfriend and then drowns a doctor in his blood
I'm honestly really flattered that people like the new talksprites. I think they're a huge improvement over the old one, and here are four of my favourite poses from my initial set:
Pre-Musk: “Twitter is the worst major social media site. It’s just hell.”
Post-Musk: “Twitter’s branding was good actually”
I love how Musk has run Twitter so disastrously that we’re giving kudos to when it was merely terrible
@yacobg42
This has been a frustration of mine for years. Leftists and liberals talk and talk and talk and congratulate ourselves for talking so much, while the right breaks the law, gets away with it, practically advances their agenda and somehow everyone knows but no one can stop them
In the movies: “The AI went rogue and are taking over!”
In reality: “The AI are doing exactly as we designed and will take over all our jobs. We have no plans for how to deal with the unemployment.”
My hot take is I prefer RPGs with prewritten protagonists if they have good characterisation and an entertaining story more than I prefer the ability to endlessly customise my protag
e.g. Geralt in The Witcher games and Harry in Disco Elysium
@Toastwellington
“Ideal circumstances” here is used to mean the person who originally proposed the idea is assuming that their subjective goals would be perfectly achieved. The point is even if I agree that rapists deserve to be murdered, it’s still a bad idea