Maroonpickle

Maroonpickle

@maroonpickle.bsky.social

Gamer, musician, ex-libertarian, probably trans(jury's still out on that), and avid watcher of video essays that are way too long. He/They

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I'm just saying right now, if pride is not a fucking riot this year, we may never have pride again. We NEED to make ourselves heard, and they won't listen to us any other way.

I find that the more ai slop I block on this platform, the more I find just straight-up porn. I'm not complaining, but if all this platform consists of is shitlibs who are okay with using ai and sex workers, then I think it may be more efficient to just stick to sex work sites.

Taking a moment to complain about apolitical people to ask: What the hell is wrong with you? Do you really believe in nothing? I'm not apologizing for this take, but apolitical people are allowing so much to happen by just...not giving a shit. How???

To further elaborate on this: I understand not wanting to engage with politics every single day. It's fucking exhausting and should be considered a mental illness to want to be that engaged, but how can one see everything that has and is happening and their brains simply produce white noise?

Just believe in something enough that you at least talk about it with others who may be swayed or who will at least take more action than sitting around aimlessly while the world collapses. Maybe I'm doing a fascism and othering a group of people, but fuck man, I don't know how they do it.

I feel if the US government is going to do what it can to let AI run loose, we need to turn it against the state; weaponize ai and deep fake tech to make them regulate it; make porn of Ted Cruz receiving bukake from his maga buddies.

I've suddenly become far more interested in history as a possible career path (as an educator). I used to be exclusively into music as a job, but teaching the next generation about what's happened before and how to prevent it from happening again seems far more fulfilling.

I've got a lot of friends who consider themselves apolitical, which I understand completely. It baffles me, though, when something major happens and they're like, "Who could've seen this coming?" You can ignore politics all you want, but politics will not ignore you. Now is the time to get involved.

Sometimes, I think about what ultimately happened to Twitter occurred. I've noticed that Libertarians have leaned harder right now than before and that if I still strongly identified with the party, I'd have stayed over there and potentially gotten radicalized in the other direction. Genuinely scary

I see a lot of people repeating the idea that taking out the president would be the best case scenario, but 1) The Alt-Right is so much deeper than that, and the vp is just as corrupt and 2) Killing him would do nothing but make him a martyr, and that is the actual worst case scenario for all of us.

Not looking forward to any part of today. As much as I'd like to sleep through the inauguration, I feel like I need to stay motivated in the face of adversity. It's about to be the hardest years of our lives and disengaging is not how we fight back. Stay strong, all.

Having my partner go through Sonic Adventure 2 for the first time, they got to Crazy Gadget after weeks of playing and watching them beat Crazy Gadget's final room in two attempts was wild for me. That shit took me months as a kid, so I don't know how to feel

Just learned that the guy who made Super Mario Bros. Z is a huge transphobe. Glad I don't have to wait for the next episode anymore. Not that that hack is actually working on one. Fuck Alvin Earthworm

If you aren't already, please get vaccinated against everything available. A lot of Americans are likely going to be hesitant towards vaccines, and its going to kill a lot of people. Don't be one of the ones affected.

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I'm thinking about getting back into making videos, but I'm not sure if I wanna do video games (which is super vague, but its all encompassing), music, political stuff, cars, or literally all of them. I have ideas for all of them, but I want to do something that I'll find fulfilling, so that's great

I see everyone else doing it, and I love a trend, so here's what I'm into! Xenoblade Chronicles The Legend of Zelda Sonic the Hedgehog (even the bad ones) Undertale Paper Mario Homestuck Excessively long video essays Music composition (VGM and otherwise) Politics (from a more progressive pov)

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