Juneteenth Edition NaClKnight

Aight, new links, new pinned: I'm NaClKnight: He/Him. I write fiction (inkitt.com/HotConsensua...), build PCs, & play Fighting Games (competitively) & RPGs I talk (and listen) a lot about music, gaming, sports, AEW, politics, sex, being Black in the US, ADHD, tech, & being a husband/father.

Cyber-Enhanced Working Girl

"If we compromise on this we can save more important rights for trans people" *somehow loses rights for women too* www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-tran...

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end

"Six of the “lifelong Democrats” and “former Obama voters” are actually elected Republicans "Undecided voters" literal Republican operatives who NYT suspiciously never Googled and were mysteriously chosen: New York Times' ongoing undecided young voters focus group works at a Republican consulting

Love to live in the part of the Venn diagram where we get mad about both the cultural illiteracy (the Bible doesn't say "6 thousand years" that's interpretive fanfic) AND the orders-of-magnitude underestimate of what "science says" (I guess billions of years are necessarily also millions but still)

gat dammit

"Enjoy The Camps" is fucking foul, especially in this context. That's some wild shit to type

Since Discovery is still on the subject, I'll just point out that the real reason to try for a 1cc is that it feels fucking incredible when you finally get it. Cheaper and more satisfying than jumping out of a plane.

NEWS: the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders have unionized and the Cowboys have agreed to recognize the union

I knew it was time to turn off SF6 for the night when I beat a 1500 MR (the rating of a player new to Master Rank) Bison with my 1470 MR Luke, 2-1 & my pop off was "Welcome to sub-0.500 MR, motherfucker. You suck too" I could feel the exact moment SF6 became unhealthy 😭 #FGC #StreetFighter

Whoa

And I actually liked this look on Puff (not a fan of the human being)… but I’m so tired of these performative “men aren’t men” convos.

Security through obscurity is a terrible principle but in practice a lot of things didn't get hacked bc people ignored them, or didn't know they existed, or just generally got missed. AI makes it easy to probe all of these things at scale + makes it easier to find/develop exploits

In a major escalation in Dems embracing anti-trans positions, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, the official campaign arm of House Democrats, released its first anti-trans ad supporting Nancy Lacore in SC-01. Transphobia is spreading among dems. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is very bad. We have the power to stop it.

I've needed Andrew Koji to play Ryu since i saw him as Ah Sahm in Warrior

Someone wrote in a comment section that Scott Adkins would have played a better Ryu in STREET FIGHTER. I'm gonna need y'all to do better at policing your fandoms before this Andrew Koji slander and 2026 whitewashing continues any further, and I haven't even seen the damn movie yet. Have a day. 👋

This is a really good way to illustrate what people are feeling

Can confirm that this is a real trailer of the Mass Effect game that BioWare was developing up until its closure yesterday www.reddit.com/r/masseffect...

Saw a trailer for UMvC3 Rollback with a new lobby system and got really excited! Then I saw this:

Ok fine I wrote about the Killer Mike business defector.com/its-hard-to-...

Opportunistic ghoul Vivek Ramaswamy offers a timely rebuttal to this piece with his vile campaign ad featuring Amy Acton’s mother.

I'm fucking sorry if it seems like you are not gonna convince me gaslighting your kid to do your university assignment for you is normalised. I'm fucking sorry but I have never heard that shit happen.

Friends don't let friends use car selfies as their profile pics

I knew that game's new demo might not be "fun" in the strictest sense but i knew it would be novel and that it would appeal to several core kinks of mine, and i knew that i'd spend at least one long night playing it. Tonight was a predictable, acceptable loss. Tomorrow at work is gonaa be traaash.

bikini beefin

this is the ultimate end point of capitalism, ai will completely atomize everyone and there will be zero shared experiences. there will be no culture, only pure consumption. this must be resisted

And this is what I worry about because I need to keep afloat (as I'm on SSI too). They stay with that Plexiglas ceiling over our heads so that we can't even break the thing

For $25M? Fuck it. I'm buying the next DLC slot in whatever Fighting game i'm playing at the time. Put my OC in the damn game, and that MF better be a top tier too. #FGC