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Slag

Just some refugee from Reddit and kbin.social. I dig light novels, anime, text based roleplaying, generative AI, and video games.

Slag McNasty is the recurring murderhobo I play in RPG roguelikes. An amoral whirlwind of bloodshed and poor life choices who will wear anything for a +1 stat boost.

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  • I was referring to illegal migrants, so your rebuttal is a bit of a straw man. This was a reference to the legislation pushed by DeSantis and the republican legislature of Florida that was targeted at undocumented workers. If you don’t understand the connection between Florida and migrant workers in the context of the past two years, I think it’s fairly safe to say that you aren’t following this issue at a national level beyond a drip feed of Fox News or similar.

    The point is that most Americans are too obtuse and/or callous to recognize the role of undocumented workers in their own economy. You were fast to say the dems see them as slaves, but the entire goddamn economy uses them for cheap labor. My mother is as wound up about border crossings and caravans as it gets but still pays someone to have Hispanic men who can’t understand her mowing her lawn. They’re not “her” undocumented workers.

  • That was Florida in recent history, not the dems. “uhh can you latinos come back and work for us again?? no one is filling these jobs as you leave due to the recent legislative hatefest”

    Conservatives don’t realize they have slaves, let alone rely on them. They pound the table about migrants while paying someone employing them to mow their lawn or renovate their house. Press them about it and they always tell you it’s none of their business how the people they contract keep the prices down.

  • Light Novel - Ascendance of a Bookworm @bookwormstory.social
    Slag @programming.dev

    The "Myne is Secretly the Antagonist" Challenge

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/19369297

    I laughed when I read "What Would Myne Do?" on the rule sidebar of !lightnovels@ani.social, mostly because it brought to mind profiteering and gleeful worker exploitation. (you taught her well, Benno)

    More than that though, it also reminded me of a random idea I had never gotten around to sharing. I present to you the Myne is Secretly the Antagonist Challenge. When the mood strikes you, start reading the Bookworm series again from the beginning, but from the perspective that Myne is the antagonist of the story setting. Pay attention to the following themes, whether they are enacted by Myne personally or under her direction:

    • Suppressed yandere inclinations
    • Selfish demands on others
    • Indifference to costs others pay to fulfill her ambitions
    • Workforce exploitation
    • Child labor
    • Corrupt use of political influence
    • Cult of personality indoctrination tactics (edit: okay, not really Myne, _but has