Oh I also have no expectations that the decision to castrate would make them better people. I just enjoy telling religious bigots that the bible recommends they castrate themselves for using scripture and jewish law as a weapon against others.

As for WoD, its definitely a fairly large ttrpg fandom but the ampersand is so overwhelmingly massive that even the second largest ttrpg system out there is just a blip on the radar in comparison.

I still use Facebook for a handful of more niche RPG fandoms, mainly centered on the World of Darkness game lines, its the only place I could find a moderately active community. But most of the time when I’m confronting the bigotry, its me just recommending people take paul’s advice in Galatians 5:12, which is basically Paul saying “yall assholes are quibbling over who is and isn’t Christian because of circumcision, instead of being good people, so just finish the job and make yourselves eunuchs.”

Depends on the platform. On Facebook I spend most of my time as visible pushback on shitty ideas and bigotry. On YouTube I recognize its mostly screaming into the void. Here on lemmy I get good and interesting discussions and also get to have visible pushback on bigotry.

I hold myself to slightly higher standards. I’m not above insulting and throwing toxicity back, but I am honest about it to stop it from undercutting my argumentation.

I start off with the logic, and when they double down on bullshit and toxicity I just keep spotlighting the terrible rhetoric with no substance. In a “like damn dude, your 3rd grade teacher would be disappointed in your writing” way.

Its not about converting the crackpots, its about pushing back on insane bullshit so others are less likely to become crackpots.

I’d say Quaternions are necessary purely because they avoid gimbal locking common with 3 axis Euler rotations.

I know in Blender all other rotation options are really just quaterinions under the hood. But an advantage Euler rotations have over quaternions is continuous rotation. I can set 2 key frames with linear extrapolation and have them just continue along each axis forever. Everything quaternion ideally should be bounded to the 4d unit circle.

Right wingers angry at culture war nonsense and make it their entire personality.

UMIN?

Do you have any evidence that thats the case?

How so?

If you’re dealing with pain and trauma, therapy might be a good idea. Making dark self depreciating jokes online probably isnt going to actually help you deal with it.

I’ve found self deprecating humor or telling stories about fucked up shit happening to you is rarely funny and usually elicits more of a awkward fake laugh and/or pity vibe than a belly laugh vibe.

Lmao it kinda does.

Exactly this too! Try to drown out the assholes with a chorus of positivity.

My actual response depends on the situation and how i’m feeling at any given moment. Usually its just ignore and move on, sometimes I’m feeling in a “be snarky online” mood.

What does it change? Eh maybe someone somewhere will see the pushback on the -ism/-phobia and rethink. I’m not saying it does, it probably doesn’t most of the time, but I’m forever realistically optimistic and recognize I need to put in the work to make real that optimism.

I already described my litmus test. You explained who your punchline is hitting. Punching up at the jerks is fine by me.

My litmus test is i ask “what is the joke?” If theres a clever turn of phrase or twist to expectations I chuckle to myself and move on. If I cant figure out what the clever turn of phrase or twist in expectation is, or the punchline being some kind of -ism or -phobia then yeah I’m gonna take it seriously. Unfortunately making jokes where the punchline is racism, sexism, homophoboa, transphobia, or any other kind of punching down gets a lot of engagement and responses.

There was that one recreation episode they did on live TV with Woody Harleson from a few years ago I think?

Edit: did some more reading, have more to say

So after checking out the Wikipedia page apparently Cartman from South Park was heavily inspired by Archie. So do with that what you will.

Exactly, word for word? No not really but a lot of the politically relevant themes the shows had are disappointingly still relevant today, Archie uses the same gotchas as an excuse to be a racist pos and his son uses the same appeals to humanity and doing the right thing progressives have been using. Its like going back and watching West Wing, we’re still dealing with the same ineffectual liberals who get moral victories while losing the mandates of power and bible thumping conservatives making the lives of everyone who isnt a straight white dude a living hell.