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I wish there were medieval fantasy written by people who actually found the medieval period interesting

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I rly hate the Satanic Panic & the moral panic surrounding violence in video games in the 90s, coz it's now impossible to talk about the social implications of violent video games in a realistic sense.

No, violence in video games does not create serial killers in the way most people imagine it would.

However, it's very important to notice how after 9/11, a lot of violent video games pivoted their content from silly gratuitous cartoon gore to more realistic military shooters set in the Levant from a US American lens. It's also important to notice the connection of these games & their toxic online multi-player voice chats to Gamer Gate in 2014.

It's obviously not as black & white as it was presented in the 80s & 90s, I dont think everyone who played early Call of Duty games is a white supremacist who wants to join the military to kill people in the middle east, but I think it's dangerous to pretend like video games or any media can't have an impact on the way people think about violence.

I think what makes all the difference here is how that violence is portrayed, what the message behind it is, what the motives are behind the people who crafted that message, who the victims of that violence are, how they are portrayed & the greater cultural context that surrounds it.

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i was cheering for him...

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more fundraisers for palestinians who have reached out to me

Hazem Shawish / Help my family survive and start a new life / €21,670/€50,000 / #75 on GazaVetters

Asmaa Ayyad/ Help me and my family escape the war in Gaza / €30,300/€45,000 / #43 on GazaVetters

Hanan Ali Al-Salout / Donate to Save Hanan Al-Salout's Family in Gaza / $6,171/$30,000 / #152 on GazaVetters

Hashem Al-Shawish / Help my family survive and start a new life / €17,471/€50,000 / shared by @/90-ghost

Jaber AlHaj / Support a Family's Journey to Safety and Peace / $2,754/$29,000 / shared by @/90-ghost

Mohanad and Farah / Rebuilding After loss: Your Support Brings Us Back / $4,979/$35,000 / #42 on GazaVetters

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My friend Mahmoud's area got bombed, again. Please donate to help him survive, less than 2k euros left to reach his goal.

Vetted by @/gazafunds

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i hate this pic bc everyone is staring @ zayn but zayn is only looking at liam

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list of people who have reached out to me recently:

@youseffamily -> gofundme

@alanqarabood1997 -> gofundme

@fayezjadallah -> gofundme

@mariamblogs -> gofundme

@salahsallout95 -> gofundme

@bessalah -> gofundme

@riima7900 -> gofundme

@samaribrahimgaza -> gofundme

@savealsaidifamily -> gofundme

@alamoudi-ghazi -> gofundme

@emanalmadhoun8 -> gofundme

@shadiaraed9 -> gofundme

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wild how many more warden specific dialogue options you get vs veil jumper dialogue. which is at least partially to be expected since the wardens have been there literally from day 1 of the franchise but still 🥲

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i was actually born 9 months premature. they had to give me to a dust mite as a wet nurse.

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I love getting "post without tags?" on my stupidest ever posts. oh my god sorry tumblr how could i forget. #dust mite #wet nurse

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There is almost no food in northern Gaza.

Mahmoud Almadhoun and his family run a soup kitchen that feeds thousands of starving people for free. Acquiring in bulk means they can get more food for less and giving the food away alleviates the control food scalpers have over the market.

Please send them any money you can spare, especially if you have anxiety over picking between individual families that need help. The soup kitchen having more resources means they can feed more families and be bigger competition to food scalpers, driving down food prices over all.

Thank you for donating and sharing.

Help Gaza Soup Kitchen

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ICC has issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant. nothing will come of it I'm sure except maybe US troops marching into the Hague

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i've picked up on the fact that nobody reads these anymore so i'll try and keep it short. for more info, you can read more about her situation here & here.

my friend reema @reemagaza has been campaigning since march, that's almost 9 months. only now is she losing hope and feeling like she can't ask for our help anymore. her sister has just received surgery and is in great pain, her family has lost everything due to the genocide. these remaining funds are needed to support them.

✅ verified by sar-soor and operation olive branch ✅

$21,920CAD of $25k

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can i be a hater rq. [spoilers] if your only reason to want to save davrin is because assan/the griffons need him, i need you to actually look at davrin as a character with his own thoughts and feelings for one second and stop using him purely as an accessory for the griffons. he can be so much more than The Bodyguard if you give him the time of day instead of sidelining him

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If you have ever donated, shared or even considered donating to a palestinian campaign, please help out Mohammed Ayesh. For months now he has been working tirelessly to vet campaigns on the ground so as to help his fellow Palestinians, putting his life on the line in doing so. Now he can barely travel as he is frequently surrounded by the army and near their attacks. He is now in need of support for his and his family's campaign, please do not ignore it. We have to support him as much as he helped this community. His fundraisers has been going very slowly, so please consider donating to help out.

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diego luna as a face claim for lucanis. do u see my vision

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thinking about the struggle between grey wardens and the orlesian chantry and who supersedes who. the chantry feeling undermined when the grey wardens recruit mages out of their circles, giving mages unprecedented levels of freedom and a life outside of the circle. resentment building because of this. the grey wardens leaning a little too hard into their rite of conscription that can be used vindictively and spitefully because wardens are still human and fallible. its so juicy. i miss it so much. anders' recruitment in awakening was such an interesting microcosm of this tension i wish we saw more if it