ComradeMonotreme [she/her, he/him]

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  • Listening to Dr Janega’s podcast how a guy from China who was actually a Nestorian Christian, traveled to Europe and got to meet the Pope, Eastern Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Emperor, King of France before heading home.

    Or how Ibn Battuta travelled from Morroco all the way to China via the Maldives. Or famously Mansa Musa travelled from Mali to Mecca causing a financial crisis from giving away too much gold.

    Vikings travelled all the way to Constantinople to fight in the Varangian guard. Like people travelled. Non white people would be uncommon but they’d be there especially in bigger cities.








  • The first Mistborn era seems like it would be perfect for a prequel game where you take part in the internecine house wars between the nobility. It would be an open world stealth/action super-power game. Great setting, the large sparling inspired city of Luthadel, a fusion of Victorian and gothic aesthetic. With blanketing ash from regular volcanic eruption and the ever-present mists at night. The crushing misery the nobles inflict on the Skaa (serfs) under the ever watchful eye of the immortal Lord Ruler and his inquisitors.

    It would have unique gameplay mechanics. Burning iron and steel to push and pull off metal in structures to fly through the sky and over buildings. Pulling and pushing your enemies who are holding metal. Or deflecting/firing metal objects large and small at your enemies. Using pewter to make your character tougher, tin to enhance their senses. Use zinc and brass to sooth or riot enemies. So you can slip by them or you can make them panic and flee. Using copper to hide yourself from seekers and brass to detect other mistborns and mistings.

    Likewise enemies would vary, from simple guards wearing metal armour and holding metal weapons (which they will abandon if you start pushing and pulling them for wooden clubs), to the more professional haze-killers with no metals on them and their wicker shields and dueling canes, to mistings who only have one of the 8 powers to use on you (coinshots who fire objects at your, lurchers who pull you, pewter arms who are extra tough, etc) to enemy mistborns who have all the same powers as you, then maybe at the end of the game you might even fight an inquisitor with their enhanced powers and gruesome metal spiked eyes.











  • Saints Row 2 was amazing, the gender slider, that you could pick any voice, wear all clothing, have any hair style/makeup, no gender restrictions, could change gender presentation at any point through plastic surgery, pronouns were simply The Boss.

    I really have to wonder if there’s was a trans or NB person involved in the decision process, even if it was an egg going “haha would this be funny right? To give the players full gender options lol”


  • The killing kids in Fallout 1 and 2 is complicated. Because I think the edgiest people do it for a joke.

    But I remember one time when I was playing the game when I was probably too young for it, I had a random encounter with Raiders attacking farmers. I swooped into rescue the farmers and as we moped up, one of my companions let burst with an SMG, missed a raider and killed a child instantly. Then the enraged farmers, men and women, turned and starting attacking us with their fists, and my other companions started gunning them down, as I genuinely panicked. In a cold sweat I looked over their dead bodies and reloaded my save.

    And like I still remember that now, as a powerful random moment in a videogame.