i gave cyberpunk2077 another shot after hating it at launch because multiple people pestered me about it for two years. i was repeatedly told of my lengthy list of criticisms, "they fixed all that, it's like a totally different game now".

10 hours later it's clear that they're either:

a) delusional b) liars c) literally cannot hear criticism of the game being spoken aloud

because that shit was 99% identical to at launch, bugs included. the difference between the game that people keep describing to me and the game in front of me is so stark that i'm fucking baffled. it's like it's a cult or something.

What is this picture?

This is a painting I made of the Sigil of Prith.

Huh? What is this about?

Prith, the gay demon, is a chaos magick egregore conceived of and created by a small group of likeminded queer magicians several years back when that "PRIDEMONTH -> DEMON" meme went around. I strongly feel it is time to make it public.

Wait is this some weird woo-woo nonsense?

Yes, and I am 100% serious about it. I'm not here to debate or evangelize.

Why are you posting this here?

Because every occult/witchcraft space on Lemmy is dead as a doornail and I want this to have exposure. The fascists are way ahead of us for mass coordination and activity on occult fronts and it's high time there was a response beyond just #bindTrump.

Okay I'm interested, what's it do?

Prith is intended as a general "protector spirit" type entity by and for the queer community at large, with three aspects relating to Protection of the community from hostile forces, Arbitration within the community to promote cooperation, and Restitution to make whole those who are wronged.

What do I do with it?

Apply whatever your existing practices around working with spirits, Prith accepts all and does not discriminate.

Where can I learn more?

I have made our original internal writeup from 2022 about the egregore available here in PDF format.

The document is incomplete!

Correct. This ain't no medieval grimoire demon, this is straight from the experimental frontier of postmodern occultism. Be creative and do it your way!

You're a crazy person, you should be organizing with your community and organizing protests and such instead.

There is zero reason to not do both, an important component of most any magick is taking action in the physical world. This is a supplement to and not a replacement for real-world activism.

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try vscode they said, it's the best code editor ever they said... what kind of warped sadist puts fucking spell check...