the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

I kind of want to talk about some worldbuilding stuff we did in an rpg yesterday but I don't have the energy to type that out so someone remind me to tomorrow

so apparently the entire stackexchange network is currently blowing up over a *very* poorly implemented change to the code of conduct to mandate people use the correct "gender pronouns" (their term, not mine)

this is following a huge storm when a mod was fired without going through the normal procedures because she proposed allowing the use of gender-neutral language even when pronouns are given (e.g. even if someone's profile (which no one ever checks) states that their pronouns are she/her, you would be allowed to still use they/them because, again, no one ever checks profile pages, it's a question-and-answer site, not a social network)

I don't know how to feel about this

the majority of people are supportive of nonbinary people and neopronouns but the way the moderators are handling it suggests they have no idea what they're doing, the new rules are far too strict and far too rigid

reminder that the only thing that actually determines whether or not something is a casserole is whether you cooked it in a casserole dish

you can make almost anything that gets baked into a casserole this way

flareon = chili pupper

apparently people don't like bottom dot

and if we could get the rest of society to work around the idea of flexibility with stuff like this there would be so much less stress

they cause far too much stress and things don't usually *have* to be done by some specified time, they just have to be done

can we just get rid of deadlines

not like, high-speed internet levels of data transmission but like morse code telegram levels of data transmission

worldbuilding thought: bowden cable being used for data transmission in a pre-electrical society

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edgar allan power over ethernet

favorite part of a :

every now and then we remember that the sun's atmosphere is orders of magnitude hotter than its surface and no one knows why and that's frustrating to us

why is it like that

"sex fiend? No, I said I was a *sax* fiend. I'm really good at playing saxophone."

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there's nothing particularly special about them other than the fact that there's only one of them

I always kind of appreciate it when there's just a single one of something in a video game for no explained reason

the single red snifit in mario 2, the single green rupee (in a chest) in quite a lot of zelda games, that kind of thing

https://imgur.com/gallery/Kyeybdo this is Extremely Important (link contains dangerous levels of cute)