Maia @Maiasma@awoo.space

@PaulFerence so, like, what would playing these games reveal about you, besides for what five of your favorite games are?

@PaulFerence yup

@PaulFerence hilariously, I have played exactly one of these, and not that much

@PaulFerence well, maybe don't do that last bit right now if you live in CA...

@sydneyfalk haha, that sounds really cool!

@richardgoodness thanks, I'll take a look at it

Can anyone recommend any good books/games/films/narrative experiences about being queer and alone in space? I could really use that right now.

@PaulFerence dang, rough timing on that. But now you can buy MORE gems and get a celestial raptor mount! :P

@PaulFerence yeah, probably not Friday but other days would work

@PaulFerence yes, I need it

an unexpected downside of HRT is that it now hurts like the dickens when my cat headbutts me in the boob

@PaulFerence it's not that the Mackey scene is playing us for laughs. It feels very accurate to be frozen in mute terror while an authority figure tries to reconcile who they thought you were with who you are. And I did appreciate that your parents are on your side. I just suspect this will be an ultimately shallow trans representation written for a cis audience, and similarly a shallow PoC representation for a white audience. I'd genuinely love to be wrong though

@PaulFerence it really felt like a scene written by cis people for cis people

to be fair, I think this is the first major game where the protagonist can be canonically trans, which *is* pretty neat. I just wish that someone else had done it first

@PaulFerence I don't feel the game itself is being egregiously transphobic as much as it's just trying to convey how life can be, but even the conversation with the counselor had me squirming uncomfortably in my seat

@PaulFerence from this video at 44 minutes onward

https://youtu.be/O95tiFcfZ0M?t=43m48s

@PaulFerence hmm, also your character can be trans, and if you choose that you immediately get attacked in the street. So, uh, fuck that

@PaulFerence I am extremely doubtful of how useful this will be, given both South Park's track record and its audience

I woke up at 6:30 this morning and my immediate thought was, "Why did my cats let me sleep in so late? Oh god, something bad must have happened to them!"

A panicky search of my place revealed that my cats were fine. I guess they were just sleeping in too.

@PaulFerence haha, probably for the best then that I still use twitter so I have a place besides here to vomit up all my bile

@PaulFerence haha, holy shit that's mean