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@Soreth I recently learned the dumbfuckery of girls' clothes when I got some PJs, and the buttons are on the opposite side. what gives.

@Goldkin Okay but this is an accurate description of what my body dysphoria feels like.

"HRT is a boon for brain fog, depression and anxiety"...

I am so tired of the fact internet leftists are so surrounded in injustices and toxicity that all they know is that toxicity.

Anyone seeking to spread love, to enjoy other things, or to state "this is not us" in the face of hate, it's met with armchair activists that behave like it's not good enough, or that it's not allowed because they're convinced everyone else is evil people. All that does is produce further othering and negativity.

In the case of NZ's tragedy, "This Is Not Us" is a message of unity, to show we will not let nazis and hate define our country and people. But internet leftists decide it's not good enough.

Here's the thing. Anything can be co-opted by nazis. That's their MO. They corrupt statements such that they can't be used by tolerant people, until they're only used by nazis.

The conclusion to take from that *isn't* to not use things that they might. It's to not let them use those statements in the first place. It's to see through statements that, when said by nazis, are just window-dressing for hate.

Game/software preservation is important.

Ownership by license, always-online DRM, and ownership tied to online libraries - they're all unreliable and publishers will take away your purchase and not give back if they so wish. Or even try to resell it later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsZYaK343cY

This sort of thing is why I'll always prefer physical copies of games over digital. That, and I don't have the internet to be downloading anything over like, 3GB.

@Joshi It would be great if more people used those, yeah.

To be fair when I said "can we bring back LJ" I more meant "I wish we had a cultural shift back to using LJ-based software again".

@Joshi It kinda more grew out of favour. Also got owned by a russian company and everyone distrusts it because of that.

Why can't we just bring back Livejournal? Please?

Twitter changing things that don't need changing, while leaving open problems like nazis and abuse.

And everyone I know continues to fucking use it because network effects.

Get offfff theeeeere. get off get off get off stop using it stop it
Some of them have started to use Tumblr less since the porn ban, but Twitter has been going downhill since the calloutfest of 2018.

Now I will give them as much - the new design has some good ideas, but I also feel like they could still be abused, and also it's just an ugly mess to look at.

@Eon please... @ w@

It sure is weird that time travel fiction in a thing in the first place - the idea that you could travel to the past and change history. That a point in time can have a "before" and "after" a change.

Like, why should time travel specifically be able to do that? What would make travel through time alter history, that travel through space does not? It makes more sense as a result for history to be immutable - a time traveller always exists in that point in time.

I feel like I had some kinda point but now I'm just confusing myself. You could probably argue that it's the unnatural act of travelling through time that creates an alternate history, though one that technically always existed too.

Oh hey I had a dream I had a robotic tail prosthetic last night. I was getting it checked up so this doctor or whatever turned a switch off on my tailbase and I could feel my tail just, vanish from my sense of touch. It was wild.

It was big and dragony...

https://www.siliconera.com/2019/02/26/to-the-moon-set-to-dive-into-the-nintendo-switch-in-summer-2019/
huh.
... those are still totally RPG Maker sound effects and tiles though. (Though their composition is slightly different.)

Normalise null pooltoy sonas.