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@Oneironott *earwriggles* Y-yes?

@Oneironott Legs and paws stiffening up, and tails perking, too~.

@faoluin "Strange, though very cute" - yes.

I know I want godhood and all but I don't really want it to be that say, I contribute something great to the evolution of self-expression and get called a "god" in the historical narrative sense.

I want to be around for the wonderful posthuman world.

This tweet is about the Portuguese translation in 2077 translating a character's name as "correct" rather than "right".

But I'm looking at the characters there and, unless there's more context to disappoint me, it seems to be someone that's got their mind put across two bodies. Alternately, it's two people who became one person through their minds mixing together, while retaining two bodies.

And even if that's like, the one example of more extreme non-standard expression of the self in that game, I at least am surprised to see it in the game at all. Because I'd written it off as being populated entirely by human-type Cyborgs With Weapons.

@Oneironott This is lovely.
It's true, we are all seeing one another through the internet as our true selves. Maybe some meet up in person, but I still think the avatars we use to define ourselves are much more important. Validating those avatars through our interactions, too.

The technology will get better, more wonderful, I'd like to think. But at least at the moment, we have the theory and the philosophy already going strong.

@Oneironott "Peak performance" well you're an otter, so of course that body is peak for the ocean.

Briefly wondering what sort of legal control Capcom has over me.

I'm like, living intellectual property.

There was a post on birdsite about the (lack of) rights of US prisoners, because the state will find reason to stop those that are politically inconvenient.

Unfortunately, NZ is no different.

In NZ, prisoners can't vote either. What's worse, is this law was introduced in only 2010, by the National (right wing) government.

Paul Quinn, the member who sponsored this legislation, bases his justification for the legislation loosely on social contract theory. This is the idea that prisoners have breached the contract with the state and therefore, some of their rights can be validly restricted.

They also tried to revert New Zealand to FPTP, because they felt MMP was... not good, for whatever reason. Probably because it allowed for fair and broad representation in the house?

National is fash-lite and will do whatever it takes to restrain inconveniences.

Thankfully the existing government wants to undo the prisoner rights' restrictions, like a lot of National's garbage.

Which of course is why Simon Bridges was so adamant about how gangs - predominantly pacific islanders and maori and born out of the cycle of inequality - were dangerous and we needed harsher laws, until he got booted out. The guy he's been replaced with is a piece of shit too, of course, but given he's got famous for having a MAGA cap, I doubt he'll be popular.

... not disastrously unpopular, unfortunately, because NZers have the memories of goldfish around politicians, but still.

@Oneironott Yes please to radical rebellion to reality.

@Oneironott Oh that sounds lovely... . w.
All I then need is to be so affirmed about what I am I feel it with certainty, too....

@Oneironott I want hyper-advanced robotics based around pooltoy vessels (inflatable bodies would be super convenient to store!) so, mood. Very much so.

@Oneironott I've been enjoying BNA, but I haven't watched Beaststars or even Zootopia.

I don't think furries should watch things just because they have fluffy animal people in them, but I do appreciate their existence for giving us more varied worlds so weebs and gamers stop being such prudes.

@faoluin I suppose in the end, there isn't. It's just easy to look at "I feel bad because the world sucks, if I could brush technique things better I would feel better" as being a selfish desire, because I'm thinking about my own feelings.

... but I'm thinking about how others feel too... so...

At the same time though, there's so much going on in the world that needs solving. Inequality and corruption are not things that should be treated as cute struggles that make people grow. They're painful and unfair and they're born from those that want to cause hurt. But those are things that must be solved together.

Evil is simple. In fantasy, Evil you can beat up and it makes Good shine through. In the real world, the unfairness and corruption and bigotry is made of lots of tiny cogs, and it requires all of us together to outnumber those cogs. It takes all of us crying out enough is enough until those in power can take no more, cannot use their power, or are replaced with those that do better.

And that's a lot harder than one person magically making everything okay.

Thinking about these lines a bit regarding my feelings around "godhood".

How much of my desire to fix things and make a better world is self-righteousness? How much of it is just me wanting to personally feel better? What's the difference between feeling happier because others are happier, and wanting to feel happier by making the bad things in the world go away?

And what about "hard work"? What about the growth and understanding that comes through mistakes and turmoil? Removing those with the stroke of a brush would be supposing mistakes and struggles shouldn't exist, it would simply cause stagnation.

@Oneironott wrrrwrfrr....

@Oneironott 💗 running around on all fours, pawpads patting against the ground on each plapf~ 💗