minimink @minimink@awoo.space

Events like CEO and EVO are defined by the open reg. They are about everyone starting at the same place and seeing who gets to the top.

They have *never* been about or organized around catering to a poorly defined group of people vaguely attributed as 'top players'. If you want such an event, invitationals exist. Money matches exist.

These kinds of stories often turn into a "Oh, this person is passionate about their identity being defined as X... HOW PATHETIC" and it's the wooooorst.

Like, I'm reading a lot of this fiction as a trans allegory, and the whole idea of "You can't be X if you don't experience Y" REALLY reads as "You can't be trans unless you experience dysphoria".

Y'all, can I say how much I hate the trope of "Regular human who wants to join the Xmen, but can't, because they weren't born a mutant"? Really roughs up against my ideas surrounding identity and autonomy.

I know it's rhetoric based on bigotry, therefore it has more use appealing to emotion than any rational discourse, but I still have no idea where this line even came from in the first place.

The phrase "You cannot identify out of oppression" confuses me, especially when it's contracted against "gender ideology". I have not seen anyone claim you can identify out of oppression, and that is not even a stated goal of any activist organizations.

Furthermore it implies a perspective on oppression that I have seen nobody take. It implies the belief that oppression is internal, and by changing parts of yourself, you can become free from oppression.

SNK, plz give Gato for KOV XV

I've been plugging away at Rocksmith again recently, and I'm having fun slowly working out a single song (Black Horse & the Cherry Tree by KT Tunstall atm). Dunno if I'm "learning" guitar, but it's fun, and definitely giving me that sense of progression I so deeply crave, so that's reason enough to continue!

Went 3-2 in today's Fighting Gameworks Strive tournament! First time getting a positive record!

Going back through FF7R on PS5 from scratch, and hey, did you know? This game is pretty gosh darn good

I would certainly call winning with the afro as "Proceeding with the mission as planned"

Advance Wars totally needs a "play-by-mail" mode

Another 0-2; May certainly punishes impatient players!

Playing some Guilty Gear Strive on stream! Tower Matches followed by a tournament! Come hang out at https://twitch.tv/gracetveit

I still haven't really gotten over the whole 'kink at pride' discourse, especially with the path a certain content creators have chosen to go down. It's one of those 'watching a trainwreck' type masochistic exercises.

I'm thinking of putting a longer-form *thing* out as a vent, but now I'm realizing the scope of the project (talking about the ideology of queer assimilationism, the forms it can take, the assumptions it's based on, and the harm it causes) is a lot bigger than the "This thing is shitty and making me feel bad" idea I wanted to work on initially

Went 0-2; Lost the Potemkin mirror, and then got trapped in the Millia Blender! Certainly have a long way to go!

Gonna be streaming my progress in the EVO FGC Arcade Guilty Gear Strive Qualifier! Come hang out: https://twitch.tv/gracetveit

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