absolutely this, we need more femboy options in games! IMO character creators should start with androgynous as a default, and then you can add masc or fem characteristics from there.

I have terrible news for you; people are not generally literate then.

the issue is that it seems quite likely that humanity will always have a subset of the population that lords over the rest of them, and that subset has a vested interest in keeping tribalism alive.

Sure, you can be an optimist and dream of a future that is radically different to how human culture has existed in recorded history, but the realistic expectation is that the widespread education that would need to take place just…won’t.

in my experience, nobody ever says anything when I’m dating a woman, so my queerness is only ever brought up if I’m single or dating a man. When I’m in a gay relationship, it’s just easier to say I’m gay. It’s like the only time I can be bisexual is when I’m single, and honestly I try to avoid that state as much as possible.

what a terrible day to have eyes

that’s the fun part, basically none of the money you pay actually goes to the people who made the thing.

like 95-100% of the money that the crew of a movie or TV show makes is paid to them during production. There might be a handful of crew, typically writers, actors, and directors who get residuals, but that’s typically a very small fraction of the total amount they got paid.

Your money goes to the studio who produced the film/show in order to recoup their investment. and in my experience, the studio doesn’t actually give a shit about the creatives who made the thing you love. They’ll get rid of them for someone cheaper at the first opportunity, and a lot of them are trying to get rid of them for AI right now.

the plot is way more bonkers than that.

in-universe, the movie Air Bud exists. the new child watches that, and then the plot of the original Air Bud basically happens again; kid’s dad is dead, golden retriever comes into his life, and I guess this time he names it after the dog from the movie he saw? and also unless the film decides to get really meta I doubt the child will ever comment on the absurdity that his life is basically the plot of the movie he only recently saw.

I’m finally at a place where I can aim for a 1.0 ratio, but I’ve noticed that a lot of the stuff I torrent just uh…is not very popular lol. Some of them haven’t had a single peer in months! It’s kinda fun keeping an eye on it, sorta like a popularity contest.

wrong, but that’s okay because it means more for the rest of us

:3

okay but goals? looks fine to me

yes and it’s someone like me

Been pretty good. swapped over to Bazzite, which does just about everything I need for a daily driver. Only real annoyance is my VPN. I haven’t been able to successfully connect through the openvpn configs that PIA provides, so I’ve been setting it up through terminal every time I log in. I think if I really sat down I could set it up to autologin, but it only “costs” me like 30 seconds and sometimes I like to connect to a server that allows port forwarding instead of a non-PF closer server. I also like getting to make the choice of which server I connect to vs autologging in to the lowest latency server.

I still have to use Windows 11 for work though, and holy shit do I prefer running two commands in terminal when I login to dealing with all the dumb fuckin bloat that OS has when I go home.

sounds like a problem that solves itself

No but kinda, I think I’ve only got like 1k hrs in Factorio and probably only 200 hrs doing external research for it. I’m v much a Factorio baby, I don’t think I even made it to all the planets last time I played.

yes I have 3000 hours in game but I also have another 4000 hours in a third party build planning software, searching a database and a wiki, and watching Youtube videos to understand mechanics and builds.

no I’m still not very good.

have you heard about our new lord and saviour Arcane Persistance? You generally also need a method of good health recovery, but it makes health tanks super viable and honestly quite comfy for level cap content. I now prefer healthtanking over shieldgating for stuff like maxed Void Cascade fissures.

Hildryn is unfortunately just not very good for really high level stuff. Her quirk of her shields being her energy means you can’t regain your shields with Pillage when they get inevitably one-tapped late game.

also there’s always Revenant, if you just want boring old immortality with no fuss.

it mostly definitely cannot lmao. the current catastrophe is the result of several decades of compounding issues. The only way things could be fixed that quickly is a revolution.

okay but like, can’t I have both?

yeah I don’t think they’re really in a place to make a threat like this right now