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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Power? Control? Indoctrination and lack of critical thinking skills to escape it? Some kind of latent fear where they think if they don’t come out on top someone will, treating life as a zero sum game? There’s lots of potential reasons for people to act this way but it probably depends on the individual. I’m not comfortable painting with a super wide brush here because its dehumanizing, and these people are human. Reprehensible? Perhaps, but still human.

    We can wax philosophic about why anyone does the things they do, but in the end it doesn’t matter why they do what they do, it matters what they do and what actions we can take to try and improve our own lives and the lives of the people we care about.


  • The right wing is afraid of a totalitarian dystopia?

    Lol, no they’re not. They salivate at the thought of having a totalitarian dystopia where they’re on top. This is just more projection shit on their part. If anything, 15 minute cities deradicalize people by putting them in proximity to more diversity, make people friendlier by making them get to know their neighbors better, and financially better off because they’re not forced to buy and maintain a vehicle to live a healthy life.

    But fascists can’t put the boot on your neck as easily if you have more wiggle room with money or solidarity with the working class, so of course they’re afraid of it.










  • I’ll go with my favorite team, because there’s no way I could ever just pick one.

    Blaziken, who journeyed with me from ruby to pearl to white(shortly, i didn’t actually play this one), to XY, they’ll always have a place in my heart.

    Then, Aron, Plusle and Minun, Sylveon, and Talonflame!

    Honorable mentions to Mimikyu and Shuppet.






  • There wasn’t a place in the application to write extra notes, so I’ll slap em here.

    I’d be willing to moderate the anime community but I wouldn’t want to be head mod, primarily because I don’t want to be responsible for the community guidelines. I think it’d be very nice to have a community that actually moderates transphobic slur usage in the anime community, but this is a touchy subject in the anime community for some reason. I prefer to have someone else to defer to on these kinds of decisions though, because I feel like I can be pretty uptight about stuff.

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    i mean the word “trap” to be clear. the origin of the term is an old 4chan meme with admiral ackbar saying “its a trap”, referring to male characters who dress in fem clothes. It implies that the only goal of crossdressing is to “trap” men into dating other men. I hope I don’t have to elaborate any more on why that’s a bad thing or how specifically its transphobic (or, at best, toxic to cis/straight crossdressers).



  • It’s a lot more forgiving than I make it sound, getting disease usually just means your stats go up less. Just for the love of god don’t leave it all to Tauemon, he’s wise beyond his years but he is not good at executing on that knowledge. I recommend holding off on looking up an optimal rice farming guide until you’re to the point where you can’t progress at all anymore, which for me was before the final boss.

    Also, there’s an easy difficulty for both farming and combat individually (and that you can select at any time), so if you’d rather focus on one or the other you can!



  • So that’s why RF5 is so janky? Don’t get me wrong i’m playing it right now and deeply enjoying it, especially getting to see Doug and Margaret kicking around town again, but I have so many issues with this game lol.

    The camera lags when you rotate 360 degrees around your character, sometimes the rocks that spawn on your field will be totally invisible until you save and reset, preventing you from tilling certain areas. I’m having some weird lighting issues too but that doesn’t bother me really.

    On the bright side, they give you a lot of farming room quite fast if you play through the dungeons, and they finally made it possible to be a lesbian! How cruel fate is that allowed me to not get married to Margaret in RF4… For the record, I ended up with Vishnal.