Hoper's Sentiments

I want to change the world, and I know that I can. | 22+ account: No one who is under 22 and/or prejudiced is allowed.

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Happy Pride Month!

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Two Wrongs Don't Always Make a Right

Looking at the repeat assaulter laying unconscious on the sidewalk, I realize two things: That I definitely won't take squat from jerks, and that this guy only looks like my assaulter.

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The Luck of the Draw - An Online Melee Match

Warning(s) for: flashing lights and screen-shakes

ALT:

On the stage Battlefield in unranked online Melee, two Mr. Game and Watches - one red (me) and one green (my opponent) - fight using only their side-special -- a hammer with random properties, including an insta-kill. I lose on our last lives. The thumbnail is us using it at the same time.

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Warning(s) for: spoilers for Another Crab's Treasure and a piece from its soundtrack.

We Victims Scream as One - My Thoughts on "Praya Dubia, The Final Scream" From Another Crab's Treasure

The God of the Ocean, consumed by rage from the destruction of their realm wrought by humankind's pollution and enabled by their people's complacency, lets out an at-last unignorable cry of agony. With sweeping high-pitched playing as their dying vocals, compounded with mournful instrumentation, the tragedy of their self-destruction is realized, begging many questions in the inevitable aftermath.

Why does it take so much for so long for our pain to be heard? How many of our screams for a better life -- for a life free of abuse and bigotry -- have had to fall on covered ears for a minute fraction of change to occur; how much longer will it take for apathy to die? When there're no answers in sight, when fighting feels purposeless, this piece is my release.

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Warning(s) for: language and spoilers for Another Crab's Treasure.

Civility Is Bullshit - My Thoughts on Another Crab's Treasure

Kril's a once-complacent anthropomorphic hermit crab who's forced to become a violent revolutionary after a thief steals his favorite shell, compelling him to endure the fear of being violently brainwashed by pollution alongside other disgruntled citizens and cope with killing unlucky victims of pollution and power-hungry capitalists alike to earn enough currency to peacefully buy back what's his from the criminal, only to be denied that option anyway. I'm a former brainwashed bigot who had to question their years-long learned empathy-and-guilt-fueled compassion after a homeless shelter called Black Trans Texas Connection posted about needing money for heat to avoid freezing weather, compelling me to endure the fear of becoming whom I used to be if I didn't risk my life to drive and almost lose control on snowy roads to deposit money to send to them, only for me to find out that they're a scam right before sending anything (more). I actively relate to Kril's ability to care better by killing all regressive expectations, and I believe that the world would be a better place if you did, too.

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Who Knew Kril Knows of UNDERTALE ? - A Clip From Another Crab’s Treasure

Subtitles: Kril: Ugh-ugh-ugh ugh, ugh ugh ugh, ugh-ugh-ugh!

ALT: In a pause menu, protagonist Kril the hermit crab is forced to switch between his plastic-poncho outfit and a cosplay of the protagonist from Going Under to make shocked expressions that sound an awful lot like a familiar track from UNDERTALE.

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Astute Accessibility: Wednesdays

Warning(s) for: spoilers.

Wednesdays is the first piece of art that I've written about in the context of accessibility to be astutely accessible, not just somewhat or mostly so. Much of this has to do with its generally thorough approach to safety for people with different disabilities.

For those with OCD and/or PTSD, there are detailed descriptions of all of its mature elements on both its store page (where possible) and in-game menus, as well as in-game warnings for each chapter. Those with motion sickness have access to a, for me, rarely-seen-elsewhere setting to disable repeated animations in the top-down park-management-lite section of Wednesdays -- a setting with an icon that should have had its function explained from the start. And, those with processing-related disabilities can make use of different fonts and font sizes, as well as an auto scroll setting that has adjustable speeds. Unfortunately, for those who are deaf or hard of hearing, although there are visible onomatopoeias within chapters, captions for sounds made by Orco, the amusement park owner of a game within Wednesdays, and the lyrics for a song that plays at the end of the game, are nowhere to be seen.

While Wednesdays does have a handful of flaws, which may affect different people to varying degrees, they are not enough of a hindrance for me to deny it an overall positive reception. Not when its developers' willingness to, at release, implement unfortunately uncommon and normalized settings alike means that there is a piece of art that finally sets the standard for what it means to be astutely accessible.

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Iran War Powers Votes - Action Item

In the House Republicans are delaying to let the carnage continue. Tell them what you think of this, and how you want them to vote after recess!

Republicans block effort to halt Trump's war with Iran after 'civilization' threat

House Democrats tried to force a vote on a war powers resolution during recess. Senate Democrats will launch a more serious attempt to rein

Meanwhile, in the Senate:

Democrats to force Iran vote next week

On Thursday morning, House Democrats will try to unanimously constrain the president’s war powers, a move Republicans will almost certainly

The vote is next week! Tell your senators what you want them to do!

If you can't safely contact them in person, here are some other options for contacting your Congress Critters:

Five Calls to your critters: https://5calls.org/

Here is one that will send your reps a fax: https://resist.bot/

And another: https://faxzero.com/fax_senate.php

"Congress. gov:" https://www.congress.gov/

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The Senate is voting today!

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Happy Trans Day of Visibility!

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Tainted Art: Make Good Choices

Unity's incompetence and developer TN Games's irresponsibility have tainted this puzzle walking simulator's (possibly unintentional) comedic yet thoughtful reflection of what life is like for people who have anxiety and/or OCD. The former helped make a fiction where Murphy's Law exists on a short walk home less dangerous than our reality, where a security vulnerability was discovered in said engine in June of last year after roughly eight years of being undetected. The latter allowed it to remain that way by failing to release an available security update at any point since then -- and, considering how my Steam post on the matter from 03/10/2026 has not gotten a response from the developer, a change is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Stay away from this unsafe game.

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03/21/2026 Update

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Exposing Evil: "swattingEboys"

Warning(s) for: anti-LGBTQIA2S+ rhetoric.

Prejudiced scum like the reportable eponymous player deserve to have bad things happen to them, which should, at the very least, include them getting banned from their social media accounts:

However, rather than only hoping for corporations' uncaring moderation teams to take action in such cases, it's important to remember that we are capable of performing acts of justice ourselves:

While me dunking on this bigot as a gay trans ally is a small example of what can be done to keep them in check, it's nevertheless a reminder of the power we have to control the narrative, no matter the odds.

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Tainted Art: Make Good Choices

Edit: Check reblog(s) for 03/21/2026 Update.

Unity's incompetence and developer TN Games's irresponsibility have tainted this puzzle walking simulator's (possibly unintentional) comedic yet thoughtful reflection of what life is like for people who have anxiety and/or OCD. The former helped make a fiction where Murphy's Law exists on a short walk home less dangerous than our reality, where a security vulnerability was discovered in said engine in June of last year after roughly eight years of being undetected. The latter allowed it to remain that way by failing to release an available security update at any point since then -- and, considering how my Steam post on the matter from 03/10/2026 has not gotten a response from the developer, a change is unlikely to happen anytime soon. Stay away from this unsafe game.

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Exposing Evil: "shnoopie"

Warning(s) for: mature topics pertaining to suicide.

Telling someone to kill themself should come with a damn good reason. Were they abusive and/or prejudiced, for example? If so, then expressing the opinion that the world would be a better place without them is not unjustified.

It is unjustified when such an opinion is held for a shallow reason, like because an opponent played a video-game in a supposedly unfun way:

Keep in mind that I did not bm shnoopie, nor did I perform any action in the match that was not meant to win. What happened here is that this player internalized mere strategies, and then, or so that, they could devalue my life. Before they can do that to someone who may act on their words, it is imperative that their online presence gets reduced by reporting them on any and all social media accounts that they may have, including those on Steam and TikTok.

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Exposing Evil: "Victor'sHusband"

Warning(s) for: blood and mature topics pertaining to pedophilia.

The existence of evil people -- like the one in question, who romanticizes and sexualizes a character from Dead by Daylight who looks like a child -- must always be brought to light, both so that the safety of obscurity is theirs no longer and vulnerable demographics can be better protected:

For context, here is Victor's appearance:

And, here is proof of how this piece of scum has viewed Victor inappropriately:

This person should not only be called out as much as possible but also be acted against in other ways, even if that's just by reporting them for their acts of evil on any social media accounts that they may have to reduce their presence in life.

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Vicarious Devirgination - My Thoughts on Alta Hensley's He Knows When You're Awake

Warning(s) for: explicit sexual content, topics pertaining to BDSM, and spoilers.

Sloan and Cole's relationship is uncomfortably desirable. Sloan has the confidence to express her desire for submissive pleasure through her darkly vulnerable, sharp and refined jewelrywork, as well as a willingness to see past Cole's red flags to be spoiled and pleasured by him. Cole is an obsessively protective stalker who picks up on the deep meaning of Sloan's expressions and cares for her as much as he dominates her, pushing her boundaries as much as he respects them.

I felt what it would be like to get what they have as I panted during their moments inside of each other, during which, commonly, Sloan begs for permission to release all of her pleasure while Cole edges her, testing the limits of her senses until he's ready to come alongside her. The glorious aftermaths of their unflinchingly intense times together left me quivering out of anticipation for more each time. And now that I've experienced all of what they have to offer, I crave a dymamic version of it that's the real deal.

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(Somewhat) Asinine Inaccessibility: Fowl Legacy

When the time came to develop this game into an accessible or inaccessible one, it seems like a game of "Chicken" was played, instead. There's a warning in the game for flashing lights but not on its store page; a comfortable default control scheme but no remappable controls to account for personal preferences; volume sliders (that help out with quieting some obnoxiously loud sound effects) but no VSync toggle. This refusal to commit to making this game playable by more people has come home to roost.

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(Somewhat) Asinine Inaccessibility: Summit Drive's Demo

Similar to ROUTINE, this rage game prevents the player from pacing their experience; in this case, that involves preventing them from "saving & quitting." This sucks for me, personally, as I have PTSD, which causes me to be short on patience and quick to anger and, thus, able to benefit from moderating my emotions through taking (sometimes) long breaks from frustrating experiences when appropriate. Inaccessible as the absence of this feature is for me, the blow of not having it is softened since I found out about it in a demo. Kudos to developer Luke Kim for being dissimilar to ROUTINE's developers, Lunar Software, in terms of transparency.

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01/16/2026 Update: