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hey just as a general heads up? if I post an "imagine with me" headcanon or fannish post, that is absolutely an invitation to create art, fic, or other fanworks with that concept, if you're inspired. That's me releasing the idea into the ether for other fans to latch on and yell about if it resonates. If you do end up making something sparked by me yelling about stuff I like, by all means please tag me so I can yell about your thing too!
if anyone wants to watch me re-learn how to use markers I haven't touched in ages, I'm doing an art stream this evening. I'll go live in about 10 minutes (5:45 EST). bear with me, I'm a very inexperienced streamer
what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm
Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Oh my god?????
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
This is funnier than it should be. He's so angry about it. WHY ARE YOU MISGENDERING THE CAT.
To be fair, I don't think he was referring to the cat (who wasn't there) but to the cat's owner (who is a woman and who the author had been asking if anyone could point them in her direction).
Still hilarious that they're pitching a fit over a boy cat being calico, tho. Like idk man maybe your cat show rules are stupid if you're going to gender-lock coloring? /shrugs just me, maybe.
also, hang on - why DON'T they allow three-legged cats? You mean to tell me if an absolutely perfect show cat has some sort of tragic accident resulting in losing a limb (obviously incredibly unlikely considering how pampered these animals are but like WHAT IF), that could no longer be shown?
So I'm not sure about what happens if a show cat has an accident (like if it was hit by a car or something) but limb difference due to genetics or something like cancer is a DQ from pedigree competition because it can indicate something bad you don't want in your preservation breeding gene pool (i.e. it could lead to unhealthy offspring if you were to breed the cat). This is especially true for issues that can be considered "desirable" (like dwarfism), because breeding those on purpose is not considered by CFA to be good for the cat or its offspring, and drives demand for unscrupulous backyard breeding.
Three legged cats to my understanding are allowed in Household Pet š
the tweets are correct in dunking on that man, but I will ad that the ai slop images he's using to illustrate his point are also poorly designed. The "viewer" in the second image isn't even looking at the painting - he's gazing lovingly into Bob Ross's eyes, and calling Bob Ross "simply beautiful." Which, while correct, has nothing to do with the point OP thought he was making.
The term Micro-transaction such is bullshit.
If I go spend 20 dollars at a restaurant we wouldnāt call it a micro-transaction, but if I spent the same amount of money in a video game then it is a micro-transaction?
Itās a bullshit term to try and normalize nickel and dimming people
It's such a weird relic, that term. If I recall correctly, it originated with independent creators attempting to figure out monetization schemes that would work for small websites. Scott McCloud used to propose this idea as a way to fund webcomics outside of the old systems of syndication or advertising revenue. Webcomic artists could sell each page of their comic for a fee as low as a couple of cents, and make a profit on sheer volume.
Then they made their way to video games. And it used to be that they presented a reasonably comprehensible bargain:
You get to play a full-featured videogame for free, in return for which the game will occasionally advertise a premium cosmetic or unlock of some kind, for prices like $.99 or a couple of dollars. This was considered slightly annoying, especially in the mobile gaming space, but the trade-off was clear. Free game, paid optional content for less than the price of a cup of coffee.
The absolute maximal price you'd pay for a League of Legends skin was about $30, and those skins were considered an absolutely outrageous expense for totally dedicated League of Legends lifers, and were expected to be the absolute peak of technical possible quality. And those were still mocked as ridiculous expenses for weirdos, the sort of thing that no normal or average player should ever be expected to blow money on.
Bethesda was mocked for MONTHS for trying to sell $2.50 horse armor cosmetics in Oblivion. Microtransactions? In a premium product? In a sixty dollar game? Absolutely unacceptable! That was a breaking of the bargain!
But Bethesda's transgression was the thin end of a wedge. More and more of those post-launch monetizations started creeping into premium products, and by sheer erosion, by sheer slow grinding normalization, they started to multiply and the prices started to creep up and up and up, and day 1 DLC became normal, and ultimate and premium editions and super ultimate exclusive digital deluxe collector's editions and battle passes and lootboxes and... yeah.
It used to be a... not amazing, but at least a reasonably fair bargain. A transparent bargain. You get to play a game for free, and the price you pay instead is the soft pressure of microtransactionsāactually micro transactionsābeing advertised to you.
But the line has to go up. The number needs to get bigger. The center could not hold.
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1. no way... gummy shark real????
2. sweet william
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm
Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Oh my god?????
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
He's adorable and I love him. An intersex icon for sure š„°
As a sidenote: I'm one of those weird Cat Show People, and one of my partners and I show her cats in CFA. And I first want to say I think that my fellow CFA exhibitors and the organization itself have acted horribly towards this cat and his owner. Even though he has a genetic abnormality, even if he is not allowed to compete, this kind of patronizing and rude behavior is pervasive in the culture of CFA, by virtue of this being a pedigree cat organization and therefore mostly dominated by boomers with time and money (I have it on decent authority from some acquaintances that things like leadership boards attract the most insane kind of white people), and the organization as a whole is not incentivised to do anything about it.
That said, I'm also not entirely happy with how this story has circulated, because it leaves out the information important to understanding the actual problem (especially in the article below, which I believe is the most widespread on the issue):
Dawntreader Texas Calboy was born to be a champion. But he was also born with female colors. Now a political debate has broken out amongst c
From what I understand, Dawntreader Texas Calboy was being shown in Championship (his facebook states he reached Grand Championship status, which is no small feat). The article does not explain this, but Championship in CFA is the category for intact adult cats, and generally includes cats which, if found to be up to breed standard, will be bred to produce more purebred cats, and therefore acts as an endorsement of that particular cat's genetic makeup. While the article above does not specify, it is my assumption tha Texas Calboy is banned from competition in Championship specifically. If he were to be neutered, he could be entered into Household Pet, which is the competitive class for which any fixed, non-aggressive cat is eligible.
I show in Household Pet, and it is traditionally a class accepting and celebratory of cats with strange abnormalities. It's perhaps considered less prestigious by some snobs, but Household Pet entrants are eligible for the same types of awards as pedigree classes, including Grand points (meaning the cat has defeated a certain percentage of cats in its class across at least 3 judges) and national awards. It's the class meant to celebrate cats for simply being cats; I've seen all sorts from a pedigreed Maine Coon with crossed eyes to a shelter cat with severe leg deformities, and often, in my experience, judges take great pleasure in judging HHP because they can use whatever criteria they want instead of referring to a standard template. It's fun and a wonderful way to showcase cats as a pet animal and encourage adoption (shelters will sometimes enter adoptable cats into HHP for PR). It's a lot of fun to participate in and to watch.
But I also have an assumption as to why CFA made the call they did. CFA is known to be the stricter of the two large international show organizations (TICA being its laxer sibling), and generally its focus is on what's called "preservation breeding". Preservation breeding has a twofold aim: breeding the healthiest cat possible as close to the standards of its breed as possible, and avoiding experimental breeding. This often means that it is extremely difficult to get new breeds accepted at CFA and that CFA has a precedent of disqualifying cats with genetic mutations from competing as a pedigree cat (especially in the intact Championship category).
While I have plenty of criticisms about the kinds of breeds CFA finds acceptable sometimes (it's far from infallible - don't get me started on Scottish Folds, and peke-faced Persians are on thin fucking ice), but in general the organization prioritizes the long term health of a cat breed. Munchkins, for example, are not permitted to show in the pedigree classes because their looks are caused by dwarfism. The Canadian Sphynx was removed from the approved breed list for several years due to health concerns before being reinstated. While a number of pedigree breeds are the result of genetic mutation (the Canadian Sphynx, rex cats, the American Wirehair, and the Lykoi are all results of natural, genetic coat mutations), CFA has rigorous standards for breeds seeking recognition and these primarily concern the long term health of the breed.
CFA goes out of its way to discourage experimental breeding, and this is a good thing - experimental breeding encourages interest in strange-looking or unique traits in a cat without care for its well-being, and creates demand for backyard breeding and a worse longevity outlook for the cat - and as a result can be quite harsh to cats with genetic differences because pedigreed Champions are seen as a breeding endorsement, and breeding without regard for genetic abnormalities is how you get the current state of betta fish. Breeding a chimera would be seen as experimental, and CFA explicitly doesn't want to encourage or endorse doing so.
I just wanted to add context the article didn't, but cannot stress enough that how this cat was treated was wrong and indicative of how society at large treats intersex and nonconforming folks every day. CFA's decision may be precautionary, and even reasonable where an animal is involved, but it brings out the worst in CFA's membership and reinforces a lot of the biases many of us in the organization wish to push back against. The article above mentions that the breeder's son is autistic, and that she sees people in CFA treat her cat the way she sees her son treated in everyday life. That has to be heartbreaking for someone who loves cats the way she loves people, for two of her closest to share the same struggles. I don't entirely disagree with CFA's DQ of Texas Calboy, but I do consider it a canary in the coal mine when it comes to how internal CFA culture needs to change. Animals may not be people, and it's important to distinguish that, but when cat fanciers have no qualms saying such things about a cat, I've no doubt they'd have just as few in saying them to a human. And that's the real issue here.
Photo of me with Sisyphus as cat tax for reading this far - we're accepting his 6th place ribbon in this judge's ring at a show in January.
what if I just made my profile picture a male calico cat or something. hurm
Could I suggest a picture of Dawntreader Texas Calboy? He is a beautiful male calico cat who is a chimera. He's also somewhat controversial among some cat fancy associations since he is a male cat with female colors, and some people are strangely transphobic towards him, despite him being a cat? There was even a rule implemented to keep him from competing in a cat show. If you look up his name, he made a few news articles.
Oh my god?????
Yeah you're right about beautiful I'm squeezing him until he pops!!!!! I love this guy I think I'm going to make an edit real quickly Calboy I love you I'm so sorry people are calling you a freak??????
This is funnier than it should be. He's so angry about it. WHY ARE YOU MISGENDERING THE CAT.
To be fair, I don't think he was referring to the cat (who wasn't there) but to the cat's owner (who is a woman and who the author had been asking if anyone could point them in her direction).
Still hilarious that they're pitching a fit over a boy cat being calico, tho. Like idk man maybe your cat show rules are stupid if you're going to gender-lock coloring? /shrugs just me, maybe.
also, hang on - why DON'T they allow three-legged cats? You mean to tell me if an absolutely perfect show cat has some sort of tragic accident resulting in losing a limb (obviously incredibly unlikely considering how pampered these animals are but like WHAT IF), that could no longer be shown?
I enjoyed reading sir gawain and the green knight
I misread this as "sir Gaiwan" and spent a few moments wondering what Chinese teaware had to do with kissing a guy and his wife. I think I've been spending too much time on tea subreddits
if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"
Do not let your child suffer from spicy bananas!
who are your parasocial enemies, like mine are andrew lloyd webber and butch hartman
if i ever see JJ Abrams in these streets it is ON SIGHT
Gomez and Morticia Addams got divorced. I woke up mortified and with a sense of inexplicable dread.
you literally donāt need any other plot and i would watch the movie
Every 'normal' adult is fussing around Pugsley and Wednesday because "poor children that must be so hard for you to see mom and dad break up like this"
But the kid are absolutely unfazed, arguing that "it's alright they will be together again soon". The normie are so sad for the "children clinging to vain hopes" until Morticia and Gomez get married again two weeks after the divorce.
In the meantime Mama and Uncle Fester fight about which one of them will go to whose custody.
They pretend to argue in court and at meeting with lawyers over the splitting of the properties but that's mostly Gomez insisting to leave more and more thing to his wife in an angry voice.
At home they decided not to talk to each other so Lurch has to (begrudgingly) transmit messages from one to the other, even when they are sat on either side of the table.
That works (more or less) then Morticia says one word in french and Gomez run to cover her with kisses until Morticia remind him that they are spliting (that's the only moment he seems to regret the whole thing)
This. All of this.
Wednesday offers to help with split custody of Pugsley. her suggestion involved a big table saw
They fight over who gets to hire the expensive big-firm lawyer and who gets to hire the up-and-coming rookie divorce lawyer. It's a whole Thing.
The up and coming lawyer is Thing?
Meeting Tsul'reksh was probably the best thing to happen to tyranny thus far in her journey in regards to truly setting up her arc. Her and her sisters were created with the specific purpose to serve the creed, and we can assume she's had no other interactions with demons apart from them. The sisters have more human names. Not only that, but despite them still being obviously demons, they also have more appealing/palatable bodies. They were brought into this environment that is forcing them into a specific mold, and yeah, Tyranny might be aware that the creed is bullshit (she was in on it after all) but she still subscribes to their belief that demons are inherently corrupt creatures with no chance of being "saved". She was never given the chance to understand what she truly is outside of the propaganda that's surrounded her from day one.
And Tsul'reksh knows the creed is full of crap too. She also knows what she is and who she is. When she tells Tyranny that her/the knife's purpose is to hurt others, it's not said out of malice, but out of understanding. Because she's had the years of experience when it comes to battling with her own nature. It's not something to be afraid of, but rather something to work with. She knows what it's like to have to navigate this plane, when to conform and when to not. In a way, this is almost like a glimpse into what Tyranny's future could look like - one where she let's go of her fear and embraces what she is. Because she simply just is.
(and then on the other side of things, Araq sort of acts like this extreme mirror to where Tyranny is at right now. Desperate and in pain and yearning the freedom that the "Light" offers.)
You are 100% correct on all counts and I will add that the one thing that wasnt specifically verbalized in that conversation that I hope Tyranny comes to understand is that: she was maid to hurt people and it's her choice who to hurt. She doesnt have to hurt everyone indiscriminately, just like Tsul'rekshi doesnt have to destroy literally everything at all times. Tsul'rekshi has the ability to be discerning with her destruction. I hope that Tyranny's arc leads her to understand that she also has the freedom and agency to be discerning in the suffering she brings. Some things NEED to be destroyed. Some people SHOULD suffer. But not everything, and not everyone.
At the risk of sounding anti-intellectual, I think that college should be free and also not a requirement for employment outside of highly specialized career fields
At the risk of sounding like an effete intellectual, I do actually think you should be allowed to just take college courses indefinitely
technically you can, if you don't care about degrees.
Free Harvard courses. Free Courses from Stanford. Free Courses from MIT. Free courses from Yale. Free courses from Princeton.
Free courses on Coursera.
Free Courses on EDx Free Courses on Alison
For paid, there's The Great Courses+/Wonderium. 20$ a month for unlimited courses.
When searching, the phrases you're looking for are Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), or you can do a general search of say, "free online college courses." Oh, and so you don't get surprised like I did, have an avoid: Hillsdale College is a conservative Christian site and not a valid MOOC place. Sign up with them and you will get things like THIS IS WHY THE LEFT IS TURNING YOUR KIDS TRANS AND GAY in your inbox.
@yourunderwaterskies I wanted to say thank you so much for adding these links, seriously, they've been life-changinglyĀ helpful to me-
And I also wanted to mention that humanitarian organisations have free courses too, like the Red Cross on international humanitarian law.
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