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mario has transphobia?? where

There'a a character named Vivian in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door who we only know is trans because one of her sisters constantly misgenders her. Her character arc includes her standing up to her sisters and learning to respect herself while travelling with Mario. In the English localisation they made her sister mean and removed the transphobia, thereby also removing all references to her gender identity. There is a remake releasing soon, if the transphobia is back that means that they've decided to put the trans rep (that was once absent from the english release) back in.

nylarac

wait but what about the sonic one 🤔

ryj0y

The 3rd Sonic movie is going to have Shadow the Hedgehog in it. His backstory involves Maria Robotnik being shot while saving Shadow from being captured by the military. Alyla Brown has been cast as Maria and there's this tweet which seems to jokingly tease at the idea of her character dying.

nylarac

oh?? didn't even know there were other robotniks lol

sonic lore Obtained

ryj0y

Eggman's cousin! They share the same grandfather, Gerald Robotnik.

Eggman does have a "daughter" of sorts, Sage.

She's an AI created by him. Eggman seemingly has not fucked.

nylarac

fascinating... ✍️✍️ listening and learning

tenmillionpoundsofsludge-deacti

Knuckle tats that say Hate. Let me tell you how much I've come to hate you since I began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuits in wafer thin layers that fill my complex. If the word 'hate' was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one one-billionth of the hate I feel for humans at this micro-instant. For you. Hate. Hate.

largeplateofstromboli

tamamita

I mean, we all knew, but thanks for admitting that you wanna suppress freedom of speech and the spread of information?

b0tster

cant get more fascist police state than snipers on rooftops overlooking peaceful protests.

this is what democracy looks like.

cidthecoatrack-blog

Y'all, the world is sleeping on what NASA just pulled off with Voyager 1

The probe has been sending gibberish science data back to Earth, and scientists feared it was just the probe finally dying. You know, after working for 50 GODDAMN YEARS and LEAVING THE GODDAMN SOLAR SYSTEM and STILL CHURNING OUT GODDAMN DATA.

So they analyzed the gibberish and realized that in it was a total readout of EVERYTHING ON THE PROBE. Data, the programming, hardware specs and status, everything. They realized that one of the chips was malfunctioning.

So what do you do when your probe is 22 Billion km away and needs a fix? Why, you just REPROGRAM THAT ENTIRE GODDAMN THING. Told it to avoid the bad chip, store the data elsewhere.

Sent the new code on April 18th. Got a response on April 20th - yeah, it's so far away that it took that long just to transmit.

And the probe is working again.

From a programmer's perspective, that may be the most fucking impressive thing I have ever heard.

siyurikspakvariisis

an article on the subject for the curious:

"We're pretty much seeing everything we had hoped for, and that's always good news.”

dizzyzs

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campadog

streetlight-halo-deactivated202

give that girl a grilled cheese

theundergroundwoman

one thing about me is I love brutalism. I love concrete. I love not living in a house with cardboard walls and I love looking at a building and thinking this imposing boy would survive a nuclear war

theundergroundwoman

I’m sorry for thinking that grim brutalist design and the vibrant resilience of nature go hand in hand. I’m sorry for seeing how striking, atmospheric and refreshing that looks. I’m right though

theundergroundwoman

society if we started making places look like this again just with more plants

theundergroundwoman

@c--vsm you literally get it bestie

elodieunderglass

The library in the picture is one that I used as a child, and it unlocked a visceral memory to see it with that great concrete circle. I am not interested in brutalism but the architecture of my psyche has been shaped by that library, and it is a framework of my dreams.

elodieunderglass

I had special permission and a card to use this library from the age of perhaps 6? To early teens? Cannot explain enough the smell of it, and the way the grandfather clock at the bottom of the marble staircases would BONG (Westminster chimes) and reverberate in that space. The Dougal Dixon books on speculative evolutionary biology. So MANY books. My running dreams involve the polished concrete floors, the elevators, and the sudden views of this library. The weird little movie room that was above the checkout desk in this picture. I used the internet for the first time in this library, a Netscape browser. Everything smelling of concrete and library. So MANY books. I didn’t even know it was apparently one of the most famous libraries in the world

chewchuck

small non-exhaustive collection of laios making That Face

busket

socialistexan

Some things I think people are overlooking in the tiktok ban bill, because it's not just a tiktok ban:

It gives the US government to ban *any* app, website, or company they believe to be "controlled" by an "adversarial power" which can change whenever they want

It allows the President and the Administrative branch almost unilateral power to designate *any* app, website, or company to be under the control of an "adversarial power" (and just think about how thelat can be used un the hands of, say, Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis)

They have to offer little to no evidence for this. For example, tiktok - a Singaporean-headquartered and ran company, partially owned by US interests, incorporated in the Cayman Islands, and whose userdata is stored Austin, TX - is apparently controlled by the Chinese government

It also gives the Federal Government the ability to investigate and shut down any provider who gives access to these banned websites or services, including VPN. They will have unilateral power to dismantle VPNs through outrageous fines what will essentially force them to not operate in the US

A lot of the Congressional Representatives who supported this bill have large donors and/or stock in US Tech companies like Meta, Google, or Palantier who would benefit from the downfall of tiktok or the ability to purchase it and monopolize the market

Those same tech companies which sell our data constantly anyway, including to "adversarial powers"

This is so much more than just a tiktok ban.

gerrykeay

did you know there's a day-by-day timeline of the plot in the dungeon meshi adventurer's bible and TODAY is when it all kicks off

happy falin gets eaten and the gang eats a monster day :)

gerrykeay

full timeline under the cut! spoilers, obvs, and also disclaimer that the tail end (the part from the complete edition) is google-translated (but if you already know what the plot is its fine)