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Cats logic 🤷🐱🐈
It's not that kitty is saying she can't make the wheel go. Kitty is saying she wants to do the wheel WITH her person. Much the same way many cats won't wat unless their person is eating at the same time.
This is a request for social togetherness and it's incredibly sweet
The baby is tired
People doing Platner campaign autopsies and going "This proves that a rich boy can't just pretend to be a hick," no I'm sorry, in addition to that not being what killed his campaign, a rich kid can and does easily get a GOP house seat with strategic use of an oversized pickup truck and a pair or work boots.
Influencer brothers Andrew and Tristan Tate have been arrested by federal authorities Saturday in Miami, according to U.S. Marshals Service.
Some news in the manosphere right now, not that anyone wanted to know.
Apparently they are being prosecuted for additional sexual offenses:
The CPS has decided to prosecute Andrew Tate, 39, with seven further counts of rape, three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and 19 additional charges for offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. The CPS has decided to prosecute Tristan Tate, 38, with one count of sexual assault, two counts of rape and three counts of arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation.
For those not in the know, Andrew Tate is kind of notorious for marketing sex trafficking as an alpha male lifestyle
It's worth reading about his methods.
Andrew Tate's "War Room"
There is talk about assessing vulnerability of women, removing their support systems, how to punish them, etc
This is a very sinister rabbithole.
They have been given so many free passes for this over the years too.
I feel a perpetual deep-seated alienation from most people in academia because everyone behaves like cops and hall monitors, and then I log onto tumblr to see the exact people who do the alienating posting about how emotionally difficult it is for them to report students for (possibly) using AI to write an assignment
wishing hell was real so people like this could be sent there
"Trans people deserve rights and bodily autonomy because they aren't mentally ill-" hey but what if mentally ill people deserve rights and bodily autonomy too have you considered that because you should
If there is one thing I wish well-meaning but uninformed people understood about the ongoing attack on trans people it is that transphobes lie constantly and their actions prove this.
When they say they just have legitimate concerns about the safety of women and children they're lying.
When they say they care about the integrity and fairness of women's sports they're lying.
When they say are just trying to stand up for freedom of speech they're lying.
And when they say they're "gender critical", "gender abolitionists", or "anti-gender" what they really mean is that they want strict gender policing and segregation and transition bans and also that they are terminally bioessentialist.
Even trans people on here often seem to buy that last point and assume that radfems are in any way sincere advocates for gender abolition. They're not. They're doing motte-and-bailey rhetoric on you.
We need to put out periodic reminders in fandom that trying to argue in favor of the divine right of kings or defending wartime atrocities or rich people's entitlement to the deference of indentured servants or whatever is, in fact, way less compelling and far stupider than just going well, that character is hot and this is fiction so I've decided it's all good.
Wanting to fuck the evil demon king because he's gorgeous and tormented is far more respectable than trying to defend his actual policies. If someone accuses you of only liking him because you want to fuck him, you can just say yeah that's true, and then what? Either they kinkshame you or they leave. Checkmate.
A lot of people mention that Outer Wilds is an amazing game that is best experienced completely blind but then don't try to elaborate on that. I will elaborate on it while still not spoiling it.
Let's start with why exactly spoilers matter for this game. I am someone who normally doesn't care too much about getting spoiled and can even build anticipation and interest from hearing story spoilers, but there are a couple of areas where I think spoilers definitely matter even for me: Exploration and Mystery.
Outer Wilds is an open world mystery platformer that not only focuses heavily on exploration and mystery, it is easily in the top tier of games I have played for both elements. The system you explore in the game is immaculately crafted and dense, and it quickly introduces several enigmatic things for you to pursue with layered clues that have you venturing around very unique places so you can discover both clues to how to find other clues and also piece together the greater story.
And, notably, the game does not gate your progress by making you accumulate objects or reward progression with items. The one currency you accumulate as you play is knowledge. You have every tool you will ever need from the moment you complete the "tutorial", but there is a lot of information you don't yet have that will be necessary to progress.
(But something else that's pretty cool is that the game is truly open. You can explore any planet or space structure you wish as soon as you launch for the first time, so you can discover clues out of order or even solve certain puzzles without finding the clues for them by getting lucky, experimenting for a while, or being particularly observant).
This is why going in blind matters here. Spoilers for Outer Wilds don't merely ruin a surprise twist, they change how you experience the game on a very fundamental level and somewhat play it for you. This is also why that first playthrough is so different from any subsequent ones, to a much greater degree than with most other games.
The game's objectives are all tied to your own curiosity. You notice strange or interesting things, you feel curious about what is going on with them, you investigate, and your curiosity is both rewarded and expanded. It's pure joy for the part of you that loves to explore and discover.
I know for some people it might be daunting to be thrown into a star system with a handful of (small but dense) planets plus several other objects to look at with no clear objectives, but just give it an hour and you'll probably find your own way, especially if you paid attention at the museum in your home planet.
Also, while the game does not have realistic physics its setting does follow a consistent set of rules you can learn through experimentation, observation, and learning about the discoveries other characters have made. Mastering these laws feels very rewarding and they are also intimately connected to the core questions of the game. It's very well thought out.
Really good comparison. Information does more than just recontextualize the events of the game, it is your progression.
Knowledge is why you play. Your reward for exploring is knowledge. The tool you use to overcome most obstacles is knowledge. The one thing you have that grows or improves as you play is your knowledge (and I guess your muscle memory and skill at flying?)
Already having the knowledge is a completely different experience. There's still things to enjoy about the game even then, but the experience of discovering things is one of the things the game does best and there really isn't much else like it.
Me explaining why the expansion is amazing, with very minor spoilers about it.
#really want to play this#sadly I find big budget games impossible to allocate time to
I should note that Outer Wilds was not a AAA release by any means. It started as the creative director's college project with help from other students and his sister as the writer.
It's just really polished and well-made, not big budget.
honestly it is amazing how much culture is downstream of Apple just deciding that the iPhone needed to be No Horny Allowed
get it right:
if i'm correcting you on something that matters to me, i'm correcting misinformation
if you're correcting me on something that matters to you, you're engaging in pedantry
The biggest loss in our future will be human disempowerment and the fact our livelihoods will be dependent on government(?) largess.
the idea that a human who has a job and uses their paycheck to buy groceries at the supermarket is an empowered independent agent and a human who gets UBI and uses that money to buy groceries at the supermarket is tragically dependent fundamentally assumes that economies are things that just, like, happen, rather than a vast edifice of human cooperation that results in the existence of money, people willing to pay you it in exchange for labour that can be any number of levels removed from basic sustenance, people who grow food, people who transport the food between where it's grown and where you buy it, people who store it in adequate conditions, people who check it is safe to eat...
you are standing six hundred kilometres past the point where a human is independent and complaining that to take another step would be a tragic loss.
PANIC BUY GASOLINE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some people are saying that the banks are almost out of money and they only have enough left for a few people. I'm not saying this but some people are saying.
It is so ridiculously easy to gain a reputation for being competent by just reading signs.
This is not metaphorical. I mean actual, literal pieces of paper/plastic/metal/whatever explicitly erected to inform the public.
“How did you know this was the right trail?” I read the sign.
“Wow, how did you know what that flower is?” There’s a SIGN.
“How did you know we needed to use the side door?” THERE IS A SIGN POSTED ON THE FRONT DOOR.
Just…why are we having such different experiences of the world? People can read. I KNOW they can read. There’s nothing wrong with their vision.
Just. READ. THE. GOD. DAMN. SIGN.
This also applies to:
Syllabi
Instructions
Plain text of the small text:
This also applies to:
Syllabi
Instructions
THIS ALSO APPLIES TO ERROR CODES.
These two have been on my mind lately
Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees
Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen
If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.
This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.
Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.
Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.
