#( rant )

[ghost-opal]

Tech companies have discovered a new anti-pattern recently and its called violating your muscle memory by putting links to shitty features nobody likes where the most commonly used button used to be

[lionofchaeronea]

Please forgive me for ranting, but...I am so tired of AI. Just so tired. I don't want Microsoft Copilot, or Google Gemini, or Meta AI, or whatever other energy-sucking, water-wasting, mediocrity-spewing LLM is currently being thrust upon me. I just want to be left alone to create in peace.

[orangekittyenergy]

People say about Gen AI ''well its going to be basically in every game in the next few years so get used to it" like, no... do you have any idea how stubborn I am? I will never play another new game in MY LIFE if that is the case. There are plenty of old ones I missed. "Oh what about books and TV?" SAME. I do not care. I will stop consuming new media forever if GenAI is going to be in everything.

Yes, This is absolutely the hill I will die on (AND WE WILL ALL DIE ON IF COMPANIES DONT STOP PUSHING AI AND BUILDING FUCKING DATA CENTERS EVERYHERE FUCK)

[lighter-fluid-73]

love how TERFs go on and on about “TIMs” aka trans women but i have never not once seen someone do the same to trans men.

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i’ve seen one argument that says that trans men are simply confused girls that were brainwashed by the patriarchy. like, no? i concede that some trans men lean a bit too far into the toxic masculinity of their cis peers, but it doesn’t change the fact that they are still men. they are simply trying to live their lives authentically as themselves; i don’t see how this is an issue. in fact, i think because it’s such a non-issue, no TERF i’ve seen here has ever gone after trans men.

your argument is that both that women don’t need to conform to the stereotypes of femininity, but then when trans women become involved suddenly not being feminine enough is a problem??

and i want to point out something else- they always define women as people with female sex organs, but they don’t seem to realize that some women simply lack them? intersex people exist, people. i’m tired of this “adult human female” bullshit.

and we’re just ignoring the cis women that have had their female sex organs removed for medical reasons. by your logic, they are no longer women.

and don’t get me started on the statistics that they use to justify their hatred of trans women. i get that a select few of them have done horrible acts, but that’s true of every group? the vast majority of the trans women i know are lovely people who simply want to be left alone to live their lives.

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my beliefs on the matter:

- anyone can identify as whatever they wish. sex organs have no effect on any of this. male? female? dog? attack helicopter? go wild!

- trans people are not inherently more likely to commit violent crimes. every group has bad apples; they are no excuse to generalize and then discriminate against trans people.

- feminism is valid. i love and support women as much as the next person on this website. however, being a feminist is not an excuse to hate on people who are already oppressed enough as is and are trying to live their lives.

- good men are out there, and it’s our job to foster healthy masculinity and respect. i promise you it is more productive than hating on trans people.

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bottom line: trans people are just trying to exist and not making it anyone’s problem. please just let them live

[awkwardpinkgirl]

how it feels to post on tumblr most days

[shamebats]

The whole concept of migraine triggers is just perfectly suited for making disabled people who are already suffering waste time & energy obsessing over every single thing they do every day, especially their diets, and to then blame themselves for their attack like their problem is a lack of discipline & willpower and not the fact that they have a chronic illness. If you get migraines, that isn't because your lifestyle & diet isn't sufficiently optimized, it's because you have a migraine disorder.

[darrelodin]

So this morning I found out that the RPG Maker forums will be shutting down this year, and it’s really just another depressing thing to see.

If you read the link the company does of course say they’re replacing the existing forums with new ones, and I’m sure no one would say the old ones didn’t perhaps need a lil bit of a glow up, some tech debt fixing… but there’s a few key notes in there:

They are NOT carrying over any history, data messages etc. from the old forums

They are NOT archiving, retaining or in any way saving the existing forums in any way

They have NOT provided any reasoning past ‘as part of continued efforts to support developers’

As an offhand, moderate read, this sounds to me like a desire for some change in the forums but deciding nuking everything is less expensive than rebuilding and carrying over info.

If I’m cynical, and likely realistic? Probably to increase sales of their latest GameMaker software by making it inherently more difficult for someone getting the older software for cheap pushing it to its limits. The amount of institutional knowledge on those forums is absurd.

And even if it is a benign reason, it’s still terrible because what do you mean you’re doing this with no recourse or potential for change? You sell software that runs on community goodwill? In an era where people are pulling away to open source software?? Crazy.

There are yeeeaaars of answers, plugins, suggestion, community built up on those forums - I’ve used the em to learn and grow my own skillet!!! And soon it won’t exist.

At the very least, they gave a ‘heads up’ - the deletion occurs mid December, so archiving by the community is possible from now. It’s just absurd that it needs to happen in the first place.

It’s just reflective of how the industry is right now - and why it’s so important for communities to grow and build up knowledge together, knowledge that is NOT reliant on a company that can pull the plug at any time in the very name of the very customers, users and supporters they are screwing over.