like every other game dev born after 1985 i’ve had thoughts of making my own Pokemon-like and the main roadblock for me has been: how do i come up with a typing system that doesn’t just mimic Pokemon’s? and the answer is you don’t come up with a system. maybe there’s types but they’re completely ad-hoc - you could even have one-off types just for one specific mon or move if you want. the flexibility is dizzying; you can add dozens or hundreds of new types whenever. sound type, radiation type, magic type. go wild! you begin to run into combinatorial explosion. strengths and weaknesses grow more nonsensical as you start skipping over most of your ever-growing type chart anytime you add a new one. after all, who cares whether food-type mons are weak or strong versus electricity? they just need to be weak against munch-type attacks, and maybe mold-type too. to make full use of the increasingly-specific types you’ve been coming up with, some of your mons end up with 5 or 10 types. your spidershark monster is, at the very least, a spider, shark, swim, beast, and bug type. overlaps happen; redundancies crop up. music type, nuclear type, mystic type. have you done those before? don’t worry about it. 3 years into development you cannot imagine having ever hated anyone as much as you hate yourself
this is not a cautionary tale. i think everyone should do this
The Nintendo DSi is able to connect to an online store similar to the Wii Shop Channel,called the DSi Shop. Users will be able to download DSiWare games and applications to the internal memory or the SD card of the user’s DSi system. The DSi will be released in Japan on November 1
Long wait for Australia to get this product zZzZzZ
pass this post GENTLY it’s a priceless relic of the First Age
Tumblr staff is antiblack and transmisogynistic but Cohost isn’t a better option. Cohost’s team includes former Discord moderator Kara, known for condoning “cub porn” (pedophillic furry art) on the platform. Since Kara formerly went by the handle “allthefoxes”, a reference to a lolicon group, she’d have a vested interest in its allowance. This loophole in moderation carries over to Cohost. Written plainly in their community guidelines.
Note the emphasis on “human” minors and “realism”.
The deeper I dig about this circle of people the sicker I feel. Cohost’s banning of toonimal was likely a PR move given the company they keep. It’s a bare minimum move (one Tumblr still hasn’t taken for some reason) that they don’t deserve all this credit for.
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I would also like to point out that the original screenshot that tries to paint cohost as allowing non-realistic CP is deliberately taken out of context and then blamed on a trans woman, in fact if you click the link to their guidelines and scroll down to the section labelled “fictional 18+ content featuring minors” it says right there that non-photorealistic visual art is also banned. The reason they specify photorealistic in the first screenshot is because the first screenshot is from a section talking about the law, because photorealistic drawn CP is illegal but non-photorealistic isnt.
This entire post is stuff taken out of context to try and paint a trans woman as a pedophile based on rumors for simply existing online.
Thanks to everyone who did their due diligence on this, something I failed to do. It was point blank transmisogynistic for me to take this hearsay at face value. Kaara is right, “all the things” was in fact an old meme in 2012, and is a more plausible explanation for her old handle. With that context, extrapolating that Cohost’s community guidelines are her fault, or her handle is a reference to a lolicon group, is nonsense. Nothing but a transmisogynistic willingness to believe the worst about transfems. To Kaara and every other transfem that had to see this post on their dash, I’m sorry. In light of the persecution transfems are experiencing on and offline, especially now, transmisogyny exempt people like me need to do better. I saw bad things said about her and immediately spread them. As a self-proclaimed ally I should’ve stopped myself right then and there and checked that instinct. But I didn’t. And for that I am truly and deeply apologetic. I’ll edit the original post to exclude the part about Kaara and link to this thread of reblogs debunking it. Transfems feel free to drop your mutual aid posts, gofundmes or cashapps in my messages. I don’t have much but opening my purse and boosting is the least I can do in light of this.
Hey OP, I just want to acknowledge and thank you for the retraction. It’s genuinely nice to see someone handle a situation like this with respect and maturity.
stories fueled by miscommunication are irritating at minimum but i’m laughing at the person of interest episode where the entire conflict was “married couple each individually hires a different assassin for their spouse” because they have shit communication skills, creating this gem of a timeline:
kidnapping them and leaving them tied up in a room together to force them to speak to each other for the first time in years
“how many times can a person redo their kitchen? i liked the one we had three kitchens ago” “if you’re okay with MEDIOCRITY—”
this tactic actually working and encouraging them to talk, bringing up the real issue that caused a schism years past (which was literally just a misunderstanding that upset one party, and their upset caused the OTHER’s upset, and now they hate each other)
them realizing they DON’T hate each other, they just harbored misplaced resentments
a teary, heartfelt “i’m so sorry i tried to kill you, honey” followed almost immediately by the arresting officers pulling them away from each other while they try to kiss over the gurney carrying one of the assassins out of their house
toxic power couple of the year award goes to these two fucking morons
pages 1-18: bdsm sexts pages 19-47: problematic steven universe opinions pages 48-52: opposed the PATRIOT act and FOSTA-SESTA (suspicious??!?) page 53: HD CCTV footage of the person in question killing someone with a hammer (NOTE: this part is optional dont sweat it. if youre calling out a trans woman more bdsm sexts will do in a pinch) pages 54-55: obscure forum beef from 2012 (guest section) page 56: call to action / affirmation that You, the Reader, are a Good Person, and perhaps even a National Hero, for reading this,
you said something in your take on the latest debacle thats been rooting around my head like a feral hog. this is a total paraphrase but "moderation is not to prevent bullies from hurting people its to keep a nice paint coat of politeness" i'd like to see you elaborate on that tbh, as like, critique of existing systems of moderation and what could be done better. what you think moderation Should be
Let me answer with a real example that happened to me. Early 2023, someone on here sent me a DM to point me to an asshole who was spamming some popular anime fandom tag with TERF shit (basically, taking pictures of characters from that anime and making them into anti-trans memes, totally unrelated with the actual fandom, just pictures and basic shit like “trans women are men” in white all-caps text, etc). I wasn’t a mod, so I couldn’t do anything myself, but I could report it using the special staff fast-lane (basically, go to the mods team channel in slack, point them to what was going on).
A super nice rank-and-file person from the ToS team got the posts removed ASAP and all was good. Until a few hours later, when her boss got into the slack thread where we had been talking about those posts to tell her that it was a mistake to remove them, because they didn’t go against the rules: the posts wasn’t addressing anyone in particular (so no harassment rule violation) and legally wouldn’t be considered hate speech (so no hate speech rule violation).
That’s what I mean. The person on the team who removed the posts cared about preventing bullies from hurting people: She saw someone being a little shit to others in tumblr and said “not on my watch, you fucker”.
On the other side, her boss cared about keeping the coat of politeness: Legally speaking, the TERF wasn’t doing anything that could get them in problems, so for the boss, it wasn’t anything tumblr mods should be involved with.
What I think moderation should be? I think moderation should be opinionated. I think people should be banned for the intend, not for the words. The context matters: A trans person punching up and wishing a comically cartoonish death to a billionaire is way less harmful than a random people posting casual transphobic content on unrelated tags. But to evaluate that, you need to have an opinionated moderation, not some rules trying to establish some level of ‘fair-play’ between equally-valid opinions.
literally they just used an interpolator technology to make the the lines follow the curve of the face regardless of the camera angle. Thats a shader. That is literally just a fancy shader. Claiming any procedural technology is the same as midjourney is INCREDIBLY fucking disingenuous. Goddamnit
This is what I mean by “At some level of micro managing an AI it becomes a tool again, like a rendering program or a photo shop brush” Artificial intelligence or complex generative algorithms aren’t inherently bad
‘beasts’ are not completely analogous to monsters, in my mind. a ‘beast’ is any creature born from the space where the human mind plays with, stylizes, and gives symbolic significance to various aspects of the animal kingdom; whether simply reflecting a real creature through the lense of culture, iconography, and anthropomorphism, or creating one from the symbolic and mythic language of its various parts. a monster is an overlapping but different thing
but saying “autism is an invisible disability” is widely inaccurate & borderline aspie supremacist.
for many of us, our autism is highly visible and i don’t mean the “dress a little quirky a lil absent minded cover our ears when loud noises” just a lil weird kind of visible
this post is for those of us who can’t mask, who high support needs, who nonverbal, who stims all. the. time. who just want to be told “you don’t look autistic” for once in their life, those who will e never appear “normal,” those of us who cannot hide those of us who appear disabled to untrained eye.
yes technically if you know what to look for, anyone’s autism can be visible. yes visible depends on context. no this post not about you.
this post is not about high masking people. you all have so many posts already give us one space to talk about us. make your own post
reblog this version goddamn it
by highly visible autism i mean “able tell first few glance” not “well if look close and know where look and depend on when and how feel if am chose stimming and—”
For me it’s still mostly invisible, as in you won’t guess it from just seeing someone stand in place?
Missing limb is visible. Down syndrome is visible. Blindness is visible.
It counts in specific situation though, like ‘will you be screamed at for using disables parking space’ stuff. It’s not universal.
so. apologize for am having trouble understand. if by “for me it still mostly invisible” you mean your own autism mostly invisible, then cool, nothing to say to that, ignore next paragraph, other than brief “on post centering visibly autistic, why feel need talk about that”
but if by “for me it still mostly invisible” you mean “for me (all) autism still fall in invisible category,” even after post talking about how it can be highly visible, from someone who visibly autistic, to put in kindest way possible suggest you get out of own circle of curated autistic people & actually meet entire spectrum. because autistics who cannot mask (of all support needs) exist. because autistics whose symptoms so debilitating or present in certain way, cannot hide it, exist. because high support needs autistic people exist. because nonverbal nonspeaking autistic people exist. because autistics who move in ways that immediately scream “developmentally disabled!” exist. because autistics who just stand there n stranger can still tell autistic or something wrong, exist. because if you do mean what this paragraph assumes you mean, you so blatantly ignoring & speaking over us, & feel like you have authority define our own experience for us over us, in post made by us for us outlining ways we visible
also invite you to learn about visible difference vs visible disability. n how two overlap sometimes and how they separate distinct.
That’s why I specifically said “seeing someone stand in place”.
As far as I’m aware, autism doesn’t disfigure your body in a way that makes it visually apparent. Which makes you more vunerable to, for example, people screaming at you for using disabled parking spaces.
That’s all I said. Hope it’s clear this time.
once again. need you educate self about difference between visibly disabled versus visibly different before engaging again.
yes most of autism* don’t inherently cause visible differences. which is why this post about visible disability and not visible differences.
yes, if hold an autistic person without other comorbidities in one position. and frozen in time & place. probably not able tell visible difference. because it not visible difference. n never once said it was. we agree on that.
1) but. from get go, am already super clear am talking about visible disability not visible differences.
2) but then you use example where time free flowing—whether or not be judged in disabled parking spaces. because can assure you there autistic person who just exist there, whether stand or sit or whatever, n naturally move body hold body exhibit symptoms in way that visible within one glance despite no visible difference. that’s why say it can be visible disability.
also encourage you think more abt implied idea of… ya know, know many instances of people with visible differences be yelled at for taking disability dedicated spaces like disabled parking lots.
*ETA there also many congenital & genetic & chromosomal disorders that do cause visible difference & they highly associated with autism (maybe even safe to say they cause the autism). visible difference still caused by said congenital genetic chromosomal disorders but they often do tangled with autism it hard to untangle. hence why be safe & say “most of”. idk just feel like convo isn’t complete without explicitly acknowledging this even tho like, not inherent autism alone
Inflation’s been fucking everyone for decades. Stop blaming Biden.
Why stop blaming him. Just because every single president the US has ever had is a neoliberal peice of junk doesnt absolve biden of the blood on his hands
it’s always wild to me how many people use social media exactly like the fake users they make up in tech demos do. just commenting on chipotle’s post about a new type of steak like “😍 can’t wait to try it!” and reacting to articles on mass death events with “😥”
not to be overly rude but i think that in order to be a proponent of these types of theories you need to exist in such a compacted online bubble that you’ve completely forgotten that the world’s leagues of aunts, odd brother in laws, and dimwitted general managers are extremely capable of owning and using computers
Nomad is also doing a ten percent off on Tuesdays promo, for as long as it’s Tuesday in the United States Pacific Standard Time Zone (approx. ten more hours at time of reblog). You can combine that with another user’s invite code (like mine: SAM667GL) for $3 off. All of this together means you can currently buy a one-week eSIM for just over $5, or get a nearly twenty percent discount on the thirty-day, 10G eSIM. The purchasing process is very straightforward, and then all you have to do is forward an email to gazaesims. Please consider taking ten minutes.
Please don’t skip. (blm) It’s black history month still, please consider donating to a friendly black girl that is raising her 7 year old sister. I desperately need help with food and bills. As i try to get food stamps. Any donation is appropriate.
Shout out to this one woman from Blair Witch Project. According to the directors everyone involved in the scene was a plant, except for her, some random woman from the real Burkitsville who was asked about the Blair Witch and immediately made up a story about seeing a documentary on the Discovery Channel about disappearing hunters. While carrying a child. Unsung MVP of horror
I truly am obsessed with how Knives Out was like. Hello Daniel Craig, man who has spent the past two decades of his career being alternately beaten up and objectified playing an action hero with no personality. Would you like to please put on a shirt and an incomprehensible vaguely Texan accent and flex your character acting dark comedy muscles as well as your pecs for a while. And he’s like BOY WOULD I and they made a work of art. Also love that they put Chris Evans in sweaters. Get your beefcakes then dress them nice make them soft and give them some bonkers character work to do it’s what cinema needs more of
I love that several people have responded to this with “op I forgive you cause you’re Scottish but that’s not a Texan accent” which is fair thank you I appreciate it but no two people have agreed on what accent it is which is also Absolutely fair and hilarious as a reaction to this film
All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of. And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs. This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations. The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric. TERFs aren’t the only people who do this! It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it. You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!” That’s how I felt seeing this.
The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.
All people have a tendency to be unconsciously biased toward seeing trans women as untrustworthy, unsafe, lacking vulnerability, the problem to be solved rather than a person to be taken care of. And this is not less true in trans and queer and feminist communities. It’s just more unconscious, and more propped up with social justice, feminism, queer lib, leftist, and anti-oppression beliefs. This book is talking about this in context to a physical public situation of harassment, but this is true of social conflicts too, including on social media, in friend groups, in all kinds of situations. The unconscious bias also gets taken advantage of by people who know what they’re doing and hide behind that bias to make their mistreatment of transfems seem reasonable—again, often supported with social justice and anti-oppression rhetoric. TERFs aren’t the only people who do this! It felt so incredible to see this spelled out in print, plain as day, an actual book calling out a real thing I’ve experience more times than I can count, that all transfems I know go through, and that I still feel crazy for seeing because there’s so much gaslighting about it. You know how when you KNOW something is real, but you feel defensive about that knowledge, like you have to be ready to hold onto it, and then you see something confirming that knowledge for you in no uncertain terms and it feels like “wow maybe I wasn’t crazy all this time!” That’s how I felt seeing this.
The book linked is free to read and download. See the link above.
started playing disco elysium on monday. tuesday i woke up sweating yet ice cold after having incredibly horny dreams about old men. what does this mean?
nobody can host cuz they all live with their parents and i also can’t host cuz i live with my parents AND they removed the LOCK on the bathroom at my favorite punk club bc too many people were giving BLOWJOBS in THERE
remembering when I posted about the history of the lap dulcimer as an Appalachian instrument and someone reblogged with a six paragraph rant berating me for my “bad history info” and I was so confused until I got to the end and realized they didn’t know the difference between a lap dulcimer and a hammer dulcimer.
one of the major differences being that the lap dulcimer is only about 200 years old and comes from Appalachia, whereas hammered dulcimer is literally ancient and has its roots in West Asia and North Africa.
So you can imagine when the person thought I said the hammered dulcimer comes from 19th century Appalachia. Well. They were mad 🙂
nex was 16. they had a cat. his name was zeus. they played Minecraft. they were 16. they were beaten to death. they were a straight-a student. nobody called an ambulance. they loved rock music. they listened to the radio after school. they were 16. they were choctaw. they were 16. were.
NOBODY CALLED A FUCKING AMBULANCE!!
nobody called an ambulance. they reportedly could not walk independently to the nurse’s office. the police say they didn’t die from trauma. the police have a video of them before and after the incident. they’re going to release it “at some point.” their head was repeatedly slammed into the floor. nobody called an ambulance.
i want to be so fucking clear. even if the school isn’t lying, and nex could walk. even if the nurse was qualified enough to say nex didn’t need to go to the hospital. if a person’s head has any above minor trauma, you need to go to the hospital. immediately. even if it turns out to be nothing. because, as we’ve seen here, it might not be nothing. it might have you dying 40 minutes after collapsing, a day later.
head injuries regularly kill, because people think it’s not that bad.
they died suspended. they suspended nex instead of calling an ambulance.
they wanted to be a veterinarian, or a marine biologist. they watched anime. they were in the school’s gsa club, native american student association, and drama club.
my favorite thing about the mystery genre is that we all accept the concept of “world famous detective” without hesitation even though that is absolutely not a real category of celebrity
trans women deserve better. we are barely shown basic fucking decency irl online it doesnt matter where we are. it doesnt matter if we even move to a different website and it doesnt matter if people have to break data protection laws along the way - transmisogynists will stop at nothing to degrade and humiliate trans women to justify their abuse and convince you that “he- i mean it- i mean they deserved it”.
please stand up for the trans women in your life because it did not start and certainly will not end with predstrogen.
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"'Someone broke into my house and was holding me at gunpoint until the police arrived and negotiated a two house solution wherein I get to keep the basement.'
Accurate!
And then i tried to fight him to get him out myself and the police came and locked me in just the bathroom.
Then i tried fighting him again and now the police are currently beating the shit out of me in the bathroom
At this point, it's less than a basement. It's been reduced to the storage under the stairs.
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