i’m sure that everyone has noticed by now that the homestuck game is very, very late. boy, do i have a fun reason why!
you may remember that what pumpkin announced that the game studio “the odd gentlemen” was originally attached to develop the game, and you may also remember that they quietly moved to in house development in 2014. what they didn’t tell you: the reason they did this was that odd gentlemen stole kickstarter money and spent it on king’s quest.
If there was actual pushback against horrible things, we might not have nearly as many of the measles-infested corpses of dead children lying around as we do.
A big trigger warning for gay conversion therapy here as well as drugs. And spoilers, obviously.
So, there’s a female character named Soleil in Fire Emblem Fates. She is a lesbian, that is her actual canon character trait. She speaks about being attracted to girls and she finds men ugly, and yet you can’t romance her as the female Kamui (the player avatar), only as the male Kamui. How you may ask? Well, you’ll regret asking.
So the male Kamui drugs Soleil with a magic powder (without consent) that makes her perceive men as women, during this she begins having feelings for the player, so far suggesting it’s only because she now perceives them as a woman. When the powder wears off, she finds herself in love and attracted to the male Kamui sexually, asking him to touch her and so forth.
In her early dialogue she speaks of her lesbianism as a weakness preventing her from being a strong woman, and this is what causes the player to go through with drugging her and “turning her straight”. Once again, there is no option to romance Soleil with the female Kamui, despite her being a lesbian, you must go through with magical gay conversion therapy if you wish to romance her.
Countless people commit suicide every year due to gay conversion therapy or simply from having forced heterosexual advances pushed on them despite stating their homosexuality. Thanks Nintendo. If you wish to read the full dialogue translated from the Japanese release,here is is.
But hey, at least you can buy the “Lesbian” version of the game, right? After all, this isn’t in that version, only in the other one.
Its totally legitimate to fly the confederate battle flag to show your southern pride, just like I wear a swastika to show my love of well designed inter city transport systems
What do machines dream of? New images released by Google give us one potential answer: hypnotic landscapes of buildings, fountains and bridges merging into one.
IM3: Tony having severe anxiety about New York to the point that mentioning the wormhole can trigger him into a panic attack
AoU: a joke about how Tony won’t shut the hell up about how awesome he was for flying through the wormhole
this seems totally in character for me? Tony Stark’s coping mechanism is pretending to be a wish-fulfillment character really really hard. In IM3, he stops being able to rely on that coping mechanism as much; in AoU, he’s recovered enough that he can go back to being like “trauma? me? why would I have TRAUMA? nope you are mistaken I am totally awesome”
…you might just hang around with the wrong people :)
At least in tech circles, there are definitely people who idolise old computers and operating systems as being better designed than all this modern rubbish, that takes ages to boot up and uses too much memory etc. etc.
Windows ME was godawful. Windows 98 was functional. Which is more than can be said about anything after XP.
People please, when I talked about old operating systems I meant CP/M and the Apple II and Linux pre-multiprocessor days, not anything later than 1995 :)
My dad insists everything since COBOL is just an unnecessary ui
It is a sad failure of our society that we haven’t managed to port Doom to abacuses.
I’m one like five people on planet earth who finds Ayn Rand’s politics …questionable… but still unironically enjoys Atlas Shrugged as a novel.
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Apparently, this view is much more common among older generations, at least from the anecdotal evidence I’ve received (specifically, my mother, and her elaborate social network). Cultural zeitgeist, I guess?
Computer science student Zach Anderson, 19, met a girl, 17, on the
“Hot or Not?” app. He was from Elkhart, Indiana. She was 20 minutes over
the border in Niles, Michigan. They hooked up. Once.
But it turned out the girl was really 14. She’d lied to Anderson and
also in her profile. Now Zach sits in a Michigan jail, serving 90 days.
When he gets out he will be on the Sex Offender Registry for 25 years.
Does anyone thinking treating him this way is necessary to keep kids safe? Anderson and his family certainly don’t.
Neither does his supposed underage victim. The girl readily admitted that she lied about her age, and in this WSBT-TV interview her
mother admitted that Anderson “didn’t do anything my daughter didn’t
do.” Everyone agrees the encounter was completely consensual. The only
reason the police became involved at all is because the girl suffers
from epilepsy, and when she didn’t come home as quickly as expected her
mom worried and called the cops for help.
In this excellent South Bend Tribune article, the mom told a reporter that she didn’t just ask the judge for leniency, “we asked him to drop the case.”
But court records show that Berrien County District Court Judge Dennis Wiley (who once jailed a woman
for 10 days over Christmas because she cursed while paying a traffic
ticket in the county clerk’s office) paid none of the participants any
mind. At sentencing he told Anderson, “You went online, to use a
fisherman’s expression, trolling for women to meet and have sex with.
That seems to be part of our culture now: meet, hook up, have sex,
sayonara. Totally inappropriate behavior. There is no excuse for this
whatsoever.”
i had no fucking clue until yesterday that jeb bush’s name isn’t fucking jeb those are his initials. john ellis bush. yes just like fucking GOB/george oscar bluth on arrested development good fucking god
is it not common knowledge that the bluths were… based on the bushes…. like the entire show is essentially the greatest political satire of the early war on terror years? they obviously took on lives of their own but the show had its roots in satirizing the bush family………
The sort of decay of that as a narrative concept happened due to the Bluths transcending their mere human caricature bonds and becoming Platonic ideals of upper-class-twit-itude, which is probably more impressive than anything directly intentional out of Mitchell Hurwitz’s head. (cf. Sit Down, Shut Up)
