Zip up allowed me to regulate heat better.

Nicely said. I fall into the anarchist camp for that very reason, because the ML cultural vanguard routinely results in people like me getting shafted. The beautiful and intoxicating world MLs describe shatters rather violently when everyone in your particular community gets treated as some foreign actor simply for not adhering to a traditional social hierarchy. It’s hard for people like me to not see the direction ML takes communism as a complete betrayal and abandonment of the principles behind deconstructing unjust hierarchies.

A lot of people in post Warsaw Pact countries like my parents are so traumatized by this shit, that you can’t even mention the word communism around them without them throwing a tantrum. And while they are objectively wrong for doing so, the damage done to them is real and should not be ignored. And sadly, most MLs I have met so far willfully distance them selves from this or label me a foreign actor and start accusing me of reading news I’ve never heard of, or start telling me that china is not tyrannical, as if I said anything of that kind. I’m yet to have a conversation with a proud ML that doesn’t immediately become them accusing me of things I didn’t say or start recommending me books on irrelevant topics I already agree on.

That one prioritizes unifying against an actively violent existential threat while the other wants the freedoms they were promised. One is fighting the right to even breathe, the other has the luxury to think about the specifics. Both fight for the same general ideals and it’s not really a rule, there are plenty of anarchist movements outside of western countries, and vice versa.

Always find it curious, I have it the other way around, I know like 2 trans guys IRL.

Aye… On ali I can get a cheap cable for like a dollar, not to mention how easy it is to get free shipping there. Meanwhile at my local electronics shop, I’m looking at 6+. Like it’s ridiculous. I can have something flown to me from China for almost an order of magnitude cheaper??? Our economy is very silly.

On The Line, a host loves using the analogy that 1% of the population is remarkably close the entire Russian population. So it’s like saying we have men, women and russians, but those don’t count, because they are an anomaly.

In Czech they are both feminine :3

Literally nobody claimed otherwise.

It confuses me too. Most HRT medications were originally developed for cis people. I find it cruel to restrict access for trans and gender non-conforming people when the same treatments are readily available to cis people.

Yup! Not many people know the impact of those filters tho. When I was emulating as a kid I hated CRT filters because I just saw them as noise (which many arguably are, it’s not trivial making a good CRT filter). Also if you used one of those pixel edge smoothing filters (like I used to) it would be even further from the intended look.

Of course I’m not the fun police, I believe everyone should be free to run their games as they please. I just find it fascinating that there even is such a big difference!

If you look closely you can see it really does only bleed to the 2 pixels right next to it (horizontally, because that’s how the scan line travels). The dots you see don’t represent a single pixel. For example the hair, on the right in the sharp image you can see a single lone bright pixel for the hair, but on the CRT it’s 4 dots. I’m assuming 3 are probably the original pixel and the 4th is a bleed, but that’s just me guessing :P

There are countless more examples online and youtube videos about it, highly recommend ^^

I don’t see any detail I can’t find in the sharp image. Except for the off screen stuff at the very top and bottom, since CRT pixels aren’t perfectly square and who ever made this image decided to fit by width. Nonetheless there are countless more example online and videos dedicated to this on youtube. Highly recommend :)

Not sure if you played on a CRT in the past, but nonetheless it’s interesting how different things looked. Here is my favorite example.

I feel ya. For me the eye opening moment was the full scale invasion of Ukraine. I grew up with the ideas of the unprecedented era of peace and human rights as a given hammered into my head, so I made it a moral duty to follow the war semi daily once it escalated. I live only one country over, so we’re next on putin’s campaign. And yet half the people here feel just fine with this arrangement. Our lackluster response, our bickering over the smallest things while this future defining horror show unfolds at our doorstep, it’s all quite sad.

Anyways, since then I’ve been doing my best to understand people, to go out of my way and educate my self on what people are going through. I still have a lot to learn, but I refuse to stay ignorant, because it only leads to more pain.

Yea… Tho I’d argue that’s true of most jobs nowadays. Nothing, or somehow less than. Joining the work force has been a very depressing experience so far. Any ambition of learning and or contributing getting annihilated. It’s a compromise that allows me to have a roof and food at the end of the month without living at my parents.

Similarly it also grinds my gears when I ask an enum question but they return a bool. I gave multiple options and “yes” was not one of them.

My roommate once came up with a similar idea of a horrific monster always ironing your shirts against your will. You cannot stop it, your shirts will be perfectly ironed and everyone will be in awe at your perfectly ironed shirts. You don’t know where this creature comes from or why it does this, but it’s far too strong to be stopped. IT WILL IRON YOUR SHIRTS!

Aww… You can’t just tease like that and then not say what story it is. Tell us more!

I feel like if the boss also healed continuously it would be less annoying, like you can plan around it. What grinds my gears is when I think I’ve won, and the game just goes NOPE!

Absolutely perfect! We need more whimsy in life.