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[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago

Look I just found some instructions on github and been copypasting shit and seeing what works.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The LORD does not care. Let the bugs play their little games and try to find a way out. The sophons will prevent them from doing anything that could actually prevent the invasion.

In fact, them panicking and putting all their hopes on false promises might make things easier in the long run.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Sounds like bot-sympathizer talk

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am terrified of the day I find the need to flee (currently living in one of the safer parts of America, but how long will that last?). I have a degree and language skills and a very understanding family that would probably be okay with me making that choice for my safety. My partner on the other hand, believes that he does not have that option - he never finished college, has lots of close family ties, and a career that is a lot more marketable here than anywhere I'd like to move to.

I love this man and will be devastated if I have to leave him for my own safety. But also I need to keep that option in my pocket. I'm scared.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 7 months ago

Yeah this is just racism where Russians don't get to be white anymore.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Anyone remember CrackGate from that one mtg event a few years back?

Also I used to work at a homeless shelter that was located very near a card shop. It's owners would go to the community meetings where we would have to justify to these NIMBYs that we deserve to be there - awful stuff. One meeting, the owners of the card shop made a shitty comment about how smelly the shelter must be, and clearly didn't want us there.

My boss wasn't having it. We ran the cleanest shelter in the whole damn city. I had practically dragged people to the showers when they couldn't keep their hygiene up, and that place was scrubbed floor to roof daily. So boss man gets out of his chair like "I run the cleanest shelter in this city. I have been to your Friday Night Magic events. We are not the ones with a hygiene problem here!"

Don't think it endeared us to the community, but it did shut them up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The bi-cycle can be a real motherfucker, especially when your tastes are so varied.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I too wish to strike a killing blow against the testosterone demon. But yeah, same worries.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

My party keeps scheduling all our meetings and classes when I'm working, and I just don't have enough time off to cover them. I'm definitely sticking around at least till May Day to follow through with what we're working on, but I don't know if I can keep making my obligations. sadness

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

If I were a Trisolaran I would simply figure out how to mathematically predict stable and chaotic eras. Skill issue tbh.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

God damn Helldivers players are so satanically racist.

 

The groomer said she "expressed some opinions and told some stories" and now it looks like she's wearing socks.

 

I most often play Pathfinder, with a mostly-canon Golarion setting. I almost always play a woman - sometimes I make her trans, and sometimes I don't. Her trans status is usually based on the rest of their characteristics, and whether I feel it "makes sense" for my character to realize she's trans.

When I played a brash, independent sorceror, or a young noblewoman with resources and connections and a supportive family, it made sense to make my characters trans because they were in a position to figure that out and had the ability to do something about it. In my current Pathfinder game, my character was raised in a militaristic cult that isn't a good environment for deep introspection, so I made her cis.

When I made my character for Baldur's Gate 3, she was a self-insert alongside my BF's self-insert, so she was transfemme and it was an easy decision. I'll generally prefer to make trans characters, but only if I can make up a good justification to do so.

I recently spoke to a friend who primarily makes cis woman characters as part of the whole "power fantasy" that comes with roleplaying, and her experience was a little different than mine, so I thought I'd ask here. Trans Hexbears, are your RPG characters trans?

 

Like a lot of us here, I'm trying to learn Mandarin Chinese. I've been casually doing apps for a while now (Duolingo sucks, HelloChinese seems better, language exchanges are fun but scary) but I recognize some serious limitations to my methods. My reading and typing is getting better, as is my listening, but I still suck at speaking and tones are still hard to remember sometimes. This seems directly related to my learning methods - lotsa reading and listening exercises mostly, not as much talking. If I want to actually be able to speak this language, I'm going to need some more varied education I think.

My first thought was to check the local community college - we have a large Chinese population here so the classes are probably good, but the scheduling doesn't work well with my boring adult 9-5. I do well in a classroom environment though. One-on-one tutoring might not be a bad option, but I'd prefer to go through the embarrassment of learning a new language as a group, you know?

Anyone else in the same boat? What do you use to learn?

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