[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Back in 4e, fighters were explicitly supernatural

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, I have NPD and we're called narcs sometimes. It's often used in the community as a shorthand, but generally if it comes from a neurotypical it's a slur. I'm aware of the other meaning of the word and I don't have a problem with it, but I tend not to use it because it just reminds me of the homonym which is actually offensive.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's a game about that. It's called Exapunks. You play as an anarchist hacker who is slowly dying to a degenerative disease that turns your flesh into electronics. The medicine to keep your disease from progressing costs 300 dollars a day, so you learn how to hack from a zine and then start making money for your medicine and taking down capitalism. At various points you have to use your hacking skills to reprogram your nerves so your body will continue to function. Send a virus to tell your heart to beat and so forth. The gameplay is based on a modified version of assembly and actual programming puzzles that make sense in the context of the cyberpunk world.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also Janeway relentlessly misgendered Seven of Nine until it assimilated into her crew

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Missing leg personality disorder is a personality disorder marked by lack of one or more legs. Diagnosis requires at least 5 of the following 9 criteria:

  • Cannot walk
  • Hops around to get from place to place
  • Has a stump at the place where the knee would be
  • Leans on other people a lot
  • Displays a lack of interest in athletic pursuits
  • Obsession with obtaining a prosthetic leg
  • Aversion to travelling
  • Becomes hostile when asked to stand up
  • Cannot drive stick shift

Missing leg personality disorder can be diagnosed only if these symptoms are not considered normal in the patient's native culture. Missing leg personality disorder cannot be diagnosed if prosthetics make the patient ineligible for diagnostic criteria.

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What's a wrecker? (hexbear.net)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

My post got banned for being "wrecker behaviour". I don't know the community here, I joined because people said Hexbear is trans friendly, can someone explain the terminology? Google has other people using the word but nobody explaining it

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When it comes to subreddits, lemmy communities, and lemmy instances, the people enforcing the rules are the same people making the rules. To borrow from legal terminology, the legislative, executive, and judicial branches are the same. Mods and admins are judge, jury, and executioner. This gives them a lot of power and allows biases in the way they enforce the rules to go ignored.

When it comes to the reddit admins, however, and sitewide bans and content removal, the people enforcing the rules are employees. They report to a boss, and have to follow guidelines already established. The content policy has already been written, and changing it is a big deal. If a ban is unjust, it can be appealed using the rules. When biases in the ways the rules are enforced happen, it's easier to undo them. And I'm not saying it's easy, but on Lemmy, it's impossible. You can't even log into your account if you're banned, how are you supposed to appeal?

Reddit as a business has a great deal more power than any fediverse instance's mod teams. But ironically, the low ranking admins have less power to make bad decisions. And that's why I've noticed a consistent pattern that Reddit is better at moderating cases that are legally clear-cut, but emotionally controversial. On Lemmy, admins follow their feelings. On Reddit, people may have a lot of feelings, but the proletariat administration intern has had feelings beaten out of them, and they more often end up following the rules.

The way Reddit operates is soulless and horrible and capitalist, but... soul is where hatred comes from. You're less likely to find that in the workings of an unfeeling machine.

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