hissingmeerkat

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago

I don't draw, but I think a lot of the facial sexual dimorphism in people isn't real. The same features that appear masculine in some populations or cultures appear feminine in others. A bunch of recognizing masculinity or femininity is probably based on archetypes and other signaling features.

In western media women are presented as younger than men, so lots of the features we recognize as feminine like having a smaller nose are really features of being younger. (And also why nose jobs are popular - not only do they make you match a societal beauty standard, they also make you look like your own memories of yourself)

The really observable facial secondary sex characteristics are darkening of hair pigmentation and increased sebum production in men. In art those would probably show up more in shading than line drawing. Feminine makeup in response to those things is kind of a mixed batch. There's adding shading to the face in places that wouldn't be darkened by facial hair, like cheeks or under the eyes, which might exaggerate sex linked appearance. Similarly trimming eyebrows to reduce the appearance of darkened facial hair. But there's also markup to darken and thicken eyebrows, makeup to lighten cheeks instead of darken them, and makeup to add a more oily, glowing appearance.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A COVID vaccine (offer not good inside the US)

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

"I either don't want people to be interested in or excited about things or I want to gatekeep how they gain their interests"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Gunfire Reborn does that for me, even though I have to play with a controller. Roboquest looks like it's kind-of between Gunfire Reborn and Borderlands, but I haven't tried it yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Mount Railroad do Registered Nurse

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Everything. Or just this.

I need to get my car fixed so I can leave.
I need to empty out my car so I can get it fixed.
I need my car fixed so I can empty it out.
I need to go shopping so I have food.
I need to bike to go shopping.
I need to eat to bike.
I need food to eat.
I need to get paniers and a rack for a bike so I'm not so reliant on my car.
I need to get my car fixed so I'm not so reliant on a bike.
I need to find a therapist to feel safe.
I need to set up a computer to email every provider in a whole state to try to find one.
I need to set up a computer so I can work.
I need to feel safe to set up a computer.

Everything seems like the most important thing to do right now. I know the actual only important thing to do today is get food for at least 3 days so I can have at least 1 day when that's not a problem. I need someone to tell that to even though I'd already thought of that and thought that I have nobody to tell it to, so thank you for asking.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Guild Wars (not GW2) didn't have that problem. All of the skills are just available somewhere if you go get them. The only meaningful build choices are which skills you use, a small number of attributes, and how much of the stats from your gear you are willing to sacrifice to obtain other effects.

You get to level 20 (the cap) fairly quickly in each campaign and still have all the rest of the game to play with expanding options instead of increasing numbers.

You can't just pick a single build and do everything with it, you need to adapt what you're doing to the missions you encounter, so you're more than encouraged to play with the other skills.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, because if I need information I stop at information places at the border and get a map for free. Sometimes you can get whole guidebooks full of maps and directions and interpretive information for free. I picked up maps or guidebooks multiple times this year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

No, because printing directions off the internet from mapquest etc. has been around almost forever, and although I used GPS a lot to measure positions I never had a smartphone until quite late (2010 I think), so by the time I used GPS to get somewhere no part of it was special or new.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Justice Alito claimed that he and the court foresaw the legal and actual consequences of their decision and what impact it would have on state laws, existing and otherwise. He chose this. He chose to kill somebody by taking away their rights, and now he has.

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

How long has it been since a capsule/spaceship has been depressurized for a spacewalk?

 

Should I wait for the rotation and outlaw junction to spend my gold or do a few "Jump In!"s now to get more cards?

 

The last couple days I've finally been able to work on some of the big projects I care about and have wanted to do for months. But wanting to do all the things I want to do and having lots of ideas is painful, like before I got anxiety, ADHD treatment (which my doctor interpreted as being more of an anxiety thing) but also stopped doing the big things.

It's so tempting to ignore the things I really want and go burry myself in a video game or something.

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