sablezobel.bsky.social
Game developer. Currently working on Nine Sigils to Midnight.
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Vagueness!
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Understood. I do hope people pull together. Have a nice day.
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There is no need to be upset. My point is simply that equality is always contingent on circumstance. Different people require different things to flourish just the same.
As to practicality, I'll say that standing for something worked just fine for the GOP. They did not win through being agreeable.
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When Rome persecuted monotheists, everyone had the right to worship Roman gods, and no one had the right to worship as you do. Was the right to be Christian a special right?
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That's a fair argument. It is a pattern I've noticed. Part of me wonders if a sufficiently large protest in the nation's capital could move the needle, but perhaps it can't.
Genuine question: how long did 2017's protests last, nationally? How disruptive were they?
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I'm all for strikes.
In my view, protests can and do pressure regimes, provided they are large and unrelenting. There's a reason the police is used to break them up. They have a tendency to turn into riots and coups. This makes governments nervous, and that makes them more likely to capitulate.
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64x64 routinely takes me 4 to 7 hours. I think I'd just die.
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So, to clarify, you agree that if someone *is* transgender then transitioning *is* the correct course of action, but question whether doctors can assess that accurately.
Is that correct?
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Great. The situation with dysphoria is similar.
There are many unknowns, but there's extensive evidence that not treating it has negative outcomes, some evidence that treating it has positive outcomes, and essentially no evidence that treating it has negative outcomes, except rarely.
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What's your position on the safety of COVID vaccines?
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Let's flip this around. The students protested. This lead to them being persecuted by their own party. Now, when you need them to protest, they're too disillusioned to do so. Is doubling down the right course of action?
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Personally, I like it when terminology feels nonstandard. So much so that I strive to give things odd names. Rival's great.
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"We can't have a functioning democracy if we think our opponents are evil, therefore, no one who opposes us can be evil!"
Incredible.
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Sorry, I think it is. Maybe if you made it subtler?
Backgrounds are so tricky haha. I put an unreasonable amount of hours into simulating 2D waves, only to realize that they stole focus from the characters.
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Haha oh no. I literally just did that. Sorry. It really might be a failure of imagination on my part.
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Part of me wonders if this is a matter of framing. Must love be pleasant?
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Incredibly grim.
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A!
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I think about this a lot. This is one subject I happened to know a lot about, so I caught the error, but how often am I mislead without my knowledge? Even reading every source can't save you if material that contradicts the desired narrative doesn't even make it into the article.
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It was (and remains) protected, so I could not edit it. Pointing the error out in the Talk page, with sources, didn't work either. No matter how many times I tried, nothing truly changed. Once, I got them to add a citation in another section, while leaving the slanted paragraphs in place.
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A few years ago I noticed that a certain contentious article only cited studies that supported one position, failing to note that it's controversial, or point to papers that support the opposite conclusion.
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I love this idea haha. So much you can do with it, narratively.
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Sorry, I think you misread what I wrote. I did not mention social media. Can you please answer the question I asked, as posed?
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Let's say two computers connect via a peer-to-peer connection. Are they both part of the public utility now? Does the FCC forbid you from barring strangers from connecting to either of them?
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Isn't it? To browse a website is to use another person's computer. Another person's property. Do they not get to decide who is allowed to use their property, and how?
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I think the lack of gatekeeping is exactly why faux neutral social media is unpleasant. If you allow anyone into your space as long as they obey the letter of the law, you will quickly discover that bad actors will work within this limit, and do so well.
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tl;dr reject humanity, return to forum
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Another aspect is the way moderation is handled. Platforms are committed to neutrality. Most forums were most definitely not! People were banned based on vibes. Moderators were people you knew and regularly talked with. If someone was universally reviled, they'd just get kicked out.
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A and B might both engage with C, but they're not friends, so they don't see the same messages. Common ground is highly fragmented. In the aggregate, I think this is a big part of why this format feels worse.
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Yes! It used to be that most of the people on a given site would know and engage with one another. This created a sense of familiarity. Today's friendship graphs are rarely as interconnected.
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Bo is likely familiar with the concept, but for those of you who are not:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undoing...
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4chan and the like have always been obsessed with crossdressing and the transfeminine, albeit within the confines of their own regressive framing.
Part of me wonders if there is a direct connection between how reactionary they are and these suppressed desires. Whether they are "undoing".
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Yes! My impression is that there is a very real pent-up desire for that, shining through in the form of avatars. Especially in VR. Many men who otherwise adhere to regressive ideals happily present themselves as cute anime girls at every opportunity.
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France conducted its own review, which came to the opposite conclusion. Can you explain to me why you deem the UK's review non-biased, and France's review, biased?
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Hmm..
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Sorry if this is a bit much from a stranger, but that's how I see myself. It's good that you don't feel the same! Your view is much healthier. Just, that person made me feel seen.
Even so, maybe this is the sort of thing that just shouldn't be said about others, so I understand your reaction.
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I could gush all day, really. Interesting mechanics, robust character-building options, complex dungeons you can actually get lost in, ludonarrative harmony.. all that and one of my favorite battle themes (whose composer is also on Bluesky btw): ap0c.bandcamp.com/track/battle...
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O POWER OF KINGS
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What's wrong with the present system?
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You are free to do as you desire, but in my view, engagement encourages engagement. People post to engage people. If you feel like you're shouting into the void, you're less likely to post again, because doing so is equivalent to not posting at all.
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For what it's worth, this is the first AAA JRPG I've enjoyed in a decade. The vibe might still not be to your liking, of course, but it's not just more of the same.
I'm a sucker for starry-eyed romanticism so I like it quite a bit.
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The former.
My favorite variation, however, is from False Skies.
Agni - Attacks one enemy [.75x SKL, fire]
R Knife - Hits random enemy [2.25x ATK, slash]
With each dealing damage equal to the attribute times the multiplier. 75% or 225%. Something about this notation just feels nicer.
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That or xoomers.
Zoomers, moomers, xoomers, boomers..
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I mooostly agree.
Being human, there are things we tend to find pleasant, and vice versa. Color theory has timeless elements. So does music theory. I do not think games are an exception.
That said, cultural content can recast unpleasant formal elements in a pleasing light, so yes, true.
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Thank you so much! This drove me insane.
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I don't know you, but, get well soon.