@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

squirrel

@[email protected]

formerly /u/squirrelrampage on Reddit

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

For me it was the anime and quite the opposite feeling in regards to hot water…

But yeah, OP is right (name checks out), Ranma’s comedic treatment of gender is doing stuff to the minds of unsuspecting eggs.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

If you are up for written reviews: Buried Treasure does a very good job of digging up stuff that hardly ever gets any attention elsewhere.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That’s one part of the reason: Google seriously angered the judge by deleting possible evidence (Google got in similar trouble in the anti-trust trial in regards to their search engine). Additionally there were emails that showed that Google was very worried about Epic and that they bribed phone manufacturers to not install pre-install a Fortnite launcher (or other app stores) on their phones.

So there was a clear paper trail that showed how Google execs used their control over Android and the Google app store in order to undermine Epic’s efforts to circumvent having to pay Google for being included in the app store. That’s the main difference in regards to the trial against Apple where the evidence was not that clear-cut.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

To add what has already been mentioned: She-Ra and Steven Universe.

Emails Reveal How a Hospital Bowed to Political Pressure to Stop Treating Trans Teens (www.propublica.org)

An investigation by ProPublica: The reporters reveal a coordinated attack by far-right activists against the Medical University of South Carolina which resulted in the hospital no longer providing treatment for gender dysphoria for people under 18.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

He lost his mind too.

squirrel, (edited )
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

A “Build a house for your friends” game: Take the construction and resource gathering from a game such as (for example) Valheim and combine it with an Animal Crossing - Happy Home Paradise style gameplay that tasks the player to design houses for various characters.

This comment is definitely not inspired by spending countless hours building houses in Valheim for purely aesthetic reasons. /s

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Compression socks are an “old people thing” (not necessarily*, but the association is there). So older trans people can easily buy themselves colorful, thigh-high compression socks and don’t even need to explain why.

*Actually compression jobs are great for people working desk jobs, because they prevent legs/feet from swelling during long hours.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I think it’s one of those small gender-affirming things that one can do.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

That trans people are often attracted to things which subtly affirm their gender, even when they may not be fully aware of it.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Wearing thigh-high socks!?

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

For some people it is, for some people it isn’t. You do you.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Damn autocorrect!

doesn’t have autocorrect

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

nods sagely There are definitely scalies among trans folks too.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The main reason why I chose an AI generated image, rather than a real one, was because most of those depicting an assortment of different eggs were stock images. I am very reluctant to post stuff like that on Lemmy, considering that the stock image companies can be horribly litigious.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

J.J. Abrams: “We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This.”

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

There is a neat little game called “What’s your gender?” which can be played in the browser. It is rather casual way to explore trans and adjacent topics. It takes only some 15-20 minutes to play.

squirrel, (edited )
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

They are totally right, it’s a shame that PC Gamer did not name a single woman.

One nitpick though: Two of the women named in the article, Rieko Kodama and Amy Hennig, did not create games for PC. Both were employed by console makers. Jen Zee being acknowledged is certainly deserved, but a there are many, many trailblazing women in PC gaming which should be highlighted: Roberta Williams (co-founder of Sierra Online), Brenda Romero (Wizardry series), Jade Raymond (Assassin’s Creed producer) or Danielle Bunten Berry (M.U.L.E.), just to name a few.

Particularly the omission of Roberta Williams who has not only co-founded one of early gaming’s most successful game dev studios and publishers, but also designed the long-running King’s Quest series which transformed and defined the adventure game genre, is inexcusable. It does not get more influential in gaming than that.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Fair point. Though the article points towards Uncharted and her work on Legacy of Kain is not as well-known IMO.

Rowing is a terf, how do I prove it?

So originally I was sceptical about the TERF claims on rowling (because I didn’t want them to be true), I’d assumed terminally online people had decided something silly (as has happened before), but the more I looked at it and thought about it, the more I thought, “Ok, I don’t really have proof here, but the odds are...

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

She’s relatively careful with her own words and rarely does more than dog whistle.

Not anymore. She is very much mask off nowadays.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Nobody could see this coming.*

*except for all the people who knew that execs like Ritticiello saddling a company with tons of debt would result in a financial mess that would undo even the most financially stable business.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

They are banking on nostalgia, because nostalgia is all they have left. After so many people have left I don’t even know what to expect from a new ME or DA game.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Avi Arad’s track record is a very mixed bag IMO. His films include the “Spider-Verse” films on one hand, on the other there is stuff like “Morbius” and the live-action “Ghost in the Shell”.

There is no doubt that Arad knows how to get the budget and bring the people together, but it certainly isn’t always working out as intended.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Depends, really. Producers do decide who will work on a movie in the first place. Producers’s biggest influence is during pre- and post-production. It’s true that producers stay out of the way during the actual production phase, but producers often take back control during the final cut (unless directors get the explicit right to do it that themselves) and other steps in post-production.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I don’t think you appreciate how much creativity the C-suite invested in developing Open World Microtransaction Generator 3000. /s

230th anniversary of death of Olympe de Gouges, pioneer of feminism (upload.wikimedia.org)

Olympe de Gouges was a very early French feminist who was active during the French Revolution and was killed by Robbespierre during his reign of terror. She was particularly noteworthy because her activism could be regarded as an early form of intersectional feminism, because she fought not only for the rights of women, but also...

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

When the furry RP server spills over into the tabletop session.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The headline is certainly hyperbolic, but personally I see two kernels of truth in it: First, the UK is doing worse than most of its immediate neighbors (with the exception or Ireland) and second, quality of life for trans people in the UK is in active decline, rather than never having existed in the first place (which - unfortunately - applies to many countries in the eastern Europe). I certainly wouldn’t argue with anyone about how to feel about their rights slowly being taken away and things likely going to get worse.

Japanese Supreme Court hands down landmark decision on transgender rights (www.japantimes.co.jp)

Article by Japan Times: “In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled as “unconstitutional” a clause in domestic law that requires transgender people to undergo sterilization surgery to change their gender assigned at birth in their family registry.”

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Despite all that’s happened, at least one source told the outlet they don’t think Unity’s moves were made out of complete malice. “They need to do something to make more money. Sadly, it wasn’t delivered well, but the need to make more money is still there.”

And that’s why every dev (who can) should run as far away from Unity as possible, because Unity will try to screw them some other way.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The answer is as simple as it is horrible: It’s because for every burned-out, overworked and underpaid game dev, there are two starry-eyed kids who want to realize their dream and create games - and the C-suite knows this.They will replace any veteran dev with someone right out of college as soon as it is convenient

Mind, I am not blaming young people who want to create games. They lack the experience to know they are getting exploited. It’s all the cynicism of managers who know no loyalty and only want profits.

And if anyone wonders why every new game somehow manages to be a buggy mess that needs fixing, you have the answer right there too: Because the devs who fixed it the last time got fired and replaced with rookies.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

If anyone needed an explanation why the monster██████ genre is currently so popular, there It is.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The furry community approves.

squirrel,
@squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The suspiciously wealthy furries strike again.

Japanese Court: Sterilization as Criteria for Gender Status Change Unconstitutional (unseen-japan.com)

Article by Unseen Japan, reporting on a ruling by Japanese court that allowed a trans man to change their legal status without undergoing sterilization. A law required this, but the judge now considered that part of the law unconstitutional and accepted the trans man’s request.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • uselessserver093
  • Food
  • aaaaaaacccccccce
  • test
  • CafeMeta
  • testmag
  • MUD
  • RhythmGameZone
  • RSS
  • dabs
  • KamenRider
  • TheResearchGuardian
  • KbinCafe
  • Socialism
  • oklahoma
  • SuperSentai
  • feritale
  • All magazines
    •