HawlSera 5h ago • 100%
Pretty much, just a power fantasy disguised as being prepared
HawlSera 17h ago • 100%
Probably the same reason Zoidberg is considered to be on the same level of medical competence as Dr. Dre (Zoidberg literally doesn't know human anatomy), and a higher one than Dr. Pepper (Which is genuinely responsible for less death than Zoidberg is), and Dr. Evil (Went to Evil Medical School)
And even then all of these people are probably better doctors than Doc, the dwarf who lived back in the days when washing your hands was considered a "Rookie mistake no self-respecting gentleman in the medical profession would ever make"
And the Medical Profession consisted of people wearing scary crow masks who just spread disease around and kill people, fully believing that disease was caused by not saying "Bless you" when someone sneezes
HawlSera 17h ago • 100%
- Dr. Phil has training that's a shock?
- Bro I'd trust Dr. Pepper more than a lot of people on this list
HawlSera 17h ago • 100%
With a minor in Women's Studies thanks to a translation error that was later canonized for no other reason than memes. (Sega of America had a bad habit of translating "Womanizer" as "Feminist" leading to very confusing character bios for Robotnik and Knuckles, and by the time the mistake was corrected, the idea of these two having completely random interests in the rights and struggles of the fairer sex was such a big running joke that they just went ahead and said "Sure"
For the record it was a hard mistranslated to figure out since the series failed the Bechdel Test for so long that there really weren't many female characters for this trait to come up that much. (I think Sonic Battle is really the only time we see Rouge and Amy ever interacting with each other)
The only time Robotnik's "Womanizer" trait ever came out was in Archie Sonic, and even then, only as a joke in a spoof of the 90's tendency to shoehorn in "Girl Power!" messages in franchises that didn't really have or target a female fanbase to begin with..
(In the 90's a woman playing video games was considered as odd as putting a condom machine in the vatican, which is... sadly an explanation for a lot of reasons why the industry did the things it did. Course I knew a girl gamer, just didn't know she was a girl at the time... that girl gamer is me, I'm trans.. and have drifted wildly off-topic)
Now I'm remembering a non-satirical more legitimate girl power moment in an Archie Sonic Crossover (between Sonic and Archie)
Where Sabrina the Teenage Witch was called a fake fan for liking comic books while being a girl, and her rebuttal was that she likes Knuckles the Echidna comics (Yes he had his own book too), but only because "Knuckles is so dreamy! <3"
Which I only remember because it's one giant "God damn it Penders" moment
HawlSera 17h ago • 43%
The whole "Vegans against Honey" thing is so stupid.. like... brah, Bees are the one critter that has already unionized.
Not like there's much sense to begin with in a diet where you need a thousand supplements in order to not go insane from a Vitamin B-12 Deficiency and start blaming Carnist Voodoo for your Anemia... Ya know instead of going "Oh wait, I was getting my iron from chicken...."
Edit: On that note, I actually do need to take Iron for a defiency, this post reminded me.... Not a vegan though.
HawlSera 17h ago • 100%
"You called them nachos instead of The Queen's Southland Dippable Scrummy Yummies, that's a bit cringe innit?"
HawlSera 17h ago • 100%
None of us support genocide, we just don't want Trump to kill us
HawlSera 17h ago • 60%
And you protester type think Trump's going to bring peace to Gaza?
HawlSera 2d ago • 66%
Again, I'm not saying that it's okay to sacrifice Palestinians needlessly or that their lives are less important.
I'm saying to wait a god damn month for the election to be over before we start fighting the Democratic Party
HawlSera 2d ago • 66%
I'm not saying any amount of genocide is acceptable, I'm saying we need to wait for the gun to not also be pointed at our own heads before we try to play the hero.
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
It's sad that I actually needed to check to see if this was an Onion article or not
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
One chance at life? Wait till these jokers learn about Reincarnation
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
Reminder: Jill is a transphobic ableist who doesn't believe autism exists
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
Am I going to die?
HawlSera 3d ago • 41%
Yes that's your fantasy
"Boy howdy, I sure am glad I'm in Trump's glorious regime, we're gonna take Murrica back from those [British Cigarettes] and [Plauralized Spanish word that means the opposite of the Spanish word Blanca.] who done let all them dog-eating Mexicans in here!" is probably what the National Guard would say in reality
HawlSera 3d ago • 90%
Correct, so maybe we could stop protesting Harris over Israel until AFTER the fucking election?
Just saying, we should probably stop the genocide coming for us before we try to stop the one not in our backyard? I mean it's going to be harder to get Israel to stop bombing Palestinian children and give humanitarian aide to said children while we're lined up for Trump's gas chambers
signed, a transgender woman who don't want to end up in a mass grave full of other AMAB individuals all of us wearing pink triangles!
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
Like do these people realize that if we give people the means to not just survive, but thrive, in our society which rapidly approaches post-scarcity (I'd argue we'd basically be there if we had better distribution of wealth) then they would have no reason to steal or kill? I mean except for the worst cases, but ya know.. if everyone except for the truly evil has no reason or desire to do crime then....
Just saying imagine a world where police actually fought bad guys and just let social workers handled the wayward sheep, the downtrodden, and the desperate?
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
I'm for restricting human behavior as little as possible while still allowing anyone to escape any bad situation they don't want to be apart of.
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
I've seen nothing more demonic than prosperity gospel.
HawlSera 3d ago • 100%
We should punish the people hurting our children, like this jackass attorney general preventing them from getting treatment for Gender Dysphoria.
There is a tendency for real doctors with backing from Academia or whoever's in charge of deciding how you science to just plain getting it wrong and not realizing it for a long time. Homeopathy is a good example of this, as it appeared to get great results when it was created during the Bubonic Plague and had such staying power to the point that in the 1800's it was considered a legitimate and mainstream field of medical practice. Now today we know Homeopathy is nonsense... *Remembers New Age Healing is still a thing* Okay, those of us with sense know homeopathy is garbage. With the only reason it was getting such wonderful results was because the state of medicine for a long period of time in human history was so god awful that not getting any treatment at all was actually the smarter idea. Since Homeopathy is basically just "No medicine at all", that's exactly what was happening with its success. Incidentally this is also why the Christian Science movement (Which was neither Christian nor Science) had so many people behind it, people were genuinely living longer from it because it required people to stop smoking at a time when no one knew smoking killed you. Anyhow. With that in mind, I want to know if there's a case where the exact opposite happened. Where Scientists got together on a subject, said "Wow, only an idiot would believe this. This clearly does not work, can not work, and is totally impossible." Only for someone to turn around, throw down research proving that there was no pseudo in this proposed pseudoscience with their finest "Ya know I had to do it 'em" face. The closest I can think of is how people believed that Germ Theory, the idea that tiny invisible creatures were making us all sick, were the ramblings of a mad man. But that was more a refusal to look at evidence, not having evidence that said "No" that was replaced by better evidence that said "Disregard that, the answer is actually Yes" Can anyone who sciences for a living instead of merely reading science articles as a hobby and understanding basically only a quarter of them at best tell me if something like that has happened? Thank you, have a nice day.
This is a bit of a rant, but please try to stick with me through the whole thing So recently OSRS (Old School Runescape) has joined a list of games that have replaced "Male or Female" with "Body Type A or Body Type B" with you selecting your pronouns secondary. And it made me furious, but I had to sit down and ask why such a small meaningless thing that I only see during the character creator pisses me off. After all, isn't this giving a seat at the table for Gender Non-Conforming/Non-Binary individuals? So I tried thinking about this issue from the perspective of a Non-Binary individual. See I myself am female (Transgender MTF for what it's worth), so the only thing I'm ever going to pick is the female option unless I'm doing a challenge run where I try to roleplay Guybrush Threepywood (Mighty Pirate!) while playing Fallout 3... That's when I realized why I absolutely hate Body Type A/Body Type B This is not a solution to a problem, this is highlighting the issue. As a woman, I look at "Body Type A or Body Type B" and think "Well, I'm a woman, not a Body Type B, and isn't it kinda misogynistic that the secondary option is the female one? Like A+ for Men, B- for Women?" As someone is very much not cisgender, I look at it and go "Well, isn't every FTM going to pick Body Type A with male pronouns while MTFs like myself go with Body Type B with female pronouns? Who outside of a Far Right Troll trying and failing to be funny is gonna pick the buff bearded dude and select the she/her pronouns?" It was only when I went "Let's pretend I don't exist in a male/female binary and see how I feel about it." that I realized why I absolutely DESPISE Body Type A/Body Type B Because when I look at it from that angle, I realize that if I am a non-binary individual, my options are to look like an overly buff dude but occasionally NPCs will refer to me as a They/Them, or like an overly curvy chick who again sometimes gets called They/Them.... That's when I realized why Body Type A/Body Type B doesn't do it for me. Games that do this aren't being progressive or inclusive, they're changing the color of the cup that my drink comes in and pretending it's an entirely new beverage. I realized that if the choices in Body Type were something like A - Buff Dude B - Slim Dude C - Fat Dude D - Skinny Androgynous Individual who doesn't need a bra/binder E - Fat Androgynous Individual who doesn't need a bra/binder F - Skinny Androgynous Individual who requires bra/binder G - Fat Androgynous Individual who requires bra/binder I - Curvy Chick J - Buff Chick K - Fat Chick L - Slim Chick Maybe have also an option for a big buff masculine dude who has big tits, because that's just how he rolls, I dunno just thinking aloud here.... My point is that gaming could abandon "A/B" in favor of something more like an actual spectrum of Height, Weight, and Gender Presentation instead of just awkwardly renaming the binary? I wouldn't get so up in arms about gender replacing body type. I don't know what more I have to say on this. I guess it's just a revelation I had about something in gaming that bothers me.. So, wider gaming community. What do you think? Am I onto something or is this all crazy talk?
I played a little of it when I first got it, but then I heard that it's better to patch it. So I joined the discord for it and figured I'd look into that later. Well later turned into years, eventually I left the discord server to make space for other servers and never did wind up going back to Arcanum. Now I'm really getting into Fallout thanks to the show, and I've heard many people say that if I like Fallout to try Arcanum. So I tried to get back into the Discord, however I found I've been banned. Which is odd, it's not like I got into a bad situation with an admin or anything. I pretty much never interacted with anyone. So I can only assume they saw that I was there for so long and assumed I was a bot (Or maybe someone got a DM from me back when my account was hacked), and I can't get a hold of anyone to get back in. I've heard that if I want to enjoy the game to find the multiverse edition, but apparently that's hosted on the Discord I can't get into. Is it worth trying to track down an alternative means of playing that patch? And is the game really as good as they say? Thanks in advance. Yours Truly, Queen HawlSera
I've heard there's a way to get this game, DOA Xtreme Venus Vacation on Steam if you use a VPN to say you're from singapore... I was a big fan of DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball back in the day so I'd like to snag this title, but.... I'm worried if I do Steam will ban my account I can't seem to find a straight answer on if this is safe or not. What do you say Lemmy?
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So a couple months back I was randomly approached on Steam from someone claimed to be someone from a company called Maple Leaf Studio looking for playtesters for a game of theirs, and that because I had so many hours in Hades and Cult of the Lamb I'd be perfect for it. I at first thought this was some kind of scam like those "Bro, join my TF2 team, sign up through this website, we can win so much money bro! Totally not stealing your account information!" (Especially since they kept flipflopping to being from Leap Studio to Maple Leaf Studio, wasn't clear which they were from) But I heard them out and saw they were legit, so they had me sign an NDA and I got a Steam Key for an early build of their game Realm of Ink. It's pretty cool, not much I can say because of how early the build I played was... but I would say it plays a lot like Hades. The gimmick seems to be that you have this pet made of ink that changes to a different animal with a different fighting style depending on what power-ups you grab, and other than that seems to play a lot like Hades if you're into that. It was pretty fun and kind of exciting, I had never done anything like this before since I'm not some big youtuber. The graphics are pretty cool too, there's this Eastern theme, and the whole game looks like it was drawn on an old Chinese scroll of some kind. Anyway, one of the members of the dev team I'd been reporting bugs and suggesting ideas for (I suggested an easter egg where you could light campfires that were strewn about the stages by using a fire based attack, I don't know if they added that in), told me that I was free from the NDA and was allowed to openly talk about it, so I figured I'd make a post here and signal boost the game... Especially since an updated version of the demo I played is now public and can be downloaded from their Steam page (link here - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2597080/Realm_of_Ink/) For the record don't ask me questions about future plans for the game or its development history, I do not work for them, I make no money off of the game, the game isn't even out yet, and I don't know if there's a release date, I just wanted to talk about my first experience playtesting a game intended for commericial release and share the demo now that it's public
Basically one year after the game was said to be never updated again, this giant bug fix and balance update just drops without any warning. And this happens just as the Microsoft deal is finalized and Bobby is leaving Activision at the end of the year. This left many fans wondering if the MOBA would be returning, as Microsoft hinted at wanting to possibly explore or Revitalize old intellectual properties after the blizzard deal went through. So since I can't find a dedicated Heroes of the Storm bored on lemmy, I figured I would just make this post and see if anyone else believes we may truly be going back to the Nexus.
I make this plea here, because there are many of you who actively practice magic and in addition this board's love of social justice shows you to be decent and rational people. Here is the deal, when I was young I was raised to believe in the supernatural, encouraged to develop psychic talents. I made sigils and strived to accomplish Astral Projection. I never could project no matter how well I practiced, all that happened was I increased the quality of my dreams. They didn't even become lucid or anything. I began to worry that this meant that I had no soul, but still I kept at it on and off. I was happy to know that we lived in a world with multi-dimensional layers, the natural and supernatural running parallel to one another creating miracles. This made me happy. I fell into an atheistic crowd that told me it was all "woo woo" (a term I despise for several reasons), and gave me debunks for everything. At first I believed there had to be some conspiracy involved, that perhaps these irate atheistic types simply invaded the sciences I thought I was somewhat right when Dawkins was outed as a transphobe, Bill Nye made asinine comments about philosophy being useless, Sam Harris embraced Jordan Peterson, and the less said about Neil DeGrasse Tyson the better.... But no, ultimately, no mystical phenomenon can stand up to the scrutiny of requiring simple evidence, and everyone with genuine psychic power is shown to be a faker in the end. So many people tell me this is a good thing, that it's man giving up silly superstitions to embrace the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. But I see a darker image of reality, a world where we are born just to die, a universe that does not care to save abused children in need, and the knowledge that I will never see my dead loved ones again. This lack of spirit in the world depresses me and makes me far sadder than you can possibly imagine, and I see nothing worth celebrating in a materialist world. I can come to no other conclusion outside of magic is supposed to exist, but doesn't. Please, I just want a reason to believe again, something that disproves or casts doubt on materialism and shows we live in a world of substance dualism. I'd give anything for it, for magic to be real again. I have friends far smarter than me who still believe in such things, they say that simply what I think of as magic isn't what magic is or that the supernatural is in some place I can't find. That gives me some hope, please Pagans of Hexbear, I'm begging you for help. Make me a believer again.
The one based on the anime, the developers sounded very passionate about it and very optimistic about it doing well enough for a sequel. But a lot of the early reviewers have panned it pretty hard. So I was wondering if anyone here had played it and could give me an account of their own experiences with the title. Infinity Stash Dragon Quest Dai is the name of the game.
I was just asking because I seem to be running out of wood more and more often, but it doesn't look like the trees are growing back.
I just want to give a shout out to Sham Hatwich for being one of the most adorable things I've ever seen
4060 Nvidia with 16 Ram, so it's not like I'm using a potato here. And yes I veified the files The banner for the game comes up, then it acts like it's in the game, but it isn't... in fact I can see my normal desktop, only I have to alt tab to click out of it. If Discord's visible it will show that I'm playing Mortal Kombat 1. Someone suggested Alt-Enter to force it into windowed or full screen, but nothing. Tried running it in big picture mode where it will just crash after awhile Tried disabling the anti-virus and that does... nothing..
Just one more day before part 1 of Treasure of Area Zero drops! I hope it's everything you want it to be.
Specifically a Future Variant resembling either MechaMew2 from the live show or Armored Mewtwo from the anime? It's just one of those things we're overdue for imo. Another one being an ice type Onix, as it was the first region variant back in the anime.
I got it expecting to hate it, but as I kept playing, I found myself legitimately enjoying it. Not begrudgingly enjoying it, not enjoying it outside of one or two small details, but actually being engaged in the story and gameplay. Which leads me to wondering why people had a problem with this game in the first place again?
I only knew Us for a tutorial I kept reloading until I was sure what was up with the brain, but if anything ever happened to him (I'm guessing he's a he?) I would kill everyone in the Forgotten Realms, and then myself.
I got excited until I realized they meant the reboot and not the first game in the series....
I recently played through Bondee's Barnyard, and I plan to play Jr.'s sometime soonish
I bought Mega Man X Dive Offline, really hyped for it, but then when I double checked my VPN, I realized it was set for the Netherlands.... Not good, I thought I had it set for the US as per usual. Now it still showed the price in USD, but now I'm paranoid, I put in a refund explaining the situation and promising I'd buy it with the VPN turned off this time.. How fucked am I?
Recently got a VPN because I've become increasingly paranoid (It's getting crazy out there), but.... is it a bannable offense to use it while on Steam? I'm finding mixed answers, and I wanna be safe, so I figured the Fediverse might know.