Find an empty parking lot before it snows. Verify there are no obstacles in it or find a large area with no obstacles. Wait until it snows. Hit that bitch up and learn about how your car handles and how to recover when you fuck up.

Make sure to bring a shovel and maybe some boards or whatever others suggest in case you get yourself stuck.

Ballot access and federal funding are tied to federal elections, so it’s functionally something. Ballot access is actually useful to states.

Lots of them believe it is written on our hearts and uncontacted tribes have rejected Jesus.

There are a few explicitly racist songwriters from more recent times that don’t have any historical aspect.

I thought he wanted to be Jesse’s girl for a very long time.

We had a guy that would email the CEO with audio or video of him singing or something. Good dude. Sold people eggs every week from his hens. Got fired for actual bullshit his lead should’ve been canned for.

(I’m so sorry for writing so much. Skip to the last paragraph if you have to. There’s a tension in me because I fall on both sides a bit.)

It’s an indicator of developer focus and intent. Sometimes.

If people’s introduction to trans characters wasn’t “hi, I’m trans” then maybe they wouldn’t have these stereotypes, but we are where we are. Pretending that it’s just extra options is ignoring that the people that push this sort of thing also seem to think we also want to read their shitty writing and shitty characters.

Their dumblelore/voldemort slash fiction bullshit was trash 15 years ago and they haven’t improved because their focus is social issues, not good writing. That’s the real issue - paper thin characters that are just vehicles for social commentary. Subversion isn’t annoying your audience from the start, it’s developing deep characters with all the flaws of humanity that also happen to have atypical identities.

My favorite book series are The Culture novels and Discworld. They both have trans characters that aren’t there just to push narrative. They were well written characters that fit the world and also trans. In the culture it’s not even remarkable - they’ve solved everything biological so it’s just kind of there. Discworld is more by-the-horns, but he still manages to be sneaky with the subversion and it works every fucking time.

On the flip side, Hugo award winner A Deepness in the Sky has a character that uses gender neutral pronouns which is whatever. Not a big deal, but it was the first time I saw it in a book. What was the book? Torture/rape fantasy set in space. It’s one of two books I couldn’t finish. The other is Atlas Shrugged. Coming from someone that’s read a lot of more classic science fiction and considered a Hugo a seal of approval, that was a very harsh realization.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with extra options or making ugly characters (though I don’t get that - there’s a sweet spot between fan service and trash can) but I don’t consider them a useful feature if the game is shit. If they focus on the game and add ‘woke’ shit to a good game with well written characters it’ll go down like honey. If the devs see the game as a vehicle to disseminate their social ideas, they’re in love with themselves and not the game and people will see that. It can, and has, been done well.

It’s kind of apples to oranges. Smoothness or variance is noticeable above discrete human ‘limits’. For a variety of reasons.

With music you have multiple types of feedback.

I was just making fun, since I disagree anyway.

It’s awkward as shit, but 7 days January is the same as 7 days July.

Thank fuck I’m from the US and don’t have to fuck with any unit conversion fuckery.

I was talking about benefits to vote for them. Those were non-election uses of voting third party.

That’s not true. Voting third party helps get them funding and ballot access. If your vote for president won’t change anything, then vote for the most utility.

Picture of him.

DON’T MISS

Killing one person is understandable. Once you get to two there’s a pattern.

You’re allowed to swear on lemmy.

Nobody called. It was seen on CCTV. So someone saw him playing with his lil’ master sword and decided to fuck him.

Sometimes, when I’m not careful, I end up with stupid, dangerous UK-legal pocket knives so I’m always going to be critical of your auth bullshit.

They would certainly love to have access.

CCTV operators, piggies doing the arrest, entire court system, prison, all the fucking private contractors involved?

I mean the UK put a dude in prison for four months for having a miniature Master Sword on a street alone thanks to CCTV.

Police unions. Less than ten percent of federal prisons are private. Who do you think lobbies more: 10% of prisons or the unions for 90% of federal prison employees?

The public ones still give out contracts for all of the services performed.