[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 21 points 12 hours ago

I've definitely heard it used dismissively against women, but I think it's become less gendered due to it being used by parts of the gay community and their increased representation. I haven't encountered it really being used by or about cishet men though, so I wouldn't say it isn't still dismissive of femininity.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 11 points 20 hours ago

that is most convenient for the teachers

Nope, also extremely inconvenient to them. It's only actually convenient for a small selection of neurotypicals with ideal or near ideal home lives/parent involvement, while nearly every other kid benefits from basic adhd accomodations like fidget toys or being allowed to sit/lie wherever to do their work. We haven't made any significant progress on teaching since the victorian era.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

Apparently my model doesn't play nice with 128gb and bigger cards, so I've resigned myself to a measly 64GB of space.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago

Oof, I wouldn't make use of that even if it was unpaid. Forcing you to trade to get all the mons is one of the pokemon company's biggest sins, alongside making the starters after Gen IV all look fucking goofy, and Whitney the gym leader in gsc.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Unless you're talking about some kind of doghouse for pokemon I don't know what a pokemon home is, so I'm pretty sure I'm safe on that front. Besides, why would I buy the mainline series when they're also selling classics like Garbage Gold, Silver Sterling, and Tohoumon HeartGold?

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

somewhat affordable

classic

The DS ones are only about a tenner each on aliexpress, but even Sun and Moon start around £18.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago

Okami, Psychonauts, Beyond Good and Evil, Bully/Canis Canem Edit, Shadow of the Colossus, Legacy of Kain series, Soul Nomad & The World Eaters, .hack//G.U.

Some are remasters, some were released on PC at the same time.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Unfortunately Harvest Moon and its spin offs prominently feature my greatest enemy, schedules, so I'll be giving it a miss.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 6 points 2 days ago

"now, where do I know the name level-5 from..."

Dark Cloud
Dark Chronicle
Rogue Galaxy

Oh yeah, that's some good pedigree. Definitely gonna give them a whirl.

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What games should I legally acquire for it? I had the various DS/3DS Zelda's, most of the pokemans up to Black, Bravely Default, The World Ends With You (which i never completed because I was bad at fighting on two screens at once), and Contact (which I never completed because it was made by Suda51). I'm leaning towards ~~steali~~ getting some of the later pokemans because I 100%'d Cassette Beasts and I crave more creature collecting, but is there any other good stuff?

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 7 points 5 days ago

Interesting, I seem to have the opposite condition - something breaks, then they ask me to look at it and by the time I get there it's working perfectly again.

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 25 points 5 days ago

Damn, I kinda assumed you were a local myth, like mothman, or Liz Truss

[-] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

A bunch of this gives me really strong Shadow Hearts vibes, and the world needs more games iwth Shadow Hearts vibes.

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He's too old for it to be a reference but like... That's his actual name. Jan Six. I don't know how to process this.

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Dr. Rachael Louise “Raygun” Gunn is a lecturer at Macquarie University, Australia, who has extensively studied and participated in the Sydney breaking (more commonly known as break dancing) scene. Her work has primarily focused on studying social dynamics in the breaking scene from feminist and queer perspectives: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=LLebtn8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra. Gunn has also demonstrated outstanding ability in the breaking scene, having won numerous competitions across Oceania and garnering wide respect from other Australian breakers.
Gunn has also been widely reported as having a background in Jazz, Tap dancing, and Ballroom dancing.

I put it to you that Rachael Gunn is intimately familiar with breaking, to a much higher degree than most breakers, having both personal and academic experience with the scene. Her academic work breaking down elements of the scene indicate a detailed understanding of the moves, speech, social and cultural contexts, modes of dress, relationship with gender, and numerous other individual aspects. She also has a detailed understanding of her relationship to the scene, having written a paper titled The ethics of living a double life: rethinking ownership, authenticity, and identity in hip hop culture, and spoken in interviews of being white and middle class in a scene that grew from socially impressed minorities.

So how could someone with the demonstrated knowledge and ability of Raygun not score a single point at all, having reached the Olympics as the highest scoring competitive b-girl in Oceania? Indeed, Martin Gillian, head breaking judge at the Olympics, praised her performance, and she's received extensive support from the breaking community in defence of her routine, so a score of zero seems impossibly unlikely.

The inclusion of breaking at the Olympic games was a controversial topic ahead of its debut, primarily due to concerns over the corporatization and dilution of breaking culture inclusion would bring, and was widely criticised by the breaking community. One person who studied the divide in opinions was Dr Rachael L Gunn, who in 2023 published The Australian breaking scene and the Olympic Games: The possibilities and politics of sportification, which criticised the IOC and WDSF’s implementation and homogenisation of the scene. From the conclusion of the paper:

[...] the concerns are centred on the impact upon culture, and a potential loss of agency and self-determination. Isolated from neighbouring countries, and consisting of distinct, localized scenes guided by individual agents, top-down decision-making led by the WDSF already impacts the social organization, identities and hierarchies of respect within the Australian breaking scene.

While sport and the Olympics are framed as ‘great equalizers’, the exclusivity of Australia’s sporting institutions along gendered, class and racialized lines means that breaking’s sportification may in fact impact the accessibility of breaking. While the ABA aims to ensure that Australian breakers retain self-determination and agency through this Olympic process, there are many obstacles that come with the introduction of concepts like governance, transparency and accountability. Making global what is essentially a localized practice invariably requires standardization, homogeneity, professionalism and risks further moving breaking away from its African American and Latin cultural traditions and histories.

I put it to you that Raygun's olympic performance was in fact carefully calculated to show off breaking without meeting a single olympic criteria, as a protest against the inclusion of the sport, choosing to show breaking off as an artistic medium rather than athletic one. Using movements that were specifically contextual to Australia's presence in an international space, her performance was a criticism of the IOCs attempt to represent breaking as a gymnastic sport rather than artistic expression, and directly intended to sabotage the inclusion of breaking - and expected resulting gentrification of the scene - in the Olympics.
Currently it has been confirmed that the 2028 Olympic Games will not feature breaking, and there are currently no plans to include it in the 2032 Games.
Raygun wins.

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Please commit to your words and actions. Commit to the fucking turn you were going to make right in front of me, before stamping on the brakes at the last second. Commit to a fight after challenging me on not risking my life around your shitty driving.

Do I "want to fucking go"? You have no idea how much I want to fucking go. I have to cycle around idiots like you all day, if you step out of your armoured wankmobile i am going to sink my teeth into your flesh and not let go. I will bite your flabby fucking tits off. I will beat you with my fists and helmet and entire fucking bike until a kind samaritan pulls over to drag me away from your limp body.

Anyway, if I ever mysteriously stop posting you should be able to dox me by googling "cyclist eats driver UK".

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Why can't it be something fun like swapping surnames and then creating a portmaneau or blended name for the kids.

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YOU'RE NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT CRITICAL OF GENDER YOU LYING FUCKS

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Carburettor
Tasty
Bisque
Crime
Endoscope

Fresh out of the Scrabble game, get 'em while they're hot.

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Looks like Palworld has established "game that shouldn't have guns (with guns)" as a genre, so what games are we looking forward to seeing the treatment? Animal Crossing with guns? Football Manager with guns? Disco Elysium with guns?

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Lmao, are you for real? Still flaunting your itty bitty my-first-gender that mummy gave you?
Grow up, loser. Choose a real gender.

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I should have realised something was up when I saw his coat is black after they specifically said Grey.
Look at this shit, he doesn't even sleep right:

Bonus: Teaching the parent's Border Collie pup to sleep wrong

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When we moved in our neighbours told us he had moved in with his girlfriend years ago and not sold the house, on the basis that the relationship might not work out and he'd need somewhere to move back to.

Has it been long enough to say his relationship worked out and I can knock the wall through to steal his bedroom to expand my own? I'd like more space and with my desk and wardrobe this room is pretty cramped.

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