The design of Prey was like an alternate reality

That's because it is! If you read the magazines laying around, you'll see that the cold war never happened in the world of Prey. America and Russia reached for the stars together, and the Vietnam war never happened.

Would you consider the art direction of Prey to be NASApunk?

A xenogender is any gender which isn't male or female, and doesn't fit along the male-female axis of gender. So, for non-xenogender identities you have: man, woman, demiboy, demigirl, agender, bigender (male and female), genderfluid (male and female), genderfae (female and agender), genderfaun (male and agender), androgynous, and, you know, everything in that whole space.

Xenogenders are genders which don't exist in relation to binary gender or the absence of gender. Unfortunately, they're harder to name, because you don't get to pick a name that relates to existing terms for binary gender. The most common path is to name a gender through analogy. For example: suppose you were trying to explain male gender to an alien creature who's never heard of maleness or masculinity. So you say "Men are meant to be strong, and to have camaraderie, and to be protectors, and to have interest in athleticism". So you try to come up with a single word to relate all this quickly, and maybe you settle on the term "shieldgender". So in the absence of the word "man", you have that. Now imagine trying to explain a xenogender to a binary person. There's cloudgender, and seagender, and robotgender, and pretty much any set of interrelated concepts you can imagine.

For my xenogender, it's more literal and less analogous. People of my gender relate to one another through a swarm dynamic instead of a nuclear family, so we're swarmgender. It's just a description of how we work.

Hey, cis people: Most of you have never met a xenogender person or been in a situation where your actions mattered to them, right?

Here's a word of advice: When you meet your first xenogender person, the way you treat them is your attitude on ALL xenogender people until proven otherwise. If you attack the first xenogender person you've ever met for having a "silly" gender, then you're a transphobe. It doesn't matter if you think you're somehow protecting trans people, because hatred and dismissal and erasure is the way you treated 100% of the xenogender people you've ever met.

Brigading is good actually. It's just another word for organised protest.

Redditors when BLM brigades the police station

About a week ago on Hexbear someone was saying China was good, and I said it's not good if you're queer. They replied that America is even worse. To which I said, "I know, I'm trying to get my trans partner out of there so it isn't holocausted. China and America aren't the only two countries. Why do you think America is important to this discussion?"

I think that's what whataboutism should refer to. When someone tries to excuse bad behaviour through comparison to an irrelevant third thing. I see it all the time in Australia from climate apathiers who say "We shouldn't try to reduce our emissions because China won't". I always tell them "we're doing worse per capita than China is. And even if we weren't, wouldn't you want our country to be a global leader in something?"

It's a persistent feeling of platonic attraction towards a person. The platonic equivalent of a crush.

Haven't you ever had a friend that you were excited and happy to spend time with in the initial stages of the relationship? One who gave you butterflies in your stomach, but who you didn't want to date?

And lastly, I'll say this, it's completely disingenuous to remain "friends" with someone after you've been friendzoned if you initially had romantic feelings for them and those romantic feelings still persist

Disagree. It's not hard to turn a crush into a squish. I know 2000s era TV made it seem like it's impossible to be friends with someone you love without acting like a creep, but that's just not true. Just have a little honesty. "I find you romantically attractive but I also value your friendship."

Yeah people I've friendzoned have secretly introjected me and pursued a relationship with the introject in the past, but that's called being a creep, it's not called having feelings.

Extraction zone

If it's the same person who said that stuff to me, she went on to say she genders all strangers he/him by default. On the instance full of trans women. And the admin defended her.

You're reducing disabilities to their impacts upon labour and ignoring oppressions suffered due to social disability, which includes the social effects of physical disabilities.

This is a very capitalist brained take on the issue, reducing everything to work and productivity and neglecting the aspect of life that is living instead of working.