I never liked that article because its message seems to be that we should make it easier for trans women to stay in the closet. Also, there's an unduly focus on internet interactions and politically-minded undergraduate students – that's a method with which you can make any political movement look ridiculous and extreme. Like, I can't remember the last time I heard a strong anti-male opinion expressed in earnest (and I've never seen an academic feminist work in which a contemporary author was dismissed for being/seeming male). I feel like the liberal egalitarianism the author ends up advocating for is already the mainstream opinion on discrimination, and the idea that trans women should not transition and instead sublimate their desire into higher things is certainly also popular enough.

Did myself a favor and blocked my computer from accessing Substack. I just don't need that Nazi-supporting website in my life. I've never read anything on it worth my time.

Had another bad day in terms of mental health today. I don't understand how I can literally sit here for hours, just wasting time, and then beat myself up for not doing anything. I guess it's just depression, but it really fucking sucks

Reminds of a German TERF who tried to advocate for "sex-based rights". But her English wasn't very good, so in her translation, it came out as "sexual intercourse-based rights". Nevertheless, she still got a number of votes because no one pays any attention to language if hate is on the menu.

This is where you end up if you can't accept that Hegel has already written the last word in philosophy, so there's no more need for "pure philosophers".

Not to put too fine a point on it, but Luna-Terra is so transition goals

When will academics learn that students (and, frankly, also other academics) cannot possibly read more than 20 pages a week per seminar? I've literally never seen one of those ambitious lecture plans actually work, it's so ridiculous.

I like games where you can't fail :)

If I'm reading the article correctly, the school tried to close down the club because they got too many threats of violence because of it. I can't even imagine how the sheer mention of Satan is enough to drive someone towards violence.

Metal Fatigue also had a nice system of putting mechas together out of individual parts, which you could steal and reverse-engineer from the enemy factions. That game maybe had a few too many mechanics going on, but I had a lot of fun with it.

Spell slots for life. It combines great versatility over the long run with focused choices over the short term: A mage can be a blaster one day and a self-buffed fighter the next, particularly in 2e. In various Final Fantasy games, in contrast, every mage class is usually the same (and so you only get one of each, usually). In my current Baldur's Gate 2 playthrough, on the other hand, my Fighter/Mage is buffing themself to become a better fighter while my Cleric/Mage is using her Cleric spells for buffing and her Mage spells for damage-dealing, and I could switch that up at any point. I've never seen that kind of build variety in a game with magic points.

Don't worry, there's nothing psionic about these mind flayers.