Ngl seeing nasi goreng threw me for a loop

Fellas is Greek myth gay? (spoiler: very)

Boggles my mind when people claim that using mechanic present in the game is not playing the game "as intended".

Who do you think put the feature there? The pesky magical game dev that spawns at 2 am to code in a mimic tear?

I'm a queer person in a same sex relationship for the longest time. Honestly even hearing the term LGBT (without the plus, without anything else) makes me kinda happy. Granted I'm in a place where acceptance is barely normalised.

I'm not even aware of the longer variants myself; I personally just use "queer" in describing myself (see above) and my friends. Even the aces I know seem to just call themselves queer and don't really seem bothered by the lack of explicit asexual inclusion in LGBT or LGBT+ or LGBTQ+.

I don't think we should get really stuck on terminology, to the point where we get into arguments with strangers online. I believe labels are important for helping us understand ourselves, but only to a certain point. Either way, queerness to me is quite all-encompassing, so representation here is not an issue? Maybe you could educate me on this.

The flipside being: I am aware that I would like to be more specific in describing myself to people, but it's difficult to explain bisexuality to others (even queer folk!). I use queer as a shortcut. I don't really fault them for not knowing the ins and outs of my sexuality though. I'm just queer at first glance. Wanna know more? Fantastic. Lemme tell you about the bicycle.

I get it's upsetting to kinda "dilute" who we are at times. But being antagonistic about it isn't really effective in educating, imo. These people are trying. Let them try, fuck up a little, and then gently nudge them in the correct direction.

Sekiro is much faster paced; it pays to be aggressive after all. The only time I felt like having to delay my reaction time was with the snake eyes with her weird grab iirc.

I didn't like elden ring much, combat felt more plodding and frustrating to me (and I plat "difficult" games: HK, sekiro, STS).

Coming from someone who shares your frustration with morgott or morgit or the 3 other copy-paste boss's stick that hovers in the air for 5 business days...

Play sekiro

Go greendale!

GIMP does look better now, but I feel like its workflow is actively working against the user experience.

Patiently waiting for the massive download to complete while I read the patch notes!

Can I just say thank fuck I found someone else who doesn't like three body problem.

It's not just the heavy handed politics. It's literally everything about the book. Narrative devices used are absolutely garbage. Oh there's a video game for some reason, and people LARP as Newton and Qin Shih Huang down to their exact personalities. Why the fuck?

In the second book there's an entire section dedicated to the protag's fantasies. A woman should have at most a Bachelor's so she's smart but not smart enough (paraphrased). What the fuck? And don't get me started on the suicide bomb strat that immediately saw the Muslims and Japanese roped in.

The characters are incredibly dull. They just do one thing, but they don't even do that well. Oh here's Mr. Army guy; personality: army salute-y pragmatic unfeeling. The only character that has an added dimension would be Da Shi the policeman, but adding one more dimension to a point simply results in a plane.

People claim he had innovative ideas for sci-fi. They do realise that the Dark Forest Hypothesis was proposed by someone other than cixin, right?

This turned out to be a rant -- could you tell I hate-read this book cause it pissed me off to no end?

Me putting paper into the autoclave for the sake of the environment

I'd like to think I'm an avid reader (and gamer) as well. I view both highly and both have their strengths.

SPOILERS

Video games shine in terms of player interactivity. I genuinely felt visceral, strong emotions by simply having to press the square button 3 times in TLOU2. Bashing someone's head in is the only way to proceed. The music gets more distorted, the screen itself becomes blurry -- I felt as Ellie felt. Distraught, upset, angry, and everything else in between.

I felt the acceptance that I have been honing in my countless loops of Outer Wilds when I finally pulled the system's "life support" out. Flying through space one last time while the music echoes this final journey really made me feel things.

I'd summarise the edge video games have as "This is what you (the player) have done. You have agency. Deal with the consequences of your own actions, or reap the benefits."

A huge disclaimer, I know that the story is already established in the writers room. I'm not saying that games allow you to craft your own story. I'm saying that they allow you to craft your own experience.

Of course, great writers can accomplish the same. I love Atwood's writing in particular, and she does conjure up wonderful emotions. But you always feel for someone or something. You don't have any agency in what happens, so emotions tend to be dampened as well. That's my personal opinion anyway, feel free to disregard it!

With all due respect, I'm all for FOSS but DAWs don't really have a good alternative. Recommending Audacity over FL/Live/Logic like saying Paint is a good free alternative for Photoshop. Doesn't really make sense.

Iirc the only DAW that might barely be enough is LMMS which runs on Linux.