[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

Thank you for this perspective, it helps.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago

Trying to reconcile my own beliefs and political stance with the feelings Venezuelan people in my life have been expressing to me has been difficult ngl. Like... What am I supposed to say? I just try to listen. I dunno.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

If only there was some kind of alternate mode of personal transport that doesn't require government licensing and registration....

... Ride a bike, you say? What, like a fucking communist or something?

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 29 points 6 months ago

When he said he has to charge it every 6-8 hours or so.... what-the-hell

I'm sure that'll be fine if they ever manage to restore motion in the limbs.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 43 points 7 months ago

It's not just that they're horribly, unnecessarily bright--but the drivers never adjust their angle because it's not common knowledge that you're supposed to do that when you get a car. It's right there in the manual. LED headlights even have an attempted safety measure where they have a hard line stop instead of a gradual drop-off, to avoid blinding people--so when they're correctly angled they're... Okay, I guess. Not great, but better. So when it feels like they're beaming directly into your eyeballs, that's because they are.

That, and idiots putting LED headlights into their old cars without switching the housing, which essentially eliminates the safety measures and turns them into million lumen lasers.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 29 points 8 months ago

It's extremely rough. I had 4 years of serving experience at the time, had served in a variety of settings from nice sushi restaurants to dive bars. They fired me because of specific niche little things that their establishment specifically does a certain way, which makes it all the more frustrating.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 27 points 8 months ago

limmy-what

All of them...?

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 56 points 8 months ago

It's not just corporate jobs either. I was "training" (in quotes because they taught me fuck-all) to be a server at a fancy restaurant and show venue, and they let me go after my second day. Mind you, they only "trained" me for 4 hours tops my first night, and then threw me in for a full regular shift on my second day. Fired me because I didn't nail absolutely everything perfectly first try. Made me want to commit arson.

Probably a blessing in disguise, considering the owner was a massive creep, but holy shit.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 23 points 8 months ago

Good cable management.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 36 points 8 months ago

Careful, there's a sizable pocket of leftists online who'll accuse you of being a tyrannical purist for even daring to imply that drawn CSAM is fucked up.

[-] pixelghost@hexbear.net 24 points 8 months ago

I like both for different reasons. If it's important to a character's design and story or if the devs want to represent a specific identity, fixed is obviously the way. If it's not, then playersexual is fine I guess. In the case of a playersexual character though, people should feel free to project their identities—after all, they're working with what is pretty much an open canvas. A character might be playersexual in the broad sense, but that doesn't mean I can't interpret them as a lesbian, for example.

I also think that if what you're aiming for is realism, NPC identities should reflect that in various ways. Getting rejected by Panam (straight) in Cyberpunk 2077 only to recover and go on to date Judy (lesbian) added a lot of depth to my Vi.

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