Hexagons [e/em/eir]

I understand your point of view more than most of the arguments I’ve seen against mandatory pronouns. So please take my comment as friendly, I’ll do my best not to be a rude asshole.

How would you feel about (any) for your pronoun choice? That’s functionally the same as not listing them, people can still choose which ones they want to use for you, but it still shows you’re supportive of people prominently displaying their pronouns. That or you could consider maybe a neopronoun. I personally really like e/em/eir. They’re nice and genderless, easy to use, and, bonus, a mathematician came up with them in like the '70s (I could have the year wrong and I refuse to look it up), not because he was trying to be trans inclusive, but because he hated that math books assumed their readers were all men and he wanted to include women in his writing. (Singular they was considered ungrammatical at that point.)

No, they don’t. I personally know a cis person who has their pronouns on hexbear set as they/them or comrade/them. Those aren’t the pronouns they use in real life.

If someone assumes you’re trans simply because your pronouns are set to something other than she/her or he/him, that’s kind of on them. People are allowed to lie on the internet. Choose any pronouns you like, it doesn’t matter.

I personally assume absolutely nothing about the cisness or transness of someone with “any” or “none/use name” as their pronouns of choice.

Exactly.

This article is so fucking funny. “Yes, Ansar Allah said they’re responsible for this attack, yes, all the evidence points towards them being responsible for this attack, but are we really sure it was them, really?” It really feels like whoever wrote this piece is really trying to minimize how capable Ansar Allah are, especially since they blame “human error” (by the Israelis) for the lack of warning about the attack when Ansar Allah has said this is a new type of drone that is undetectable by radar.

I guess I’m just more willing to take Ansar Allah at their word than whoever wrote this article, and I find it deeply amusing how much hedging you have to do if you refuse to believe that Ansar Allah is capable of doing the things they say they’re doing.

(Civility is a long-standing bit account here at hexbear. The whole shtick is replying with happy emojis when people are being civil but awful and angry emojis when people are being morally principled but uncivil. Check out Civility’s post history to see what I mean)

I just started Cult of the Lamb yesterday. What a strange little adorable game! I’m having a great time with it so far

I played Control, and apparently it’s set in the same universe as the Alan Wake games, which I had never heard of until I googled WTF was up with the Control DLC that deeply confused me. It turns out, it’s all references to Alan Wake. Which is why I was so confused. I should play them, I really enjoyed Control.

How has no one mentioned Outer Wilds yet? That’s usually right on up there in these kinds of threads, because it’s great. An absolute masterpiece of a game.

Pathologic 2 is also a masterpiece, but a (purposefully) miserable game to play. It’s so beautiful and the world is so rich, but it definitely demands perseverance to make it through, because it will do everything it can to make you hate it.

A Short Hike isn’t quite as narratively satisfying as the other two, but it’s short and fun and extremely adorable. Just a pleasant little world to spend an afternoon in.

That is really handy! Where can I learn this power?!

(I’m hungover)

This is homelessromantic yet again shilling their shitty Medium blog.

Chris Jeffries, please fuck off

I (finally) watched the new It movies (2017 and 2019), and apparently those clown sightings in 2016 were probably marketing for the movie. I don’t really know if that’s true, but it sure sounds true

I’m so sorry! Talks are really hard and can go poorly in so many different ways, I hate giving them so much. It really did probably go better than you felt like it did. Still though, I know that feeling of veering off into an unnecessary explanation. It always feels at the time like I really should have included this background, what was I thinking leaving it out, I’ll just explain it real quick, and then oops, I’ve spent way too long here and now don’t have time for the actually important stuff!

Just a terrible feeling, all in all. Still, what’s important is that your colleagues vaguely know what you’re working on so they can talk to you or read your papers or what have you. It’s ok! A terrible talk isn’t the end of the world, you’re still cool and intelligent and competent!

Oh hey! That was me! Nice to see you around! That mod was a piece of work, hilarious little saga all around

Does “customize” not work? As in:

EndeavorOS KDE customization

This is the first time that I’ve tried to start customizing my system

There is a consensus in this community. Posts that use the racist term get removed when they’re noticed by mods. You can check the mod log.

Hey, just so you know, “rice” is a racist term. You should remove it from your title and post body before a mod removes your post

I see you banned Cowbee for calling you out as a racist bigot in the other thread that you then locked, accusing them of racism in the process, for some reason.

Go ahead and ban me too, please, because I agree with them: you’re a bigot and your issues with the modern gaming landscape arise from your bigotry

please regale me with your gamergate take (i know you have one)

My person opinion is all politics, racial issues and gender identity should be left out of games and writers should create the stories that they want to create

I’m sorry, but this is a silly and contradictory opinion. For one thing, what if a writer wants to write a story about racism or gender? Should they be allowed to write the story they want to write, even though you consider it “political”? For another, games have been political since extremely early in the history of games. The original Deus Ex is from 2000 and most of its themes were explicitly political. Fallout: New Vegas has multiple gay characters and (through its super mutants) deals with issues of racial prejudice. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream came out in 1996 and one of its main characters is a black woman.

What I’ve noticed about people who say they don’t want “politics” in their games is that they really just want to play games with political messages they already agree with. There’s no such thing as an apolitical work of art, and that applies to games too, unless you’re saying games aren’t (and shouldn’t be) art?

Play the games you want to play, I don’t give a shit. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that games are “more political” than they used to be. They aren’t.

Edit: Oh, you’re the same person who was whining about Sweet Baby Inc a few days ago. I’m wasting my time talking to you. Have a good day

Do you really believe this? Red hat is paying people to shill for them on lemmy? I don’t suppose I could trouble you for some evidence of that, could I?