I’m trans so it’s not just the kid photos for me, even ones from as recent as four years ago give me this feeling. While I’m not yet out or passing, so other people still see me as I was and not as I will be, when I look at old photos I have issues recognizing myself, I just see a stranger. Something about the tiny little changes in the face that HRT does I guess.
The DRM is optional for use by the devs. Rimworld is one game I know doesn’t use it, you can just zip the entire thing up and put it somewhere else and it’ll run fine. It’s still a launcher. But the only better alternative to a launcher is plain installers to download and hold onto like GOG provides as an alternative to its Galaxy launcher.
I was born in a red state that won’t let me change my birth certificate, even though I’ve lived in a blue state my entire life. I cried the day I made this realization. Then fuckface’s executive order happened. At least my drivers license will have the right letter, I guess.
Extremely common thing to be into, too, but then the main thing that puts me off with foot people is the same thing that puts me off with any fetishes; creeps who don’t know boundaries. If your thing is feet, it doesn’t matter that it’s the summer and everyone is wearing flip flops, don’t bother people or act creepy. And online, don’t dm girls with demands for foot pics. The worst people in a fetish community are always the first people anyone see, and they always give the rest a bad name.
I started progesterone on my second year of HRT, although then I had an incident with my heart unrelated to my HRT, and got my progesterone taken away as a precautionary measure. Got that checked out by a cardiologist, was informed with confidence that it was most likely a one off occurance with only one followup left to rule anything else out. But the planned parenthood clinician I get my HRT from just told me they wouldn’t put me back on it because of the blood clot risk.
Didn’t matter how I felt about the situation, didn’t matter what other options there were to address that risk, didn’t care about my opinion on the risk to my own body in my own transition, was just a big “fuck me”. Pretty sure their reasoning was some more bullshit regurgitated from some quack study 40 years ago but whatever I guess.
Also yes, I was a rule breaker, basically never posted there despite seeing it every day, but like half the memes I just downloaded and sent to my friends’ dms. So 196 did account for a big chunk of my Lemmy activity.
I unfollowed every .world community I was previously following, then blocked .world entirely during the pre-backtrack period of their “we wanna do what Facebook is doing” announcement. I did unblock it later, but I’m not following anything on that instance, including 196. I don’t believe what Moss and all them said about their talk with the lemmy world admins, I think eventually when they try again with the moderation change, they’ll enforce it on 196 anyway, despite promising to let them moderate with their own rules. I also don’t like that instance having the most content, which is just going to balloon up even more with 196’s memes, since it starts going against the whole point of the fediverse, the decentralization aspect. If people start saying “well Lemmy world has the ‘best admins’ and the most communities so why make this community on another instance?”, that’s gonna have an effect, you know?
I just feel disheartened.
That legislation really needed an extra factor to show how carcinogenic something is. That everything is carcinogenic is terribly unhelpful, but if we knew this thing was a very low risk carcinogen and that thing was very high risk, it might have actually been useful instead of the butt of a joke. The laziness of the politicians who penned it frustrates me every time people make posts like this.
And yes, the carcinogen is Nintendo.
I love Valkyr, her prime has been my main for years, modded her up nicely to work as my steel path frame. I live in hysteria and steel path enemies go down in seconds, so I’m often the last one standing in deep archimedea, for instance, having to help other people back up, especially when deep archi has the fragmented one assassination in the mission list.
I have her stuffed full with tau archon shards, kullervos helminth ability, and arcane battery plus the armor needed to support that. I end up with just over a 1k energy pool, when warcry is active and my molt augmented is near its max, so the bad energy economy isn’t quite so bad.
But yeah, despite how comfortable I am with her, she’s far from perfect. I absolutely would love to have her hysteria moveset reworked so I’m not using the slide as often, plus some other tweaks with the other abilities.
I don’t think I even have the luxury of choosing. I think it will be decided for me, because I am a minority under an imminent regressive violent fascist regime.
There is only implied gay sex if you date a 1999 Hex member who is the same sex as your Drifter. Then every time you walk past them in the mall backroom base of operations, you’ll get tons of colorful comments about going to pound town later. It’s kind of amazing.
What would happen when they have practically all of it?
They would declare “I win!” And then the board would be reset so the next round could start. /j
Like moths to a light bulb, it would be funny if the banned folks’ behavior wasn’t steeped in hatred
What they neglected to explain was that Cyberpunk Red is the fourth, and latest, edition of the Cyberpunk tabletop RPG on which Cyberpunk 2077’s world and game mechanics are based. This document they included in the game files is a rule book for that.
The worst possibility for the games is they make fromsoft games exclusive to their platform, and then maybe or maybe not release a PC port of it a year or more later. We saw with bloodborne that that was a “not”, and the demons souls remake seems to also be a “not”. Other games, I guess we’d wait and see.
I mind it. In isolation it would be fine, but with their ignorance, these types punish and harm their families, mainly their children, who would otherwise just grow up to cut contact with them anyway, long as they didn’t end up sharing their views. Plus when it’s disease, they just have to walk near a person who isn’t another conservative to spread it. As we learned from covid, the best person to be wearing the mask is the sick one, and they don’t play along.
CDDA is a 2D top down roguelike survival game, set in an apocalypse where zombies, aliens, hellspawn and so many other horrible things have shown up everywhere and completely pushed back humanity to the brink of extinction. There are so many real world items like specific gun brands and models, foods with lots of recipes to make bigger and better meals with, recreational drugs tucked into drawers and the pockets of felled zombies.
You could play like a survivalist hobo out in the woods living off the land away from all the carnage and sipping pine needle tea all day while tending to your crops, or explore cities overrun with undead and using night to cover your tracks as you hop through open windows, climb up downspouts and leap from roof to roof. Or you could head down into secret labs to loot cybernetic implants and mutagenic compounds to become something more than human.
You could do quests for NPC factions and also build a team of NPC followers of your own so that you can (over a long period of time and a significant resource investment) build up the structures in your own custom settlement, sending your followers out on missions.
Or you can find enough materials, tools, vehicle parts and mechanics skill books, to become a master mechanic and build up your own custom armored super car, once you tire of walking or bicycling everywhere or driving a bog standard sedan you fixed up off the road.
The controls are very complicated, and if you’re the type to get mad when the devs change or nerf something you were used to, you’ll be pissed a lot. Some of the things I said may not even be accurate any more, I know custom vehicle construction got way harder after the last time I played, among other things, but otherwise it’s one of the most intricate and complex games out there, in a usually fun way, with very good mod support.
Reminder that the phrase “may you live in interesting times” is a curse against the recipient. Lots of boring nothing happening for multiple generations is the best that anyone can hope for. How I yearn for boring…
They’re going to turn around and say the anticompetitive and illegal behavior they’re watching for is “dei hiring,” and that these companies’ employees aren’t white or straight enough. Or else it’ll be when companies refuse to comply with “the spirit of” any of Trump’s next 5000 pre-written unhinged executive orders that wouldn’t apply to private business, like calling women or minorities humans or something.