I didn’t claim there wasn’t a real person behind this. Did you check the profile you linked? They “wrote” an article titled “I asked ChatGPT how to overcome Imposter Syndrome”. That already proves they use generative AI at least for some things. How do you explain the suspicious AI-like structure of the article?

It is my opinion that any “real” creator would not touch AI with a 10-foot pole, if just out of respect for fellow creators.

Well, they shouldn’t. It makes them look less trustworthy.

The image is clearly AI generated, and the content looks incredibly suspicious as well considering the way it’s structured.

I’m just going to report this.

Common cause for that issue is you mixing up the website/forum account details with your game account ones. Unfortunately those are separate. If you got the game from itch/Humble you should’ve gotten an email with instructions to set up your game account, if I recall, and you’d download it from there, rather than the website? Feel free to poke support if you’re not able to get things working.

Yeah, it should not be part of the text just like line numbers shouldn’t be part of the code on a code hosting site, yet it can be visible, no? Later it does recommend using $ to distinguish command and output. Is it now okay for a beginner to be confused about what it means?

Is providing a number of commands to use that require user input really that bad? When people start tinkering with the command line, first of all they shouldn’t trust just anything on the website blindly, which at the very least requires a basic understanding of how to enter commands, and respond to the terminal asking for input. The following “bad” example…

sudo apt update
sudo apt install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt install python3.9

…is instead turned into this single command with even more confusing syntax for beginners:

sudo apt update && \
  sudo apt install --yes software-properties-common && \
  sudo add-apt-repository --yes ppa:deadsnakes/ppa && \
  sudo apt install --yes python3.9

Sure, it’s convenient, but if you just throw blocks of code at people to run, are they really learning anything?

A better approach would be to have a quick tutorial on how to use the terminal and what the $ and # symbols mean (though they could be CSS decorators that can’t be copied), what sudo is and warning people about running untrusted commands on their system. Then you just link to that at the top saying something along the lines of “if you’re unfamiliar with running commands, and the following seems confusing, check this quick summary”, behind a question mark icon connected to each block of commands, or similar.

I’m no authority to speak on this, but I can say (gender) identity and pronouns aren’t necessarily linked. Some people might lean into the fairy thing for their aesthetic or identity, others wouldn’t. Some might use fae/faer pronouns explicitly to break out of the gender binary / ternary, others might just find that these pronouns fit them. I hope someone with more knowledge on the matter could weigh on.

So drag isn’t the problem, even though drag’s a “troll” whose identity does not deserve respect (as you’ve repeatedly made clear in this thread), and you’re pissed at the admin whose instance’s rules are to respect identities and pronouns even regardless of that (and then enforcing those rules), instead of the admin of the instance that’s hosting the supposed “troll” and enabling drag’s behavior across many instances…?

Tell me how that’s supposed to make sense. Or, actually, don’t. I’ve seen plenty of your kind show their true colors over the course of trying to get through to you. You’re just unable to deal with the fact that you got rightfully banned after breaking the rules, even after being told what the issue is multiple times. Grow up. Learn from your mistakes.

So in your opinion, it was entirely okay to, on the post of an admin explicitly asking people to respect neopronouns, go “except for that dragon person, right?”. If you want to have a talk and not get banned, see Squorlple’s conversation with Ada in that thread.

Isabel Fall is/was a trans woman who wrote a story invoking the “I sexually identify as an attack helicopter” meme / dog whistle and got attacked for it to the point of suicidal thoughts and her/them detransitioning even by her/their own peers. One of the lessons that some hope that could be learned from this is that, as Ada said it, “[it] isn’t always a troll, and how the community itself can become harmful to its own members when it turns on them”.

Additionally, as Mossy Feathers in this thread points out: If it is a troll, you’re just feeding it. If it isn’t, you’re an ass. Oh and you’re an ass either way, because you – regardless of your infinite wisdom about what LGBTQ+ people want, how to protect them, or how to normalize our existence – have questioned someone’s identity, which is not yours to decide, and that’s against our instance’s rules.

Do not interact, or block, and nobody will mind.

Heck, some folks witnessing this mess, including me at this point, are probably quite happy about drag’s “trolling”, as it seems to honeypot those unwilling to listen to us into showing their bigoted ways. As already said: Don’t tell us how to run our communities, especially not after “one of you” just got kicked out for so blatantly breaking our rules in a post that’s literally about asking people not to.

Here’s some non-Blåhaj users I’ve come across in this thread that are echoing a similar sentiment to me:

• Ma…@lemmy.world
• St…@lemmy.world
• sp…@lemmy.cafe
• Mo…@pawb.social
• Re…@lemmy.world
• yu…@pawb.social
• Al…@leminal.space
• ca...@lemm.ee
• la…@lemmy.world
• OB...@lemmy.ml

You’ve got plenty of non-Blåhaj opinions in this thread questioning a Blåhaj admin’s decision.

Not to mention Dragon Rider isn’t even from our instance. Take it up with lemmy.nz if you want drag’s account banned.

So you replied just to confirm that you didn’t read the story of Isabel Fall.

Please read Ada’s comments in the thread regarding the “attack helicopter identity meme”.

I invite you to check which instances “all those Blåhaj users” are actually from.

People got banned for responding to a post by the admin herself titled “Neopronouns are not trolling”. They literally started arguing with an admin right then and there about whether some user’s identity / pronouns are valid. I don’t know what other outcome you expect.

We only insist on using the correct pronouns. What’s the purpose of arguing the validity of a supposed troll’s identity when there’s plenty of actions to criticize? How often do we need to tell you that the correct response to a trolls is NOT to start misgendering them or similar, before you get it?

You do understand that pronoun use and (gender) identity aren’t necessarily linked, right?

The existence of dragons has no weight on the validity of drag’s pronouns.

I was saying that “thatsaspicymeatball” is impractical as a pronoun due to its length, and a result of that is likely a joke pronoun, reinforced by the fact that you made it up for that explicit purpose. You can’t make that same claim about the use of “drag” as a pronoun. And again, thinking someone is trolling is still not a valid reason to disrespect their identity or pronouns (in Blåhaj Lemmy), for reasons already stated elsewhere.

This is not the first time the drag/drag pronouns person came up (currently not sure what name they’re going by) and it looks like the admins have previously made the decision to back them. Heck, perhaps to them, it’s a good way to weed out people who can’t understand why the rules are the way they are. Just like someone’s ethnicity, age or appearance is irrelevant to discussions, neither are their identity or pronouns. If PugJesus is the person that got banned, then it appears they have yet to understand what they did wrong, and the ban appears to be warranted.

All that’s being asked for is to accept everyone’s pronouns. If you think someone is using joke pronouns – which again drag/drag is exotic but literally no extra effort to type than they/them – then you can report and let the mods and admins deal with it. Arguing “I don’t need to respect this person’s pronouns because dragons aren’t real” is where you step into the realm of rule-breaking in this instance.

Feel free to read some of the experiences and opinions of other trans people in this thread. Notably, we don’t all agree, but it’s not all that out there as you’re making it seem.