Melmi

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Sims 4 is free, and there’s a DLC unlocker that lets you get all the DLCs in your legit copy. You might have better success installing the EA app in Proton/wine, logging in a throwaway account, and then installing the official base game.

    I also recommend Lutris instead of Steam for non-Steam games, I’ve found it easier to work with and it can also automatically add links back to Steam if you like having all your game in one place.





  • I can’t help but wonder if Itch is intentionally going for a malicious compliance route. As you say, it’s tougher to defend rape and incest content, so if they’d opened with that they likely wouldn’t have gotten nearly as much media attention. But by doing it this way, half the internet is talking about payment processors forcing itch to delist NSFW games, even giving juicy headlines like LGBTQ games being disproportionately affected. Then Collective Shout of all groups was forced onto the back foot and forced to say “wait no we just wanted the rape and incest games gone” but now that the story is out there it has a life of its own.

    Even if they didn’t do it on purpose, it seems like it’s created a much more effective movement than if they had done it “properly”, regardless of the reason for why it worked out this way.


  • MelmitoScience Memes@mander.xyzget sum
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    23 days ago

    To the contrary, on a party level the democrats seem to be failing to capture any radical energy at all. They’re broadly playing to the center, and alienating progressives in the process, whereas the right is very effectively turning the radicalization pipeline straight into support for the Republicans. Unless you mean to imply the Democrats’ goal is to radicalize people away from their own platform.





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    1 month ago

    Wanting to own billions isn’t necessarily evil. I’d say it’s actually pretty common to want to be a billionaire in our society; the desire to gain wealth is core to capitalism. They may not understand the consequences of it or be able to conceptualize of the people they’d hurt.

    Hypothetically, if we treated it as an illness (or rather a symptom) we could shift societal norms and rehabilitate people who express signs of trying to hoard wealth.








  • MelmitoPluralitySo... what does that make me?
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    I don’t think cis/trans is necessarily an identity inherently. It’s sort of an emergent property of the interaction between your body and your gender. Some people specifically identify with the label, but I think a lot of people identify as their gender first and are just cis/trans because their sex either does or doesn’t line up with their identity.

    When you’re fronting, you could be considered trans because you’re a guy in an AFAB body. That’s all it takes. In headspace, you could be cis or trans or neither, because the dichotomy isn’t really as relevant there.