Oh man, you reminded me of LED magnetic throwies, just little homemade LEDs with a watch battery and a magnet. Throw em wherever they'll stick, they're like $.50 to make. Seems like the 00s version, if a little less ubiquitous
I had spitballed an idea similar to this a few months back. Build the characters, world, and situations, and give the AI that information. Pick a few specific pieces of info the AI would have to tell you at specific times, basically to act as guide rails. Then, let the AI and the player just... Interact.
Yeah, those things are still almost entirely word-baaed for me. Low level aphantasia, I can't form a very clear picture in my head, but my inner monologue does a lot of lifting.
This is more about the dissemination of these terms into popular lingo. There's an interesting trend of queer scene words getting picked up by the general population, usually starting with the younger generation and spreading out from there.
Right? This issue only exists because there's someone with the goal of making money involved. If your goal is to help someone, then it doesn't really matter that it's costing a bit. Remove the financial consideration, and it's a lot easier to stomach "a mentally challenged person vandalized some stuff, but they're not living on the streets anymore and can actually start getting help".
Toxic masculinity is applying that mentality to something inherent to men. So, man up, sack up, nut up, etc. The implication is that if you are not masculine, you should start being so. You got nuts, use em. Pretty toxic.
How about "grow up" "act an adult" or the like, at least then we're not tying ability to change and be better with genital status.
One of these things (bathing) is a trait you can have, and change. The other (maleness) is one that you cannot (reasonably, for most people) change.
It's easy enough to be told "I don't want to interact with you because you smell" - I can change that with just a bit of effort. It sucks to hear "I'd rather interact with a bear, because you're a male." That's something I have no control over. You're telling me that a fundamental aspect of my existence means that I'm a threat to you, and that I can't be trusted around.
Quite simply, replace "man" with "black person" and try the whole experiment again, you'll probably see how gross the argument is.
Stopping the progressive downfall of society is on all of society, period. What's the end game of alienating half the race?
You're right about one thing. Women can't make men not rape, and it doesn't really fall to them. Does it fall to the good guys, though? The ones who already don't rape and stand up to their peers who have toxic ideas? And, really, are you reaching anyone who needs to hear it with rhetoric like this?
Changing society is a game everyone has to be on board with. Everyone makes up society, so you can't just tell half of them they're not fit and expect it just to work out. Sure, not all men, but quite frankly I'm tired of having to be "one of the good ones". We already decided labeling someone one of the good ones wasn't right with black people, we really need to have that fight again?
The timely manner thing is the biggest one for me. The use case for phone cameras has always been a camera always on you, ready to go in an instant, to take those cool moment photos. If I'm going to use proper photography techniques, it's not with a phone camera.
Unless I'm missing something new in later civs, the civilization series is missing the "real tine" part. Unless we're talking about the fact that it takes place during real time periods. Hah.
Does their gullibility somehow diminish their victimhood? Gullible doesn't mean they're malicious, it just means they're easily misled. If anything, if they're "just gullible" we should be even less hostile towards them, and more towards the propaganda machine (because it is) that's feeding them their misinformation.
edit: original post was in response to another comment. My bad.
Yeah, once it stops being collaborative, it becomes a problem. The original act of just proposing a stupid idea is fine, because it's collaborative, but as soon as one person (company,entity...) becomes too imposing to say no to, it's just bad times.
Can't speak for anyone but me on this one. It's the same reason I don't hate anyone, really. We're all unique with completely different perspectives on the world, perspectives that naturally lead us to different conclusions. Me hating someone will only push them into their own world. I'd rather share my perspective, and hope it moves theirs a bit, so that we might reach a better common ground.
Exactly. So many people write off the impact society makes on our individual decisions. The thing that's critical to remember is, we're all doing our best. I believe that thoroughly - no one wants to be less than the best version of themselves. Celebrate the smallest of wins, and eventually we'll all be there.
Oh man, you reminded me of LED magnetic throwies, just little homemade LEDs with a watch battery and a magnet. Throw em wherever they'll stick, they're like $.50 to make. Seems like the 00s version, if a little less ubiquitous