Chloyster [she/her] @ chloyster @beehaw.org

Trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

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Would anyone in good faith, with only two options "Stereotypical Brodude or Fashion Magazine Cover Girl", is going to play the former with she/her or the latter with he/him?

I think so. Why not? There are as many valid genders and identities as there are people in the world. Who am I to judge what people want to be referred as? Also even if there wasn't people like that, I can almost guarantee there are people who would want to put a "they/them" to those body types, which seems to be the main point of this body type trend.

I don't see it as a bad faith thing to be like "hey, we should include the ability for NB people to have their preferred pronouns"

Again, I agree that having more options would be better, but why does perfect have to be the enemy of good?

Edit: I also want to say that NB does not equal androgenous. Sure many NB people may desire or have an androgenous look. But I also know people who like to look and be feminine but are still NB, and the other way around

While I agree having more options is always a better thing, I really can't see body type A and B with pronouns choosing anything other than more inclusive, a good thing, and not something that deserves getting up in arms about.

I don't really see how it could be seen as not more inclusive. Sure it's not more inclusive than having full blown sliders that let you change every bit of a character's body, but it's adding more pronouns and not forcing those pronouns on a certain body type. If we look at number of options, it is more than the previous "male and female" options. Thus including a broader set of people

Monkey island is a series I got into relatively recently and I absolutely adore it.

I mentioned in another thread recently how humongous games was a huge part of my childhood. Pajama Sam especially was and remains some of my all time favorite games.

As I got older and learned more about Ron Gilbert (the creator of humongous and all of those things) I learned about Monkey Island and knew I had to play. I have yet to play the non Gilbert games (I know curse of monkey island is beloved by many) but the 3 Gilbert ones are all masterclasses of point and click in my opinion. I think they hold up very well, and the recent return to monkey island was a delight to play. I know some didn't love the art style of the new one but I really enjoyed it.

Also have to say that monkey island 2 has one of my all time favorite OSTs. (https://youtu.be/pCWkOudkzu4?si=kh4e1g6elJDmvwOB)

That's cool! I hope it ends up good. My dad was friends with some of the original humongous entertainment crew and all of their games were a huge part of my childhood, especially pajama sam!

Sweet! Stoked to hear this. At first I was like no way it's been 2 years but I guess it has yeesh

It unfortunately isn't happening

Ah see for me all I can hear is Chris Redfield when Batman talks haha. He does an ok job but he's no Kevin Conroy unfortunately. Totally agree on the detective stuff! I love the random case files that come up that aren't some crazy supervillain plot. Just random crimes done by random people. Good fun

Nice! Yeah blasphemous slaps. The platforming as you say though is unforgiving. I hate the instant spike KOs... Something the sequel thankfully changed

Sure they are, however if you come to the conclusion (if you decided to read the article) that voice actors being told with no preparation that they were going to be performing scenes involving SA are whiny babies you'll be told you're not being nice which is what we expect on our instance

Please be nice on our instance

Yeah... Kind of bummed on it. I'll try it out with some friends but I doubt we'll play it for long

Awesome. I have friends who haven't gotten one specifically for fear of the pain even though it seems like the best option for them. Hope this helps more people have access to this!

No clue but I'm down for a Spelunky short by the people who did love death and robots lol. Sounds lit

Same boat here 😔. I can still remember when I first heard it was officially cancelled. I've never been more devastated by any media being cancelled than this

"Lesser evil" shit is something everyone has to unlearn if they are ever going to help anyone.

I don't agree with the assertions you put forward here, but this one in particular I feel strongly about.

I feel this implies there are other better options available. And this is not always the case.

Harm reduction is something I believe in. Picture a person who is currently addicted to drugs. Their options in life have led them to a crossroads. They need to take something, otherwise risk having painful and potentially deadly withdrawal symptoms. However they know if they keep using, death is likely at the other end as well at some point in the future. In front of them they have 2 choices. A person offering needles. They know this person has been known to provide unclean needles, and using one could have dire consequences. The other choice is using a safe injection site that has been set up. One that can ensure they get as safe and clean of an injection as they can get right now.

While you never explicitly mention the presidential election that is looming, I would like to bring it to that as I feel that is the most relevant application to "lesser of two evils" that we are facing at the moment.

I agree that capitalism is a drug that will eventually get us all killed. The desire to squeeze everything out of something with no regard to how it ends up is where capitalism will get us to. However in this situation, I feel Harris/Walz is the safe injection site. I know I won't immediately get a disease / be labeled a child predator and be given the death penalty. Trump / Vance is the other option. They are the dirty diseased needle that will accelerate death and pain greatly. You may say you can just not pick either, but I disagree with this. Withdrawal will kill us. With the election we don't get the benefit of not choosing either. One of the choices will be made whether we like it or not.

The part you may disagree with the most and where I make my own assertions: I feel the general presidential election is not the place for the withdrawal option. This election is always such a focus, for obvious reasons tbf. But there is so much more than that. Withholding support at this level will not help things. It is so much bigger than us. Why not focus on local level things that can actually make an impact. Get socialists elected to local positions. A thing you can have a tangible effect on.

Focusing on the things you can change is what will get us out of this drug addiction that will one day kill us. Withdrawal and the dirty needle will kill us right now. But the safe injection site will give us the time we need to keep living and try and get out of the situation we're in.

I don't usually write long messages like this so I apologize if it comes off incoherent. I have ideas in my head but have trouble expressing them occasionally

Favorites

• Steam Deck
• Analogue Pocket
• My PC I suppose. Can do the most!

Least favorite

• DS-i: just a lot worse than the lite imo. The camera and the few dsi downloadable games were not worth losing GBA back compat
• PlayStation TV: had potential but was just a worse vita and mediocre streaming box.
• Piboy: a weird raspberry pi 4 based handheld I had by a company called experimental pi. It was actually kind of cool, but they had their own custom software needed to run on the screen and they were really bad about getting fixes out, and some patches would brick the machine iirc. The company seems to be defunct now. The website is a 404 now

Holy crap that's an amazing turn of events! And they have the IP. I'm shocked tbh. Microsoft had such a beloved IP in their hands and they let it go. But I'm happier this way!

Afaik instance blocking came with v0.19

I don't believe the admins intend to update our Lemmy version further as we are moving to sublinks when it is available

Lol that's fair! Been a while since I played it without save states

I kind of feel a lot of 8 bit era games haven't aged the best. But there are a few that I love. Of course smb3 is really outstanding. That game is timeless and really showed how well Nintendo can make games. While I may personally prefer smw, smb3 was in my eyes the first to perfect the side scrolling platformer.

Mother is another game from the era I enjoy a lot. It hasnt aged as well as smb3, but it's still a fun game to look back on. I feel the game was a bit ahead of it's time, and with a few gameplay changes I think it would still be worth playing for any jrpg fan today