It’s not nearly enough. I’m not in their bargaining unit, but I’ve gone on strike with the IAM. It was 300 or 400/week.

I actually enjoy hexabearians but don’t engage in political convos where I don’t agree with them. Db0 works perfectly for that.

That’s fair. I find it comfortable, but I’m really weird politically.

db0 is pretty neutral while being intentionally left.

I’d make them pet my dog and talk to my mom.

(I’m so sorry for writing so much. Skip to the last paragraph if you have to. There’s a tension in me because I fall on both sides a bit.)

It’s an indicator of developer focus and intent. Sometimes.

If people’s introduction to trans characters wasn’t “hi, I’m trans” then maybe they wouldn’t have these stereotypes, but we are where we are. Pretending that it’s just extra options is ignoring that the people that push this sort of thing also seem to think we also want to read their shitty writing and shitty characters.

Their dumblelore/voldemort slash fiction bullshit was trash 15 years ago and they haven’t improved because their focus is social issues, not good writing. That’s the real issue - paper thin characters that are just vehicles for social commentary. Subversion isn’t annoying your audience from the start, it’s developing deep characters with all the flaws of humanity that also happen to have atypical identities.

My favorite book series are The Culture novels and Discworld. They both have trans characters that aren’t there just to push narrative. They were well written characters that fit the world and also trans. In the culture it’s not even remarkable - they’ve solved everything biological so it’s just kind of there. Discworld is more by-the-horns, but he still manages to be sneaky with the subversion and it works every fucking time.

On the flip side, Hugo award winner A Deepness in the Sky has a character that uses gender neutral pronouns which is whatever. Not a big deal, but it was the first time I saw it in a book. What was the book? Torture/rape fantasy set in space. It’s one of two books I couldn’t finish. The other is Atlas Shrugged. Coming from someone that’s read a lot of more classic science fiction and considered a Hugo a seal of approval, that was a very harsh realization.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with extra options or making ugly characters (though I don’t get that - there’s a sweet spot between fan service and trash can) but I don’t consider them a useful feature if the game is shit. If they focus on the game and add ‘woke’ shit to a good game with well written characters it’ll go down like honey. If the devs see the game as a vehicle to disseminate their social ideas, they’re in love with themselves and not the game and people will see that. It can, and has, been done well.

Is having a problem with outright lies fascist? We can’t completely divorce ourselves from reality and be effective.

I don’t expect most people here (lemmy in general) to engage in argument with conservatives, but it’s nice when you don’t make it harder for me to.

I legitimately don’t expect vicious people from blahaj. Maybe try hexbear?

That’s your struggle, not mine.

That’s not really how deficit spending works.

Yeah, no response. Kinda figured.

At least criticize her because her views are worse than trump instead of making shit up. But no, fuck reality. We’re all going to suffer until the left sorts out how to be effective and useful. Society needs you but you’re going to take yourself out of the fight with delusions.

Deflection of what? I’m only invested in giving you guys shit. An anti-trump russian shill is funny as fuck and runs counter to the narrative.

At least someone responded, despite essentially no content. Maybe a bit of projection.

Is this some of the obvious pro-russia propaganda?

Elizabeth Warren?

Dude is gonna get fucked, but someone had to be the test case. Hopefully this gets some legal clarity.

Fine. Next desktop build is linux.

They already can with effort. No reason not to add it.

We’re paying like 15k/yr per student. More in lots of places. We’re paying shitloads to educate other people’s children.

Fuck the 9x kernel.

If we’re doing that we gotta go back to at least 95 if not 3.1. Are we counting 98se?

Nah. Fuck the 9x kernel.

2000 good. XP gooder.