I think there’s a time and place for both. In the beginning being able to have ANY queer sexuality in games was amazing, and having playersexual games levelled the playing field for everyone. On the other hand when done well having characters with their own defined sexualities can work even better in the right context. Cyberpunk did this fairly well. It was nice finding some exclusively gay characters, some hetero. The bi representation could have been better but the fun was finding oh wow this person is their own character with boundaries and personality and preferences! As weird as it sounds it was nice getting rejected by Panam and made her feel more real. I was like ok, cool! She’s not into it but not super weirded out. And getting to know Judy was wonderful! She is an explicitly gay woman and her character was written as such and it felt like it. Her queerness was REAL. It would have been a bummer if there were only straight romances to pursue but that wasn’t the case. It obviously takes more time to develop a specifically tailored romance line for every possible sexuality though so it’s understandable when a developer wants to include everyone and just makes the npcs into you no matter what. And sometimes the game just doesn’t have very deep characters anyway so why not? As far as the straight male audience being upset they have to deal with unwanted advances by men… heh. Damn that must suck huh. looks directly into the camera

This feels like a “water is wet” discovery but it’s still great to see more evidence of prehistoric cultures since we know very little of how ancient humans thought and what they valued.

Were all neolithic musicians into rock music?

Same. They say it’s dishwasher safe and then I look at the very not dishwasher safe coating and start to suspect they’d prefer it wear out as quickly as possible so I buy another fryer within a year. It’s easy to just wash anyway.

In Canada we have two official languages. We also have several indigenous languages which may be in danger of being lost if people stop speaking them. I can’t see how forcing everyone to embrace a single language won’t put the cultures that speak the other languages in danger of being subdued, permanently altered, or even of disappearing.

Humans are at our best when we embrace diversity.

It was the traffic mod, and it’s been patched for a while now. Edit: Wait. I’m out of date. It happened AGAIN?

Now I’m hungry for a Nasty Nevil

I was thinking Artificer maybe maybe

Wellllll, now I know what my next D&D character will be.

You’re right. It is, at least, something.

My god, that’s brilliant!

At least we know chatgpt wasn’t involved

“One particular point of contention for Downey Jr is Musk’s obsession with Mars colonization. The actor didn’t mince words when he stated, “This idea of, ‘It’s all okay because we’ve gotta get to Mars,’ doesn’t really hold water with me.” It’s a striking criticism that cuts to the heart of Musk’s most ambitious projects.”

Of all of the thing’s Techbro has said and done, his fakey mars ambitions are a particular point of contention for RDJR? The nazi stuff is ok, but him pretending we’re all going to mars so we don’t have to care about Earth that parts the real issue? I hope this is just editorialized and out of context.

lmao I’m sorry I am 100% for gun regulation but this some big boomer energy and NOT the way to appeal to youth. If the intent is to say “Hey, we have no idea about what you are into but we are pretty sure we know better than you. Go to your room! No video games for a week!” then it’s probably working.

Brilliant! If we simply don’t measure the full impact, the report will indicate much less of an impact! Truly some of the minds of our times went into this.

robot rock starts playing in the background

You probably don’t want any kind of plastics in the kitchen that might come into contact with heat. As a general rule.

In hindsight, the sites and services yahoo offered self imploding before they became fully enshittified is actually not the worst outcome.

Cyberpunk, as a genre of fiction, was supposed to be a warning and not an instruction manual.

It is a nail biter. The conservatives have gone from getting 2% of the popular vote to 44%. There are a lot of grievances right now. And the incumbent party has been in power for a long time and there’s a natural tendency here to alternate between parties so there’s pressure from people who don’t have as much specific desire for any given policy but just sort of vaguely feel like things would be better if we shook things up.

The votes are so close right now that we won’t know the outcome until closer to Oct. 26th when we expect all the mail in ballots to have been received and counted.