southsamurai
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- Comment on Comic book legend Peter David dies at 68 1 hour ago:
Damn. Way younger than anyone should check out, if they don’t want to
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 10 hours ago:
No worries at all :)
- Comment on Unholy curses 11 hours ago:
Not cured, but garlic does cause a great deal of pain, and can reduce their healing.
- Comment on Unholy curses 1 day ago:
In my home brew ttrpg setting, it’s viral. A magical virus, but a virus.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 1 day ago:
Really? Tbh, I’m old as fuck, so it may not be a thing in drag slang any more. It’s been something like eight or nine years since I’ve even been to a show.
But, back as far as the early naughties, when I was still working, it was at least still in circulation locally. Was talking to a friend that used to do a killer Tina Turner set, and he was complaining about women, as in cis women, wanting to do drag. He said “I heard of serving real fish, but they taking it too far”.
Coulda sworn ru paul got a bit of backlash for using it as well.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 day ago:
There’s a ton of examples, so yeah.
My home brew ttrpg setting is exactly that
- Comment on Quick! Type You Credit Card Info to Divert More Resources to MC Ride’s Lab 1 day ago:
My Johnson noise has been known to disrupt things a good bit
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It’s like any other initial screening tool. It gets you started, but it can’t be the main determinant for healthcare. BMI isn’t meant to be an all-in-one measuring stick the way something like a blood test can be (most of them are first steps as well, but there’s exceptions).
If a doctor has a patient with a 30 BMI, but they can see that you’re at an otherwise healthy body fat level, they won’t try and treat you based on the BMI unless they’re on the shitty end of doctoring. There are bad doctors, but most of them get weeded out in the grinder that is med school and internship.
You’d definitely want to have other measurements to go along with BMI when you’re unusually tall, short, or muscular.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 1 day ago:
Drag is such a specific thing, I don’t know if most of it would count tbh.
Stage drag is as much an art performance as anything else. It’s an exaggeration of feminine presentation. I wouldn’t argue or fuss if someone said it was girlmode, but I don’t think of it that way usually.
However! There are performers, and non performers, that “serve real fish”. While that term is contentious, it’s a distinct part of drag; and it’s about presenting in such a way as to directly mimic standard feminine presentation rather than the exaggerated and performative side. So it would definitely count, imo.
- Comment on Catchiest video game song? 1 day ago:
It’s cheating, but there was a track in need for speed carbon that was catchy as hell. Love me or hate me, by Lady Sovereign
Not technically video game music, but it’s one of the few tracks in any video game that I went out of my way to find outside of a game.
- Comment on Year of our Lord 1195 1 day ago:
Moding, be it boy or girl, is presenting as that gender, regardless of internal gender.
As an example, a trans woman may sometimes choose to present masculine for whatever reason. That would be boymode.
However, a trans man choosing to present masculine is also boymode.
Obviously, it would follow that non binary people or gender fluid people would also be able to choose to present masculine and thus go boymode.
The then exists as an expression of presentation, regardless of birth assigned gender, or genital/gonad configuration at the time of moding.
I’m cishet male, and could girlmode if I so choose, as the term does exist within that frame of reference as well, albeit rarely. It isn’t even about passing; my giant bearded self could still girlmode, and it would be an accurate usage of the term still.
That’s actually part of what the greentext implies; the Lord of that realm isn’t passing, but is still boymoding, and his subjects respect that once they’re made aware of it.
That all being said, it is rarer to see the term used when presenting as your affirmed gender. It would typically only be used when presenting as your assigned gender. It’s also unusual to see it happen once someone is well into transition as there’s less and less point in moding assigned gender.
The caveat in that is that it is a slang term. It may not be used exactly the same everywhere, or even reliably so in the same locale. I’ve known people that reject it applying to anyone that’s cis, as it isn’t the same thing for a cis person to present as a different gender than their assigned one. There’s a totally separate set of social mores around it, and that does matter. It’s also fairly rare for cis folks to present as other than their cis gender, and it wouldn’t be for the same reasons. But I have heard and seen it used in that context, so I included it here to be thorough.
- Comment on Classic 1 day ago:
They’re pretty heavy, but more important is how you’d have to carry them by yourself. Uncomfortable and awkward for the human and tortoise.
I’ve hefted similar sized snapping turtles before. They’re definitely not too heavy, though it isn’t exactly picking up an empty box either. But if you try to carry them by yourself, you’ve got their shell or their belly against you or you’re kind of waddling along while you hold them by the sides.
One of those in the picture isn’t as dangerous as a snapping turtle, but they can still bite hard. So a two man carry is safer for the people as well as the critter.
- Comment on ‘The Wheel Of Time’ Canceled By Prime Video After 3 Seasons 2 days ago:
I couldn’t make it past the first episode.
- Comment on Aaron Paul was 'depressed' after losing role in 'Friends' co-creator's follow-up show 2 days ago:
That’s for sure. Even in the early days, there were good questions; and once the heat does its job good answers as well.
Now that they’re getting people that are also fans of the show, some of those interviews are better than more mainstream ones of a similar length.
- Comment on There's a spider in my bathroom 2 days ago:
Look, everyone tries to fuck shower spider at some point. It’s a rite of passage
- Comment on Aaron Paul was 'depressed' after losing role in 'Friends' co-creator's follow-up show 2 days ago:
It blows my mind that hot ones interviews are getting cribbed by news outlets
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Not universally, no.
People absorb different things in different ways.
Where filmed media excels is cutting the description into pieces and showing it on screen. That doesn’t necessarily make it easier to understand for everyone, and certainly not for every book that get turned into a show or movie.
For folks that have issues with picturing things in their head (aphantasia or disphantasia), movies are going to be a major boost in understanding. For folks that don’t have that issue, it comes down more to preference.
I can’t say either is better, or even easier to understand, in and of itself. I actually run towards hyperphantasia; I can read a book and once I sink in, it’s as vivid as it gets. Sometimes, it’s a movie in my head and the words on the page are just there in the background (and that’s despite dyslexia, if only a fairly minor expression of it).
There’s book versions of movies as well, with the most interesting example being the E.T. novelization from way back when. The book changed things that were in the movie, to the extent that it was very noticeable. But both the movie and book had their own merits in terms of understanding the story. One example is the scenes with the plastic barriers and such while ET is being examined by the government. A deeper sense of dread and horror was possible in the book via descriptions. But the movie conveyed the claustrophobic, invasive feeling of it better because you could see all the alienness of what the government was doing, how all the lights and airlocks and such became more apart from the family than the family was from ET.
But, if the author fucks up the descriptions, no picture in the mind will come close to what film can do. So there’s a lot more craft needed in writing visuals than there are in most video footage. The barrier between understandable images on screen and conveying information is lower. Conversely, film has to work harder to convey emotion via craft; you can just say that a character is scared in a book and get the basic idea down.
So it isn’t cut and dried. There’s a lot of factors between the mind of the creator/ and the audience’s minds that make it complicated
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Fair enough opinion
However, I think you may miss the fact that Disney has been intentionally expanding their boundaries and public perception. Marvel and the MCU are a big part of that.
They seem to want to have their cake and eat it too, what with still pounding the princesses hard and such.
I don’t think they’d be willing to sever their more adult friendly side now that they’re finally being seen as more than just the mouse. The fact that they went with Deadpool and kept it R, they’re definitely set solidly on a new path to their image.
Maybe if shareholders and whatever muckitty mucks that have pull changed, and there was pressure from the public too, the company might shift gears back towards the tween and under focus, but I don’t see the consistent success of their grown up targeted stuff being dumped without that kind of sweeping pressure from both sides.
- Comment on An alternative spelling of the alphabet that makes more sense 3 days ago:
Got dayum, ain’t that the truth!
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 4 days ago:
Yeah, it is usually better at gaming. Same with bazzite. But older machines can be so damn finicky that it’s rolling the dice if it isn’t something known to work on the same or similar hardware.
Good thing is that it’s relatively easy to switch back. A pain that it’s necessary, but easy enough
- Comment on Would racism in the USA still exist if humans had automated robots in the 1800s? 4 days ago:
Racism existed before slavery. It just changes focus and details in different places at different times. Might not be “race” based in the way we have today, based in arbitrary skin color lines, but prejudice against a given group absolutely is a human failing.
Slavery was as much a product of racism as it was a generator of the current brand of racism that exists in the US. Well, slavery in this context, I’m not well enough versed in older forms to be confident in how much of those were built on the same kind of prejudice. For all I know, Roman slaves may not have been taken based in prejudices the way Africans in specific were during the cross Atlantic slave trade. But those Africans were absolutely considered lesser before the trade got going. And that was absolutely a major factor in the slave trade’s origins.
Robots, you might have reduced or eliminated the slave trade, but it wouldn’t have done a damn thing about racism. There’s always some group that’s going to be a target, and the sheer arrogance of European colonizers would have found even more emphasis on anti-native racism than what they had to begin with. Or the Irish, or the Chinese, or whoever else ended up being at the bottom of their perceived scale of humanity.
You won’t see the end of racism until we see the end of race mattering at all, and even then you won’t eliminate the underlying drives that generate racism.
- Comment on Is Pop_OS! kind of bad? 4 days ago:
I don’t think there’s any distro that’s perfect on every machine.
I have an ancient desktop I sometimes piddle around with. I’m talking twenty years old at least, and it could be more. Most distros work okay on it, but mint, even older versions of it, don’t do as well as plain debian or manjaro. My mom’s old box that I also screw around with (heh) is great on ubuntu, and mint, but not on others.
So it isn’t just you, but it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s the distro being bad in general.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 days ago:
I covered that by stating that there are multiple usages of addiction. I’m aware that addiction, dependence, and the medical issues each brings is a complicated one. There are nuances to all of it, but they were tangential to what OP asked.
Also, depending on who’s talking about it and in what context, physical addiction may or may not be a thing. All addiction comes with changes in the brain and body. Even something as seemingly non physical as gambling has a physical component, and people may experience withdrawal symptoms, no matter how they stop.
One aspect of why that happens is dopamine. Every addiction I know of has some degree of dopamine release as a part of the overall disease process. Though, disorder may be a preferred term to disease. The experience of losing a dopamine trigger is part of what triggers withdrawal. It’s why even non addictive substances like antidepressants can still cause symptoms on cessation. Though I would argue that dependence on a medication that can cause withdrawal symptoms meets the standard to call addictive. I’ve seen people engage in the same behaviors that someone addicted to illegal drugs will engage in, in order to stop those symptoms and gain access to at least a similar drug if not the exact same one.
Like I said, tangential to the OP’ question.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
If you can moderate, it isn’t really an addiction. At least, not by the strict definition. If you use it more colloquially, sure.
But addiction is a compulsion that is acceded to, despite consequences, by the more common usage of the word. If you can resist the compulsion, then it hasn’t reached that level yet.
I mean, a lot of this kind of discussion depends on exactly how someone defines a term, right? Addiction has multiple usages, so there’s no single answer.
I’d say a good frame of reference would be that there’s a difference between dependency and addiction, with addiction being more defined by a lack of ability to resist compulsion. Dependence would be more along the lines of having the compulsion at all, be it to an external chemical or an internal factor. It kinda rolls together the more clinical definition with the looser versions.
Now, me? I’ve been full on addicted to nicotine by any usage of the term. Cold turkey wasn’t possible. Moderation was only possible short term. But, I’ve taken opiates off and on for years without developing a dependence at all, though that’s partially because I hate the damn things and only take them when my pain levels are out of control. Yay chronic pain?
- Comment on Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Sharply Divides Cannes: Star Pedro Pascal Defends a Western About ‘Our Worst Fears’ Amid Lockdown 1 week ago:
You understand it isn’t a documentary, that we’ve not seen it yet, and Pascal not only plays the role of someone against those things, but has publicly expressed being against them in real life?
The movie, per the article, is controversial for sure, but there’s nothing to indicate it’s advocating for those kinds of thinking.
Don’t get me wrong, you’re free to take the movie however you do. It’s impossible to say otherwise because such things are subjective.
But, have you seen the movie yet?
- Comment on Yep 1 week ago:
I am metal as fuck at all things.
Which basically means I run around throwing horns and headbanging while doing tasks.
At least, that’s how it looks. Truth is it’s just arthritis and muscle spasms
- Comment on Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’ Sharply Divides Cannes: Star Pedro Pascal Defends a Western About ‘Our Worst Fears’ Amid Lockdown 1 week ago:
Why?
Based on the quotes in the article, there’s nothing controversial that he’s done.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Kinda depends on context. Because, if you’ve ever been around toddlers it means something different lol.
But I suspect you mean when the kids are adults.
It’s typically going to be a blend of things. Wanting to see your kids find their groove. Part of the job of being a parent is getting your kids to adulthood in a state where they can survive, and hopefully thrive, on their own. That’s because nobody lives forever, so they’ll have to do life without you at some point.
You also want them to have stability and success. Not everyone has the same criteria for those things, but it’s the hopeful part of parenting. Ideally, you set your kid up to have a better life than you.
The problem comes in when success and stability don’t have the same criteria for the parents and the kids.
Settling down usually does mean that a person has found their groove, and they’re also likely to be on a career path of some kind. They’re also not likely to be partying too much or engaging in risky behaviors.
So, if the parents value that kind of life as “success”, of course they’ll wnat their kids on a path to that life before the parents age out of being able to help with that goal.
That does sometimes come with parents obsessing over it. Even more common is parents thinking that it has to be reached on a shorter timeline than the kid wants. So it can be a source of conflict, despite it starting out as something positive.
Of course, parents are humans. Humans are assholes. So you run into parents that believe their kids are extensions of themselves rather than independent humans. Those parents want their kids to reflect well on them, to extend their own sense of self. Thus, the child fulfilling the parent’s ideals becomes vital to the parents’ goals.
It’s like anything else, really. Complicated.
Me? I tend to just want my kid to find their groove no matter what it looks like. I may or may not be able to assist them in life, depending on what that groove is, but I just want them to have as fulfilling a life as possible in the world we’re stuck in. Anything else is icing on the cake
- Comment on What you hiding bro 1 week ago:
It’s a nice play on words, and it is factually correct, they don’t state an age. That it wasn’t useful or necessary to directly say “Ultron is three days old!” is beside the point of word play.
- Comment on What you hiding bro 1 week ago:
Sure they did. We were there when he was born, and thus all the events of the movie, he’s under a month old