captainlezbian
@captainlezbian@lemmy.world
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 day ago:
At no point will it be at the actual best point: straight cut. They’re perfect. They show off ripped leg muscles without ripping or looking painted on.
- Comment on We're deep into the baggy era mate 1 day ago:
Someday we’ll return to better times
- Comment on Let's play this game again 1 day ago:
Ah yes, the spironolactone problem. Your potassium sparing diuretic has the side effect of reducing your testosterone levels, while my testosterone blocker has the side effect of making me crave salt and have to pee all the time.
- Comment on I'm gay and I dunno what it means 1 day ago:
I wish my curly hair was uniform enough to be individualized. Different parts of my head stand in disagreement
- Comment on Why is it okay for shit to go down the drain but not food? 2 days ago:
We’re trying to rebrand from being associated with fat
- Comment on Speak American 4 days ago:
Its more just the easily memable one.
- Comment on Why is it so hard to buy the same toothbrush twice? 5 days ago:
The kids these days don’t even know the name or the village cobbler
- Comment on Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook' 5 days ago:
Yeah, and given this is coming from a dragon age writer that’s pretty explicit.
A cancelation is a full stop and needs to be treated as such with any resources from it that can be carried forward needing scrutiny before being brought in, with them understood as a fortuitous situation. None of this 'we’ve spent 10 cumulative years on it" when this round is just one year
- Comment on Speak American 5 days ago:
The unnecessary "u"s haunt us
- Comment on demon named racecar 1 week ago:
Yeah but he came after Johnson, so i think we just had a phallic few presidencies. And before Johnson was Kennedy, which wasn’t a phallic name, but the man was a slut
- Comment on Android updates: thanks I hate it. 2 weeks ago:
It changed my app color in a blinding way (pastel to neon)
- Comment on One US politician wants to add trackers to Nvidia's GPUs so they can be bricked if they go to China 2 weeks ago:
Or just develop their version.
- Comment on Why the Laugh Track Won’t Die 2 weeks ago:
Good article and tbh I’ve always been neutral on the laugh track. I get that it’s not popular but it is part of an absurd genre that’s delightful for its absurdity
- Comment on If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah as a lesbian it sounds uncomfortable, awkward, and overall unpleasant
- Comment on Cities Skylines 2, Kerbal Space 2, Planet Coaster 2, Frostpunk 2... What Went Wrong? 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, I don’t want a sequel for sequel’s sake. If you don’t have an artistic or consumer perspective vision on why a sequel is needed or wanted you should be focusing on something that can be justified like that.
Story and exploration games have this built in. Why do players want a sequel? To have more story, to explore more, to return to this world once they’ve tired of the previous game. Rpgs are expensive, slow, and risky, but you basically never have to justify your next game.
The games mentioned here struggle there. KSP does what it does well. Any sequel comes with huge questions of why people would want another space program simulator, and it’s clear that corporate just assumed that people would buy it because they loved the first one.
And that’s not to say games that don’t feel like a sequel is warranted can’t benefit from one. Roguelikes are about as anti sequel as city builders and there are two roguelike sequels I love. Rogue legacy 2 was the devs reimagining the concept of the first game and making a higher budget (especially in gameplay) game that doesn’t just feel like a cash grab. And Hades 2 is similar in many ways, but different enough to feel warranted and clearly made uncynically. It clearly exists because the leads felt there was more to do with the premise that didn’t belong in the first game.
And there’s the thing, I think that ksp probably did have a sequel in it. Something like a space colony sim where you’re a space station having to build and manage ships and colonies, or something else may have been warranted or good. But it would’ve come from a creative lead wanting to do it rather than what clearly happened of a corporation purchasing the game and deciding that since they owned it they had to make a sequel to use the ip
- Comment on What would this list look like for your generation? 4 weeks ago:
I for one support the educational system refusing to address Oio. Every year people are subjected to delicious and sinful delicacies like Da*ton style pizza, Cincin*ati chili, and *uckeyes. Remember, only you can forget about oio
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s something like i7t12 ie /c/iiiiiiitttttttttttt but it could be just something that looks like that
- Comment on Anon studies Buddhism 4 weeks ago:
A lot, they also framed Luigi
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 4 weeks ago:
Not him or transmasc, but as a trans woman, gender doesn’t influence how bad someone is, but it does influence how they are bad. Transphobia (directed at trans women) from cis men often looks like disgust and direct violence as well as oversexualization. There’s also an element of seeing themselves as knights in shining armor to cis women. From cis women it’s more likely to look like ostracization, backstabbing, and calling for men’s protection.
If you noticed that that’s how cis men and women tend to treat cis women they hate, congratulations, you’ve figured out why one common refrain from trans women is that transmisogyny is a form of misogyny.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. As a teenager I hated the concept. Partly because I’d been bullied for failing to perform masculinity as a child, partly because I was not happy with the whole boy thing, but also because all the shit so many cis men say.
But when I transitioned I saw it. And I saw trans men starting to receive the privilege I was losing.
- Comment on Transitioning in STEM 4 weeks ago:
I like to frame socialization as a lifelong process. People raised female often describe these experiences at formative years. And I’ve seen many trans men struggle to find their voices as adults.
But as a trans woman I and many I’ve spoken to had multiple socializations. Effeminate male: more or less bullied into gender conformity, including things like being mocked for passivity; gender conforming male: taken seriously and encouraged to speak up more; and adult female: treated like you’re bad for speaking up and routinely discounted and underestimated.
Oh and there’s the secret fourth socialization: trans woman: basically it’s female but when you assert yourself you’re accused of male socialization.
- Comment on 3 Adams Case Prosecutors Resign Rather Than Express Regret to Justice Dept. | They had been placed on administrative leave after refusing to abandon the corruption case against Mayor Eric Adams. 4 weeks ago:
They can’t eat it, but they can live with it
- Comment on Anon has his way 4 weeks ago:
Well yeah, there is a cultural assumption that the more dominant or masculine partner initiate, but feminine and submissive people can resist that and when we do so we find ourselves with better odds and with better communication. It also means we’re more likely to scare off the people who are uncomfortable with us expressing our wants and needs.
I have particular experience with this as a submissive lesbian. Dominant women are often awkward about their dominance because they’re going against society’s expectations. And especially when it comes to hitting on women many fear being perceived as predatory. By merely being the one to initiate I’m able to break that barrier and display enthusiastic consent.
Ultimately I think it’s something that should be more common and that role/gender shouldn’t be a factor in who initiates
- Comment on Anon has his way 5 weeks ago:
I disagree actually. I’m a sub and historically the Dommes who’ve been good for me hsve been ones who appreciated that I set boundaries right away and am clear and up front about my desires. It took a huge load off my Domme to know that she wasnt the one to ask for it.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 5 weeks ago:
Ok 49 days is impressive for a lettuce. It’s also impressively bad for a prime minister.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 5 weeks ago:
Lettuce see how that goes
- Comment on i can’t tell if this is edginess or mental illness? i hope she’s doing okay 1 month ago:
She has serious issues and you can’t save her. She can hurt you pretty badly on accident if you try
- Comment on Straight people, do you know what the Grindr notification sound is? 1 month ago:
Dude, lesbians don’t either. Ya cool. Though i imagine some straight women in poly relationships with bi men may recognize it
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 1 month ago:
I don’t either. But if they’re joining an intramural league, I oppose it. Because its a league defined by amateurism in which nobody’s really seeking to profit.
When we talk NCAA or Olympics then I think that as people are starting to profit off of it the athletes should profit. Though I ask why we’re endorsing the everyone profit model rather than the “college sports teams should more resemble high school ones and we create a minor league instead” model.
Lets go to a form of labor I’ve done: open mic nights. Comedians should be able to make money off their craft, but open mic nights shouldn’t pay because that creates conditions that ruin the point. It’s a space where anyone can go up, try their hand, and with minimal judgment perform. You being good is a nice surprise to the audience, unlike when you’re being paid where they have reason to expect it. It’s a different environment, one more focused on the human desire to create and perform and share it and on the development of skills to a level that they can be sold.
That’s what amateurism is about. It’s about keeping it low key, keeping the expectations reasonable, and keeping the vibe of “people are selling their stuff here” out. It’s the same reason that as a former nudes poster who has dated nudes sellers I’ve wanted to keep those communities separated.
So yeah, it kills the vibes and for us supporters of amateurism we know we’re losing out on highly skilled people’s contributions to our communities when we say we’d rather them not engage in commercial works in those realms. Thats OK.
And I’d like to add that I do purchase art from former amateurs when they move into professional realms. Tamsyn Muir is my favorite author and her writing drips of her fanfic history. But her fanfic is for her and under a name idk if shes even released, and I wouldn’t buy it if she were to sell it wholecloth, because that kills the vibes.
- Comment on Baldur’s Gate 3’s biggest mod team now has hundreds of devs working on its huge custom campaign in an impressively professional production 1 month ago:
Being paid to compete in professional sports vs being paid to compete in intramural sports. It’s the same industry is it not?