Yeah, Rimworld was in early access for 5 years and was worth the price the entire time IMO. Project Zomboid has been in early access for over a decade! If you just blanket ignore early access games you’re cutting yourself off from some excellent games.

Also thematically related is The Twisted Ones by T Kingfisher, which itself is a reinterpretation of The White Ones by Arthur Machen (written in the late 1890s). Appalachia has been creeping people out for a long time!

Come off it, not being allowed to be on your cell phone during school hours isn’t the same as KOSA.

The APA document you linked even specifically discusses the effects of social media (what do you think they’re using their phones for?) on mental health.

Now we have people arguing that making a drawing in someone else’s “style” is copyright infringement.

No, people are saying that if you mass scrape art from the internet that you don’t hold the copyright to in order to create an image generator that you then turn around and try to sell access to, you’re violating the copyright of those artists (on top of being an incredibly unethical douchebag).

If the artwork they’re using to train the algorithm wasn’t valuable then they wouldn’t be fighting tooth and nail in court to be allowed to do whatever they want with it. They’d just shrug, say okay, and use whatever copyright free stuff they had at hand. If they didn’t need it then they wouldn’t do it, and if they need it then the people whose labor its very existence depends on should get a slice of the pie.

Do I not have hands in this scenario? If I can’t draw why is my livelihood dependent on me making filler art?

In addition to being a microplastic pollution disaster, for most daily use polyester just isn’t as good as cotton or other natural fibers. It’s especially bad for underwear and socks because it just lets moisture sit there instead of wicking it away and letting it dry.

And totally subjective here, but I think it feels like shit.

Improved water treatment just means we aren’t drinking it, it doesn’t mean the environmental contamination isn’t there.

What means of production do you think artists hold?? It’s absolutely deranged to put artists (who 99 times out of 100 are not wealthy) and CEOs in the same class.

But I will literally die if I don’t get free plagiarized art :(

Thinking Joe Biden sucks because he’s enabling genocide against Palestinians is a stance held by approximately zero Nazis. It’s a stance held by a lot of queer people.

If you have to chain together a bunch bad faith assumptions to call someone a Nazi, it’s time to cool it. Every queer person isn’t going to have your exact politics, it doesn’t mean they’re a fucking Nazi or faking being queer online. Figure out a way to be okay with that, because the alternative is that you’re going around accusing every queer person whose politics you dislike of being a Nazi.

Did you read the instance guidelines? Because that’s pretty clearly incompatible.

Okay, Ada had clearly said she doesn’t think that’s the case and you’ve offered zero proof other than random accusations, so I don’t think there’s any productive conversation to be had here.

You are starting from a bad faith assumption and demanding everyone else do the same. The result is that queer people who don’t like Joe Biden (for very understandable reasons) can’t have any space to talk about that without being called propaganda and right wing trolls. You don’t seem to want the content to exist at all, rather than looking for specific evidence that this user or mod team is part of a right wing effort.

Someone isn’t evil because they think Joe Biden is enabling genocide and that he sucks, Jesus. Y’all need to learn to be okay with other queer people not having your exact politics. Aim that kind of rhetoric and energy at people that are actually bigoted instead of just tearing down other queer people.

Ada said she was dealing with insults to other users, I think she’d remember to mention transphobic trolling on the part of the mods.

If you’re not going to bother reading or responding to my criticism of the reach you had to go through to arrive at ‘anti-Biden = transphobic’, then I have no reason to continue the conversation.

Maybe you could link and report some of the transphobic trolling? That would speed along its removal. All the links I saw just had political memes.

2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person

This post is propaganda, time to take it down, your rules not mine 🤷‍♂️

Memes from someone whose takes you don’t like isn’t the same thing as propaganda and it certainly doesn’t make the community transphobic. If you can’t live with seeing it, block it. There is real, honest to god, paid for with billionaire cash political propaganda targeting trans people out there, and that community ain’t it.

Have you tried blocking the community instead of interacting with it? There’s plenty of communities I block because I think they’re dumb and annoying, or because the moderation team is a train wreck.

“It’s transphobic to think Joe Biden is a genocide enabling asshole because that means you support not voting for him which means you support Trump getting elected which means you support transphobic policies and this should be banned from Blahaj” is a series of assumptions built on assumptions, most of which are bad faith and work backwards from wanting the community banned. Demanding a trans admin ban them for transphobia when what you want them banned for is bad politics is tasteless at best, and comes off as manipulative.

Before anyone gets a bug up their ass about if I vote blue enough, I live in a large city in California. We are more likely to see the sun explode than for my elector to vote for anyone other than a Democrat, which I think is ultimately the least bad option that is likely to happen between now and November (but is still a bad system because we need ranked choice).

It’s fledgling season in the northern hemisphere, and lots of fledglings don’t naturally have a ton of fear of humans. Adult birds might also ‘let’ people pet them after a window strike; they don’t always look like a bloody mess so people don’t always realize how injured they are.