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I think a lot of people have forgotten or were never taught in the first place that these kinds of actions need to be an endurance strategy.

If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out.

You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things

Literally credit card companies have been a long time culprit of denying sales of legal nsfw content.

They're the reason why PayPal and Patreon have had issues with it for...ever.

It's been knownfor over a decade. This isn't a new thing. The fact they're denying it is wild.

Them: *calls you lazy*
Also Them: *uses AI instead of thinking*

AND

Them: *calls you a fascist*
Also Them: *uses AI which pretty much exclusively benefits techno-fascists*

I kept getting requests for a gay one and I had the perfect character to do it for lmao

It’s Astoria’s turn to get her religious trauma relieved by dragons

Have to bring this bad boy over of course #art #lesbian

A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

the libs kept saying "shut up, we know better than you," and the leftists said "if you do this, this will happen" and then the libs lost by far more than there are leftists to not vote for them, and they blamed the leftists.

I just recently moved back to the PNW and I'm sad there's no Wawas out here. It's not, like, gourmet food or anything but it's easy, cheap, accessible, and comforting. Pouring one out for the seasonal Gobbler hoagie.

If there is, I have it. Can't stand the stuff, except in Chick-O-Sticks (which are very yummy).

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

so disappointing how many ppl I see preemptively convincing themselves they can't learn a thing w/o giving it a real effort over time bc they think natural aptitude is the defining factor of skill acquisition. the only diff btwn them & the ppl who can do the thing is that the latter just kept trying

A picture of a tan Labubu keychain with the text "french children telling their parents they got hurt".

Does this help?

More than four out of five Americans, 83%, said they were concerned about the cost of groceries, with 46% saying they were very concerned. Some 47% said they were worried about being able to pay their rent or mortgage, 64% said they were worried about affording an unexpected medical expense. About 48% said they believed they would have trouble affording an unexpected $500 bill without borrowing. One in four said it would be "very difficult" A quarter of those surveyed said they spent at least three hours a day worrying about their finances and ability to afford basic necessities. Another 25% of respondents said they or someone in their household had skipped meals in the past year in order to make ends meet, and 26% said they had fallen behind on their monthly bills over the past year.

Fuck the stock market reports, this is what real life is like

(severely condescending tone) Umm let me explain something to you sweetie: [objectively the wrongest information you've ever heard]

"i just use AI for-" say no more, i already think less of you

100% agreed. If someone is the type to follow KF or shit like it or partake in laughing at "lolcows", I immediately do not trust them. Nothing good comes out of stalking people and collecting evidence on them, particularly in a publicly-available form, and it almost ALWAYS targets vulnerable folks.

Itch.io isn't anti-LGBT. They've been continuously supporting my community, which is hugely LGBT creatives, in nearly every event we run through the site, including Trans Joy Jam, which made them exactly 0 dollars and they promoted for us.

They suck at managing crisis, but they're not anti-LGBT.

I'm convinced this is one of the primary motivators for fatphobia. They can't stand to see a fat person love themselves or even be neutral about themselves because they spend so much time hating and hurting themselves with diet culture and literal eating disorders so everyone else must suffer, too.

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!"

Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

This is going around for some reason, just gonna point out that many studies have been done about porn addiction, held by researchers who believed in porn addiction, only to find that porn addiction is not real and never was. Turns out it was religion.

www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/wome...

And perhaps the worst part, it's not just online, either. I've met these exact types MANY times when attending trans spaces. I have to fight tooth-and-nail to get gendered they/them, which are not even my actual pronouns! I use neopronouns! But I know that's a lost cause with these exorsexist folks.

I don't mean this in a rude way but it's super naive to think that these are not real people. I can tell you with my lived experience as a non-medically transitioning but otherwise open non-binary trans person, one of those dreaded "theyfabs", that MANY binary trans people act like this to me. MANY.

Eeeeee! Thank you! :"3

A reference sheet of a calico Scottish Fold cat fursona with pastel lesbian flag coloring. There are five different versions of the fursona, including a front view, back view, a smiling version of the head, a sleeping version, and a feral version. The text reads "Lavender (referring to the fursona's name). Scottish Fold (referring to the fursona's breed/species). Shey/Shem/Sheir (referring to the fursona's pronouns). Likes gorls (meaning girls) and programmer kitty (referring to the fursona's sexual orientation and hobbies)."

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Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

a group of 4 girls stand inside a log cabin, each with unsure expressions on their faces

National Park Girls is now playable in Simplified Chinese in the latest update, as well as several other quality of life improvements! 💚✨

Play the update on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1036580/...
Or itchio: vnstudioelan.itch.io/national-par...

Man wearing red cowboy boots

Product shot of the red cowboy boots. There are chili peppers on the boot's tops (shaft)

Close up of the chili peppers stitching.

Another shot of the guy wearing Chili's cowboy boots. He's paired them with brown pants.

"Are you wearing th—"

"The Tecovas x Chili’s cowboy boots made from Chili’s booth leather? Yeah, I am."

suckass future we live in