[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 44 points 9 months ago

I have resolved to never again buy "points" of any kind, whether on an app or a game or a themepark or anything else. Either let me spend real money or I am going to assume it is a scam.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 19 points 1 year ago

Your comment made me curious, so I looked it up and found a 2006 study that says you are absolutely correct, inmate-on-inmate sexual violence is almost 4 times higher in women's prisons: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438589/ I seriously did not expect that.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Was she the one who released an nfo where she went off on a random insane rant against trans people?

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would recommend watching Whose Line Is It Anyway from the era where he was a performer. Timeless, classic comedy.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago

The character creator is amazing! I can't believe how good the faces and hair look! I made a beautiful female forest gnome druid and then ended up making a male guardian that was even more beautiful.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 61 points 1 year ago

For people put off by the shitty title, the video is actually really good and comprehensive, and sets realistic expectations. It's a shame that these garbage clickbaity titles are a thing.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 17 points 1 year ago

I just read up on all of this drama and it's quite dumb, IMO. I don't know why I did this to myself, but I figured I'd write a summary here. I apologize if this comes off as overly negative, I tried to avoid it as much as a could but it was kinda like watching an episode of Real Housewives of the Fediverse.

There's this trans woman named Eris who seems like a jerk, they use some channer speak and are aggressive. There's this other cis white dude named Puf who goes on and on about Eris being anti-black but can only provide screenshots to Eris being a bit of a dick, and seems to have digitally stalked Eris in order to try to find any possible way to discredit them. They've both circled the wagons with their respective followers, with one camp calling the other anti-trans and the other camp calling the first anti-black. In reality, Eris is a jerk and Puf is psychotic and the fediverse would probably be better without either of them, but is pretty obvious that neither of them are racist or transphobic.

I have no idea why firefish.social would be suspended because one of their admins boosted a random, unrelated post that Eris made. It's like a big self-defeating, incestuous left-wing witch hunt.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Thank you for posting this. I've read five or six descriptions of the issues with Google's proposal by now and this was the first one that was clear, concise, and not riddled with histrionics.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is pretty accurate for the U.S., at least based on what I've seen of people online. I am not American, but one of your political parties built a gallows outside of the capital building and broke in while carrying weapons and chanting about hanging the vice president. I don't think you can really be centrist when that's one of the choices. You're either for or against the "murder the government, ban democracy and institute fascism" party.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 12 points 1 year ago

Moved to a small town earlier this year, tried to make friends, met some cool people, last month I found out one of the group was super openly transphobic, so I stopped hanging out with them. Tried to reconnect with some cousins, last week I found out one was a transphobe, homophobe, and racist, cut her off. Started to get close with a different one, found out yesterday that he was transphobic, cut him off. I'm not trans, but I don't want to be around idiots that think trans people are groomers. Feeling pretty goddamn isolated and terrible about myself. Wishing I could just stay inside and never see people for the rest of my life.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 18 points 1 year ago

Middle aged white bi guy here, I just cut off several family members within the last week for being transphobic. Fuck the person that said that to you and fuck transphobes. They are a cancer and they're everywhere, unfortunately. You deserve better and I hope you find people that support you for who you are.

[-] OttoVonGoon@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

Using the term "common-sense" in reference to specific, complex preferences is definitely an old person trait.

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