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Normal is boring

lotta people are saying the price thing is an overreaction and yeah, for the console price alone, maybe.

but its the combination of that plus the overpriced games Plus having to pay an online subscription to play half of those games PLUS any potentially needed replacements (we all remember the joycon drift fiasco. its a wonder the court case went the way it did.)

on top of the fact that a solid 50% of the switch's general audience would not be able to afford it with these prices. while there is such a wide audience that uses it, a considerable majority is: children and young adults. folks who arent exactly going to have a nicely paying office job.

also the minimum wage where i live is still $7.25 and i have more important things to pay for, like food, and student loans.

so while it is probably an overreaction, can you exactly blame so many people for being pissed? they deserve a little screaming and whining time, alright?

also why are you jumping to the defense of a corporate entity. you look like a tool.

Ice cold takes from a Transgender Woman:

  • Not all Men are evil
  • Everyone has the capacity for evil
  • Transgender Men are men
  • Transgender Women are women
  • Excluding Cisgender Men from your spaces requires Transgender Men to out themselves if they want to engage (Same for Women)
  • Anyone can be Non-Binary, there is no "look" or requirement
  • Non-binary masculine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces, many are just treated as men and predators
  • Non-binary feminine presenting people should be welcome in queer spaces without being seen as "Woman-Lite"

Anyone can be

Non-Binary, there is no

“look” or requirement

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

how i'm handling my students using AI to write papers:

-don't accuse them on using AI from the get-go and instead ask them to informally define all the huge words that they used in their essay which i know they don't know the meaning of

-ask to see their original file where they "wrote" the essay. go to version history to see if it was just copy and pasted and then just edited a bit. i keep an eye out for the shit like "certainly! here's an essay about...."

-if they own up to it, they can re-do the assignment for a higher grade even if there will be an automatic penalty. if they don't, i process it like plagiarism and get my supervisor involved.

And this is much better than the immediate accusations. Some students have a good vocabulary. Stop accusing them of faking their essays without proof, and this is a good way to check.

Fellow students please stop using AI, go back to promising not to kill the school nerd if they do all your homework or something.

youtube needs to implement some sort of 'do not recommend channel + kill yourself for recommending me this' button

voice acting as a profession is so funny because you'll see someone being like "voice actors need to be paid better! like [obscure person you've never heard of]" and you're like "oh I wonder who that person is, maybe I've heard them voice a character" and you look it up and it turns out they voice 137 characters in Futurama and 94 characters in The Simpsons and 96 characters in Adventure Time and every one of the My Little Ponies and 27 characters in Arcane and 96 characters in Kim Possible and 4 characters in Phineas and Ferb and 296 characters in Dexter's Laboratory and all of the main cast of Fairly Odd Parents and at least 6 characters in every Pixar movie and almost every animated depiction of Superman and 473 SpongeBob characters and they've been in every installment of Mass Effect and Halo and The Elder Scrolls and Fallout and Call of Duty and they were in Star Trek and Law & Order and they were 12 characters in the MCU and they also invented t-shirts and the colour green and they got paid a sum total of $3.27 and a mothball for all of it combined. then you go burn down David Zaslav's house with him inside

rain

[ID: a digital drawing in colour, with mostly blue and cold tones. It shows the view from inside the front seat of a car on a road, with more cars, on a rainy day, in a city. End of ID]

a minor headcanon that I will die defending is that reigen initially assumed that mob’s supposed “psychic powers” were just how he rationalized his autism to himself. like here’s an obviously autistic kid, one reigen clocks immediately because he’s, well, reigen, and he’s talking about extra sensory perception and having powers he can’t control, powers that are scary. obviously, he assumes, this is something the kid picked up from his parents, a way for him to rationalize his alienation from other children— that no, you’re not “different”, you’re special (not even going into the parents who think their autistic children are like, aliens) and the other kids can see that you’re special and so they treat you like you’re weird and creepy and they don’t invite you to play and they whisper behind your back but it’s fine, because one day they’ll see how special you really are. and adult autistic reigen arataka, who was also probably-definitely bullied as a child, decides to nip that thought in the bud and gives the whole spiel, that no, “psychic powers” (autism) don’t make you special, and yes, they do make you different, and that’s fine because everyone’s different, and at the end of the day you have agency and you get to decide the kind of person you’ll be, so choose to be a kind one, and he sees this kid hanging off his every word as he tells him the kind of stuff he wishes someone had told him when he was so little and alone, and he mentally pats himself on the back and hypes himself up for another cigarette.

and then the kid makes a teacup float in front of him and he’s like oh. damn. can you kill ghosts

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saying "just use an emulator" about console games also feels really stupid to me because the whole appeal is the console. sure maybe i could find a switch emulator that Nintendo hasn't struck down but i can't take that on a train with me and it won't have the same controls. i would rather Nintendo just not charge me half a month's rent for that either

no literally. like i understand and agree piracy is preservation we need piracy to continue to keep what would otherwise be dead media in motion. it isnt a thing against piracy. but emulation is also not the answer every single time when criticizing company's bad policies or pricing points. emulation does preserve games and its important technology for when a console enters the end of its life cycle and it becomes more expensive to maintain the upkeep of that console than it is to get a pc that can run its content functionally. im sooo frustrated with the state of modern gaming that any criticisms of legal ways to acquire the games is met with piracy, notably something you should not be loud about to companies you are pirating from. when working in areas deemed "illegal" many people tend to keep on the downlow to avoid attracting attention. this is for good reason and is fair as a method of avoiding scrutiny or punishment. anyway do you all remember when xbox came out with mandatory internet enabled or it wouldnt run? and the backlash was so bad they reverted that? yeah. i think consumers need to do backlash like that again.

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choosing to allocate spoons to hanging out and having a good time at the cost of perfectly completing all your work is not a failing it is in fact an act of survival. “too sick to work = too sick to play” is in fact ableist bullshit that you don’t have to buy into. and the fact that leisure time is treated like a privilege is a fucking travesty

My extremely non-canon timeline regarding my "wind goes through hyrule warriors before LU" headcanon is the following:

  • Wind Waker: he's 12 and it takes him like a year to complete the entire adventure, he's almost 13 by the end of it
  • Phantom Hourglass: he just turned 13, the adventure feels like it took 10 weeks, but thanks to the Ocean King shenanigans it was actually all a dream and he was out for 10 mins max
  • Hyrule Warriors: like a week post the Phantom Hourglass event he is portaled to the war of eras, so he's 13 during it lol he's the last one to arrive so he joins pretty far into the war, he's there for like 9 months
  • Linked Universe: the kid like had a month at most of rest before a portal opens up and he dives into it first thing first cause he thinks it's war of eras related lol it's not but he sees the captain again! Who's like 5 years older? What the fuck....and WAIT IS THAT MASK??? WHY IS HE AN OLD MAN??? I WAS AWAY FOR A MONTH??? WHAT HAPPENED?!

Anyway i think it's funny that wind is like 13 then goes back home, meets wars and time again but they're both way older and he's STILL 13 (closer to 14 but still)

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