Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Manages to feel like one of the most packed Fire Emblem games while also feeling incomplete. It has 4 routes, but the first half of the game feels very similar in all routes, and two of the routes are also very similar in the second half. Master Classes are horrible, as are gendered classes. The game should have done Divine Pulse via save points instead of a turnwheel, and should have left the weapon triangle in the game. The graphics/animations are not great, and considering what they did with Shadows of Valentia it's shocking how a switch game feels like a downgrade compared to a 3DS game. Last thing I'll mention is Byleth and queer representation. Should have been more queer people in the game, and while Three Houses is better than the rest of the avatar characters in terms of characters being avatarsexual, it's still present. I feel like the game would have been better if Female Byleth were the only Byleth (I do not like Male Byleth), could not have her name changed, and was made more of her own character who's one of the co-protagonists to the other 3 protagonists (depending on route choice), rather than being a (not so great) stand-in for the player. Also the story, while pretty good, leaves things to be desired (they did Edelgard DIRTY).
Tears of the Kingdom: "Demon King? Secret Stone?"
TOTK Spoilers:
Zelda should have stayed dead once she sacrificed herself in the past to save the future. It was something that felt emotionally moving, something that showed Zelda's power, determination, and ultimate sacrifice to save Hyrule. Only to be undone when she, for some reason, un-dragons, despite the other dragons still existing. I feel like it would have been more impactful for her to roam the skies of Hyrule for eternity, or however long those dragons live.
This was not a well-researched post, and I'm not going to try to make one. I haven't played through either of these games too recently, I could be forgetting things or misremembering things.
The worst part of the whole thing was that it doubled down on its rhetoric, insisting to many trans people that AGAB language is the best way to describe it despite being presented with better alternatives.
So I enjoyed yesterday and today, getting to spend time with family, chilling, etc. General winposting, better than I expected.
So I said seeing my family went better than I thought. They literally came up to me, hugged me, said they were glad to see me, and that I looked beautiful. Only one family member slipped up once, quickly correcting themselves. The only family I've seen is my mom's close family, and they're all pretty good people. Kept it small, still got overwhelmed (sensory overload), but I still had a great time. It was great to catch up with everyone, and have them treating me no differently than they would have before. I was not only being treated like a human being, but I was treated like a woman, and I did not get the whole 20 questions stuff that I usually get, which didn't throw me into sensory overload as soon as they showed up. Nice, 9.9/10. Also, somewhere on tracha I shared one of the gifts I got. It's literally a giant fluffy hoody with axolotls on it that somewhat resemble the trans colors. That second part was accidental, but I love it so much. Also, they play Fire Emblem**? I got to talk Fire Emblem? Yet another W for them.
I got really lucky with my parents in so much of this, and I'm really thankful for them. They had already been cutting off the crappier members of the extended family, and when I started transitioning they cut off anybody who complained or was against it. Wasn't much more to do at that point, that side of the family is either good, okay, or really shitty, but it makes it so I don't have to deal with any bullshit, and I really appreciate that from them, because we shouldn't have to deal with shitty people, and I'm glad they see that.
Today, I essentially ate a breakfast with my close family, and that was that. Got chinese food for dinner, and played games with my sibilings. My mom even got me some interesting things, like a necklace with the chemical structure of estradiol (she and my sister like chemistry). I also ate a ton of chocolate, because they got that for me too.
This is probably the best holiday experience I've had in how low-key it was and how nice it was. Keeping it small was the best change we ever made to the holidays, because it's so much easier for everyone this way.
**Yea, every single family member who was there is autistic, it's quite the interesting experience. Side tangent, but I grew up thinking so many things were more typical only to realize my sample was a box of "oops, only autistics".
The Rust Lang Ecosystem โ Trans Megathread for the week of December 16, 2024, to December 22, 2024
Well, it looks like I get to have my friends again, at least for the next month. Going to be interesting to see how I act and feel around them, a lot has changed since I saw them last.
Step 1: Go to sleep. Sleep is very important.
Step 2: Reply/Read when you wake up. We're not going anywhere :3
Step 3: Make even more friends
Repeat and adjust steps as needed. And don't be normal, forgot to add that.
I believe you just have to DM one of the admins. I don't know who usually handles the pronouns, but @[email protected] would most likely be able to help 
My professor was right when he said that trying to write/talk like a "centrist" is difficult. I mean, I knew he was right, but I've almost completed a 1200 word speech for fake Hubert Humphrey and I think that it might be one of the fluffiest things I've ever written 
Pic related
As a fed, I can can confirm at least one instance of this happening.
Someone else's 150 word response gets my 800 word reply? Yep, this is ethics class 
@grok is this true?