[–] 29 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i did see some lib this morning complaining about this lady, talking about her claiming to have passed the bar in China

which is obvious bullshit, and naive me thought that would be the sticking point but the actual issue going around the lib sphere is that getting a law degree in China requires her to be a Chinese citizen, and therefore this is China tampering with the American political system yet again

love to have eyes and a brain with which to think

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago

    i'd make a joke about how the quality of hexbear discourse can be tracked as inversely proportional to the amount of hasan gotchas that get posted but honestly these posts hold up half the site these days

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    other people have already covered other aspects of this, but I'll chime in on that last point - knowing the person or not after they transition shouldn't really factor into it once you find out they've transitioned (apart from obviously having to clarify who you're talking about to e.g. your family but in an ideal world that would be a one time thing).

    I'd also add that while you will find trans people who are somewhere between 'ok' and 'cool' with using their deadname to refer to pre-transition, I think it'd be hard to find someone who would be adamant about using one name before and another name after - on the other hand it's pretty easy to find a lot of people who will not want to be referred to in that way at all, and all things considered I would look to respect her wishes even if you no longer know her.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    i think part of it was customisation, since you and most other kids would likely have the same books from the booklist so it would be easier to tell each one apart when you're in class

    also i think another part is that school books are going in and out of bags a lot, and the exposed thin (in the case of softcover) or thick (in the case of hardcover) cardboard was liable to get damaged/frayed/bent, and so giving the cover a bit more structure cos of the plastic doesn't seem like a bad idea

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    coming to the close of another (US) Pride month, and again we're still transfixed on Drag Queens being the only thing worth putting in the spotlight

    nothing against drag, just generally tired that it's 2024 and it's still the same thing over and over again, and it wouldn't be so bad if it was just the tippy top of disconnected-from-culture corpos but even on the small scale the words 'Pride' and 'Drag' are treated as one-for-one interchangeable

    i get why, Drag Queens present a personality and character that can more easily be attached to advertising, but still it's a drag (pun intended)

     

    I've been debating whether I wanted to share screenshots or anything here, but I've realised I'd rather put things out there than debate whether I'm an imposter or not, otherwise stuff like this sits on my harddrive and goes nowhere

    this is a screen from my in-development game, Death Tech Reaper :) Taking place on the First Plane of the after-life, you play as Ceres, the newly minted 'Reaper' who's job is to protect the souls traveling through the First Plane on their journey down to their final resting place in the Greater Commune. It's an isometric action game, with a semi-randomised layout, taking inspiration from the rogue-like genre - the catch, however, is that you only ever have 2HP to play with at any given time, however your health can be recovered by taking down enemies, keeping you in the run longer. I wanna keep posting updates as I work, it's getting closer and closer to something I'm happier to distribute wider - I'm just glad I have something to put my name to. I'll post some gameplay footage at some point too!

     

    i took a break on my main project i've been working on cos of decision paralysis on the mechanics

    i have now hit the same thing on my fun side project

    how do i stop myself from starting a third project to procrastinate the first two, its too tempting to make yet another prototype lmao

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