BellyPurpledGerbil

joined 2 years ago
[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 15 points 1 year ago

Complaining about AI in all the wrong ways to complain about AI. AI is definitely a poor substitute for actually well thought out feature implementations. But it has nothing to do with why your iPhone sucks to navigate on.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know what he expected when he accepted to host the show on Apple tv.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 2 points 1 year ago

I mean hey if nobody's taking you I will

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 16 points 1 year ago

Why is the state the one determining the safety of minors receiving procedures instead of doctors?

We let minors make life altering decisions all the time. How many teenagers do you think you're sharing the road with? Is the state going to arrest a 15 year old for getting pregnant? No but they'll probably force her to give birth. A 16 year old can apply to work manual labor in a sawmill and get themselves killed. You can graduate high school early like my sister did and go straight to a beautician college, racking up 10s of thousands of dollars in student loan debt.

These objections based on age are horseshit and don't hold up to criticism. If the surgery is so dangerous for minors I want to hear it from a group of educated and practicing surgeons, not from a politician. And I want the professionals to decide what's safe and what isn't.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Only one I can give you is bisexual girlfriend. Take it or leave it

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 5 points 1 year ago

Ladies, gentlemen, and menaces to society

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 8 points 1 year ago
[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disco Elysium is so fucking wild. It's the most empathetic game I've ever played. I am someone who has an easy time putting myself in other people's shoes. The character is an alcoholic mess, on the brink of a depression so deep he has totally fractured his own memory and sense of self. He's a genius. He's also an idiot. And he's a cop/detective in a world that really despises cops. It's what I would call the idealistic cop: the one that would put themself between a group of armed men and a group of innocent people with nothing but a dinky pistol and say stand down.

Anyway, I love how it makes me feel about everything in its place. The ideologies that drive us. The youth we waste on fooling around. The insanity and, somehow, the humor of racism. The mistakes that make us who we are. The idealistic pursuits that are so high they can never be achieved. How heartbreak never goes away.

Most importantly, I played a game with an internal monologue built-in as the RPG system, and it nearly exactly matches how I think and feel. My mind is also fractured as identifiable pieces of myself. I gave some parts of them names because it made it easier to separate the thoughts from how I truly felt. I have nearly all the same psyches just with different names from Volition, Half-light, etc. And it floored me. I have never played a game that was as introspective as I was. Right down to the simultaneously protective and self destructive thoughts clashing within and one winning out. It gave me a third person perspective of my own self destructive and unhealthy thought processes. And it helped me love myself a little bit more. I feel like I'll never be able to play anything like it again for the rest of my life.

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 9 points 1 year ago

"Morpheus this is really not funny"

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 12 points 1 year ago

Just here to point out that UK schools have also illegally forbidden some students from wearing afro hairstyles. In that case and this one, it's against the law. The hope is that this treatment will not continue in both cases. We don't need to resort to playing the suffering Olympics or whose country is worse pissing contests

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 21 points 1 year ago

Oh boy here I go striking again

[–] BellyPurpledGerbil 1 points 1 year ago

All is one

One is all

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