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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I just finished playing it for the first time and I was blown away right from the start! Guess I'm glad I waited for the polish, but the world design, voice acting and overall storyline was absolutely fantastic. I couldn't help feel bad for all the artists that clearly put a lot of love in to the world only to be overshadowed by bugs and poor implementation.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Nope. It wasn't until after he died that I went to therapy and started talking about the memory before putting it all together. Dad worked in IT security so I don't doubt he was careful.

The closest that he came to consequences that I know about, is when the FBI came to his house to interview me. My parents were divorced and I spent 50/50 with each parent. My mother's boyfriend was being accused of seeding a torrent filled with CP, and the FBI came to ask me if I knew anything. This was around the time of the AIM incident. Dad wasn't home and was pretty upset that I let them inside.

Anyways, it took nearly a decade and countless dollars in lawyer fees for the case against my (by then) step-dad to be dropped. The FBI can led the court date after we uncovered hard proof that he wasn't even home that day, but it had already cost him his career. Unlike my Dad, my step dad wasn't a tech person, like at all. So while I don't have any proof or idea how, I'm fairly certain that somehow my dad got access to his laptop to frame him.

Which is why I said that the AIM thing is only the worst thing he did to me. Another runner up would be the statutory rape of my mom when she was 14 and he was 20 that led to my birth. Unfortunately, the theme of child exploitation runs through many chapters in my Dad's angry miserable life.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

When I was 15 or so my dad made a fake AIM address and posed as a girl from my school so he could encourage me to masturbate with the child porn he was sending me. When i got freaked out and stopped responding he called my phone and said that "the girl from school" was bothering him at work and I needed to keep talking with *her". I didn't figure out that it was him until a decade later later. I remember panicking all night about what I knew was illegal images, so I told him what happened and he just mocked me for not knowing how to do an ip trace to see who it was.

Dad was a real piece of shit. But that was the worst thing he did to me personally.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And even if true and Palestinians do oppose queer rights, they still doesn't mean they deserve to die. Heck, there are lots of people in US power directly prohibiting MY rights, but I wouldn't support a MAGA genocide either. So why should queer folk be fine with a genocide for those not even involved in queer oppression? And even if Israel DID have better queer rights, that wouldn't be a justification for genocide either. These things aren't connected in anyway.

Whole idea is nothing but a giant distraction non-sequitur. No one deserves to die, bigots included.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

You're not fighting the very real danger of Trumps fascist christian natiolism by intentionally misrepresenting leftists. Please stop.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sobering and disappointing.

So, I've been on HRT for a shade under three years and it's worked out super well for me. I'm lucky and privileged enough to while not be entirely unclockable, but passing well enough to rarely be misgendered. I honestly can't remember the last time a stranger said anything besides ma'am.

But that wasn't always the case. Just after my egg crack and before learning makeup, how to dress or even HRT I was still going out as myself. People would look, gawk, stare and there were a few occasions of harassment, but as I got better at passing that stopped being the case. I would get smiles, compliments, jokes and a little flirting. When I saw someone looking at me they would smile and we would chit chat. My old photos are cringe, but also amusing and endering as reminders of how far I've come.

So anyways, for unrelated reasons, I'm now adjusting to life in a wheelchair. Just had my 36th birthday and it seems like a serious probability I won't ever walk again. But the worst fucking part? People stare again. Still lucky enough to be seen as a disabled woman, but... they look away when I meet their gaze, when they turn around a corner there is a second of suprise when they see me, looks I remember in my early transition that made it hard to cope.

It could be worse, I'm still grateful, blessed and happy. But the realization that being treated as a boring, basic, regular woman was a fleeting experience... has been rough. I wasn't ready to grieve the brief window of time when I loved my body. Now it's physical pain, reliance on others and memories of being just an average normal unassuming woman.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago

Oh sure, everything new becomes old eventually, that's just how time works. I'm more poking fun at those who let their nostalgia determine what is worthwhile.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago

Her name was Michelle.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Well, paying $5 so you don't have to open a website sounds like a waste to me, even if $5 is a small amount to you. But it's your money, so you do you I guess. Thanks for the clarification.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (6 children)

"music was better when..."

Any version of this makes the speaker sound suuuper old and bitter. 😂

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

My assumption is that these are state actors doing the hacks. No one, allies and opposing states, want to deal with the chaos of a 2nd Trump administration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There is a Train to Busan sequel?!?!?

That infromation just made my day, loved the first one.

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