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TMOG posted...

Posting spoilers in a topic marked "spoilers" = banned
Posting hate speech against trans people = warned

Classic GameFAQs move

Pretty much. Fuck this place.

Heartomaton posted...

I liked that the guy who wanted to see the fish man monster got to see the fish man monster. :D

I laughed my ass off at that scene. The fish monster blowing blood out of its blowhole is...who even *thought* of that!?

NOVA ONE is announcing tour dates and I might be down. We'll see though....

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Yeah, seriously lol. The apocalypse happened. The show is over folks.
But even if you did have another film in the universe, it would just be a conventional horror film where everything goes the way it's supposed to.

I know this take is about 10 years late, but goddamn that movie fucking owns.

https://youtu.be/f3ti1OmtN4c?t=45
Sam Smith became the first out non-binary artist and Kim Petras the first out trans woman artist to win the Grammy for best duo/group performance.

And...damn, listening to Kim give the acceptance speech still chokes me up, days later. Long ago, she taught me that trans feminine joy was a thing. This little German girl from off the highway in the middle of nowhere, who patiently did all kinds of interviews from cis interviewers who inevitably asked fucking rude, invasive questions in young adulthood, who endured being a curiosity, whose become a star.
And I appreciate Sam for standing aside for her, in this moment, when trans women are the brunt of so much hate. They're good people.

Im just not going to the movie theaters in general. Not worth it, IMO.

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Oh God, that piece of shit. I got to the point where I had basically literally ran out of shit because the fight takes forever and I just made peace with looking up the ending on YouTube, because I knew I could never force myself to do that again.

I ended up winning, but goddamn, what a disappointing note to end the game on.

tremain07 posted...

Tiki for the memes

They actually did a great job writing Tiki in that game, IMO.

krazychao5 posted...

so is capitalism an improvement over the prior palace economies, or are we backsliding as a species?

Well, those were the first documented central socioeconomic organizations that exerted state power through the person of a king and an aristocracy.
But you perceive capitalism to be better - and it is! But my point is that many people living in those societies probably thought they were at the pinnacle of human development and socioeconomic organization and they were until they werent!

The inherent contradiction of the current order is that capitalism is in an adversarial relationship with democracy. And I know which one I want to win.

Once upon a time, the most successful governments in human history were palace economies.

I don't know anyone famous.
My girlfriend is friends of a friend with Roz Raskin, and they're....really not very famous at all, LOL.

The best I can claim is that Kim Petras follows me on Twitter, for some reason.

Garioshi posted...

it's so hard to do fem fits when it's so FUCKING COLD

It's not too hard as long as you don't have to be outside for longer than it takes to get from a car to the inside of a building.

If you're going to be outside, you're going to have to get practical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXHtxctBwEM
I love the energy of this album cover, for whatever.

Also this is her best song.

Mega Mawile is pretty sick. I also dig Mega Absol, Mega Beedrill, Mega Pidgeot, Mega Metagross, and Mega Rayquaza (he looks fucking sick, in addition to being completely broken).

Russia has an advantage in terms of manpower (and, of course, it controls a good chunk of Ukrainian territory) and industry (larger, not subject to constant bombardment), but sanctions are definitely impacting their ability to make certain things. Still, having a sizeable numerical advantage is a good place to be, but so far the Russian command has acquitted itself poorly. The Russians have been conducting a grinding offensive around Bakhmut for months (with little success....so far) and repulsed the Ukrainians from Kreminna in Donetsk, the only front that seems especially active at this time.

The Ukrainians are outnumbered, but have better morale, are typically better supplied, and also seemingly better led. Russian terror attacks on civilian centers have (quite predictably) hardened Ukrainian resolve to resist, but also inevitably lead to more Ukrainian atrocities (anger does that). Ukraine's economy is a shambles, but it so far has received quite a lot of foreign support from NATO powers and will begin receiving NATO tanks: British Challengers and German Leopards in the medium term, and American Abrams tanks in the long term. This will increase their ability to attack and give them tank superiority.

Ukraine likely enjoys a bit of an advantage so long as Western Powers are willing to bank-roll it - and especially if that eventually translates into F-16s. It would probably lose without Western support - and certainly both Ukraine and Russia are currently far apart in what they consider an acceptable settlement. Either way, both will be severely hobbled by this war, regardless of its outcome, but that's always the end result of such short-sighted aggression. May the aggressor get the worst of it.

Oh yeah - the West won't like what Ukraine will do in Donetsk and especially Crimea, in the event that they retake either/both.

UnfairRepresent posted...

You need a asterix the size of Pluto on this

*If you have air superiority

Otherwise you're just target practice for planes, drones and long ranged missiles.

Air power isn't much of a factor in Ukraine these days, because the Ukrainians have a ton of AA and the Russians don't have a ton of capacity to replace/maintain their air power. Or much in the way of smart munitions left.
Of course Ukraine would like that to be their advantage rather than a stalemate, but they've also been begging for tanks.

Mega Ampharos is pretty glorious looking.

Also I always mention in this topic that Mega Pinsir isn't in pain from harnessing so much power or any other BS, it's just psyched it can fly.

Tanks are still super useful weapons: they're fast, durable, heavy weapons platforms that can traverse terrain wheeled vehicles might struggle with. They just need to work more closely with infantry screens than they did in, say...WW2. Having more/better tanks is absolutely a big advantage in a ground war.

pkmnlord posted...

I like this new trend of creating dual Ghost type pokemon region variants or evolutions out of the previous evolution essentially dying, sort of like Galarian Corsola and its evolution Cursola

Alolan Marowak was a sign. That thing is cool AF too.

Cursola is depressing, but it hits a great tone for a ghost type.

DarkRoast posted...

I'd do some photos if I wasn't preggo as fuck

In time, we can see you all girl'd up.
Or boyed up, as the case may be.

Heartomaton posted...

Annihilape is one of the few new Pokmon designs I've seen since I stopped playing the games that I can say I really like. Lore is the meat of it, the visual design is the icing on the cake.

Yeah, A+ work on Annihilape, no notes. It got so angry it died, but also it was too angry to move onto the afterlife lol.

They generally do a pretty great job with ghost types.

Thats the thing though: no one can ever know you better than you know yourself. I cant tell you what you are, nor can anyone else. You define that for yourself, and if you find a digestible pre-existing label thats comfy, well, it at least makes it easier to explain yourself to others, if nothing else.

I can tell you I know four enbies and theyre all different people with different gender expressions, but exploring those expressions and going their different ways brought them greater peace.

Starks posted...

Every ep with bearded Geordi is great.

Bearded Geordi is definitely superior.

VampireCoyote posted...

Itll be fun but youll need to adjust to living with one another

Punished_Blinx posted...

There's an adjustment at first but much better in the long run (assuming you're a good pair of course).

Good advice, on my CE!? I guess it's more likely than you think!

theAteam posted...

It's purpose in keeping rich landowners at the top of society has been pretty efficient.

Oh yes, from a certain view, they were wildly successful in their project of ensuring that government would be controlled by the interests of the wealthy and the unwashed masses would be siloed away from any meaningful power.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/4/0/AAIAInAAEIBg.jpg
That's the most recent outfit I've been doing. The dress and the tights are both pretty warm, even! Sweater tights are magic. Now I just need more fleece leggings....

NOVA ONE - dangerous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXMUk-FzcJA
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/3/7/5/AAIAInAAEJOn.jpg
Have the promo photo Roz posted too (they're a snack, as you can see). dangerous is the first track released from NOVA ONE's new upcoming album, "create myself", which drops March 31st.

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Oh no, I'm afraid they care a whole hell of a lot about us! Because they love nothing more than traditional gender norms, traditional patriarchal power structures, and view their children as personal property, and our existence is a lethal challenge to traditional gender norms and challenges both those other things. Our legitimacy shows them for the sham they are!

And they will stop at nothing to preserve them.
But also...remember when people were saying Republicans didn't really care about abortion?

masterpug53 posted...

Heh, you don't have to tell me, I live here and have seen it firsthand. Pair that with the piles of money Florida Republicans had to throw around for things like community outreach, and Crist didn't stand a chance in hell (Crist's campaign was reportedly flat-broke up to three weeks prior to the election - I personally did not see a single pro-Crist ad on TV or the web during the entire campaign).

I dont live in Florida (thankfully) but Im increasingly convinced the Florida Democratic Party is a scam.

Cuba has a much better standard of living, life expectancy, public health infrastructure (it's better than the US on that count, in a lot of ways), etc. than states of comparable GDP.
And it's not even less democratic than many of those, though that's not saying much.

The undoing of revolution by vanguard is that it ends up merely changing who is in the ruling class, rather than doing away with the ruling class as an entirely separate thing from the people.

I feel the need to point out that trans exclusionists who pretend to be feminists are cribbing from feminism that was radical in the 70s.
You know, like 50 years ago. Feminism has been moving towards trans acceptance since at least the early 90s.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/4/4/AAIAInAAEJBo.jpg
So, what do you think CE, pretty good right?

That actually sounds good. I'll look for it the next time I'm slumming it in a convenience store and want to eat some quality junk.

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A mind that goes to weird places is a beautiful thing.

Humble_Novice posted...

I have another question: what do you believe is the best way to effectively dissuade transgender conservatives from voting for candidates who want to literally erase them from existence?

I don't know how you can, really. The term I've seen is "pick me trans" - basically they seek to ingratiate themselves with the existing power structure by throwing the rest of us under the bus (see Caitlin Jenner, Blair White, and Buck Angel et. al.) and calling us somehow uniquely degenerate in comparison.

Basically, they think the leopard that's promising to eat all our faces won't eat theirs if they play nice. But of course it will eat their faces too, if given half the chance. However, trans people are often sacrificing social privilege by transitioning (moreso trans women than trans men, of course, but trans masculinity just generally isn't taken seriously by society and they are still subjected to misogyny while also sometimes being villainized by trans femmes and enbies as unsafe because they are men, when it's almost always cis men who're the threats to us) and so we sometimes end up clinging to whatever privilege we have left for dear life (whether that's privilege from being white, wealthy, or both). And I don't know how you make them see that their lot is fundamentally the same as ours.

This is neither here nor there, but a lot of white trans people seem to come to the conclusion that since they're a minority, they can't be racist. Which, well...is anything but the case.

Anyway, I had a delightful afternoon. I picked up an enby friend (flannel enby) the next town over and drove upstate so we could hang out with my other enby (dapper dandy) friend who lives up there (I am friends with four enbies). They live in a pretty nice suburban town: we went out to this little coffee shop/brunch place and had a fantastic meal. Dapper dandy is a vet and thus is probably wealthier than me and flannel enby combined and generously picked up the bill for lunch.

They we just went back to dapper dandy's place, listened to music, drank juice, talked, and chilled out. Dapper dandy's trans woman friend visited us and we had a lovely time just chit-chatting. I told some stories about my girlfriend of course, because I can never shut up about her.

Humble_Novice posted...

Is half-baked acceptance from cisgenders worse than being actively hated by them? I've seen a few transgenders outright claiming they'd rather be openly persecuted and hunted down than contend with mixed tolerance from others. Do you believe that kind of attitude only drives away people?

I'm not really sure what you mean by "mixed tolerance". Do you mean we should shut up, be invisible and quiet? That we should conform to the nonsense that is societal gender norms? Do you believe some one being rude is grounds to deprive them of life and liberty?

Because I don't. I'm here, I'm queer, I'm not going anywhere. And if you don't think I deserve to be here, if you think my rights are conditional on me conforming to the expectations of cis "allies" or concern-trolling opinion columnists, then yeah: you should be more honest with yourself.

Starline posted...

Do you think a person trying to get guys to transition is transphobic and/or manipulation? I'm having an argument with someone about this.

I don't think you understand what you're talking about. But it sounds awfully like a common anti-trans trope!

I dont know much about Portugal, but I imagine the food is pretty good and there will be plenty of good wine and other booze on offer.

Its going exactly according to plan,

It's weird how the police can straight up murder people like it's going out of style and yet that never discredits policing as an institution.

But protestors burn a cop car and all of a sudden they're illegitimate and should be beaten and arrested.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2

tripleh213 posted...

Can you go visit her?

She's immunocompromised - it would be highly irresponsible to expose her to a cold, let alone COVID. I can tell the distance weighs on her: she said she wished she could take care of me, and is constantly urging me to put ginger and turmeric in my tea when I'm sick. Lately, she said I should stir it with a cinnamon stick, but we don't have those. I made the mistake of putting cinnamon powder in: it just clumped up in the bottom and gave me a nasty surprise lol.

Like, she is absolutely the kind of person who is psychologically primed to take of others.

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I actually do want to sleep with her, full disclosure: I happen to think she's very attractive (as is Courtney Barnett, if you're wondering) and has a very nice style and this kind of soft, smoky voice. My girlfriend is poly, so our relationship is open, but it feels like to me this relationship is purely platonic, and, well...
I've learned one shouldn't be greedy. This alone is a blessing, after all. I hope CB is half as sweet as this lady.

As for my year, it's been way worse so far. Full of sickness and distance from my heart.
Last January was my first month out. January 15th was when I messaged her. And it was the 17th when she answered, and our endless conversation began. So last January was a great one!

Today's euphoria? I almost cried brushing my hair, because it's gotten so long and it's really objectively lovely hair.

However, not seeing my girlfriend so far this month is really messing with my equilibrium. One of my coworker friends comforted me a little - women are legit fucking great. We watch out for each other and comfort each other and lift each other up.

It's frightening to me how thirsty some people are for a potentially apocalyptic war.

If I cared about that, I would still be lying to myself.

And I would still be completely fucking miserable.

Won't be long before they start banning it for everyone.

Verdekal posted...

The ending where the crocodile turned Eustace and Muriel into puppets freaked me out. They're dead!

The Great Fusilli!

Im actually watching through right now. It holds up very well!
Fred is another great one. But then I was nauuuuuughty.

Pitbuller_26 posted...

Not really a villain but I always liked the episodes Shirley the Medium were in.

Shriley is always great. I'll never get tired of her referring to Eustace as "The Stupid One."