Khrux

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

It's normally a long image thing. Because this is multiple full resolution images stitched together vertically, the hosting site compresses it's dimensions, even if it's not that large of a file.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (8 children)

If you're like me and this image is too compressed to read, here's the tumblr link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I'd presume they have a few cashiers from the Philippines but at least one person managing the store.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm a 50/50 toss up between two reasonably different genres.

The first is coming of age films, particularly queer ones. My go to film to call my favourite is Call me By Your Name, I also love Stand By Me, Aftersun and have a huge soft spot for Kiki's delivery service.

The other 'genre' is dramas / thrillers that get pretty fixated on madness, particularly from the protagonist. There will be Blood is my go to second film to say, and I love Apocalypse Now, Perfect Blue, The Witch and The lighthouse.

I'm not as much fan of when the genres overlap however, although that may be because of how small the sample size is. There are quite a few films that have a young protagonist who is finding themselves, who may end up idolising another to the point that the film falls into being a thriller. We had Saltburn last year, which people often compare to The Talented Mr Ripley, and I do enjoy these films but I never get that milestone feeling that I've just experienced a piece of media that has profoundly impacted me. The only thing that exists in this shared space is one of my favourite novels; The Picture of Dorian Gray.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Feign death every time. Most OP spell in the game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Temporal Shunt already narratively does this I believe, although only for a round.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

My friend works in their engineering department, he lost a ridiculous amount of his close colleagues today and my heart goes out to him.

That said, I'm always blown away by the incredible R&D he's up to, and the genuine passion for innovation and quality him and his team had. I genuinely think their quality good, even if they frame it as the apple of vaccums while actively pulling shit like this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

I'd hope we were talking about the same person and it's a small world but I think people who are targeted by extreme right views is sadly just probably common.

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

I've since moved to a very left wing city and I've met a lot of trans women. Most have strong political views for sure, but those views are very far left wing too.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 month ago (25 children)

I was at the end of school during the 2016 election and my closest friend in my Comp-Sci class who I'd known from 11 was in the far right pipeline; this person found Hillary absolute abhorrent, loved trump and was generally the 2016 Pepe style crypto-facist. We live in the UK too, so this is even less common than it probably was in the USA.

When school ended, I stopped speaking to this person, but a few years ago saw that she's come out as a trans woman. I'm happy for her and not really keen to reconnect at all, but oh boy am I nosy about the timeline of her political views. I wonder if she still holds them, was struggling with internalised issues or just had a huge realisation at some point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've not seen gmaps taking these kinds of routes. I'm UK based if it makes any difference at all, but I'm always grateful for my route seeming to prefer a smooth choice to the absolute fastest.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I've read quite a few anecdotes and quotes about Gygax's misogyny before but I agree with you, I don't think there is nearly enough information I these gods to extrapolate that it' embodies all powerful masculine forces as good and all feminine as evil, especially as the article mentions how this perpetuates pre-existing coomo themes in story and myth. Everything we know about Gygax would say he'd lift from myths with sexist themes without adjusting that, rather than add them with intention.

Do do think there is myriad evidence that Gygax believed femininity to be inherently inferior, but that's different from evil. It's still stupid and worth highlighting but by excessively demonising him to the point of nearly making things up, it's just fuel for people to dismiss the valid points.

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