I was always a fan of consoles, everything is packaged nicely and you only had to worry about buying the game itself.

Eventually I ran into the problem where Sony prevented me from starting a DLC I bought and downloaded simply because the base game is validated for a different region. Umm I'm sorry I live in a different country now?? Couldn't get their AI chatbot to help with refunds either (but honestly shouldn't they prevent purchasing in the first place...)

Bit the bullet and built a PC instead. Fuck Sony.

Boggles my mind when people claim that using mechanic present in the game is not playing the game "as intended".

Who do you think put the feature there? The pesky magical game dev that spawns at 2 am to code in a mimic tear?

This is why I believe in UK plug supremacy. Extreme support, extreme safety. Be extreme today. Convert to the UK plug

Hmm I'm gonna reply to this against my better judgement.

I think you're absolutely right that inclusivity is important. You're still skirting around two issues:

1. Queer is plenty inclusive (see my original comment). Is queer insufficient? I would love to know as well, as a queer person.
2. Being antagonistic might allow you to express your thoughts, sure. But I doubt it will allow the other person to internalise anything meaningfully.

You're also right that it's no one's job to police how you use terminology. I think the rest here are taking issue with how you are communicating this (and ironically enough, policing others on terminology).

Either way, I think it might be worth examining why the response to someone's ignorance felt so visceral and rage-fuelled. Not saying it's a bad thing, we could all use more inclusivity in our lives! But hopefully we could take a step back and ask ourselves why do we react a certain way? It's a good exercise to understand ourselves a bit better.

Have a nice day, yea. And have an upvote too! Sick of the downvotes in this thread.

I'm a queer person in a same sex relationship for the longest time. Honestly even hearing the term LGBT (without the plus, without anything else) makes me kinda happy. Granted I'm in a place where acceptance is barely normalised.

I'm not even aware of the longer variants myself; I personally just use "queer" in describing myself (see above) and my friends. Even the aces I know seem to just call themselves queer and don't really seem bothered by the lack of explicit asexual inclusion in LGBT or LGBT+ or LGBTQ+.

I don't think we should get really stuck on terminology, to the point where we get into arguments with strangers online. I believe labels are important for helping us understand ourselves, but only to a certain point. Either way, queerness to me is quite all-encompassing, so representation here is not an issue? Maybe you could educate me on this.

The flipside being: I am aware that I would like to be more specific in describing myself to people, but it's difficult to explain bisexuality to others (even queer folk!). I use queer as a shortcut. I don't really fault them for not knowing the ins and outs of my sexuality though. I'm just queer at first glance. Wanna know more? Fantastic. Lemme tell you about the bicycle.

I get it's upsetting to kinda "dilute" who we are at times. But being antagonistic about it isn't really effective in educating, imo. These people are trying. Let them try, fuck up a little, and then gently nudge them in the correct direction.

Bro I'm bisexual but I just tell people I'm queer. It's all encompassing and I'm lazy and it's only one syllable.

I tried behind the bastards, and really liked the first few (older?) episodes. But it soon felt too shallow, especially when the main host isn't speaking -- imo the other guests were only there to provide quips. Personal opinion, of course. Maybe this got better?

I switched over to QAA to scratch this itch for laughing at conspiracy theorists.

Seconded! They often invite guests over as well, who are pretty well versed in their own field. Funny British humour with 4 facts in an hour? Sign me up

The bullshit about XY chromosomes is pretty stupid, which is why the other replier provided an article and a few key points in refutation.

The OP's comment didn't read to me as particularly incendiary, but thanks for labelling them as transphobic and mouth breathing with no precedent! Really appreciate good contributions to discourse like yours.

EDIT: not sure what the downvotes are for. XY chromosomes are not exactly valid for determining sex, much less gender. Women might have Y chromosomes, or even three copies of X. Gender has nothing to do with this at all, in fact.

Using XY as an argument is therefore bullshit.

Even if it's bullshit, there's no need to call someone a mouth breather unprovoked. The other thread seems to be a shitshow anyway, so I'm glad the replier is being called out.

Sekiro is much faster paced; it pays to be aggressive after all. The only time I felt like having to delay my reaction time was with the snake eyes with her weird grab iirc.

I didn't like elden ring much, combat felt more plodding and frustrating to me (and I plat "difficult" games: HK, sekiro, STS).

Coming from someone who shares your frustration with morgott or morgit or the 3 other copy-paste boss's stick that hovers in the air for 5 business days...

Play sekiro

Bro's just upset they forgot the gender of a table in Duolingo French. Let them have it.

This is exactly what Rowling is afraid of

Go greendale!

Huh I'm not sure I'm okay with the downvotes you're getting. Downvote shit posts/comments people, not stuff you disagree with.

That said, I'm curious why you thought the story was trash? I liked it a lot actually; the kindness that Madeline eventually offers herself is extremely important in her healing. The game doesn't pretend to be "oh mental health crisis averted" after 7 chapters either. The difficulty of the gameplay pairs really well with the rise (and massive drop) that comes with processing one's emotions.

Granted it's a bit on the nose (I'll give you that) but the mark of a good story is hardly complexity.

Nine sols! It's only on Steam at the moment though, if you're on console.

If you're a fan of sekiro's combat mechanic, this game is a must play for sure. Some people compare it to hollow knight, but I'm not sure I see the resemblance (coming from someone who cleared P5).

My only complaint with this game is that it's too short (~15 hours if you're moderately skilled).

EDIT: alternatively, you might wanna try Celeste. It's a challenging platformer that offers a judgement-free assist mode if you're struggling. I think it's the best handling of "easy mode" I've seen in any video game.

Both games are incredibly fair, and not once did I think "this is bullshit". Difficult enough to test your skills but not rage inducing for sure. Loading screens are also really fast (compared to the extremely frustrating fromsoftware loading screens), so honestly dying isn't any issue.

Yea what kinda response is this? Did the OP reply to the wrong thread?

Good lord this gave me a fucking stroke

Holy shit that's insanely cool actually. But yea academia does get kinda ridiculous sometimes, I'm glad you found your passion for music instead!

Thanks for the response! Honestly wasn't expecting any. I understand what you're saying as a pure student would, but could you explain what you mean by "a space is a just an n-dimensional graph"?

Would the vertices map to some coordinate in space? Or am I completely misunderstanding.

The other replies are much more reactive, which I totally get given the discourse. I'd recommend a book called "Right Wing Women" by Dworkin to further explore this idea.

These MAGA women are likely trapped in their own belief, because their sense of self comes from the man that constantly dehumanizes them. If you escape, you are left with nothing (since that's what you have been indoctrinated to believe in). The only "out" is to be a good trad girl, and hope that the men praise you -- this is the only possible source of self-worth.

Not saying that this excuses their behaviour, but I hope this provides an additional layer of complexity rather than "MAGA women bad".