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It’s sad that toxic game culture is so prevalent cuz like. As someone who has ended up in random matches with kids before, I can attest to how fucking easy it is to reverse and un-teach shitty attitudes in kids.

Example: I downloaded Friday the 13th because it’s free on psn. I dunno how to play, so I just enter quick play and I’m matched with 3-4 kids on mic. Immediately on mic they’re shitty and disparaging to each other. They laugh at each others deaths, they actively work against team mates and self sabotage, they call each other “fags”, etc. From the sounds of the voices they cannot be older than 13-14.

I put on my mic and just decide I ain’t havin it. I am nice. I thank them for barricading doors or leaving me items. When they break free from Jason’s grasp I say “good job!” or I try to help them. One kid survived for most of the match by himself. When he dies, I tell him he did a fantastic job.

The mood shift is practically INSTANT. These kids almost immediately stop being dick heads. They start encouraging each other and being kind. After the match all of them try to friend request me. Which should tell you a couple of things:

A) kids want to be kind, and they want to have a nice time playing games. But encounters with adults like me or so rare that they’ve trained themselves to instantly put on a toxic, shitty, defensive veneer when encountering any new person online. It’s literally just THAT EASY to not groom a horrible gaming community, it’s just that NO ONE does it.

B) the speed of which they all tried to friend me was cute, but paints for me such a sad picture? Like these kids are SO desperate to find people to play with who aren’t crappy jerks. They played with me for 10 minutes TOPS and all instantly tried to reach out to me.

tl;dr: The kids are alright. Adults are shit heads.

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anyways (I say this as someone who is deeply critical of the united states government, military, unchecked capitalism, police, etc) I am SICK of people treating america as if it has no cultural value or positives so….. I love u 85 million acres (bigger than italy) of national parks. I love u harlem renaissance. I love u groundhogs day. I love u sweet tea and fried chicken and jambalaya. I love u apple cider donuts and maizes on crisp autumn days. I love u 95k miles of coastlines and new england fisherman and hand knitted sweaters. I love u halloween where millions of people dress up and give candy to strangers and carve jack o’lanterns. I love u small talk and small towns and potlucks and bringing over casseroles to your struggling neighbors. I love u cowboys and ranch hands and arizonian cactus. I love u appalachian trail and dirtbikes and divebars. I love u sparklers and fireflies. I love u mark twain and toni morrison and emily dickinson and henry david thoreau. I love u rock n roll i love u bluegrass and hippies i love u jimi hendrix and nirvana and CCR and janis joplin. I love u victorian houses and jonny appleseed and john henry and mothman and bigfoot. I love u foggy days in the pacific northwest and neon signs and roadside attractions. I love u baseball and 1950s diners and soft serve. I love u native american art and pop art and poptarts. I love u blue jeans and barbecues and jazz musicians 

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Hi! So. I became aware of a European Citizens' petition that I'd be ready grateful if you could share or sign (if you're from the EU).

It has a rather silly name ("Stop Destroying Videogames") but I believe the reasons are very fair.

The objectives are to:

Require videogame publishers in the EU to keep games they sell or license in a functional (playable) state after sale.

Prevent publishers from remotely disabling games unless they first provide reasonable ways to preserve functionality without further involvement.

This is basically a way to stop service games you pay for / online games from just disappearing because the publishers said so. They argue it shouldn't be happening because the publishers are basically stealing the product the people paid for and it's a loss of cultural and artistic history. They have multiple European official articles they use as an argument to uphold this initiative, so it has grounds in the European Union legal system.

They also point out they're only asking for the publishers to leave the game in a playable state (making an offline version for example) and not to keep updating or making resources for it. It's just to not lose the game.

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

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It's my first full Art Fight! I've had Steven Universe on the brain lately, so...we are the Crystal Gems?

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ok how are you people putting commas in your tags

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every day i am just floored by humans ability to do good. we have these choices before us and the terrible ones make headlines, but i have no doubt love is so much more potent when it counts. so blessed to be a human being, because all human beings trot with this potential and i hope to honor it

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Insert Thor: Ragnarok meme with Hela as GenAI, Thor as anti-GenAI, and Surtur as Disney & Universal.

Link to thread

Link to news story

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May the Middies be chewed to death by the Mouse.

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"these researchers published a paper on something that literally any of us could have told you 🙄" ok well my supervisors wont let me write something in my thesis unless I can back it up with a citation so maybe it's a good thing that they're amplifying your voice to the scientific community in a way that prevents people from writing off your experiences as annecdotal evidence

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love it when a queer character's identity is the least interesting thing about them. like yes she's trans but that's less plot-relevant than the fact she's a wanted fugitive on 6 different planets

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reminders for pride month!

asexuality is a lack of sexual attraction towards other people, not a lack of sexual desire people can be asexual and still want to be in sexual relationships or have sex with others, they just dont feel sexually attracted to other people but also sex-repulsed asexuals do exist and deserve to have their autonomy respected

aromanticism is a lack of romantic attraction towards other people, not a lack of romantic desire people can be aromantic and still want to be in relationships or engage in romantic activities with others, they just dont feel romantic attraction to other people but also romance-repulsed aromantics do exist and deserve to have their autonomy respected

aplatonicism is a lack of platonic attraction towards other people, not a lack of platonic desire people can be aplatonic and still want to be friends or engage in platonic activities with others, they just dont feel platonic attraction to other people but also friendship-repulsed aplatonic do exist and deserve to have their autonomy respected

also dont forget about loveless people! some aspec people do not feel love, whether thats due to trauma or otherwise. they deserve to be seen and have their identities respected!

love isnt the whole point anything is the point hope this helps

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I'm predisposed to caping for socialist capitalism but I think this year is the first where corporate pride does matter because the ones that are continuing to back the queer community are putting their money where their mouth is and actually weathering the storm remaining in our corner.

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i saw a post on twitter by a european saying americans are fake for their random compliments to strangers and their general cheery demeanor and like no. no no no you don’t understand. if you get a random compliment from an american on the street about your outfit or whatever, that is 100% genuine. we mean it. we aren’t lying we are making a small but fleeting connection with you because our lives are shitty but the human condition is enduring. oh god i’m clutching my chest