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Nenechi is on Bluesky to learn English and she has been taught "yeet".

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I don't know why but I read "Vaping" as "Vegeta" when entering this topic.

Nah, GameFAQs is a pretty well-trod "old Internet" gag at this point.

DrizztLink posted...

Read The Dresden Files, Jim Butcher is a bro.

A bit too much of a "bro" sometimes.

Oh I still like his work, but I've been preferring Pratchett lately. I'm amazed at the clarity of the social commentary in his work.

But I've been down this road with Mystreave before. Simply suggesting another work is not the answer.

EDIT: Yeah, that's why.

Sure, that's honestly pretty common with plenty of unhappy people, and honestly I might be over-analyzing. She could just be in general unsatisfied and because she's rich and largely untouchable, she thinks she's found a good way to get something out of life.

UnsteadyOwl posted...

I can't understand why Rowling feels the need to act like this.

I've thought about this and I feel it is a matter of three parts. Mind you I have no professional basis for any of this:

1) Her past trauma with her abusive husband. That kind of thing can absolutely wreck a person emotionally and spiritually and result in the need to reassemble one's sense of self. Also I feel that gave her a strict internal division on gendered society (she would call it "sexed" but we never accuse GCs of being deeper thinkers, or to put it another way, culture and history is not stored in the balls).

2) Her disdain for ugliness, which may stem from #1. This shows up very readily in both HP and Cormorant Strike where she gets needlessly descriptive with how ugly her ugly characters are. She doesn't worship beauty, mind. She's quite focused around her characters being average or only with some "normal" flaws, but if she makes a character ugly, she gets downright sadistic with it. I feel that this led to her initial distaste of trans people in general, as a transitioning person doesn't always match a cleanly gendered line of what "average" looks like for men or (INSERT HARD DIVIDING LINE HERE) women.

Now take those two together and in any other person she'd probably just be kinda wary of trans people and would avoid them and grumble about them and might be rude at times, but it wouldn't really be a thing, but tack on the fact that she's not just rich, but a celebrity, and influential. In late 2019, she saw Maya Forstater lose her job (her contract was not renewed) due to Maya's more open transphobia. She saw that and saw "trans ugliness" moving in on normal "averagely pretty" society and she decided to speak.

She spoke out on behalf of Maya and the worst thing happened: people responded positively to her and flocked to her. Not quite in the millions that adored her for her books, but this was active support at a time when she was well past the final HP book and most people hadn't given her much thought anymore.

Which brings us to:

3) The attention. She's on the front stage. She's the talk of the town. She's in the papers. She remembers what this felt like back when she was hot with HP and she missed it. She had people lapping at her feet, and to her, it didn't matter that this was quite a different crowd than she's used to. I mean, it was mostly the same, right? There were women, women like her, who saw ugliness in the world and thought it wasn't right.

And initially there was a rush of support not just from anti-trans people but her usual fans who were interested to see her back in the limelight, but over time the tumult of the attention started to settle out. Some fans left. More fans left. Some people filled in those gaps that she wouldn't have otherwise accepted. These people weren't just ardent feminists fighting for the female sex. Some of them were men, some of them were deeper conservatives than she might be used to. Some of them, well, let's just say you can go into any replies to her tweets and find some choice words that a non-Elon Twitter probably wouldn't have put up with.

So that brings us to now and her largely trying to keep a "proper" facade as a "voice of reasoned feminism" (while her friends get far more direct) but it's been cracking slowly over the last few years and in recent months.

Because the problem with these new fans giving her attention is that these kind of people hold theirs to a very strict standard, and especially nowadays any crack in that towards the realm of compassion, kindness, or "woke" can result the entire swath of them turning on you. Every conservative pundit faces the same, and they NEED to keep it up, otherwise they lose that attention just as quickly as it came.

So there will come a time where she will need to go all in, or fold.

And to fold would be to fade back into obscurity, and I don't know if she'd be able to take that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf2d2Of8Jto

It's been said before, but man I love Fauna.

Just sublime.

KI_Simpson posted...

She very clearly doesn't have the self-control to keep skeletons in a closet, she's been shoving them in people's faces since we first spotted one in 2019.

I mean the moment you tell the world "my characters used to poop on the floor and make it vanish before bathrooms were invented" you've kinda shown all your cards.

LSGW_Zephyra posted...

Gender recognition certificate? She's implying this woman isn't a woman right?

Ah, the United Kingdom.

Where there's an official document (the GRC) saying you've officially under-the-eyes-of-the-Crown transitioned, and boy is it a pain in the red-taped botty to get one.

Now thankfully there's a little thing called the Equality Act of 2010 that stipulates that you do not need a GRC to avoid being discriminated on the basis of gender identity. Or rather, the term they use is "gender reassignment", but the EHRC is clear that you don't have to actually be in the process of "reassignment" to be considered protected under the law, which most sane people would grasp as pretty much being a protection of gender identity.

The "gender criticals" including their Witch-Queen don't feel that applies to them and their incessant "fact telling".

By the way, this all kicked off this morning not necessarily because of Trans Day of Visibility, but rather because a Scottish law, known as the Hate Crime and Public Order Act of 2021 finally passed into effect today. It packs onto existing UK hate crime law and adds "age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, transgender identity or being intersex" to the criteria.

And FOR SOME ODD REASON Her Royal Joanne and the throng have raised a stink about such law.

Almost like they feel it was going to affect them in some way, but that doesn't make sense because they don't commit hate crimes.... right?

If you want a six-hour puzzle platformer in the vein of Playdead's INSIDE with the setting of The Truman Show, it's a great ride!

Don't give us ideas.

Ye takos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoQncddh0k

We have become Tako Given Form.

Oh my God!

He's God!

Fuck.

Nazis.

Here's the link to the top 10.

https://www.ace-attorney.com/aj-trilogy/ja-jp/topics/vote/

For those of you who won't wait for Google Translate (or can't remember JP names vs. EN names):

1. Miles Edgeworth
2. Phoenix Wright (specifically AA4)
3. Apollo Justice
4. Trucy Wright
5. Klavier Gavin
6. Simon Blackquill
7. Phoenix Wright (AA5 and AA6)
8. Maya Fey
9. Athena Cykes
10. Ema Skye

zinformant posted...

That speaks more to the fan base than anything else

Oh absolutely! I'm not suggesting this was anything more than a silly popularity contest!

This has all the weight of L-Block winning the Character of the Year tourney on GameFAQs.

It's just funny.

https://twitter.com/Gyakuten_capcom/status/1773625771564638399

Remember, this is specifically for the Apollo Justice trilogy. 4, 5, and 6.

A trilogy where Edgeworth doesn't show up in 4 AT ALL, shows up for half of the last case of 5, and prosecutes the DLC case of 6.

Edgeworth didn't come in top three. He came in FIRST.

Now that's some autopsy report updating if I've ever seen it.

Milk

It's legal.

I'm SUPER Henry Furth!

Is CE having a day today? We're getting some... some stuff here.

Now if you'll excUuUuUuUuse me

I'm going to spend a quiet evening with my

NINTENDO GAMECUBE

BEEP BEEP beep beep BEEP BEEP BEPP

I sit on a throne with her until we both become skeletons.

The Wi
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Bruh.

Solar_Crimson posted...

Is this really the best Black animation we can come up with?

Thankfully, no.

https://twitter.com/HebbonM/status/1773055785280381260

6 seats across about 20 rows back.

So that's about 600 Guys total.

https://twitter.com/BukkitBrown/status/1773033456869552433

There are some GEMS in old movies.

Going to have dinner with my parents. :)

I've known of it for ages and seen all the Naked Gun movies, but a couple years ago was my first time actually sitting down and watching it.

Bit dated.

I honestly can't remember. As someone who doesn't like being scared himself, I don't like to put that on others either.

Nope.

I have one client contact I despise, but I don't count him as a coworker.

I wonder if I should play this game. Been watching some streamers play and it really feels like it scratches that L4D itch.

On Twitter I once traded words with a racist Vtuber. I checked their streams on YT to find out that they streamed for literally no one. Like 0 views in the streams.