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queer trans guy • video games programmer • light no fire, no man's sky he/him

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ok well that was easy
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i am going to make a web site
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sorry it took me eight months to respond to your text message, someone sent me an email i didnt want to read and i couldnt process any other tasks until it was gone
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What is a thread that belongs in the twitter hall of fame?
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running round in circles under a pan lid what does it look like im doing
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What are you doing in this situation?
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finally, infrastructure that gets progressively more inconvenient the more you paid for your car
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Behold my favorite traffic calming device.
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i dont give a shit whether you can pet the dog
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What is an *actually* controversial game design opinion you hold?
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lols @ old-school grammarians believing millennials' choice of case and punctuation is through a lack of knowledge of the rules and not because ignoring them opens up subtler ways to convey emotion and tone through text that you've just failed to understand xoxo
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JUST LEARNED THERE ARE 16 OUNCES IN A POUND AND I AM FUCKING LIVID
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another great day in the video gaming industry
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broadly i think you can categorise all cats into cats that think they are people, cats that know they are cats, and cats that will never know a single thing their entire lives
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me: *buys catfood* cat: : ] me: *buys same catfood* cat: : ] me: *buys same catfood* cat: : ] me: *buys exact same catfood* cat: : ] me: *buys 96 pack of the exact same cat food* cat: no ty don't like it
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nothing i respect more in modern games than a model with exactly as few polys as it requires
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The sheer a u d a c i t y of this model of grapes in Endwalker. #FFXIV #ffxivendwalker #ffxivmemes
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do you ever think about how for a decade or so we could just make weird little animations and games and things in flash with almost no prior knowledge, like you could just have a bad idea and work on it that same day and share it online. and now we don't have that at all
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YOUR ORGANISATION IS NAMED AFTER A FUCKING RIOT
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There is no place for violence in our movement, as a form of attack or retaliation:
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mildly surprised that dr bronner is a he/they catboy but infinitely more surprised to learn dr bronner is a contemporary living person rather than a travelling salesman from the 1800s
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having a crisis trying to work out how much i previously thought snails sleep
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Ok then, what’s one of the best. This is still one of my faves.
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my dad just told me he makes decisions now by emailing himself a potential plan and reading gmail's suggested auto-responses to it to determine if it's good idea or not
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welcome to england
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gender neutral toilets are great for a lot of trans people, but they're not *just* great for trans people they also benefit: - parents accompanying children - carers accompanying others - men accessing baby changing facilities - men who need/prefer stalls - women sick of queues
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people are always like "a cat is just a weird little guy who lives in your house". but what about me? what am i, if not a weird little guy who lives in my cat's house
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HOW MANY FAHRENHEIT ARE IN A CUP
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i would trust him with my life
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i don’t trust him. too playful
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rt if you believe women deserve equality AND elaborate horseback jousting tournaments
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Dear feminists. You either get equality or chivalry. You can't have both.
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fuck whatever shite currency yous have got, new scottish notes have OTTERS on them
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hey If you're able to take time off for the holidays, it's ok to do nothing. You don't have to have a side project. You don't need to get ahead on work. Your portfolio might be important for you career, but so is rest, perspective and self-care.
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: my terrible cat has learned how to open doors
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video games don't cause violence the video game industry's long term encouragement of, pandering to and profit from toxic masculinity and entitlement to the point of radicalisation causes violence
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hey i have a fun new game i invented especially for other white people, it's called the "don't call the cops" challenge and basically you start by not calling the cops, and then continue to not call the cops for the rest of your life
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the problem with twitter alternatives is they facilitate meaningful discussion when what i want is to feel like an ant surrounded by other terrible little ants
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not teaching about lgbtq+ identities in school wont stop kids being queer it'll just ensure that when they are, they'll grow up to be Vengeful Queer
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when my cat says mraow i always say "yeah buddy i know...". but I dont know. im not sure at all
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*rolls dice* lilo from lilo and stitch *spins wheel* considered problematic now *turns over cards* for her age appropriate response to grief
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i know i posted this before but christ even i didnt mean it this literally
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In 2020, Natalie Elphicke voted to make abortion a *criminal offence* in Northern Ireland. Keir Starmer has now welcomed her into Labour.
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by default it's fine for cartoon animals to be drawn without clothes but if you put clothes on them even one time you've conjured an awareness of sin in them which cannot be undone
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love how in the heat we're like "well, it's too warm because our houses are built for the cold!" and in the cold it's like "well... i guess they're more built for the rain!" and in the rain they're like some new species of complete fungal organism
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I'VE JUST BEEN INFORMED AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE EGG CUPS AND I AM SO ANGRY RN
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i know facism is fueled by a need for belonging generally but christ it is so apparent how many terfs see transphobia as a fun hobby they play at with their terf friends
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WHICH FUCKING CUP, AMERICA
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💮 polls open 7am-10pm 🌺 you dont need your polling card 🌸 you dont need ID 🌻 you dont need proof of address 🌼 you can hand in your postal vote 🏵️ in an emergency, you can get a proxy vote till 5pm 💧 go vote whatever the weather 🌻 kick out a tory 🌺 tell all your friends
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traffic lights that turn red if your parents names are blue on wikipedia
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judging cat shows is so fucked up. imagine believing you have the right to judge a cat. you, a human. unbelievable.
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but we got so caught up thinking about dogs in particular and petting them it became "can i pet the dog" rather than "can i participate in this world in a way that feels instinctive and rewarding". resulting in a lot of twee interactions i dont really give a shit about
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i dont get this thing where people pull the bedsheets right over their pillows. it looks like the bed has died
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this is the second time in three years that a gender reveal has caused an uncontainable forest fire and thousands of acres of devastation. i ask again: how much more damage must we accept before we are ready to finally ban gender outright
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next up paving stones that trip you if you have too high a net worth
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streaming companies forgetting their entire existence is based on being slightly more convenient than piracy
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HOW DO YOU ALL OWN THE SAME SIZE OF CUP WHO HAS A MONOPOLY ON THE ONE GOOD CUP SIZE
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time again for a cis 101: 🌺 cisgender just means you're not transgender, you're the same gender you were assigned at birth 🌺 cis is a latin prefix, meaning "on the same side as", the opposite of trans 🌺 there are similar examples in chemistry and geography
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reminder for if youve got ur kid a console this xmas - unpack + set it up today - install updates - start a game just to check it works - play some more to be sure - wow this is too good for kids - wow - move it to ur bedroom - keep it secret - go buy them a doll or something idk
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"but innes you can just multiply up the fourteen by sixteen and you'll g-" NO MATHS HAS CLEARLY ABANDONED US. NUMBERS MEAN NOTHING AT THIS POINT
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i found it, the single best ui page
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after a total shit morning for trans news im feeling quite emotional seeing Elliot Page's post and thinking just how many trans ppl will come out or make some sort of change every single day. and how fucking hopeful i am for him and for all of us. transness is excellent
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@garbud15 The difference is that those locations are filmed with permission/compensation, and people moving in later can know the history of the building. This address was used while someone lived there without them being informed let alone asked.
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imagine being a billionaire and thinking the best thing you could possibly do to improve social issues would be to go out at night and punch people in the face while dressing up as a bat
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twitter: you can fave tweets! us: cool that's helpful twitter: faves are likes now! us: sounds weird but ok twitter: some likes show up on everyone's timeline! us: wait no that's bad twitter: understood! likes are gone! us: what twitter: we love quality debate!
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Fuck Eurovision. This stance is not something they can recover from. Palestinians need our support now, 6 months ago, a decade ago, 75 years ago. When the institutions supporting genocide attempt to clear their name years from now, it will be too late - never let them forget it
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@sketchsawyer it's a width restrictor - stops wide vehicles entering areas they shouldnt (narrow bridge in this case) and slows down traffic in general
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it makes some sense though because a pound is defined as being 7000 grains so that makes each ounce a nice round... 437.5 grains
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"but think of the tech we'd miss if we removed abusive white dudes" uh yea, think of all the cool tech we already missed from their victims
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sure, sex sounds cool but have you ever been in a fight to the death where your long term rival is about land a finishing blow but instead plunges their weapon into the ground beside your head
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the truth about video games is that devs complete them within a couple of weeks (days for an indie). we then just sit and play them for years until the market timing is right, do some polish or optimisation if we get bored. hard to believe but that is what we get paid for
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not to be all "here's my thoughts on kink at pride" but imo not only is queer sexual expression good and important, but also queer expression that is unpalatable to corporations and difficult to market is very good and very important
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keanu has become the ultimate marketing tool. every misstep, every transgression overshadowed by a single application of keanu. we're five years short of an all keanu e3, with each publisher rapidly accumulating clones in a horrific and unwinnable keanu arms race
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starfield........... the game that hates stmondays and loves stasagne ...
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"please look forward to it" is the greatest translation into english of any phrase. i will never not be charmed and excited by a "please look forward to it"
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the big thing to take away from the right freaking out after Sarah Sanders was ejected from a restaurant is that doing so was very effective please continue to make it hard to be a fascist in every day life xoxo
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TURNS OUT NO-ONE ON THE PLANET IS TRAINED TO WORK WITH THESE FUCKED UP NUMBERS. THEY JUST MAKE STUFF UP. NO-ONE KNOWS HOW MUCH A POUND IS BECAUSE IF THEY'D EVER USED THIS BULLSHIT SYSTEM THERE WOULD BE RIOTS
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simply impossible to work out why i didn't experience dysphoria around having breasts before puberty, when i didn't have breasts. no logical reason for this. scientists baffled.
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More teenagers who did not experience gender dysphoria in childhood are coming out as transgender. One controversial study cites "social and peer contagion"
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"petting the dog" was about the instinct of seeing something in game that you immediately want to interact with, and wanting the game to recognise and pre-empt that instinct
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we need to bring back "preferred pronouns" so we can also have "begrudged fallback gender"
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someone said here that the despair is the point, that a key purpose of your enemies' arguments is to convince you stop fighting and give up, and these days id say about 90% of my strength comes from knowing that
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WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF ANTIQUATED JOKE SYSTEM ARE PEOPLE WORKING WITH
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my mum: wow count yourself lucky you only need to learn your 10 times tables, when i was a kid we had to go up to 12 me, a child: oh, for weights and stuff? mum, a liar: sure
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me: ummm sorry, excuse me uh, sorry to be a pain but, if it's not too much of a hassle im actually not a woman, haha, easy mistake to make tho, but if you could... haha ok never mind then, i understand, sorry, have a nice day cis people: DID YOU JUST ASSUME MY GENDER LOL
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WHAT THE FUCK KIND OF NUMBER IS THAT
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perpetually embarassing way to make a living
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i have had no reason to actually look into imperial measurements until now and frankly i immediately regret it finding this out
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IT'S THE TON OF GOLD BECAUSE UNDER IMPERIAL MEASUREMENTS THESE ARE COMPLETELY FUCKING DIFFERENT SCALES
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I'VE GONE MY WHOLE FUCKING LIFE BELIEVING THE IMPERIAL SYSTEM WAS DIFFERENT, SURE, BUT I THOUGHT IT HAD AT LEAST SOME GROUNDING IN REALITY
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(it's a general registration site for races, cycles etc so the binary gender question makes sure you can still sign up to events which only have binary categories. but seeing it pop up as soon as you pick "non-binary" is v funny)
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that the team who make Slack were originally developing a browser based MMO is basically the greatest scope limitation and refinement success story in the entire tech industry
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if asthma inhalers are such a problem then let's talk about ways to reduce triggers like traffic fumes, forest fires and city pollution rather than this eugenicist-leaning individualist bullshit
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ffxiv pretty much resolved an in-game housing crisis by: - building new neighbourhoods - prioritizing groups living communally over individuals - barring purchase of multiple homes - seizing unoccupied buildings and i just hope real life feels incredibly called out right now
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hm treasury discord going very well i see
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apparently it's #TransAwarenessWeek so trans people please be aware that you fucking rule
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the dream. ever developer aspires to be able to make announcements this way. no trailer, no marketing copy, no community engagement, just dry facts and a refusal to elaborate
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This is Furukawa, President of Nintendo. We will make an announcement about the successor to Nintendo Switch within this fiscal year. It will have been over nine years since we announced the existence of Nintendo Switch back in March 2015. We will be holding a Nintendo Direct…
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speed bumps that will straight up kill a guy
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oh mY GOD IT'S HAPPENING
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THERE ARE FOURTEEN POUNDS IN A STONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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imo the shift key should be moved off the keyboard to a floor pedal, like playing a piano
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I HATE ALL OF THIS, AND I HATE ALL OF YOU FOR MAKING ME KNOW IT
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sure, sex is great, but you ever just eaten some fucking bread
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fucked up thing about living in the uk is that no matter how disrespectfully you voice your opposition of poppies, the poppy respecters will always do you one better
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This official Royal British Legion "Pull the Pin" rum is the perfect way to start your boozy PoppyDay celebrations with a BANG! What a fun way to #Remembrance the #GrenadeFallen ! 🎆
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this is correct though
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@innesmck Flushing the toilet is the only thing that matters.
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JKR's transphobia & thoughts on cancel culture use language designed to obscure and I think some folk struggled to concisely refute them but thankfully turns out it's easy as hell to speak out about her threat to sue a kid's news site for libel a week after demanding free speech
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ok ok seriously though we did not go through 300 MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION to have an egg just roll around on a fucking plate
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