Pointing with two fingers is just seen (kind of universally across cultures) as being non-accusatory.

womp, citation needed. not to be a downer but this would be waaaay way too interesting if true to let it be said without some grounds

who is linkerbaan?

Walk around like you’re the king, it’s just another day, and nothing can go wrong (nothing that really matters) and you’ll sleep like a baby.

Wait what? Am I slow or are you saying Mozilla has been “simping for Trump”?? How??

But imaginary numbers were created to solve problems!

they don’t even need to make a good game anymore eh? just skinner box their way to the top?

Satisfactory just got it’s 1.0 full release yesterday, plenty of fun to be had

n e girls here? ASL?

just have it. this is the coldest summer of the rest of your life. even if it was just the hottest summer of our lives yet.

Hell yeah. Likewise to you.

I think as long as we 1) stay skeptical in our understanding of all systems whilst putting in effort at understanding those systems better and 2) act in accordance with our values in the political process, then we will be doing the good that we thought we would be doing if we constantly consumed news media and designed those beliefs/actions according to that influence. Except we’re less influenced by that particular force and less demotivated by anxiety and dread.

The big stuff we’re probably gonna hear about anyway. I learned that Trump got shot within two hours.

this is so prevalent… and yet a friend told me that he “lost respect” for me because I said I am choosing to abstain from following the news this year.

he acknowledged there’s nothing that I could personally do about the vast majority of it, but that I still have a duty to “bear witness”. compared it to 1930 Germany and said if he were going down he would want to know about it!

great use of this scene. I was just referencing it the other day and it sorta got lost

Oh come on, now you’re just feigning ignorance. The body types correspond to both modes of human sexual dimorphic presentations. Just because you take away the names doesn’t mean the dimorphic traits are absent. It IS a sexually dimorphic character creation system. So within that, let’s look at who gets to be the default and who gets to be the “second sex” (highly recommend reading de Beauvoir, again). OP is taking issue with not just the veiled binary but also the hierarchy within it.

Let me put it this way. Imagine if the body types were no longer sexually dimorphic but had varied skin tones. And despite the fact that we know skin tones present in a variety of ways, they only offered light peach skin tones and dark skin tones. And they made the secondary one the darker skin tone. Maybe you or I would have a problem with it, maybe we wouldn’t. But could you understand why someone might take issue with that? It’s a fair objection to make, whether we can conceive of a solution or not.

And hey I think OP’s solution would apply pretty well here: let us create characters with a variety of presentations! Or maybe just take away the “light” and “dark” options? A lot of people in this thread responded with great rationale from game dev standpoints, and that stuff is valid. I can see why devs do things the way they do. But I can also see why OP doesn’t like it.

In Breakfast?

in pluto??

OOPS sex is a social construct too

“Why do we have to be Universe B?! You be Universe A and we’ll be Universe’s 1!”

lol you should see what the slider does. it’s not great. max femme makes you turn cartoonish puffy and red

yikes, OP wasn’t calling this secondary any more than Simone de Beauvoir was when she published The Second Sex… it’s an actual problem that deserves recognition, and shitting on someone for recognizing it? you’re the one reinforcing the problem now!!

OP was merely gesturing at another instance of patriarchal culture treating the feminine as secondary by putting it second. not a controversial revelation tbh quite trite really

Tons of Satisfactory. They’re finally releasing 1.0 on September 10th and I’m stoked. Replaying new worlds, figuring out efficient build setups, messing around, etc. Great sandbox game.

still haven’t tried it! it’s in my library