English is not my first language. My original language has a true neutral pronoun applicable to all and the correct usage of they still confuses me when I type in English. I’m sorry for that.

That’s okay, I figured you weren’t doing it to be malicious. I appreciate you correcting it.

You’re using me as a strawman to vent your argument and frustrations with an entire community. Please leave me alone.

I am not. I admit I am getting frustrated, but I responded to you because you specifically were being ableist. I replied to you because I hoped you might reflect on how your behavior is making a hostile environment for disabled people.

“They” and “she” are not interchangeable, please edit your comment and fix your misgendering.

I was there for that massive argument, and it was not how you are making it out to be. It wasn’t just her who was aggrieved by the Covid denialism festering in this community, several of us called it out for what it is, ableism. The same topic on discussion here. In fact, many of the anti-masking comments then were removed after a while, so clearly she was “taken seriously” and the consensus wasn’t so one-sided as you imply. In any case it’s not really relevant. You are seeing a disabled person talk about ableism among people who should be her comrades, in a thread about ableism from communists, using the most clear and obvious example of ableism and eugenicist behavior by communists. And your response is to paint her as an overly-emotional troll and accuse her of virtue signaling? To ignore what people are saying and deflect? To call other users who point out your personal ableist language sockpuppets? You are actively showing why these comments are made to begin with, why people have reached such a level of frustration. You are part of the problem that turns a community that should be clearly hostile towards ableism instead into spaces that are clearly hostile towards disabled people.

It isn’t bait. I believe her point is that it’s easy for communists to claim to be against eugenics and ableism, but in practice many of us are failing to live up to our claims. The Covid pandemic and masking is brought up because it is a major example of this. It is an enormous threat particularly to disabled people, and yet in practice most of the left is, by virtue of their actions, siding with the ableists and the eugenicists. DeadlyBunny was revealing this as well, it’s all well and good if we say we are against ableism, but if we are using ableist language, then it shows a lack of solidarity that puts off the disabled people we should be working with. If we talk the talk, we gotta walk the walk, you know?

And sure, maybe they should have reported those comments, but I mean, any of us could have and apparently none of us did. And rather than accept their accurate criticism of our behavior and reflect, they were spammed with downvotes and their criticisms were deflected. What does that say to our would-be disabled comrades? From my view, it says “shut up and get in line.” Who would stand side by side with people like that?

Cool! I’ve never played this game before, but I remember having fun with the bit of OpenTTD I played. I’ll have to give this a try sometime soon.

Here’s someone on reddit who says they have it, the post is a little old but it looks like the user is still active, so hopefully if you send them a message they still have it. I would myself but I deleted my reddit account a while ago

And what other people count as ‘not a spoiler’ is often very, very misjudged.

I feel this, my friend tends to tell me about stuff they like that I haven’t seen/read/played/etc. and is very relaxed about what they consider spoilers. Thankfully our tastes don’t overlap much so it’s usually not a problem, but occasionally they’ll start talking about something I’m interested in and I have to be like, wait please don’t lol. I always feel a little bad for it because I’m glad they want to share their interests with me, but I’m so picky about spoilers and if I don’t stop them then they will say something I don’t want to hear…

Cool! I’m not really sure what to suggest because unfortunately my knowledge of queer history is still lacking in a lot of ways, but I crossposted to hexbear’s !traa to hopefully help get some more insight.

Used a sick day to get out of work. I do not have the energy to put up with the holiday rush lol. I don’t know what the plan is for the rest of the day now, maybe read some more? I started The Assassination of Julius Caesar: A People’s History of Ancient Rome on my way home last night, so maybe I’ll get comfy and read the next chapter of that. I’ve been meaning to watch Nosferatu as well, so maybe it’s time for that. I don’t really know anything about the movie other than the fact that it’s an old vampire movie, so hopefully it’ll be interesting.

Do you all prefer to go into media blind, or do you prefer to know what you are getting into? Personally, I like going in knowing as little as possible, but for movies/shows I sometimes end up learning a lot before watching anyways, because I like to watch with my wife if she’s interested, but she can’t watch really violent stuff and unfortunately there is a lot of that out there.

oh cool! thanks for letting me know. too bad you weren’t able to find anyone to summon you, but good to know there’s still some pvp’ers at least. i might just end up pirating it after all, and if the game goes on sale i can just start another character if i really want to.

epub version available here

Yep it still averages like 200 players online. Probably not even worth it to be honest, but I don’t know, I really enjoy the online in these games so I’d like to try at least. I’m a little worried I won’t run in to anybody, but when I played Demon’s Souls PS3 there was usually only like 10-20 people online through RPCN and I still managed to get invaded and invade, never co-op though sadly.

Nice, I hope you enjoy them! I’ve never played 2, I’ve heard it’s pretty different from the first game.

Wilds looks like fun but I’m skipping it because Capcom decided to shit it up with Denuvo

I’m finishing Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow probably either tonight or tomorrow, another really fun game! I don’t know if I like it more or less than Symphony of the Night yet. I think it did some stuff better, like I think the soul system is a lot more enjoyable than having to hunt around the castle for sub-weapons if you want a specific one. I like that there’s more types of weapons too, but I ended up just using the normal swords the whole time because I liked being able to cancel the attack by landing too much lol.

I’m not sure what’s next yet! I really wanted to play Dark Souls II, but I’d like to play the vanilla version, and I don’t have $40 to spend on a game right now. I’d usually just pirate it, but I want to be able to play online too so I guess I have to be patient. Hopefully it goes on sale sometime soon. Otherwise I don’t have anything specific in mind. Maybe I can finally get around to Final Fantasy VI? I’ve been wanting to give Metal Gear Solid 2 another try as well now that I can emulate the PS3 version.

PokéRogue looks interesting, I’ll have to try that out at some point. There’s another fun Pokémon roguelite that’s a hack of Emerald that I had a good time with, you might like that one too. https://www.pokecommunity.com/threads/pokemon-emerald-rogue.479406/

.45 Parabellum Bloodhound looks really cool too! Did you ever play Parasite Eve? The combat looks like it’s very inspired by that game.

I’ve never really thought about it outside of the context of code, but I wonder if Git would be handy for this. Plain text and markdown would work perfectly, but there might be better version control systems for things like Office/LibreOffice.

Awesome, thank you! I knew about Scihub but this is my first time hearing about libstc.cc. Appreciate your help

So I went looking for more details on this story, and it seems like there is a bit of a catch here in that the patient here was (is?) taking immunosuppressants for the liver transplant mentioned in the SCMP article. (Source: https://archive.ph/4kUXJ) Of course, this is still great news and a major victory! The results of this treatment are incredible and very exciting for the future. The two other participants in this trial apparently also have had very positive results, and are approaching a year of being insulin injection free themselves. The SCMP story mentions that she had already undergone an unsuccessful pancreatic islet cell transplant, so hopefully the success of this treatment is a sign of great things to come.

By the way, does anyone know of a mirror for this research paper? I was hoping to give it a read, but it’s locked behind a paywall.

ok well I live in a super blue city and have, so what