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  1. Comment on Do you think life was better in the past? in ~talk

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    As someone who is part of multiple groups of people that in a past not too long before I was born, were killed, locked away and forced to be "cured" by conversion therapy, lobotomized, thrown onto...

    As someone who is part of multiple groups of people that in a past not too long before I was born, were killed, locked away and forced to be "cured" by conversion therapy, lobotomized, thrown onto the streets for being a
    "burden" or "difficult", spit in their faces by random people, forbidden to engage with necessary institutions and many things more, no, no it was not better in the past. It's still shitty today but at least psychology, general medicine and social stigma for mental health & developmental disorders started to fade and they are more understood and accepted today.

    If I lived in that past that many people today still call better, I would have likely died before I even got the chance to know I wanted to die.

    4 votes

  2. Comment on Twitter blocks links to rival Threads, while CEO downplays reports of traffic decline in ~tech

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    To be fair, Elon started blocking links to competing platforms, like a 12 year old's cartoon fandom forum in 2009, shortly after he took over Twitter. So it's no big surprise, especially since he...

    To be fair, Elon started blocking links to competing platforms, like a 12 year old's cartoon fandom forum in 2009, shortly after he took over Twitter. So it's no big surprise, especially since he recently, like a 12 year old, insulted Zuck and demanded a dick measurement contest. Just after he, like a 12 year old, announced that "cis" is now considered an insult on his website and excessive use will result in consequences. Just after he, like a 12 year old-

    22 votes

  3. Comment on Getting older and nostalgia - what do you miss? in ~talk

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    The time I spent in video games as a child without even following the story, cause I didn't know how video games work, but I spent way more time in them than in today's games by playing through...

    The time I spent in video games as a child without even following the story, cause I didn't know how video games work, but I spent way more time in them than in today's games by playing through the story and finishing sidestories.

    12 votes

  4. Comment on What webhost and software do you use for your personal website? in ~tech

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    Literally just a raspberry pi with cloudflare and an automated script that is run to update the IP in cloudflare. Running like that for 7 years straight off an USB stick. But I also don't use...

    Literally just a raspberry pi with cloudflare and an automated script that is run to update the IP in cloudflare. Running like that for 7 years straight off an USB stick.

    But I also don't use prewritten CMS's, so it's not overloaded with janky scriptididoo frontend bs and overcomplicated backend that I don't need to display my website.

    I'm using nginx as the webserver.

    1 vote

  5. Comment on Psychologists at the University of Cambridge developed a Misinformation Susceptibility Tests. What's your MIST score? in ~science

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    The feel when you are already skeptical of the test itself being real. Did I win? 😩

    The feel when you are already skeptical of the test itself being real. Did I win? 😩

    2 votes

  6. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    That sounds nice. I'm going to be a player again soon. The newest of my players wants to try themselves on DMing and wants to run a nordic mythology inspired campaign. I'm going to play a Battle...

    That sounds nice. I'm going to be a player again soon. The newest of my players wants to try themselves on DMing and wants to run a nordic mythology inspired campaign. I'm going to play a Battle Smith Artificer (Tiefling).

    Aside from that, another player, who previously was our DM before I started DMing my first game last year, is currently running an Alien RPG game with different players which might continue today. Previously, I was playing a Tiefling Bard of Creation in Storm King's Thunder and had a lot of fun.

    1 vote

  7. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    You won't believe me, but we are also playing a pirate themed game, kind of. We are playing 5e Spelljammer since around february. The crew consists of a ferret ranger / bard, a plasmoid monk, a...

    You won't believe me, but we are also playing a pirate themed game, kind of.

    We are playing 5e Spelljammer since around february.
    The crew consists of a ferret ranger / bard, a plasmoid monk, a hadozee fighter and a dowhar (penguin merchant) artificer.

    Early on, they had a lot of fun on Bral, the kinda hub-city that the setting brings with it. The crew wants to be pirates, but especially the ferret thinks that a pirate is what santa clause is.

    They steal stuff, switch it out with chocolate coins and help people rather than plunder everything.
    Technically, the campaign includes them having to find 3 orbs themselves, but after the first one they derailed heavily and now we were having fun in a lot of locations with sidestories.

    At some point pretty early in the game, the Demogorgon was involved as a weaker illusion they fought after it was banished from their plane of existence in the past. Very recently the ferret died in a fight. In his dying state, the Demogorgon came to him disguised as an angel they just met, to trick him into a contract (so it can later on return to their world).
    The ferret, who can't read (and is very set on never learning how to read), of course signed the contract and was immediately surprised by the Demogorgon's true form.

    Now they are all concerned with the Demogorgon taking over the ferret's body at some point.
    But last session ended with them leaving the ferret alone in a floating greek-style temple that contained a boss version of the Medusa creature from 5e, as well as a giant snake.

    So that was the session I was playing yesterday. Starting sunday, the player will play their backup character that has some shared background-story with the event that banished the Demogorgon.

    ...and all that happened in 16 sessions so far, without them ever meeting the actual main villain, because they always avoid any possible encounter with the king, as they know that he's the bad guy.

    Edit: Funny enough, "wish granting" is also a thing in our game. They recently learned about it. In a prison, they found the weakened angel I mentioned, as well as the handle of a lance that belongs to a different angel. They now know that the lance is supposed to be used to summon that other angel, who granted people of a specific bloodline an unconditional wish. (I was on my 5th rewatch of shadow hunters when I felt like that's a good element)

    3 votes

  8. Comment on What's your favorite theme on Tildes? in ~tildes

  9. Comment on What did you do this week (and weekend)? in ~talk

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    • I managed to go grocery shopping two times this week. Normally, I don't do it because it involves unwanted social interactions and pre-pandemic also included being "touched" when walking through...

    • I managed to go grocery shopping two times this week. Normally, I don't do it because it involves unwanted social interactions and pre-pandemic also included being "touched" when walking through a crowded store.

    • A friend gifted me whetstones with some accessories to learn to sharpen my extremely dull kitchen knives. It was a lot of fun doing that and I was surprised at how easy it was to keep a constant angle for me. The sharpening process itself is so relaxing and the stone-, metal- & water slurr it creates smells nostalgic like the mineralwater well in my hometown.

    So these are big accomplishments for me.

    Aside from that, I just finished DMing a solo D&D-session for one of my players, because they were left alone in a mysterious temple by their party last session. That changed a lot going forward, but we both had fun and found a good compromise on further in-story events.

    5 votes

  10. Comment on Let's add (and rearrange?) some groups + a few notes about other short-term plans in ~tildes.official

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    True, I didn't look much into subgroups yet, so I just suggested them in general.

    True, I didn't look much into subgroups yet, so I just suggested them in general.

    2 votes

  11. Comment on Let's add (and rearrange?) some groups + a few notes about other short-term plans in ~tildes.official

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    The only ones I can think of right now are groups like ~cubing for anything Rubik's Cube, as well as ~autism or ~autistic as I've seen more topics and comments discussing the matter in some way...

    The only ones I can think of right now are groups like ~cubing for anything Rubik's Cube, as well as ~autism or ~autistic as I've seen more topics and comments discussing the matter in some way recently (even if partly not straight up named).

    2 votes

  12. Comment on Autistic adults: how do you stim/self-soothe in public? in ~talk

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    For me, always carrying a rubik's cube with me to solve repeatedly whenever I can helps me. It's a good, structurally repeated activity that keeps my fingers and head busy.

    For me, always carrying a rubik's cube with me to solve repeatedly whenever I can helps me.
    It's a good, structurally repeated activity that keeps my fingers and head busy.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on How does the "collapse old comments when I return to a topic" feature work? in ~tildes

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    Yeah, this is likely what is happening here. In my comment that I accidentally deleted, I compared it to the common feature on other platforms that marks new posts in a thread since your last view...

    Yeah, this is likely what is happening here. In my comment that I accidentally deleted, I compared it to the common feature on other platforms that marks new posts in a thread since your last view of it with a "New" badge or a colored border to make it easier to see that these are the new ones. Except in this case, the comments older than last_view_date are modified to be collapsed (And only if the topic has new comments since last_view_date).

    2 votes

  14. Comment on How does the "collapse old comments when I return to a topic" feature work? in ~tildes

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    Damn, I accidentally deleted my comment to this post after I sent it 😭

    Damn, I accidentally deleted my comment to this post after I sent it 😭

    1 vote

  15. Comment on Thoughts on making Tildes groups more independent in ~tildes.official

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    I would personally suggest the idea to show new users a "pop-up" with the groups available to manually subscribe to instead of auto-subscribing everyone to every group. Especially when the number...

    I would personally suggest the idea to show new users a "pop-up" with the groups available to manually subscribe to instead of auto-subscribing everyone to every group. Especially when the number of groups increases even further, the auto-subscription might become very tiresome to some.

    I would also suggest a seperation of the current groups and future user created groups, at least until a specific activity threshold was met. They would be still available in the same way, but specifically marked as user created (maybe a different link color when looking for groups) to differentiate between official general groups and niche things until they have become more popular, or, option 2, have been manually verified (or a similar term). That would also, at least visually, seperate basically permanently almost empty groups from actual active ones and make the search look less full of abandoned categories while searching for a place to post that actually gets looked at by people.

    Edit: Oh lol, I just now realized that this post is already a bit older. I assumed it was new because I saw it on my homepage for the first time.

    4 votes

  16. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~talk

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    It's so weird when you think about how, in the far future, people might finally find it and would be greeted by the contents.

    It's so weird when you think about how, in the far future, people might finally find it and would be greeted by the contents.

    5 votes

  17. Comment on Bakers of Tildes, what do you like to bake, and for what type of occasion? in ~food

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    Focaccia, all the time. I just love it so much. Nice freshly baked with some fresh garlic spreads or cottage cheese - feta cream. Also nice as filled up sandwich.

    Focaccia, all the time. I just love it so much. Nice freshly baked with some fresh garlic spreads or cottage cheese - feta cream. Also nice as filled up sandwich.

    1 vote

  18. Comment on Some general advice for all the new Tildes users in ~tildes

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    Yeah, 3 years ago checks out. I think that was the peak of the discussion because the spinoff manga or whatever it was that revealed that info gained attention and everyone was discussing if it's...

    Yeah, 3 years ago checks out. I think that was the peak of the discussion because the spinoff manga or whatever it was that revealed that info gained attention and everyone was discussing if it's canon or not.

    Glad I could clear that up and my comment wasn't perceived negatively (:

    3 votes

  19. Comment on Some general advice for all the new Tildes users in ~tildes

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    Ah, the classic from basically every other platform with any kind of visible negative reaction system. Someone posts something semi-aggressive, someone else comments with a negative reaction,...

    People were constantly assuming the person they replied to had been the one to apply the label, resulting in them responding angrily to that user, and accusations of label abuse was flying left and right.

    Ah, the classic from basically every other platform with any kind of visible negative reaction system.

    Someone posts something semi-aggressive, someone else comments with a negative reaction, meanwhile someone else downvotes the same person and suddenly it's a 10 comments long war where the downvoted person accuses the person from the reply of downvoting them for nothing while going to all their other comments and posts to downvote every single one out of spite.

    5 votes

  20. Comment on Some general advice for all the new Tildes users in ~tildes

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    Hello, That's because japan is shit in LGBTQ+ media representation, even worse than american media, so there are still not many trans characters that aren't "b- but I'm really a man, you see, I'm...
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    Hello,

    That's because japan is shit in LGBTQ+ media representation, even worse than american media, so there are still not many trans characters that aren't "b- but I'm really a man, you see, I'm just t- tricking you :3". The few that are not like this are never officially stated as trans and, even if they have an arc where they literally say "I always wished to be born a woman" while presenting female for the entire show since episode 1, fans will still claim there is no evidence that character X is trans.

    Ferris had a huge debate back in the days because of this and apparently there was a spinoff or something where the character finally stated what's going on, so ever since people treat the non-japanese spelling "Felix" as the deadname.

    Hardly a reason to downvote someone and shame them, but depending on subreddit and what the post was about, I can easily see that happening.

    Anyways, that's why characters like Ferris are garbage representation, even though everyone but the 'phobes knows what they are supposed to portray and more often than not use names clearly associated with their biological sex.

    7 votes