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you can't be like "wow look at all these awful posts i bet you don't want to click on them" when you're the one combing through the website to create a gigantic list of the ones that you don't like or whatever

oh my god we've reached heretofore unexplored levels of loserdom (and this is why I am not particularly inclined to be charitable to the author as someone trying to collate useful information to make this discussion easier to navigate)

like this is a genuinely incredibly funny thing for this person to say, for reasons that are probably beyond their ability to understand

Gonna be real here, I actually read the pillowfort post and it legit helped me understand what the fuck has been going on here on cohost this past week.

Very legit points about the culture of vagueposting leading to context collapse

I do consider this key to why I consider it loser behavior. If this info was actually aggregated on this person's account here it might have actually been useful and made the discourse less bad

But we won't get that. Why set up safety measures when you can gawk at the crashes?

Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Another good reason to read the letter in its entirety. The whole of the letter, including the paragraphs that @mint posted above, is about the necessity of nonviolent direct action. There isn't much reason to think that the historical fact described by King in this quote is any less true, today.

Speaking personally, it's also a provocative line for white allies and accomplices. It's worth asking myself, again: what privileges I am keeping close? If I'm not confronting and wielding that privilege to bring about a more just world, then what am I doing with it?

EDIT: PRELIMINARY RESULTS:

after consulting with our finest scientists, we have come to the conclusion is that what's likely going on is how many frames it takes to access the flash differs, which alters how far in the (buggy, nonrandom) random stream Emerald is when it attempts to randomize the gender. Hence, for a given cartridge/console combo or given emulator, it will tend to be either all boys or all girls. (Sounds like all boys is more common.)

INCREDIBLY SPECIFIC REQUEST: do you have a real, normal Pokemon Emerald cartridge and a way to boot it? Please power it on, wait several seconds for the player character to appear on a bike, and note their gender. Power the device off and back on and do this several times, at least 5. Please tell me: how many boys, how many girls, what language your cartridge is in, and what platform you booted it on (original gameboy advance, gba sp, nintendo ds, whatever)

I am asking this because I am observing the behavior in emulator that Ruby/Sapphire correctly randomize the player gender but Emerald always picks girl (which is what I expected because its rng seeding is buggy). However, there are recordings of the Emerald opening on youtube that show a boy. Presumably this is caused by emulator differences, but I really want to know which reflects the game on real hardware.

i watched the revue starlight movie yesterday after finishing the series the day prior and i that movie is SO GOOD it immediately turned it into a show im going to yell about forever. the MOMENT i finished it i had an urge to rewatch it which i dont think has ever happened for me before lol
i thought the show started slow but was overall pretty good but the movie provides such a stylish and comprehensive conclusion to every single character it elevated the entire thing to now be one of my favorite shows

it's only 12 episodes and a movie! such an easy watch. the premise of the show is about nine girls at a drama school, but emotional conflicts are largely expressed through fight scenes that are diagetically musical stage performances.

here's the first one of those from the beginning of the show. if you watch this and think "this is cool, i'd love to see it be even bigger, more dramatic, and gayer" then this is the show for you

revue starlight is so good and I had the exact same arc with it. the movie is absolutely now one of my favourites of all time and it's agonizing to me that I cannot convince more people to watch this series

I am astounded that you, of all people, cannot convince more people to watch it. "Yeah you know Takarazuka revue? The Japanese theater with all-female actors where many are lesbian? They have a media franchise based on it where they go Utena with it. Yes, swords AND relationship drama with a big ol smack of social caste right on top. You gotta check it out". Like it just seems like the sales pitch writes itself, y'know?