Really need people to stop using the word bromance to describe actual queer male couples. It’s not a bromance, they are dating.

Wills coming out scene felt like it existed to make straight people feel better about themselves rather than empowering gay people.

Any of my followers good with music theory able to help me with something? In Damocles there’s a vocalization at about 1:15 that I believe is a 1 4 6 4 2 in f sharp major. Is that correct? Also, are there any other songs out there that use this same progression in any key that you are aware of?

The comphet crew will jump through any hoop to justify homophobia.

Trump really treating these file drops like it’s season 5 of a Netflix show

Ok but I’m calling it right now. The song that will play when Mike realizes he’s in love with Will I’m ST is gonna be “Mine” by Sleep Token. It’s literally the perfect song for the moment. It’s got ST music, it centers itself around the word “will”, and it encapsulates their whole vibe.

id Software workers form wall-to-wall union in response to mass Xbox layoffs

Watching this and its interesting to me to think about how much gender roles/expectations feel similar to socioeconomic roles/expectations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nekz...

30 years late to the party but I just now realized that Cera from Land Before Time was not named Sarah, and realized why she’s named Cera. Was playing Ark with a friend when he called a triceratops a Cera and it all clicked.

The most ironic thing about D&D is that barbarian players all seem to need calculators on hand every time they hit.

TIL that Groovy automatically elevates variables to global scope if you dont use the def keyword. That was an annoying issue to debug. Especially because Jenkins will automatically collapse parallel builds with the same parameters into a single build.

So let me get this straight, in Cyberpunk, to get to the gay romance, you have to: 1. Let Johnny take over your body and nonconsentually try to use it to have sex with a woman 2. Even if you tell him you dont want him to use your body again because of that, you are forced to let him

It feels like they/them characters always end up with a woman in media. Its so hard to find any media where they/them folks end up with masc-presenting SOs.

I have cried a lot over D&D in the past, but I've never cried over my own campaign until today. My character was faced with an impossible choice and in making it, I broke my own heart and was literally sobbing as I was trying to form the words to say in character. God that felt so cathartic.

I live in Portland and I don’t feel unsafe, there is no war zone here, life is as normal. Protests all exist within a single city block that doesn’t affect me at all. Protestors are all in plainclothes or dumb cosplay, peaceful and unobstructive to anyone other than ICE

the right are always trying to redefine feminism as whatever bullshit it is they’re currently trying to sell.

And of course there will be a section of people who decide that its got to have some health benefit. And likely some of those people will be platformed to say so on Fox news.

A law of D&D that no one tells you. As a GM you will invariably create a character you mean to be helpful to the party that you love dearly, but one that the players will determine is their arch-enemy. You have to be willing to buy into the player's hatred because they won't change their mind.

Video games have a serious crediting problem, but unions can help "Being properly credited on a title is essential to our individual careers as workers, and also just general fairness. Being able to say, 'Hey, I worked on this,' is important to show the work you did and not undercut labor."

Trying to do a thing with Unity Netcode and my exact problem has been described on 4 different threads. On every thread an insufferable dude hops on (same guy) and is like "just dont do that, reimplement built in unity logic yourself" and I just dont understand why hes so insistent on being an ass

So I never really caught "Girls" when it was in the zeitgeist. But I'm watching it now and really loving it. I think that Shosha, despite her flaws, is my favorite character in the show, followed by Hannah. I get annoyed that Marnie is constantly accusing Hannah of being what she herself is.

Absolutely correct. Our game would be nowhere near as good without the excellent voice cast and their performances.

Its 2034 and WoW Classic, due to its rate of release, has reached where WoW Live is. What happens now? Wrong answers only.

I heard Metaphor ReFantazio had no romance in it, I was excited to not be pressured into heteronormativity. Twas a bait and switch unfortunately, at the end two of the women basically throw themselves at you with no way for you to reject them, so fucking fun. Either give me gay or opt me out.

There are NaN hard problems in coding: ERR: STRING_NOT_FOUND

Worth noting, I know a lot of gamedevs who work for Microsoft, and all of them are below this "Average worker compensation." 194k is director-level pay, most gamedevs fall well short of this, 40-160k is the general range for most IC gamedevs.

Some things I think people should know about gamedev. 1. Gamedevs aren’t a monolith, we have a range of experiences and opinions, and are often experiencing the same events from much different perspectives. 2. Most of us have anxiety talking openly about gamedev, because it can be dangerous

By the way, from now on I plan to assume that any character in any game I play who's sexuality is not explicitly canonically confirmed, is gay. You can't stop me.

Wait, is it true that no AA or AAA story-driven game has ever made a male main character that is canonically and unavoidably gay or bi? Like there have been several lesbian/bi characters (Bayonetta, Ellie, and Aloy), but I can't think of one that is male.

Anyway, now that TLOU2 and BG3 both won GOTY and KCD2 is in strong competition to, we can all admit that gamers are actually on the whole, completely ok with paying good money to have lgbt+ content in their games. Queer characters and stories are lucrative, actually.

You know, I'd be fine with video games that include no same sex romances, but allow me to say that I'm gay and have the game respond to and respect that.

Give me more platonic male/female friendships in media. Give me friendships between men and women who are adults where there is not an inevitable romantic partnership. I want dozens, hundreds of them, I want to be drown in platonic cross-gender relationships that arent just father/daughter ones.

Been trying to keep track of all the folks affected by the Microsoft layoffs today. I had some friends who were affected and some who are safe, it does not feel great not having information. From what I've seen so far, some affected teams, if you know of more or if I'm mistaken on some of these lmk:

Breaking news, scissors removes its blades because paper got it the job, rock confused but not willing to make waves in case its constituents get mad.

I ripped my heart out and killed some humans then cuddled my boyfriend… in Metaphor.

Peter Pan is just isekai and no I wont be taking questions.

The best part of The Alters is the movies

And another thing. Can we just talk about how shitty it was that The Doctor didnt wish for a doorway to the hell dimension to let Rogue come out of there before he cancelled all the wishes? He like... didnt even try to imagine a way of rescuing him.

A major danger of LLMs is that humans are SO predisposed to attribute knowledge to any entity that uses natural language fluently. We cannot imagine that a machine that outputs natural-seeming speech/text doesn't have cognition. Brilliantly articulated by @emilymbender.bsky.social et al. (2021).

Its wild to me that every writer of Dr Who has apparently fully forgotten about the episode "The Doctor's Daughter." I feel like they all are just trying to pretend its not canon? None of "The Reality War" makes sense in the light of TDD, they already know how to make new time lords... smh

There’s a truism in the ttrpg community that if you want a table like Critical Role’s that you can’t just rely on a Matt Mercer DM, you have to be a player like the Mighty Nein. There’s a seed of truth in that for gamedev? If you want a BG3 you need to be willing to invest money like they did.

This was such a heavy, important read. This one quote from Robert Gehl really hit me: "I've spent 20 years developing a pedagogy that's about wrestling with big ideas...that whole project has been evaporated by for-profit corporations who built their systems on stolen work. It's demoralizing."

Anyway, canceled my Amazon Prime account, Wheel of Time was genuinely the thing I was most excited for in media. They dropped the ball so hard.

One of the weirdest quirks of neurotypical people is how, when you remind them of something they said they wanted to do, they often seem to pretend like you just came up with that idea yourself. Example:

buttondown.com/charliejane/... I found this really insightful and inspiring. I'm pretty sure the author is @charliejane.bsky.social Thanks to @shinyhexagon.com for suggesting it.

Anyway, kinda NSFW, watch this video around 2:22 4:04 4:40 5:39 and 6:12. You've been warned. www.youtube.com/watch?v=I91j...

Sassy-As-A-Service-Y’all SAASY

Cursed idea, in b4 OpenAI adds a cloud host provider to its suite of offerings.

Pondering my EC2 instance.