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amazon keeps trying to sell me on their serial fiction service by sharing small quotes from the stories but friends the quotes are bad?? it’s not working

@aescling depending on who you got it through and how you paid for it you might need money in your account

i play pokémon because i like raising cute creatures to be strong

the more gameplay there is for raising cute creatures to be strong, the more cumbersome things are for competitive players who just want to play with their desired teams

letting you farm experience candies with max raid battles or transfer egg moves by just putting two pokémon together in the nursery in SwSh is objectively good for competitive players but also takes all the fun out of gaining experience or pokémon breeding for me

those parts of the games went from challenges in their own right to just facilitatory mechanics in preparation for the challenge of battling

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pokémon games will never be as good as no-frills battle simulators for competitive play and they should embrace that instead of trying to turn an RPG into a battle simulator but with more grinding

and also make actual battle simulators instead of trying to shut them down

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honestly i don't like the QoL improvements in recent pokémon games

@alyssa honestly probably the greatest lesson i took from reading derrida in college was the importance of the concept of “worthy of critique”

derrida and the people around him (de man, etc) believed that studying critiques of a text was essential to exposing its meaning (because only in the critique of a critique are you analysing the interpretive process itself, i.e. how meaning is formed or not formed from text)

so critiques, through a kind of double negative, become a really positive force, and something you only really direct at things you really like and want to form meaning around

Instead, we argue
about what sources are most
authoritative

song to play instead when your relatives ask you to put on Hamilton for the holiday: truellform.bandcamp.com/track/

@alyssa if it helps i’m pretty sure derrida only criticizes people he actually at least halfway agrees with

bigoted is when you try to justify your own personal aesthetic preferences as somehow morally superior or culturally enlightened or more civilized or more universal than other possible aesthetic preferences, fool

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annual reminder that gender dysphoria is specifically excluded by Congress from ever being accommodated in the workplace

Daddy was a bankrobber
But he never hurt nobody
He just loved to live that way
And he loved to steal your money

@aescling makes me wonder if the corresponding enbies who are "hetero" towards both men and women is a meaningful demographic as well

@aescling anyway my experience with pansexuals is that they are absolutely do tend to be "what if we did bisexuality but made both parts of it gay" genderfluid types

@aescling my personal opinion is that wanting to be the thing they are attracted to is a big chunk of the reason why many lesbians even consider themselves women at all

@aescling fellas is it gay to want to be the thing you are attracted to?

@witchfynder_finder <del>they sure as heck didn’t do anything else</del>

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