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"evil, heartless drug cartels are adding a uniquely terrifying, horrible chemical called fentanyl to drugs to keep people addicted + make lots of money while people die" <- perpetuates stigma against drug use, drug suppliers are the root problem, leads to carceral solutions

"fentanyl, which is potent but not uniquely dangerous + has many uses, is one of many substances being added to the drug supply due to its ease of access + cheap manufacturing as DEA crackdowns make it hard to maintain a safe supply + some suppliers care that it's causing death + some don't, just like any business under capitalism" <- does not uniquely stigmatize fentanyl, prohibition is the root problem, leads to safe supply as the solution

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blows up a random stranger with a rocket launcher for no reason then falls to the ground weeping histrionically & receives the tender attention & support of everyone present

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the particular bad guy of this episode, a little apprehensively: the audience wants to see me die?

nate, with more sincerity than anything he's said to anyone in her presence before: like you wouldn't believe

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sometimes i remember my first ever experience with a time loop story when i was like 8: Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp by Todd Strasser.

The title says it all; kid goes to camp, makes friends with "cool kids" and gets peer pressured into being a shithead and a bully, wakes up the next day with things reset to arriving at camp.

But the thing is, this book is part of a series. Most of the books are this same kid getting caught up in body swap shenanigans, but he had gotten caught in a time loop once in a previous book. So he knew the score. He just needed to not be a jerk today. Cue him being overly nice to the point of blatant insincerity, making everyone wildly uncomfortable. No growth, just trying to appease the forces that be. Loop continues looping.

Yadda yadda, finally figures out how to be a genuinely nice kid who stands up to bullies and makes friends with the nerdy kid, etc etc, got everything perfectly right.

When that loop doesn't work he immediately throws himself off the bus to camp to kill himself. Loop again.

Finally, having resigned himself to never escaping the loop but at least he can dedicate it to being a good kid with nice friends, a thought occurs to him. There's one thing he hasn't done a single time in all the loops.

He brushes his teeth before bed. And wakes up the next day.

and frankly, i think more time loops should be hinged on morality-neutral mundane tasks. escape the time loop by taking your meds. free yourself by taking a shower. my man todd was a visionary

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sometimes i remember my first ever experience with a time loop story when i was like 8: Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp by Todd Strasser.

The title says it all; kid goes to camp, makes friends with "cool kids" and gets peer pressured into being a shithead and a bully, wakes up the next day with things reset to arriving at camp.

But the thing is, this book is part of a series. Most of the books are this same kid getting caught up in body swap shenanigans, but he had gotten caught in a time loop once in a previous book. So he knew the score. He just needed to not be a jerk today. Cue him being overly nice to the point of blatant insincerity, making everyone wildly uncomfortable. No growth, just trying to appease the forces that be. Loop continues looping.

Yadda yadda, finally figures out how to be a genuinely nice kid who stands up to bullies and makes friends with the nerdy kid, etc etc, got everything perfectly right.

When that loop doesn't work he immediately throws himself off the bus to camp to kill himself. Loop again.

Finally, having resigned himself to never escaping the loop but at least he can dedicate it to being a good kid with nice friends, a thought occurs to him. There's one thing he hasn't done a single time in all the loops.

He brushes his teeth before bed. And wakes up the next day.

and frankly, i think more time loops should be hinged on morality-neutral mundane tasks. escape the time loop by taking your meds. free yourself by taking a shower. my man todd was a visionary

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When a person with ADHD complains of severe anxiety, I recommend that the clinician not immediately accept the patient’s label for her emotional experience. A clinician should say, “Tell me more about your baseless, apprehensive fear,” which is the definition of anxiety. More times than not, a person with ADHD hyperarousal will give a quizzical look and respond, “I never said I was afraid.” If the patient can drop the label long enough to describe what the feeling is like, a clinician will likely hear, “I am always tense; I can’t relax enough to sit and watch a movie or TV program. I always feel like I have to go do something.” The patients are describing the inner experience of hyperactivity when it is not being expressed physically.

At the same time, people with ADHD also have fears that are based on real events in their lives. People with ADHD nervous systems are consistently inconsistent. The person is never sure that her abilities and intellect will show up when they are needed. Not being able to measure up at the job or at school, or in social circles is humiliating. It is understandable that people with ADHD live with persistent fear. These fears are real, so they do not indicate an anxiety disorder.

holy SHIT

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in general i agree that the pursuit of hyper realistic video game graphics to the exclusion of developing a unique and memorable style is not a good way to make games and should be criticized, but ive seen this image several times now and it just gets under my skin

yes you get diminishing returns from adding more polys but first of all, more polys isn't the end all be all of high-end graphics - it's high res textures, more detailed animations, more particle effects, physics simulations, raytracing, transparency/translucency effects, and more. and a game can still look amazing without any of those - they have for years - but similarly it is perfectly fair to use the tools at your disposal to create a detailed work of art, if that's the style. (the real evil is crunch time and unoptimized games being shipped broken because hey, high-end pc gamers can buy more storage for our 200+GB game and we'll patch it later 🙃 but that's neither here nor there)

BUT THE REAL PROBLEM IS

THAT'S JUST A SHITTY SCULPT!!!! IT'S NOT EVEN A VIDEO GAME CHARACTER MODEL!!!!! YOU CANT JUST PRESS "subdivide" IN BLENDER ON A RANDOM ASS MODEL WITH 6000 POLYS AND EXPECT THE RESULT TO LOOK ANY MORE DETAILED YOU GOTTA PUT THAT SHIT IN THERE BY HAND YOURSELF!!!

60k tris and THAT'S what the hair looks like???? THAT'S what the lapels of the jacket look like?? what even is that thing on his chest- a bow or a crevat??? are you kidding me??? no wonder youd think high end graphics are a waste of time if that's what all you believe it is

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rudolph the red nosed reindeer

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*lovingly crushes your garlic*

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file -> phrases that are going to shift something in me forever

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is that piece of media actually bad, or is it just not following the blueprint you projected onto it? is that work actually not good, or are you just demanding something from it that is absolutely antithetical to its themes, genre, tone, and narrative goal? is that story actually poorly written, or do you just dislike that it is not the specific things you wanted from it that it never set out to be, never was, and never is going to become? is it actually bad, or is it actually well-executed and you just dislike the story it chose to be because it isn't catering to your specific desires and expectations?

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y'know one of the distinct things I remember from when I was getting set up to get on estrogen was my mom saying "estrogen isn't gonna cure your depression" or something like that

and holy fuck was she the dumbest fucking moron because I went from not being able to glimpse at myself to actively just standing around and looking at myself in the mirror

doing little expressions to see how they look, making faces sometimes, playing with my hair and parting it different ways to see how it'd look

and I'd just do this every so often for like 30 minutes, completely content in admiring my face

and thats only because of estrogen

this shit truly is live saving medicine

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The backlash to queer Mass Effect romances was so intense, they cut fully voiced queer romances from the sequels because of it.

This is misinformation.

The conservative backlash to Mass Effect 1's homosexual romance option did indeed cause executives to mandate the removal of such options from Mass Effect 2, notably downplaying the bisexual aspect of Jack's character. You can still flirt with several characters of the same gender, but you cannot earn the Paramour achievement this way.

However, queer options were brought back in force in Mass Effect 3 and Mass Effect: Andromeda, including several characters in both games who you can *only* romance if you are the same gender. Overall, you can have a full gay romance in 3 out of the 4 currently released Mass Effect games.

So sequel singular, not sequels plural.

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a lot of historical fantasies have characters that treat bows and arrows like modern day handguns, using them as sidearms, carrying them indoors, shooting people executing style at point blank range instead of just stabbing them, stuff like that.