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regallibellbright · 1 year ago

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So, I mentioned previously that Fashion Dreamer represents a significant improvement in the men's fashion over syn Sophia's past games, even if it still seems to be a lower priority compared to the women's. (It is sounding like there are fewer items for them on the whole, and I would not be at all shocked to hear there are fewer items for specific fashion niches than those equivalent niches in the women's fashion, but it is still meaningfully more diverse than what it was before.)

I promised examples.

Unfortunately, I only have one really good screenshot from my own 3DS, because I tend to take pictures of dialogue rather than inviting random characters to pose with me, and of the ones where you can clearly see what a guy is wearing, it's usually a character who's intentionally dressed as a sort of dorky scientist at best, and at worst...

Well, the best picture I have ALSO includes Johann, so you get to see him!

For those not reading the alt text, I feel it's important you know that that jacket of Johann's has TAILS. Also big gold buttons, I didn't note those because they're not really visible at all, and pants with a very gaudy floral pattern. So yeah, he's an Eccentric and Tortured Musician, so he dresses Like That. It's clearly intentional and not representative of the average character in the game (though he also has a student who dresses basically like him, with basically the same Eccentric and Tortured bit, who we see in a side quest.)

Oliver, on the other hand, is pretty much representative of how men in this series dress. He's a model, and as you can see, his default outfit (I checked the Style Boutique wiki to confirm, this is it) is... uh, kind of bland. He's not alone.

(Shout outs to the Style Boutique Wiki, where I got these screenshots.) This is Ricky, shown in his default outfit. (While there technically IS a menswear section in Fashion Forward, it's an extra you can only access from the title screen to dress up NPCs, and very limited. In the summer he'll take that jacket off, but that's it.)

I believe at least one of these outfits of Florian's is user-designed - they're both from Trendsetters, which is the game I've played the least of the four. Either way, not suits! But still not particularly interesting. But okay, maybe it's just that this STYLE is on the bland side? Let's try some others!

(In order: Vincent, Melvin, Ethan Quinn, Jim.)

I swear I didn't go looking for characters who are exclusively wearing T-shirts except Ethan, I am a bit limited in what the wiki has here. But also... yeah. I think Jim might be supposed to be a fan of bold fashion, given the belt and the hair? But you wouldn't know it from looking at the plain black t-shirt. Vincent and Melvin are a bit better - Vincent helps run the live music venue that opens midway through the game, while Melvin is in fact a nerd who doesn't take that much interest in fashion and only shows up to support one of the three central idols of the game, who also happens to be his best friend. Is it unfair to include him, then? No. Because at least his outfit is actually indicative of his character!

(Daisuke, Chad - though I believe he's renamed Brad in the North American release, and MC Mode, two photos. Tarquin, at the bottom, is one of my own screenshots.)

The same hat situation here is a bit amusing, but they were designed for different games and it makes sense to reuse fashion items like that between games - it let them add onto the wardrobe as the series went on, so there were a lot more items with different silhouettes and such by Styling Star. For the women. I think at least a few of these characters got to gain and lose jackets depending on the in-game season, and MC Mode here is a fashionable guy who gets to wear TWO outfits.

And the chic look isn't too bad - both Mode and Ethan wear it, so as you can see, there's definitely some range. I think Vincent might get to wear a leather jacket during the in-game winter, but I couldn't commit to it; I can't remember off-hand if Daisuke loses his jacket in the summer, though I hope not.

But yeah. You'll notice looking at all of these that even the rocker's outfit is a t-shirt and jeans. There ARE slightly more interesting options - those jeans might be distressed, there ARE leather jackets, and there are some pants with excess belts among the men's, I think - but not nearly as much as the women's fashion in the punk rock style. Tarquin's "lab coat" is clearly a suit jacket, and while it makes some sense not to make an entire unique item for one character, this game didn't even have men's fashion. I'm pretty sure they just used an existing suit jacket from Trendsetters. On the other hand, at least THAT ONE is reflective of his character. Daisuke's outfit is the closest the games come to athletic wear until Fashion Dreamer.

The characters in the later two games in particular were REALLY fun. There's a reason why I didn't have many screenshots just showing a male character facing forward, and none without dialogue - I actually really enjoy the writing here. Ethan wants to conquer the world with music, and multiple characters comment that this makes him sound like a supervillain. Tarquin is an endearing nerd who has a bunch of cute comments about all the items you bring in to make fashion items from. Florian likes bad puns.

But their outfits don't really tell you much about their personalities, where the female characters all do.

#I'm going to avoid maintagging this just to avoid stirring up shit #but that said this is primarily about the older games on a point we have all long acknowledged: The men's fashion is an afterthought #If I digged I could probably come up with some better examples of bold/rock but I didn't feel like playing tonight wanted to rest arms #but while those are two VERY different fashions for women with different brands and relatively little overlap #for the men's fashion they share a brand I'm pretty sure and it's functionally the same aesthetic with like. A few items on either side.#I think. Honestly if you told me Styling Star's men's rock clothes were a subset of bold entirely I'd believe you.#and I've played A LOT of Styling Star and the men's store has unlimited stock and still pays you so I frequently use it to grind money.#so yeah I'm still annoyed at FD's gender lock (WHY SOCKS?!) and I believe the consensus that it's still not the PRIORITY for syn Sophia #but this time at least it's clear that some actual genuine effort took place with the men's fashion #as evidenced by the fact that it has both fashions from niches and subcultures and also sweatpants and athletic wear.#seriously how the heck did it take so long to add THAT as an aesthetic for the men's wear when 3/4 games had a brand for the women for it?#(The fourth was Styling Star; they put those items in as either basic or more frequently pop since they were often used together.)

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notjanine · 4 years ago

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2020 in books!

the only kind of new year’s resolution i made as a naive baby last january was to try to read 40 books for the year. (i read 37 in 2019, for context.) well, with all of my commuting time eliminated and an increased need for immersive escapism, i ended up surpassing that goal three times over lmao (thanks library ebooks!)

idk how to summarize my year in books in a way that makes sense but

(f) = fiction, (nf) = nonfiction, (p) = poetry.

books that rewired my fucking brain:

braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer (nf)- GOD?!?!?! good. dr. k is right. ostensibly a book about plants, but actually a book about shut up and go outside. consumerism and capitalism are doing their damnedest to fuck you up, but you can just choose to value different things. take care of yourself by taking care of your environment. etc etc.

wasp by richard jones (nf)- lissen. when i got this book, my wasp-phobia was so severe that i had to put it away face down on a high shelf because there are wasps on the cover and i couldn’t bear to RISK even GLIMPSING them. now i am like... a wasp evangelist. (also due to the bugs 101 course on coursera it’s so good.)

wag by zazie todd (nf)- i have a dog, but i am NOT a Dog Person (i.e. i love my dog, but please keep yours away from me, thanks.) this book helped me understand my little guy better, plus it gives actionable tasks and activities to do with and for your pup! plus, y’know, learning about things you’re scared of helps to lessen that fear. i’d recommend this to anyone who has, wants, or regularly interacts with a dog.

a closed and common orbit by becky chambers (f)- is this series complete fluff? absolutely. am i fundamentally different after reading this one? maybe.

the best we could do by thi bui (nf)- this is so far outside of my personal experience but somehow still made me come to peace with my relationship with my mom?? and it’s barely even about that?? idk. this is probably objectively the best book i’ve read this year.

books that were just fun as hell:

mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia (f)- this book made me YELL out loud

death on the nile by agatha christie (f)- i grew up on agatha christie shows, but never actually read her before this year! she really was That Bitch. read this before the movie comes out

cosmoknights by hannah templer (f)- i read this in one sitting through the worst headache i’ve had in years. it is a goddamn DELIGHT. this book has everything: spaceships. mech suits. fighting the patriarchy. a perfect otp. fun art in bright colors with clean lines. onomatopoetic WAPs from before the song gave that hilarious context. 800 lesbians. this is an antidepressant in graphic novel form.

stiff by mary roach (nf)- ms. roach is like the 4th most represented author on my bookshelf because she 1. stays writing about shit i’m interested in and 2. manages to talk about gross and ridiculous things without resorting to sensationalism. it takes skill to write a hilarious book about corpses.

black sun by rebecca roanhorse (f)- excellent sexual tension between a horny siren pirate and a hot doomed... monk, kinda? set in the pre-columbian gulf of mexico with magic and shit.

cuisine chinoise by zao dao (? n/f)- this graphic novel about chinese food history/mythology is BEAUTIFUL.

the color of magic by terry pratchett (f)- you’d think a hardcore douglas adams stan would have gotten to this sooner, but no, i had to date a nerdy white boy to get here. it’s fun though! i’m not gonna read them all, but this one was good. bonus: contains one (1) great himbo.

gideon the ninth by tamsyn muir (f)- like 500 pages of action and mystery and jokes and space necromancy. harrow the ninth gets a special mention bc it has a meme reference that took me out so hard i had to close the book, lie down, and groan for an entire minute before continuing.

other minds by peter godfrey-smith (nf)- i love octopuses. on one tma bonus ep, jonny sims says that if a creature can choose to do evil, then it’s a Person. octopuses are People. but anyway frfr this has an explanation of the evolution of consciousness that is cool af. (this one is much better than the other recent popsci octo book which i will not name out of politeness.)

the perfect predator by steffanie strathdee and thomas patterson (nf)- i read this bc my microbiology prof recommended it and it’s cool as heck! it’s got adventure, drama, mystery, Science-with-a-capital-S. i’m biased bc i’m a bit of a microbes nerd, but i had a blast with this. (but only bc we know going in that everything works out okay; if i hadn’t known that, i would have been TOO stressed!)

books that were a little less fun but still very readable:

my sister, the serial killer by oyinkan braithwaite (f)- i couldn’t find this as funny as other people bc i, too, have a beautiful sister who’s an insufferable narcissist, so it hits a little too close to home, but. it is a wild ride.

piranesi by susanna clarke (f)- idek what to say! i went into this one blind just bc it had a cool cover and title, so i guess i’d recommend that for other people too.

the sixth world series by rebecca roanhorse (f)- monster hunting! a post-apocalyptic take that doesn’t feel tired.

the shades of magic trilogy by v.e. schwab (f)- easy escapism. some ideas feel a little first draft-y, but idk, it’s also a pretty simple premise (which isn’t a bad thing). it’s a decent urban fantasy set in ~georgian?-era london. very actiony. suffers from a bit of i’m-not-like-other-girls disease, but i didn’t even notice until book two or three, so.

the only good indians by stephen graham jones (f)- starts off a little ??? (and reeks of being Written By A Man) but picks up. the pacing’s great and there’s just a super fucking cool monster.

robopocalypse by daniel h. wilson (f)- this reads like a tv miniseries so much that i can’t believe it isn’t one yet.

confessions of the fox by jordy rosenberg (f)- not my usual cup of tea, fiction-wise, but still compelling. a fresh take on the white-male-english-professor-self-insert? but not insufferable. gets weird!

spinning silver by naomi novik (f)- rumplestilstkin, but make it interesting! a great, richly-told fairy tale, but like, large scale. good to read on a cold day while you’re wrapped up in a blanket with some hot tea.

interior chinatown by charles yu (f)- compulsively readable. a couple things bugged me, but not enough to make me dislike it. a fun companion piece to how to live safely in a science fictional universe. i like this guy’s style.

cannibalism by bill schutt (nf)- COOL. mostly covers the animal kingdom (fun), spends too much time on the donner party (less fun), ends with a SPICY take on prions that i cannot get out of my head!!!

buzz, sting, bite by anne sverdrup-thygeson (nf)- BUGS! broad but not overwhelming, neither dumbed down nor overly scientific, short enough to finish in a day or two. recommend this to literally everyone.

books that made me want to read everything else in the author’s ouevre:

the time invariance of snow by e. lily yu (f)- this FUCKS but it’s too short!!!

an unkindness of ghosts by rivers solomon (f)- okay this book is SO good and so well-written and interesting and blah blah blah all the good things, but... the whole time, i was just like?? why???? why is this what you’re choosing to write about??? (i did also read the deep and blood is another word for hunger after this one, and i did like them both, especially the latter, but i think they can do better! like i think they could write a perfect book and i am gonna be *eyes emoji* until then.)

the space between worlds by micaiah johnson (f)- a fine debut novel, but i want to see her do something a little more... idk, refined? i think she overreaches here, like it’s a little... idk looper? this is how you lose the time war? there’s a better comparison, but i can’t think of it, but you get the idea. and then halfway through it shifts gears to mad max. there’s something weird about one of the central relationships, like it’s not complex enough to take as long to resolve as it does. idk idk. there are just a lot of little nitpicky things. it’s not bad! but i think she can do better and i look forward to finding out.

postcolonial love poem by natalie diaz (p)- thinky! like i tried to read this before bed, but it’s not the sort of thing to parse out while you’re falling asleep, it requires more attention than that.

books that Learned Me Somethin:

smoke gets in your eyes by caitlin doughty (nf)- i am a self-professed death obsessed weirdo, fascinated by death and mourning, but i didn’t know all that much about what happens to a body between the dying and the funeral! this book isn’t big, but it covers a lot and doughty’s writing style is engaging and honest. it’s very memorable.

queer by meg-john barker and julia scheele (nf)- i’m gonna be totally honest and say Queer Theory is above my intellectual pay grade, but this book takes you by the hand and explains the basics.

vitamania by catherine price (nf)- LMAO my fellow americans, never take a supplement. this book is great and well-researched, but normal folks don’t need to read it, just listen to season two of the dream podcast, which definitely cribbed from this.

vegetable kingdom by bryant terry (nf)- this is a fine cookbook, my favorite of his that i’ve read so far. gets a special mention bc i had a religious experience just reading one of his kohlrabi recipes. absolutely gutted that i didn’t have an opportunity to try it this year, since the pandemic put the kibosh on all family bbqs.

the best american food writing 2020 edited by j. kenji lopez-alt (nf)- this really is just a great collection.

are prisons obsolete? by angela y. davis (nf)- yes.

i moved to los angeles to work in animation by natalie nourigat (nf)- before reading this, i had basically zero knowledge of how the animation industry works. now i know like three things.

the secret lives of bats by merlin tuttle (nf)- BATS! okay this book is more about the adventures of being a bat scientist than it actually is about bats, but there are bats in there. insectivorous bats basically shit glitter, you should know this.

books from valuable perspectives:

hood feminism by mikki kendall (nf)- a breakdown of who’s getting left out of feminist spaces, why that’s happening, and why it shouldn’t be happening.

all you can ever know by nicole chung (nf)- a (transracial) adoptee’s take on adoption and learning more about her birth family. the personal storytelling of this one really stuck with me.

motherhood so white by nefertiti austin (nf)- a single-mom-by-choice’s take on the foster system/adoption process. walks you through some things i always wondered about and some things i wouldn’t even have thought about.

this place by kateri akiwenzie-damm et al (? n/f)- i, like a lot of non- native americans, only know that history in broad strokes. getting this many highly specific stories in one dense and beautiful book felt like a lucky find. and taking that perspective into the future in the context of that history is v good.

empty by susan burton (nf)- eating disorder stories are important to me bc i care about food so much. this one is so relatable- not in its specificity, but rather its generality. it’s easy to empathize with her perspective because it’s like, Oh, i don’t have that exact problem, but i struggle with different problems in a very similar way. (feels like the opposite of roxane gay’s hunger, in a way.)

obit by victoria chang (p)- this exploration of grief is... woof.

short story collections are hard to evaluate bc you’ll never read one where every single story hits but i generally enjoyed these:

a thousand beginnings and endings edited by ellen oh and elsie chapman (f)

how long til black future month? by n.k. jemisin (f)

her body and other parties by carmen maria machado (f)

books i revisited:

the broken earth trilogy by n.k. jemisin (f)- i read the series backwards this time and like... i can’t really find any faults in these books, man. they’re just the best.

everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by jomny sun (f... but is it really?)- half of this book’s sales are from me buying it for other people bc it’s the only way i know how to say i love you. i reread it every time just to make sure it still feels right and it always does.

other honorable mentions:

white is for witching by helen oyeyemi (f)- not to pit two bad bitches against each other, but this book does what akwaeke emezi’s freshwater was trying to do. it’s a little weird, a little haunted, a little of a lot of things. read this only in the dead of winter. (and with stephen rennicks’ score for the little stranger playing in the background.)

homie by danez smith (p)- there’s a lot going on here, but this just made me crack a smile a couple times in a way that no other book of poetry has ever done.

the murder of roger ackroyd and murder in mesopotamia by agatha christie (f)- That Bitch!

blues by nikki giovanni (p)- she sure has some Things To Say

the three-body problem by cixin liu (f)- interesting concepts, but... idk something’s missing? felt weirdly soulless to me. i’m probably not gonna read the sequels. but it did make some points!

the sisters of the winter wood by rena rossner (f)- i’m a slut for shapeshifting, okay. but this is a good fairy tale, it works!

parable of the sower by octavia butler (f)- i read this in march, when the pandemic was just kicking off and boy that was not the right time. def my least favorite of hers so far, but an octavia butler i don’t love is still better than a hell of a lot of other books. no idea when or if i’ll get to a good enough headspace for the sequel.

faves:

saturnino herrán by adriana zapett tapia (nf)- i got to learn new things about my mans and see some of his paintings i’ve never even seen online! GOSH.

on food and cooking by harold mcgee (nf)- yeah yeah, i’ve already mentioned this book half a dozen times on here this year, but i don’t care. this book lives off the shelf in my home bc i reference it like every other fucking day. this book is a part of me now.

#long post #final total for the year will be 120 by the end of the day!#and i had a pretty good hit rate. would probably recommend at least half #and only outright hated four

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chocolateheal · 6 years ago

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The arbitrary abode is set over four floors, with a split level kitchen and active allowance on the lower arena level, two bedrooms with en suites on the aboriginal attic and two added bed on additional floor. There is additionally a cinema allowance in basement.

Resourceful: RBIA board accepted the house’s praised the house’s ‘very aerial akin of inventiveness’ in both its architectonics and decor. The abode is adapted with huge windows to accompany in accustomed ablaze into the home. Pictured: One of the four bedrooms in the acreage with recycled attic from a bus depot

Moving on: The brace accept aback confused out of the abode afterwards affable their additional adolescent and it awash for £782,000 beforehand this year. Pictured: The dining breadth with the couple’s artworks on affectation and a glimpse of the applique acclimated to assure visitors from falling bottomward the stairs (left)

From the seashells alive as alluvium in the advanced garden to a adaptable net endlessly visitors from falling bottomward the stairs, the abode is abounding of different architectonics details.

The Rhodesian-mahogany attic was recycled from an old bus annex and the brace had abolish old cement stains from 40,000 pieces by hand.

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The bedmate and wife duo absitively the abode was too baby for them aback they had their additional adolescent and afterwards aloof six weeks on the bazaar it awash for £782,000 beforehand this year.

RIBA board accepted the house’s ‘very aerial akin of inventiveness’ and accepted the way the apparent joists and constituent formed together.

OATLANDS

Growing out: Oatlands (pictured) in burghal Surrey has an ultra-modern addendum to the rear that contains a new kitchen, active area, alfresco basement breadth and an alien art flat for mural designer and buyer Rosie to assignment in while accepting a abounding appearance of her own garden

Old and new: Rosie and her bedmate Barry weren’t able to get planning permission to change the advanced of their compatible abode and so absitively to accomplish the aback of their home modern. Pictured: The couple’s glassy new kitchen that through its huge bottle doors gives angle of their garden outside

Tucked abroad in burghal Surrey is Oatlands, which hides an ultra-modern rear addendum that makes it angle out from all the added 1930s red artery houses.

The extension, of which the account wasn’t revealed, has been done in a minimalist appearance with anemic brick and attic to beam bottle doors, and houses a new kitchen, active allowance as able-bodied as a abstracted flat space.

Thanks to the bottle surrounds sitting appropriate in the average of the garden’s vegetation, the addendum feels like it is at one with the attributes about it.

Family living: RBIA board alleged the addendum ‘delightful’ and said the activity ‘demonstrates a aerial affection and able resourcefulness’. Pictured: The family’s dogs relax in their new active allowance area, which has been busy with aloof colours and minimalistic furnishings

Before the build: The couple’s abode looked like any added in their artery afore the addendum (pictured), but they absitively to accomplish their home different with an ultra-modern twits at the rear

Rosie, who owns the abode with her bedmate Barry and uses the flat in her assignment as a mural designer, said: ‘It’s a admirable amplitude to assignment in, it’s got angle appropriate assimilate the garden and it reflects the architectonics of the buildings.’

The brace weren’t able to get planning permission to change the advanced of their compatible abode and so absitively to accomplish the aback of their home modern.

RBIA board alleged the addendum ‘delightful’ and said the activity ‘demonstrates a aerial affection and able resourcefulness’.

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Trolls thought I was a man. That saved me.

This post is part of Me, online, Mashable's ongoing series digging into online identities.

I was locked in my friends’ bathroom on the phone with my thesis adviser and staring at Reddit. It was snowing pretty hard and though there was a window with some theoretical light streaming in, I felt like I was under a blanket, the flashlight of my attention pointed at a screen that I refreshed and refreshed and refreshed. I was discussing the critical thesis component required for my graduate degree, an MFA in creative writing. It was titled Masculinity and the Making of the Modern Nerd. It was a mess.

“Does that make sense?” my adviser asked, or something like that. I don’t know, exactly, what she’d said, other than the paper didn’t work, because I was preoccupied. We need a Kotaku In Action Action, a user typed. And they were typing it about me. Refresh, refresh, refresh.

“Yes, I think. Sorry, something weird and bad is happening right now?”

She paused. “Are you okay?”

“I think so? I think I’m fine.”

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I’d been the Geekery Editor at Autostraddle, a popular website primarily by and for queer women and non-binary folks, for some years. I’d both written about Gamergate and assigned others to write about it. My entire first novel? It was (and still is) about the phenomenon of weaponized nerds, radicalized young men (primarily white and western) terrorizing women over games. At Autostraddle, I’d written an essay in 2016 praising one of the central targets of Gamergate for doing as much good as can possibly be done in the wake of a harassment campaign against her, and then moving on with her gosh darn life like a woman on a mission.

I’d thought my biggest crime with this piece was writing it just a bit too saccharine; I was lavish with my compliments. The gamers on Kotaku in Action apparently thought it was more egregious than that — perhaps the worst offense in the entire world: that I might not be a "real nerd" at all.

I struggle to explain Kotaku in Action every time I have to, because it truly defies explanation and has the many heads of a hydra collective. It’s the Reddit forum that perpetuated GamerGate, a place to coordinate targeted rape- and death-threats against women in the games industry — when a user says “Kotaku In Action Action,” it is likely to these types of activities they are referring.

It is synonymous with the alt-right (and strategically so). It’s full of (mostly) dudes with no sense of culture or community outside their homogenous gaming forums; these rootless young men long to be a part of something bigger, something greater and so, Kotaku in Action it is. A place on the internet that’s part of the Manosphere and also includes Pick Up Artists, Incels, and Men’s Rights Activists. A place so toxic that its creator recently tried to shut it down, calling it a “viral cancer,” and Reddit, in its infinite wisdom, decided to save it. A place that I’ve spent years researching in service of my fiction; I often say it is the butthole of the internet, and I’ve spent the last four years giving the world wide web a proctology exam.

When I was first alerted to the thread, I was scared. I’m no stranger to a good hate pile-on—I do work on the internet, after all, and writing for the queer community often means antagonizing some harsh critics, both without and within. The GamerGaters, though? I’d spent two years flying under the radar of these fine, upstanding gentlemen internet terrorists. I wrote for queer women, for non-binary folks. I thought that must be the reason why: They were uninterested in what I had to say because I was never saying it to a mainstream audience, to the normal set of gamers, and so I never got hit. I thought I must not be a threat; that wasn't quite it. I was wearing armor. Armor I had no idea I'd ever put on.

I was filled with too much nervous energy after seeing the thread to stay in my apartment, so I went to the Strand and stress-bought a Virginia Woolf Saint Candle, a Moleskine notebook I didn’t need, and a book on drawing happy people. When it was time for me to get back to my own space, I found I didn’t want to. My head was filled with all the stories, the doxxing, the SWATting, the things that can happen if you walk through the digital world as boldly female. It’s dangerous to go alone; I didn’t want to be alone. I told my Dungeons and Dragons group what was going on — I figured they’d be the most likely to understand, being a group of gamers. And that’s how I wound up locked in my dungeon master’s bathroom, talking to my adviser as I watched the comments build up on Reddit.

The guy spends way too long jerking himself off in the first paragraph about how much of a nerd he is.

When I was growing up, in the 80s, geek and nerd was a derogatory slur. I don't get the desire to identify with labels the popular people tried to shame us with... Anyhow, the term "geekery" makes my skin crawl. I guarantee you this guy knows fuck all about the history and intricacies of the various so-called "geek" interests.

I'm guessing he was alone for Valentine's Day.

They were mean — but they weren't threatening. There was only the one. The rest — just grousing. I'd seen much worse happen to other folks. To more feminine folks. Refresh, refresh, refresh.

I came out as trans last fall, but I’ve looked like this for a long time: close-cropped hair, chest flattened by a binder, every stitch of clothing I own from the men’s department. My fellow queer writers had seen me coming for years. But at the time this was happening in 2016? I was still white-knuckled from clinging to the sisterhood. Even though I’d get “excuse me, sir?” while walking about in public, right up until the point I opened my mouth to speak. Even though, more than once, folks had been very concerned when they happened upon me in the women’s room. Even though literally all my (repressed) internal barometers pointed to ��not a woman.”

I love my family, my queers; we are a people used to existing in the strange gray area. We are a people used to taking slurs from the mouths of hate-filled adversaries and tattooing them on the soft muscles of our hearts, making celebration and community out of words meant to hurt us. I figured I was just a failure at femininity; that the definition of woman was broad and that my masculinity fit within it. Those are all true things, they’re just not true for me. Still, it was shocking to see, this assumption that I was a man — a popular man, at that!

It's annoying to me when popular hacks call themselves nerds. Especially because having been a nerd back when the word meant social outcast. It was them who came in and caused all beatings and insults.

Back in my friend’s bathroom, my adviser asked, incredulously, “They think you’re a guy?”

“I think so,” I replied and I read her some of the comments.

“How?”

I explained it to her; it had happened before, this confusion. When I identified as a woman, I published under the name “Ali,” which, for half of this world, isn’t a woman’s name at all. My photo was next to my byline and people didn’t really read what the website was about if they found it from an outside source. I wrote largely about technology; my longest-running column was titled Queer Your Tech. A lot of folks (wrongly) consider that some “boy-stuff.”

She didn’t believe me until months later, when I was taking over her website from her former designer (I maintain the websites of a few authors I know). As he was passing me all the information I needed, he conducted the entire transaction calling me “he” in all the emails. HE THINKS YOU’RE A DUDE my adviser texted me, privately. In digital space, where I never have to open my physical mouth, where I am simply a collection of characters on a screen, no one ever looks at me with their eyebrow raised; no one ever corrects themselves. I am whatever I am assumed first to be. And I’m doing and saying the “boy-stuff.”

“Yup,” I responded. “I told you.”

Eventually, I did come out of the bathroom. I waited. These were tamer than the reports of what happened to the women who crossed the GamerGaters. I was expecting the worst — surely, if it hadn't happened yet, the worst would be coming and it was only a matter of time. I waited through the night for something to happen.

And nothing ever did.

“Do they even know you spent the entirety of seventh grade eating lunch in the guidance counselor’s office because you were too unpopular to eat in the cafeteria?” my friend Laura said from my couch the next day. “You — you’ve never been cool. Except to me, you were cool to me.” Laura and I have known each other since the fourth grade. She stuck with me through my obsession with the musical Cats and my childhood assertion that I was an alien from Saturn. And now, she was volunteering to be my questing buddy. To keep her eye on the thread, to make sure I was safe, so I wouldn’t have to keep refreshing it.

“It’s taking everything I’ve got not to jump on and say something to these people.”

“Don’t do that. That’ll make it worse.”

What I meant was: Don’t do that, they’ll figure out I’m one of the things they hate. Because I’d developed a hypothesis, one that keeps proving itself even now, years later. I said things they disliked, disagreed with. They called me an SJW (social justice warrior), but I looked masculine enough that the Kotaku in Action Action never materialized.

Looking like a dude was armor; it played on the subconscious prioritization of all things manly. I’ve watched queer femme authors get harassed so intensely that they have to leave the internet, and many of them aren’t even trying to poke the GamerGaters. The cause isn’t in the content, or the severity of the imagined offense. It’s in the gender presentation of the author. Those that the heteronormative world deems masculine people can talk; those they deem feminine people better watch their backs.

And the things about the way I present online one might perceive as feminine (allying myself with women, the over-prooving of my right to speak on a subject) were but small scratches in an armor built of clipper cuts and and computer-speak. “Boy stuff.” The reason I was never considered a threat wasn’t because of who I was speaking to; it was because of who I was — ultimately, not like those “other girls.” Weaponized nerds use their masculinity as a sword; now I know I can wield masculinity as armor to go questing in the darkest caves, in the buttholes of the internet. My masculinity allowed their eyes to slide right over me. Allowed isn’t even the right word; encouraged, perhaps.

Two years later and not much has changed. It’s still happening; I am one variant, one echo of it. It wasn’t the masculine half of #PlaneBae that got chased off the internet, for instance. This isn’t a phenomenon isolated to me, or to queers, or to 2016, or to GamerGate. This is just the way it is, out there, on the internet. I could’ve identified as trans at the time this happened, instead of as a woman, and it wouldn’t have mattered. It’s the nature of being squeezed into two dimensional space while being squashed by the patriarchy. I am whatever people assume me first to be. I am safer online because of it.

A.E. Osworth is the Managing Editor of Scholar and Feminist Online at Barnard College and Part-Time Faculty with The New School’s Creative Writing Department, where they teach digital storytelling. You can find their writing at Autostraddle, where they contribute regularly, and Argot Magazine, where they are a columnist. You can also catch up with them on Twitter or Instagram.

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“Dopo una puntura di Voltaren ho capito che avrei potuto fare il cantante. In effetti, sono come Ian Curtis, ma vorrei tanto essere Thomas Mann”: intervista folle a Nicolò Locatelli, voce e verbo dei Se Naoko

Forse non aveva neanche 18 anni, era decisamente allampanato, con un talento genetico per la pallacanestro, un nonno artista avvenirista, tra Piacenza e Milano, l’altro, faccia da Marlon Brando, con una zona al mare a Riccione. L’insegnante di italiano assegnava una stirata sufficienza ai suoi temi, fin troppo sgargianti. Quando ne scovai il talento – litigando con il parlamento dei prof – ci siamo inventati una rivista, Il Cannibale, dove Nicolò Locatelli, che giocava a schiacciare in testa ai nerd e ai palestrati sui più luridi parquet della Riviera, poteva furoreggiare a piacere. Ora, anni che sembrano millenni dopo, Locatelli guadagna bene come ghost writer, ha imparato che tra un sonetto di Petrarca e un annuncio pubblicitario Barilla non c’è differenza – conta, sempre, la grana del linguaggio – studia come si fa a scrivere un romanzo di successo alla Scuola Holden, e già lo vedo tra i kapò Feltrinelli, mi giocherei lo stipendio che non ho puntando su di lui come Premio Strega nel 2028. Nel frattempo, Locatelli – che è diventato serio e professionale come Baricco – ha firmato un disco, Il Nord – titolo, invero, semplice e bellissimo – con il suo gruppo, i Se Naoko, di raffinata tortuosità (il primo singolo, Di cenere, con video è appena uscito e lo ascoltate qui; il disco, per La Schiuma Dischi, esce il 23 maggio), di accesa malinconia, di lussuoso tedio. Mi viene da dirgli: beh, da romanziere fallito ti dai al cantautorato. Ma è una cretinata. In realtà, Nicolò ha la coerenza di chi cristallizza le nuvole in un impero. Tre anni fa, pubblicando il primo libro – di cui è lecito, sempre, vergognarsi un po’ – E i tuoi capelli non sono nient’altro che vetro, per un editore importante, storico come Guaraldi, era già tutto previsto. In ‘quarta’ lo si presentò come “il primo romanzo dotato di playlist”, scaricabile, per cui “ogni capitolo va letto ascoltando una musica particolare, da Jacques Brel ai Joy Division, da Ryuichi Sakamoto ai Sigur Ròs, da Nick Drake ai The Stranglers”. C’erano anche pezzi dell’autore, Nicolò, a significare che tra canto e scritto la distanza è uno sputo, un tango delle palpebre. Ora. Il Nord. L’emblema della bussola. Il luogo dei luoghi. L’incipit, si spera, al grande romanzo, la colonna sonora del romanziere che sarà. Applausi, ora.

Intanto. Perché “Il Nord”. Perché Se Naoko.

Due o tre anni fa mi ero preso l’otite bollosa emorragica e nessuno a casa mia mi credeva, in quel periodo stavo leggendo per la prima volta Norwegian Wood di Haruki Murakami e l’ipocondria andava gonfie vele: per assecondarla sono andato al pronto soccorso da solo, e lì mi hanno fatto una puntura di Voltaren o di qualcos’altro con il nome simile a un cognome veneto. Avevo ragione. Il giorno dopo ricordo di essermi svegliato con in testa questo pensiero: “Il Nord sarebbe un discreto titolo per una canzone e Se Naoko andrebbe bene come nome dell’intero progetto”. Allora l’ho proposto a Nicola, il bassista – all’epoca eravamo soltanto io e lui i coinvolti – che ha subito accettato.

Cosa ascolti?

Sono cresciuto in una casa con cinquemila dischi stipati in un mobile accanto all’ingresso, e per questo ho sempre ascoltato di tutto, dal jazz alla new wave, cantautorato italiano, francese, ma soprattutto musica inglese. Gli americani mi irritano, non riesco mai a capire se sono dieci passi avanti a noi oppure completamente fuori di testa: aprono le finestre di casa e appena sentono freddo sparano il riscaldamento al massimo. È molto probabile che in parte siano vere entrambe le cose. Diciamo che mi porto nel cuore più di tutti i Joy Division e i The Style Council, ma anche gli Oasis e Françoise Hardy, Nick Cave, i Bluvertigo, King Krule, David Sylvian e così via. Piero Ciampi, Paolo Conte, Tom Waits e Apparat, poi Neffa e i Radiohead, ma anche i The Strokes. Ultimamente consiglierei questi, data la primavera: Dr Buzzard’s Original Savannah Band. Roba molto viva. Fra quelli che fanno trap i miei preferiti sono Rkomi – più radicale – e Young Signorino.

Cosa leggi?

Oggi sto rileggendo Elianto di Stefano Benni. La prima volta avevo cinque anni, quindi ne sono passati venti: è confortante sentirsi vecchi, poter dire a qualcuno “Sono passati vent’anni dall’ultima volta che ho letto questo libro!”. Lo dico tanto per ridere ma giuro che è andata così, se l’era comprato mia madre, nel 1998, e io ero rimasto stregato dalla copertina. Ho cominciato a leggere libri a partire da quel giorno. Il secondo è stato “Spid il ragno ballerino”. I miei autori preferiti sono Boris Vian e Yasunari Kawabata, ma aggiungo anche Kafka, Dostoevskij e Tolstoj. Negli ultimi anni ho trovato illuminanti Furakawa Hideo, Inoue Yasushi, Ueda Akinari e Kobo Abe: la letteratura giapponese mi affascina e spiazza. Murakami e Kazuo Ishiguro invece me li porto dietro da più tempo, così come Rilke, Thomas S. Eliot, Rimbaud e Joyce.

Incapace come scrittore ti dai al cantautorato. O viceversa?

Come scrittore sto cercando di purificarmi, il motto è quello del “basta meno”. “Less is more” lo dice chi non ci crede sul serio oppure chi abita a Milano e per questo è abituato a infarcire i discorsi con angolofonie per deformazione molto poco professionale. Ogni volta che passo da quelle parti mi dispiace per chi ci abita. Di mio dico già abbastanza cazzate, divertendomi, quindi – contrariamente alla mia gioventù – cerco di utilizzare una lingua abbastanza analfabeta nella prosa, e di concentrare termini più letterari nelle canzoni. Il bello delle canzoni è che non importa quasi a nessuno cosa stai dicendo – non vorrei essere frainteso, se qualcuno presta attenzione al testo è piacevole – ma a volte quando suono dal vivo quasi preferisco che l’impianto sia una merda e impasti tutte le parole: a Riccione e dintorni i miei testi suonano piuttosto grotteschi. A Torino un po’ meno.

Che differenza tra scrivere canzoni e racconti, stessa pietosa pappa linguistica?

Un racconto è una corsa. È importante la partenza, un’accelerazione progressiva ed è importante che termini con un’epifania, un punto d’arrivo. Nel racconto la struttura è sempre fondamentale. Un romanzo invece è un viaggio, si possono prendere più mezzi, cambiare la velocità. Un viaggio può essere tante cose. Una canzone equivale a una passeggiata oppure a un saggio: si dice cosa si pensa.

Letteratura italiana contemporanea. Chi ti piace, con chi parli?

Penso che alcuni lavori di Stefano Benni siano sottovalutati. Elianto è letteratura: immaginifico e spietato, ha una struttura formidabile. Ovviamente quando avevo cinque anni non l’avevo notata. Anche Saltatempo ha poco da scherzare. Il fatto che siano catalogabili come “romanzetti divertenti” secondo me è soltanto un valore aggiunto. Poi leggo Marco Missiroli: Bianco e Atti osceni in luogo privato sono i suoi due libri che più mi sento di consigliare. Tra gli “autori classici più recenti” nomino Antonio Moresco e Stefano D’Arrigo.

Musica italiana contemporanea. Chi ti piace, con chi parli?

Rkomi è davvero bravo. Non rientra nel mio genere ma lo trovo fortissimo, immediato, crudo e comunicativo: è in grado di rendere nuovi dei contenuti triti e ritriti. Mi raperei a zero per farci un pezzo insieme. Niccolò Contessa poi è un altro geniaccio, ma ammiro anche Le luci della centrale elettrica – nonostante Terra non mi abbia fatto complessivamente impazzire – e Motta, per non parlare dei Baustelle e dei Verdena. (Afterhours e Bluvertigo su tutti, ma forse l’ho già detto).

Preferisci essere Thomas Mann o Bob Dylan, Dylan Thomas o Ian Curtis?

Thomas Mann: il Bob Dylan italiano lo fa già De Gregori, chissà che non gli diano il Premio Strega un giorno. Scherzo. Sceglierei il tedesco anche se avesse scritto soltanto Tonio Kröger e La montagna incantata. Poi mi vedo più come scrittore che come cantante, è un segreto che sanno tutti. Ian Curtis. Gli unici in grado di mettermi in crisi in questo gioco – accanto a Ian Curtis – sarebbero Liam Gallagher e John Lennon per ovvi motivi. Anche se comunque sceglierei Ian. Poi mi vedo più come cantante che come bagnino di salvataggio, e anche questo è un segreto che sanno tutti.

Ma… lo stai scrivendo il libro che cambia la storia? Di cosa parla? Straparli?

Oltre a fare il ghost writer – ultimamente ho rallentato un po’ – sto scrivendo un libro ambientato in Romagna, una storia dark-pop che nella mia testa associo vagamente a Donnie Darko, anche se in realtà non c’entra nulla. Non me la sento di raccontare di cosa parla ma posso anticipare che si tratta di una narrazione con una trama complessa e una lingua immediata, molto chiara, quasi quanto il fatto che io straparli: parlo davvero troppo, così tanto da stufarmi di me stesso più volte al giorno, fino a detestarmi così tanto da scrivere – o dire, fare – cose che non dovrei. Come ad esempio censurare una domanda di quest’intervista. Quale? Non potreste ricordarla, l’ho proprio tolta.

L'articolo “Dopo una puntura di Voltaren ho capito che avrei potuto fare il cantante. In effetti, sono come Ian Curtis, ma vorrei tanto essere Thomas Mann”: intervista folle a Nicolò Locatelli, voce e verbo dei Se Naoko proviene da Pangea.

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Hoje falarei sobre o Playstation, primeiro console da Sony e segundo videogame mais vendido da história, vem comigo e juntos vamos relembrar os bons momentos que passamos jogando ele.

Playstation de acessório a console

O Playstation mais conhecido como Playstation 1 foi o primeiro console da Sony, lançado em 1994 primeiramente no Japão e depois em 1995 na Europa e nos Estados Unidos, o Playstation vendou mais de 100 milhões de unidades e é o segundo videogame mais vendido da história.

O projeto Playstation originalmente era para ser um acessório feito em parceria com a Nintendo, acessório que seria para digamos tunar o Super Nintendo fazendo ele ser capaz de rodar jogos em CD, algo parecido com o Sega CD do Mega Drive.

Devido a alguns problemas envolvendo direitos autorais que aconteceram entre a Nintendo e a Sony a parceria entre as empresas acabou e o projeto Playstation foi cancelado.

Com o tempo a Sony decidiu retomar sozinha o projeto, com isso o tal acessório acabou se transformando em um console de 32 bits conhecido como Playstation, sem duvida uma das melhores decisões já tomadas por uma empresa quando o assunto é games já que a linha Playstation se tornou um dos produtos mais lucrativos e famosos da Sony isso se não for o mais lucrativo e famoso.

A popularidade

O Playstation foi o videogame mais popular da época e com isso foi o mais vendido da segunda metade dos anos 90, o console desbancou totalmente seus rivais, o Sega Saturno de 32 bits e até mesmo o Nintendo 64 mesmo este tendo 64 bits.

O Sega Saturno realmente era mais fraco que o videogame da Sony, já o Nintendo 64 tinha um hardware mais poderoso e gráfico melhor que o do Playstation.

Jogos, gráficos e sons

Os jogos de Playstation eram muito bons com bons gráficos e com sons melhores ainda, alguns jogos como Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo e Driver eram simplesmente excelentes e surpreendentes, ficaram conhecidos como verdadeiras obras primas da época.

O Playstation também ficou conhecido por ter algumas das melhores séries de jogos da época como os jogos da série Crash Bandicoot e os da série Resident Evil.

O primeiro controle

O primeiro controle do Playstation meio que seguia o layout padrão criado pelo controle do Super Nintendo, o controle do 32 bits da Sony também tinha um direcional digital do lado esquerdo, dois pequenos botões no meio, quatro botões redondos dispostos em forma de cruz do lado direito e os botões de ombro os populares L e R.

O diferencial era que o direcional digital do controle de Playstation não era em formato de cruz como o do SNES e sim quatro botões distintos entre si, o que era meio desconfortável na hora da jogatina, além disso o controle do Playstation tinha não só dois botões de ombro mas quatro o L1, L2, R1 e R2.

O Dual Shock

Como o controle do Nintendo 64 popularizou o uso do analógico e o usa da vibração a Sony teve a ideia de criar uma versão melhorada do controle do Playstation.

E assim nascia o Dual Shock, o controle que se tornou o padrão dos consoles da linha Playstation, o Dual Shock era basicamente o mesmo controle a diferença era que agora ele tinha não apenas um mas dois analógicos, que ficavam na parte inferior central do controle.

O analógico esquerdo geralmente fazia a mesma função do direcional digital enquanto o direito geralmente movia a camera, mas não parava por ai o controle Dual Shock ainda era capaz de vibrar quando você batia o carro em um jogo de corrida por exemplo e fazia isso sem precisar de nenhum acessório, já o controle do Nintendo 64 precisava do Rumble Pack para poder vibrar.

Veredicto

O Playstation foi um verdadeiro marco na industria de games, o console não era o mais poderoso de sua época mas além de ser um ótimo videogame tinha jogos não mais que épicos como Gran Turismo e Metal Gear Solid jogos estes que tornaram o 32 bits da Sony extremamente popular e fez ele se tornar o segundo console mais vendido da história.

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O Playstation foi lançado em 1994 vendou mais de 100 milhões de unidades, é o segundo videogame mais vendido da história e contava com jogos como Metal Gear Solid, Gran Turismo e Driver que ficaram conhecidos como verdadeiras obras primas da época.

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As usual, there are affluence of home-building and adjustment capacity to awning in this week’s podcast. After chatting about their own cabinetry and beam projects, Patrick, Matt, and Rob do their best to admonition a few admirers acquisition solutions for framing a garage, careful and air-sealing a algid bay window, and painting aged exoteric trim. Plus, Patrick alerts admirers to a anamnesis of some alarming baptize heaters.

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Home branch remodelPatrick helped his acquaintance Matt Kenney catechumen a barn into a home shop. The aggregate of the activity complex removing the old barn doors and framing a new bank in their place. Window choices and aflame capacity came up in the conversation.

Jamie from Georgia writes: I alive in Georgia, altitude breadth 3A, and am in the action of planning for a new, alone barn build. The barn will primarily be acclimated as a branch for me and a accumulator breadth for backyard equipment. I accept been attractive at about a 24×24 footprint, but those ambit aren’t set in stone.

Due to our adjacency HOA regulations, the alfresco of the barn needs to bout the capital abode carefully (horizontal lap siding, city architectural shingles, agnate sized vinyl windows, etc.), but I’m planning to leave the autogenous amateurish initially and assignment on that as time allows.

I’m a adequately accessible DIYer, but due to my own time commitments, I plan on application the body of the barn out. In accomplishing analysis about garages/workshops, alert to the podcast, annual some of Taunton’s books, there seems to be a ample cardinal of altered architecture techniques and abstracts to use to body a appealing acceptable garage. I apperceive you guys allocution about your own garages on the appearance sometimes, but I would be absorbed in audition you altercate what you would do if you had the befalling to body new. A caked caked slab or acceptable footings? 2×4 or 2×6 bank construction? Conditioned or not?

I’m actively because utilizing a acute roof, 10/12 or 12/12, to get a baby office/loft amplitude in the attic, aback the bread-and-butter quotes I’ve accustomed announce it’s alone about a 25% adder for about 50% added aboveboard footage. Would you use attic trusses or commonly affected rafters and knee walls for the roof? I-joists, attic trusses, or barge for the first-floor ceiling/2nd attic joists? Etc, etc. I would aloof adulation to apprehend you guys absorb some time talking about it. Enjoy the show, and accumulate ability alive!

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Jim from Burlington, Ontario, writes: Hello Fine Homebuilding activity nerds, I adulation the show, and do acknowledge the agreeable you all diaphoresis over on a annual basis.

I accept a home in Burlington, Ontario, aloof west of Toronto. This home was congenital in aboriginal 1970’s and has some austere activity holes that i would like to advance upon. One of the added accessible (i.e. algid to the touch!) areas of activity sucking affair is the capital attic pop-out window bay on the arctic side. The home is a split-level, and this window breadth has either been added later, or is allotment of the aboriginal 1970’s construction. Regardless, the 2×10 axle accolade of the capital attic stop at a 2×10 rim joist, that is abnormally penetrated by 2×4’s which assume to axle out to abutment the 18-24″ addendum of this window area.

My catechism is one of insulation and air-sealing of course. The breadth is aloof from outside, as the window breadth is absolutely amidst by copse decking, installed alike with the arena attic level. From central in the basement, I am finishing out the woodshop, and can admission the rim joist, but am afraid to bore through it to any abundant admeasurement in adjustment to fix the issue.

One anticipation is the Slow Rise Foam artefact from sprayfoamkit.com installed into holes apathetic through the rim joist.

Another advantage is to chaw the (financial) bullet, and sub it out to a close backpack artificial company, if they would appear out for such a baby job, and bore holes through the rim and bang it full.

Last advantage is to cut out the rim axle in sections one by one, insulate with cut&cobble adamant and batt, and afresh alter the rim axle as 2×10 blocking.

I would adulation to apprehend your annual and best methods for this. Hopefully (in the words of Rob Yagid) you don’t “need added information“!

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Thanks afresh and accumulate up the abundant work. Cheers, Jim.