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The dynamic background is now complete. When you return the an old background cell, it's texture is loaded back to the GPU, and any further bugs are rendered to it where you last left it off. There's a bit of a framerate drop when the textures are reloaded and shifted around, but I think it should be tolerable after I play around with amortizing them across more frames later. Other than that, I fixed a bug that caused the gun to periodically stop firing.


Up next: optimizing the bullet simulation as described here. Once that's done, I'll work on adding new weapon types.


How have you been doing @Southkraut?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of May 4, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


How did transgender issues become your hobby horse? Personal interactions with trans people (online or offline), gender issues of your own, workplace politics…? I’m generally curious as to why non-trans people get invested in this when it seems easy to ignore (especially now that it seems to be fading from the culture war issues du jour).




There was a time where on seemingly every forum I frequented a transgender person would show up to own the chuds with facts and logic, whenever anything remotely related to the topic would come up. At the time I did actually feel "owned", as I was a good little science-truster, and they kept coming up peer reviewed papers, or fancy documents explaining all the safeguards on the provision of gender affirming care. Now that it's coming out these papers are of poor quality, that studies more critical of trans medicine were being deliberately hidden from the public, or that these safeguards are being constantly eroded, and weren't really followed all that rigorously, I think it's par for the course to point all of that out with equal vigor.


Aside from that, I think the question rests on a false premise. Why do people get invested in topics related to psychology, medicine, or philosophy? I think they're just interesting in themselves, and transgenderism covers all 3, and possibly more.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			

	


			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of April 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Other people's reported experiences point to it existing.




But the people reporting it's existence aren't any better at defining or describing it than you are.




Other than using the toilet without being given the third degree regarding what ought to be no one else's business




Isn't that forbidding trans women from what we allow cis women to do, rather than forbidding cis women from what we allow trans women to do?


And if you meant the former, didn't you just say you would exclude them from sports, prisons, etc.?




If (amount of testosterone in Mr B-L's bloodstream) ÷ (amount of estrogen in Mr B-L's bloodstream) yields a number greater than that observed in any cis woman, then Mr B-L may be categorised with men for the purposes of women's sports.




Your original definition made no mention of hormone levels, nor did you say it's context dependent. At this point your approach is just more complicated and confusing, while offering no benefits.




That proves too much; letting Black people use the same water fountains as everyone else caused discomfort too.




But trans activists want to keep the segregation, thus agreeing the discomfort is valid (or if they have other reasons for maintaining it, I haven't heard them).


The whole situation is more like if the Civil Rights movement wasn't about equality, but about maintaining segregation, while positing a class of people who should be considered white, despite their dark skin, ans African ancestry.




We don't need to. If someone isn't harassing or assaulting other restroom-users, the rest of us can mind our own business.




Then argue for the abolition of segregation entirely rather than for forcing all of society to redefine one if the most basic words in usage.




Does that mean that it isn't happening?




Yes. I can link you articles about bathroom sexual assaults. You can argue these cases aren't representative of trans people as a whole, but you can't argue they don't happen. I, on the other hand, have literally never even heard of Karens demanding genital checks. The idea is a pro-trans shibboleth.