SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
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SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
1d ago
Gen X is old enough (just about) to be grannies
I know (personally) at least one Millennial granny and she isn’t even white trash or anything.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
There's West Coast Swing. Very PMC / "white". It's mostly danced to contemporary pop music and the form has changed enough that grumpy old timers at least used to complain that it barely resembles what was called WCS in the 70s / 80s (ie. it's definitely not retro).
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
What is this "Britain" country that you speak of?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
Clinton's Oral Office sounded straightforward respectable
I maintain that the only people who cared about Clinton's shenanigans in his office were conservative Americans and even for them much of it was just a performative way to express their existing dislike of Clinton.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
2d ago
I have always assumed the reason for that not to be trans-curiosity, but the well-known fact that men like visual stimulation. "If I'm going to spend hours staring at a wizard's backside, she might as well be leggy and plump. And if I'm going to have to worry about which amour to play dress-up with, there better be cleavage."
Likewise if you had to actually play female avatars as having typically female behaviors, I'd wager few men would persist at that for very long.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Meanwhile I see artists collectively having a full blown psychotic break about AI, hence indie gaming dev awards banning any and all uses of AI etc.
It's quite revealing comparing the criticisms of AI from programmers vs from artists. From programmers the complaint is "I've tried AI and it sucks at doing X. Why are you trying to force me to use it for X?" when from artists it's "AI is bad because it steals from artists / has no soul / lacks creativity / other vague complaint. Nobody should be allowed to use AI."
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
So it's always been kind of surreal to me that they became principally associated with femboys and transbians and... programmers??. I've definitely met a few of the Discord creatures that wear these as a mark of identity.
Wait, are you saying that non-femboy / non-trans programmers actually wear thigh high socks instead of just memeing about it?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
[sound warning, rdrama warning, bright colors warning]
I have to ask: How can anyone use that site when it's explicitly been made so user hostile?
Truly, it is a wonder that The Motte is usable at all given the origin of the codebase.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
3d ago
Men, and teens, don't like to share their emotions.
Correction: Men and teens don't like to share their emotions in female-typical and approved way.
Get men together in a suitable context and they will share freely enough emotions but it won't be the same way women stereotypically do so.
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
4d ago
you can be sure that any time someone gets loud, aggressive, crazy, or weird, someone will start recording it and uploading it
You say that as if it was a bad thing. Frankly the world would be a getter place if loud, agressive crazy and weird people got immediately slapped (literally or figuratively) but since that doesn't look to be happening, the best we can hope is at least some face negative consequences via such videos.
For a similar example to the body cam discussion, see blind auditions. It's a nice view into the mind of the left - the way blind auditions were pushed, they most likely genuinely thought they would be good. And it's hard to argue that blind auditions aren't the most fair and meritocratic approach, which was a common primary justification.
Didn't blind auditions essentially succeed at what they were meant to do, ie. eliminate gender bias in classical musician auditions?
SkoomaDentist
The Greater Finnish Empire
6d ago
Exactly. There have been high quality sophisticated comics that have come out of US but Marvel and DC sure as hell aren't those.
We already have the Eurovision song contest. We don’t need another one.
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