cerebralhawks

Yeah, I don't know why this is a debate. LGBTQ+ ally my whole life, though I'm cis/straight myself.

I almost get it. Like the fear that you hook up with a girl and she has boy parts. It's not really reasonable but it's a common male fear, I guess. Like she's gonna be so convincingly female, so perfectly female presenting but she hasn't had the bottom surgery. I think that's kind of a fantasy, because pass as the sex a trans person feels isn't as easy as cisgendered people think it is. I have trans (MTF) friends, and they do not pass well. Oh, I fully accept that they are women; what I don't do is assume I'm entitled to every female body, or for the female bodies I have access to, to fit into my potentially narrow view (it's not narrow, but if it were) of what makes a woman attractive. At the end of the day, she's a person and her body is what it is, take her — as a complete person — or don't, but don't waste her time and definitely don't think you can shame her for it. And it absolutely don't mean she's any less a woman. That, I do feel strongly about.

Also, I've known a couple tomboys, girls I grew up around who weren't conventionally pretty, who liked to play and fight with the boys (and they'd kick your ass, too), and the older adults said "oh yeah that's a baby butch right there" and later, when trans people became more visible to us (I'd say late 90s early 00s), the assumption that she's gonna transition. Going on like 30 years later, they're still girls and they're still straight (and the one I'm thinking of, definitely wears the pants in the relationship, her guys tend to be kinda meek) but that doesn't mean she's gay or trans. Oh, plenty of LGBTQ+ in the family, but you can't say because a girl doesn't like pink and doesn't like dresses that she's lesbian or trans. It doesn't work that way. But as her peer, as her playmate, and often as one whose ass she'd kick, I didn't care. I love her for the person she is, not for the box society puts her in, or checks for her. And if she did bring home a girlfriend, or if she did tell me she never felt like a girl and was going to transition... my sister (not really but like a sister to me) would be my brother or whatever and that would be okay with me, whatever the case, and I'd have their back regardless.

Yeah but look at flat-earthers, how do you justify that?

I remember when the flat-earther movement was new, there were some people in it who claimed to be smart. They said they don't really believe it, they just like to be sceptical... and contrarian. Basically they like to argue, for the sake of making people question what they've been taught and what they don't know from their own personal observations. Like "are you really any better than us because you trust people who are more trustworthy?" I can almost see the point. But yes, that's kind of how it works... I don't need to be smart about some broad or niche category if people certified and well read on that thing who are accredited by reputable institutions tell me what it is and around the world, they agree, in different languages, it's not a conspiracy. But I guess some healthy scepticism is good.

Now, these alt-right guys? Yeah, I don't get it. They aren't fulfilling promises on anything but making things harder for minorities. They are doing what they said there. You knew he was going to go after brown-skinned people and the gays, so no surprise there. Tearing down institutions, this hyper militant shit, yeah maybe he didn't campaign on that but I feel like, if you didn't go out and vote against him last November, you kinda did cosign on all this.

Wouldn't "GPT it" be easier/more likely to say?

I generally don't use these, but Copilot (in Windows) uses one of them (I'm not sure which) and I've thrown a few questions at it when I'm bored. Nothing that matters. We have Windows 11 machines at work. I find AI amusing but I don't take it seriously, and I don't use it at home or on my mobile. It's really not for me.

I don't like Grok but they have a good name. I mean I don't "like" any of them, but I like that one less because of its... the stuff it's said. Mostly because of who's been training it. But "Grok it" sounds better than Chat/GPT it and sounds almost as good as "Google it."

I'd have to ask how old this system is. Ours was black, made by Kenwood, and had a wooden cabinet. Tinted glass door. Tape player was a dual front loader. That looks like a CD cartridge loader. We had that too. Our cartridges held six discs and they swiveled out.

Wasn't mine, it was my mother's, and she still has it. It still works. The doors on the tape deck have snapped off (we were rough with them) but you can still snap tapes into it and they play.

I remember when my mother got it. She'd just gotten divorced, had a bit of money, walked into a Circuit City (this woulda been like 1989?) and asked for the best stereo they had. And I think either she or I asked about Sony, because I remember the guy saying Sony was for people who want people to think they have an expensive stereo. Kenwood was for people who wanted a good stereo. I don't know how true it was. Maybe he just wanted to make a commission. I think she paid a couple grand for it. I don't recall. I didn't pay for it. I bought my Super NES from that same Circuit City though, and I paid for that out of my allowance. $150. I didn't bring the tax though. My mother did cover the tax. But anyway.

But while it wasn't mine, I was the one who put it together, because back then you didn't have Geek Squad (which is Best Buy, but you get the idea). I think they might have had "professional home installation" but that has never been cheap or affordable. Plus, my mother's oldest son (me) was a computer guy. She figured, if he could put together a computer (that is, connect a monitor, keyboard, and mouse to a computer and turn it on — I wouldn't start building them for another 15 years — I could assemble a stereo. Which just meant stacking them on the shelves, and connecting them via the wires in the back. Two wires — one red, one white — connected to each component and plugged into the... switcher? Whatever it was called. Pretty easy. Did it again when we moved. And then again when it came from the garage, which was like a family room, to the living room when we turned the garage into a granny unit for family who would move in. And then, when I did that, I was able to connect the TV to it, which greatly improved our sound.

Oh yeah, OP doesn't show the speakers. Did that Sony kit include them? I'm sure it must have. My mother's Kenwood came with speakers as tall as the cabinets! Two of them. The speakers only lasted maybe 20, 30 years though? My brother, then grown, found her better, more modern speakers to hook up to it.

There’s an easy solution to this. I pay for Apple Music because I get access to pretty much all the music I want. I can sideload what they don’t have, which isn’t much. They have better audio quality, and aren’t stiffing artists to pay some right wing nutjob science denier like the other streaming platform of note. I pay because I love music and want to support what I love. Why isn’t there a similar service for TV and movies? That’s the solution. Let us pay for what we love and make it easy. Apple figured it out with music. Valve figured it out with games.

I think they don’t want to solve the problem. I think they want to solve a different problem. I think they’re making this a problem so they can push legislation to protect their profits.

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Thanks! I'm new to this so still finding my way. I appreciate the clarification.

Maybe it’s the original? I don’t know. Doesn’t really matter. The Fediverse means all these Lemmy instances are networked, meaning if one kicks you off it you decide you don’t like it, you can join another, as opposed to Reddit, where if you say something one group doesn’t like, they can kick you off the whole platform.

Sorry about the late reply. I'm new to Lemmy, and looking for AC/ACNH communities to join, and share with.

I've used TIs (Treasure Islands) from these people, and if you have Amazon Prime, you can also donate a Twitch sub. Prime gives you one a month at no extra fee, but you do need to have Prime. You can get a trial if you want to use the TIs for a month for free.

People leaving silently (via the minus button) is something I think a couple people do intentionally. They will wait until someone joins an island. Sometimes they follow you around, grabbing the stuff you're interested in. Sometimes they just hang back a bit. After you get a bunch of stuff, sometimes when you go to leave, they quietly leave so you lose all progress. Unfortunately the people who run the TIs really don't care all that much. You can report them (you can see who they are and keep tabs on them, so if they request a Dodo code, you can finish up and leave before they get their Dodo code put in) but it won't do much good. I think it's a game to them, like hunting. I bet they figure if fewer people use the TIs, it's fewer load times for those who are willing to deal with the occasional griefer.

Also, helps if you go during non-peak hours. TIs typically run 24/7.

Disco Elysium is the kind of game I'd love to sit down with the developers/producers and try to play it, and ask them questions about it.

I own it on Steam, but I can't remember if I bought it because it was on Mac, or if I bought it before I switched. Either way, I've tried to start it a few times and I just don't get anywhere. It's the kind of game I should like, but I don't have the patience to learn it.

I don't think I ever had a Discman until I bought myself the $150 Philips model that also played MP3 CDs. It was a fine CD player with good anti-skip, but you "only" had 80 minutes per disc.

With MP3 CDs, you could have several albums up there and the quality seemed to be about the same. The organisation was not so great and it was hit or miss what album number your albums would be (and I think it could change from day to day, so it wasn't like you could Sharpie it on the disc), but the anti-skip became nearly perfect as most of the song would be played from the buffer. I think (but I'm not sure) that made it spin less and thus, saved battery life. Makes sense anyway.

Dexter technically hasn't ended, unless you mean the series Dexter.

There have been two spinoffs, and the second one hasn't ended yet. So for the people who say Dexter should have died/been exposed/caught/shamed at the end... well... it hasn't ended yet.

Also, the books are wilder. In the last one I read, the little boy and girl of Rita's were getting into killing. The little girl says "I don't kill because I'm a girl, so I'm just the lookout for my brother." The brother kills animals, the girl watches out, distracts anyone who might come around, basically runs interference for him. IIRC they're twins and maybe the book tried the whole "psychic twin connection" stuff? It's been a while. The book just gave creepier vibes than the previous ones and I quit there.