Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]

Damn, and I nixed that because I didn’t want to get called Ellen lmao… thank you for your rates!

Zephyr

Rio

Gwendolyn

Eleanor

I like to think that my runners-up were strong choices but I await your judgement. (This isnt self doxing… right?)

“Wash”

Was this machine translated from spanish?

There’s some evidence to suggest that cis women have greater color perception than cis men do. You are not the only transfem that has attested to this and you won’t be the last either, it happened to me too. There are anecdotes about the reverse happening with people on FTM HRT, so there may be something to it. Too bad there’s no way to quantify the change unless one were to have already taken some visual acuity test with a color component pre-HRT.

A Riddick? fur Me? Why thank you! That’s so nice of you <3

I’m alright! Moving is really stressful especially when there’s super cool ultra fun complications (I think those are worked out now?) and also my kitty eated a bat while I was away (yucky! Rabies boosters are expensive!) and also classes start in two weeks (I am aiming to finish my bachelors!)

There are years where nothing happens and weeks where decades happen and babygirl? I’ve been having some WEEKS.

It’s so crazy how this show is basically the exact same shit the exact same type of guy would have done 10, 20, 30 years ago with the exact same jokes. The only difference is the post-covid brainworms and the context of the transphobia being presented as a losing ideology. Kinda mindblowing that this dude is a couple years from AARP eligibility and still talking like he’s in middle school. That sucks.

Re: the replies

So representation is really powerful right?

Come christmas morning a bunch of kids are gonna start playing the game they got from their mom and see someone who looks like them as this badass ninja samurai dude. They’re gonna be like “Wow this Yasuke guy is pretty cool” and then later get their minds blown when they find out he was based off of a real person. Maybe for some of them this sparks a lifelong love of history. Maybe some of those kids even go on to become respected scholars and authors, their lives changed by that feeling of being represented. Regardless, they’ll have a good time with their new game.

Meanwhile, these reply guys are going to still be giving themselves hypertension over this and they will never feel anything like the joy those kids are gonna feel.

So fuck 'em, let those morons mald 'till kingdom come.

Red Alert 2: Yuri’s Revenge is a shining example of what an expansion can be. A lot of refined mechanics, better fleshed out factions (plus one new one!) and three new campaigns with just as many FMV cutscenes as the previous iterarion.

Honorable mention and this kinda doesn’t count but Mental Omega is a mod for Yuri’s Revenge that has between 3 to 4 times more content than the base game. There’s a dozen subfactions split between four subfactions and inregrates features from later C&C games while introducing a lot of it’s own stuff. It has some “borrowed” voice lines from other games but there are some units that have original voices which is pretty cool. No FMV video though. It’s suprisingly deep for what it was based off of and it has become one of my favorite RTS experiences.

Side note:

This is such an unpopular opinion of mine but while Dead Money is cool my favorite of the FONV expansions was Old World Blues because of the goofiness of the characters contrasted with the manmade horrors of the big empty. I found Lonesome Road to be meh and Honest Hearts to be uncomfortable with how it seems to embrace the concept of the “White Man’s Burden” uncritically.

Outperforming the news mega on the same day it became officially Joever is wild

I kept the first bottle of Spiro I ever got and used it to hold my nighttime meds for when I was working or out and about, I eventually replaced it with the first bottle of estrogen that had my new name on it. I wrapped them both in packing tape so that the label could be preserved. I still have the first girl clothes I ever bought for myself (Madoka magica tshirt from 2014, way before I even knew I was a girl). I have a day zero picture of myself that looks like the picture of Dorian Grey to me now, I like to show it to girls who feel frustrated with their results after a short time on HRT and go “so this was me not even four years ago, I hope this is encouraging.”

I’m happy with the number of momentos I kept, it’s nice to remember but there’s a lot I’d rather forget.

i was tired of cilantro tasting like soap and this was the easiest way to fuck around with my gene expression, the tits are a fringe benefit