Dyskolos

Sure there are extreme examples. The “blue alien” also comes to mind or the Catwoman. It also might lead to peace of mind. In rare cases though. Like I said in another comment: if you feel your leg is alien and needs to be gone, chopping it off can simply solve the problem. But, considering there might be a pill available tomorrow to “cure” all possible body image distorsions, your leg would still be gone 🫤

I said in tendency. And gender-affirming surgeries is no exception to any surgery based on body-disphoria. Even worse actually, as the suicide-rate post-OP is like 20x higher than without.

If everything went perfectly, There’s a chance one might find some relief. But I think there’s a gigantic difference between a lip-injection leading to the “Fuller” lips you always dreamt of, and above surgery leading to the genitalia you always dreamt of. It might remotely look like it, it might even feel a bit like it, but it sadly would never be like it. Plus There’s no way back. A boob-job can be fixed, a lip-job can be altered. A cut off wiener can’t be made whole again. dunno if f2m is somehow reversible though. But that’s not the point anyway.

And before you scream “transphobic!” At me: I am not, i couldn’t care less what someone identifies as or what they have in their pants or with what they prefer to have intercourse.

Disphoria is no fun, in no form. But changing the body to meet the internal image of it rarely ends perfectly well. Or even well. If you can’t stand (no pun intended) your leg and chop it off, chances are good. As it’s gone and you need no alternative. But having an open axewound instead of a wiener or a sewed-on phallus-like skin-something instead of a working genitalia is hard (again no pun intended) to induce the same kind of relief. Maybe the hated schlong is gone, but you will be reminded of that thing forever anyway with the daily needed care.

Long story short: I would not bet my working genitalia on finding relief. And I’m empathic enough to imagine having disphoria. I might hate this schlong with all my heart, but it works. And chance of having an equally well working vajayay are converging zero. Just pure pragmatism, I don’t have a political or religious agenda.

I’d argue that possible relief is reciprocal to the complexity of the change wanted.

People with such a disphoria most likely won’t be happy after such a dangerous injection of a neurotoxin. Probably even the opposite and leading to more and more “corrections”. yet the actual self will never align with the self one imagines one has to be. A downward spiral OR maybe, if lucky, a botched experiment never to be repeated.

So, all I, personally, can see in those people is the sadness or even true despair. Surely not beauty. Not in the slightest. At best I see beauty in their public display of insecurity or weakness.

And besides that: people form prejudgment all the time about everything, and it’s a great evolutionarily trait that gave us an edge up to this day. Being able to deduct something based on the thinnest of evidence. And further strengthening or weakening this judgment by gathering additional evidence over time. This is NOT an inherently bad thing by itself. It becomes a bad thing if people stick to their initial prejudgment and could never be taught better. May it be out of ignorance, apathy or sheer stupidity. Then prejudice is the actual bad thing that this word always seem to connotate.

Sure, I still have all physical media as a backup 😁 As for the NAS, I have a triple backup of it. I learned that the hard way a long time ago 😐

Actually I would just be FLACing my records for convenience, as I did with my whole (SA)CD/BR-Archive. And yes, I do like Bandcamp. It’s really nice to discover indie-artists noone knows (yet). If the bands do make decent money there, I dunno. Hence I said “maybe bandcamp”.

Who’s fault is it that there’s no fair systems one could use (except maybe bandcamp)? Not mine at least, I don’t use Spotify at all. I would not sell my music there if I would be an artist.

I sadly cannot offer any of such stories, it never happened to me (maybe due to my resting bitch face syndrom. My wife regularly has such moments)

But I try to do these things most of the time. Like just taking strangers in the rain for a ride or giving icecream to delivery-guys in the summer or such things that seem silly to many.

Be the change you want to see in this world. And pay the kindness you received forward!

No. You’re just getting grey socks. NEXT!

Non USA here, so no best buy. Got a google-tv now with basically nothing on it, heavy firewalling that device off and using only jellyfin. I hate it but…

Really sad. We could even save a good portion of bucks due to all the shit noone needs. I can only imagine the crap pre-installed on Samsung TVs or other of those horrible bloat-brands.

Nah, family’s dead and was also poor. I was lucky to be an IT-guy when the net started and had my company until i got bored. As long as i have food and can support my hobbies, I don’t need much anyway :)

I’d actually prefer a dumb TV, we only use jellyfin anyway and that could be served by some raspy or similar. But they’re extinct it seems. At least modern ones with 4 or 8k.

I hate this dumbing down of everything.

I have a simple rule for that: I don’t deal with cultists (or religious people if you prefer the pampering words) at all. Back when I was dating , this was amongst my first inquiries and KO-criteria.

(No problem with faith, just cults/religions).

Because: For what it’s worth we all gonna need to work till 70+x anyway to afford retirement. And that’s a long time

Now that sounds really depressing. Workworkwork and when you’re finally free, you’re too old to really enjoy it all. I retired in my 20s, and now, 30yrs later I still don’t have enough time in a day to enjoy all hobbies. I couldn’t imagine having to wait until I’m 70. An unfair and shitty system 😞

Time to raise prices! Raise prices for all and everyone! Yeah we love it!

IDDQD?

In defense of ubisoft: you can cheat all and everything and not pay a single cent. But yes it’s disgusting to milk the clueless.

And also yes: it’s a disability-feature that should always be in the options. Never understood why they never are. If someone wants to cheat my game to the max, why should I, as a Dev, care at all…

First: who cares what people say?

Second: depends. If a game is too hard for my old ass, I cheat it easier. Like, a headstart with money or more life in an fps or whatever. It is MY play through, I have to enjoy it. And I’m gaming since the first ever pacman, I got spoiled. Just because a Dev thinks this is great, doesn’t mean I have to. So, if I can change that to MY preferences, yeah sure.

If it’s a second run of a game I might go nuts and testing everything 😏

PS: goes without saying, but only single player. Never ever cheated in multiplayer. Being called a cheater was the greatest honor though 😁

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As usual, one more cynically inclined might add.