Jojo

Um, ackshually, eunuchs are in the Bible, including Jesus saying that some people “become eunuchs” to get closer to God. So…

Trans surgical procedures have some of the best outcomes of any major procedures. they are performed on consenting individuals who are always well informed and at or very near adulthood, and only after many other interventions have been ongoing. People who receive these interventions show incredibly low rates of regret (compare for example the percent of people who regret knee replacements or probably circumcisions), and enjoy increased happiness and satisfaction by almost any metric.

Basically every major medical organization in the world (and certainly in America) agrees these interventions are medically useful and should be performed. While there are doctors who dissent, they are in the vast minority and almost never actually work with any trans people, but rather insist all the doctors who do work with trans people must be wrong. It’s not a controversy in the medical world, just the political one.

Lemmy has so few comments that people actually read my comments occasionally, which is wild.

I mean, if nothing else, user reports and reviews, followed by a trivially short investigation?

😂 hilarious and perfect

On the one hand, yeah. On the other hand, HL:A ended with an obvious sequel hook, and that hook was the ending of HL2:E2. Spoilers, I guess, but the game’s been out for a while.

Of course, that doesn’t mean another game is coming, but it does mean that HL:A doesn’t mean another game isn’t coming, either.

You have a TV with volume controls in the thousands, or that lets you adjust by tenths or smaller?

But isn’t the whole reason for women’s sports trying to gain validity about inclusion? Doesn’t parity mean, in another word, equality?

I’m not really sure I understand the difference, is all I’m saying. And again, speaking as someone who mainly thinks about sports by wishing they made my life less of a hassle when there’s a road closure for some game I don’t care about.

Downvote this foo!

Or don’t, I’m not your mama.

As someone who is not an athlete and not really interested in sports as a spectator either, I’ve used arguments like that before in good faith. Why is it a problem? Most people never get the chance to compete at a high level in any kind of athletics, full stop. Participants at the highest level are all, necessarily, exceptional individuals.

Can you help me understand what makes that particular exception to be so important? Why would women who have undergone one puberty or the other cast aspersions? Like you said, there are methods like testing hormone levels to ensure a level playing field. Given that, it seems like the only aspersions to be cast would be that their history somehow makes them less of a woman, which I can’t agree with.

As far as I’m aware, creator sponsorships rarely care about whether or not you watch the segments, but about how many people follow the link or whatnot. So you could make the argument that sponsorblock makes you never follow the links, but that really assumes you would otherwise, which…

AoM is one that’s in a little subgenre with games like Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends and total war Warhammer. Fantasy versions of strategy games otherwise strictly rooted in reality. Usually they’re great but left as one-offs forced to wallow in relative obscurity, but every now and again one shines through.

Seconded. The feel of dealing with something beyond you is just so visceral at moments.

Ah, yes: the DDENSIDH.

"Because when every game’s shitty…

…No game is."

~Syndrome, probably.

Fun reminder that the USA has been at war for basically all of your life.

I mean wasn’t there a die hard where he shot himself to get the bad guy after the exit wound?

I started so many games in Morrowind the music in Sends Neen is imprinted upon me forever.

It’s the same as those people yelling at others for not enjoying the sunset right. Everyone has their own way of enjoying what they enjoy, we just need to let them do it as long as it’s not harmful.

Wait a minute, you’re not married to my partner, I’M married to her!