SweetCitrusBuzz

joined 3 years ago
[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 2 days ago

Yeah. I never really got into pokémon as I didn't like the idea of capturing creatures and forcing them to fight, but Cassette Beasts doesn't have that problem. Oh yeah, good point about them being doubles. I do like the aesthetic/graphics and that it's avaliable on every platform, unlike pokémon.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Cassette Beasts and soon Lost Records: Bloom and Rage, Tape 2

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

We think Minds tried something like this (though it might be different tiers) and it didn't exactly go well, forcing users to pay one way or the other always leads to economic pressures to keep users around, even if they are being toxic at least from what we have observed.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago

clashing with their users' need to stay isolated from users who are toxic to them.

Sadly Lemmy does not solve this problem as the creators think like a corporation or do not want to be fully cut off from other users and thus do not have proper blocking (which is something built into ActivityPub mind you), for now it is only one way blocking which does not solve being isolated from toxic users as it still allows for some toxic behaviour etc.

If Lemmy ever gets that feature it would actually prove that it is dedicated to user safety, but a lot of people in the open source social media world seem to be 'concerned' with not being able to see everything due to entitlement, as others unrelated to Lemmy also are lacking the same or similar features.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

Maybe, but social problems cannot entirely be solved with technology.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, I meant more long term but didn't express that fully. So you are correct, corporate social media will go that way eventually unless they do the things we recommended.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 49 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Corporations cannot create nontoxic social media, the incentives will always be there to make it toxic.

The only way to do it is something like mastodon where actual people run it and thus can deal with people who are being toxic either by blocking etc because the fear of losing money, or the likelihood of the entire site/platform disappearing etc just isn't there (obvioiusly individuals sites go down sometimes but the entire network is unlikely to disappear), or by the use of people explaining why what they did was wrong and the toxic people listen.

Edit: If Bluesky actually ever becomes decentralised as in users can run their own servers and federate or block other servers then perhaps it might become good, but until such a time then I do not trust them.

They should also make a non-profit foundation if they want to be seen as trustworthy, so that they can't ever be sold off.

Those are the only way we and many others will ever trust them.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I can do them, but honestly I would prefer to have played through many without such a mainstay of games. It just often gets in the way of what I am really there for: the story. Plus it's becoming more and more gruesome.

I think though killing and rape are not exactly the same. Women are historically treated very poorly in game spaces, both in games and outside of them. This kind of thing just adds to it and honestly makes me question what the developers are really like.

As someone else said "check whether there are women in the developer's dungeon".

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Good. Honestly most games in the sex space are pretty bad for both consent and treating the characters like actual people.

The dialogue is pretty unrealistic too.

The only good one we have come across so far is Cute Demon Crashers. It is heavily about consent and the writing isn't that bad either. True, it's not going to be 'realistic' in terms of character models nor have fully fleshed out sex scenes but since most in that genre seem to be terrible in general perhaps that is a good thing.

[–] SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

We understand but we don't think it's good to forget all the other shit they pull.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/18135870

A great video about both getting hormones and blockers and how to safely use them if you want or have to do it DIY.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17930532

This one is very shocking, there's lots of things it covers: Abuse in general, religious abuse, psychological abuse, self harm, fat{phobia/misia}, misogyny, power dynamics etc. We still recommend watching it if you can deal with those things and the content warnings in the video because it shows the truth of the companies behind your favourite games and the systems which demand inexpense which leads to abuse and other awful things.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17772988

A helpful guide on how to be less frustrating towards people of color.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17481809

An excellent video about how (long) covid and other diseases/pandemics are awful and how capitalism and governments loves to ignore them in hopes that things will 'carry on' as normal thus creating social stigma and work policies that disable people more and more.

 

cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17133326

An absolutely wonderful and deep insight into all the problems with revolutionary and other social movements, from the self serious martyrs that base their ideas on being the hero and get burned out to the rejection of rest, older wisdom and other such things it is a very much necessary message in this time of so much uncertainty.

Know where you are going, not just what you're trying to move away from.

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