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I'll steelman her POV because it seems people are (rightly) confused.

Asexuals are requesting a day of recognition for what she sees as a negative-identity. Keep in mind, conservatives are often meritocratic.

It's like if there were a day for "coffee refrainers", for everyone who doesn't like drinking coffee. I'm sure if someone dunked on that day and the coffee refrainers, it'd all be in good spirits.

But if someone dunked on asexuality, I'm sure it'd cause a lot of upset and defensive argument, which implies more "merit" to asexuality.

While progressives can go "who cares, just leave em be", conservatives see all "non-deserved" attention as an affront to meritocracy, that needs to be squashed.

To be fair, I'm pretty sure the slave race of house elves continue being slaves because "they love being slaves".

I was giving $20 a month to Effective Altruism, for years, before someone told me it's a messed up organisation. I stopped, and since then haven't given money to anyone. Except $3 a month to Wikipedia, but that's small fries.

I did a chunk of research looking for strong climate focused charities, but if they didn't state veganism anywhere on them, I passed and come up empty handed.

Proving our place in the cosmos already HAS extraordinary evidence. Our continued existence (and witness to that) IS the evidence. No one bar solipsists doubt that humans exist.

I think if you're expecting traditional horror, it's more likely just going to frustrate for sure.

You either have the fear the director is trying to evoke, or you don't.

Fair enough, a CBC News review said

"Even though [Skinamarink] has cemented its place as one of my favourite releases of 2023, I almost feel I'd have better odds playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun than finding someone to recommend it to who'd actually enjoy it."

It's not a narrative film as much as just a mood, an evocation, tapping into a very unique experience.

SKINAMARINK.

Two kids wake up in the middle of the night, and things are just ... Not right. The door's not where it's supposed to be, the chairs in the dining room aren't right, mum and dad are acting odd...

It's such a primal form of horror for me, when simple things are just - different... It's either painfully boring for people, or uniquely terrifying.

Trailer

As much as I'd love a sale, the game is really quite tough. My partner was/is streaming it on twitch, she's a moderately good gamer and she spent probably an hour on one of the mid stage duets.

I do have "Less Hard" as a difficulty setting that drops the notes you saw in the trailer, probably in half. And if people really want an "Even Less Hard" mode, I can add that in probably a day or two.

I don't care much about the supposed fidelity, but having a group of mates around each pick an album from my stack is a lot of fun.

It stops people from focusing too hard on the music and going "oh wait lemme queue up this track" etc.

Un-normalise the word normalise.