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[–] webadict@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

No. That appears to be Ashley from the indie visual novel The Coffin of Andy and Leyley. In the game, she and her biological brother Andrew (shown pulling her from the dryer) have a horribly codependent and unhealthy relationship, and there are a lot of implied instances of sexual attraction, especially on Ashley's part, including a vision of the future where the two siblings have sex.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 49 points 1 week ago (6 children)

I always get extra disappointed by the Outer Worlds, because I always confuse it with the Outer Wilds and would rather play that game.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 36 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

There are 23 movies in the Air Bud cinematic universe. Everyone always talks about the first Air Bud. The basketball one. The dog does a trick and boops the basketball into the hoop. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. If I'm on the losing team to that, I can applaud that. That's fine, whatever, I'd hurt my nose doing that. Cool. The rest of the team played well, too.

Now imagine being a kid on a sports team six years later. You arrive to your beach volleyball court and see you're playing against a dog. You might think, woah, the dog is just gonna boop the ball with his nose, right? Cool fucking trick, he's old as shit and has no new ones. Wrong. In Air Bud: Spikes Back, the fifth Air Bud movie, the eponymous Air Bud jumps up to the net and spikes a ball down on the opposing team. If I'm on the losing team to that, I fucking quit volleyball forever. There's no going back. Your dad doesn't ask how the game was, he saw the dog spike that shit on you on ESPN. What were you supposed to do? My fucking bad, our libero is a piece of shit who can't dig it up from a FUCKING DOG??? Where the FUCK is our middle blocker??? Which one of you pieces of shit let's the dog go unmarked after that??? Slam the fucking ball into him, holy shit! No wonder we lost, they were too busy laughing their asses off while we floundered to get the ball over the net! Holy fucking shit, Andre, if you set the ball up so the FUCKING DOG GETS A CHANCE TO BLOCK ME WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU THE SETTER?!? No way, there is NO WAY anyone plays volleyball on that team again. Half that team kills themselves from the ridicule after that. The other half moves across the country and changes their names and faces. That dog ruins their lives. All to win a volleyball game.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, see, anyone that has the money to fly here to have a baby is probably someone the people who oppose birthright citizenship don't have a problem with. Because that doesn't happen unless you're rich as fuck.

But, personally, as an American, I don't see the problem. If you're here long enough to have a baby, then it's very likely you've been here for at least a year on a student or work visa, and you're not likely leaving anytime soon. You don't just pop in and have a baby, lmao. Seriously the number of kids you could possibly refer to is in the hundreds, if that, and applies mainly to the wealthy, who aren't affected by this. Just spout some white replacement theory, and we can go to ignoring you faster.

This shouldn’t even be a “left vs right” or “progressive vs conservative” thing.

Things that are said by a right-winger, likely an extreme right-winger.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

An intersex person is typically assigned a gender at birth, but so is everyone else. Being intersex just means you aren't biologically male or female (though I think this might also include people who have sex chromosomes that develop as though they were the other binary sex, but I'm not an expert). Most intersex people don't typically know they are intersex, and thus they would count as cisgender so long as they identify as the gender they were assigned at birth and transgender if they do not. Thus, if someone had, say XY chromosomes, but was assigned female at birth, they would probably be cis if they identified as female.

However, trans can be a bit of a self-identifying label, and thus someone in that situation might just as well consider themselves trans. There's a lot of different definitions for trans. Many non-binary people would consider themselves trans since they don't identify as their assigned gender at birth.

Long story short, gender is complicated. Sex doesn't change (put a couple asterisks here), but gender is super flexible (also asterisks here.)

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Trans people were always joining the military at higher rates, and the reasons why are obvious. They were only able to be openly trans recently, but they have been able to be closeted trans since always. Just like gay people. Don't ask, don't tell, amirite?

When the government literally advertises the military as super masculine, you're gonna get a lot of people that are either really into being ultra masculine and people that feel like they aren't being masculine enough, which are certainly attributes that are likely to fit with people that feel gender dysphoria.

The other reason, of course, is that LGBT people are far more likely to be homeless from being cut off from their friends and family and have few alternatives, and the military is certainly one of the more effective ways to improve your economic situation.

This ain't rocket surgery.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

What does Trump's executive order do other than say trans people are not allowed to exist then? I forgot the part where there was a carve out for trans people.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Imagine calling some a "virtue signaler" and then saying the words "Do I care? Nope." Lmao.

So, what's weird to me is that these people seemed to do just fine in the military, and are now being booted for being trans. So, what's the problem? I mean, the obvious flaw is that not all trans people have to take hormones, and this ban targets people who don't take hormones the same as those that do. But even if they did have to take hormones, they were doing fine before, so what's the issue?

It seems silly to me that the military, with record low recruitment, would ban a population that has a far higher degree of joining them due to a lot of really shitty factors.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

The second one. It is always the second one.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everyone has and is that client.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Do you want people to eat less meat, or do you want to feel superior to people because you eat less meat? Because it feels like the latter from all your comments here.

[–] webadict@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sure. We don't necessarily have concrete evidence one way or the other on advantages due to numbers, but of the trans athletes that currently exist, the dis/advantage is unlikely to matter beyond a couple percentage points. With more trans athletes, we can get more determination into what effects transitioning has on athletic ability, but for the most part, it's not a real issue.

The issue is that the average person thinks there are cismasc athletes registering as transfem, which isn't a thing.

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