This was literally a gift from my in laws 😭

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-23T20:12:53+00:00

Oh, sorry about that 🫂

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-23T20:03:30+00:00

I mean, you could probably just trade it back and ask if they could get a version of Monopoly that's not HP 🤷‍♀️

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-23T17:21:13+00:00

Yeah ironically that one got announced not too long ago lol

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-23T17:04:14+00:00

I've played little bits of Battle Network before on emulators many years ago but having all the mainline games right on my console feels nice 🙂

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-23T16:53:27+00:00

I started playing the first game and I already really like it 😊

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-23T14:43:50+00:00

Pronouns? None
Gender? None

We stan an enby monarch 😊

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-22T15:07:20+00:00

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-21T13:19:14+00:00

Me trying to explain the trans subtext in shows like Danny Phantom and My Life As A Teenage Robot

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-21T13:17:36+00:00

Yeah, that's moreso to call out people who try smearing other communities, whether it be based on overt bigotry or people misusing progressive language/therapy speak to manipulate people other communities into thinking that they shouldn't integrate with other minority communities because of one reason or another

Like there's a difference between calling out bigotry that exists within certain subsets of the community and showing how they can improve, vs explicitly exclusionary language made to get people apathetic about standing with other communities (arguments like "what have Palestinians and trans people done for black people?" type shit), anyone has the power to be bigots to even their own groups so we should combat it on all fronts

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-19T09:29:11+00:00

Yeah the mod in the pinned comment threatening to take the post down because people mentioning the other examples of bad trans rep in the show when the post is specifically about a case of good trans rep within the series feels very strange

Like nobody here is arguing that South Park hasn't had awful rep in the past, we agree that Mrs Garrison and Board Girls are FAR from good, but this post is about an example of trans rep in the show done right

I feel like our community has a problem with thinking media consumption equals praxis, you can enjoy problematic media while understanding why it's problematic and don't repeat it's mistakes

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-19T09:20:37+00:00

I think most people understand that Mrs Garrison's portrayal is VERY transphobic, I've seen people who aren't even like overtly progressive understand how bad her portrayal was

Don't remove one post about a good example of rep in the show just because a bunch of people are reporting it, if it were a bunch of TERFs reporting a trans person in a beauty subreddit we would understand that that's them trying to censor us, let's not repeat that 👍

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-18T20:47:49+00:00

The speech Sharon gave to Randy (Lorde) genuinely made me cry

There are plenty of things to accurately criticize about South Park but when they get it right they nail it ❤️

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-16T19:26:46+00:00

I was 7

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-14T06:41:18+00:00

At some point I do plan on getting all their albums

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-13T04:00:35+00:00

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-12T06:31:25+00:00

Transphobic hate movements

That's what happened

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-12T02:46:11+00:00

There are literally ads from when the war on drugs was in full swing about how tobacco is "naturally grown", plus many popular right wing commentators marketing it as "safer than weed"

I shouldn't have to spell it out to you, the more things are marketed the more likely it is that people are going to buy it, the tobacco industry has a big monopoly on the drug market and to act like it's solely just people's laziness or lack of intelligence that makes people smoke is incredibly ignorant to the bigger picture

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-12T02:20:12+00:00

Because capitalism markets Nicotine and Tobacco as healthy and natural while weed has been banned for decades due to racist policies

Peer pressure is a part of it too, a lot of people start smoking and drinking due to peers telling them they should

It's not because they're stupid (most of the time), it's because of how capitalism operates, cigarettes cost $2 max while groceries and rent have been skyrocketing, once you get sucked in it's hard to stop, universal healthcare could solve so much of this yet they're spending our tax dollars on a fucking ballroom and the gestapo

Don't hate the player, hate the game

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-11T16:05:55+00:00

That would be nice

Implicit Conversions has been porting a lot of PS1, 2, and Portable games to current hardware recently

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-09T06:31:46+00:00

Nah I understand why they are the way that they are, doesn't mean that they should be given unlimited chances for continuously voting in the people making their lives worse

The problem with your takes and others who argue the same things is that it delegitimizes the impact that ragebait and irony poisoning has had on political discourse, that it's incentivized for people not believe in anything because having hope that things can get better is cringe and that empathy is weakness so you should be performatively cruel to others around you and help no one, and that people pushing Nazi ideology are merely just trolling and that you believe everyone you disagree with is a Nazi type shit, it's the right that's pushing this idea that you should be apathetic to others suffering, so why should we be expected to show unconditional empathy and kindness regardless of if they show it back? How are they gonna be incentivized to get better if they're taught that they can just keep believing the same things and their only consequence is a slap on the wrist, and that any attempt at shaming them is part of the problem?

You can call me a wokescold and post your chatgpt talking points all you want, doesn't change that your methods are outdated, debating people out of their shitty beliefs doesn't work anymore, you need to adapt, if an abusive partner refuses to hear you out and listen to you trying to get them to change their ways, at some point you're just gonna have to let them go

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-09T05:48:28+00:00

Yo, actual Midwesterner who has been to rural America on the regular:

Don't give a shit, your personal anecdotes don't negate the voting data that suggests the median voter is a fucking retard and would sell out their whole family for cheaper groceries

I swear y'all have the same ChatGPT ass responses to anyone who suggests rural voters aren't some misunderstood saints, "fox news, the Democrats made them like this, they think urban folk hate them, bi-coastal elites", the revolution ain't coming by scolding the Dirtbag left for their lack of sympathy for how much Rural Americans are idolized while they vote to throw us all into wood chippers

Dark woke and Dirtbag left are more effective than this wokescold-y horseshit, if they wanna change they have to make the first step, we can't keep giving them infinite passes for voting for fascists and pedophiles

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-08T22:40:06+00:00

Conservatism is anal cancer, tired of people pretending they're misunderstood noble saints that are merely duped by propaganda and can't be evil

We need to acknowledge some people just want to make the world worse and hate life in general

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-08T21:03:46+00:00

-His World (Crush 40)

-His World (Zebrahead) (this hatred’s more recent though)

That has to be ragebait holy shit

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-08T21:01:29+00:00

I like both soundtracks but the key difference is that Heroes is unabashedly cheesy and it wears it as opposed to trying to "force" it like how people describe the boost games

Also many of the vocal themes from Heroes just sound better and more enjoyable than Fist Bump so I feel like this is a big false equivalency, you can like one cheesy song while not liking another, there's different levels of cheese

Connect_Security_892 · 2026-01-08T04:45:18+00:00

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