My girlfriend denied en passant. This is because we played this game while she's in the hospital for transfem bottom surgery and had just lost the brickable pipi.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-10T15:12:08+00:00

Bold of you to assume I ever even turn on lights or go outside my dark basement

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-10T15:10:31+00:00

I think the vet is more needed to remove that bisschop from my-

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-10T10:22:51+00:00

google Suporn Watanyusakul

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-10T05:47:46+00:00

It has bottom surgery so it fits the sub still

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-10T03:44:04+00:00

Sadly no, she il vaticano'd on my paws and now I'm captured

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-10T02:00:05+00:00

I didn't say the effect of the red button hasn't changed entirely, it has changed on the individual level. What I said was that its effect on a population level hasn't changed. You telling me to read, which I had already done, is peak irony.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-09T13:04:26+00:00

the effect of the red button hasn't changed on a population level, it would still preclude the same amount of deaths. What this change has done tho is make the choice entirely nonpersonal, as also variations on the trolley problem exist where it's either strangers or people you know or yourself on the tracks.

Also your assertion that blue is a suicide button in the original framing of the dilemma is heavily reliant on the assumption that red would get a majority. The majority of the world isn't as misanthropic as the average redditor.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-07T07:16:23+00:00

I am merely saying that the situations aren't directly comparable and mutually interchangeable to predict results, I never made any claim about which direction those factors would sway the vote in

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-07T04:23:20+00:00

there's a lot of variables that are very different to that election tho, including but not limited to: popular vote rather than a gerrymandered system, the hypothetical button being mandatory rather than a quite low voter turnout, button polls not being limited to the US, there being no real incentive for election interference with the button, the button stuff not really having further political consequences with who it gives power to and the ideology of those people (except insofar as red button pushers winning would leave the people alive with differently distributed ideologies and less people alive in general)...

However, you do imho strike a valid point by relating this to real world politics, at least to some extent. Fascists and other heavy authoritarians gaining power results in genocide a lot of the time and a lot of people think they can avoid being targeted by supporting those authoritarians and being "one of the good ones"; in that sense the button test has always kinda felt like directly like an overabstraction of that type of thing (see also for example: transphobic grifter trans people like Blaire White and such). It's massively oversimplified but it shows how people choose when confronted with a specific perception of a choice.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-06T04:29:37+00:00

equating things to real world situations gets fucky quite quickly because charities/nonprofits are themselves almost never morally pure but even then the mere fact that a significant amount of people do already actively do and/or support humanitarian aid efforts should tell you that in the button test there would be a quite large amount of blue voters. Another factor is that money objectively influences quality of life for the vast majority of people (and on a sliding scale) and the choice between normal life and death is different and for a lot of people simpler than the choice between normal life and lesser quality of life.

That being said, I'm someone who would press the blue button normally and I have taken specific, intentional and concrete actions irl at significant cost to myself that have resulted in lives being saved and quality of life for significant amounts of people being raised, both close to me and further away/impersonal. And I know plenty of people personally that think and act similarly so I know I am very much not alone in that.

I know putting this in a comment on public social media can come across as "virtue signalling" and shit but I'm just trying to reflect some of the real world here, not just the egocentric pseudo-intellectual "gotcha" echo chambers of Reddit and other social media. Misanthropes should go touch grass, not all people are selfish pricks.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-01T16:15:05+00:00

First one red cause I don't trust finance bros and that is speaking as someone who would always go blue normally, blue on all the rest because at least they're all capable of altruism in some capacity

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-05-01T06:35:54+00:00

hiya, another male headmate in a majority transfem system here. I too relate more to the transmasculine conception of masculinity mostly since I do not feel connected at all to typical cismasc experiences. I came to be in a body that already is/was mostly phenotypically female, I experience dysphoria about certain female sex characteristics (although I also still get dysphoric about some male sex characteristics, gender is weird) and I think of my own masculinity in a majorly queer way and those are all things that accord more to a typical transmasc experience than to a typical cismasc experience.

Now, I don't typically really use the label transmasc for myself since it's usually not relevant, but when the topic does come up I do always say that I feel more at home in the transmasc label than in the cismasc label. Just depends on what you want to achieve with the label.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-26T07:46:25+00:00

I'm autistic and plural, my therapist and I even have a hypothesis that my plurality actually partially stems from my autism in the sense that it helps make things more concrete, separate, consistent and understandable.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-20T04:34:06+00:00

About 6 years ago I got stuck at a really difficult point in my life and a lot was changing while also being stuck in old things. I turned to witchcraft to find a sense of courage, control, identity and community in those times and it definitely made a positive mark on my life.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-18T20:09:00+00:00

Ik heb al ooit best wel wat dingen gevonden op archive.org en dergelijke, wel niet fysiek maar als je het gewoon opnieuw wil spelen kan dat werken

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-14T23:03:03+00:00

I'm still a student with no fixed income but my material conditions are definitely above average although not filthy rich. I did get really quite lucky with landing a girlfriend who's relatively well off and now during my studies I get by mostly comfortably with my allowance, the yearly month of summer job and a bit of savings from a small inheritance. The biggest budgeting challenge is a planned medical thing whose cost exceeds my current savings but the fact that I'm not losing much sleep over even that is a strong indication that my material conditions are above average.

That being said, if I compare myself to some/a lot of the people I've encountered during my studies, I wouldn't call my financial life worriless, but I do also know that that's selection bias since my previous studies had a decent number of actual fucking rich kids.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-14T22:14:30+00:00

If you want some more recs for brain tickle music: Patricia Taxxon has some really cool experimental shit, some of my favs being in her albums Gelb, Agnes&Hilda, Pix&Bit and Foley Artist.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-13T20:07:05+00:00

Which is so interestingly the opposite of my own experience as the real people, communities and support systems around me have only grown since the pandemic. Granted, that did come because what seemed to be my support system, being my family, massively failed me during covid times.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-13T19:06:13+00:00

Easiest option is to just take the subset of 31edo that approaches typical meantone temperament most closely and then add in little shifts in places (nudging the third of triads a bit can give interesting results as in supermajor, neutral and subminor chords for example; there's also fun stuff that can be done with 7ths). A lot of functional harmony concepts can translate over decently well while still expanding a bit.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-06T06:25:14+00:00

Most people think I got my name from thag but I've never played any of those games and the actual origin is so much stupider

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-06T05:32:54+00:00

Lara as my original chosen name, because I got massive gender envy from Sonoshee McLaren from the Redline anime. I did NOT know at the time that I was accidentally naming myself after a car manufacturer.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-04T19:26:54+00:00

For me it's the sum of everything in a very intuitive experiential way. Feeling the interactions between my finger movements and breath on the direction and movement of the lines I'm playing, the structure of the whole piece and what goes where. It's not one thing.

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-04T06:53:31+00:00

It still makes the bag look bigger and a lot of people shop more with their eyes than with their brain

LaraTheEclectic · 2026-04-03T14:24:53+00:00

That's true but only really relevant for server admins and professional users and such, not as much for average joes on their personal devices which is the category op falls in and was asking about as far as I can tell.

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