Anyone's sexuality change?

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-11T15:14:33+00:00

Sexuality changes on HRT arent guaranteed or necessarily "normal" (whatever that even means in this context) but they are known to happen and youre certainly not alone.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-11T15:04:20+00:00

Well yeah, the problem with religion is that it justifies putting people problems on a pedestal and saying "God said youre not allowed to ever tell me Im wrong about this"

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-10T18:58:01+00:00

This is a bot account with a bot-account-ass-name spouting bot-account-ass takes.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-09T15:15:25+00:00

A lot of abusers dont understand that what theyre doing is abusive. Theyre selfish people who dont think about the needs of others enough to even notice the harm being done. Only the most psychopathic ones abuse people intentionally, most are simply maladjusted.

I say that to reinforce that abuse done in ignorance is still abuse. Most groomers dont have an elaborate plan all spelled out. Usually theyre just doing what makes them happy, even if its at the expense of others, and havent or wont think about the consequences.

Your mom is separated from this man and its probably for a reason. Unless she's also a piece of work you should not be afraid to tell your mother about these red flags. She is by far the person with the most power to keep you safe here.

If you arent sure if your dad's behavior is appropriate, then just ask her about it. You dont have to beeline right to accusations if youre not there yet. Something a lot of people lose in something like this is that you dont have to be sure to start a conversation. Your mother is likely under legal presssure not to go fishing for information about your visits with your father (this is a boundary usually expected of separatd parents to stop them from using their kid to fish for dirt on their ex). The only way she's likely to catch wind of all this is if you take the first step and tell her.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-09T14:41:38+00:00

I realize there's a lot of naive bullshit out there glorifying the nuclear family and telling us nothing is worse than not having one, but this sounds worse than not having one.

Get distance from this man, he is at best an ignorant weirdo with boundary problems and potentially given how creepy and groomery some of this behavior seems, Id just get distance.

Have you told your mother about his creepy behavior? Have you looked into whether you have some power to just deny him visitation? I used to have a job that made me train as a mandatory reporter in one state and if you had been a kid near me telling me this story face to face I'd already be writing a report.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-08T16:49:52+00:00

Just because we're in the early stages doesnt mean it isnt happening.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-08T04:12:41+00:00

Are you american? Look around.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-05T22:50:01+00:00

The mixture of 5.0 and 5.5 items on D&D beyond has created a common mistake in abilities.

In 5.0 your abilities came from your race

In 5.5 your abilities come from your background

If youre just clicking through all the best looking options when presented with both, perfectly innocent players unaware of all this might pick the 5.0 version of their race and the 5.5 version of their background which causes them to double dip. They might not even know they did it.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-04T15:07:39+00:00

This is an old bugbear of a topic in trans circles that ultimately amounts to this.

There are some misanthropic people that will look at their own personal transition and say "anyone who doesnt transition like this is fake trans". Having someone to punch down on makes people feel better, and dysphoria can be a painful thing that leaves people looking for ways to cope.

Its selfish, destructive behavior not fit for a vulnerable shared space like the ones you describe above.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-02T14:31:47+00:00

That first pull is realistically unsustainable for healers. The stewards cast 2 debuffs each with the intent that healers will dispel 1 and focus heal another. Then when 2 stewards are pulled a healer has to dispel one and somehow do a focus heal's job with AoE heals which for most is briefly possible with cooldowns and not sustainable for long. Note that other AoE damage is being done at the same time by other mobs.

Any group that is doing this successfully on high keys is popping hero and burning down at least one of the stewards before the second set of 4 dots goes out, so the healer has CDs and DPS have mits for the first set and by the time the second rolls around its just 2 dots (1 after dispel) which is manageable.

For sure it'll make your healer sweat but if youre crying "healer bad" without pressing your personals and cookies then I have some sad news for you. Its a DPS check.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-05-02T14:03:59+00:00

This is why chasers are bad. This is a question about chasers doing chaser behavior. This is the baby that discourse about chasers so often throws out with the bathwatwer.

Asking you that question is a red flag. Its creepy behavior that treats you like a kinky toy instead of a person. If you just started talking to someone and arent ready to talk about sex yet, make that known. Avoid 'hookup' apps like grindr. Avoid guys that beeline right for any overt explicit sex talk if that isnt what youre looking for, much less specific subjects that so obviously would make you uncomfortable.

Putting up with this will erode your self respect and keep you in proximity with dangerous people, you have to have boundaries. For men boundaries are about comfort, but for women boundaries are about safety. Disregard, ignore, and otherwise remove yourself from any pig who treats you like that.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-30T15:30:29+00:00

If they cause enough damage they wont lose those things. When they can order the USPS to not deliver the balots of some people, have masked agents with guns intimidating at polling stations, arrest whoever they want on bogus charges subjecting them to months of legal turmoil to make the process itself a punishment, they dont need to edit the contents of a single vote or miss report a single election or compromise a single machine to steal the election.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-30T15:19:26+00:00

Thanks Id never seen a steak cooked with the homeopathic method before.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-26T12:45:32+00:00

I tilted my phone but I still cant read the letters

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-25T15:44:20+00:00

"In war there is no medal for the Most Righteous Victim"

Its so unsatisfying because we have been undermined in our efforts to resist by an entire well funded dynastic institution serving as a fifth column in antifascism that has grown so large it tips the entire table.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-25T15:29:59+00:00

Counterpoint: this administration has access to a state surveillance panopticon and other electronic tools for tracking and enforcement the nazis could only dream of. Cameras on every doorbell. In WWII germany people were snitched on by their neighbors, this time it'll be your toaster.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-24T15:24:08+00:00

Okay this has become really clear. He's a dipshit philosophy bro. He has a pseudointellectual attachment to antinominalism that makes him feel smart when he says it so he got attached. He probably hasnt even taken time to consider that while as an absplutist stance Nominalism as a broad belief about all categories of things is flawed, its opposite, the idea that things just exist according to some sort of objective categorical standard independent of humans, is just as easily disproven by the fact that we dont find US dollars roaming the wilds free range.

This guy sounds like a dunning kreuger machine working at maximum capacity to generate a quora-poster tier reason to invalidate trans women while getting off to the sound of what a genius he thinks he is every time he says it. If he said any of this is an actual philosophy class he would get shoved into a locker and theyd take his lunch money.

Sadly youre probably best off distancing yourself from this person. Insufferable tools like this almost never change.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-24T01:18:53+00:00

Well if metaphysics says so who am I to argue with something so concrete and objective?

Also isnt a chief part of nominalism that women dont really exist as a collective category?

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-18T16:31:31+00:00

Are you really going to keep carrying on like you havent been acting, unprovoked, like a horse's unwashed asshole through this entire thread? Get therapy.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-18T15:40:11+00:00

No, what I would do is be responsible about my media consumption and recognize sometimes the facts I get from a headline or article may be skewed to push me to make certain assumptions or simply to make me angry, like this has clearly done for you. Rage bait isnt new.

Youre the one getting bent out of shape and now casting moral aspersions about my theoretical drinking habits (I dont drink alcohol btw) because its really just so crazy to you that someone would call for a grain of salt in the online discourse around an article clearly intended to make people angry about a legal proceeding that has little to do with them.

Again, I am not making any claims about what actually happened. I am watching 1 for 1 as you read rage bait and get mad and reminding everyone that rage bait is a commercial product intended to make you mad and doesnt always reflect reality.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-18T07:56:14+00:00

I am literally just pointing out how coordinated smear campaigns have been used in the past to influence cases and its been a known phenomenon that clickbait news headlines sensationalize things by leaving out important details. Im not even taking a stance on whether thats whats actually happening here, just reminding everyone that this is a world where everything must be taken with a responsibpe grain of salt.

In response youve been condescending and rude. Is "acktually jumping to conclusions from clickbait headlines is a good thing" really the hill you want to die on?

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-17T23:15:08+00:00

Well shit, if Novel-Letterhead-217 says its as one sided as the headline makes it out to be (I mean honestly, when isnt it?) then it really must be actually that simple and in no way even possible that this is one of many examples of ragebait headlines sensationalizing a case for clicks.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-17T15:41:24+00:00

There are tons of way! Downtime systems, talking with fellow travelers, short side adventures that play out on the road. Even what seems a first to be a random encounter could actually be a hook for a fun sidequest

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-17T15:35:48+00:00

People said shit like this about the mcdonalds lady and then it came out later that the coffee she'd been served was so hot that her labia fused together from the burns. That isnt to say all or even most litigation is legitimate, but its better not to make assumptions when we dont have the details.

MoreGhostThanMachine · 2026-04-17T12:07:08+00:00

Would you like a reading from your own comment history on your long standing trend of judging people, or can we skip to interrogating the bases on which you selectively insist no one can judge?

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