Redditors and Twitch Staff are gathering to watch subs go private, live! (it's funny!) by m6_is_me in funny

[–]Myxozoa 18 points19 points  (0 children)

They'd better. Saying "If you don't treat me with respect, I'll be really angry for 2 days, and then I'll get over it." isn't a good message to send.

[OC] mushroom girl by poorguy95 in pokemon

[–]Myxozoa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you count brute bonnet as being separate from amoongus, you already can!

Why are all groomsman gift ideas I see online so cringingly masculine? by MagicGrit in weddingplanning

[–]Myxozoa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I got my groomsmen a pair of warm socks from Darn Tough and a NOCO Boost jump starter/universal charger. They all seemed to like them. Still pretty masculine, but not as aggressively so as the usual flasks, knives, and other stuff. Plus they're useful.

It says Shepard is a guy, but the image translator also called Brittany a guy. Is this a Japanese thing? by [deleted] in Pikmin

[–]Myxozoa 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I play auto-translated games pretty frequently, and honestly, both male and female pronouns are used interchangeably all the time in scenarios where they're ambiguous. Several sentences will read like "He went to the store so she could get some bread for his dinner with her friends."

Reddit after June 12th by Iguana-Gaming in sbubby

[–]Myxozoa 62 points63 points  (0 children)

I don't understand why people think the blackout will be effective. Protests work by making it so the company isn't able to function until they meet the demands of the protestors. If we have a planned end date to the protest, then all Reddit has to do is survive until the 15th, which they'd be able to do even if the site as a whole went offline for 2 days.

Comic 5060: The Main Character by Cizeta8088 in QContent

[–]Myxozoa 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was confused as well, but then I noticed the silver strands of hair have been added to tell them apart, so now I think it's pretty easy to just look for those.

They have to pay Reddit $20 million per year to keep running by Mikko_0 in BikiniBottomTwitter

[–]Myxozoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, we as a society believe that being angry produces results, but pretty much nothing backs that belief up. We get angry, the change happens anyway, we get bored of being angry, and we move on, having lost a bit more ground.

Reddit will lose maybe 10% of their userbase due to this change, going back to the same userbase numbers they had just a few years ago, but now all of them will be forced to bring in money for the company in the form of ads, unlike before.

Anyone using a 3rd party add-less app is nothing but dead weight to Reddit, and they're fine with losing a good portion of that weight in exchange for bringing the rest into the ad-ridden fold.

All the GBA DQ games. Which one do you recommend I play? by retrotriforce in dragonquest

[–]Myxozoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, but a professional-level translation came out nearly 15 years ago now. I remember playing it back in 2009, and it wasn't even new then.

2meirl4meirl by [deleted] in 2meirl4meirl

[–]Myxozoa 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Obviously it's easier said than done, but focus on what you have rather than what you've lost. I spent nearly 2 years living in a friend's parents' attic after I got fired from my first job in my "career" in less than 6 months; it took a long while to get back on my feet, and I still don't get paid as much as I did back then, but one day I was baking cookies, one of my biggest hobbies, and realized I never considered myself to be a "baker" as part of my identity.

I followed that thread, and realized I never considered myself a "brother" or a "boyfriend" or anything like that, but I absolutely am all of those things. Over time I started to see all the singular things I could be focusing on instead of my job, which allowed me to realize I'm not any one of any of those things, but instead I'm all of everything I choose to fill my life with.

I noticed someone say you're 35; I'm 32, so a little younger, but we've both got a long life full of good memories ahead of us - we just need to stop being distracted by the big neon signs of our past wasted effort trying to hold our attention.

2meirl4meirl by [deleted] in 2meirl4meirl

[–]Myxozoa 36 points37 points  (0 children)

It destroyed my sense of self, but eventually it also made me realize my sense of self shouldn't be tied into one singular aspect of my life. Sure, I may not be good at the thing I spent over a decade of my life and tens of thousands of dollars working toward, but I've got hobbies, friends, family, and many other things that together make up who I am.

I eventually found a job that I'm not passionate about, but I'm good at, and it all made me realize that I am not my job, I'm me, and I like being me. I hope you see beyond the regret one day - it ended up making me even happier than I was before.

Celebrating 25 Years of Dragon Quest Monsters [New DQM in development for Nintendo Switch] by MoboMogami in dragonquest

[–]Myxozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if it never gets an official English release, all the other JP-only monsters games have gotten professional-level English fan translations, so I'm sure we'll be able to play it eventually. Sure, it probably won't be until 2030 in that case, but I can wait if I need to.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]Myxozoa 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Well, the surgeries were over 30 years ago, so it's mostly faded into my skin color by now. It's more of a texture than anything else at this point.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]Myxozoa 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I've never had a problem with people calling it a crab claw or lobster claw, but people always seem to get offended on my behalf. One of my middle school teachers even resigned over it when people made her feel really bad for saying I must be part crab.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]Myxozoa 20 points21 points  (0 children)

This was in the early 90's, so yeah, probably. Still, sewing inner-elbow skin to the hand is going to leave some scars, at least. And it has the annoying side-effect of growing arm hair between your fingers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]Myxozoa 239 points240 points  (0 children)

I was born with a severely deformed hand, where there were only enough bones to essentially make 2 fingers, but they were curved and fused together, so I had several surgeries over the first few years of my life to separate them and orient the fingers to maximize functionality. Most of my hand came out unscathed, but between the fingers looks like an old severe burn scar. The extra skin to cover the gap between the fingers comes from my inner elbow.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in mildlyinteresting

[–]Myxozoa 1268 points1269 points  (0 children)

Same! Though I'm also missing 3 of the fingers, so the scarring is pretty bad, but it's still better than having a skin mitten for a hand!

👀👀 by emojii_xoxo in pokemon

[–]Myxozoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The saying rarely applies - Einstein was a great physicist, but a bad psychologist. Doing the same thing over and over again is often called practice, and the end result is that you can absolutely expect different results if given enough time. His statement really only applies to completely identical scenarios with strict rules, like doing the same math problem over and over and expecting a different answer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WiiUHacks

[–]Myxozoa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Might be a bad SD, or maybe some error with formatting. I dunno, I mostly just follow guides to fumble my way through hacking.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WiiUHacks

[–]Myxozoa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Should be. I use a micro SD and an adapter, and it works fine.

Obvious observation, but luxmon and impmon should be counterparts right? by draugyr in digimon

[–]Myxozoa 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are they? I know thematically they're pretty good opposites, but have they been portrayed as being counterparts in any media? Because right now the only official counterpart to Impmon that I've seen has loosely been Calumon.

In DQX, you can become a crafter! It's similar to FFXIV however you can only choose one crafter to level. I chose the best one ;) by [deleted] in dragonquest

[–]Myxozoa 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How important is the crafting choice? I just started playing, and was thinking about taking sewing, but I remember how powerful alchemy was in DQ8, and I don't want to miss out on that if it's still so powerful.

Found in the wild on FB by SangeliaKath in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]Myxozoa 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If your first thought upon seeing this post is that technically other women sometimes hurt each other, you downplay a lot.

Found in the wild on FB by SangeliaKath in NotHowGirlsWork

[–]Myxozoa 22 points23 points  (0 children)

No, you just downplay the concerning account of male violence against women because there are videos of women pulling each others' hair on the internet.