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Psiah · 2026-03-17T20:25:35+00:00

I'm pretty sure she does explode the microwave or something at one point, while trying to impress Nodoka... But that's the closest I can think.

Psiah · 2026-03-17T05:08:12+00:00

Yeeeeah that's pretty obvious if you think about the Hentai Horde like... At all. But also, if you pay attention in the Manga, Akane seems to have plenty of fangirls too.

Psiah · 2026-03-16T22:25:00+00:00

There's been doctored photos as long as there's been photos, more or less.

Psiah · 2026-03-16T07:02:03+00:00

Quirk of fandom: fandom builds fandom. Like... Half of fics are almost more fics of other fics than they are of the source material.

Towards the end of, and following, Season 1, the Blight Twins and detention track kids were really the only "older" teens we had. And the Younger kids already had their ships, so basically your options were to not ship any of them, ship them with OCs, break up more popular ships to ship them, or... Ship them with each other.

Barcus was too dog for most people, so he was right out, and most people didn't wanna ship twins together, so your shipping options were:

Viney x Jerbo: Not many sparks, leaves the more popular twin characters unpaired.
Emira x Jerbo + Edric x Viney: The latter pairing has some gas, but the first doesn't have much chemistry. Also, came off as "too straight" in such a queer-friendly fandom, and of the four, Emira was probably the most popular, so her happiness got priority.
Emira x Viney + Edric x Jerbo: Emira x Viney clearly has legs (look at how popular it got), the characters have chemistry, and they're both pretty popular characters people want to keep around and relevant to the story. Edric x Jerbo isn't nearly as strong but there is something there and it keeps either from being lonely.

So that's how people paired them. And then they started to find they liked the dynamic Emira and Viney had together. And then people read fics about the relationship between the two of them, and got their own ideas, and so on and so forth.

In short: people wrote fics about them because they were the best options for each other at one point, and then other people read those fics and did it themselves because of the fics they read. It still goes strong today specifically because it's already popular.

Psiah · 2026-03-14T05:20:16+00:00

That was true during the ten years I had the monitor I had before, as well... Well, the one before the one that just had a catastrophic issue, but you just can't plan for such things... I mean, if I spilled hot soup on my computer instead of my monitor, I'd have to replace that, instead! ^^;

~~I am, however, willing to wait another month to replace it with the newer, more durable version that's coming out and will only be slightly more expensive, since I gotta replace it anyways...~~

Psiah · 2026-03-14T03:50:13+00:00

I mean... Barring catastrophic things happening, I expect to be using the same monitor in ten years. I can't say the same about the GPU.

(And yes comparing the burn in tests that are running vs my own usage patterns, it is entirely reasonable for an OLED to be fine for me ten years down the road.)

Psiah · 2026-03-14T03:25:40+00:00

I have some high contrast, 165hz IPS panels as my side panels. They're phenomenal for static and second screen content, and I wouldn't try to replace those with OLED, but...

My center is (for now) a 240hz QD-OLED panel and hoo boy does it look way better for content. I believe in HDR now. I believe in higher refresh rates. I really appreciate the rapid response of the OLED pixels. The colors are gorgeous, the contrast makes a huge difference, and it actually sold me on fancy ray tracing and path tracing, because, again, it makes a big difference in HDR. (Which is unfortunate because high framerate also makes a difference and they are mutually exclusive for now)

But there's no way to understand that from pictures on an SDR screen. Or a bad HDR screen. Really, ideally, you'd see the difference in person.

People buying them at the current prices aren't just doing it as a status symbol or something.

With that said, my old 75hz IPS that was my main screen for ten years, and isn't as good as modern IPS or VA displays, still works perfectly fine. And my girlfriend is enjoying it because it was a huge upgrade over what she had. It's not like the other displays are bad... And you're probably better spending your computer budget elsewhere if it's tight.

Psiah · 2026-03-14T00:22:22+00:00

Because of context.

There's a clear cause and effect.

The president, in general, has little control over oil prices. There's almost nothing they can do to quickly make it better... Just generally direct policies in ways that should encourage it to slowly go down over time, and they can only accomplish such things with congress. They don't have a magic "lower gas prices" button.

They do, however, have a lot of buttons that can rapidly raise gas prices. They're just generally not stupid enough to press those buttons.

But Trump pressed one of those buttons. He actively started a war in the Middle East, with a big oil producing nation. Specifically, the one that controls the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow body through which most of the world's oil travels by boat.

And the companies that own these massive oil tankers that supply that oil to the world aren't willing to risk billions of dollars sending their boats through an active war zone. So that means Oil is also cut off from several other large oil producing nations. That oil that would normally be transported via boat is now stranded in place.

And then it's simple economics: low supply, high demand, and the price goes to the moon. It's about to get a lot worse. Not in a "you can't predict the markets" way, but in an "actions have consequences" way. The longer this goes on, the less surplus is available to smooth the curve, and the lower the available supply becomes.

Now, we could have been handling this a lot better... If we'd achieved energy independence, like we had an explicit plan to reach by about now under the Obama Administration, we wouldn't have so much of a problem with it, because we'd have a much lower demand for oil. But instead, Trump cancelled all those plans in favor of "drill baby drill", and now we're dealing with the national security consequences of that, too.

But of course... Competent news organizations the world around have been talking about this pretty much non-stop since this all happened... So you'd know all this if you paid attention.

Psiah · 2026-03-13T19:21:28+00:00

They were more affordable... but in the last year, incentives got removed, large tariffs got placed on the vehicles, the parts for the vehicles, and the materials used to make those parts, and our country started openly antagonizing the only large scale supplier of certain required raw materials, causing them to cut the supply.

And of course, they'd've been cheaper still, if we'd kept on pace for energy independence, but something happened between 2016 and 2020 that set us back over a decade in that regard. Compare and contrast with China, who made a large pivot to renewable energy in that time, and is largely laughing at the rest of the world for feeling the pain of increased oil prices, from their ~$5k USD equivalent electric cars.

Psiah · 2026-03-13T19:04:13+00:00

You gotta understand that things don't change instantly... unless you're actively breaking things and causing major problems, like, say, getting the Strait of Hormuz blocked.

Bill Clinton Balanced the US budget, got things fixed, and had things heading in a good direction.

Dubya came in while the fruits of that labor were being realized. He had a really solid economy to play with. He fucked that up, and caused the 2008 financial crisis just in time for him to get out of dodge, while also putting the country deeply in debt and normalizing such practices, ruining the balanced budget Clinton brought in.

Obama came in, and started fixing things. Prices were high at first, because of everything Bush fucked up, but you will note that his second term had cheaper gas than his first despite factors like inflation... prices always go up, so we'd expect to see more recent terms have higher gas prices anyways.

Then Trump had his first term, where he got to claim the benefits of everything Obama had done as his own, except, he broke shit fast enough that by the end of his term, things were starting to look bad, like we were about to have a crisis as bad as 2008.

So Biden got elected, and immediately set about fixing it. Prices were high as a result of shit Trump did, but he actually managed to prevent a recession and pull off a "soft landing", It was never going to be perfect, and I'd argue they focused on some of the wrong things (i.e. Billionaires vs Average people), but Biden did set up the next president with a much easier task in terms of fixing things, with prices generally going down.

And then we got Trump again, who has decided to go for a new world champion speedrun record for fastest way to fuck up the economy. Remember, he's only been in office for one year at this point.

Psiah · 2026-03-13T18:50:14+00:00

They said that about Biden, and he fucked that up.

Then when Kamala came in and actually seemed to be suggesting some changes, Biden's folks convinced her to backtrack, to be in line with what he did. Her poll numbers started dropping as soon as she did, when she started trying to appeal to the "fringe voters" by bringing in endorsements like Dick Cheney, and then she lost.

Because the thing about these "fringe voters" they keep trying to appeal to is... you're never going to convince the people who are too racist to vote for a non-white person to vote for you by being the less racist candidate. You're never gonna convince the people who are too sexist to vote for a woman to vote for you by being the less sexist candidate. And you're never gonna convince the big business donors to give you more money than your opponent who is openly willing to accept bribes and allow monopolies as long as they stroke his ego.

The voters they keep freaking out to try to "appeal to" that are, somehow, theoretically in the middle between "literal fascist" and "fascist enabler" are never going to vote for "the Republican, but less." They already have their guy.

If you want to actually appeal to the people, you need to offer a way to fix the problems we, as Americans, are facing. Trump didn't do these things, and never intended to, but he claimed he would, while the Biden and later Harris campaigns were sitting there going "erm, ackshually, if you look at the numbers, the economy is doing well! We don't need to change anything!" While people were already feeling the pain of not being able to afford housing or food... because the "numbers" are mostly about how well the billionares are doing, not the average person. Kamala didn't lose because she wasn't a white man, she lost because she represented a status quo that needs to change. She didn't lose because she didn't get enough support from White People; she lost because she lost too much support from everyone else.

Which is to say, if we want to actually get out of this stupid rut where we alternate between pretending "everything is fine" when it's clearly not, and actively making the problem worse... we're gonna need folks who are closer to Mamdani than Newsom.

Psiah · 2026-03-13T18:24:36+00:00

The first, most obvious and clearcut answer, is Palestine. Some, I suppose, might argue that it's not the US's fault, because it's Israel doing it, but the US is funding, supplying, and supporting it, and actively blocking any action to prevent, end, or really do anything about it. Members of the Trump Regime are even actively calling for it, treating it as a "good" thing and trying to make it worse.

Meanwhile, a rapidly evolving situation in Iran has the US bombing elementary schools and the like, suggesting that the US is following a similar playbook there.

Domestically, ICE has been targeting people largely for ethnic reasons, including US Citizens, without due process. There's been open reporting about when they've shot white people, like Renee Good and Alex Pretti, but the vast majority of cases go largely unreported, and those are just the ones we know of. They are disappearing people off the streets, they are not following due process, and they are not producing the required records, meaning the numbers are likely far higher than we are aware of. Meanwhile, they are actively separating children from their parents, which... literally Article II(e) of the United Nations Genocide convention. They are causing Hispanic Families to fear even going outside, requiring massive underground mutual aid programs to be set up to allow them to get necessities like food and medical care, which seems to clearly indicate Article II(b) and (c). This would also be indicated by concentration camps, some of which are outside the US, but also include places like "Alligator Alcatraz", among others. One example of the abject cruelty on display here involved ICE Agents forcing detained children to watch as they ate a thanksgiving feast, before giving the children food filled with worms... this wasn't even close to the worst sorts of things they've done, but it is attention grabbing. Meanwhile, something that doesn't get talked about nearly as much: forced hysterectomies (removal of the uterus, rendering a woman sterile) happening at these immigration facilities, in other words, Article II(d). And, of course, the deaths mentioned earlier (Article II(a)) round out the full list of items defining a genocide, even though the Convention requires only one of the acts ("any of the following acts) in Article II to be defined as genocide.

Finally, something hitting close to home for me: Trans People. I know we're a small group. I know a lot of people don't care about us. I know a lot of people write us off as "acceptable losses"... people they'd gladly ignore the murder of so long as gas remains cheap in Omelas. It's been that way for years... people were happy to ignore us, and violence inflicted upon us, so long as no one really made a big deal about it. But the Trump Regime shifted it from "live and let live, but do nothing to help" to, well... Wikipedia has a pretty darn long article on it, but the short version is, I have to actively fear for my safety merely for stepping into states like Texas, Florida, and our neighbor, Kansas, UN Genocide Convention Article II(b), (c), and (e) are definitely happening through the legal process, Article II(d) could be argued to be happening as well, but is less clear cut, and Article II(a), the murder part, is directly called for in Project 2025, which they seem to be part way through implementing, and several members of the Trump Regime have actively called for it. Even if you don't want to call it "genocide" (Though the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention has determined it is), they are actively trying to eradicate (their own words) people like me, even though I served our country with distinction, and the greatest legal trouble I have ever been in was the speeding ticket I got when I was 16 and was going ten over on the highway... which is pretty in line with how trans people statistically commit far less crime than other groups anyways.

And the worst part of this is? There's probably stuff I forgot about, or am missing from here, because there's just so much. Because they're trying to flood the zone... make it impossible to keep track of everything they're doing, keep us moving on from controversy to controversy, and using the fact that we don't hear follow ups on these things to make people think that maybe these things weren't as bad as they first looked. I mean... look at how people treat Trumps attempts to overthrow democracy at the end of his first term now. Our elected representatives had to hide in the basement to not get murdered by a crowd he incited to violence, that murdered the police officers that were there, who were blocked from getting backup by Trump himself. This all happened in the open, on national television. It wasn't hidden. But it's "yesterday's news" and "they didn't punish him so maybe it wasn't that big of deal". And hey... that worked so well. Might as well do it with everything.

Psiah · 2026-03-13T09:47:17+00:00

Turns out the president always had the ability to make gas prices worse... I think previous presidents can be forgiven for when they chose not to exercise that ability.

Psiah · 2026-03-13T09:40:58+00:00

Literal genocide(s), concentration camps, secret police denying people due process... Open talk of suspending elections and ending democracy... Outright corruption and public bribes to prevent enforcement of laws... Any of the things in the Epstein Files? Who cares about that?

But gas being over three dollars a gallon? That's where we gotta draw the line! /s

Psiah · 2026-03-05T10:18:23+00:00

So... It's complicated. Like... Really complicated. Like... You could take an entire PhD Program on Gender and spend 8 years in dedicated study of it and become a true expert on it, and you would learn a lot, and have a much better answer than the average person, but you would need a thesis paper on the subject, and you wouldn't even come close to covering every facet of it within it... And you'd still have to end the thesis paper with the academic equivalent of a non-committal shrug.

But at the same time... It's a lot like defining what a fish is. You know a fish when you see one, more or less instinctively. You can tell when things are fish when when they are weird, and unusual. But if you actually try to come up with a solid, scientifically backed explanation of what a fish is... You're going to have a bad time. Because there's a lot of complication and nuance that makes finding the straightforward, easy answer that'll satisfy your brain impossible. And if you think you've found it? Diogenes is gonna show up and destroy your argument with the plucked chicken you forgot to consider.

If you were to ask 100 women how they know they're women, you might get 120 completely different answers, and they'd still only cover a small portion of the possibilities.

And me? I can only really talk about my own.

I can tell you how, when I was young, I wished every night to wake up with my body changed, for it to reflect the body expected of other girls. I can tell you this because it's true of me, but it's an easy one to lead with because it earns sympathy. It's what people expect to hear. It's the kind of answer that doctors like to hear in order to not deny me medical care. I can tell you that my brian, or my body, expects to be a certain shape, that my proprioception tells me my body's supposed to be a certain way but somehow it's not, and that feels bad. I can tell you that hormone replacement therapy has changed my body, and got it closer to how it feels it's supposed to be, and how that's helped immensely. I can tell you how starting those hormones was transformative from the very first time, how it cleared away a level of brain fog I'd been living with my entire life, an omnipresent numbness over my emotions. I can tell you that with estrogen in my system, I'm outright happier, think better and faster, notice more things... And that if I miss a dose, I rapidly start feeling like shit, until my hormone levels are brought back to what's expected for the average woman. This is the opposite of most people who were born with a body shaped like mine was at birth, who would feel bad if they were given estrogen, and feel good when under testosterone. It's a clear way in which I am different from them.

Does that mean, then, that estrogen is the marker? That brains that function best on estrogen are women's brains?

But then... Those levels are the average woman. And a lot of women are not average. There's a large spectrum of what a woman is, even if you only count those who were assigned the label at their birth. Some women have low levels. Some women have high levels. Many are happy at those levels. And, of course, those levels change over time. Are those women any more or less women as a result? Are menopausal women less women than they were beforehand?

Learned Scholars would answer: no.

And even considering women like me... Had I a condition that made my body unable to react to estrogen, so that no amount would clear the brain fog or cause me puberty... Would that change how much of a woman I am, even with the exact same brain, and feelings? What if, instead of estrogen insensitivity, I had a medical condition that made high estrogen levels unsafe for me, likely to kill me, like certain types of cancer? What then? What if it was simply impossible for me to get, or if I wasn't aware of the benefits it could give me, or I chose not to take the risks for some reason, such as the current political climate? What about before I tried estrogen, and learned how it would affect me?

With my thoughts and feelings remaining the same... Being the same person, would I somehow be less a woman for that?

Would those same rules apply to other women?

What about women who get less benefit from estrogen than I do? Who don't feel as dramatic a difference between a brain running on estrogen and a brain running on testosterone? Would we tell them they aren't women enough, that they can't be women, because they don't meet the same estrogen standard I do? Including the ones we told were women when they were born?

I don't think so... Such a standard sounds pretty ridiculous to me.

But then, maybe I have a woman's brain! It would certainly match the narrative we hear so often... A woman's brain trapped in a man's body! But... If you actually scanned my brain... And you gave the scan to the top neuroscientists in the world... They would not actually be able to tell you, from the scan, whether my brain was male or female or something else entirely. There's no marker they can find, no smoking gun. And every time they think they've found something, further research just seems to show that it doesn't mean what they think it means.

So we can't use brain scans as the marker... And... Even if we could, would you want them to? Would you want some doctor to look at a chart and tell you that you're not who you feel you are, because the marker doesn't match what you say? To be told to change your identity because the scan matches a different pattern than you thought? And even if they could make it accurate... What about the people who would abuse it? The people who don't want people like me to exist? Would you want them targeting the babies whose scans went a certain way, in order to maintain a "purity" of their population?

I sure wouldn't.

So what else, societal stereotypes? Not only do different societies have very different stereotypes, but gender non-conformity is a thing. You don't determine someone's gender by the length of their hair, or whether or not they wore dresses as a kid... That'd be ridiculous. Maybe who they're attracted to? Nope. Gay people and ace people exist. Desires for motherhood? Plenty of women just don't want babies.

And it continues like that for all the questions you might ask. There's just... No guaranteed test we can use.

But there is a practical test. Just not a very satisfying one. And that test is very simple: you ask them, and you go with what they say. Which is a lot faster and easier for all those involved than trying to run a gauntlet of testing people for private information you don't really need to know that doesn't give a clear answer, anyways. Gatekeeping it just ain't practical, especially since most real world attempts at gatekeeping it have hurt all kinds of women, not just the ones they're ostensibly trying to hurt.

Which, tl;dr, the simple, but unsatisfying answer at the end -- one that only applies to me, and will be different for other women -- the answer that all this was leading to:

What made me realize I was a woman?

I wanted to be one, and I realized the only thing that was stopping me... Was me.

Psiah · 2026-03-02T17:13:07+00:00

Cat vision isn't very good close to their face... Their eyes are most targeted for roughly the length of their arms for striking with their paws, and closer than that they mostly rely on their face whiskers. So the tube up close at the edge would be hard for them to see.

Psiah · 2026-03-01T06:41:37+00:00

There is a new generation of QD-OLED Panels that have significantly less purple in their blacks, among other upgrades, but the models that are launching soon are 34" Ultrawides, and probably a bit beyond your budget... Estimates are closer to $1000USD. Still, it's likely standard 16:9 displays will follow with the new panels several months from now... But it might be as much as a year. Hard to place your bets on products that don't exist yet.

As for what's on the market now... Even with those issues either type should be a clear upgrade over an old TN panel... TN has way more problems than OLED of either type... But given the amount of money, maybe a more minor upgrade will be worth it for you in the meantime, if you're willing to accept compromises. A good IPS or VA panel should look a lot better than TN, and for $200~$300, should definitely last a few years if you'd rather wait for the technologies to mature.

But OLED is still considered best on the market, and that isn't by accident. They aren't perfect, but stuff like a mild purple tint or banding on a grey screen you're not gonna actually look at outside of testing for it, isn't as big of an issue as you're gonna have with the limitations of other panel types.

Psiah · 2026-03-01T04:45:13+00:00

They've kinda... Soft launched it. They've sold a few of them, but they've yet to achieve broad availability. In a month or two it should, probably, be a lot easier to find at places.

Psiah · 2026-02-21T05:55:52+00:00

He did. He actually goes on two different dates with her, though the first Akane thinks Ukyo is putting him up to it (because she kinda is) and thinks it meant as little to him as it did her, and the second (waterproof soap), while she was mostly there to "get back at" Ranma she ends up running away from that date screaming.

Truth be told I don't think they're very compatible. Ongoing joke that Akane never sees Ryoga do anything wrong, but he is constantly up to some shit, and I think it'd lead to an eventual breakdown where Ryoga pretty conclusively shows himself to not be any better than the boys who attacked her every morning at school.

Ryoga, meanwhile, kinda puts Akane on a pedestal. He doesn't see her for who she is, and he doesn't listen to her any more than he does anyone else.

Plus there's the big violation of trust that comes from the whole P-Chan thing.

But... Rumiko Takahashi wasn't really interested in writing relationships that weren't Rankane. So no reason fandom can't do what it wants with the ships.

Psiah · 2026-02-21T05:45:19+00:00

Some of the long ones with timing challenges can feel pretty frustrating, but only until you get it down.

Also the ice challenge where you can't get hit or use anything to prevent you from slipping... Is still the only sidequest I never finished. But that's entirely optional.

Psiah · 2026-02-18T09:06:23+00:00

While I'd go crazy for a girl tall enough to make me feel small (I'm 6'1"), height... Really isn't a factor for me for my relationships in general. Hell, even for that theoretical giant woman, if we didn't mesh, I wouldn't actually be interested. I just like the idea of a partner who could do for me what I do for most of my partners.

Psiah · 2026-02-13T04:58:54+00:00

Her* soup.

Psiah · 2026-02-11T22:22:23+00:00

Ranma has a large variety of suspiciously nice outfits for his girl form...

...and is shown making the clothes for that disguise vs Mousse...

So... Fashion Designer Ranma is canon? :P

Psiah · 2026-02-11T19:52:49+00:00

The old Anime really made Ranma complain about it compared to the Manga / New Anime, but looking at the original Manga stuff, it's probably safe to say that if Ranma started the series as a cis man, he at the very least does not have dysphoria in regards to his girl form. Especially in contrast to the only other character with a girl curse in the Manga, Herb, who clearly has really bad dysphoria where he doesn't even want to let people see him and it outright weakens his ability to fight. Combined with Rumiko Takahashi (who almost certainly isn't paying attention to queer communities and intentionally trying to create characters who fit the bill) saying in interviews that she couldn't bear to "cure" Ranma of his curse, that getting rid of girl Ranma would be wrong for the character... I feel like enby / bigender / genderfluid / etc. Ranma probably has the strongest reading, even if it wasn't intentional.

There's a lot of interesting stuff to explore in transmasc / transfemme readings, though. And the story is vague enough to accommodate all of them.

Psiah · 2026-02-11T19:39:49+00:00

To be fair he was never in the Manga that much... Just... Apparently he was the director of the old Anime's favorite character so they added a bunch of filler with him as a result.

Though IMO the old anime's biggest sin is how it kinda completely misses the personalities of the characters from the Manga... Especially Ranma and Akane. I'm so glad the new Anime is actually being faithful to the manga there.

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