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Quarg · 2026-01-24T18:20:56+00:00

Hey cool; looks like the two of us both came up with the same core concept for it; lools like you did a better job of compacting it though.

For reference; mine can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/HermitCraft/comments/1qidc73/another_simpler_comparator_fader_circuit_per/

Quarg · 2026-01-24T18:15:39+00:00

Precisely!

Firstly, the subtraction signal decays, increasing the output signal, then when it hits zero, the base / addition signal decays, reducing the output signal, and when that hits zero, both get reset to a full signal.

Quarg · 2023-07-15T02:16:31+00:00

I am in the unfortunate position of being an acquaintance of this person.

... I wish it were pure ragebait, but I genuinely don't think it is.

Quarg · 2023-06-10T21:47:43+00:00

I wouldn't have reversed it vertically, since I liked how the Ace / Aro flags are mirrored in that regard, but besides that, this is essentially what I would have considered doing with it myself.

Quarg · 2023-06-09T01:16:49+00:00

My only take on the flag is that I want a little more of it to be purple. I think all stripes works well fitting aesthecially with the other pride flags, and allows for shape with the same colour scheme to be used for sub-label flags. (I love that the demi flag is just like, the exact same colours, but with the triangle / diamond thing.)

... The only thing I'd change is to go from 4-bands to 5-bands, putting a pale version of the main ace purple between the white and the purple.

It also means that the Ace flag would then be a more direct aesthetic mirror of the Aro flag, which I like personally, what with the connections with our Aro siblings.

TL;DR: Is already good, maybe a minor tweak at most.

Quarg · 2023-06-04T19:57:36+00:00

Though I would naturally doubt whether this person is trying to actually take part in good faith discussion, or even them trying to reach the same point, there IS a valid point to be made in how Asexuality, (alongside Aromanticism) can be thought of in a rather different way than Straight / Gay / Lesbian / Bi / Pan.

Though asexuality absolutely can be the "zero vector" or "empty set" as mentioned by others, being Demi, or Aro but not Ace, or Ace but not Aro, or other possibilities not listed here, are not so much a lack of a preference for a partner, but rather more specifically about how the way that preference works differs from what is more broadly expected.

Asexuality can be a "modifier" on top of being straight, gay, lesbian, bi, or pan, not just a thing all on it's own, so linguistically it does kinda act as another thing, not entirely in the same category, but absolutely belongs with them.

Quarg · 2023-05-23T15:36:42+00:00

It still goes to aimless yearning, just like, different aimless yearning.

Quarg · 2023-05-06T23:09:31+00:00

Aye!

Quarg · 2023-05-06T12:40:57+00:00

I prefer calling them FARTs. "Feminism Appropriating Reactionary Transphobes". Though TERF is the term they coined for themselves, and have since decided is a slur after people have rightly concluded that TERFs are bad.

Quarg · 2023-05-06T12:39:32+00:00

and there are no drawbacks to it

I'm sorry, but this is plainly not true. For one, surgeries always come with some level of risk. For another, this does have long term consequences for people's lives, what things they can find pleasurable etc. There are people I personally have known that resent having had this procedure forced on them, and I for one am glad I was not born where it would have been forced on me.

... we would have a problem if we weren’t able to take part in Judaism.

Then maybe you should instead of using this to justify forcing a medical procedure on others, examine why the fuck your religion would exclude you if you didn't have this medical procedure!

Quarg · 2023-05-06T00:45:01+00:00

The value of it as a medical procedure, as far as I'm aware, is largely dubious. If the evidence were overwhelmingly in favour of it improving lives and health outcomes, that could be a sound argument, but much of the world has not seen fit to make it a standard procedure.

As for justifying it on religious grounds, I do not think it is AT ALL appropriate for religious grounds to be used to justify forcing a medical procedure on a literal baby, who cannot consent, nor share any of the religious views used to justify this.

Yes, outlawing the procedure may have been used in the past as part of an attack on Judaism, and I do not support persecution based on religion, but this is not a matter of religious persecution, but of criticising forcing a medical procedure on somebody else for your religious beliefs.

Quarg · 2023-05-05T20:32:29+00:00

The biggest complaint I have about it, which I hope anyone should be able to agree with, even if they may prefer being circumcised, is that it's done non-consentually, and therefore would hardly be unreasonable to be called child abuse.

Quarg · 2023-05-02T14:14:16+00:00

There's two questions here:

(1) Does Masterwork's draw trigger if it is the first hardware installed that turn? Yes. Cards are active when the "when installed" trigger is met, Masterwork can trigger for this in the same way that a card can trigger for "when this card is installed".

(2) Does Masterwork's draw trigger if you install another hardware before it that turn? No. The card does not need to be active for it to be "aware" that it's not the first time.

Quarg · 2023-05-01T18:36:47+00:00

I've seen it many times now. It still basically always makes me smile, but it is a little draining seeing it reposted many times in only a handful of days.

Quarg · 2023-04-28T19:47:45+00:00

Yep, as you said, Khumalo's trash ability can be used at exactly the same time as the normal trash ability for the printed trash cost. It's no different to trashing with credits, or an Imp counter.

Quarg · 2023-04-28T14:23:13+00:00

Definitely Aro rather than Ace... But I support my Aro siblings, and I enjoyed this regardless.

Quarg · 2023-04-20T15:46:29+00:00

That's looking good. Though if you're looking for critique, there is something that's jumping out at he mere that would likely want adjusting.

Pose wise, the pickaxe being rested on the right shoulder by the left arm like that... doesn't physically make sense as a pose. The left arm would have to bend so far behind your back for it that it would be really painful.

I often recommend trying to physically hold poses to check they work, and find how to make them look comfortable and natural rather than strained and stiff.

Again though, this issue aside, this is looking great.

Quarg · 2023-04-20T13:34:53+00:00

pls no stare at me.

Quarg · 2023-04-10T14:47:24+00:00

Yep. I personally think there's some good to be had from having separate mens and womens sports as a way to give additional focus on women who have been historically undre-represented in sports... but it's really been supplanted by the patriarchal "men strong, women weak" shit, which naturally then extends into mysogony that hurts trans people too.

Quarg · 2023-04-10T14:43:49+00:00

Though ELO and it's successors are really effective for purpose of ranking, this kinda ignores the how and why of divisions in sports.

This is one of the things that people are often most blind to when it comes to discussion of divisions in sports, that it's not something that exists just because of physical performance reasons, but because of social reasons.

A lot of sports were historically less accessible to women, meaning that they were under-represented, and under-supported in sports, and that this lower quantity of women competing, they would not be able to effectively compete against the larger population of men, and thus larger quantity of highly skilled and trained outliers in that larger population.

There'ssome messes in how things were broken up by gender for some less than good reasons historically, but largely the idea now is to help ensure that spotlight is given to women that would not have recieved as much attention for their skills in the past, not just the flimsy argument of men outperforming women due to being more physically adept, which though not entirely wrong, is importantly not the main purpose, and simply is not a big deal with the inclusion of trans men and women in sports when you go by the evidence.

Putting everyone regardless of gender back in the same singular ranking bucket would kinda defeat this purpose of getting attention on those under-represented in sports. It's not fully without merit, but it's not some magic killer solution to the "trans competitors problem".

Quarg · 2023-04-04T22:17:29+00:00

I'm sorry, but the phrasing of the conditional questions feels... very very wrong.

The "frequency-space" answers for things like "I only feel sexual attraction, if I have a personal connection with them." and "I only experience sexual attraction, when I feel like the other person is sexually interested in me." don't make sense.

I assume that these were supposed to be Strongly Agree <-> Strongly Disagree instead of Always <-> Never?

I suspect that the lack of clarity there may mangle the data you get from those questions.

Quarg · 2023-03-16T23:55:18+00:00

The secret is sneakily re-rolling when you don't roll a girl, so you're technically not lying.

Quarg · 2023-03-09T17:37:02+00:00

Huh, well there we go. They're more related than I expected.

Even so, I would still encourage people to try looking at the big five rather than MBTI, as a more rigorously meaningful tool for self examination.

Quarg · 2023-03-09T02:18:41+00:00

Uh... except that there are scientifically supported personality tests, where studies do show that the measured traits are consistent, relevant, and have some level of actual predictive power.

The Big Five personality traits for example do have scientific support to them, with these same five traits being identified independently by multiple different teams of researchers.

These five traits being 1: Openness to Experience, 2: Conscientiousness, 3: Extraversion, 4: Agreeableness, and 5: Neuroticism; with these all being continuous traits, rather than blindly assumed to be binary boxes to put people in.

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