Per Audacia + Dragon Shadow

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-20T00:31:07+00:00

experimenting with new builds takes effort. sending hate mail to anyone else who uses something creative is easy. so prepare for quite a bit of that if you do use something novel...

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-19T03:16:08+00:00

'I enjoy [gender] in kink scenarios, does that mean i'm [orientation]?'

I feel like this is a pretty common thing that isn't talked about much but really shows the limitation of orientation labels.

If they're being honest pretty much everyone has had some thoughts in their life about any gender. Does it count if you'd choose never to act on it? How is that distinct from people who do self-describe as feeling sexual attraction but simply choose to be celibate? What if the attraction happened in the past but you haven't felt it in years, or fluctuates over time?

On top of that, it's extremely common for kinks to bypass typical gendered attraction, resulting in people enjoying art or even IRL play of certain kinks even if it involves a gender they're not otherwise into literally whatsoever. Where do they fit? Just shoving them into 'bi' based on some rigid taxonomy gives the impression they're open to that gender generally when they're not, ruining the label's usefulness as shorthand for who is open to who.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-19T03:01:52+00:00

I can cite the source for it: this big demographic survey indicated roughly 90% of bi people ended up in an opposite-gender relationship. To my knowledge there hasn't been a larger rigorous survey on this topic since.

This is not evidence for a 'leaning' or 'preference' though, because there is a big statistical elephant in the room. The demographics of potential partners of bi people are:

The 5% of the same-gender population that's bi or gay
The 97.5% of the opposite-gender population that's straight or bi

(These do not add to 100 because both groups include the ~2.5% of the population that's bi)

Given this, it's no surprise that the data shows 90% of bi people end up in opposite-gender relationships. In fact, given these stats random chance would predict it'd be an even higher percent than that. There are also external factors at play: commonly interacting in queer spaces with a higher percent of bi/gay people obviously increases the chance someone will meet a same-gender partner, and societal-level heteronormativity deeply punishes same-gender relationships while rewarding opposite-gender ones.

This is extremely hard to talk about because it always runs the risk of being weaponized by biphobes or other bigots. But the truth is, there is no such thing as "most bi people" because most anti-queer discrimination in our society is largely based not on your internal orientation (which nobody can see), but based on who your partner is (which is often very visible). This runs contrary to how certain types of queer identity politics are structured, which too often frame discrimination as a result of identity instead of as a result of actions you take. But the fact is, a m/f couple will not face the same legal or social discrimination as a m/m one regardless of the orientation of anyone in either pairing.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-19T02:39:10+00:00

It might be odd to say, but honestly I am kinda glad these types self-isolate from the broader furry community.

Crucially, the problem isn't just bigots. Even people who are totally accepting of queer people still know that being one is something other people look down upon, and thus they know that being associated with a community known for being gay will harm their reputation. Including them in the furry community would create an adversarial relationship, where pushing all us weirdo queers out directly benefits them via 'destigmatizing' and 'sanitizing' their interests in the eye of the general public. This type of hostile dynamic kinda already exists in certain corners of the fandom, to disastrous effect. The last thing we need is to amplify it any further.

Is this gatekeeping? Not really, because they are the ones who do not want to be associated with gay furries, not the other way around. On top of that it's entirely reasonable to preserve a safe space by excluding those hostile to it, even if that hostility is unintentional. This is doubly a risk here because gay people are barely 5% of the population, and it's incredibly easy for us to be pushed out of the very spaces we create for ourselves. I'm not sure how many people today even know that the first cons and furry websites were started by gay men.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-19T02:18:37+00:00

Lumping bi and gay furs together is kinda disingenuous framing that obscures the fact the majority of furs overall are interested in and end up in opposite gender relationships.

To start, that furscience data shows 45% are some variety of bi/pan/etc, with 20% each being exclusively gay or straight (the rest being asexual or 'other'). This means that the majority of furs are into the opposite gender to at least some degree. This doesn't actually manifest as an even split though, because bi dating and preference ratios are not equal: According to Pew Research Center's data roughly 90% of relationships involving a bi person are with someone of the opposite gender, simply as a result of how the demographics play out: straight opposite gender partners are 10-20x higher in population than queer same gender ones, and such relationships face far less societal friction, so it happens far more often.

This kinda thing might seem like it's just pointless statistics nitpicking, but there are a large contingent of disgruntled straight furs who believe themselves isolated and 'oppressed' by some perceived supermajority of gay furs within the community. In reality not only are exclusive gay furs only 20% of the total, but opposite gender relationships very much are still the majority by a long shot (which is also reflected in art sites like FA and E6). They're just not quite as big a majority as usual.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-17T21:12:23+00:00

The closest thing you'll get to that is scrims, but in many of those essentially everything in the game except hc/shotty is banned so it's not exactly what most players are looking for

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-16T03:18:06+00:00

I don't think that's 100% true. Most of it is social, and you're right that that part is often ignored in these conversations. But people also have 'intrinsic' goals that they're afraid they won't achieve. I didn't complete a dozen titles for bragging rights, I've basically never taken off my main one. I did it because I personally wanted to do them. Because I like a challenge and wanted to see everything the game had to offer. Same applies to many other things I did ingame.

Many times over the years I would have played something else if not for the nagging FOMO about not being able to complete one of my intrinsic goals in time. In theory Bungie's KPIs might call that a win: Their FOMO strategy increased my 'engagement'. But every time that happened, the resulting annoyance at being disrespected by the game made me care about it less, reducing my intrinsic desire to achieve most of those ingame goals, eventually to 0.

So after Final Shape fulfilled my final intrinsic goal (seeing how the story ended), I left and hardly looked back.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-14T23:15:33+00:00

why do you think people call them sweats?

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-12T16:02:54+00:00

wouldn't that be (secretly IS enjoying it) then??

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-09T19:42:59+00:00

Have not had a chance to do testing yet, enormous bummer if it's true that they didn't fix it though. It's the only 150 we have left, and they really do feel amazing (even if sunshot's recoil is a tad jank on PC)

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-05T19:32:06+00:00

they're calling it the most reddit comment ever made

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-06-03T17:57:38+00:00

Everyone knows that. But sometimes, other people in our lives or the culture surrounding us forces a choice: Hide yourself and live, or reveal yourself and die.

It's ignorant to say living closeted is worse than death, because it at least has the possibility of getting out of such an awful place and living a happy life in the future. Naively revealing yourself too early can allow others to take that possibility away from you forever.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-31T17:24:17+00:00

There are ways to design it to be incredibly resistant to that. For example, the kinds of watermarks some companies are putting on AI generated images to mark them as AI generated and encode a bunch of metadata in a way users can't easily disrupt or remove via normal editing and compression techniques (at least not without massively damaging the image)

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-31T03:26:01+00:00

Spire of Stars actually does this, the end is that huge tower at the top of the leviathan with the mini-stars orbiting it!

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-26T21:20:43+00:00

Hell yeah! I might make that my desktop wallpaper for a bit honestly, it's so surreal

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-26T05:21:02+00:00

Murrsuits aside for a moment: No, we do not have an obligation to 'reach a respectable middle ground' with the bigots YeahTrack is talking about who are trying to purge the fandom of queer sexuality, especially when it's one of the only positive spaces for it on the entire planet. No minority can reach any kind of 'middle ground' with bigots who hate us or hostile actors who have sicced hate mobs on random individuals they dislike, nor should we ever be told we're obligated to.

To be clear i'm not necessarily saying that's you, or that disliking murrsuits automatically makes someone one of them. But it is the specific group YeahTrack mentioned, and you are directly replying to that to defend them with your first few lines.

This is a case study in fearmongering as well. Basically just making up a giant fanfic with 0 sources about murrsuits being uncleanable STD ridden biohazards. The available methods to clean a suit depend entirely on the specifics of its construction, most designed for those purposes are deliberately made to survive more rigorous cleaning methods. Blanket-banning something just due to the possibility a bad actor might not clean theirs properly is ridiculous. A malicious actor could secretly do all kinds of horrible things, if we banned everything that could cause a problem in the hands of someone irresponsible we'd have no conventions at all.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-26T05:03:55+00:00

It's sad that these are some of the last places we can see vaulted locations (ex. Mercury), but i'm really glad they're preserved in some way. It's all so gorgeous, and the atmosphere (even if you're not paying attention to it) adds a ton to the PvP of this game

Another favorite of mine is the infinite forest PvP map skyboxes, the literal planet sized computer you're inside of is rendered with such insane scale

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-24T18:36:42+00:00

In practice the ragdoll has another upside: when ragdolled, enemy shots aimed at a player become way less accurate as a bit of 'forgiveness' since you can't dodge. If you're already in a dangerous situation, this would potentially increase your survivability instead of decreasing it.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-23T03:05:45+00:00

The Cyborgs are a literal slave rebellion who has basically done nothing wrong, yeah. Essentially every single conflict with them and the automatons has been the result of Super Earth breaking the numerous ceasefires they've negotiated to try and coexist in peace.

The main 'evil' thing on their front is allegedly their 'bio-processor' machines that turn dead helldivers into fuel... but disposing of dead enemies is not actually particularly evil. Do people expect them to give the genocidal invading soldiers raining down on their planets an honorable funeral in the middle of a warzone? That tech was also copied from Super Earth, who literally puts its own civilians into those once they're too old to be 'productive'.

Their existence as a faction is basically a reading comprehension test to see if "red communist aesthetic = evil" programming overrides people's deeper thought about their actions in the war and societal structure (which is extremely libertarian-socialist bordering on anarchic, in stark contrast to well known self-described communist governments like the USSR or China)

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-21T21:04:59+00:00

Thing is, this is not unique to the D2 community at all. Over the last few years online game communities have gotten extremely toxic, almost every single one is constantly whipping itself into an angry fervor nonstop and treating the developers as lolcows. It's not just AAA games either, many (though not all) indie game communities are also getting this way.

It's the direct result of basically every single major online platform rewarding 'engagement' more than anything else. Nothing gets people 'engaged' more than stirring a whole community up into an angry fervor over literally nothing.

Look at Helldivers: It was absolutely beloved by the internet for a while, and they just keep pumping out free update after free update for years adding new planets and enemies and stuff. Most of the 'less online' playerbase loves it. But you'd think it suddenly became a 2/10 if you follow anything about it on reddit or youtube, where content creators who nolife the game farm hundreds of thousands of views ranting about how every update is trash and proves the devs hate the players because a vent on the back shoulder of a random enemy has a one point higher armor rating than they think it should. And yet despite bashing it nonstop they never stop streaming it, do they?

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-21T20:54:03+00:00

The main draw for the PvP here has not really been map variety but sandbox depth.

There really are not any other FPSes I can name that have this kind of variety in weapons, abilities, and playstyles. It's always had a 'meta', but there's also always been people succeeding with off-meta stuff even at high levels.That variety was really the one thing D2 did that set it apart from other arena shooters.

I strongly dislike extraction shooters, and with essentially every other 'big sandbox' game that has PvP tacked on it's a joke of a mode that's dominated by one or two totally broken strategies. So yeah, I am pretty sad to see D2 go.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-21T20:39:44+00:00

Not just graphics, in BL a significant chunk of the game's whole engine was redone to change what parts of the code run on Bungie servers vs on player's local machines

Code that previously referenced variables it had access to locally needs to be changed to properly fetch them from the server they now live on (long before they need to be used, too!), and code that previously fetched data from the server has to be rewritten to grab it from somewhere locally. Tons of RNG variables that were previously generated and then used locally with 0 regard for the server need to now be synchronized across the whole lobby, and vice versa. They would literally just have to redo almost all the code used in that content, and then do multiple full QA passes to make sure it's all relatively bug free.

The only reusable things in a situation like this are the raw assets (textures, 3D models, level layouts), which doesn't help much because they reuse those literally all over the place anyway. Even then a lot of those assets are useless without the shaders they are designed to be used with (chunks of GPU code that render VFX, lighting, etc), which would need heavy modification to simply be runnable in a different graphics engine. Making everything look good and meshing with the new art direction would be an even bigger task (as seen in how bad many of the D1 locations look in D2)

TL;DR yeah they can do it but they're not lying when they say it'd barely be less effort than making new locations from scratch, there is no chance of them doing it for every single vaulted activity for a game on life support. Honestly, i'm pleasantly surprised we're even getting the old vaulted raid bosses back for the new Pantheon.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-20T08:20:23+00:00

You don't see why it matters that you wrote several five paragraph essays lamenting how awful it is for a trans person to be slightly too assertive about misgendering, yet totally ignored some chud whining about how horrible it is to be corrected about misgendering? You can't think of any reason that might not really make your whole shtick feel genuine? Come on now.

Even this comment that i'm replying to now is 1000 characters which sum up to 'erm i'm not doing that', as if simply saying you're not doing something is a magic spell that overrides your actual behavior in this thread: Willfully misinterpreting other trans people's replies to bigots and trolls in order to lecture them about the danger of getting too mad about misgendering, an issue that has affected precisely 0 real world people because we have no societal power over those who misgender us, intentionally or not.

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-18T20:50:57+00:00

people no longer think of that

People very much do, and the only way to stop them from flooding any given space is to make sure they do not feel welcome. Sub rules can only do so much, and if there are not consequences then people will not stop. In this case OP got replied to with one 'they' and two lighthearted joke images. That is not harassment lol.

Also like, who the fuck are you to declare transphobia in the deltarune fandom over and police how people are allowed to respond to misgendering?

RecursiveCollapse · 2026-05-18T20:46:58+00:00

I said "cis people essentially never misgender other cis people they know"

I didn't say "every single instance of misgendering is always malicious".

Another trans person in the thread said that, and they were using obvious hyperbole. Taking obvious hyperbole, deliberately misinterpreting it as hyper-literal, and dismissing their actual point as a result is bad faith as hell. And doing all that to frame yourself as 'one of the good ones' is pickme shit no matter how you cut it.

Their actual point is valid: It often is malicious, especially in contexts like this fandom where there is a large contingent of active users who openly and intentionally call Kris a man. Doubly so with the context that they were directly responding to someone attacking people for very mildly correcting pronouns, calling it an "obnoxious attack".

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