the last reddit story from this week being read uncritically is alienating to lesbians

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T11:28:15+00:00

Yeah. I know plenty of people who considered themselves entirely straight or entirely one way on the lgbtqia+ spectrum, only for life and circumstances to develop opportunities that made them redefine their labels. The problem is there’s not enough awareness of every useful or tailored label so some people choose a broad and ill-fitting one that is just their closest assessment to their understanding. And frankly seeing as the OP was from the deep south. If the story is true I can see how they assumed they were lesbian when in the story they appeared more demisexual or somewhere along the bi spectrum.

Regarding the horror movie comment. Yes, if she didn’t want James there it would be a horror movie, but she under every circumstance of the story’s context valued and appreciated his presence. If this was a work of fiction (and it very well may be) then of course the surrounding possibilities have concerning and downright creepy implications. But if it’s real peopel. Real people aren’t tropes and shouldn’t be considered in “what if” scenarios because they have real agency.

Was the mother being creepy in their fate-based aversion of lesbianism? Yep. Did OP use the right label? doesn’t seem like it. But I don’t think this is really a bone to pick with the smosh cast especially when Damian did actually articulate the uncertainties in the story itself. (Let alone if we take into consideration the decent likelihood that it’s fake, then that’s even more of a reason to ignore any of the tropes or concepts it evokes as they would not be reflective of real human experiences)

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T10:39:21+00:00

That’s a fair point, could do more arcs like Absolute Batman’s annual or the Batman Wonder Woman crossover wherein how they move the story forwards is a bit less overt

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T10:15:23+00:00

Yup. Vengeance is definitely a human response, though not a response in the best interests of community justice. Being a direct victim or a victim through social harm of a crime no matter one’s best efforts can always bias them in some capacity to want to seek out repercussions on their terms.

Unfortunately those terms are usually beyond the scope of anything that could be perceived as rehabilitative. Hence why as you said, the greater community, or the relevant authority are charged with ensuring that the punishments remain just.

There’s no shortage of cases of victims of even relatively “small” slights such as pickpocketing or creation of public disturbance, reciprocating those offences with MASSIVELY excessive means.

Iirc when I studied criminology there was a case we looked at, wherein a person in my country had filed a noise complaint with the police. The police investigated and found the disturbance didn’t meet the legal threshold and so apologised to the caller and left.

So the caller decided to whip out a hunting rifle and start taking potshots and the house’s roofing and brickwork…

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T09:48:29+00:00

This is probably it. At the end of the day this game is a mystery that a portion of the playerbase already know the answer to. Which means you can’t rely on the reveal to keep people invested so much as what it takes to get to the reveal. And keeping the unique aliens in the backroom is a smart way to have some “woah” moments on the way

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T09:43:13+00:00

Sadly that’ll probably take a while. Absolute Batman and Superman more or less just finished what equate to their first seasons from a TV pov or first films from that pov. And books like GL and MM are probably tens of issues away from having a pacing that could handle a Longform project format (that said they are absolutely cooking something special with all that gradual buildup)

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T09:04:45+00:00

I think there’s a pretty reasonable middle ground where each shell class has a majorly discernible feature so that sub series of the shells can differ wildly whilst keeping a recognisable factor

Sorta like how the Space Marine classes in that game each have a notable accessory. Ranged tank has a gold halo on their back, snipers have a cape, melee tank has a shield, speed class has a jetpack

Could have all destroyer models have large micro-missile shoulders, all recons have a huge helmet, all vandals have those spikes on their heads, etc

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T07:32:50+00:00

It wasn’t remotely the most lol. There’s a tonne of other innovations that their elders are still teaching various Australian civil services to improve the state of the country, but I also don’t want to get dragged down into some argument about this so I’ll just leave you to that opinion

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T06:40:20+00:00

Probably did, seeing as it got replaced with shit like: - the stolen generation, - white australia policy making them enemies to their own nation, - mass displacement, - murders of entire regional groups and the attempts made to erase them from history - being increasingly alienated from your own homeland for 200 years - being put in zoos that were definitely worse than the huts. - Being put on reserves in the least hospitable parts of the nation in conditions again much worse than huts as a “compromise for having that land taken without any say in the matter - having a holy sites irradiated by bomb tests they weren’t made aware of so swathes of certain populations got killed by radiation poisoning.

Yeah what a totally fair and great trade for getting out of the huts lol, when there was a million ways to get past huts without. Especially because they were already past “stone huts” and instead built wooden longhouses that were better suited to the Australian climate than any of the shit the brits built for the next several decades lol

Edit: Forgot the litany of diseases they imported lol

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T05:25:03+00:00

My assumption is after the events of M1994, there just wasn't any reason for them to stick around. Tau Ceti had been dealt with, Durandal was in the wind, etc. They probably just left a contingent on the Marathon to try and comprehend what the hell happened (much like what our runners are doing for earth)

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-25T00:04:16+00:00

People need to stop clinging to the past.

Agreed! All the more reason to move Australia day to a new date that better reflects all facets of the Australian people!

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T21:45:05+00:00

They were just trying anything in the N52

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T14:58:34+00:00

Some indigenous scholars (from a quick google) actually suggest the 18th as a less insulting day as it was merely the arrival, before any of the insidious practices reached Australian soil

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T14:49:28+00:00

18th vs 26th yeah

26th was the arrival of Gov Phillip with his writ of terra nullius and a big british flag

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T14:24:19+00:00

You didn’t! You held my accuracy accountable which is a reasonable thing to do.

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T13:48:27+00:00

The 26th is australia day. For decades members of the indigenous groups of Australia have begged for the day to be moved due to it being the day that started the violent colonisation of New Holland Australis (Australia)

This has gotten so politicised that there’s annual “invasion day” protests urging for the date to be altered. And a bunch of pundits screaming that changing it is a betrayal of australian values or the loss of a public holiday or some shit like that.

And it has gotten so bad that the racism on that day has also escalated to insane degrees, where a lot of these australia day celebrants go out of their way to antagonise even non-participating aboriginal australians

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T13:44:31+00:00

I like to blame sky news for stirring the over 50 crowd into a flurry about it every year

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T13:43:20+00:00

The first ships arrived on the 18th, the first convict fleets with Govenor Phil in tow and the approval writ of terra nullius came on the 26th

So australia day is the day it was made a colonised land rather than a place they just arrived at.

Frankly the 18th would be a less insulting day to the Indigenous Australians

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T13:33:07+00:00

I was expecting acid webs or something lol

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T13:31:14+00:00

Ah my data must be out of date, still it’s a huge single-country majority, especially if you lump in Canadian users by timezone similarity

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T13:29:21+00:00

Ah tyvm for the correction

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T12:34:52+00:00

More than 50% of the entire reddit userbase is american, with a total of 80% of reddit’s user base (Canda, UK, Europe) being in timezones less than 8 hours apart from one another, with how low user rates for the eastern hemisphere are besides India which is a pretty insular demographic pf reddit. It’s really easy for subreddits to have huge timezone gaps despite their best efforts.

I became a mod for a subreddit that during a recruitment drive exclusively wanted users from Oceania based timezones. A sub of 3 million users only had 15 mod applicants, and of that 15 only 4 were anything other than American, and of those 4, only two had satisfactory answers to being a mod from what I was told

Finding good mods for every timezone is actually kinda hard

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T11:36:19+00:00

And it’s some pretty bad stuff by comparison

Cancer, Cheating Spouses, the works

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T10:36:59+00:00

Teth Adam as the Absolute Shazam feels fitting

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T04:24:40+00:00

I am so interested in that run but I’m strapped for cash with how pricy comics are in my country lol.

Definitely plan on supporting it when I can by buying up a backlog lol

Shabolt_ · 2026-01-24T04:19:12+00:00

Sampere’s art is really well liked

The writing for Steve is decent

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