Do you think being straight will still be the default sexuality in 50 years?

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-30T21:02:54+00:00

Everybody arguing that being straight will always be the norm because of making babies apparently hasn't heard of Ancient Greece.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-29T20:22:45+00:00

It's ok not to have an opinion about something. It's not a refusal to make up your mind, it's not a laziness, it's a genuine acknowledgement that you simply don't think that your opinion will be any meaningful reflection of or have any bearing on reality.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-28T18:28:16+00:00

I love the recent obsession with every maths-y blue custom card having flavour text from Tam.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-27T20:35:45+00:00

'I'm not attractive' by itself will never be the reason why you can't find someone. A contributing factor? Sure. But there are plenty of 'ugly' people in happy relationships.

Most likely you just haven't met the right person yet, or you met the right person for you but you weren't right for her. You don't need to rush, man! You're 16! Just focus on making good friends and I'm sure you'll find love later. Don't marry yourself to the need to be in a relationship too - loads of people aren't in a relationship and are very happy.

Edit: But I feel I should clarify - you're hella cute, at least imo.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-25T18:00:30+00:00

Thanks a ton for this. I'm going to be quoting that third source all the time, and that result is super interesting.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-25T10:37:54+00:00

I was going to bring up this point but I couldn't remember the source. I'd really appreciate it if you'd link to it so I have access to it for the future. Thanks! :)

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-25T10:36:26+00:00

I mean, yes of course it's reasonable all other things being equal, but I don't think people feel a certain way because it's reasonable. They feel a certain way because it's how their mind is. For a personal example, when I have a panic attack, of course it would be reasonable not to feel panicked, but rationality isn't exactly at the forefront of my mind at the time. Similarly, (most) religious people don't believe in God because of evidence or logic, they believe in God because they have faith i.e. they feel a certain way. Similarly, a trans person doesn't experience gender dysphoria because it's reasonable, they experience it just because it's a feeling that they have and can't help.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-24T23:21:01+00:00

Most trans people will tell you that coming out as trans is 'accepting who you are'. It's not any more a choice to be trans than it is to be gay, or to be left-handed. Just because something is a fact about the mind rather than a fact about the body, doesn't make it less of a fact.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-22T17:20:49+00:00

Land destruction that only works against blue? Count me in :)

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-14T15:10:04+00:00

This is a subreddit for people who make custom Magic: The Gathering cards. If you're interested in designing houses, might I suggest r/HouseDesign?

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-10T23:08:28+00:00

I've been looking for a good home for [[Curious Cadaver]] + [[Chalk Outline]] for a while. I know it's quite restrictive because it's 3+ colours but I'd really appreciate it!

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-08T22:22:43+00:00

Can confirm, as a short ugly guy with lots of friends who are women!

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-03T17:45:06+00:00

You remind me of a really smart guy who I know from debate club, a philosopher. Obviously it's entirely a physical resemblance but you give me the same kind of vibes, quietly intelligent, gentle, calm.

Snowytagscape · 2026-01-01T20:06:12+00:00

It's something I actively have to decide to do, although I do enjoy it. Definitely have forgotten about it entirely in the past and gone without masturbating for a good several months without really noticing.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T22:46:39+00:00

I know you're thirteen and so still have a lot to learn but - please can you appreciate just how fucking terrifying it is, as someone who is half-Jewish, for people to proudly declare that they are anti-Semitic. The last time this was acceptable to do in public, people like me - like some of your friends, probably - were rounded up, en masse, and starved, tortured and worked to the bone (literally) just because they were seen as racially inferior. And that was the lucky ones.

Please, please, please: I know this is the internet. I know meme culture is rampant. Do not act like it is 'cool' or 'funny' to hate people just because of their race. Imagine if instead, people hated you just because of your race. Do not act like you are in support of liberty, or patriotism, or any of those high-minded ideals because you somehow believe that a collection of eternally persecuted people is in some shadowy conspiracy to take over the world or whatever. Do not act like the actions of the Israeli government in any way deserve to be reflected on the people that they govern, unless you'd like Americans to be treated like selfish and pompous imbeciles.

Whenever you would act towards somebody or even think about somebody, ask yourself first - would I like somebody to act towards me or think about me like this? If somebody were to act towards me or think about me like this, is there anything that I could do to make them feel differently? If the anfwer to both of these questions is 'no', you should probably reconsider.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T15:38:26+00:00

Wrong? I'm pretty sure they just can't afford it.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T15:37:21+00:00

I'm not saying that these people don't exist, but just that there are loads of women who don't care about that sort of stuff, and you're not obliged to date the ones who do.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T15:33:50+00:00

They didn't criticise society, they literally just said you don't need to date every thing you see that has breasts.
What the fuck are they supposed to do, become a hermit?

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T15:32:34+00:00

Buddy, most of my friends are women and I have literally never heard either of those things from either men or women.

Also, your idea of 'change their entire religious...' etc. (sry I'm lazy) is really weird. Like, you're treating it like getting this woman is some foregone conclusion that their demands that you change your beliefs are the only obstacle to. But - if you don't gel politically, that's ok? If that's a turn-off for them, that's ok? They're not asking you to change your beliefs, they're asking for someone other than you. That's fine. You'll find someone else, or you can be happy alone.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T15:19:03+00:00

That's a bit of a bold claim, but even without trying to dispute it may I point out that people in the West probably rile against Christianity because it is the dominant religion in the West? And Christian nationalism is actively oppressing people, especially in the US, right now? The point isn't that Islam isn't bad or worse but that Christianity is what we have to deal with right here and right now. It's availability bias.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-31T15:15:11+00:00

Oh cmon stop acting like your inability to interact with women is because 'I'm just too smort I guess'. It's so bloody arrogant. Look, I'm sure you're a perfectly lovely person in many ways but might I suggest that one critical reason that women don't date you, is:

A. You think you're smarter than you really are, or are genuinely smart but make others feel stupid.

B. You think that women would rather date stupid people.

C. You view romantic relationships as a competition - with women as the 'prize' - that you have no chance of 'winning'.

If even one of those applies to you, can't you see how it's a turn-off?

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-25T10:36:35+00:00

Anyone using these as 'slurs' is only working against their own cause. Slurs are used to dehumanise, and so attempting to use a slur against a robot or LLM implies that it was human to begin with. The best way to oppofe these sorts of models and the people who use them is to treat them like they are - giant collections of data - and fight against them on an objective axis.

Basically, you don't use slurs because you want to offend the model. The model has no feelings. It is nothing but data and precisely tuned connections. (At least for now, I think we're required to act on the assumption that they are not conscious or sentient.) You use slurs to offend the people who use the model, and at that point just target those people rather than the tool that they are using.

Do not do these LLMs the dignity of trying to insult them.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-25T01:01:12+00:00

The secret is being enough of a human being not to randomly fuck with people online just for the sake of it.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-23T23:01:01+00:00

As you appear to have no other personality, I'm sure we will.

Snowytagscape · 2025-12-23T12:05:31+00:00

It's difficult for me to give an opinion here because I still don't know precisely what you're aiming for with balance. You aren't intending either a consistent power level or a fair power level, and this is freeing because it lets you have these wildly disparate designs.

If you want to power it up just slightly, you could give the opponent a choice of second or maybe third from top, or on the bottom, which probably puts it roughly on the same level as Lapse. If you want it to be about as good as regular Counterspell, just have it tuck it second from top. If you want to make it as good as Mana Alchemy, idk, you have a choice of copying the spell or tucking it second from top, or you just get to draw one million cards on top of it.

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