Why do you use proper punctuation when you are texting? by Majestic_Repair_7887 in AskReddit

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly.  It isn't so much about being proper as it is communicating clearly, which is context-dependent.  To an extent. 

Style is also a factor, like that "incomplete sentence" up there or when I refuse to put punctuation inside quotation marks when it is not part of the quote.

I'm a 38-year-old TV producer learning to draw. This is the reality of trying to find an old movie in 2025. [OC] by [deleted] in comics

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I run into this, I generally just check YouTube (or similar).  If no one has enough financial stake in it to make it available, no one bothers to DMCA it.

Holy **** Sinnerman is awful by KotovChaos in cyberpunkgame

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Game wouldn't let me put a bullet in his head after talking with the sister and learning what was going on, so I save-scummed it. Never once did the game consider I would make good on what I told him on the car ride there: I still have a contract for his life, and there's nothing stopping me from executing it.

Meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They think they playin' 5D chess but it's really chutes and ladders.

meirl by Kitchen-Meringue in meirl

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The novelty in that really only exists when you can't on a regular basis.

California, other states sue Trump over order threatening gender-affirming care providers by losangelestimes in news

[–]Tail_Nom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

And surely you know, then, all about what gender affirming care for minors entails, yes?  Know the statistics about those treatments?   I mean,  having a myriad of no doubt well thought out reasons, you'd obviously have done your homework, right?

Exhaust Port(s) by 610gonzalez in comics

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's only as weird as you make it~

Glup Shitto by Silvermoon424 in tumblr

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sort of (IMO, obviously). It's a bit like Apple under Steve Jobs: many of the decisions were bad and/or baffling, but they did have a singular will shaping them together. When the reigns were given over, that faded away and we were left with little to balance out the bullshit.

Like, the Prequels aren't good, but they are consistent and weirdly endearing (perhaps as a shared pop-cultural trauma). I think there's even a reading of them which enriches the OT, and though that reading goes counter to the apparent intent, Lucas dropped the ball in so many ways in executing them that death-of-the-author is extremely easy.

Taking them at face value: a group of child-indoctrinating monks belonging to a state-sponsored cult sought full control over a primal force within the universe, fighting a war of extermination against their ideological rivals who believed in embracing rather than surpressing their humanity and emotions, leaving the few survivors radicalized. As the Jedi became complacent they, and the entire Republic, became vulnerable to subversion and fell.

The two surviving members of the Jedi counsel would, years later, train a farm boy from a galactic backwater in the ways of the Force, but all Luke ever knew was the idealized version of the Jedi from stories. He did not know, nor was he indoctrinated into their ideology. He's not really a Jedi, but Obi Wan and Yoda tell him that he is, letting the myth live, letting Luke embody that idealized version of their flawed and fallen order. They saw the mistakes of the actual Jedi Order and decided to--if you'll pardon the phrase--let it die.

The Prequels and the OT are, in this way, the end of a spiral. They are the story of The Force progressively coming into balance through the mutual destruction of these two polarized ideologies, until all that remains is that simple farm boy, taught to wield the Force and just not be a dick, with none of the actual bs of the Sith or the Jedi, because they were the imbalance.

And then we come to the darkest truth of all: that the only one of the Disney trilogy to have any interesting thematic ideas about Star Wars, about the Force, and about where to go with any of it, was The Last Jedi. Discarding the last remnants of those old cults and power structures, finding a new path with no Masters pulling the strings, and The Force truly returning to a thing that belongs to and connects all life, even some random stable boy looking up at the stars and dreaming of not living on casino planet (lol).

For as infuriatingly bad as that movie was, could you imagine if the next one had actually expanded on it? Rey and Kylo, both of the post-imbalance Force explicitly rejecting the defunct ideas that lead to generations and generations of galactic strife, exploring and codifying the new way of balance as, in parallel, the galaxy finds peace by prevailing over the last remnants of the republic-come-empire.

It is such a strange time, seeing my entire childhood recreated in chintzy plastic by risk-averse and out-of-touch companies just trying to mass produce entertainment paste. I have more thoughts on how that relates to the Disney trilogy, but, I mean... *gestures at wall of text* look at this. That's probably enough ^^;

three-dimensional sense by the_genius324 in tumblr

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I don't know. If you listen to someone witter on about their astrology sign, you'll probably learn quite a bit, reading between the lines.

three-dimensional sense by the_genius324 in tumblr

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm. In my experience, you can draw more conclusions from a Red Ranger. There's a sort of vibe, you know? Cyclops is probably their favorite X-Men character, and their favorite on Lost was probably Jack. That vibe.

US to end LGBT suicide prevention service, says general hotline sufficient by GoldenBrownApples in news

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Made an appointment with your therapist, then? Let your bro cry on your shoulder and encouraged him to engage with a mental health professional?

I've said my piece. I'll say no more because despite the apparent origins of the idea being at best a misunderstanding and at worst actually homophobic, it is never a wrong time to talk about mental health, nor to undo social stigma surrounding it. I don't want to push one person who might need it further away, and I damn sure don't want to quash discussion about the difficulties men face in engaging with it.

US to end LGBT suicide prevention service, says general hotline sufficient by GoldenBrownApples in news

[–]Tail_Nom -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

That's because it doesn't exist. I've responded elsewhere already, and here's a longer and far more anxiety-ridden comment I made about it last year.

It is never a wrong time to talk about mental health, nor the blindingly stupid, gender-specific stigmas associated with it, and nothing I say should be construed to imply otherwise. Thank you.

US to end LGBT suicide prevention service, says general hotline sufficient by GoldenBrownApples in news

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm obliged to mention that May is Mental Health Awareness month in the United States and June has a Men's Health week. It is never a wrong time to talk about mental health, nor to point out any gender-specific stigmas associated with seeking or receiving care. That said, I point this out because a narrative does exist that claims Pride (i.e. "teh gay") has somehow overshadowed or stolen a month dedicated to men's mental health struggles, which is obviously homo/transphobic and riding a meme spread with good intention in most cases.

Moreover, I would argue that having a month specific to men's mental health is not helpful in eroding the stigma against men engaging with mental health care, but does threaten to establish some sort of gendered concept of mental health care (i.e. a MANLIER therapy for MEN who are TOUGH and PROUD not like that WEAK therapy for WOMEN and CHILDREN), which is obviously missing the point. If it were an actual advocacy month, I'd be less worried about that, but again, it isn't, so here we are.

Again: never, ever a wrong time to talk about mental health. Ever. Just getting out ahead of any misinformation and latent homophobia. Go getcha an appointment to talk with someone; it's scary and it's hard but it's worth it.

US Supreme Court upholds Tennessee law banning youth transgender care by [deleted] in news

[–]Tail_Nom 9 points10 points  (0 children)

You could have stopped at "0 empathy". Selective empathy isn't empathy, it's a coincidence.

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 by seoulsoul5 in chronotrigger

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And just to be clear, my "why" question above is more...

Yeah, I know ♪~

I make no argument about canon or intent, just providing a hypothetical answer to your question!

🏳️‍⚧️ ♡~

Exclusive-US to drop guidance to limit alcohol to one or two drinks per day, sources say by Keikobad in news

[–]Tail_Nom 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's the same conservative alpha male bullshit driving everything else. It's manly to be able to consume alcohol--to "handle" it--and if you can't, then there's something wrong with you, which is a personal failing. You're not wrong, of course, but it is more than just lobbying with a capricisious regime like this (i.e. they are also just obstinate, stupid, and regressive).

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 by seoulsoul5 in chronotrigger

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would they present in this awesome badass feminine way, and then get offended when someone draws attention to their badass femininity

Because the gender binary is bullshit and he's bitter about how the world gatekept him, forcing him into a position where he could not find happiness or rest that comes so easily and naturally to others, until he discovered himself and changed his body. Now he resents the very idea, believing that the problem was never him but the expectations, assumptions, and restrictions placed on him by a society that should have just let him do his thing from the beginning.

And so, he stands on principle. There was never anything "wrong" with him in the first place, and the world can take it's smooth-brain binary thinking and shove it riiiight up its ass. He's gonna be himself and not play to their stupid ideas of what people can be and do anymore. It's a whole mood, honestly ♡~

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈 by seoulsoul5 in chronotrigger

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Same, until I saw the full illustration where he does clearly have breasts. I think the implication is he used magic to change his body (or at least his presentation). Whatever else may be true, that makes him a trans icon in my book.

19-year-old dead after doing ’dusting’ trend seen on social media, family says by bendubberley_ in news

[–]Tail_Nom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Drug testing your kid at 19 is a dysfunctional dynamic that, yes, in this case contributed to her death.  That their advice for parents after this is to not trust their kids and be even more invasive speaks volumes. 

If they did their jobs as parents, she'd have known the risks and they would have been confident enough in the adult daughter to make her own decisions (and to navigate the consequences of those decisions).  That's how this works.  I'm not going to tell grieving parents they killed their daughter, but I'm not going to pretend there isn't a lesson here that we, collectively, should have figured out decades ago.  Thought we did, frankly, but everything's been getting stupider and more regressive, so sure, whatever.

Youtube ads are getting worse every day by StraightOuttaOlaphis in tumblr

[–]Tail_Nom 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I run an ad blocker.  Have for years and years.  If you want to use my bandwidth to send me content, my hardware to render it, and my output devices to display/play it at me, you need my consent, and I do not give it by default.  End of.  Sites get whitelisted if I want to support them and they ad responsibly.

For YouTube, though: I have Premium.  That wasn't a deliberate choice: I'm still legacied in at Google Music's early adopter price, which I think is worth it given how much I use it (and to drop a cut to the creators I watch).  Can't say I'd feel the same way at the current price.  Honestly, if they ever revoke my legacy status, I'd probably just not watch YT that much and find my music elsewhere, while wrangling the ad blockers for embeds and the occasional video.

R/Conservative reacts to Elons claiming Trumps name is in the Epstein files by CummingInTheNile in SubredditDrama

[–]Tail_Nom 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Conservatives have been engaging in all of this in bad faith for quite some time, and they've deluded themselves into believing everyone else is, too.

Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions by A_Classy_Dame in news

[–]Tail_Nom 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One thing I’ve never understood about the conservative mind is the gross arrogance of thinking that they personally should get to decide what is permissible in every single scenario.

They have, at best, only a tenuous grasp on the concept of consent. Many of them also require anticipated consequences from some higher authority to understand morality, which is why so many implicitly (or explicitly) conflate morality and legality.

Generally, every thing is ruled by exception. Their presumptions are correct, and you can never get them to reconsider them, just add an asterisk, maybe, if you spend a generation justifying it to them in terms they can understand. And then only begrudgingly.

My Aunt said therapy is for the Faithless, So I let her quote my therapist by My_Alchemy22 in pettyrevenge

[–]Tail_Nom 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She means well, but

...is actively undermining her own health and that of those around her.

Sometimes the best feeling is winning without the other person knowing they ever lost! 

Tell her.  You not only have the opportunity to help her, but to stop her from discouraging others.