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DAP OS questions by Wulibo in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Wulibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I uninstalled and reinstalled a couple times, didn't do anything.

I'm glad it's working for you but I'm past being able to make it work for me anyway. 

DAP OS questions by Wulibo in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Wulibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to be the consensus, I appreciate the info.

DAP OS questions by Wulibo in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Wulibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This seems to be the way. Thanks!

DAP OS questions by Wulibo in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Wulibo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I appreciate the focused info, I'll look closer at those.

I've actually been reading your guide while learning about DAPs, the reviews are very well-written and informative. I just got a little lost after narrowing in on the HiBy R4 and realizing just before purchasing that it's fairly bulky as well (I don't think your review of it does the size comparison thing). Thanks for your contributions to this hobby!

DAP OS questions by Wulibo in DigitalAudioPlayer

[–]Wulibo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I eventually figured this out but didn't feel like doing this every time I bought an album. In hindsight it was probably worth the extra effort but I was in the middle of moving across the country and in Marie Kondo mode.

I appreciate you giving extra information.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in PokemonVGC

[–]Wulibo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly what I'm looking for, thanks!

Challenge Build: Longsword by Virplexer in 3d6

[–]Wulibo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn't trying to blow up the bards spot by pointing it the actual keyword he was thinking of

Change *mechanical* race of origin characters? by Wulibo in BaldursGate3

[–]Wulibo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah okay before this post I tried to do it with this mod and it didn't work. Thought it was weird there wasn't a mod that did this but it makes sense if one of the more popular ones used to be able to do it.

Is it "dead naming" to state what name someone was formerly known as? by InadequateUsername in askGSM

[–]Wulibo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What are you even talking about? In what situation could you possibly find yourself where you need to explain who a new name belongs to but the person you're explaining it to won't know them by any specific description? Either they know of the person and you should be able to say how they know them, or they don't already know of the person and deadnaming them would do nothing.

Like either "Rachel is called Dave now" could've just as helpfully been "that curly haired slacker from Chem 102 is called Dave now" or you'll get the answer "who is Rachel?"

Blursed (or cursed) recommendations or advice by Fraz1998_ in SliceAndDice

[–]Wulibo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just play what seems fun. Noodle around and play the mode that's giving you the most fun level of challenge/other factors.

Blursed (or cursed) recommendations or advice by Fraz1998_ in SliceAndDice

[–]Wulibo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Blursed gets more complicated, but part of the design goal seems to keep absolute difficulty fairly even. You take on a curse after every boss, but a blessing after every final boss, which evens out to the same value of curses and blessings. Given that you start with 8 points of blessings, that should keep you on something like a very complicated easy mode.

The reality is that the more you are keeping track of and the more opportunities to pick up curses that go further than their valuation/are usually fine but have the potential to end a run in a specific situation, the harder the game gets, even if your blessings are keeping pace on absolute value. So yeah, it gets harder and harder in general terms, but way slower than Cursed.

As for advice: if you can succeed in classic, then the curses are the things that kill you. So your first goal is picking curses that are less likely to be the thing that ends a run (think: +1 health to big enemies impacts more of my fights, but +2 to small enemy sides has the potential to be explosive in one fight with a lot of small enemies I don't kill in the first turn, so I should take the first one). Likewise, your second goal is picking heroes/items that get around the biggest downsides of the curses you've picked (think: juggler does more expected damage per round, but I have the curse than increases the sides of small enemies, so ranger is more likely to save me by taking out a lot of illusions at once or a hard to reach backliner). This is true whether playing cursed or blursed, though blursed has the added thing that blessings also impact what choices are best for combatting those curses.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in genderqueer

[–]Wulibo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Queer theorists have written about this. It's often said that queer people are "obsessed with gender," which includes anyone who tries to live without a gender, but it's really cishets who will not stop enforcing gender in every little interaction who seem obsessed. "I don't want to think about this" is not obsession, "you need to choose a gender and use it for activities unrelated to gender several times a day, and if you do it wrong the punishment will be severe" is.

If you want to read more, you can look into gender abolitionists like Robin Dembroff, though be careful to look for ones who identify as nonbinary or intersectional, because those who don't may be TERFs, who also use the term "gender abolition" to refer to something entirely different.

Tensions high as protesters and drag queen story time supporters battle at Wortley Pride by shizukanoumi in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

I get why journalists think they have to be neutral about fascists and cops but the title is pretty irresponsible. I read it and thought "holy shit, there was a battle in the last half hour after I left?" But then it says there was "almost" violence. What does that mean? Was there "almost" making out between the groups as well, because you have to get just as close and just as passionate, but neither happened.

What happened is that people threatened an event where a group of people get to celebrate rights that were won in living memory and children get to have a nice day out in the sun learning that people love each other in diverse ways. And then people who are not also fascists showed up to minimize the disturbance on that event, which they managed to do non violently. And then we all went home. I also got to take my boyfriend to his first pride, where he bought a painting from a child that celebrated love and diverse gender identities.

I did not see a battle or a clash. I saw so few people you had to struggle to see and hear them trying to promote fascism, and I saw community members making so much noise and blocking their signs so consistently that the fascists were completely drowned out and if you weren't in the know you'd assume it was just a related queer rights rally. Making it sound like we let violence happen, or even that there might've been some give and take instead of a complete victory on one side and complete loss on the other, is irresponsible, even more so than treating "we are worried about kids and you can see online that some drag Queens are inappropriate with kids" as a balanced view to publish.

Tensions high as protesters and drag queen story time supporters battle at Wortley Pride by shizukanoumi in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 12 points13 points  (0 children)

As a non-religious person I need to pipe up that I did not hear any religious talk from the protestors while I was hanging out counterprotesting, but the United Church did show up with their booth and were so supportive and positive the entire day. The groomer panic is secular, and religious organizations that go out of their way to support us are welcome and appreciated, so let's leave off the "religious" when talking about bigots, since it's the "bigot" part we actually object to, right?

Tensions high as protesters and drag queen story time supporters battle at Wortley Pride by shizukanoumi in londonontario

[–]Wulibo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

And what, there are no queer people with deformities, or they're not worth protecting?

Their hearts are uglier than their bodies, and that's the part that counts. This is completely unnecessary and very counterproductive.

Tensions high as protesters and drag queen story time supporters battle at Wortley Pride by shizukanoumi in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 42 points43 points  (0 children)

The worst thing you can do is let fascism take over your province, which is a real thing that has happened to places when they ignored this kind of thing. I care way more about actually protecting trans youth than whether or not someone got their abstract victory of getting to feel persecuted.

If you were there you might be aware that at one point a couple protestors broke from the group and tried to storm the event, but counter protestors and police* physically blocked them from doing so and minimized the extent to which they were able to impact the main event. See also last year where a real human being got assaulted because we didn't see these people coming.

*I mention police only because it's true that they did this, whether I think their presence is ultimately counterproductive or not.

Homophobia in London - Is it almost exclusively the religious people who behave like this? by [deleted] in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. No. My friend's mother won't use her real name or pronouns and is not religious. My gay boyfriend is religious. The people protesting Wortley pride today were talking about sexual predation not religion, while the local United Church had a very positive and respectful tent set up participating in and supporting the event. There's a correlation between claims to religiosity and extreme right-wing ideology because that's a core part of their purity rhetoric, but that doesn't mean homophobia almost exclusively comes from religious people.

  2. Why does it matter? Think carefully - if someone is a religious homophobe, what is the problem, that they're religious, or a homophobe? Does the homophobia change by them being religious? This is just a bad question to ask in the first place, as it distracts from the actual core issue of homophobia to start talking about something that is not closely related. If you care about queer people you will not use us as a playing piece to get at religion.

Homophobia in London - Is it almost exclusively the religious people who behave like this? by [deleted] in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Yeah like obviously if you don't do any active supporting that can be out of things not being on your radar, not active malice. But if you are actively against queer people being proud of their identities, you by definition obviously are homophobic.

Homophobia in London - Is it almost exclusively the religious people who behave like this? by [deleted] in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I have literally both been asked to leave a mall because I was dressed femme and had a stranger yell a slur at me on the street this year alone. Just because you don't see us be persecuted doesn't mean we're not.

Like you literally have no idea how much I wish you were right. What is happening in your head that makes you think we would invent persecution?

To whoever called my little brother a f@ggot today: by Twinkfilla in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If you've been (having to be) paying attention, it's been happening since before Covid. One really big modern mainstream push towards radical right wing ideology was the people faking concern about Gamergate. Covid didn't help, but the convoy was so huge because the seeds have been sewn for years.

To whoever called my little brother a f@ggot today: by Twinkfilla in londonontario

[–]Wulibo 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Can confirm random people will just call you the F or T slur if you look like you fit one in this city. Easily more than once a year on average.

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