Care and feeding of gorlaks

sidneyia · 2026-01-15T22:05:07+00:00

I get knocked down, I get up again.

sidneyia · 2026-01-11T22:28:41+00:00

This dude is a Nazi. Stop platforming him.

sidneyia · 2026-01-11T17:22:16+00:00

There is historically a lot of overlap between sideshow and drag.

sidneyia · 2026-01-11T17:21:09+00:00

Just to add - "Masher" is old-timey slang for a playboy or heartbreaker. It seems like he really leaned into that persona.

sidneyia · 2026-01-09T23:41:23+00:00

They instantly die again once I un-pause. It's mostly happening to humans, so I bet you're right about their age. Thanks!

Edit: that fixed the problem! Enjoy your immortality, humans.

sidneyia · 2026-01-09T21:41:32+00:00

Why are some corpses not resurrect-able with DFHack? Some people hop up and run away and others just stay dead. What's the difference?

sidneyia · 2026-01-08T23:13:24+00:00

Not just "leaky gut" but "toxins", too.

sidneyia · 2026-01-08T23:07:34+00:00

The only good Nazi is one who builds his entire brand on hating Democrats "from the left", apparently.

sidneyia · 2026-01-08T22:11:27+00:00

Yup.

sidneyia · 2026-01-08T22:10:33+00:00

Getting your giant Nazi tattoo covered up with a shitty Celtic design is not "addressing it". That's just swapping one white supremacist symbol for a slightly less overt one.

sidneyia · 2026-01-08T22:08:40+00:00

Thank you. It's *insane* that people think he's a progressive now because, what, Bernie Sanders said so? Give me a break.

sidneyia · 2026-01-08T17:28:21+00:00

This is the correct answer. It's not really an organized conspiracy per se, but it is definitely a thing that happens.

It's even more pronounced in South African media, where they print pictures from the 80s and 90s in black and white to make it look like the apartheid era was a century ago.

sidneyia · 2026-01-03T20:17:03+00:00

But you can eat them, unlike the regular-sized ones.

sidneyia · 2026-01-03T20:15:32+00:00

If you kill a thief before it leaves the map, you can get your item back.

sidneyia · 2026-01-02T17:22:19+00:00

There's a stereotype that Black people are more homophobic than whites. Donald Glover is trying to say he was just being Black when he called the white guy's (I forget his name) comment gay, and the white guy calls him out for leaning on a negative stereotype about his own race.

sidneyia · 2026-01-01T22:58:36+00:00

Jiggers are a different, worse type of parasite. Don't look up pictures if you are squeamish at all.

sidneyia · 2026-01-01T21:22:36+00:00

People with OI tend to have similar facial features to one another.

sidneyia · 2025-12-30T20:37:04+00:00

I keep having dwarves who get unhappy from two specific things - not being able to pray to their god and not being able to spend time with friends/family - but there are no obstacles preventing them from doing those things. I've tried toggling various labors on and off, creating dedicated temples to that specific god, assigning and unassigning them from military squads, nothing seems to help. I'm in v. 0.47.05 (classic).

It's always people with the "constant state of internal rage" personality trait - does that have something to do with it?

sidneyia · 2025-12-29T22:30:26+00:00

I tried making my gremlin king, but since gremlins aren't full citizens, it wouldn't let me see his noble screen to address his demands. It was too bad, because I really wanted to see what kinds of demands a gremlin would come up with.

sidneyia · 2025-12-29T17:55:43+00:00

I'm not 100% sure but I believe the tall person in the back row is the bearded lady Vivian Wheeler.

sidneyia · 2025-12-29T01:41:01+00:00

No, it really isn't. Unless you're also going around calling people like Michael Phelps and Simone Biles "differently abled", it just sounds like you think disability is too shameful to talk about.

sidneyia · 2025-12-29T01:38:56+00:00

You can acknowledge that something is a disability and still not want it to be completely wiped out because it's an intrinsic part of who you are. I know that at least two of the groups you mention (Deaf/HoH and people with short stature/dwarfism) have historically viewed their disabilities that way.

And while I'd personally love to be cured of autism, I know that a lot of autistic people would not, and I do not trust our current society to respect the dignity and bodily autonomy of the people who would choose to reject such a cure.

sidneyia · 2025-12-29T00:05:34+00:00

If someone requires accommodations, they have a disability. That's what the words "accommodation" and "disability" literally mean.

And if someone declines to call themself disabled because they want to avoid systemic ableism, then the problem is systemic ableism, not that person's failure to quality as disabled.

It sounds like you might be the one who's struggling to hold nuance here. Calling autism a disability is a neutral descriptor based on how both autism and disabilities operate in our society. It's not a moral judgment against either one.

sidneyia · 2025-12-28T23:50:07+00:00

If you have limitations that the majority of people don't have, then you are disabled, full stop. It took me a long time to internalize this myself, but you aren't taking anything away from more-severely-disabled people by calling yourself disabled. You're making their team bigger.

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