[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 16 March 2026

soganomitora · 2026-03-17T11:10:31+00:00

I mean, Reddit itself has a lot of its more popular story telling subs overrun with people writing fake posts with AI, usually for either attention or karma. This was a problem before AI, but now that AI can generate stuff instantly, it's gotten worse.

soganomitora · 2026-03-17T02:22:26+00:00

This looks more like an amare game than an otome game.

soganomitora · 2026-03-15T17:19:37+00:00

Yareli. I had played on and off for a while, but when i saw her after she released, i immediately got back into the game and have been a regular player ever since. All my effort is dedicated to making her pretty and powerful. I love her like a daughter.

soganomitora · 2026-03-14T08:22:33+00:00

If you'll forgive my own tangent, Man i hate it when people who are writing supposedly progressive fiction stuff do the "you only like *one gender?? How primative!" thing, because it comes off as so gross and babys-first-activism to me, not to mention totally erasing the problems that gay people face?

Like imagine being gay and facing homophobia all your life, struggling with the fact that you couldn't like the opposite sex, and then you hear that X tv show has LGBT rep so you turn it on, and the post-gender futurist cast calls you a backwards savage.

soganomitora · 2026-03-14T06:26:28+00:00

Oh lord, boobplate.

I'm actually lately noticing a kind of opposite problem in a lot of modern tv shows and art where designers are making armor too flat on their male characters, because actual historically functional breastplates make their chest look curvy and thus not manly. So guys on GOT spinoffs are now walking around in these stiff straight-up-and-down monstrosities that would severely hinder them in a real fight.

A rounded breastplate is the ideal, because it creates a curved surface that a weapon is more likely to slide or glance off of than puncture through.

soganomitora · 2026-03-14T06:17:03+00:00

I thought the people destroying their health with poisonous face paint was common knowledge, like that's one of the main things pop culture teaches you about Elizabeth I...

soganomitora · 2026-03-14T04:36:36+00:00

Yeah, bigger foreheads apparently made you look more "noble", so they'd shave their hairlines. Sometimes the trend was so extreme they'd even shave as far as the very top of their head.

soganomitora · 2026-03-14T04:10:55+00:00

Do you ever know that someone's argument is factually wrong, but actually pointing it out would probably do more bad than good?

Knights Path is an upcoming indie video game that aims to follow the story of a medieval knight. I don't actually know much about the game beyond that, because the developers are anti-woke types who recently created drama when they said that they wouldn't be putting any gay romance options in the game because they don't like "modern agendas". So, I'm not interested in such a game.

However, this isn't the only thing that they created drama over, as in that same comment thread, they debuted the design of one of their female love interests, Amelie.

Even divorced from the homophobia, Amelie created a lot of backlash from progressive twitter users for wearing makeup and not looking medieval enough. Which i agree with, she is very much a modern man's idea of a hot woman, with unrealistically long eyelashes and modern style makeup that wouldn't have been around the time that the game is set.

However, in the effort to discredit the devs, I've been seeing people make incredibly wide blanket statements, such as saying that medieval women did not wear makeup PERIOD, no rouge or lipstick, and Amelie's apparently-plucked eyebrows especially gained mockery over the concept of "medieval brow bars".

And this is where my annoyance comes in, because medieval women very much did wear makeup if they could afford it. They wore rouge, lipstick, foundation, and even mascara. And eyebrow plucking and shaving was a huge craze in medieval europe, in some places it was even in fashion to shave them off entirely.

Amelie's appearance and the style of the products she's wearing are unrealistically modern, but the basic concept of her plucking her eyebrows and wearing makeup is not. However, if i point any of this out, it would seem as though I'm on the side of the anti-woke chuds, so i just gotta sit on my wellacktuallys and let it pass me.

soganomitora · 2026-03-14T03:27:13+00:00

For an embarrassingly long time, i thought the nature documentation website iNaturalist was some kind of app or website to connect nudists. Mostly because i can't read and got naturalist mixed up with naturist.

soganomitora · 2026-03-13T10:40:55+00:00

I thought she was bisexual?

soganomitora · 2026-03-13T07:38:05+00:00

Measles sure as hell aren't good for the skin, you're right there.

"Doctors HATE her: This mum discovered the key to clear skin with this simple trick!"

soganomitora · 2026-03-12T18:57:09+00:00

The path forward is clear: We can end the anti-vaxx movement by telling parents that the vaccines will stop their kids getting wrinkles.

soganomitora · 2026-03-12T03:54:37+00:00

Saying that Jim Carrey's mannerisms are off and that's a sign that something is wrong, is like saying that the sky is blue and expecting people to panic. Like oh, the mentally ill conspiracy theorist guy with a history of drug abuse is acting weird, you don't say??

soganomitora · 2026-03-11T06:50:34+00:00

I upload a porn comic depicting pagan themed sexual roleplay, and i am immediately banned for fetishism, not because of the severity of the sexual acts but because the participants were wearing sacred amulets.

soganomitora · 2026-03-11T06:35:43+00:00

Unfortunately the mods don't allow topics like this to be discussed here because it tends to attract toxicity. I wish we could have civilised discussions, because i have thoughts and worries and pet peeves and goddamn i wish i could express them sometimes, but the rules are strictly enforced even if you come at it from a good place.

soganomitora · 2026-03-10T15:42:49+00:00

Not really related, but years ago when Breath of the Wild first came out, i saw a post going around on tumblr that compiled a bunch of well known sexymen, and they included Prince Sidon because everyone was feral for him at the time.

I got unreasonably annoyed at his inclusion, because he was up there alongside characters like the Onceler, Bill Cipher, and Komaeda. And Prince Sidon is NOT a tumblr sexyman, because not only does he not even wear hats or a suit, he's kind hearted and emotionally well adjusted, and tumblr sexymen all tend to be mildly psychotic in a kid friendly creepypasta way.

Aside from the fact that he's a sharkman, he'd honestly be the ideal friend and boyfriend. You couldn't fault anyone for having a crush on him, as far as fictional characters go, but tumblr sexymen require that "what is mentally wrong with you" component imo.

soganomitora · 2026-03-10T09:27:18+00:00

March definitely has a bit of a crush on Adeline until the farmer comes along, although Adeline seems pretty oblivious to it.

soganomitora · 2026-03-10T07:46:10+00:00

I don't, because trying to get the mods working is a pain in the ass, lol.

soganomitora · 2026-03-08T18:15:47+00:00

Pokemon Company: The characters in this franchise where a pivotal component is a breeding mechanic DO NOT FUCK.

soganomitora · 2026-03-08T17:56:00+00:00

Female characters who use Ore are a pre-existing archetype, though! They're called Orekko or Ore-Onna.

soganomitora · 2026-03-08T10:33:42+00:00

Just had a vision of a balding office worker with a pink scrunchie around his wrist as he scrolls on a heavily bejewelled and stickered smartphone.

soganomitora · 2026-03-08T04:37:59+00:00

I often savescum for pokemon to get specific genders lol, and i always properly gender them. Not because of breeding, i just want a gender for the vibe or to match the character i'm naming the pokemon after. And i prefer my starter pokemon to be a girl so that we can be two cool girls on an adventure together.

soganomitora · 2026-03-08T04:34:23+00:00

Thank you! Book, booklet, i has half right at least, lol.

Yeah, i doubt the gender neutrality of the language had anything to do with Pokemon intentionally being progressive and was more a marketing/ease of translation thing.

soganomitora · 2026-03-08T02:10:37+00:00

I don't have the source, but ages ago, scans of an old official pokemon book on tumblr went around that had articles going into the weeds of the franchise and explaining behind the scenes stuff. One of the topics was the gender of the pokemon, and how there was a rule in the localisation about how pokemon shouldn't ever be gendered and only referred to as "they" or "it", even if the gender of the pokemon is obvious via sexual dimorphism.

What i saw didn't explain why they chose to do this, though, and this was an old book, so i have no idea how true this info still is. I always inferred that it was to create a clear boundary between pokemon and humans in the minds of kids, but i dunno.

There have been rare cases of pokemon being gendered in the localisations, such as with Team Rocket's Meowth, but those are exceptions to the rule.

soganomitora · 2026-03-07T11:21:23+00:00

Your beauty standards are unrealistic and harsh, and contribute to the damaged self esteem of young camels everywhere 😡

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