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I was just about to say this too!! Seriously so good. The gameplay is an understandable turnoff, personally I love it but RPG NBA Jam probably won’t do it for everyone. but WOW the story is incredible. The personal stakes of each liberation rite make each feel like a must-win; the fact that the story continues if you lose makes it all the more nerve-wracking.

And that’s not even considering the revolutionary bent of the whole thing, too, or the beautifully realized world with deeply strange history, or one of the best goddamn soundtracks I’ve ever heard… deserves some more love as a cult classic imo.

Shame is unfortunately a very bad way to encourage someone to desist from behavior. We can especially see this in addiction management. If someone is ashamed of something they are dependent on, the shame causes them to think about it more, makes them more likely to become entrenched and defensive about the subject, and causes them to use it in private.

The more effective route is in education and harm reduction. Teaching people what AI is capable of and what it is not capable of won’t immediately make someone stop using AI, but it has a much better chance of leading to desistance in the long run.

I think there’s an exception to be made here for shaming very public evangelists, but that’s less to discourage them from using it so much as it is about discouraging others from taking them seriously.

I listen to a lot of music while I’m doing things as background, but when I get a moment for it focused listening is a great experience. I don’t listen to the same type of music for both, though there’s definitely some overlap. But I’m not listening to funeral doom at work or Lightning Bolt sitting in bed before I go to sleep. I think both experiences are equally valid ways to enjoy and appreciate music.

The gym has given me an interesting middle ground as it is something that requires some planning and thinking at times, but at some point my body knows the movements well enough to do it more or less on its own. So the music I listen to ends up being the most diverse. It can either fade into the background while I’m setting up, making notes, etc. or be the main thing I’m focusing on toward the last reps of a movement I know well.

personally I like them a lot for cursors, it takes some getting used to but ig I’ve used laptop track pads a lot and I find it very comfortable and natural to use my thumb for it. definitely haven’t used it much for e.g. camera control in a 3d game though, feels awkward every time I’ve tried.

sameeeee! It’s a form of self-massage, and massage is well understood more generally. it won’t make muscles longer but it’ll help a lot with adhesions, tender points and postural tension.

recently I’ve been getting some great results out of using a harder plastic massage ball for some areas, seems to get deep into my psoas, quads and calves especially. also love using a racked barbell to mobilize triceps, rotator cuff, and hamstrings! it hurts so good!

It’ll just do other things than other forms of exercise. Some train intensely for flexibility and so stretching is most of what they do! Most athletes except gymnasts, aerialists, etc don’t have the same demand for flexibility and so don’t need as much static stretching. But I think most people could benefit from a few stretches, especially as they get older.

absolutely this!

I also think static stretching has its place in injury prevention for day-to-day sprains and injuries. Longer, more pliable muscles = not tearing your hamstring if you accidentally fall into a split. They can be great teaching tools too, and can incorporate some core training.

But otherwise foam rolling, banded distractions, dynamic warmups get the job done just fine. Even just starting right into a warmup set if the motion feels good already.

Queer spaces/meetups mostly! Or meeting partners’ partners. Grindr gets a bad rap for not entirely undeserved reasons, but I did meet some wonderful people there too.

early on I mostly just got on with my partner’s partners, didn’t form relationships with all of them but if I like someone, chances are I’ll like their partners too!

I promise plenty avoid the drama. also my god, have you ever talked to a monogamous couple?

The best bathroom I’ve seen is at a nearby brewery. One bathroom for everyone. Toilets on the right, urinals on the left, signs designating which side is which. Each has a stall, with floor-to-ceiling doors and a sturdy lock. It looks more like a locker room from outside the stalls. There’s big circular sink on the way out, with a mirror and shelf on a nearby wall. It’s extremely private in the place you actually do your business, but the remaining area is very visible from the outside and there’s plenty of people around given everyone’s sharing the same space. I cannot imagine a safer way to lay out a bathroom. It’s amazing what happens when you give people privacy.

“oh but what if people shoot up in there” - Sharps disposal box. If someone is shooting up in there, they probably shouldn’t be, but if they are, there’s a safe way to dispose of it. I promise nobody looks at a sharps disposal and decides to start using now that there’s a place to dispose of the needle. Really nice for people who take prescribed medications by injection, too.

“oh but it’s too expensive” - I’ve been lucky to travel enough to see less developed places I didn’t know the customs or language of with bath"rooms" more akin to bath"sides-of-buildings" that I STILL felt safer in than American bathrooms because they have a REAL FUCKING STALL. They’re gender-neutral mostly because (shocker) two bathrooms tend to be more expensive to build and maintain than one.

If legislators really cared about this issue, they’d put resources toward remodeling public bathrooms to at least have decent stalls and better visibility. They aren’t doing that, so that’s not what this is about. It’s just an easy way to pick on a minority by way of creating a boogey-trans-man - Republican business as usual.

He’ll still be arrested or at the least harassed, and that’s the point. The goal is to prevent trans people from using any public bathrooms.

Yea, this is common practice and most of the time you never hear about it, especially if a game is canceled before announcement. Last project I worked on, we couldn’t even take screenshots for our portfolios after it was canceled. Leading to most everyone on the team having a two-year gap where they did great work and had absolutely nothing to show for it.