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  • I hope that one day you’re able to get past this penchant for resorting to magical thinking.

    You may think that astrology is just harmless fun, but at a societal level, the acceptable of pseudoscience like this as meritorious is dangerous.

    This is the kind of thinking that leads to being anti-vax, and why children are dying of fucking measles again.

    This is the kind of thinking that allows people to completely ignore the science surrounding it, and stake their entire personality on the belief that abortion is literal murder.

    You’re eroding away your own ability to think critically.

    The universe is incredible enough, there’s zero reason to ascribe magic traits to things without evidence. Learn astronomy instead, and be blown away when you can empirically prove the insane shit that you see.




  • I thought I recall them talking about working on SMO2 like several years ago (before Switch 2 was announced, obv). I’ll see if I can find a link…

    But I didn’t know that about the DK game, that’s good to know.

    Edit: ok, found what I was thinking about. Apparently, back in like 2019 or something, Nintendo confirmed on Twitter that they were hiring for a new 2D, and a new 3D Mario game (I imagine the 2D game was Super Mario Wonder).

    So they never confirmed or denied that the 3D Mario game was SMO2, but it seemed likely at the time.

    Maybe they ended up changing course and doing DK instead?





  • This is also why representation in media is so important. Kids need to see people like them represented as “normal”.

    The cumulative effect that the media has had on how Americans view homosexuality has changed so dramatically, even in my lifetime, and so much of that has to do with the media normalizing it.

    It’s also why conservatives are so terrified of it.


  • I was pretty into the kaizo romhack scene a few years back.

    I got surprisingly good at shell jumps and other crazy tricks… So fucking hard, but the rush you get when you put the work in and finally beat a level was amazing.

    Literally the only reason I was able to stick to it long enough to beat levels (seriously, have you ever seen SMW kaizo hacks? Shit is madness) is because From Software (specifically Sekiro being the first) trained me lol.

    It’s actually surprisingly similar to Sekiro, despite being entirely different genres.


  • I understand that point, but I don’t think the comparison to deafness is exactly apropos… Hearing is an objectively useful ability for the survival of a species. Not having it is an objective disadvantage, whether they’ve built a community around it or not.

    On the other hand, autism and neurodiversity has been a boon for humanity. Individual cases at the top end of the spectrum aren’t ideal, of course, but the vast majority of people on the spectrum are able to generally be productive members of a society that was not built with them in mind.

    And more than that, they’ve often ended up becoming some of our most well-loved scientists, inventors, artists, etc.

    Even if you don’t want to say that it’s a good thing for humanity, you cannot deny that it’s neutral at the very least.

    Personally, I do not think there is a “cause” beyond just natural genetic diversity within a species. Which is healthy.




  • Maybe I misunderstand the point of hunger strikes, but isn’t it really only effective when your sustenance is being provided by someone else (and they’re in charge of your safety, which includes making sure you eat)?

    The entire point is that someone else is in charge of their well-being, yet they are purposely choosing to make that person’s job impossible by refusing to eat. Which is why it’s almost always done by prisoners.

    Like why would someone driving by care that the people holding the signs and protesting on the side of the road were hungry or not?

    I don’t know, maybe I’m missing something here?