i've never finished celeste because i have fucking demand avoidance for playing video games. like not even for difficulty reasons
though i did remember, a few weeks after last playing it, i read about how there's wavedashing in it, and i fired up the game just to learn (and pull off!) wavedashing. so i can put that in my resume at least
it's a bit of a confusing one for me because as far as i could tell it's just an informative (no judgment of quality being implied here) webpage? it's a single-issue webpage reminiscent of old geocities pages, even. i was even successful in building a narrative in my head of some silly jerk genuinely joining a forum (as in, not spamming) and having their first gambit be posting that
i hear you. i have zero friends and i still need to use whatsapp because it's used for everything. if you don't have whatsapp you might as well use a phone without a simcard.
it's a bit ironically funny too because this place's one of the very few countries where you can actually say that the consensus is that israel is bad, i.e., you will never get into any trouble supporting palestine (good) [but also the country as a whole is kinda antisemitic about it (bad) (like, silly shit like, everything modern is "western" and everything western is the jews. your phone? jews. burgers? jews)]
sleepy eyes read the title as "i defeated duolingo" and.
if you actually succeeded with your phoenix wright method i think you might actually "defeat" duolingo too. so. full support
like, it kinda hurts to be told to have some grace about being misgendered (we're giving concessions for fucking what exactly) but like. for instance, even though i don't actually come across this problem (my native language doesn't have gendered pronouns, and i don't talk to people anyway), it's still really easy for me to put myself in the Struggling Cis Ally spot. genuinely i would write stories plural about trans characters and mess up their pronouns. gender's fucking stupid.
thus, i guess what i would do is to have a boilerplate response for both honest mistake mess-ups and "okay sigh we're indulging in your fantasy but urrgh" kinda mess-ups (doing mental calculus to figure out whether a person is one or the other would just be psychologically unaffordable). about this i'm reminded of sarah z's recent queerbaiting video. about how the ostensibly same kind of anger actually wrongly hurts "easy" targets more severely than the capital that subsumed it. so then, kindness towards people making honest mistakes probably goes a longer way than aggression towards an assumed bad actor.
the enlightened centrist argument would probably be not to assume anything about people. but if you do assume, i guess err towards kindness. unless it's someone you have personal grievances with, in which case they're ontologically evil
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i've never finished celeste because i have fucking demand avoidance for playing video games. like not even for difficulty reasons
though i did remember, a few weeks after last playing it, i read about how there's wavedashing in it, and i fired up the game just to learn (and pull off!) wavedashing. so i can put that in my resume at least
maybe i should try and pick it up again idk