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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by devtesla in This connection is not private by devtesla

Yep, Homestuck.com's certs expired.

Gio and Bambosh (the maintainers of the unofficial collection) are both very cool and good, the Homestuck archive is fantastic, and Ruffle (flash emulator that runs in the browser on wasm) is a godsend. Unofficial collection: https://homestuck.giovanh.com/

Unrelated, it turns out the person who made the original Homestuck walkarounds open sourced it back in 2012 (https://github.com/WhatPumpkin/Sburb-Legacy/blob/master/levels/openbound/thirdRoom.xml). She went on to be one of the Rust designers for Mozilla. Rust became pretty influential for WebAssembly, and was used to implement Ruffle... Which made the Homestuck archive possible again.

So it's very fitting that Homestuck's existence ultimately lead to Homestuck's existence. Like that domino meme, but a circle. Or something else...

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by twovests in *to the tune of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers* Canon Transmasc Peter Griffin by twovests

But sifting through these I found. Uh. A lot of pretty awful transphobic jokes of varying degrees of recency. Had to cherry pick

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by anethum in *to the tune of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers* Canon Transmasc Peter Griffin by twovests

I've been exposed to it only pre-2014, but apparently younger queer zoomers actually find a lot of merit in the show. I was asking about good representation of trans women in media who don't pass, and someone told me in full sincerity, "Quagmire's dad".

A very short breakdown:

  • A number of the cutaway gags have made it explicit that Peter is a trans man. (But these generally aren't canon). (That's where this post comes from.)
  • In at least two episodes (S2E8 and one way later with Ida, "Quagmire's dad"), Peter has a gender epiphany and transitions to a woman to some degree, only to transition back by the end of the episode.

I'm not an expert in Family Guy lore at all, so, big grain of salt.

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twovests wrote

Reply to comment by oolong in From Aaron Bushnell To "I'm Speaking" In Five Months by neku

yeah she basically sucks:

  • uyghur genocide denier
  • 9/11 conspiracy theorist
  • russia sympathizer
  • 1/6 conspiracy theorist
  • takes bitcoin donations

She's posting on Substack and she's Twitter Blue, so it's not surprising.

I think having a lot of "the worst person you know just made a good point" moments just comes with the territory of being anti-genocide

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by nitori in UNDERTALE HEART IDEAS by twovests

intentionally excluded. the new purple heart has you navigate a series of bureaucracy suffering from injuries from a previous fight to try and get health care. it's really hard to get

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by anethum in it's usually more clear when you don't use pronouns. fuck. i mean by twovests

Twovests thanks Anethum for their dedication to The Bit

For extra giggles: This post was a dramatic recreation of a train of thought that started with interpreting a Microsoft (r) Teams (tm) Message (c) that was along the lines of

It's probably not bad to do it that way, but if you're going to use that, you might want to use the other one instead

in which case almost all of these pronouns were ambiguous :(

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to comment by neku in I have had an unreasonably productive day today by twovests

Walked 7 miles and did a bunch of exercise, fixed up problems on my blog, made an MVP CLI wrapper for a rust library, and worked on a big contribution to another Rust project docs, and scheduled several medical appointments, and most importantly: i posted about it

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