Can you elaborate on this? If it's cool to be kind, is it hot to be mean?

yes

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...

there may be no winners or losers but it always feels good to be the winner

• Peter's second family https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7t5AUt-XzcA
• Peter's sex change https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E7bVtvgtNY
• Ida and Peter talk about being trans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4u6V3D-bpM
• Peter Griffin uses the trans restroom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKl9fK-HUpw

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

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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i'm so happy to hear this

YES!!!! You are in for a treat. I am excited to see what you think of it

oh god not the 30s

you're really brave for this

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

the f

the fucking steam pipe has a leak on the valve because it's rusty

rust:

• r for "really good introduction game Half Life"
• u for "understandably, half life had DLC and sequels"
• s for "stay inside and play Half Life Alyx"
• t for "That means Half Life 3 is coming"