@CryptidWorks
Not to be pedantic, but the picture at the bottom is from the time when Nick no longer owned that building. The blue and white color is because the current resident of the building is a performance group called the Blue Man Group
I think as a Filipino what bugs me about the use of Filipinx is that it's an application of the term Latinx (made to solve a problem inherent in a heavily gendered language) to an ethnic group that doesn't speak Spanish, but speaks a language with no gender by design
@DrLavaYT
This makes a lot of sense because playing G/S, you feel that there's so much Johto lore for Ho-oh compared to Lugia, and Lugia by comparison feels less integrated into the story
@jessicobra
Kinda irritating especially in fields where machine learning has some very genuine uses that aren't image generation. Drug development, for example
some things to add:
in the Philippines minimum wages are regionally set. $11 would be the minimum wage... in Manila. in the poorer regions it can go as low as $6
a reminder to all international commissioners:
1 usd = 50 php
1 euro = 53-60 php
it means that YOUR dollar/euro can buy a single meal, and $11 is roughly around minimum wage here.
so please, DO NOT PULL OUT/CANCEL YOUR COMMISSIONS FROM FILIPINO ARTISTS. have mercy on us.
@gigiesguerra
i find it ironic that he says no hate on china from japan when japan refuses to apologize to china for war crimes. also, it is 100% duterte's fault that it's come to this. he set up a situation where people end up hating chinese instead of him
@makotrolig
I get the frustration but the thing is wlw for years pretty much only had Korrasami to hold onto for popular wlw rep across much of the western fandom. For them this comes off as really insensitive. It's like being jealous of the only present a kid has ever had in their life
it is 2020 now.
If you cannot tell from looking what gender they are? Do not "sir" or "madam" them.
If they have on makeup, earrings, high heels and have boobs? Seriously, do not "sir" them.
Conversations can survive without the words "sir" and "madam", I promise you.
@UniverseIce
....but haven't iPhones always scored very low in Antutu for their power? They shine more in single-core tests like GeekBench and specint2006
@nothingmoder
@ametralladoras
You're still very hurt over what happened and that's understandable but that's no reason to punch down on trans men. Please. There's transmascs and AFAB enbies out there who agree with you, this is a misunderstanding on their end and I'm trying to tell them that
@bloomfilters
This is like asking "do you want a bag of garbage or one trillion dollars?"... and I am saying that as a bicurious girl who wants a boyfriend ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
@bloomfilters
Agree with your points but just curious, where do you draw the line between "this fictional character is basically a trans girl but the author didn't want to call them trans" and an actual regular crossdresser who is unquestionably male coded rather than transfem coded
Trans women not having solidarity with other women is how other people end up getting the idea that the state of being permanently othered as "ladyboys" is better for us
One of the things I didn't comment on during the direct but have to now is.... LEAVE BLACK 2 AND WHITE 2 OUT OF THIS. THEY AREN'T JUST ENHANCED THEY ARE SEQUELS WITH AN ENTIRELY NEW PLOT
@bloomfilters
Japan of all Asian countries is the one that came closest to, and arguably became, a true Western empire with everything that that status comes with
then you think about DS emulation where the scene stalled for half a decade (maybe even more) simply because desmume's lead dev hated that people were primarily using it to play Pokemon
Another reason that may bug Filipinos is the fact that X itself is not really used in Philippine languages except when a loanword needs the letter (and it is often acceptable only as in that use case), which makes the term feel even more imported than it actually is
For people who can't read Tagalog: OP got summoned to HR because their coworker got a food allergy from stealing their lunch and the coworker claims they put something in the food on purpose
If you want to use it (especially if you're non-binary) it's fine for me, but I feel a bit rough about using it as a demonym for all Filipinos and people of Filipino descent
@homebrewfutures
@souljagoytellem
And that image was originally created to support your point, not to support white Southerners lmao. They're saying not to leave female, PoC, and LGBT Southerners to fend for themselves with regards to rights
Crazy how female characters have to prove theyโre not โuselessโ or โoverly emotionalโ for people to actually respect them / their fans whereas male characters can get by on just having a cool design
@bloomfilters
There's another insidious part of this setup---many believe that gay trans women just don't exist in Thailand or any non-Western country for that matter (despite, you know, there being one replying to you on this post...)
@ivykinoflilith
No, just no. In my country when a celebrity transitioned from female to male, he lost both his family's support and his reputation as a singer in pretty much the same way trans women do, in addition to everyone calling him ugly
No one in the QRTs has pointed this out yet, so I will
Sara Duterte (BBM's VP) is of Jewish descent and that says a lot about the lack of understanding here
@bloomfilters
"they are all ladyboys who are okay with society not treating them as women and they are ALL straight women and never gay"
I've had to explain to lots of people lately that gay trans women are often seen as "a white trans people thing"
@transgabalus
I used to dig out the crystals in concrete and ask people if they were diamonds (roleplaying a video about diamond mining that I had watched)
@nothingmoder
@ametralladoras
>_> look, I'm trying to help them understand why you feel like this, but calling them "women" just makes it easier for them to ignore your point
@queer_queenie
It's more they say that tvtropes enabled cinemasins and tbh. No. Cinemasins was enabled by pedants who ask why humans drink cow's milk and not human milk
@VoltivEmmi
@yuikamitsumine_
I think "transfem nonbinary" also works fine for Mizuki tbh, the line isn't solid there. The issue I think is more that people seem to not want to believe Mizuki is *transfem* at the very least despite the overwhelming evidence in that direction
@GIRLVANGELION
@731Hk
@jessicobra
...no, actually... the theory also had a bisexual explanation, that being "you're attracted to playing the gf role to a man, not to the man himself"
@gigiesguerra
i wonder if they have realized that our situation doesn't allow us to go as lax as they would've liked. we only got coronavirus testing kits the other day!!
Lots of people talk about how crypto destroys the planet and I REALLY wish people had talked about this sooner, because back in 2013-ish this was already considered a major concern
Happy lesbian visibility day~ ^^
I don't post pictures of myself often, not confident in myself enough, but here's one I took a while back!
I'm so happy to be a lesbian. It's the best feeling in the world~
@italostweets
@lizvoodoo
@ARABY0NCE
The major difference is (look at the names) most of the forts in the first were built either in North Africa or in the rest of Africa by colonizers and slavers. Only a few are both "not built in North Africa" and "built by the locals". This one highlights ones that are the 2nd
@jerkus110
People will literally buy anything as long as it's het huh. I recommend spamming Kira ร Athrun yaoi on this person's post, let's see if he will keep his tune
The dating culture... something is really off about Filipino dating culture... but I couldn't tell you what exactly it is because I have never been in a relationship with another Filipino
All I know is that it feels like everyone has daggers pointed to their heads in there
@benjanun_s
The ironic thing is that the Philippines still doesn't have legal transition today. In 2005 trans women were able to use loopholes to change their name and sex markers as a "clerical error" thing, but by 2007 this was closed off
@iskolarspeaks
Besides, maharlika is the name of a particular social class in precolonial Luzon to be specific. Naming ourselves that would be THE most Luzon-centric move we'd ever pull, if it went through
@girlcel_
To the gf: it's a false premise and you will not always feel the same about her every day, there will come a time when the tables are turned and you'll be the one saying it more than her
My whole first meeting with Siska is just me straight up saying "is it ok if we kiss" to a girl I knew for about 27 minutes and finding out she wanted to kiss me too
And we kissed and kissed until we became girlfriends ๐
@queer_queenie
They really didn't think about how people would play this game... it's forcing you to stick with your family when you might not wanna do that all the time
@agenderarcee
Do I take this as my cue to actually read the manga and finish the whole thing (like I said before I never finished it due to attention span problems)
That would be valid if you weren't 1. part of the target audience 2. being in the business of saying "I'm like a trans woman" and "I'm not like a trans woman" depending on what suits your goals 3. literally being materially the same as a trans woman but with a different name
It's been really disappointing to see so many people hold this up as trenchant analysis when it's literally just claiming that feminine men don't really exist and that transsexuality has total ownership over the concept of gender nonconformity.
@danylanzhou
Even in the "calamity" phase he still had kindness in himโsure he has dark thoughts, but he keeps putting off the actual action long enough for something else to happen (either nature takes its course like with Lang Ying, or Wuming and/or Bai Wuxiang force an outcome)
@boymoderology
I wonder why some people assume that if you're bi it would automatically work out if the bf transitioned, as if the attraction a bi trans woman has to men and women is exactly the same and not (as it often is) very, very different and not 1:1 intercompatible
If not every Pokemon is in SwSh, then you tell them to reuse the old models, but then you complain when they reuse something? Which is it really?
I too want the NatDex but let's be clear here, it's a time and labor problem and not a laziness one
@TheBig47969342
@arvofart
Yep, but the major issue in the West is that these positions are getting rarer and rarer because most of the money is being spent on admin staff or sports staff and not researchers