My only experience with sonic growing up was the Chao garden in sonic adventure 2 battle, which I only played once or twice when I went over to a friend’s place, but I was absolutely mesmerized by the Chao garden

They wanted to play the sonic levels and I just had no interest in that part lol. I tried to go back and play it on emulator a bit ago and got a ways into it, but the camera controls felt a bit like pulling all my teeth out one by one 😅 I guess I’m a bit spoiled by modern games for a classic sonic experience

I wish I could have played it more when I was little

Yeah, though I also meant that for me challenges with getting off are relational, or at least mental. I get off just fine by myself but usually can’t with a partner. Which is less than helpful lol.

(Not the person who down voted you) There is a small difference between those things 😅. Rape is not the same thing as fellatio, using fellatio in a metaphor is not making light of a trauma caused by sexual abuse. I’m not even sure how its homophobic given it doesnt specifiy the gender of the person sucking someone’s dick. Its not a specifically gay sex act, people give straight blowjobs all the time (I, as a masc identifing person have given straight blowjobs)

If someone prefers folks don’t use “fellate” as a euphemism for indulgent gratification of another person in a metaphorical sense, similar to “sucking up to someone”, “patting eachother on the back”, or licking boots (though thats specifically about doing so to authority, so not really applicable) thats valid, I can respect that.

It didn’t occur to me someone might not appreciate that usage of the term, and if thats not within reasonable behavior for this space in the eyes of moderation thats okay- deleting the comment and then leaving a reply implying I said something horrific, however, is less cool. Thats a dick move, and pretty transparently a bad faith behavior that feels intended to punish me for voicing frustration with .ml

Which again, I’ve had many positive interactions with folks from the instance. But it is certainly not without its frustrations and outright unpleasantness at times.

Thanks, gonna do my best ☺️

Yes, I imagine you can see what it says and make a decision on it, and thats all fair and well, but deleting it and then also leaving a public comment calling me a bigot feels pretty transparently like a bad faith way to act

They could have just as easily dm’ed me the reason for the removal, but they chose to delete the message so no one can see it and then also casually assert it was homophobia so blatant it would obviously never be okay. Which is a pretty drastic response that just happens to be when I voiced frustration about ml. Its awfully convenient for my perspective to be dismissed as the voice of a bigot

I guess you can argue homophobia if you wanna, but the combination of deleting and then publicly accusing me of bigotry for using oral sex as a metaphor for appeasement kinda just reads as the moderator equivalent of editing your comment after someone replies to make them look like they said something indefensible 🤷🏻‍♂️

Regardless, hope you have a nice day.

Huh. I would have never guessed that useage of the term would be labeled homophobic 😅

I’ll keep that in mind next time I give someone a blowjob :P

its kind of a thin argument on which to delete my comment and then leave a reply implying I’m a bigot, now that no one can see what I actually said and decide if they think thats true lol

Very sincerely, what did I say that could even be construed as homophobic…? Of my last 5 relationships all of them have been queer lmao 😅

While I have had many enjoyable and worthwhile interactions with folks on .ml or hexbear, where I learned things and have been happy to gain a wider range of perspectives, y’all are also fucking insufferable.

We’re seriously hitting people with an unironic

Nice argument, but I’ve already depicted you as the crying soyjack and myself as the chad

And then 8 of you upvote you for successfully fellating your own geopolitical perspective that China is beyond reproach as though that’s meaningful commentary, because they already agree with you. As if this isn’t the dumbest, most vapid possible exchange on the internet

Not female but thats definitely true for me as well

Hello friend :)

I saw what looked like a lady bug on my basil. Turns out it was not a lady bug and it ate bunch of holes in the leaves lol. It got sent to the compost bucket.

I’m not. I want explication right now. I DEMAND EXPLICATION

(Had to look up explication, now I know a new word 😌)

Dearth of excrement

Zero poop.

Uhhh. I mean. You could also have Gatorade if you’re diabetic. You’re not without other options 😅

Sometimes art isn’t created on purpose 🤷🏻‍♂️

There’s also research that says blood sugar is really helpful for people with ADHD so having something sweet to sip on while you work can be really helpful

Ahhh, yeah I can see how that would be really frustrating if thats not communicated to users in any way, and theres no easy way to figure out what you need to change

Thanks for explaining :)

Out of curiosity would it be accurate to call this sort of technology generative ai, or just machine learning? Or it depends on the implementation?

I feel like most of the anger around ai is because gen ai has a bunch of harmful baggage, and I’m curious if this is an example of gen ai having a productive use case, or an example of ai being more useful outside of gen ai specifically

I think the difference is less that Islam is behind the curve and more that Islam is disproportionately practiced in theocratic nations. Religious echochambers that are largely monocultural get really fucked up really fast. Mormonism and all the fucked up shit in Utah. Hasidic Jewish communities, and israel. All the theocratic Muslim nations. Theres a reason the bible belt’s version of Christianity is more fucked-up than the version you more often find in the rest of the country. If I remember right its the Buddhist majority group carrying out a genocide in Myanmar – and I feel like in the west we tend to think of Buddhists as pretty peaceful.

An echo chamber normalizes things that otherwise wouldn’t be accepted as normal, and allows them to exacerbate themselves, and religions tend to have some fucked shit burried in them that shows up when it doesnt have to be rationalized to outsiders. You tend to see that fucked shit a lot less when the people practicing those religions are also in community with folks who aren’t part of their religion.

Which to be clear, is true of many things not just religion. You can also see it in pockets of political echochambers online, even on the fediverse, but online theres always the risk of context collapse, in a way that gets less and less true as a region becomes more monocultural, as tends to happen under theocracy.

Am I the only person for whom invidious takes like 12 years to load? I know lots of people use it so it makes me feel like I’m doing something wrong… 😅