The entire remastered Marathon trilogy (Marathon, Marathon 2, Marathon Infinity) is free on Steam if you want an old school style first person shooter.
Or another one, Star Wars Dark Forces got a remaster too and it's a nice FPS set in the Star Wars universe.
Fair point. <3
Thank you for kind words. <3
Things are OK. I was looking at TotallyNotJessica's post encouraging more people to post in egg_irl, and I thought "OK, but what would I even post?" This was the result.
I'm at a point where I'm questioning the validity of my own experience. I just got diagnosed with ADHD, and I'm finally on medication that has significantly reduced my anxiety. While I was waiting for diagnosis I didn't actively think much about being trans. I observed that if I'm not focusing on it, it's not a thorn in my side, and it doesn't bother me, and my impression was that for "real" trans people, dysphoria & the incongruity of identity in lived-experience is not just something they can ignore or turn off. So yeah, imposter syndrome, not trans enough, etc.
It leaves me to wonder, if I just deleted my trans-leaning social media & didn't seek out the trans-affirming content, would I just forget all about it and settle into some form of non-queer (but still Allied) identity, as I did in the past when I never really thought about or considered these things?
(And now I'm realizing this is definitely Matrix red-pill/blue-pill territory, and I could probably make another egg_irl post just based on this ramble! 😅 )
(And yes, Children of Men (2006) is a great SciFi. Grim, dystopian, pulls no punches. Highly recommended.)
Just got diagnosed last week, and I am well into adulthood.
It's a bit early yet. I am on starter meds and have a follow up appointment in a few weeks. Already though I have noticed impulse control is much better. It's like I have a time machine that's given me a few extra moments to respond to stimuli. Anxiety levels are also way down, and I don't feel the frazzled need to jump to the next thing, trying to get a dopamine fix.
Trying now to pursue a 3 prong style of treatment: medication, forming new habits, and mindfulness/observation. I am doing mood journaling to try to capture my experience.
So, I guess the correct response is to do what Kuzco did in the movie, and drink each one in sequence until you drink the right one (while running in terror)?
This séance could have been an email.
Respectfully disagree. The entire reason ethical research standards exist is to prevent new Milton or Tuskeegee experiments from ever occurring again.
Regarding behavioral change, there is no measureable way to determine if the participants came to any harm or not because they were never properly informed. See the problem?
As for astroturfing and mass surveillance, it doesn't matter that "everyone else is already doing it.". Research needs to be held to a higher standard. None of those people filled out an informed consent form or agreed to be part of the study. The vast amount of astroturfing and data collection is itself a questionable ethical issue that private companies have exempted themselves from, but research cannot.
People came to real harm due to Stanley Milgram's and the Tuskeegee experiments, and people may or may not come to harm because of this but there's no way to tell because no one even knew. In the 21st century on the Internet, it's not OK to discard the standard of ethics because technology allows. By ignoring ethical research standards, they are going down the slippery slope and inviting some new harm, as yet unknown.
Standards for ethical research have been established over many years of social and psychological research.
Two key concepts are "informed consent," and respect for enrolled and potential research subjects.
Informed consent means that the researchers inform people they are part of a study, what the parameters of the study are, and how the research will be used.
This "study" did nothing to attain informed consent. They profiled people based on their user data, and unleashed chat bots on them without their knowledge or consent. The lack of respect for people as subjects of social research is astounding.
Reddit and the University of Zurich should be sued in a class action lawsuit for this stunt.
This is beautiful, thank you for sharing.
Had my own That Dream recently.
You know how in the movie Interstellar, there is the tesseract, an endless matrix grid showing moments in space and time?
In the dream I am in my own Trans Tesseract, seeing images of myself at future points in time going through the various stages of transition.
Woke up and my first thought was, "What a very normal cishet dream. I think I need to check some things..."
No. In fiction, it is the flaws of the character that make them more compelling, realistic, and (sometimes) relatable. Perfect heroes in fiction often fall flat with audiences because there is no opportunity for the character to grow or overcome something, no meaningful character arc.
In real life, there aren't perfect people, and when someone performs a selfless, brave or compassionate act, they sometimes receive the title of hero, but they are still the person they were before, with their faults, flaws, sins, relationships, roles and every other facet that makes up a whole person.