So, in a recent Street Fighter stream, and few times before, I got some comments from overly competetive folks that called me a joke because I had problems playing Street Fighter on a Sega GamePad layout. (Chill, my dudes)
The main reason is I was always a Super Nintendo gal. Thirty years of Muscle Memory is keyed to that setup, which is totally not the Sega way.
But there's another setup I'm not only good at, I'm even BETTER than a Super Nintendo control pad, and that's a Keyboard. Arrow keys, and 123 for punches and QWE for kicks. I played SSF2T PC so much, as well as all the testing I did for SFJenn all through the 90s ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByDGURoEKX0 ), that my fingers can play SF2 just as well as anyone with just keys.
In fact, I'm BETTER at the game on keys than gamepads from all that work.
Sometimes, your transition lessons suddenly start back up. In my case, 24 years later.
When I first transitioned, I wore a lot of makeup. And because Steph was my "Professor of the Femininities" I used her makeup at first. Eventually I got my own makeup, but it was older makeup she was replacing.
As time moved on, and I started buying my own, I just simply kept getting the same kind of makeup over and over again. And as I stopped wearing makeup all the time, I got less and less makeup.
A few years ago, my mother mentioned that she didn't like my makeup, because it lightened my skin too much. And she was right - Steph is lighter complected than I am, and Mom lent me some of hers. It looked great, and I started getting that instead.
And then it got discontinued. Well, as I'm wearing makeup more and more for stuff I'm doing, I'm quickly running out of foundation. I need to buy more, and I've never really bought my own makeup before. I always just used Stephs or Moms and kept buying it when I ran out.
So I'm gonna need to buy some more before I run out...and...well...even though I transitioned in 2000...I kinda don't know how to do make sure I get the right color.
Lessons never end.
@dolari Pronounced "SHEE-quay"
Was discussing a way to transfer money from one bank to another today, without incurring a percentage fee, and my mother brought something up I hadn't heard of in FOREVER.
A thing called a...."check." Or "cheque."
It's a piece of paper that says "pull money from account A into account B!"
WHAT A COUNTRY!
@JoscelynTransient I think his best friend coming out as trans, and learning what that means and how to support her because that's what he wants to do, may indeed have that effect. but also the implicit biases of society are really hard to notice and wake up to, and people don't always draw the connection from "men in dresses are funny ha ha" to "that's actually transphobic and harmful for lots of reasons". but we can hope. everybody has to start somewhere, and those starts should be celebrated.
I was told, "if you boycott every game that is made using any AI stuff, this will probably be your last year playing most games."
Two years back a bunch of photographers and musicians I followed decided NFTs were the future. I stopped buying their stuff.
NFTs died. Blockchain and crypto are dying.
It's within our power as consumers and creators to say "no."
When someone puts a knife to your throat (and that's what "AI" is to many creatives), you're not obliged to point out your carotid.
@danhon the repeated waves of layoff in the tech industry certainly undermined the assumption that tech workers do not need unions.
Linux distributions have done an absolutely astonishing job at organizing large amounts of volunteer labor
in most cases, software publishers don't have to do anything at all to take advantage of that labor. if they want stuff to happen faster all they really need to do is talk to somebody, which we would hope is easy since it's the publisher who has paid staff and all that
maybe, like, take volunteers up on their efforts to help instead of trying to subvert the process?
Someone asked, probably rhetorically, "Who has 12 kids in this day and age??"
I'm gonna answer anyway: the people who have 12 kids in the USA in the 21st century are religious fundamentalists whose ideologies are so unpopular that their best option for spreading their beliefs is to indoctrinate children from birth in isolation from the rest of the world.
Now you know.
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Writer for Sea of Legends
5th Place Winner of the Jenn Dolari Lookalike Contest
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter