Mossy Feathers (She/They)

Honestly, I’m pretty sure this is how my grandparents ended up MAGAts. They’re old, in their 90s and their brains are fried. They used to be fairly intelligent, but they can barely think rationally anymore. They still managed to get out to vote for Trump somehow, even after promising everyone in my family that they wouldn’t. They believed that the left is lying just as hard, if not harder, than the right. I don’t know what their views are now that Trump is president again. I don’t talk to them much anymore…

Wake me up when it has a furry mod and a mod that lets one sim go full fucking “rules of nature” on another sim.

The sim clones I’ve seen feel way too serious. Like they were made by the modders who can’t resist dolling up their Sims and making sim versions of themselves to live out their lives vicariously through their Sims.

I don’t want that. No one I know wants that. The people I know who are following these clones are only doing so because they’re not actually interested in playing the clones, they’re just hoping the clones will put pressure on EA to actually make good Sims content again.

I don’t actually use these much, but I love using them whenever I get a chance:

CRT monitors

iPod Classic

OG GameBoy

DSi XL

I actually had rockbox on the iPod but had to take it off because I’m more concerned with how it feels to use than the actual functionality; and rockbox kinda fucked it up.

Edit: I kinda unironically wish dial-up would come back, but as a novelty that ends up blowing up into an actual, community-driven internet. A) gives me fuzzy feelings for when I was a kid at my grandparents house before they ate the MAGA brainrot, and B) might force people to learn how to optimize their shitty websites or get left behind on the corpo-web.

Yeah, sorry, I wasn’t thinking about how that could be (miss)interpreted. But yeah, she’ll sometimes hang upside-down from the beams.

It’s going really, really well; thanks! ^^w^^

Weirdly enough, I actually care more about framerate on “pancake” (non-vr) games than I do on VR games. I can deal with 10fps in vrchat in a crowded instance. I need more like 20~30 for non-vr games.

That said, I get mentally exhausted when the framerate is <30 for an extended period of time in VRChat.

or hangs from the ceiling

I may or may not get to live that life soon. She has beams along her ceiling and likes to demonstrate that she can climb the walls and hang from the beams while in VRC.

And we’re kinda into each other.

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Kay’s Cooking. c:

I don’t think she even understands how badly she fucks up, lmao. I think she actually believes she’s doing it right, she’s just too British.

laughs in bnc

Supposedly 0-4Ghz passband and can carry 500v. No idea what that translates to in terms of resolution/framerate, only that it’s A Lot. Biggest downside is that it’s analog.

Edit: for comparison, iirc my CRT monitor runs somewhere around 20~30Khz for a max of 1280x1024@75hz. I may be comparing apples to oranges here (I’m still learning about analog connectors, how analog video works, etc), buuuuut that suggests that a bnc connect running at its highest rated output would potentially be able to run some fairly large displays.

I may be misunderstanding what you’re saying, but it absolutely is not an obligation to remember one’s family (unless we’re specifically talking about chosen family and not bio family). I have many friends who have been disowned, kicked out, physically/emotionally/verbally abused or even raped by their biological families as a result of being gay, trans, bi, pan or something else. It would be abusive and highly immoral to force them to keep their biological family in mind when making decisions.

They have no obligation to remember the trauma inflicted on them by their family members, except, perhaps, in a legal context against said family members; but once said legal context is fulfilled, they have no obligation to continue to remember. To state otherwise is to demand that they relive their past trauma, and for what? So their tormenter(s) can continue to torment them?

No. They have no obligation to continue to allow themselves to be tormented. Nor do they have any obligation to remember their biological families.

Now, if you’re talking about chosen family, then you might be onto something, but as long as their chosen family is taken care of and does not need assistance from them, should they not honor their loved one’s desire to one day be forgotten? Should they not allow the photos, keepsakes and whatnot that document a person’s life, someone else’s life, to be destroyed once they’re no longer in use by anyone? To do otherwise would be selfish; if I am going to die and my best friend wished to not be remembered, I would allow them to go through my things and remove themselves once I had passed. After all, it is unlikely I will remember them once I’ve hit my expiration date and my things will no longer be of any use to me. If they wish to purge themselves from my mementos, then they may do so.

The only exception I can think of is if someone was exceptional in some way. The kind of person who gets a paragraph or more dedicated to their life in a history book. In that specific case I believe they should be remembered, but done so respectfully; perhaps with a pseudonym.

Honestly, you might not have to move back with the rate things are going.

How’d you move to the UK without having a job lined up?

Edit: also on the subject of her friends, where were you living before you moved away? I have friends in a number of states, they miiiiight be able to help, no promises tho.

Edit 2: I’m dumb and can’t read.

“You’re complaining about a genocide that hasn’t happened yet when there’s genocide going on right now in Gaza!” The reaction to that link: “That isn’t genocide and you’re making light of genocide if you call it that.”

Oooo… I got that one from a furry on discord. My jaw hit the floor when they said that to me. Granted, they were European so they may not be keeping up with the news, but it was still shocking to hear that from a furry of all people.

In my case, the most recent fuckwit told me to never move to Europe because I wasn’t wanted there.

(Do you want a furry trans-girl pet? I’ll be your pet if you move me out too c:)

(I’m joking. Unless…)

Careful, people might try to tell you that you share responsibility too. I’ve had waaaaay too many people try to tell me that I, a trans woman who voted for Harris, must somehow share responsibility for my own oppression and the oppression of others at GOP hands.

Fucking disgusting.

Edit: one person has gone far enough to compare me to Martin Niemoller, a Nazi supporter who switched sides after his face got eaten by leopards.

Damn, that sounds awesome. I’m gonna have to try that.

gasp that’s a wonderful idea! I should try that.

Basically everything. I’d be completely devastated. Unlike many of the people who’ve replied, the things I care about the most can’t be saved from a fire. My plushies, my records, my shirts, my collars, that’ll all burn or will be so smoke or water damaged that they’ll need to be replaced. And some of them can’t be replaced. I have a lot of limited edition stuff that you literally can’t replace without considerable effort.

Even if they could be replaced, that’s ignoring the emotional attachment that I have with my plushies (as well as one of my collars).

Hey, your comment is deleted, though from the replies it suggests you were trying to “transvestigate” a transphobe. I would like to help explain why that’s a bad idea. That can still cause collateral to actual trans people because it can make us very self-conscious and focus on our own perceived flaws, even if they’re things that no one except us would notice. That’s why it’s a bad idea to try and use it against transphobes; you risk causing dysphoria in trans people simply by listing off the “signs” of a person being trans.

Unfortunately I’m Texan, lmao. That’d only make it worse.

Sadly a lot of the people who will get fucked the hardest, like myself, are also the kinda people who agree with the frustrations of allied and partnered nations, yet will get judged based on the behavior of magats instead of the fact that we don’t want any of the shit the US is doing but can’t change anything.

Because you need something to be happy about otherwise you’ll lose all hope, forget what you’re fighting for and die from apathy.

For an example: I live in Texas and, being trans myself, have a lot of trans friends. Yet, last night we had a housewarming party for one of them who recently moved within the city to be closer to her boyfriend. Instead of sitting there having a group meltdown session, which would have been a relatively reasonable thing to do, all things considering, we played drinking games and cuddled for hours (furries are very cuddly). We had a lot of fun and ultimately we all left the party significantly happier than when we got there (at least I did, anyway).

I have more hope for the future now than I did before Trump won the election. Why? Because even if civilization collapses and we return to the dark ages, I’ll know where to go to be with my favorite people. I’ll know that we’ll be forging for food and searching for safe places to stay together. You have to find your spark in the darkness and then nurture it to become a flame to keep you warm in troubling times. That’s why they’re celebrating. They’re feeding their flames so they can remember what’s worth living for.

That’s actually kinda fascinating. I wonder if Nintendo is gonna try to compete with the Steam Deck and give the Switch 2 actual PC functionality. Of course, “PC mode” would almost certainly be locked down in traditional Nintendo style so it wouldn’t actually be able to compete, but it’d be interesting to see them try.