Privacy advocate and aspiring gamedev that has literally nothing under my belt heehoo. He/Him

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Cake day: May 4th, 2025

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  • How I manage to do it is by changing my own perspective. Instead of thinking “I’m looking at a cube”, I focus on parts of it. For instance, at the very center of the drawing, there is a small square with nothing else overlapping it. That small square has two triangles touching it’s top left and bottom right corners. By trying to perceive those 3 figures as the main part of it, I was able to stop seeing any depth.

    Another way is to turn the entire drawing around. The absolute top right 90° corner and the absolute bottom left 90° corners can be viewed as one aiming up and one aiming down, or as left and right. You essentially turn the drawing into a rhombus in your mind with extra details



  • I loved the view, plus you get the option to ride a quadbike up instead of walking it, and since it was my first time riding one, it was a massive plus.

    The very top was incredibly cold but I got to see snowed mountains and clouds literally around me. And when I said you lose your ability to breathe I also meant that literally, since facing the side from where the wind is blowing while standing at the peak makes it so you cannot breathe in, and instead you have to turn away.

    Other than that, however, there isn’t much to do there. I would prefer to go again after training so I can walk it instead, since that sounds more fun.






  • I’m aware most of my dreams are dreams during them, and my interference tends to be on whether or not I like the narrative being told (or if it makes sense). So, sometimes I end up repeating the same “plot points” over and over again until I find something satisfying (which you can argue means I’m dreaming about making a story instead), other times I’m just “sitting back” and enjoying the show of my own dreams where I’m also most of the time the protagonist.

    So, I guess all the time?



  • For sure? I don’t think it’s likely there’ll be a way. You can only get best guesses.

    In my case it’s mostly intuitive, a sort of uncanny valley but for listening that clues me in that something’s off, and then I start looking for stuff actively. If the “band” has many different genres or varied styles, if I go to older videos and the singing is different or the voice is altogether a completely different one, if there’s no social media presence, if there’s no interaction with the comments, if the account’s relatively new, if there’s no sense of improvement in a natural human way (as in they clearly got better at playing), etc.

    But nothing will ever be enough for me to be 100% sure unless it’s extremely evident.




  • There’s a I guess you could call niche? trope? in some fantasy anime/manga where the protagonist is actively trying to be a villain but is constantly being misunderstood by the people as being some sort of saint.

    I can think of two different ones from the top of my head, one called “I’m the Evil Lord from an Intergalactic Empire” and another called “The Mistaken Saintly Life of a Villainous Scion”, the former fitting closer to what you asked for than the latter. Note, however, that I am not recommending either of them. The former is entertaining enough and I haven’t read the manga to give an opinion on it, but the anime isn’t that big of a deal imo, whereas the latter is just straight up trash.




  • Bipolar II here (yeah turns out Bipolar was so good they made a second one)

    Personally it doesn’t sound like they went fully manic (else you or them would’ve been in greater danger), but instead it sounds like a mood swing. When unmedicated, it is too easy for the smallest of emotion to trigger a meltdown. A slightly irritating thing means uncontrollable anger, a slightly sad or pitiful thing means uncontrollable depression (emotion) and crying, etc.

    I’ve had days where I feel completely hopeless and filled with despair, crying and giving up on life, only to realize I’ve forgotten to take my pills in a couple of days, and be so much better to the point that it feels like it was another person expressing that desperation a couple of hours later. It’s honestly very interesting (if you set aside the worrying aspects) to see how a brain can change so abruptly


  • Except I am not, they has been used singularly for centuries now.

    Let me put it in a way that will make sense for you. Singular “they” is, more often than not, used when people do not know the gender or amount of a group. Whenever you speak of a corporation or company, it is extremely common to use “they” instead of “it”. E.g. “they are the ones in charge of making that decision”. In the example, you are speaking of a company or similar group, a singular entity by itself. However, since the speaker does not know who or how many people make this decision, the speaker uses a singular “they”.

    This is but one example of how they has been used as a singular pronoun for ages, but let us digress a little bit. Why the fuck is the royal “we” allowed, but not the singular “they”? They both follow the same structure but inverse of each other, where the royal we is a way to say “I’m speaking of myself as a part of a bigger entity/community”. You can make an argument that both of these carry plural connotations, but my point is that grammar rules and language as a whole is way more nuanced than black or white.

    So, please, save your spit and time with a counter argument that only pushes forward discriminating thinking and stop being a pussy about language change.

    Btw, I’m not a native English speaker, which goes to show that I was actively taught about singular they, instead of picking it up intuitively like most native speakers do.

    Edit PS: don’t even think of using my non-nativeness as a point against me, I know for a fact I have better grammar and care more about orthography than the average native speaker.