Notices by Gwen The Red Moss (gwendolyn@eldritch.cafe)

My copy of Xenoblade X has finally arrived.

"If your boss is a transphobic anti-vaxxer why don't you find another job?"

I'm a neurodivergent trans woman with zero qualifications. The deck is severely stacked against me in any job interview with some cishet guy... and it's always* a cishet guy.

"Well, how did you get your current job?"

I got lucky and was interviewed by a woman.

(Seriously. I have never been hired by a man. Even pre-transition. Every job I've had has been given to me by a woman)

New year just dropped! Fucking download size is ridiculous.

Need to pick a picture to immortalize myself in a game as a Kickstarter reward and I'm not sure which to pick. I don't have a ton of pics that I really like, much less love. I hate most pics where I'm smiling because I look deranged. Anyways, these are my two finalists. Thoughts?

@mrdiamondj Yeah. I'm feeling the same way.

Like, I love me some programmer humor and trans shit, but when I'm scrolling through my feed I'm just not really finding what I wanna see.

I don't know if they're just not out there, or if it's hard to find them for some reason. I've even resorted to scrolling the federated feed at times.

I like it here. I just want to be "not bored" while here.

Having to remind myself that when I see a boosted post I like, to check and see if that person has other interesting things to share. I feel like I haven't followed someone new in a while.

@mrdiamondj Look man, I'm working with what I've got. 😂

I tried Sled Storm too... but decided I was just fine with that game just sitting in my collection, unplayed.

God... The edge on that one.

Fuck it.
I'm lugging out the CRT and going old-school.

Sport? ✅
Be a sporty gal? ✅
Advancement? ✅
Ready to listen to Powerman 5000's Bombshell on repeat ✅
Something I haven't already played to death? ❌

#Gaming #VideoGames #RetroGaming

@blackknight95857669 Thanks.

Evidently I don't know what to search for (Or Steam hates me) because I searched through pages and not one of those showed up. I was using tags so I just decided to try typing in "sports" and I get Cyberpunk 2077 at the top. I do see the others down the list now, but hrm... algorithm fuckery? Tags are useless? I am used to just not seeing sports games? You decide!

Thanks. I feel dumb now... even though I do feel like it's slim pickings. Oh well... that's why you complain on the internet. So someone can show you how you're wrong. :)

More news like this, please.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/deer-high-vis-jacket-vest-mcbride-bc-1.7392483

#Canada #News

Y'know. I get really irritated with the whole trans women are men pretending to be women.

I know there's no logic to it, and I couldn't argue them out of this view, but I just feel the need to break down how stupid this is.

Like, they figure that guys are rapey so therefore that must be trans women's motivation for using the bathroom.

But like... that's assuming that trans women even think like guys, much less crappy guys. Like, hey cis dudes. Notice when you see trans women just living, you don't really feel all that much in common with them? They love pointing out how "unnatural" we are, and yet don't see that that very statement proves that we don't value the same things as men. We don't think like they do.

I really wonder if a lot of these total asshats are just people incapable of understanding that people don't all think like them, and just have to project themselves on everyone else.

I know there's no logic to what they say. I know this wouldn't move the needle for any of them... but I just needed to vent this shit out. Like... Jesus Fucking Christ!

#Trans

Binged my way through Hazbin Hotel. Shit's sooo good. I loved it.
Some people mentioned Helluva Boss, so I checked that out right after.

... meh?

Doesn't have the same magic. Few eps in and I'm kinda done. Don't really like any of the characters.

#tv

With that first warm-up track basically done on the instrumental side (waiting on vocal) I figured I'd start doing the instruments for my first planned EP and holy crap! It's so hard to not share stuff. This shit sounds so fucking badass.

It's so hard to not share all of my WIP stuff. So excited about how this sounds.

I can't help it
Like... listen to this shit!
I'm like... is this even me?
Did I really do this?
(A little clippy and probably over compressed, but I'm still super early on this track)

@mrdiamondj Cowards.

Seriously though, I don't understand the rush to Bluesky. Compared to my Masto experience it feels smaller and with fewer features.

Normalize accepting and talking about your insecurities.

@HauntedOwlbear Yes please. I've thought this for a while now. Nothing undermines my identity than making it sound like I'm something other than my identity, identifying as it.

(Screams)
My.... microphone....has...been...lying... to... me...
I was getting frustrated that no matter what I did, I hated how I sounded recorded. To my ears I sounded fine, but the recordings were bad. Of course... we all know how that goes.

So, in my frustration I demoed my voice to my family... who all said I sounded good. I probed them and asked them to criticize it, but they insisted it was good. So I went back to my mic and tried it again... but this time I picked up on the fact that the thing I hated about my voice is the same problem I have with kick drums sometimes. It was boxy. I slapped some EQ on there and pulled down the midranges... BLAM! Good.

I then went and tried other microphones... Good.

So... I think my mic is overdoing midranges for some reason and TIL I learned that you can't trust your own ears for your own voice, but you can't always trust your mic either. Get proof-hearers.

#Trans #TransVoice

Why do microwaves have popcorn buttons if every popcorn bag has specific instructions to not use the popcorn button?

@jeffowski kinda pathetic that we need to appeal to their immediate family for them to understand basic fucking decency towards other humans.