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

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.

Well fuck. Just a note. Searching "lesbian vibe" on Amazon doesn't bring up any clothing results.

My suggestions are going to be fun for the foreseeable future.

On a totally unrelated note TIL Amazon sells strap-ons.

@mrdiamondj Oh. My. God. Thank you! This has been the first time I've heard a negative opinion about it! (I'm admittedly very behind on the podcast, so if you said something there, I'll get to it)

I have felt like I was taking crazy pills. Everywhere I go, all I ever get is praise for TotK, and it's had me just scratching my head wondering "what am I missing?!"

Like, there's a ton of really neat things in it. There's a lot of stuff to like, but EVERYTHING feels so goddamn fiddly. In BOTW you could get your little dopamine hits here and there. Find a random korok? Hell yeah! Little mini puzzles, hidden treasure chests, there were all kinds of little things that were super simple spread between the bigger puzzles.

I don't feel like spending an hour on a fiddly physics puzzle where I end up rocket launching the damn korok over the horizon instead of over to his buddy on the other ridge. Sure I'm going to laugh my ass off as he Team Rockets into the sun, but after it's done. I'm down tons of mats, and have gained nothing in the game.

Fell off Xenoblade 3 and TotK again and ended up going back to Xenoblade X.

One day I'll finally beat XC3. Until then, I'll probably beat XCX another two times.

And maybe someday I'll actually get into TotK. BOTW was my crack when I got it. I have to force myself to go back to TotK.

@cmrv Oof. That doesn't fill me with apprehension at all :P

I think my main problem is that mechanically I'm just not having fun. There's something with how they've got things set up that I just feel so restricted by the classes and shit.

The world is more open and connected than 2, but it can also be unfun levels of maze-like.

Like, I like it a lot more than 2, which I kind of hated a bit on every level. 1 and X had me both mechanically, and with their stories and worlds. 3... I like the stories and the world is pretty good... But actually playing it is meh.

Kid went "Who's He-Man?" and I got to describe He-Man to my kid as "male She-Ra", and my day is made.

@mrdiamondj The whole thing is actually up on Youtube.

And... from what I can tell... it appears to be an official channel.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJV1h9xQ7Hx-MSngXeq-sRbelh5zCVRNI

As a fan of big robots, I've wanted to get into Gundam for a long time now, but none of the series have really gripped me in a way that made me go "This. I love this".

Recently I watched Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch From Mercury... and then immediately began rewatching it.

This is it. This is my show. You can't have it. Mine.

It's not perfect, and I would have liked a little more story outside of the school setting, but I love the characters, their stories, and it has some of the coolest mech fights I've ever seen animated.

#Gundam #Anime

@spinning_bird @NaClKnight I'm glad you brought up the bit about identifying with the character.

I've been questioning myself about why I feel this way and was trying to process why despite being into gals, I wasn't a fan of fanservice. Like, sure I like what I see, but not like this, and I think you nailed it. I can't help but put myself in her place and i guess there's like a feeling of second hand violation.