Strands #475
“Goose eggs”
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I think it’s context dependent. If she was using the word as an insult, then, no, it’s not good. It’s fine to use it casually like if you were talking about your favorite contestant on drag race. Positively is also okay. If you referred to a man who wasn’t queer that way, they’d probably be insulted or correct you.

However, I really am not the best person to answer this question and only gave it a shot because no one else had. If she was like “those queens cut me off in traffic!” it’s better than if she was like “those men are such queens ugh” or “those queens cut me off.” The first one isn’t ideal, but it’s way better than using it as an insult.

edit: oh, whew, someone else answered, too

Connections
Puzzle #741
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https://pflag.org/resource/support-hotlines/

a list of other hotlines

Wordle 1,460 3/6

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And we were so proud of him for getting his certification!

Game #491
Shortest path: 5 (Avg. 6.5)
Total words: 11 (Avg. 18.1)
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https://linxicon.com/
#Linxicon

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sometimes the words will be like 1% below the required connection and it’s so frustrating lol

Thanks for sharing! I’d only heard of dragonsweeper before.

Israel has stated that if Iran doesn’t stop defending itself, Tehran will burn. Is that what they meant? Iran’s nuclear-armed allies need to offer a nuclear umbrella to ensure this stays a fair fight. If they do, Israel’s reign of terror is over. If they don’t, this world is about to get fucking terrifying.

ah, shit

Wordle 1,457 4/6

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If we’re sharing honest opinions minus filter here: if you worded your question differently, more people would answer, and they would be less defensive and have more interesting answers. You’ve limited the people who will reply.

Condescensing and annoying people like myself will still have a lot to say, but people with fun stories and heartwarming anecdotes will not want to put themselves out there for what seems like will be a snarky put-down as a response.

Specifically, the “kiddie game” opening was fine, but the way you worded the followup came across less like you were confused and more like you wanted to have a group shit-on of adults who play mario kart. Being a little more vague would’ve been your friend here. “but it looks like i was wrong” might’ve convinced people who don’t want to be shit on to give an answer.

The part about it being unfair by design was fine, but the last paragraph again comes across as “anyone want to hang here and make fun of the losers who like this obvious bullshit?”

anyway, i don’t play party video games generally but my impression is they want to appeal to different skill levels, abilities, and ages, so they often have additions that level the playing field so it’s not just Gamer Frieda winning while everyone else gets bored and gets out the playing cards (which can also have a random quality that means sometimes the newbie will win or at least not be bored and frustrated).

These catch up elements add extra elements for dedicated players to account for, which is more memorization and reflex training, which is a kind of fun for the type of people who play outside parties.

“let people piss” my eternally controversal opinion

i know most of ao3’s budget goes to server costs. they get by with volunteer labor and donations, but they mostly host text. i genuinely have no idea what a sustainable model would look like for the fediverse, that doesn’t just treat volunteers like disposable rags we toss when they get inevitable burnout.

https://www.tumblr.com/bumblebeebats/769073005231046656/i-have-to-know-if-sergei-came-back-to-you-and

here’s some follow-up!

Long story short, Sergei DID in fact manage to help me solve the backspace key-repeat (yay!!), but could not solve the all-other-key-repeats-broken issue, so we parted ways and he promised to forward the problem to some even HIGHER tier of Apple Management/Design/something-something, who got back to me weeks later and said essentially “Yeah we removed that feature on the M1 macs and later because you are the only person on planet earth who has ever used this function, ever.” ¯_(ツ)_/¯

well, so long as it’s protected again, it’s all good

What paint did you use?

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