If hadn't gone to see Rise of Skywalker in the cinema 30 people wouldn't have been able to hear me say 'oh FUCK off' a bit too loudly at the ReyLo kiss, and I think that experience matters.

Im now an independent-living PhD candidate in contradiction to the prediction made when I was 4, and I feel very strongly about the poor expectations put on me. I want to say 'they were wrong' without it sounding like care-dependent people can't do what I do.

I'm interested in your take on something related: in a presentation I'm giving about my microbiology phd I want to talk about how I was misdiagnosed as a child as too mentally disabled to ever live independently, that I had severe brain damage - but turns out I had ADHD and autism instead (cont)

Damn wait until they find out about what fuels computer science

Oh god they've dragged out Milo again, literally scraping the scum from the bottom of the barrel to make a misogynistic, ableist, racist transphobe represent All Gays and make TC seem mid

I think a lot of us feel the same way as you describe, and I suppose one of the antidotes to these feelings is to try to do something within your means to help - like making your game. I think you should keep going, and don't second-guess whether you're 'allowed' to.

THREE 15-year friendships ended over this shit! Because after getting home from an outing I worked on my disseration for 6 hours and shitposted on FB for 5 minutes instead of telling her I got home okay (it snowballed REAL bad).

I would also put an embargo on these movie tropes:

Scrappy Child Sidekick/Wunderkind and Loser Man
Only this Gun Man can save us
Plots easily solved by allowing polyamory
romantic subplots inside action movies

The throwaway line about hiring gamers to work for MoD made me roll my eyes so hard

Yeah she said something resembling an apology for being involved in'toxic politics' which was uhhh interesting to consider

Ohhh this happened to me too!

Seems like either A) stylish chest waders with a 'fashion' top layer concealing waterproof underlayer. The buttons may be pinning together the outer layer and consealing a zipfly. Or B) Some designer has taken fashion inspo from waders, and created something that looks just like it.

Gosh, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be insensitive.

Incredible. I mean, that sucks and it was probably very awful at the time but, damn, thats cool.

Lampshades are absolutely awful to pack, they never tesselate and are broken so easily :(

this is gorgeous though, my mom has several just like it!

I wonder how people get to being called Buzz, one of the coolest nicknames. It's not usually a diminuative of anything. The most famous Buzz (Aldrin) is Edwin Eugene.

Literally any media that someone describes as 'It made me cry', especially if that is the only thing they say.

Maybe I'm a psychopath, but I'm really not interested in being sad on purpose. If consume some amazing media and it happens to make me cry? Cool! But it's not a pitch I'm keen to act on.