Both!
XiaCobolt
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I agree. It's like when people post the left-handed graph. Sure it's probably correct that once society stops being structurally and culturally transphobic, there will be a cap on how many trans people there are (maybe 3% of population IDK?). But if the rate of trans people was literally growing exponentially so that at some point in the future 100% of people would be trans, there would be nothing wrong with that. Society would have to adjust but we've done so for other stuff.
My partner is a liberal because they get upset every time I accidentally use their toothbrush
Thinking of getting back into Dead State. It's a spiritual sequel to Fallout 1 and 2 (and Tactics now that I have recently replayed that). It's a turn based squad RPG set in a zombie apocalypse. It's one of the few games that I feel properly balances combat against humans versus combat against zombies, exploring and looting, while managing a base, with speech checks and dialogue.
I finished it a few years ago but I messed up and caused some people to die and didn't get the best ending with a couple of others. I also picked a kind of boring ending where the surviving military helps you evacuate, in exchange for your character being drafted as a commander of their forces.
What I really like is you have to balance the personalities and factions in your base. You can't please everyone as different factions are diametrically opposed. But you can call in favors and persuade people to soften the blow. The other thing is you also manage your individual relationship with other survivors, but without any spoilers some survivors secretly (or openly) are real pieces of shit, so you're better off antagonizing them and bringing them into line (even killing or exiling them), instead of placating or appeasing them, because if you do the later messed up stuff can happen between them and other survivors. Likewise other survivors who seem like dicks or useless really come out of their shells and become real team players.
The combat is basically like Fallout 2. You have action points, 2 weapon slots, you balance attacking versus moving etc. You can customize your own character to be good at melee, range or a mix of the two (my favorite as there's some neat synergies that can make you a real jack of all trades MVP in a fight, but that's balanced against not being the worlds best sniper or melee fighter).
You also go from being like Season 1 walking dead helpless survivors to unstoppable killers in customized body armour and weapons, clearing rooms with homebrewed nerve gas.
They're like small minority of Christian proto anarchists (no priests no churches, occaisonal communes/intentional communities) who are extreme pacifists, but understand how imperialism, social murder and slavery is violence, constantly acting against it by non violent but radical means.
A bunch fled the UK to the USA to avoid religious persecution and them immediately got started to get themselves lynched for helping slaves escape and working with first Nations people.
That said Richard Nixon's parents were Quakers and he was ostensibly one at some point, but he sort of drifted out of it in college before ever getting disowned (quaker excommunication). But he kept the ascetic aesthetic (Quakers don't drink or smoke, wear fancy clothes etc)
I get what you mean but Quakers have been persecuted for pretty much always being on right side of history their whole existence.
CW genital talk
Yo it's been 6 weeks since I started HRT and I tried to trim my public hair and ending shaving everything and woah my scrotum is already like a few shades darker and I got that very dark line under my penis. Which I understand all is normal but I didn't think it would be this fast.
transphobia
Apparently there was a white cis male character who had a fetish for bottoming while pretending to be an Asian woman.
The director went on a podcast and said thus was meant to represent trans people, that it's a sexual fetish etc
Also the director played the real Ned Schneebly in School of Rock.
The director is a transphobe apparently too
Hamas is working with over a dozen groups on this, many of which aren't even Muslim
They've even got the Maoists and The Marxist-Leninists to work together!
Became a threat again.
Because the black panthers were enough of a threat to jail and murder a bunch. Similarly they put CPA leaders in prison during the red scare. And before that killing and arresting various IWW leaders.
The whole subplot is about how Jimmy doesn't fit in with the traditional legal class, he wants to run fast and do what he wants.
Jimmy also did such amazing work finding the class action, that he assumed everything he'd do after it would be similar homeruns.