CommunistCatgirl UwU

I think it’s most apparent in how she acts in the Phantom Bullet arc. She’s in a feminine avatar and instead of trying to appear more masculine, she plays into it. It first it’s because she’s worried Sinon won’t trust her as a man, but even after Sinon knows, she still keeps up the feminine mannerisms around others.

That’s kinda the jumping off point because after that you can go back and forwards in the timeline and see the change when viewing her through the lens of a closeted trans woman.

In Aincrad she’s prone to isolating herself and putting up this image of an arrogant loner when at every turn she tries to help those around her and is instead very self deprecating.

In Alicization/War of Underworld we see her quite literally lose her grasp on her self image, she has become disconnected from the person she’s recognized as.

Outside of the anime, you also have multiple renders of her in her GGO avi wearing dresses and skirts and looking incredibly happy. In the novels there are multiple lines where she expresses a disconnect from who she is online and who she is in real life.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

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i have as of this moment 0.95 cents in my bank account i have bills due on the 10th and no money for groceries. i am absolutely fucked this month

im hopefully getting into vocational rehab soon and they might be able to help with cash assistance but there are no promises there

296/400

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