pokemon lover

My little brother had recently finished the New Prophecy Graphic Novel and has connected some dots- what if Purdy was Brambleclaw's grandfather, AKA Tigerstar's father?

That’s one question to ask, sure.

But when a little boy is being told by his mother to suck it up or else he’ll never be a real man?

That’s a woman placing that system’s constraints upon her son. She didn’t set it up any more than her son did, or her father did. But she is being the enforcer of the system.

We need to stop talking about patriarchal systems as though the current men who live under it made it, and we also need to stop talking about patriarchal systems as though they are ever only enforced by men.

if you didn't know, ren'py Tom, the creator of Renpy, made a post a few hours ago about how he uses AI to develop Renpy--he's been doing it since 2021, a little after i first started using it.

being strongly against AI, this one has hit me HARD. i think it's important for software developers to be transparent about their usage of AI so that the people that are considering using their software can choose what to do.

well, we were not given that choice, were we? if i knew, i, personally, would have already changed engines.

i'm still a bit lost and really upset, since I just finished my import/export tool for LtGBtK/WtDLtK, the "build a save" tool is roughly in half, and I'm not sure how to move forward.

i'll continue following the discussion and waiting for a response from Tom. within this one, there's also a larger discussion about AI usage on software development in general and how difficult it is to escape it nowadays--but what does that mean? simply accepting that this is the new normal is *exactly* what would MAKE it the new normal, and I don't *want* it to be.

i'm ONE developer, working solo on every single part of this project, but one can't turn their morals on/off when it's convenient, so while changing engines at this point would be **extremely** difficult and time-consuming for me, it's not off the table yet.

i'll keep you all posted.

big hugs,

Ligia

There are zero hijab options.

And one could argue that maybe there will be a clothing item that looks like a hijab, or better yet, straight up IS one, but I’d argue that’s not enough. If we do not have to buy glasses for our miis to wear them, hell, if we do not have to buy BOWS and HEADBANDS for them to wear, since there are a handful of hair options with built-in head accessories, then why should hijab be treated as less then? An article of clothing which is certainly more important than a fucking BOW? It just rubs me the wrong way.

Don’t get me wrong, this game is still something I’m incredibly excited about. This will be the first time I can make a version of myself in a game that is both explicitly non-binary and is functionally aro-ace. I’m thrilled about this! And, while not perfect, we have a good number of new curly hair options that we desperately needed. Certainly not perfect, but I’m thrilled that we’re getting other hair textures! And all the extra customization is phenomenal.

But Pokopia fully does not do that. The world is lonely without humans and lesser for humanity's absence. So much of the game is about how Pokemon miss humans and are struggling to make sense of a world without us, how the ecosystem is just as hurt by our absence as any other species, and how the things we left behind, even in ruins and burned shells, are often beautiful and strange and helpful to the Pokemon who find them.

Pokemon have always been this allegory for the natural world- back to the original idea of the games inspired by children who caught bugs and kept ant farms- and thus the relationship between Pokemon and humans becomes this allegory for the relationship between nature and humans. And Pokopia looks you dead in the eye and says "the world would be poorer without humans, and if we all vanished tomorrow the echoes of who we are and the things we did would still ring out for eons uncountable. We would be missed and mourned and searched for and the wound of our absence would be deeply felt on this earth for the rest of its turning. The actions of a few greedy short sighted humans will never change that."

The answer is, of course, yes. This has been the settled feminist position since at least the 90s, something I was aware of as part of the minimum acceptable bar for feminism as a 13 year old.

It's not even a complicated idea - the patriarchy demands certain things from men as part of the structure that sustains itself. Men have social expectations of manliness and violating those norms can result in severe social consequences. This is part of the definition of toxic masculinity.

(It's also one of the reasons trans women are hated in the particular way we are - much of society sees us as an extreme case of "failed men".)

There is a reason we say feminism is for everyone, including men. Because men are oppressed as well by the patriarchy and would

The only reason we even slightly entertain this question on this website is because it's become a transphobic dog whistle to justify transphobia against trans men and trans mascs, in particular in the form of denying the existence of transphobia specific to trans men and trans mascs, aka transandrophobia. "I'm not transphobic, I just don't think men are oppressed." is incredibly transparent, but still has been repeated often enough with minimal push back that others are just accepting it as true.

israel does however have the right to exist. to call for the destruction of israel is anti-semtic.