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@BigTLarrity for a second i was like "okay that's a little far for a health class, i guess it depends on the age of the kids?"

then i read it was a fucking ENGLISH TEACHER TRYING TO DESENSITIZE CHILDREN? WTF?

TO THE PIKES

@gruyere I didn't buy it either but I had a really fun time with it. Played on normal mode. There were definitely times where I got pretty pissed at the totally busted AI. Most of the time though I was able to clutch it out. The actual gameplay is REALLY good, one of the better racing games I've played.

My other favorites are the SEGA All Stars games, the Hot Pursuit remake, Mario Kart 8, F-Zero X/GX, Fast Racing Neo/RMX, ballisticNG, and WipEout Omega Collection.

@Oaghaji I've actually never heard anyone say something is a SF clone just because so many games like it came out around the game time. I've heard of Mortal Kombat clones, because that style is a lot more unique with the photos of people for characters and the hyper gore.

@Ace66062 good

Game on ESA right now called "Spark the Electric Jester" that's a 3D Sonic inspired game, it looks really fucking fun.

Had a dream I was dating Meru.

@Ricotta japan

@LukeAlmighty after high school i have no idea what the fuck happened to her, or most people from high school for that matter. i've got 6 friends from high school and that's it.

@LukeAlmighty no longer my friend xD

@LukeAlmighty @dave he got famous because he "survived a school shooting" and his dad's in the fbi or some shit, and he's basically turned into an analogue for greta thunberg is for climate change except for gun control.

@xianc78 @LukeAlmighty Treatment is part of my point, too. The type of treatment people need is NOT what is currently being sold, because it is a lot harder and there are a lot more inconvenient truths that need to be addressed that go completely against the current fabric of society. Doing that, of course, would result in a loss of capital. Pure toxicity.

@xianc78 @LukeAlmighty Yeah, when I talk about mental illness I'm not exactly talking about gender dysphoria, although that does obviously play some part of it and could even be learned.

I am mainly talking about people who are lacking in a real sense of self-identity, integrity, or have a hard time socializing. There is a reason why becoming transgender is so prevalent among autists, or people who have trouble socializing in general. They seek validation, they want to feel like they are accepted and treated well, and don't exactly recognize what they're doing is horrible for them due to the feedback loop of their peers and people saying they're "heckin' valid" and whatnot. Then, it reaches a point where it's unfortunately too late.

A lot of this isn't really their fault, either. It's a toxic society that praises and encourages this kind of illness. It has been being built up like this for decades and this is the ultimate end point of it, where people are ending up with extreme dissonance and realizing that a large chunk of their life was a complete lie. They don't know how to handle that and end up biting the bullet. I can empathize with that too, because I too grew up in many toxic feedback loops regarding religion and when that broke I did too. Luckily, I made it out, and I hope more people do and that more people also gain the courage to do something about it and to find people that actually love them before it is too late.

@LukeAlmighty Gender stereotypes were originally beginning to be broken with stuff like guys being able to like pink. I'm really not diehard conservative on that front, I think femboys are fine just as much as tomboys are. It just seems to me that liberals looped right back to those gender stereotypes of "if you act like a girl, you must be a girl" and then took it to an extreme. It's a weird situation where it's kind of trendy to be unique, but by following the trend you are not all unique, you are just doing it to be perceived as such.

It's important to realize that you can be feminine while still being a guy and being comfortable with that. Treating a mental disorder with a physical change to your body is very damaging and doesn't really fix the mental disorder, just stifles it momentarily. This is why so many transgender people end up killing themselves (or attempting to) and it is strikingly similar to depression being treated with anti-depressants (that literally say you may feel suicidal as a side effect).

These are people who have been very damaged by influential people in their lives, so much so that they truly believe that damaging themselves more is the solution to the problem, when I think the actual solution is to be with people that actually make you happy and want the best for you, to unpack your insecurities and trauma and learn to be comfortable in your own skin, not somebody else's, and not somebody else's idea of what being comfortable means.

There was a trans girl I knew in high school who said she felt horrible every time she looked in the mirror, and saw something that wasn't her. I offered her advice, saying that the best way to fix that would be to change her perception and her mindset, rather than changing her body. All of her friends and even one of the teachers jumped down my throat and I got effectively "canceled" from publishing in the school newspaper for that. These monsters don't actually care about what these people are struggling with, this identity crisis that is likely due to trauma, they only care about looking good to their peers and appearing to be these champions of "trans rights" and such. When all of your "friends" are rushing to your aid to complete validate your problems, no matter how ugly they are, they are not really your friends... but people who have attachment/abandonment issues or other traumas/social deficiencies, and especially young people like that, don't know that. Of course they don't, and they won't find out until stuff comes crashing down because they have no real guidance.

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