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Mama Bear
Race doesnt exist: culture over ethnicity
Not a pacifist; self defense is a human right
Chinese New Year & Christmas are my favorite holidays

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@Freemanbeauty @Walmart Ya, the Skin Shield was my favorite and now I cant find it anywhere. 3rd time I've been a big fan of a freeman product that ended up disapearing

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@Freemanbeauty What's the point? When I find your best products, they end up discontinued.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

Looking forward to the 1984 remake about the dangers of free speech, how Big Brother was just misunderstood, and that Winston Smith was the bad guy all along. You think I’m joking but how surprised would you be if that movie were made today.

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@thevivafrei Ooooh so THAT'S where the meme comes from 😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@RickWarren Yikes 😬 this isnt the message you're looking for. How about dont be lukewarm when it comes to serving God.

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@JerichoXVI @charliekirk11 Even as a kid with no interest in politics, just listening to a voice my dad had put on the radio, Rush still made a lot of sense.

[Noam Blum @neontaster]

I can tell Naughty Dog has been developing their new game since 2020 because it looks like the apotheosis of corporate writing rooms from around that time.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@Maths_Almeida @John_Garvin I'm all about this, but they own it. It would have to have a different name with different characters. Which would make it not a sequel. And you still might have trouble (like Palworld is having with Pokemon).

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@daniel_rollins @John_Garvin Absolutely! Moving to Cali might be their death knell.

[Steven Carrillo @meksiva]

@John_Garvin Days Gone. Top 5 game of last gen. Sold almost 10 million units. I loved that game and those characters as much as I love Joel and Kratos. I love PlayStation but I am always saddened and frustrated with how they treat Days Gone.

[KiTA @eldarmark]

The "woke" changes to Dragon Quest 3 are not a single change. This is something that has come up elsewhere and I want to pontificate on it.

There are two "woke" changes to Dragon Quest 3. Three if you count the censorship of Toriyama's art and designs, but, that's another discussion for another day.

Change 1: The decoupling of Sex and Gender. You can pick your body and pick your pronoun.

Change 2: The renaming of male and female body types as "Type 1" and "Type 2."

They are not the same change, and it's important to recognize that.

Current culture, maintained by the ever-present threat of cancelation, states that change 1 is uncontroversial. "Your gender and sex are not the same." Discussion of this is better had elsewhere far away from me, but that is what current culture dictates people maintain, or pretend to maintain, a belief in.

Change 2, tho. That's where it gets a bit odder.

Remember this tweet? Of some batty activist suggesting a p*nis can be "biologically female" if the identity of the owner states it is?

Think it's just one off the wall person who has been online too much? Maybe a troll pretending to be trans? Well, Pink News posted support of the idea.

Even if you do not oppose change 1, allowing someone to pick their pronouns and body type independently, it's perfectly possible for someone to find the idea of a "feminine p*nis" (or a "masculine v*gina") to be beyond what they can accept.

Trans people are valid. They deserve our caring and respect and support. There's a discussion to be had about what form that all should take, but again, have it elsewhere.

But either way, I'm not sure claiming biology isn't real is it, chief. They are special and wonderful and unique, and like all special and wonderful and unique things, they are exceptions to the norm, and that's ok!

That is why "body type A" is too far for some people. It's the same thing, or at least close enough that it triggers the same objections.

I have never heard of a trans person who actually would want to play as a trans character in a game. Why in god's name would they want to do that when they could play themselves?

My MTF friends pick the female avatar with the female pronouns. My FTM friends pick the male avatar with the male pronouns. My non-binary friends pick whatever one tickles their fancy at character creation. (The friends I have my trans friends swear are "eggs" pick the Female Avatar and pretend to ignore the Female Pronouns.)

I don't want any of this in my games. It's political. It's divisive. It's, to quote @heelvsbabyface , "Current day California sh*t."

My trans friends get to escape reality, same as I do, by picking the avatar that they want to play as. Forcing the pronoun selector and "type A" thing into the game feels like the awkward pandering of activists and corporations that don't understand the issues, but desperately, desperately want you to give them brownie points for addressing it.

If I'm wrong, and this is actually important to people, I'm willing to be wrong. I certainly don't want to hurt anyone.

But that's the controversy in a nutshell. It's not just one change. It's two. And you can be opposed to one, both, or neither.

And you can certainly be very, very tired of this constantly being brought up by people who absolutely refuse to just let you play a video game in peace.

God knows I am.

#DQ3HD2D #ドラゴンクエスト3 #DragonQuest

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@elonmusk Considering I've had people argue media bias is fine and people just have to do some of their own research, no wonder. People are doing exactly that rather than trusting biased media.

[KDL🇺🇸 @CanItBe777]

@josh_saitogami @spirit_mancer @NintendoAmerica That's where i saw it. Glad I did; it looks great! Is there going to be a physical release?

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

I actively cataloged some of the worst behavior during 2020's cultural revolution.

Here's a round-up of 20 egregious firings, investigations, and excesses from 2020, so you can remember just how bad things got.

[TryAndTakeIt @TryandTakeIt]

@TheBruceUnd @TuckerCarlson @tedcruz I do like and respect Rand a lot. But sometimes he seems to be a wildcard On issues that seem so straightforward. I’m sure he would do great though if chosen. just anybody other than Thune or Cornyn!

[TryAndTakeIt @TryandTakeIt]

@librizzi @TuckerCarlson @tedcruz Voting record

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

What the hell is going on in the US Senate? Hours after Donald Trump wins the most conclusive mandate in 40 years, Mitch McConnell engineers a coup against his agenda by calling early leadership elections in the senate. Two of the three candidates hate Trump and what he ran on. One of them, John Cornyn, is an angry liberal whose politics are indistinguishable from Liz Cheney’s. The election is Wednesday, it’s by secret ballot, and it will determine whether or not the new administration succeeds. Rick Scott of Florida is the only candidate who agrees with Donald Trump. Call your senator and demand a public endorsement of Rick Scott. Don’t let McConnell get away with it again.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A GOP Senate Source has leaked the internal whip-count for the Leadership Vote. The final votes will be on a secret ballot Wednesday.

Here is where the race stands now…

Cornyn (18)
Scott (11)
Thune (24)

Banks - Thune
Barrasso - Thune
Blackburn - Thune
Boozman - Cornyn
Britt - Cornyn
Budd - Cornyn
Capito - Cornyn
Cassidy - Thune
Collins - Thune
Cornyn - Cornyn
Cotton - Thune
Cramer - Thune
Crapo - Cornyn
Cruz - Thune
Curtis - Thune
Daines - Thune
Ernst - Cornyn
Fischer - Cornyn
Graham - Cornyn
Grassley - Cornyn
Hagerty - Scott
Hawley - Cornyn
Hoeven - Thune
Hyde-Smith - Cornyn
Johnson - Scott
Justice - Thune
Kennedy - Cornyn
Lankford - Cornyn
Lee - Scott
Lummis - Thune
Marshall - Scott
McConnell - Thune
McCormick - Cornyn
Moran - Cornyn
Moreno - Scott
Mullin - Thune
Murkowski - Thune
Paul - Scott
Ricketts - Cornyn
Risch - Cornyn
Rounds - Thune
Rubio - Scott
Schmitt - Scott
Scott (FL) - Scott
Scott (SC) - Thune
Sheehy - Thune
Sullivan - Thune
Tillis - Thune
Thune - Cornyn
Tuberville - Scott
Vance - Scott
Wicker - Thune
Young - Thune