"Itoi: The colors for MOTHER were actually a proposal from my designer. He came to me and said, "I've got this option and that option," so I asked him, "Well, what do you think?" and he told me, "Personally, I think this one is the best."
That's generally how I work. I ask the person doing the job. On the surface, it may look like I'm trying to be even-handed or something, but I definitely play favorites. But the thing is, if the person actually doing the work says that's the one!, I can usually get behind it.
You see, someone on the outside looking in might have all kinds of different opinions. Maybe they dislike muted colors, who knows. But when someone actually involved in the project—that is, the designer himself—says they want to do something with a certain level of passion, there's always a reason for it. A deep, fundamental reason. Just like rolling over in your sleep.
—Rolling over?
Itoi: Yeah. I've been making the point lately that rolling over in your sleep isn't a random action; there's a real, fundamental reason behind it.
Itou: Really?
Itoi: Take the way I'm sitting right now… even this pose is a kind of "rolling over in your sleep."
Itou: Ah, I see what you mean.
Itoi: In other words, I'm sitting like this because my body has an actual necessity to be in this posture. It's the result of a struggle between two things: the fact that I'm being watched by others, and my own internal necessity. I believe the future of "creative work" lies in how much we can tap into and breathe life into that kind of raw instinct."
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On a lighter note, you can ask me about asexual reads of anime characters or something, lol.
Or about... anything, really. Doesn't have to be asexuality-related, was just on my mind.
There is something very alienating about trying to assert one's existence as a sex-repulsed asexual.
It's hard to ignore how the online response to conservative censorship of NSFW and queer art focuses on the fundamental universality of sex. That art without sexual desire fueling it is not simply real art, it is the realest art, and art made without a libido is barren in comparison.
It is hard to ignore that a lot of ace positivity on Tumblr frames aces in terms of their ability to serve allosexual needs. ("Handing out water bottles at the orgy," "aces make the best smut.")
It is hard to open any conversation about the right to not be a sexual body when minority-positivity is often wrapped up in affirming people's sexual viability. About the right to be sexless as a feminist issue, a rape culture issue, a racial issue and a transgender issue and more.
To assert one's sexlessness is to somehow "steal" a perfectly good resource from other people. To assert a right to acknowledge that a historical figure might have had our experiences, or ask if a character reflects our experiences, is to steal what could have been gay or lesbian rep, which is Superior, that to ask if they could be ace instead is inherently homophobia. A certain comparison to be made to how a trans man is seen as a "waste" and "stealing away" of a pretty daughter, that asking if a historical figure AFAB identified with manhood is stealing from women's history and lesbian history and feminism.
To be a sexless autistic is to be bad autism rep, because by being sexless you're infantilizing yourself, don't you know? You're playing into the idea autistic people are children, because sex is the difference between adults and children. Every weird unusual fixation will be read as a kink or fetish, and attempting to assert that it's not will be treated as a sign that you hate people with kinks or fetishes - or that you're just lying.
(In offline het society, people will often assume someone attracted to neither men or women is attracted to something worse - children, animals - because nothing is not actually an option. Because everyone wants to fuck something, so the person who fucks nothing is just hiding that they want to fuck something abhorrent.)
To be an aromantic asexual is bad ace rep and bad aro rep because allo-aces and aro-allos get offended by your existence. My existence makes them "look bad."
It's hard to talk about our society being structured around the idea that people will be cared for by their children and grandchildren late in life, because of course you're going to reproduce. That society is structured around monogamous partnership. Because obviously all asexuals want QPRs and those are basically like romantic relationships, right?
People who will open their ears when you say "listen, I know the series is homophobic, but this character reads as gay" will not listen if you try to talk about unintentional aro-aceness.
I will die alone. I do not want to get married. My mother has repeatedly told me no man would ever want to marry a woman who doesn't have sex; she does not believe it is possible for men to not want sex. She has repeatedly told me that nobody will ever prioritize a platonic friend over a romantic and sexual partner, that this is the nature of the world. That people will inevitably drift away when they fall in love. I constantly fear getting close to people, because I know they will leave me - if not because I'm annoying and unlikable, then it's because friendship is never as important as love.
I fear that when I have to reject an advance, people think I'm a bitch and I hate them.
I fear that I'm just a stupid adult-aged adult-sized child, developmentally stunted and sexless, that like the changeling parasitizes the home while never growing up. Being a manchild (or rather a womanchild, or a thingchild) isn't cute in your thirties.
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candyheartsex exchange event:A think I sort of appreciate about Caves of Qud's presets is... Qud is a very systems-heavy and lethal game. This is part and parcel of it being a classic-Roguelike, but I think games should be able to "onboard" new players without being super handholdy. Character creation, as the thing that you must do before even starting a run, is a part of the game that can be overwhelming and lead to unsustainable builds if one doesn't yet understand the core look of the game.
Presets both allow one to skip this process if they're overwhelmed, but also illustrate strategies and synergies one can use for future runs with custom builds.
...Hmm. I really don't like the way bulleted lists look on this DW theme. Sub-bullets feel way too disjointed from the main bullets, and also the indenting in general is a bit much sometimes.
Does anyone know how to fix the theme so that the indent-effect is more subtle, like how lists on Wikipedia look?
malyminPsychopathic personality disorder – or psychopathy as it is commonly called – is one of the oldest and most researched mental health diagnoses. The first account of psychopathy seems to be a short text from 1786 by the American physician Benjamin Rush who described a mysterious medical condition that he called anomia – and later moral derangement – where people allegedly lost the ability to distinguish between good and evil. Although his work is highly speculative, it sketched out the idea of ‘the psychopath’ in a way that could be passed on to a scientific audience: as a biological disorder so extreme that it impairs the innate human capacity for moral attitudes and prosocial behaviours.
In modern science, psychopaths are typically described with reference to concrete symptoms, like a lack of empathy, remorse and conscience, or more explicit behavioural signs, like predatory violence, pathological lying and impaired impulse control. As the prominent psychopathy researcher Robert Hare writes in his book Without Conscience (1993):
"Psychopaths are social predators who charm, manipulate, and ruthlessly plow their way through life, leaving a broad trail of broken hearts, shattered expectations, and empty wallets. Completely lacking in conscience and in feelings for others, they selfishly take what they want and do as they please, violating social norms and expectations without the slightest sense of guilt or regret."
The psychopath has also become a well-known figure of fascination in popular culture, frequently portrayed in bestselling novels and cinematic thrillers. One of the more jarring examples is the assassin Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem in the movie No Country for Old Men (2007). Utterly deprived of any emotional resonance, Chigurh wanders through the arid Texas landscape as he slaughters innocent people like cattle. Though characters such as Chigurh are, of course, works of fiction and not serious attempts to portray real people clinically diagnosed with psychopathy, Chigurh-like characters still animate many of the central traits associated with psychopathy, such as emotional detachment and moral emptiness.
However, there’s a problem with this idea of psychopathy. While it has been researched across hundreds of empirical studies – especially since the explosion of research in the late-1990s – there is still remarkably little evidence that corroborates popularised claims about the diagnosis. Despite enthusiasm among researchers in the 1990s and 2000s, when a few studies seemed to validate theories about psychopathy, the past two decades have been sobering. Today, virtually every single claim about psychopathy has been either thoroughly refuted or failed to find empirical support in experimental settings. Psychopathy may not exist at all.
I really hate that the only way to make a single image file display new colors (without uploading new images) via css is the hue-rotate() CSS.
See, I mostly play with color channels, flipping them around, right? The way that the relative luma changes when the channels are flipped is part of the fun. But hue-rotate tries to preserve luma (badly imo), making red turn dark green instead of lime, and that's not necessarily what I want. In addition, it can only rotate, it can't flip color channels. I can make an image with a red-yellow gradient into blue-magenta or green-cyan with hue-rotate, but not from red-yellow into blue-cyan (and vice versa), the effect I get from an RB channel swap that I like so much.
The invert() filter is also weird and muddy compared to a direct color inversion in an image program. Hate it hate it hate it!
I just want to be able to display what I love so much about manipulating color channels without having to upload 100 different versions of the same image... (wimper)
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