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Good messaging. We need more of that in various marches, parades and etc.

On the desktop site, the links actually generate a video, on the Lemmy post so you don’t actually have to click on the links to see most of the content. (Except maybe for the entire video description, and info on the uploader.)

That’s great.

You look great. Keep smiling. (if you want ofc)

This ban just has to do with the gear and attire. My question is, why now and not sooner. Especially in a state like California. It’s in the news constantly. It’s up there with New York I mean.

And then there’s this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvswd1I8qo

Hey so I tried to join it, but I can’t log in because it says email unverified, and no email was sent. Can’t find a way to try to resend or anything. I’m just kinda stuck in this loop.

Sprite rule.

Might actually, seems surprisingly active.

I didn’t know about that specific community, as i’m posting from a different instance. Apologies on that. Yeah, there actually, a lot of Lucky Star specific videos on Peertube. From mashups, and more lyric videos.

Like, I use to be able to search for animations, and there use to be a lot of new animation videos I could find, new uploads even. In like the last two years idk what happened, but that’s my degradation issue i’m talking about.

This form however seems well thought out overall, because they have an ‘other’ and a prefer not to say choice. Anything they didn’t specifically include is I guess technically is included, under the ‘other’ choice. Very vaguely.

Yeah, I mean sure it’s good that they are showing they know those identities exist. But this info could be used for any purpose, imagine being asked this in Russia. The government ‘could’ potentially literally target you in a bad way knowing this about you.

In the u.s right now, another example, so it’s one thing if they are representing these minorities, but it’s another if they are collecting data about you. For who knows what purposes.

In the u.s, the main parties are the republicans and the democrats. 3rd parties don’t receive much news coverage because, one or the other main parties, also dominate the news media in the u.s. Not many people know that there were attempts for a socialist party in the u.s, because the news will not cover them as much as they will cover “their hatred for trump.”

average people in the u.s generally (they aren’t people who study a lot of literature, just general people.) They even understand that both sides aren’t perfect. They know.

the issue is.

When it comes to one political party vs the other, guess where people are going to always flock to. If it isn’t one, it’s the other, because to them, it’s only that other one that might have a chance of making the change they want. 3rd party political parties have a hard time gaining traction.

Some more specific sources on games representing marginalized identities. A continuation on that list of games I showed you.

Splatoon 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW4V3sVdigU Hair style is no longer decided by gender, unlike in earlier entries of the game.

Spyro 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1V8HZPPoaI Spyro represents ace vibes in one part of the ending cutscenes for the game. For a PS1 game particularly this is important. After seeing Mario saving Peach in another castle for how many so times.

I have a few things, along with specific examples.

1. There was a glad study on LGBTQ+ representation in games.

Studies indicate a significant presence of LGBTQ+ individuals within the gaming community. Notably, GLAAD’s research, based on Nielsen surveys, highlights that a considerable percentage of active gamers identify as LGBTQ+. Specifically, the GLAAD report shows that 17% of active gamers are LGBTQ+.

2. There is LGBTQ+ representation in games you probably wouldn’t expect.

a. In Splatoon 3 on the Nintendo Switch, you have your inkling and Octoling avatars, but they are not gender locked meaning you can have voices of the opposite gender, despite the hair style. Could also be looked at as representing feminism.

b. In a Spyro 3 Year of the Dragon, Spyro the dragon originally released on the PS1, shows some asexual aspects when hunter and bianca kiss in an ending cutscene. Ace vibes. Tells Sparx to look away,

3. Fan posts, allow marginialled queer and LGBTQ fans of a franchise to have their side represented, even if in an uncannon way. Very important for representation.

In one side, it seems like a win, on the other, Bluesky is capitalizing off of Meta hate?

Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains

While their past behavior was inexcusable, not many people actually know about aromantic and asexual identities, when most people think of LGBTQ+ the default stereotype is trans, gay and bi people. People don’t actually know that it extends beyond that, because of that stereotype.

I do give the op credit for opening up and talking about it, and moving on pass their past bad experience for a better future, which seemed to be their end goal here.

I agree with, the post op on this, because look. If a person identifying as one gender is cross dressing to look a certain way, they are not trans just from that because at the end of the day it is just cloths. Also where you say, “You don’t think about how you respond to people’s missteps” you seem to be broadly talking more than just simply cross dressing, but since you didn’t say anything specific I won’t judge you, but that is suspicious.