Porygon

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This is waaaay too soon to be funny.

Any attempts at satire mimicing current politics will just be depressing. The politicians you're making fun of end up unironically repeating the satire, bar for bar, in a way that is worse that anyone could have imagined. Your community is pushing that line a bit too far. Personally, it's not even that I had to question whether it's satire, but rather that I knew 100% that it's satire while also realizing that someone in the White House would totally and unironically agree with some of it.

Honestly, "NotTheOnion" communities have crazier, more out-of-pocket headlines than The Onion now, and I don't think it's even that close. IMO charged satire like that community, even if it's making fun of bad people, needs a break until reality gets less chaotic. Maybe in the future this will be something we can all just "laugh off" with jokes but right now things are way more serious than that for a lot of people and these attempts at dark satire just make that worse for them even when it's obviously a joke.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

It was all Pikachu's fault

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Wait Kitsune Tails looks ~~so cute~~ I mean uhh, like a great platformer, I should get it (totally still cis tho)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

There's only one achievement of the ones left that I actually care about and I haven't gotten around to attempting it yet. I've mostly been playing modded levels and doing any% speedruns.

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egg🍓irl (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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Don't ask me how many deaths my main save file has

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm all for frequent, lower stakes quizzes but I disagree about what makes them stressful.

One of my professors did that type of thing where he would randomly ask surprise graded questions on his lecture material throughout the class. It happened multiple times every class and we'd have ~30 seconds to a minute to answer them. Despite them being relatively low stakes (because of how many there were), that was easily the most stressful class I've ever taken. Having to be constantly on edge for the entire class for a quiz without knowing when it would happen (or even worse, getting caught off-guard when it did) was exactly what made it so stressful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think the amount of stress that would cause would lead to significantly higher drop out rates at pretty much every level.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Why am I being called out like this?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thank you so much for this comment! This might just be dependent on my individual family, but do you think there's anything I can do to emphasize that I'm being serious and it isn't a phase or anything? Or will it just be a matter of it happening over time?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Thank you so much for this comment!! I really appreciate it ❤️

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I'm AMAB and since July, I've felt what I now realize is mild dysphoria. Around 2 weeks ago I read more about gender dysphoria from genderdysphoria.fyi and realized I am almost certainly trans. Ever since I realized this, my dysphoria (along with anxiety about said dysphoria) has gotten a lot worse to the point where I'm only getting ~3-5 hours of sleep for multiple days in a row until I get exhausted enough to pass out immediately when I get in bed. I was originally going to wait until I graduate this year but I've been pretty miserable and I want to come out sooner because I think that would at least help with the anxiety aspects, even if I wait to start actually transitioning. That being said, I'm worried about a few things:

My last semester in undergrad for CS is coming up and I have 4 male roommates in an apartment, and I'm scared of making things awkward for the last months we'll be living together since we're all pretty close friends.

I'm lucky enough to be in a blue state (both at college and at home) and my parents and siblings are all mostly progressive politically, but I don't think my parents have ever actually met a trans person. I'm worried that they won't accept me because they think that all trans people knew they were trans as children, and I've had mostly "male" hobbies for my whole life. It's more of less the same story with my grandparents who I'm also very close with, one of whom is in pretty bad health right now. I'm worried that coming out and/or transitioning would be enough of a shock to make that worse.

I guess my questions are, how did you come out, and how can I approach this with my family? Did you start transitioning immediately after coming out to friends/family? Before? Am I way overthinking everything? Any other advice for someone who's new to all of this?

If my run-on sentences are unintelligible lmk and I'll fix them, I'm very sleep deprived rn but I needed to get this off my chest before I actually implode