Why not? Science and medicine have always been biased towards men. Why should women not benefit from them too?

Yup. The creators just made a $1.5 billion deal for streaming rights. I wouldn’t worry about it.

I think it would be valuable to take a step back and look at how you’re thinking about women in general. This isn’t an attack FYI, I’m trying to be constructive because I totally understand your anxiety.

Firstly, lose the word “female.” Forget it. It won’t help you anywhere except biology class, and it’s a big red flag. In your brief question, your framing makes it sound like women are some mystical object that you can “get” with exactly the right words or the right amount of money. But they’re just people, and many of them are probably having similar issues talking to men. If you start to actively think about women as fully formed, independent, thinking, feeling human beings who have many of the same problems as you, and many that are quite different, then you’ll have a much easier time approaching them.

All of that is to say, empathy is critical. If you approach an interaction from a place of empathy—where you’re trying to understand the other person by listening to them and expressing interest—then it’ll slowly start to become natural. I realize that’s all easier said than done, but just thinking about women as complete people who aren’t there for you, but for themselves as individuals, would be a massive first step. Good luck.

That’s totally fair (though I haven’t played any recent Zelda games, so I can’t speak to that). I actually think quite a few recent open world games didn’t need to be open world at all and would have been better if they were more of a single player guided narrative.

One game that did this perfectly IMO was Guardians of the Galaxy. It wasn’t open world, but you could explore each “chapter” or “level” or whatever as much as you wanted and could replay them individually. That made the whole story feel really tight, coherent, and well thought out. I find myself really wanting that format in some of these big beautiful (and yeah, often boring) open world games.

This is pretty disappointing to me. I know it’s kind of an unpopular opinion these days, but I really enjoyed Outlaws. It was just different enough from other Star Wars properties to be novel, but recognizable enough to be convincingly in the Star Wars universe. Sure some characters were a bit flat, missions were repetitive, and it didn’t invent a new revolutionary mechanic or anything, but does every game have to be groundbreaking? I got solid enjoyment out of it, and was looking forward to how they’d continue the story.

No problem! The @ing does sound confusing, I think I’ll stop doing that.

“Gender war” might have been too strongly worded. But I, and clearly lots of other Lemmings, are especially sensitive to users who try to stir up unnecessary controversies about gender, or bring it into comments where it isn’t relevant. You might not have been trying to do that, so that’s my bad ratcheting up the rhetoric with “gender war.” But I read Arkouda’s comment and I didn’t even notice their use of “they” until reading your comment about it.

As others have said, I think you parsed the language a little too far. It’s perfectly acceptable, and sometimes preferred, to use generalities when offering advice. Re-reading it again, I frankly can’t see how it’s disingenuous at all.

I was responding to @[email protected]’s comment, and was trying to back you up (though it sounds like I failed). I agree with everything you said in your original comment, as well as the language you used to say it. The “wholesome comment” I was referring to was your comment.

The only thing I’ll take issue with is that I’ve been here for more than two years, I’m just on a new instance after lemm.ee’s shutdown.

I feel quite silly explaining this, because it seems like you probably don’t want a real answer, but “they” is used when referring to a general group of people. @[email protected] was answering in a way that could be applied to anyone, including OP’s son. Why be exclusive when you can be inclusive? Why try to turn a wholesome comment into a gender-war?

What?

My mother died recently, and she was the breadwinner and was in charge of everything financial, because my surviving father is a toxic narcissist with zero financial literacy who refuses help from anyone. So I just have to say kudos to you for thinking about this difficult stuff. Your family will appreciate it more than you can imagine.

Other commenters have already given you solid advice, and I don’t have anything to add there, but more people need to have these difficult conversations and make real practical preparations, as soon as possible. Speaking from experience, not having clear guidance about where things are and what should be done with them, makes an already emotional situation even harder to deal with. Everybody dies, but in death you can make your family’s grieving process slightly easier by thinking ahead like this.

I’m sorry for whatever you’re going through, but props for thinking about other people while you go through it.

Yeah, even UNESCO knew he would pull out again, and they prepared for it this time.

From a different article:

“I deeply regret President Donald Trump’s decision to once again withdraw the United States of America from UNESCO,” Director-General Audrey Azoulay said, adding the move contradicted fundamental principles of multilateralism.

“However regrettable, this announcement was expected, and UNESCO has prepared for it,” she said.

In recent years, Azoulay said, UNESCO had “undertaken major structural reforms and diversified our funding sources”, including with private and voluntary governmental contributions.

I hope everyone can see now, that higher ed in the US is only concerned with profits and maintaining its connections to those in power. It has been this way for decades, maybe always, but Trump’s terrorism against immigrants and anyone with a moral compass who can see what Israel is doing, has exposed it to the point that it has never been more obvious.

Harvard and Columbia, at the very least, have laughed in the face of academic freedom, shat in the face of morally justified outrage, and have made it perfectly clear that they have no business being in positions of academic, moral, or cultural authority.

Truly shameful.

Huh? Baylor is in Texas.

The fourth paragraph:

SGARP is an interdisciplinary team led by Baylor University, in collaboration with the Virgil Academy in Rome, under the auspices of the Italian Ministry of Culture and in close partnership with the municipality of Barbarano Romano.

While Brits certainly still have an outsized role in international archaeology, I’m not seeing any Brits mentioned in this article.

It’s not a fun answer, but without an invite your best bet is to keep the site open in a tab and refresh it every day. Or use a change tracker to watch it for you. One day your patience will pay off and they’ll open registrations. Hop on it immediately when they do, sometimes it’ll only be open for a day or less.

Geek is a great place to start though, it’s a solid indexer (trackers are for torrents FYI, usenet has indexers for nzbs). Dog is overrated imo, I wouldn’t worry about getting in there.

I don’t want to pile on too hard, because hopefully you’ve internalized some of the other criticisms in the comments, but this is actually a great example of why “AI” art makes so many people so angry.

On its face, this is a nice-ish comic strip with a joke that might get a smirk or chuckle in response. The moment you look at the image critically, that all falls apart. And don’t you want people to look at your art critically? Don’t you want people to zoom in and enjoy every part of what you created? Thing is, this isn’t your art. You didn’t create it. You wrote some sentences, and then an algorithm (without permission) used the real, painstakingly created artwork of artists from all over the world and throughout history, to spit out some pixels that look like this. You didn’t pick up a pencil or stylus, you didn’t ink the lines and labor over the facial expression or color pallets. You didn’t build on a lifetime of artistic experience to create something new in a style that you’ve been developing for yourself. And then you signed it to make it seem like you had actually done all that. That may seem okay to you, but it’s deeply insulting to lots of people.

I’m a shitty visual artist. I couldn’t draw to save my life. And that’s totally okay, not everyone is Van Gogh. I find other outlets for my artistic impulses.

It sure looks like he tried to cover up a bug bite or some other kind of rash to me, but two things:

1. Who the fuck cares about what T-bag’s hands look like? He’s an unhealthy elderly man.
2. It’s just another example of how sad, disturbed, and insecure this fool is. When most people get a big bug bite on their hand, they just forget about it until it goes away. Maybe put a bandaid on it if it’s really gross. He’s such a deeply strange man.

I loved coming across the various hot springs in Ghost of Tshushima, especially the ones that are really well hidden.

As I was reading this, I was thinking to myself, “Huh, this is written really badly. Huh, I’m pretty sure they repeated the same point a bunch of times. Huh, this sure sounds like bullshit LLM slop.”

Lo and behold, when I got to the end:

For this story, Fortune used generative AI to help with an initial draft. An editor verified the accuracy of the information before publishing.

So yeah, you should skip this story, it’s not worth your time.

This is exactly it. Unless we get really specific, this shit is more of the same middling platitudes, and different audiences will only hear what they want to hear. Seriously disappointing, and not at all helpful.

Ex-politicians like Obama (but not just him) need to shut the hell up unless they have PRACTICAL ideas that we can use. Someone like Obama should understand that his words have gravitas (love your username btw, fellow Banks fan I presume?), but his rhetoric goes straight in the garbage unless it’s backed by actionable ideas.