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Me and some friends made a gay little VN together https://halfbrick.itch.io/bloom-into-frost

How hard-coded is sexuality? Is it entirely biological, or is there an environmental factor to it? If it's at least partially environmental, at what point does it lock in? To avoid sounding like an ass, I know that attempting to remove the gay from someone is futile at best, and a hate crime at worst, so the answer to that last question is likely to be either "there is no environmental factor; not applicable" or "really early".

My sexual attraction to people has changed a lot throughout my life, there are some body parts I found sexually repulsive when I was younger that I find very attractive now, but other things are more consistent. There's definitely another timeline where I live my whole life thinking of myself as straight, I don't think I could have figured a lot of these things out without other people to talk to about it.

Sexuality and gender aren't real per se, they're a social construct, so to search for environmental factors that cause these things is futile. The concept of sexuality is a really recent invention, this is why it's impossible to actually say whether ancient people were gay or straight or pansexual or asexual or so on, because these particular ideas hadn't even been conceived of yet. The concept of sexuality is so entrenched now that it seems like it's existed forever, but it hasn't, only sexual attraction is a constant. I know that's a very small distinction, but it's an important one, because if you try reading about the sexual norms of any ancient society while trying to box them into homosexuality or heterosexuality you'll miss out on how nuanced sexual attraction can be.

Oregon / California / Washington have this weird idea where they believe people passed out in broad daylight, on people's door steps and businesses, high on drugs, is peak, quality freedom.

I'm all for not criminalizing some drugs but I've never understood how anyone can look at the results of total decriminalization and think it's a good thing.

Decriminalizing drugs prevents the immense harm that happens when you send people to jail. Yes, the results of total decriminalization is a very good thing.

Quote from: delphonso on October 25, 2020, 06:47:49 pm

Could it be that men are pigs and that they are more likely to support unjust or unfair systems if it gives them a slight advantage?

As a white male I sure do enjoy the privilege of constantly being the villain of society due to original sin I never done.  Love how I'm a pedophile bigot out to pillage and rape every woman I encounter.

Don't worry you're one of the good ones

Have reread "Big Lin and Little Lin", this time fully appreciating grotesque communard satire on stuck-up corrupt richies instead of just WTFing as a child. Was disturbing, is disturbing.

Huh, any way I can read this online?

Quote from: hector13 on October 14, 2020, 11:15:27 pm

+1 on the RedKing appreciation, thanks for the effort.

Agreed - just read through this at work. Well put together.

Ditto. Is this really all for us? It's not even our birthday!

I have avoided C++ for 7 years. I didn't want to touch it. I still hate its build systems, the build ecosystem surrounding it.

But I have literally never had as much fun programming as I do when I'm working in C++, doing optimizations. Nothing has ever come close. I feel like I haven't been programming until recently. What the heck is happening. I could infodump about C++17 and C++20 features for hours. I'm getting an actual desire to optimize Dwarf Fortress, like some sort of rando programmer who stumbles into the forums and gets rebuked. It's unbelievable, just how much I'm enjoying C++ work and optimization. Thinking about cache locality is fun, considering where multithreading might get a use and when the overhead of an atomic variable might not be worth it is stimulating. Good lord.

What the hell is wrong with you and also what steps do I take to actually feel this way about C++