Agnostic.

Gnostic is an old word for knowledge or understanding. It is often used to refer specifically to divine, holy, or magical knowledge, so it works, but I think it was originally a more generic word.

It is an odd one, when you look at the taxonomy. I gave heard people use it synonymously with atheist or atheism. Usually they are meant distinctly differently.

Agnostic. I am not sure a word meaning "Against knowlege & understanding" fits what people usually mean when they use it.

Words.

I think it was here, years ago, when I found out Anarchy didn't used to mean "Chaos" but refers to the idea of being against heirarchy, using the negation prefix a.

I had thought now and then, "Ah, so a-theism means being against theology, aka religious doctrine." but just now I remembered a popular neighbor word.

Could you imagine if you were the one who trademarked "Soon"? What would that be like? XD

And in the wake of the Discord Age Verification crisis, racing around the bend like a dark horse, here comes Steam...

https://steamcommunity.com/updates/chatupdate

Fuck cancer.

There's something I wonder about now and then, and it popped in while looking at Masto so I'll just ask about it here.

Adult works have been against TOS pretty much everywhere, pretty much forever, and we've been violating the whole time, and they ignored us. Untill they stopped ignoring us. Folks always said they ignored us because we were making them money. We still would be, if they'd let us.

What was the actual event that changed things?

Here I am, getting creative again, wanting to write, and I'm having to set up tools and environments so my output stays coherent and connected. ^.^;;

It's always the work you don't want to do before the work you do.

The tricky thing is I can't decide if I should try using Fantasia Archive, or set up a Wiki on my webserver.

Probably the second one, I offered to make a Wiki for Alex's lore years and years ago and never did. So I should make two wikis.

It was folks saying that all pictures of fat or overweight people, either photographs or illustrations, are pornography, nsfw, should be censored or banned.

The argument is that nobody would want to see a fat person for any reason other than a harmful/abusive kink reason. They're 'obviously' unhealthy/sick, so it's like looking at weeping sores or something, from these people's perspective.

And this bothered me so much it has stuck with me.

Sometimes things get stuck in my head, and I find myself inserting them into conversations online, only to delete them as irrelevant or tangental. I'm hoping by bringing this up here, I can get it out of my head!

So, I'm generally against the sort of anti-sex shaming we have in our society, and especially the extreme forms that are trying to amp things up. There's one particular 'movement' I heard of years ago that bothered me so much it stuck with me.

If there's one really good thing to say about Digimon Beatbreak so far, it's this.

Of course you can be an adult and have a Digimon!

They even had an old man taking care of a wild Digimon...

Please reccomend some chill, low impact, turn based games for stress relief during panic attacks.

So, it looks like vision care emergencies aren't covered, here, in Ontario, Canada, unless you have one of a short list of already existing optical conditions.

Fuck. ;.;

We get a regular checkup covered every two years, and my next scheduled regular checkup is in April, but I don't NEED a REGULAR checkup, I need emergency care for my suddenly reduced vision!

I guess I just have to eat the cost. $85 is a lot for me, but I'm not gonna starve. :/

Something that keeps bugging me is how invested some folks are in hating big video game corps and reveling in schadenfreude at their every failure or misstep. A lot of them are doing bad things, fucking around and finding out, but it feels less like folks are going "See? Smarten up next time, big business." but rather reveling in a sort of manic sadism. Like they would be actually upset/disappointed at a return to form or significant improvement in corp behaviour.

Oh no, it's catching on. ;.;

"Friendslop" as a genre name wasn't bad enough I heard someone use "Soulslop" instead of soulslike. ;.;

I'm in kind of a weird state right now. The last few weeks have been such a mess that when I was struck just now by a need for comfort and familiarity, I was disturbed to realize nothing is comfortable and familiar anymore. It's been too long. I'm not immersed in anything, and I can't bring myself to start anything without getting comfortable again. ;.;

I guess it's time to wait it out and hope things change. :/

I've been feeling more emotional lately, which is odd for me. Normally I can barely feel my emotions. Lately I've been pretty mad.

I've even been going on rants in my head about stuff that pisses me off. But like, there's one big thing that I absolutely must not talk about, and that's extra rough.

This might be kinda meta, but I'm upset that I can't bring myself to post on here how upset I am for fear of driving others away by being a downer. But, to even share that, I have to post that I'm upset. ;.;

I understand that game genre names occur and develop organically and nobody actually chooses them or officiates them or anything, but...

Do we really have to call this new genre "Friendslop"? o.o;;

It sounds like an insult but people aren't using it as an insult, they're saying things like "Hey check out this new friendslop game it looks cool we should try it!"

But at the same time people are using the word slop super negatively everywhere else, talking about floods of low quality AI work.

I've been messed up since then so didn't think to mention it, but when I was at the endocrinologist we were talking about options for my testosterone being low, and he revealed to me that apparently there's actually a big shortage of injectable testosterone? There's just barely enough to go around, and the pharmacies are usually on back order.

I wonder what's going on there? I doubt anyone here knows but if I don't ask I won't know. Do you know?

Here's me at the endocrinologist, looking at all the rainbows and trans info pamphlets and gradually realizing where the local trans folks are probably getting thier various hrt supplies...