DaveTLV @Surasanji@qoto.org
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DaveTLV
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Here's something small that makes me happy:
When I was a kid, I learned that rainbows are made by the sun bouncing off rain drops.
So, when it's sunny in one direction and rainy in another, I look toward the rain and usually see a rainbow.
It's doing that in my backyard now.
@meghanmurphy doesn't demi mean like 'half or lesser' as a prefix?
Seems to suggest that if you aren't immediately imagining a sexual coupling you're somehow... less? Kinda fucked.
New England, North Dakota.
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@jacethechicken It's a bad day to work in the coma ward specifically for homosexuals. :(
CW for Length.
@georgia@spinster.xyz My father was always big on the 'technology' toys. We got our Nintendo with the Rob the Robot pack in.
My brother and I used to torture each other playing Gyromite. We also got the original LoZ and Adventure of Link. It was sort of a big Christmas thing for my father.
I attached to the Zelda games though in a big way. I played the first one for possibly hundreds of hours, making up my own story as I went along. My sister would help me with the second one quite a lot- the difficulty spiked a bit too much for me to handle at that age.
When the SNES came out, I got LttP. That game helped me through a very, very dark time- and I remember it more fondly than perhaps any other game from the series. My parents were in the middle of a very bad divorce- Link's world going completely to hell really resonated with me and gave me the feeling that I had just a little bit of control. That maybe I could fight the darkness in my own life. It gave me hope in a time when I just was not equipped to understand the "adult matters" happening around me.
@georgia@spinster.xyz and let me tell you, Dave's twelve year old sister did NOT want to hang around her silly little brother a lot. She's always there when I need her, though. Another thing the Legend of Zelda series gave me.
@arteteco FANTASTIC
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It's not an automated message. It's me pulling your leg =D
Mastalab and many other clients do not autotruncate btw
@arteteco Or is that auto-truncating feature not part of Mastodon as a whole and just something special to here?
@georgia@spinster.xyz I say with zero shame that five year old me asked my older sister to help me beat that game. She did.
@arteteco You have some neat automated messages. Is this even required anymore with them auto truncating?
@georgia@spinster.xyz I adore pretty much anything Legend of Zelda. It is the game series more than any other that is a part of my heart. I'll get the game and make a decision if it holds up to the nostlagia, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't going to get it.
Now, though, I am conflicted because I planned on getting the Link's Awakening remake this month, too. HRM. Well, it'll probably take me a while to finish The Surge (1) because of the previously mentioned bad at games.
Ooh. Looks like The Surge 2 will be released soon. Seems like a good place to start with the first one that I never completed because I am bad at games.
@georgia@spinster.xyz I'm at work, so, I'm mostly just waiting for the day to end. Once I get home I'll certainly steep myself in that nostalgia.
@georgia@spinster.xyz I have a cat. She is my baby. Please enjoy a picture of my babby <3
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"So I grew up believing that there was one bad man who hurt my family, who hurt the women in my family. And it wasn't until later - really, until I started researching this - that I began to understand this problem as part of a larger cultural problem, a legal problem, a systemic problem. And in working on this, I ended up researching the 14th Amendment quite deeply. And I learned that there are no constitutional protections for women against sexual violence and that, in fact, the Violence Against Women Act was essentially gutted by the Supreme Court in 2005 when a woman named Jessica Gonzales brought her case in front of the Supreme Court. She was suing the Castle Rock Police Department of the state of Colorado for failing to show up to protect her from her violent husband. She had a restraining order against her violent husband. She called the police many, many times. No one came to help her. They refused to come help her. They said, well, he's your husband. And her husband ended up killing her children - her three daughters.
And when she took her case to the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court essentially said, you can't sue the police department. They have no constitutional obligation to provide you with active protection. Some legal scholars have said this shuts down the 14th Amendment for women. It shuts down the possibility for women to look to the federal government for protection from gender-based violence. So when I realized that this trauma in my family wasn't just one bad man, one evil man, but a legal and systemic problem in this country, it was eye-opening for me."
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/20/705077773/how-women-have-been-profoundly-left-out-of-the-constitution
@georgia@spinster.xyz That is fantastic.
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