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Off Topic / Hurricane Milton

« on: October 07, 2024, 03:08:37 PM »

Another big hurricane after Florida had already dealt with one less than two weeks ago. Cat 5! That used to mean something! If every damned hurricane is category five, then none of them are!

Anyway, I'm in Brevard County, and the eye of the storm might pass over us directly. Wish this richard-girl cartoon lover some luck please! o7

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Off Topic / a poll for futanari enjoyers

« on: August 27, 2024, 12:21:32 PM »

(There's no kids on this forum anymore, right?)

There's been some drama I've witnessed across the web when it comes to futanari hentai, or richardgirl cartoons, or whatever you'd like to call it. Mostly from westerners, I feel I should mention. But there's controversy around people who consume this research, people who draw it, and what names people use for it. Discounting that it's a 'weird' and 'impossible' special interest most of the time, enjoyed by lots of people that consider themselves straight (whether it is or isn't is up for debate), the most hate I see is about the language used to describe it. (Yes, I'm aware I'm talking about a vocal minority, and most people don't care, but they're annoying to me so I'm gonna talk about them.)

Some people will argue that the concept of "futanari" or "richardgirls" is sensible. I figure this comes from the word "shemale" falling out of use relatively recently, as it was mostly used to either disparage transwomen or serve as a category of research. The latter is true of the words "futanari" and "richardgirls," obviously. I can get disliking those words if you are trans, or have a lot of trans friends you're close with. They might feel that it's loveualizing them to a crowd of chasers, or belittling their struggles in some way (feel free to correct me). What I don't get is why some of them hate the word "hermaphrodite" when used in a human context. I guess it could be used as a slur, but it also serves as a scientific term for an organism with fully functional male and female parts, separate from the variety of interlove disorders. I guess it might just be ignorance that hermaphroditism and interloveuality is not the same thing.

Some of those people that have issue with the language to describe this sort of research also have an issue with its depiction. Specifically, depicting anyone with a richard and pusillanimous individual. For some people, if it's not "true to the trans experience", then it shouldn't exist. I'm not sure what to say about this, besides that it's usually not at all meant to be about the trans experience. From my knowledge at least, the vast majority of media where hermaphrodites exist is research. Rarely, they exist outside of a research context as cool aliens, weird angels or demons, or speculative sci-fi guesstimating what humans would be modifying themselves into. In that last one, to me it feels less like it's about the 'transgender experience' (though technically it is), but more about the overall 'transhuman experience'.

tl;dr - haters gonna hate, antis gonna anti, and i like hermaphrodites in research and as a scientific concept

What kinds of futa do YOU like, and why? What tropes do you dislike about it? Personally, I wish more people would draw futas with normal-sized richards instead of super huge ones the size of their torso.

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Games / Single-player shooters with good stories

« on: July 23, 2024, 07:01:50 PM »

Have there been any good and engaging single-player campaigns without RPG mechanics in any recent shooters? I'm talking about things similar to FEAR, or Half-Life. Or the fun, cinematic campaigns of Halo and Call of Duty. I just wanna shoot some bad guys and have a good story, I don't wanna bother with multiplayer or grind for anything.

I've played and enjoyed:
CoD4:MW 1-3 + Black Ops 1
Halo 1-4 + Reach
Half-Life 1-3 + A bunch of source mods
Black Mesa
Space Marine
FEAR 1-3 (Yes 3 was good)
Spec Ops: The Line
Max Payne 1-3
Hatred
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Titanfall 2 (RIP to my homie BT)
Boltgun
DOOM 1-2
New DOOM 1-2
Battlefield: Bad Company 2

Bad Games:
Turok 1-2 + Evolution
Doom 3
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero

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Off Topic / Why do people dislike safety equipment?

« on: April 30, 2024, 07:37:38 PM »

So I recently got a job as a guy who delivers, installs, and mounts TVs and other devices. I often work with power tools and ladders. Me and my coworkers don't get paid hourly, we get paid a piece rate for every job completed, so we're incentivized to work as fast as we can.

However, I am protective of my soft, stuffty body. So whenever I'm working with someone and I insist on wearing my helmet on the ladder (which is company policy), or put on gloves to lift heavy things (to avoid cutting my hands, and the cushion helps my endurance with the weight), or put on ear protection when we drill (metal on metal screeching is LOUD), or even decide to put on safety glasses when we're cutting wood or drywall, my coworkers just give me annoyed looks or sighs or make comments about it. Even the one clumsy motherforgeter that keeps cutting his hands won't wear loving gloves.

I get that everyone wants to get done and get out, but goddamn if they don't give me stuff for spending a few seconds to put on some basic gear. I'd rather not get tinnitus from this stuff, but they always make it sound like only a child would worry about such things. Maybe REAL MEN just take their progressive disabilities from work LIKE A MAN and don't complain about it. Anyone else deal with this stuff?

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General Discussion / old Team Deathmatch saves

« on: December 03, 2023, 05:05:56 PM »

Does anyone have any old saves that they'd be willing to upload, along with a list of what bricks they use? I'm really itching for some TDM in Blockland, and I'll host it myself if no one else is doing it.

I'll take any map (because i'm awful at building) but would anyone happen to have Heedicalking's old TDMs? I remember his being some of the best. (Bonus: His original Slopes TDM for maximum nostalgia)

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Off Topic / what do greek2me/ravencroft's avatars look like?

« on: November 04, 2023, 10:39:40 AM »

I'm working on a special project that's Blockland related. No details until I have something significant to share.

What fonts does Blockland use for: The Title, Chat Messages, Player Names, and Events?

What movement tricks exist in Blockland?

One last thing: What did Greek2Me and Ravencroft's in-game avatars look like? Probably asking people to dig real deep with this one.

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Off Topic / Voice 2 Skull

« on: May 10, 2022, 08:09:12 AM »

The art film for schizophrenics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFBLOW8TSqk

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Off Topic / throwback thursday

« on: February 23, 2022, 09:11:54 PM »

i know it's wednesday but i'm gonna forget by tomorrow

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Off Topic / Rigel's Glaucoma: Redux

« on: January 13, 2022, 12:29:04 PM »

Sup y'all, someone sent me a message asking me about my condition so I figured I'd update everyone if anyone else was interested.
Previous thread

So I stopped posting in the thread because nothing was really changing. Got diagnosed at 15 which sucked, but I haven't really lost any vision since then either which is nice. So Glaucoma is mostly caused by a build up of Intra-Ocular Pressure (IOP) due to a fluid called "aqueous humor" that naturally flows through the eye or other causes. The medicine was annoying for a while. I originally had a bunch of eye-drops which I'll list the effects of, starting with "Dorzolamide" which stung like lemon juice to apply, but I never really learned how it helped. "Brimonidine" didn't hurt to apply, but it made me really sleepy as a side-effect, and worked by getting my brain to produce less aqueous humor. "Latanoprost" didn't have any noticeable side-effects, but it barely worked on me. It was supposed to improve drainage. "Pilocarpine" was the one I hated the most by far, but it was the most effective at reducing pressure. It improved drainage, and contracted my pupils. The pupilary contraction was meant to make it easier for surgery, but I only ever went through one. It sucked because it made me really near-sighted for a few hours after use, and I had to use it 4 times a day, and the new eyesight was never stable, so I couldn't get glasses that would reliably help either. I also had a pill called "Diamox" that was supposed to help, but didn't really and made things taste different.

Anyway, there was a new medicine called "Rocklatan" which works a lot like Latanoprost but actually works really well for me to the point where I dropped every other medication besides Brimonidine and now the eye pressure is pretty stable. Only problem is that it makes my eyes red as if I've constantly been smoking weed, and it costs so much that I'm still paying $60 per bottle even after insurance covers most of it. By comparison, the co-pay for everything else was like $2 per medication.

I did at one point get a surgery that was supposed to improve natural drainage, but it didn't work somehow. There were no complications, it just didn't improve what it needed to by any good amount after a week of healing. At least I got a video out of it! (Warning, it's a surgery video) I got stitches in my eye, and it felt real weird when they took them out. They had to press on my eye to "break" the stitching, and then pull them out with tweezers. Best way I could say to replicate the feeling is to take a single hair and pinch it between your thumb and pointer finger, then pull it through with your other hand. It wasn't painful at all, just a strange sensation.

Now the plan is to just check the pressure every-so-often and hope the medicine keeps working. Or for future research to yield promising results for ocular regeneration, which there are a few things being tested already. My left eye can barely see anything, and my right eye is mostly fine, so besides the occasional pressure headache or poor depth perception things are okay.

I think I covered nearly everything, I'll be happy to answer any questions!

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Off Topic / better video uploading techniques

« on: October 01, 2021, 11:29:42 PM »

I have this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mj9X5uR891I) of which I recorded with Nvidia Share (used to be ShadowPlay) and then uploaded the raw file to youtube, but then the final result is fuzzy and not at all a video quality that I'm happy with. What video rendering techniques do you guys use, and what do you think would be an easy fix?

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General Discussion / Speedkart "Red Zone"

« on: September 14, 2021, 11:33:55 AM »

I'm looking for a speedkart map that existed on a death kart server and not anywhere else really. This death kart server had no teams and just kitted everyone with gravity cat's weapons. The map in particular was default red, people referred to it as the "spam map" because it was just giant print blocks, default trees and windows, and other bullstuff. It was ugly as sin but still a blast to play through. Does anyone remember the host, or have the file?

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Off Topic / Bone Guitar

« on: September 10, 2021, 03:13:42 PM »

Brutal.

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Games / Steam Hacker going around (Vote for my CSGO team?)

« on: February 03, 2021, 08:54:26 PM »

Accounts have been getting compromised by people asking others to vote for their CSGO team on some stuffty site that steals your info. Wafflecake and I have both been hacked and are trying to do some damage control. Thankfully so far nothing was stolen from me, but they've been using my account to message and block people on my friend list with the same scam site.

Also some people I know have blocked me back, which is the main reason I'm making this.

If you've seen this scam, or heard of it, check your blocklist. Mine had 74 people on it, a good portion was other people from BLF. It used to be 2. Anyone know anything else about this hacker, or anyone that might be compromised? People that are hacked need to be contacted either off steam or through mutual friends.

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Off Topic / Does anyone have that Queeba Neutron pic?

« on: October 06, 2020, 02:49:57 AM »

y'know, the one where he's in a rocket and it's captioned: "GOTTA BLAST." I long for the nostalgia.

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Off Topic / Who are some of the worst TTRPG players you've dealt with?

« on: July 26, 2020, 11:54:12 PM »

It seems like a lot of people here have played TTRPGs before, like D&D or Pathfinder. My personal favorite is GURPS because of how flexible it is, but that's off topic. I want to hear all your stories about the stuffty, handicapped, and downright malicious players you've met and how you dealt with the situation.


When I was in high school, we had this sort of tabletop games club that I was a part of as soon as it had opened. A year in, some kid showed up wanting to GM a campaign of Pathfinder. No one knew who he was or how well he could GM, but since he was going to be using a module I figured it'd be fine. I made a cavalier and was excited to try a new system. Anyway, we're all gathered around with snacks and stuff, and he says we're in a tavern and we all meet each other. And then guards come in trying to arrest us. He never really gave us a chance to talk in character, he just said "you meet" and then attacked us with nigh-invulnerable guards out of nowhere. Somehow we ended up in a sewer and got into a fight with a dragon that killed a few party members and then the first session ended... I just didn't bother going back to that one. Apparently he kept up the same thing later, speeding people along the module with no conversations and painfully deadly fights.

One time I was hosting an online game for some people on this forum (you know who you are) and it was going well for a while. There was one pretty annoying guy going by the name of "Dakaru" who had aspergers and was an obsessive scalie. He constantly mentioned his tail-loving special interest and how he was having "fun times with snake" after he had tamed a python. He also said a bunch of other handicapped things like "cigarettes help if you have asthma" and "i can't go to the DMV because i'm too anxious so i'll just sit here and let bad things happen" (ad-libbing the last one, but that's what he was doing.) He eventually got in an argument with another player and said that he's not going to stick around if we're gonna argue with him on whatever they were talking about, and most of us just waved him goodbye. I want to say that the campaign got better after he left, and it probably would have but I was starting to turn into a forget up with my writing skills failing me so the campaign ended just a few sessions later.