That might be part of it. The shooting doesn’t do it for me, and the movement feels bad unless you nail it.

I’ll for sure have to see how it plays out in match. Part of it is I also am not a fan of MOBAs, and Deadlock seems to pull a lot from them. We were also looking for a game that my partner could play kinda like Overwatch, bit I think she’ll bounce pretty hard off Deadlock.

Finally got an invite to Deadlock. After watching a let’s play and messing around with different heroes in the Hero Sandbox, I think there is just too much. I know it is a MOBA shooter combo, but between the movement mechanics, skills, and item shop, it just kinda seems they added stuff just because other titles in either genre have them. I might still give it a few matches, but it definitely dropped in priority.

Been playing through Raft again with my partner, and that’s been a blast. I love a survival crafter, and realized she had not played since the full release. Kinda a cozy survival game if that is even a thing. The only downside isn’t it has been moving our normal sleep schedule later, and we need to move it earlier

Sadly, no ranked choice here, so Kamala Harris on my official ballot. If I had ranked choice it would be:

1. Claudia de la Cruz

2. Cornell West

3. Kamala Harris

Sure, and there are plenty things to make fun of him for that don’t hurt other people. For example being a fucking creep or being a constant loser.

Ah yes, I am coddling Trump by saying this type of insult does nothing to him and only causes splash damage to others. Don’t mind all the things that you can validly criticize him for, like being a wannnabe nazi dictator, project 2025, his xenophobia, racism, or transphobia. Make fun of him for that stuff, not something that perpetuates shitty behavior

Toxic masculinity is bad when targetted at non-men, or non-masc-conforming men anyone.

FTFY

Who said I am bent out of shape? I am a bit annoyed, and pretty disappointed, but not angry. And yeah, you might succeed at making someone mad by making fun of their penis, but that isn’t productive, and does not make them rethink their own toxicity. All it does is tell them that this particular type of joke is OK since both sides are using it. So it can’t do any good, but can do harm.

AFAIK it’ll send a notification, but I would be incredibly surprised if Trump looked at any notifications from small accounts. But, even in the off chance he does see, I highly doubt he would think anything about it. He is not someone to listen to anyone

Ah yes, the invasion of Germany is the same as a small dick joke.

The issue is not that they are punching at trump, the issue is that punch hits other people that are not trump, and trump will give zero shits about it.

OK, so let’s say Trump sees this. How do you think it will effect him? Do you think he’ll be like “Oh shit, someone made fun of my penis, better stop being a Nazi.” It’s pointless and does nothing to even make him feel bad. You think Trump cares what anyone besides himself thinks? All you have accomplished is perpetuating toxic masculinity as a valid form of criticism.

Toxicity does nothing to them though. It only normalizes their behavior.

Oh you sure got him. I bet he’ll see it with your 11 followers. Be at the top of his feed in no time.

Except it doesn’t work. Name once where someone was like “oh someone did the same shitty thing I did, better change my tune.” All it does is reinforce their behavior as normal and acceptable

For real. It does not bother him because Trump will never see this. All it does is reinforce shitty toxic bullshit.

Toxic masculinity is an open invitation to be toxic, huh?

But all does is feed into the toxic bullshit. It isn’t some high parody or anything. It is trying to make fun of the thing by doing the thing

Can we stop with the small dick jokes? They are valueless and do nothing but uphold toxic masculinity.

No offense to your father, but that doesn’t seem like it invalidates what i said. Sounds like a shitty therapist. I understand the trauma of a shit parent, but that seems like a sketch mix of bad therapist and distant (at best) parent. I’m legitimately sorry you had to deal with that.

As someone that has dealt (not well) with depression, I get the work it takes to find a therapist that clicks, but fuck it might save your life. Be up front about your history. If they are worth their salt they will give 0 shits about who your father was.

I am not a mental health professional by any means, but if this was your experience I think you may have had a shitty therapist. Everybody I know that is in therapy and likes their therapist complains about late stage capitalism with their therapist.