“Normal” in the context of industrial agriculture… Which has existed for less time than beastiality (source: idk might have made it up but it seems likely)

Cracked out on not buying meat 🤷

Who can say? I’ve certainly never experienced such a thing… 🤷

Pictured is meat with Kirkland branding, which is Costco’s in-house brand. Better place to shop than walmart already

I mean, with the rampant enshittification of consumer technologies, there’s every chance the thing you just bought off Amazon will break after a much shorter lifespan then expected. There’s even a chance this was planned and accounted for…

I’m not celebrating any of this, to be very clear. It’s more of a grim satisfaction. We departed ages ago from whether it’s right or wrong. They’re fascists. And they’re grossly incompetent. I am not upset by news that those doing vast and needless harm to innocent people are victim of their own incompetence and negligence. I’ll admit to some schadenfreude and move on with my life.

“Rejoice, guys, gals, and other pals! Samira’s back!”

You realize that “assholes” doesn’t even come close, right?

This and also

BATTLE ROUTINE SET

There is something to this, though. If people start behaving violently, the administration will label them as some kind of radicalized terrorist and respond with military force, and then probably blame black or indigenous or immigrant or trans/nb people as the reason for the radicalization and come down even harder on these marginalized populations

“Cuddling”, “woman”

You had me in the first half. She was there, but she didn’t force you to listen to her story. She just existed. Like, sure, she was clocky; that’s just how it is for girls who transition later in life. She mentions that she’s been on a journey, and if you, the player, choose the appropriate dialogue option, she’ll tell you her story, which, oddly enough, might be the less realistic thing. There are a lot of trans people who would prefer not to share that, because there are a lot of not-trans people who will change their tune and use information about a person who no longer exists to hurt the person they’ve transitioned into.

Zagreus (and Melinoë presumably) on the other hand are not obviously pan until you, the player, start pursuing same-sex relationships. Given that Hades and II are based on Greek mythology, it might come as no surprise, but it’s not like there’s an aspect of facial or body shape that obviously identifies someone as being lesbian/gay/bi/pan like there tend to be for trans people (especially femmes and women, ESPECIALLY in a world without cosmetic surgery, hand-wavey magic aside). She didn’t hurt you, so be happy that some people did feel seen and move on with your life.

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Crazy that we ended up at all, really

When you really get into it they’re kinda the same thing for a lot of people, though. The entanglement between those (often unspoken of) elements of emotional/physical intimacy is rampant in our media-conditioned societies (esp. in the US)