This is actually v important and needs to be reblogged
Gonna just share this:
My European Studies professor decided a few weeks ago to take a Friday and instead of following the syllabus, he spent the entire hour and a half comparing Hitler’s actions from a European perspective to that of what Trump is doing in America. He never repeated a single point, and even used video and photos like this to show the comparison.
To make things better, he had us do an in class assignment for participation points. He first played a clip on youtube of one of Hilter’s speeches, subtitled and 3 minutes long. He then played a clip of one of Trump’s rallies. Our assignment? Copy down every single sentence that matched in translation down on a sheet of paper or a word document that wasn’t repeated. The person with the closest amount to what my professor found got a candy bar.
My professor found, in just three minutes of a speech, that Trump matched 65 different phrases/sentences to that of Hitler’s translation.
65 nearly identical phrases used in his speeches. Take a moment to think about that.
Like, according to Trump’s first wife Ivana he kept a book of Hitler’s speeches in his nightstand and would read it periodically… so the overlap is not at all surprising given his obsession with Hitler’s propaganda.
Stop asking little girls if they have boyfriends
Stop referring to the boys that little girls are friends with as their “little boyfriends”
Stop telling little girls they’re going to have boyfriends or be “boy crazy”
Stop raising children on heteronormativity and let them be children
Additionally: 1. It’s not funny 2. It’s not cute 3. You are embarrassing them 4. You are completely disregarding them when they tell you “no” and you insist
Stop doing the same to little boys too.
They are not “a little lady’s man.”
Don’t excuse him picking on a girl as him having a crush. Correct the behavior and stop treating it like it’s cute and normal.
Also stop insisting little boys have crushes on significantly older women. It’s gross.
Just let kids be kids.
I have never encountered a child who enjoyed this treatment.
stop instilling toxicity in our children
Once its instilled it makes it okay for kids to make fun of each other for having crushes and also making them think they’re broken if they don’t like their so-called “ boyfriends/girlfriends” that way.
When I was 18 I took a ballet class at college and every morning our beginner adult class started just as the Ballet Majors in the studio next door took a mid-class break.
Many mornings they would gather in the doorway of my classroom and watch us struggle through our bar warmups or jumble up a new technique while they smiled and whispered to each other.
And every morning I dreaded seeing them there because I knew they were making fun of me.
I had other classes with some of them, and I was always embarrassed when ballet came up, and it always did, them being ballet majors, because I loved to talk about it but knew they’d seen me dance, and I was sure they thought I didn’t belong in the conversation.
At the end of the semester, our instructor announced that she’d like to invite the dancers from the next door studio to sit in on our final performance as an audience, and everyone in my class hesitated. We’d worked so hard, we wanted to celebrate our progress during our final without being judged. Most of us left class that day suddenly more anxious about the final than we’d ever been.
The next morning, in one of my other classes I had with the ballet majors, one of them approached me, and as if she’d been reading our minds the entire semester, she said
“Hey. I just wanted to say that I know we watch you guys dance a lot, and I wanted to make sure you know we’re never laughing at you. When we watch you guys learn the basics…..it reminds us of when we first started when we were younger. It’s like…looking at ourselves when we first fell in love with dancing. That’s why we love watching you guys.”
It shocked me. I felt awash with relief and utterly stupid all at once.
Here I had spent an entire semester assuming the worst of people who had otherwise been nothing but nice to me in every other setting, and I had no one to blame for that but my own insecurities that I’d allowed to rule me for months.
I’d been so unfair to these girls, because I was self conscious. I was so worried about being judged that I’d judged all of them.
Here I was worried they were laughing at me, and all along they were looking at me with nothing but absolute delight, even envy for what I was getting to experience.
This encounter changed my entire attitude, permanently.
It made me realize that, yeah sometimes people are jerks for no reason, but more often than not, people really are just….Good.
Since that day, I’ve started giving everyone the benefit of the doubt until they prove me wrong, for their sake and for my own.
And I’ve learned that the world becomes a lot better and life becomes a lot easier when you accept that maybe not everyone is judging you. Maybe you’re the one who’s hardest on yourself.
Let yourself be. Let yourself exist and breathe and be happy.
having fangs may not be a ‘‘‘necessary’’’ or ‘‘‘wise’’’ addition to my physiology but it would be very, very sexy and therefore i think i deserve them regardless,
“Emuparadise being shut down is a good thing. Buy your games legally”
Ladies and gentlemen of the court I present my first piece of evidence. Exhibit A
And Nintendo doesn’t get any profit from that inflated price so what’s the point of stopping emulation?
not to be that guy op but…. path of radience isn’t that much. amazon always shows the prices of new, sealed games. it’s maybe about $100
ahhh yes that’s just ok then. $300 is a bit too much but $100 is a perfectly reasonable price for a 13 year old gamecube game
I hate when people complain about gamecube games being expensive like they d9nt make those games anymore. at all. the ones that are left are rare and hard to come by. like come on it’s not that hard to figure out?? yeah ok some of them are cheap but those were probably the games that no one wanted. still come on.
Yes…people know that…which is why they want the emulations…so they don’t have to pay for a game over and over?
People who support Nintendo taking down EmuParadise are no longer allowed to say “What do you mean you haven’t played…?”
Well, no, I didn’t get to play the game when it first came out, and now it’s out of print and costs over $100 for a used copy, so chances are slim I’ll ever get to play it.
The ultimate example of this, I think, is the Sega Dreamcast.
Nintendo, especially back then, made very durable hardware that can take a beating. Sega does not. The Sega Saturn’s cartridge slot will crumble to dust if you so much as blink within a 10 mile radius of it.
The Dreamcast was known to have wonky controller ports, but more importantly, more than a third of all Dreamcasts have defective disc drive mechanisms. Essentially, all optical lasers are rated for how many times the laser can be turned on. Sony was actively worried that Crash Bandicoot, with its CD-streaming technology, would actually break the Playstation because conservative estimates lowballed how many times the laser could be used.
That’s because lasers generate heat, even miniscule amounts, so every time you read a disc, you are damaging your hardware. Fortunately for Sony, the rate of damage was only something like 0.000002%.
That’s not true of the Dreamcast. By the time Sega announced they were getting out of the console market (around three years), a rapidly growing number of Dreamcasts were already showing signs of degradation.
The Dreamcast, unlike most optical-media consoles, uses proprietary hardware. This means your Dreamcast discs cannot be read by anything other than a Dreamcast. (Now, I know there are drives for the PC that can read Dreamcast-format GD-ROMs, but they are extremely rare; you’d have better luck winning the lottery than getting one)
What this ultimately means is there are a finite number of Sega Dreamcasts in the world and every day that number gets smaller. These consoles were not built to last 20 years. They apparently weren’t even built to last five years.
The following is a very incomplete list of Dreamcast games that have never been ported to any other platform and are thusly permanently shackled to Sega’s decay:
Climax Graphics bizarrely unique horror games, “Blue Stinger” and “Illbleed.” Capcom’s top-down shooter mash-up “Cannon Spike.” SNK’s visually striking rhythm game, “Cool Cool Toon.” One of Kenji Eno’s final games before he died, “D2.” Sega’s own “Daytona USA 2001,” which combined content from all versions of Daytona USA up to that point. The visually enhanced version of “Soul Reaver” produced by Eidos. And so on.
A lot of these games may never come back. The only way you’ll ever play them is to download an ISO and load them up in an emulator.
What about “Segagaga”? It’s a roleplaying game made by Sega that’s ABOUT parodying the death of the Dreamcast. It was never even released in English. If the translation patch is ever finished, literally the only way you’ll ever get to experience this silly slice of history is to pirate it. You can’t buy the disc, copy it to your PC, and apply the patch that way. That’s as close to impossible as it gets. Because of the way this hardware works (or in some cases, doesn’t work), you will have to pirate this game to play it.
You cannot tell me destroying sites like Emuparadise is “fine” in that kind of light.
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