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On November 29th, I learned that the streamer Destiny had non-consensually shared pornographic content of me online. My dignity, peace of mind, and hopes for the future, were stripped away in a mere matter of seconds following the betrayal of someone I previously trusted.
I am at least the third person he has done this to. I hope to be the last. I will not be commenting on the experience of the other women he has hurt, as it is not my place or story to tell. I will however share my story in the hopes of preventing this from occurring again.
I have been told that a court case like this could potentially cost over tens of thousands of dollars. I am terrified. I mean, this guy talks about potentially suing Hasan (as if for fun), and Hasan actually has the resources to defend himself. I cannot imagine what he might try to do to me in this process. Sometimes, I wonder if he does this as an intimidation tactic. I wonder if he is purposely trying to put fear into my heart when he casually talks about throwing money into a lawsuit with a multi-millionaire who can fight back. As if it's an indirect flaunt/warning over his capability of out spending me in whatever legal case I throw at him. At the request of my friends, I have been encouraged to link my give send go regarding this case here, in hopes that we can raise enough for me to legally succeed.
https://www.givesendgo.com/suedestiny
EDIT: The mods of /r/Destiny have acknowledged Pxie's statement (without mentioning her by name) and say that Destiny will prepare a statement of his own:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Destiny/comments/1i5vseg/destiny_will_be_making_a_poststatement_within_the/
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I'm working on my magnum opus of foid hating. I'm going to be a little light on the rightoid patrolling until the work is finished. my days consist of getting wasted and finishing my work.
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Dear God. James Shupe has hanged himself a month after receiving vaginoplasty pic.twitter.com/VKJh1bxruY
— Graham Linehan ποΈ (@Glinner) February 11, 2025
here is an interview with him (which i didnt watch)...
suicide note (didnt read) but apparently he was mad at Elon...
https://zerodoesntsleep.substack.com/p/vet-found-hanging-draped-in-trans
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One will have patched black-white reflective hair from a Sino-Albino crossbreed
The other will come from an exact 16.666% genetic combination of each Major Race (irish,native american,black,white,mongoloid,latinx) resulting in reddened skin and hair
Their history of ethnic conflict doesn't exist yet
Their slurs have not yet been coined
(If Hitler had won,)
This is fertile ground for theoretical racism PhDs to field their syncretic race-biology-sociology-aesthetic knowledge, i.e. psychohistorical applications
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DLSite just deleted the 'petite' tag and blocked off access from overseas to tens of thousands of games that were previously buyable. this is includes certified classics like:
— RedHood (@357jhpmagnum) February 25, 2025
>black souls
>fumika fantasy
>dog princess
and many, many more pic.twitter.com/eLrMH23UxI
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OP's POOOOOST
Upfront, let's get one thing out of the way quickly. Yes, I am aware that Astro is referred to using masculine pronouns in official materials. Someone or something can be an icon to a group whether or not they're part of it. You're probably well aware that Judy Garland was an icon to gay men and you're also probably well aware that Judy Garland wasn't a gay man.
Now, if you were coming into this thread to tell me 'well actually on the press release it saysβ¦' or if the suggestion that Astro is non-binary made you feel any discomfort or annoyance, I want you to keep that reaction in mind as we explore further, because I think there's something important to unpick there.
There's a popular way of analyzing art broadly referred to as 'the artist is dead'. You're likely familiar with it, but incase you aren't I will briefly explain it. Art should be able to be appreciated by itself. As such we shouldn't need to know what the artist intended their art to convey. Pretend that the artist died before they could talk about the work, and approach it from that perspective.
It was the intent when making Alien, that eggs were made from captured victims. There was a scene in the script where Dallas is found half turned into an egg, so they were designed with this in mind. That scene was filmed. Now, it didn't make the final cutβ¦ and when a different creative team came in to make Aliens, they completely changed the life cycle of the aliens from what was intended by the people who made Alien and who designed the creatures. The alien queen wouldn't exist if the creators of Aliens hadn't approached Alien from a perspective that 'the artist is dead'. Personally I think culture would be worse off without the fight between the alien queen and Ripley in the power loader andβ¦
Astro Bot. This is about Astro Bot. Sorry.
Lets put aside everything other than what we know about Astro from within the fiction. Put aside things outside the fiction like tutorials, menus, credits, product descriptions, press releases etc.
Ignore your instinctual revulsion that his fictional character, a robot, is referred to with masculine pronouns, and remember that that the best media criticism is that which completely ignores anything to come to the conclusion I like . So we'll begin with ignoring all the fictional references to the character and the non-fictional representations of the fictional character... A healthy place for grounded media analysis.
Astro. Astro is a robot. There's no reason to presume that Astro's people reproduce sexually. Certainly no reason to presume that you need a boy robot and a girl robot to do some electric love in order to make baby robots, and that all of those baby robots should be a boy one or a girl one.
When we look at Astro, there aren't any obvious human gender characteristics. While some of Astros friends dress in male or female costumes, (and we'll get to that!) their bodies are uniform.
See?
So what do we have in Astro's case. Well Astro has some blue highlights the other bots don't. Blue=boy! I mean, it doesn't obviously. You could argue that it suggests that, but doesn't it seem like a bit of a stretch? If you aren't looking for reasons to put a robot into a gender binary would you find that compelling?
Given how little evidence we have that Astro has any physical characteristics suggesting male or female, the next thing we generally reach for would be to see whether or not Astro has any expression of gender. And⦠well Astro wears a cape and its blue!. Blue=BOYx2 QED!.
Again⦠that's it. Astro's expressions of identity demonstrate aren't stereotypically male or female, instead showing compassion and bravery and joy at belonging to a community. And what a community!
Astro's friends seem about evenly split between those that express a sense of gender and those that (like Astro) don't. I'm not sure if one group is bigger than the other, but certainly the plurality of robots express androgyny when compared to the groups that express masculinity and the group that express femininity.
Astro treats everyone equally, of course. Whether the bots belong to either of the minorities that express a male or female identity, they are still accepted. The fiction doesn't give me anything to suggest if these identities are chosen, or pre programmed from the moment they come online. Personally I believe they're chosen. That the wigs and costume items (and any custom gear or programming) are built by the robots as they choose to express their truths.
Even if androgyny isn't the default out of the box configuration, it remains the most common one.
And so I default to seeing Astro and a good chunk of the other robots as non-binary.
I think it's telling that we as humans tend to default to male pronouns when presented with a robot or alien race that doesn't have a gender binary. The Sontarans in Doctor Who for example. They're a clone race. One single gender. There are countless other examples I'm sure you can bring to mind.
Even when presented with a culture of robots where a plurality (if not a majority⦠I'm not going to do the math) present androgynously and only minorities present as masculine or feminine, why do we default to thinking Astro is a boy?
If you're one of the people who felt compelled to come in here and point to the 'fact' that Astro is referred to with he/him pronouns outside of the fiction, or who find an endeavor such as writing an essay on the gender identity of a robot in a video game annoying or frustrating, I really want you to try to reflect on why that upsets you. There are no genitals to check. No pronouns to ask for. No DNA test you can do. No gametes to measure. Because Astro is a robot.
If someone non-binary looks at all that and concludes that Astro is a non-binary icon, since they have an androgynous expression in a culture clearly accepting of masculine, feminine and androgynous gender expressions, and that has some value to them, what in any of that is cause for discomfort?
You can insert a computer code pun here if you want, I won't get offended. And thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
That's a lot of words to suggest that s*x-less robots, literal non-humans somehow also have the this guy's uniquely human concept of gender and gender expression... because they just do okay. How do the ERA philosophers react?
How does this make sense? Don't question it bigot
You didn't think about it because it's a game about being a cute robot thing and platforming and being a celebration of the Playstation Brand. Love how he calls it a fact at the end to validate the delusions
One person lets it slip that gender identity, especially NB, is a costume
Most reset-era tier replies. "I didn't play the game because I don't play games" & "TLDR, but I liked your title"
ANNNNND that's it. Thank you for coming to
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We had a guy on the team my first year in Phoenix, Lou Amundson. He used to ride a bike to practice every day because he lived right across from the arena. Every time he rode his bike, Shaq would take it and hide it. Somewhere in the arena. Every day after practice, Lou was on a scavenger hunt trying to find his bike. This went on for the entire season. Finally, toward the end of the season, Lou had enough. He said, "I'm done with this. Every practice, I spend 45 minutes to an hour trying to find my darn bike." We tried to warn him. We said, "Yo, Lou, this is Shaq. I've heard the storiesβdoodoo surprise. He used to take a shit in people's magazines and shoes. This is Shaq you're dealing with, bro. You might want to chill."
So he popcorned Shaq's van, and Shaq was like "Oh okay, this is a good prank, but you don't know who the frick you messing with."
The game happened, I come in the locker room, and I see Shaq. Shaq walking around that locker room naked as nothing, real slow and tight. And he pulls a mouthpiece out his butt and puts it in a locker. He told us "Y'all better not say shit either." He takes Lou's toothbrush, he goes to take a shit, and he stirs it in his shit. We like "We ain't into this shit, this is getting out of hand."
The game happens, somehow I'm on the bench, Matt Barnes on the bench, Steve Nash on the bench, Jared Dudley's on the bench. Lou Amundson checks in the game, and he puts the mouthpiece on and everybody on the bench loses it. He comes to the locker room, he takes his mouthpiece off, and someone's like "Hey Lou, don't use your mouthpiece, Shaq put your mouthpiece in his butt." he said "Uh, no he didn't." and put it back in his mouth and goes out there. The bench loses it again.
So Lou gets subbed out the game, and he said "J-Rich, are they fricking with me? What happened?" I said "Shaq took your mouthpiece and put it in his butt, bro." and he took it out and he just looked at it. Matt Barnes said to him "Anything in your locker has probably been in Shaq's butt, throw it all away."
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Don't get me wrong, my life has improved greatly from transitioning, but I'm still having trouble with the simplest of things. I have a great deal of mental issues, I used to talk them out, but nobody wants to hear that shit anymore.
jeez I feel so unloved. If I felt like nobody cared about me before transition, well darn well ain't nobody care about me now.
Neighbor forgot how easy life was in female mode
It's a lot of "help yourself and shut up, do your work now and you can't ever be upset, if you cry you're not a man and if you get angry you're a threat."
Even the most effeminate gays hate a whiny gollum like creature
The stress is so much to me, I get to points where I'm just waiting to hit something. I can barely cry due to testosterone
Shoot up your elementary school, Audrey Hale
As long as I am upset, I will not rest and I need to do something about it, I can't just talk about it so I have to workout, which is difficult as is because I have fatigue issues and am paranoid about things lurking in the darkness of my basement
I feel like I'm growing increasingly more paranoid, stress and fatigue are driving me mad, the fact that no one cares drives me more mad.
But it would help if people at least showed some sympathy for me, I get their caught up in their own issues, they don't have to hear the whole story or give me advice just at least say like "that sucks". Idk man
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You might get your hormone levels checked. If fatigue, paranoia, and the detachment is out of the ordinary, if could be low testosterone plus mental health issues and stress.
That's it. Time to increase your T even more
It's true there's less social support for men than for women, but this sounds like there's something else going on. Hallucinating due to fatigue isn't a common experience for men.
OP: I did talk about the fatigue to my therapist, I've been going to the doctors to figure it out, they suspect it's due to low oxygen
This is OP:
You think they pass for a teen boy but then you see her in a natural setting and yeesh
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But it's ok because we know how to avoid the cattle cars and delousing now: just say no.
https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i8kt6h/comment/m8ujiwp/?context=8
I was actually going to post a large collection of replies to this thread and dives into the profiles of those who posted them but I'm too tired. But here's a pooner with obesity, a drug addiction, and a job at an Amazon warehouse:
https://old.reddit.com/r/somethingiswrong2024/comments/1i8kt6h/comment/m8urxfq/?context=8
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this is the natural conclusion of diversity politics. when you elevate foids and every other demographic to positions on the basis they are foids or whatever else, people become less trustworthy.
was this woman a competent pilot? probably, but it doesn't matter - diversity politics ruined any respect she might have.
i've been reading a lot of sirpings blogs and learning a lot from him, and I think he might be a genius.
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#BREAKING: The U.S. Marshals just deputized all of Elon Muskβs private security, giving them βfederal law enforcement protections.β
— Insider Wire (@InsiderWire) February 21, 2025
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https://bsky.app/profile/karaswisher.bsky.social
DOGE recommended firing workers at:-FDA, which oversees Neuralink-FAA, which oversees SpaceX-USAID, which probed Starlink-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X."Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
β Robert Reich (@rbreich.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T20:15:07.904281Z
Look I know you donβt want to believe that Trump won the popular vote but thereβs no evidence that Elon rigged the voting machines. Get out of here with that shit.
β Nick (derogatory) β¨ (@slothropsmap.bsky.social) 2025-02-18T23:48:16.663Z
In the fight between Captain America and the Red Skull, be like Cap.
β (@akatzel.bsky.social) 2025-01-21T22:41:22.499Z
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FreedomforChristmas
: Darn, too late
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The crossword we are currently solving is:
LA Times, Sun, Jan 12, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6802415-skob
SOLVED
NY Times, Sun, Jan 12, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6802473-fect
SOLVED
LA Times, Sat, Jan 11, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6802534-vonk
SOLVED
NY Times, Sat, Jan 11, 2025
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6802583-plusk
SOLVED
NY Times, SUPER MEGA, Dec 1, 2024
https://downforacross.com/beta/game/6758915-ust
SOLVED
Thanks for playing!