cis (as the prefix in cisgender) is literally just the Latin term for "on this side of", opposite of trans = "on the other side of".
It's the exact same thing as heterosexual & homosexual, both from Greek, standing for hetero (from heteros) = different, and homo (from homos) = same.
Is the term "straight" also not ok, just gay people and "normal" people? And same for homosexual and "normal" people, and trans and "normal" people?
If you can spawn it, you technically have the solution to entropy, possibly also free energy.
China is also capitalist though, and they're also starting to suffer from the same issue.
Yeah, they were great back then. I have the first generation Kindle Paperwhite (12-ish years), though at this point I only use it to read fanfics lol
AO3 let's you download entire fics directly in the EPUB & AZW3 format, doubt they're ever gonna change that 😁
Did your account get hacked or something? Your comment history seems entirely normal, and this one is also just entirely unrelated to the post it's under
I sometimes use :))))) to express giddiness :p
soraaa >:(
If you really think about it, everything a trans person does is a trans-action 😎
A live-action or animated adaptation of Worm.
Pump as much money as humanly possible into the JWQS / Clear and Muddy Loss of Love animation they're currently making.
Straight up entirely remake Borderlands 3.
A Pokemon game like Colosseum & XD, but only going up to Gen 4, I don't really like the direction the designs went after that.
Fund a proper Pacific Rim sequel.
A high budget Bionicle game would be neat.
And, provided I can pay money for a licence or just buy the original IPs, I'd have my favorite fanfics turned into animated shows as well.
hmm, that's kinda funny cause I actually play lots of Genshin. But the system in practice works and feels very differently. (I also started working on this before Genshin released, and didn't know what a gacha was before I started playing that lol)
In Genshin, as F2P, you get 70-80 or so pulls per patch (6 weeks), but in my game, it should only take a few minutes to get an upgrade attempt in the late-game. And of course, you also get other resources like XP and loot for other stuff at the same time. Upgrades are only one part of progression, and you don't need to collect dozens of weapons in the late game, like you do with characters in gacha games.
Also, I'd never wanna sell power in a game I made, not that I think I'll ever get to a point to release this in the first place, it's just a hobby project :)
To give some more details, this isn't something that happens rarely, the chance of getting to the next checkpoint is actually quite low towards the highest upgrades. To get a weapon to max level (+15), it takes on average around 230 attempts (would be 280, but there's a sort of pity system that very slightly increases the chance of success for every failure on that weapon). Though it's also important to mention that this is something only really feasible in the mid to late game, and there's a mechanic to do multiple attempts at once. Technically, I could also make it so that there is no chance of failure, and instead drastically increase the amount of resources required for the upgrades. But I'm designing the resources needed around the average amount of upgrade attempts it takes.
The reason I'm doing it this way is a similar reason to why I enjoy farming bosses or special enemies in games like Borderlands, it's fun to get that rare drop (my game also has loot with rarities etc). So it's not that you're upgrading and rarely get unlucky and get a failure, but instead you're farming enemies to get the resources and try to get to the next level checkpoint on your weapon. In looter shooter games (or any loot-based RPGs), you kill bosses again and again to get a special drop, and all the attempts where you don't get it are technically a "waste". I think that, because failure is the expected outcome, it's not something the player gets surprised and annoyed by. Rather, it's the hunt for getting that success that's the focus.
I also remember playing older MMOs etc that had weapon breaking mechanics upon failure, but premium items that protected your weapon from breaking. Usually you could get some of those for free, but they were very limited, so those games always were quite P2W. But I did enjoy those systems, just hated the real money aspect.
Dozens of species go extinct every single day, in large parts due to deforestation for animal agriculture. Acting like keeping a handful of species we eat from extinction is somehow noble is silly by contrast. The concept of a species is a human construct in the first place, individual animals don't care that their species (which isn't even natural, we bred them like this) is kept going.
It's not about if those animals live under animal agriculture or in the wild. The animals in the wild already exist, the ones in captivity wouldn't exist at all, if we didn't breed them.
Most animal meat nowadays comes from factory farms. Worldwide it is roughly 90%, in the US it is 99%.