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  • But isn't the point of crash bar locks that just the act of being crushed against the door will force it open? The only thing you have to do to open it is push on it or be pushed into it. Of course that won't help you when you fall as the door swings open and get trampled, but it's better than everyone burning to death.

  • Masculinity in Crisis
  • I agree with your point, especially "Educated feminists know that poor mental health for men only hurt their situation," but it's really frustrating to be told "This isn't real feminism" when the harm misandrists do is very real. It feels like there's a double standard - when men talk about the problems misguided or undereducated feminists cause, they're told to be specific in their language and not to generalize. In the same breath, people who at minimum appropriate the feminist banner do a lot of generalization about men. You see it all over this site and in pop feminist circles, and being told "Well you can't criticize feminism just because some people do it badly" leads to a lot of resentment.

    It also doesn't feel fair to say "Well they were being vague". A lot of the harm perpetuated by patriarchy, misandry and other elements in society is amorphous. A lot of people don't have an acute moment of pain - they internalize things over time, or have lots of small incidents. Getting hurt and being told to man up, being told that men don't belong in queer spaces, or that all men are pigs.

  • Cracked - How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind
  • The article: Rural people aren't just racist, homophobic assholes - they're struggling with apocalyptic economic destruction, constant discrimination and hatred, and have fallen through the cracks of society while society stomps on their face.

    The comments: RURAL PEOPLE ARE BAD, FUCK RURALS

    I guess you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them read the article...

    I will say, though, that as much as rural people get fucked out of their votes in most situations, they are vastly over-represented in others. For example, each vote in the electoral college for California represents 703,000 people. In Montana, on the other hand, each electoral vote represents closer to 250,000 people. There's a strong sense among city dwellers that the rural folk are dragging the entire country into hell just because they're suffering under capitalism - and they aren't wrong, in some sense. America's inconsistent, patchwork electoral system definitely contributes greatly to the urban / rural conflict.

  • Do protests actually do anything?
  • Even those can still have some benefit - it can act as a networking opportunity for people to meet each other and plan other events / get involved in other ways, it can give a morale boost to people considering giving up, etc.

  • I had to design a simple general purpose language for university, so I tried creating "ZoomerScript" with Jetbrains MPS
  • Same, it usually whacked about half the attempted majors into another major. In the first half of senior year. They kept wondering why their program wasn't growing much even though similar colleges' programs were growing like mold on a dorm shower curtain. I enjoyed the course and never used the primary skills taught in it again.

  • PDA and medication refusal
  • I live with an adult with a similar neurotype. My experience is that the advice in this thread can all help, especially regarding "Is there anything I can do to make this more comfortable for you?" and "This is important because..." stuff. But once the PDA gets really ingrained against something, there's just nothing I can do. I just have to leave her to it and hope she comes around. As an adult, she is capable of making her own decisions...but I have no idea what to do when the person involved is a kid that might not really understand long-term repercussions. I know that the times when her parents really put their foot down ended up extremely exacerbating the PDA and ultimately led to her ability to exercise her autonomy being extremely damaged. But they also weren't...uh...empathetic about it (lots of screaming and shouting), so I don't know if putting their foot down was the problem, the verbal abuse, or both.

    Sorry for the mild ramble with no real advice, just saying I commiserate. It's really fucking hard to live with an adult with that neurotype, I can't imagine trying to care for a child. I wish you luck.

  • Initial Impressions (6 hours - lvl 14 / through first boss)

    Palworld is a really interesting fusion of genres - creature collecting, FPS, and base / factory building.

    The creature collecting elements are strong even this early in the game - obviously you want to collect as many unique species of pals as possible, but there is also heavy incentive to collect individuals of species you already have. Each pal has unique traits that impact its work speed, work preferences, or combat strength, so you can spend some time collecting ideal pals. You also get extra exp for your first ten captures of a species, which is extremely important for progression. Finally, Palworld pulls some inspiration from Pokemon Legends: Arceus and has what it calls "Lucky Pals" - effectively alpha pokemon. These have boosted work capacity and battle capability.

    I am not a huge fan of FPS games, so I can't speak as to how good the FPS elements are compared to other games. The combat generally feels very good - the hitboxes are on point, attacks are fast enough to be scary to dodge without feeling impossible. The first boss felt like a bit of a health sponge. I ended up dealing the majority of my damage myself rather than relying on my pals, which felt a bit sad, but I might just not be using the right pals.

    Base building is extremely fun! Picking which pals work is a complex and meaningful choice, and watching them run around and go about their day is lovely. There are some bugs in this arena, which is to be expected - sometimes pals that are collecting items will get stuck in a loop of picking the item up, dropping it, picking it up again, forever. Sometimes pals get stuck on terrain and have to be reset using the palbox. Sometimes pals ignore jobs - this seems to largely affect heating jobs and handiwork jobs.

    At this point in the game, I'm heavily dependent on my pals picking the right thing to work on, or else losing a lot of time assigning them to stations that are only active sometimes. I hope to see some refinement in these systems - a way to prioritize work would be extremely helpful. It would also be great to be able to set resource levels - something like "Keep 200 berries". Pals would work berry farms until you hit 200 berries in storage, then stop. I'm hoping for the complexity of factory building to continue to increase.

    All in all I am loving the game so far - it's a lot of fun even in its current early access state, and shows a lot of promise going into the future.

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