Then the last reason I had to play #Overwatch2 is gone. Image
That was the last piece of the puzzle needed to confirm, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that OW2's raison d'etre was to end loot boxes in favor of an even more lucrative monetization model, and everything else was ancillary to that goal.

Activision is who they told us they are.
The last six months has been a string of disappointing content best described as "workshop modes with an art pass," each finished up in a half-dozen matches, all only existing to sell $20-30 skins.

I held on for a promise, and that promise is gone.

It may never have been meant.
Like many forms of uncomfortable tension, the release of this one is a relief.

I had accepted things I found unacceptable on the promise that they would become better, out of a desire to reward that sought growth.

I now know nothing will change, by design.

Time to move on. //

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May 18
"Leira is a smart kid BUT [list👇]" was literally a joke in my family, something I was derided for at EVERY PTC.

When I finally got diagnosed at FORTY TWO, my mother immediately replied "oh, we knew that since you were three."

There had been no interventions.

I had no words.
I was teased for years because an elementary school teacher put my desk in a kiddie pool to contain the sprawl.

That was what constituted "intervention" for kids in the 80s.
I was taught my entire childhood that my inability to just casually behave like others was a personal failing, and now that I'm older, I don't even get the satisfaction of them remembering what they said.

They deny everything.

Telling them now "feels like you're blaming us."
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May 17
It's the old joke about the US ambassador remarking on Soviet propaganda; the Soviet ambassador then comments on how their work has nothing on the power of US propaganda, to which the US ambassador exclaims "what propaganda?"

The Soviet ambassador smiles and says, "exactly."
What you say with your self-labeling as a "rational thinker" is that you're intentionally blind to your biases and irrationality.

It means you've fallen for a mythos of your own supremacy over others.

Which is why it's attractive to those told they were meant to *rule* society.
We do genuinely have a crisis of young men who were promised a life on top of the heap by the boomers, who utilized the crooked balances of our society to achieve that for themselves and then warped the scales further in their own favor.

They'd rather believe in that then in us.
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May 16
What trans sports bans refuse to acknowledge is that competitive sports ARE NOT FAIR, and that the goal has never BEEN to make them fair.

Competitors, teams, officials, organizations, spectators, and fans don't WANT sports to be balanced.

They just want them to be INTERESTING.
Most of the rules regarding who gets to play, especially when teams and money are involved, simply try to make things interesting, not fair.

The NFL and the NBA are not even remotely trying to keep the teams balanced, and yes, I know damn well how the draft works, thank you.
I happen to be one of several people holding a state high school record for *consecutive* losses: over one hundred, stretching across four or five years.

We were a tiny school and had to field almost every kid physically capable of playing.

It was never fair, but no one cared.
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May 16
I out-metaphor'd a transphobe so hard they deleted their account. Image
This was the one that left Twitter and got popular elsewhere, to the point that friends were asking if it was me.

But as neat as that was, it was the half-dozen freshly hatched trans folks, thanking me in my DMs for helping them understand themselves better, that made my week.
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May 12
Claiming one person as proof of a trend despite refusing to acknowledge the actual weekly arrests of anti-trans activists for sexual abuses.

Lying that crime statistics don't exist when they do and reveal the opposite of what is claimed.

In a thread calling out this behavior. Image
Attention semantic-squabbling buffoons only seeking to deflect from the truth:

The "predator myth" is not that any given trans person is equally *capable* of the crime of assault as any cis person that also has a right to be there.

The myth was that there'd be a crime spree.
What you TOLD everyone was that trans people were statistically likely - at times you said it was INEVITABLE - to assault women.

That acknowledging right of access would make it happen more.

That cis men would then use OUR gender specifically to gain access to forbidden areas.
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May 11
The "bathroom predator" hasn't shown up in the seven years since Trans Panic folks were carefully coached and indoctrinated into believing a trans boogeyman was around every corner and stall, so Trans Panic folks are now literally just blaming trans people for their own paranoia.
Head into the thread for lots of people posting comments about how they can't keep going on like this, all of which perfectly and accurately describes their transphobic paranoia, not trans people.

Listening, learning, and growing as people is the ONLY solution to their problem.
It's simple, really. If their paranoia isn't directly addressed, it will never end.

Because trans people have always existed and will always exist.

Thus, they will remain paranoid until they're coached out of it.

Meaning either we do that, or we genocide trans people forever.
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