Occasionally I’ll watch a playthrough of a game I’m interested in something about (the plot or aesthetic), but don’t think I’d enjoy playing.

Mostly, though, I watch like the Drawfee stream where they do improv comedy and draw audience suggestions. I’d almost rather watch a vod of a game I’m curious about, but comedy streams with audience participation benefit from seeing them live.

I think a lot of streamers are basically amateur comedians doing bits with something like a videogame to give them material. mst3k-like.

Others will play a game early or right away and be able to review as you watch. They’ll say like the controls feel sloppy or the theme is grating and you’ll experience that with them. Not a big deal for most people, but for highly anticipated games people are excited about, it helps give a sense of whether a game is worth playing for them in a slightly different way than a written or recorded review.

Watching people play a dnd game live gives you the energy in the chat while watching, which can make more exciting or interesting the play (do people in chat who know dnd think what’s happening was a good idea? is everyone freaking out at a roll? is there a person who explains things in there which helps you understand for your own game?) It also protects you from getting spoiled when something dramatic happens.

There are people who play music or paint or work on a skill on stream, and that comes with a touch of the fun of watching a live performance. There’s some extra excitement when you see stuff in real time and they could fuck up or they could do something amazing.

I don’t know what I personally think, but my guess about the justification is that the state intervenes when it’s in the best interests of the child. Its purpose is to protect and aid the minor when families can’t.

It is considered a harm to deprive children permanently of access to their parents, without showing that it’s more harmful for the kid to be around them. So crime doesn’t automatically remove access. Is the theory.

The state isn’t supposed to treat permanent removal of access to a child as another criminal punishment. One thing I do agree on, though, is that people who rape kids shouldn’t have unsupervised visits with their minor children, since they’ve proven themselves harmful specifically to children. Not even supervised, honestly.

I guess I’d want to see studies about outcomes of kids who are allowed around convicted adult rapist parents, vs those allowed access to parents convicted of nonviolent crimes. Or a study designed by people who know how to design studies well. Instead of my rambling suggestion.

I worry that our vibe checks get warped around kids, and we ignore what’s proven right vs what feels right. Like people who feel really strongly that kids need their parents specifically have warped the narrative on this issue, and I don’t want to warp it in a different way.

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I like where the picture cuts off. I can imagine the tail continuing forever

These are always so eerie

Yeah, this was building for months. I saw posts about how the banned lady’s fully clothed selfies kept getting marked ‘adult’ a week ago, maybe. posts about non-responses for harassment going back forever.

Yeah I remember this post on tumblr and you’re right about what they meant.

I helped a lady your age pick out a color for a room in her house, and she ended up going for a very bright peach. She loved it so much she put it in every room in her house where she didn’t have a color picked out.

If you aren’t planning to sell in a year or two, I say pick something that makes you happy when you see it. Realtors might have a different favorite color in 5 years.

it’s like staring at clouds. i can definitely see a labia in this, with a glowing light vagina and a bunch of stars repping the clitoris. but she always denied drawing genitals, so like when i see a dick in the clouds, it’s probably all me. but if you want to see it, it’s there!

Does it take a while to tie it properly or is there a trick to it? I’ve thought about doing this before.

You also need to account for where the really tall people are in the row in front of you. Social optimization be damned, I want to see!

I had a cat named Stitch years ago and I did a doubletake because my boy was an enormous orange longhair. These two would’ve looked hilarious side by side.

Gotta get my rare sweet hit of self appreciation

Yeah this is similar to my experience. Some stuff gets done without that monologue, but I’m not completely without it.

Lost my cat to cancer this week, too. They give us so much, don’t they? Whenever I come home and there’s no cat to trip over, it hurts.

I adore the handsome cravat Athena wore. How regal!

That assumes every human being has the same base of knowledge and people have to cater to that to tell a good joke. You can just not like it.

Apparently, some people are more likely to have it happen because of an inherited trait. Find out from relatives if it’s happened to them? You’re probably okay, otherwise! There’s a surgical fix if you do have that trait, too.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/testicular-torsion/symptoms-causes/syc-20378270

https://web.archive.org/web/20231117190207/https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/446 here’s another statement someone made. At this point, it looks like the Community Council was being (or saw itself as being) overridden. This defeated the purpose of the council, and attempts to fix this were (allegedly!) ignored, so three out of four members resigned.

Inside a decorated Christmas tree. Maybe I can blame the cat for all the glass bulbs I’d break?

https://old.reddit.com/r/Raphcomics/comments/agx3pe/beach_romance/ think this is the artist