It’s great that they have that. But man it got abused so easily, and it felt kind of silly that you could actually block it. I remember getting it after saying the most middest of takes.

I mean like you take a photo with your rear camera and once that’s taken it’ll load up your front camera to take a photo but you can move it so it doesn’t take a photo of you. Kind of like a countdown timer.

God yeah Tumblr is so frustrating now. Like I get that a site needs to make money and I’m not even opposed to the gimmicks they have. But changing the look of it (which has been changed before but at least it made sense a lot of the time) to what is essentially a clone of Twitter. It’s frustrating to see a site I love so much, decide to kill itself and for what?

That and also the fact that they allow racism, transphobia, homophobia to fester. You’d think that a site that is pretty popular with the LGBTQIA+ crowd, they sure like to keep people around who would harm us.

Yeah look I don’t get slurs thrown at me or people abusing the “send help” button. So that’s a bonus.

You don’t actually have to take a photo of yourself. If you’re quick enough you can just move the front facing camera to take a photo of the ceiling.

That’s what I do on days I don’t want to take a photo of myself.

Yeah I’ve never understood how people can see it as the best game of the series. It just always felt like I was building up to what 3 was going to be.

To be fair, I think the upgraded mechanics and the character storylines are neat as (and the fact that I can romance Garrus 😍😍😍), but yeah I’ve never really understood why it was seen as the best in the series.

Could be that that’s the first game a lot of people played? ME1 was my first game and it’ll always have a special place in my heart. I think people just muddy it up because of the Mako.

I heard that in their voices oh my God.

I listen to too much BtB.

I feel like most non-Americans understand that not everything is about them.

It’s the Americans that need to learn that not everything is about them. (Not saying that you don’t, but there’s way too many Americans I talk to who think that the world revolves around them).

Honestly, it’s so much easier too. Getting that extra like hour-ish of sleep is nice.

Favourite game is Mass Effect 1, but I don’t think I have a pet peeve because a lot of them have been said before (love the Mako though, it’s just that the planets BioWare built are all fucking hills!)

But I think my pet peeve for Mass Effects 2 are 2 things.

1. The fact that there aren’t scars in 2. Unless you use mods, but I like having my Shep’s look battle-worn.
2. That BioWare made Shepard work with Cerberus. Like I get it in the idea of “the Alliance isn’t saving people, but Cerberus did”. But it feels so wrong especially if you played Mass Effects 1 where you can see the experiments Cerberus did on civilians. That and if you have the Sole Survivor background, it’s a real slap in the face.

I know that they did 2 for storyline purposes, but the fact that you can’t push back or anything makes 0 sense. And they also did it for people who never played 1. I just, ugh. It angers me. I love that 2 gave me my Garrus romance, but man, I just… yeah.

Yeah I’ve started to knit during battles because of how long it takes sometimes. Especially since my main character is a Barbarian, so she just smashes 2 times and then her turn is done.

Similar when I played her in my actual dnd campaign a few years ago.

There’s the obvious “if you’re a homophobe, transphobe, racist, abelist” etc etc etc. Like obviously that makes me lose respect for people.

But I think if you judge someone for doing something that you deem “weird”. I used to so that until I learned that like, hey we’re all fucking weird. Who cares.

I still deadname it and call it Twitter. I refuse to call it X.

I love MBMBaM but sometimes their episodes are such a hit or miss. I think it’s mostly the bits. I don’t mind the vampire one, but the perfume guy was too much.

If you’re interested in Russia, I’ve been listening to Sad Oligarchs, which is about the fact that a lot of Oligarchs are “killing themselves” when there’s no explanation for it. It’s been really interesting so far.

Love recommending podcasts!

• Like others have said, Behind the Bastards is great to find out about some of the worst people in history.
• In relation to that Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff is the opposite of Behind the Bastards. It’s about people who did cool stuff who became cool.
• Also in lieu of that, Bad Gays, it’s about bad gays in history. I think they’ve covered similar folks on BtB, but this is obviously from a queer perspective.
• Fad Camp and Maintenance Phase are great podcasts about dieting and wellness. Fad Camp is more about how damaging some of these diets can be, whereas Maintenance Phase is similar to You’re Wrong About (which I also recommend)
• The Weekly Planet are these two Australian guys who talk about movies, tv, comics and video games. They also have a YouTube channel called Me Sunday Movies where they’ll upload some of their podcasts. Like they have a running segment called “Caravan of Garbage” which is just sort of talking about a movie, tv show or game. Currently they’ve started going through the RoboCop movies.
• Also shameless plug, but Checkpoint is on the radio but they take their radio show and put it on a podcast. It’s a podcast about giving a 1up to diversity in video games. Most of us are from the LGBTQIA+ community and that’s where most of our perspectives come from, but it’s also just folks from any marginalised group. Lovely bunch of folks (if I do say so myself).

Uh yeah, I have some more, but like that’s politics or it’s writing related or spicyness in or out of the bedroom. But these are the ones I always recc.

Whoo another BtB listener!

Usually wake up at 8 to take ADHD medication and then sleep for an hour (I’ve heard that ADHD meds absorb better if you don’t eat in the hour before or after you take it, but this could be false). Then get up at 9, shower if I have to, get dressed, make breakfast watch YouTube and then get ready for work.

On days I’m not working I do the same thing but I might shower later but I just won’t get ready for work because I don’t need to.

Same. I mean I haven’t been to highschool in a little over ten years, so I can’t say what kids are using these days. But here in Australia, none of us really cares about what phone you have. Though I think most of us were Samsung users.

Haha no worries. I was trying to think of something that I would pay extra for. And obviously, there’s shoes and clothes, but everything is expensive in Australia, on top of that the type of clothes I like are niche and being a bigger size it’s hard to come by clothes of my size.

So the only thing I could think of is software.