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"Every day, as a deaf person, you're reminded of your deafness," says William Mager, writer of new BBC thriller “Reunion.” The frustrations, or “deaf rage,” born of living in a hearing-centered world can add up over time. This rage is what inspired Mager to work on “Reunion,” a four-part series from the producers of “Adolescence,” that tells the story of a deaf man on a journey of revenge after spending a decade in prison. @BBCNews has more:
We’ve all been there before: Having a conversation in a noisy environment but not making out every word of the person speaking to you. A simple trick might help with that. @ScienceAlert has more:
WRITER FUEL: Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?
https://www.limfic.com/2025/04/12/writer-fuel-how-big-would-a-humans-wings-need-to-be-to-fly/
[P] . . .
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-11/sa-concern-fish-deaths-linked-to-algae-bloom/105151408
This is what your world looks like on neurotypical hiverarchy.
Now imagine a world without hiverarchy. It's a paradise where we point and laugh at ineffectual Dark Triad monsters who're powerless without hiverarchy to enable them.
The Great Filter beckons.
Sterilising virus when? Because this is terrifying. Hiverarchy won't ever stop serving monsters, the outlook for all life on earth is grim.
Where can I find feral or wild humans? I seem to be surrounded by domesticated humans.
#civilization #domestication #homosapiens #humans #nature #wildlife #zoology
Ancient jawbone from Taiwan belongs to a mysterious group of human ancestors, scientists say.
@AssociatedPress reports: https://flip.it/OuM8-c
[P] It still irritates the hell out of me that things are like this...
https://insider-gaming.com/ac-shadows-lead-actress-shrine-destruction-hurt-heart/
Yep, puritan tighty-whiteys love telling other races what is and isn't racist.
"I'm a white dude and I'm telling you Japanese people definitely weren't hurt by depictions of shrine destruction. I get to say what is or isn't racist because I'm white and I'm not racist!"
Yeah, well, Japanese people don't agree with you.
[P] See, the way I see it? This removal of culture, identity, and personality from black people just makes them alien. It's a very insidious kind of racism that doesn't allow them to be a person. It makes them... I don't know how to articulate this well, so you'll have to excuse me. Hm. A symbol? In a way? An idea? An icon? What's the correct word for this... An edifice? Hm. A caricature? A myth? A utility? A simplification? A known variable?
#psychology #humans #videogames
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[P] Is the puritan panic of tighty-whiteys worth the actual racism of denying black people culture, identoty, and personality? I mean, Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who is allowed to be eccentric and fun, but that's British. What if all black characters were allowed that, though? "B-Bu-But I can't tell a stereotype from an identity!" So let black people tell you, then! And when they do, enable thrm rather than speaking for/over them! It isn't hard...
[P] Sorry, this just makes me really damn grumpy. "Oh no! I spotted that a black character has an accent! Am I racist?!?" Well, I have a friggin' accent! If you hear that, ARE you racist??? It's just insanity that robbing all personality, identity, and culture from black characters—because white puritans fail to grasp what racism is—is somehow the better and less racist option. It doesn't matter if it makes a black person happy! Oh no, it makes a puritan worry!
[P] It's funny how easy it is to see the really racist aubtext surrounding the modeen, mainstream opinions of Quest for Glory III. I compared modern forums with usenet, and reviews on modern websites eith publications of the time. The difference is stark and darkly telling. The former unanimously lambast, the latter unanimously praise. The difference? Gaming went mainstream in the interim betwixt, adding a torrent of bigoted voices.
[P] Well, this is a bigot-free zone. I still adore you, Quest for Glory III. And I happen to think that swahili is a beautiful and elegant language, unlike some puritan tighty-whiteys who're bound up so tightly in their god-fearing xenophobia that their minds have narrowed to a quark's width. And not the ferengi who runs the bar, either. Nor the gallantry-found-wanting space captain, either. No, narrower-of-mind and more cowardly than either of those.
[P] The problem is is that the mainstream as it is now is infecting things withe bigotry. And some older gakes are looked upon unkindly not because they weren't excellent gamess, but because they're too progressive and it makes modern mainstream sensibilities very uncomfortable. I mean, if you think Assassin's Creed is somehow racially progressive, QfG III would blow your socks off. I miss that era, the time before the mainstream pathos engulfed all.
[P] I somwtimes think the world is way more racist and sexist now than it was in the '90s, but I now reapise that it's something of an echo chamber effect from the time before games went mainstream. I mean, indies today are still progressive, but before that turning point around the early-to-mid '00s? Everything was kinda indie. AAA didn't exiat as a concept really before then, everyone was still trying to figure out what video games were
I never really understood why we have to believe an artist is a good role model.
Perhaps it's because so many of the #music #makers I like were horrible people that I was disillusioned at an early age.
#jamesbrown #rickjames and #miledavis to mention a few.
No one expects their builder or plumber to be a good person let alone a role model.
These people are marked by their skill, not by their moral insight.
I think it might just be time we left the delusion and started looking at the real world.
The real world where some horrible #humans are nonetheless gifted with extraordinary #abilities.
That's how it's always been. It's unlikely to change.
Why do our fingers wrinkle in water? It’s much deeper than skin.
From @PopularScience: "A study of polio patients almost 90 years ago gave scientists their first big clue."
