Terxbor (also Formedras) | The Eternal Pariah @Terxbor@computerfairi.es

1984: omg what if a government used supercomputers to secretly track every detail of our lives. Must cut services and privatise all government functions (except spies, police and military) to prevent this!

2018: a loose cabal of unaccountable billionaires is now using supercomputers to secretly track every detail of our lives, to make themselves vastly rich and powerful. Well that's okay, as long as it's for *personal profit* it must be making us all better.

#MechWarriorOnline #MWO #SteamController
I made a Steam Controller configuration for MechWarrior Online, and finally posted it publically on Steam. It's not complete yet (hence the config having "Beta" in its name), but if anyone would like to try it out, I'd love input on how to complete and improve it.
steam://controllerconfig/342200/1299256859
(I thought I posted this toot earlier, but none of my Home feeds has it, apparently.)

#steamcontroller #steaminput #gamedev
I'm writing a guide about proper Steam Input implementation for games, because of a couple of games that do it horribly. (Civilization VI by Firaxis/2K and Hyper Universe by Nexon.)
Problem is, I haven't actually done it myself. All my experience is programming theory and making layouts. I still think it's sufficient, though.
Here's the link for my first draft; working on the second.
https://1drv.ms/w/s!Ao6zbVd2impsj-Yfe5KmNrBzWDMgsw

Assume a Context of Abuse

Why do we give our posters the benefit of the doubt and assume a context of abuse?

It is not unusual for abuse survivors to be told they are lying or are making up stories for attention even when they are telling the 100% truth, because many people just don't want to believe that someone they know could be an abusive parent or even that abusive parents exist even when the abuse is very obvious to anyone willing to see it.

Because of this, we assume a context of abuse for our posters.

If a poster posts a small slice of life post, we still assume a context of abuse. For example, a poster posts a few sentences about their mother commenting that the color the OP is wearing doesn't flatter them. If this were a normal parent, it might be considered just a moment of insensitivity from a normally loving parent. But, from a context of abuse, we assume a campaign of mind-games, frequent attempts to tear down the OP's sense of worth and sense of self, frequent attacks on the OP's boundaries and maybe even physical or sexual abuse.

Now that we've colored in the background with a context of abuse, hopefully it makes more sense why snide comments from abusive parents might be much more hurtful than a random insensitive comment from a normally loving parent that is just having a rare bad day.

We do not require our posters to tell us their whole life story to back up their claims of a n-parent. Many of our members may not be ready to share that much yet or may not ever want to share that much on Reddit or the internet. We will respect these boundaries and assume a context of abuse for all posts.

Here is another way of explaining the context of abuse rule that was written by one of our awesome members /u/petskin

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"In addition to what people already have said about emotional abuse being largely invisible, the paper cuts seemingly minor (unless the reader takes into account that there are millions of them) and "mothers always love their children" -fallacy, I want to bring up yet another thing. Narcissism is a spectrum, varying from "normal" to "full blown narc". Most behaviours Narcissist exhibit are something people in general do as well. So a mother yelled at her teenager for not washing the window though they already agreed that it was too cold to do it yet, or for not dusting the top of freezer which never had got any attention before? Maybe she had a bad day. That happens. So a father took his teenager's car keys away the day of the kid's prom? Maybe the kid had misbehaved. That happens. So the mother promised to buy cereal X and didn't? Maybe she forgot. That happens.

It's true, it happens. Everyone has done something like that, and now there is a whole subreddit "demonizing" people who happen to do these things. People, who are prone getting frustrated and then overreacting, people who are mildly depressed and prone to "woe is me"-thinking, people who just aren't so in tune with others and happen to upset others by blunt comments might feel targeted. For normal people "it" doesn't happen five plus times a day, though. And "it" doesn't always happen towards one single person. There is a point where "it happens" becomes deliberate. It becomes abuse.

The people who post here do not need to explain this every time, because "for the wise the few [words are enough]", the readers understand the context so the lengthy introduction isn't necessary. A drive-by reader, on the other hand, doesn't get the undercurrent, but only reacts to the clearly visible layer of the post. It's like a child of 12 trying to read Shakespeare or any great poet, complaining that the grammar is "wrong". Well, yea, it may looks like that, because the kid reads it from the wrong standpoint.

If you see a post that you don't want to support, then don't support it. We do not force our members to support posts that they don't like or posters that they find fishy. Instead, support the posts that you can support and give empathy where you can.”

So, please, do not attack our posters or victim-blame. If you see content that you think is truly troublesome, please report it to the mods.

#fairlyoddparents #superhero #dating
My brother's watching FOP right now; episode where Timmy's a magic (wish) based superhero.
When I saw Trixie give masked him a kiss, I remembered something: doesn't wooing the girl with the mask on wreck your chances without the mask? (Tobey Maguire aside, of course.)
I mean, it's not exactly safe for her to know... Oh, wait. By wooing her, you negate the ENTIRE REASON for wearing the mask in the first place!