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I've been watching Ruka play too much Fire Rock
Fingers were cold, but I needed to get it out of my system hahaha.
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A screenshot from the 1983 Jetsoft arcade game, Bongo, featuring all of the beloved characters we've come to know and love over the past 43 years; the portly red-hatted explorer Bongo, his little furry friend who watches from a platform on the top-right of the screen, the weird hopping football-shaped creatures (referred to in the C64 port as "bouncing bongos"), the bird/pterosaur, and last but not least, Bongo's hated nemesis, A Dinosaur. The player currently has 94,990 points.

March 10th is a day where we all celebrate the little red-hatted, portly hero of gaming who single-handedly popularised the entire platformer genre for years to come

The HUD needs work, of course. However, it's all black at the top for two reasons:

1. Easier to read the HUD
2. Makes loading background tiles faster.

We want the game to move fast, and this is the max height I can load with the current engine while avoiding visual glitches.

We've got a little of a graphic redesign going for our Wolfy NES game! @llk.bsky.social is making a cow city aesthetic right now - this doesn't show everything she's done to make it look great, but I'm really digging the vibe.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: three witches stand around a cauldron while one of them stirs. Panel 2: one of the witches adds a scoop of pre workout into the pot. Panel 3: the three witches are getting absolutely shredded in the gym.

rat patrol

It's interesting how we have so many different journeys. I somewhat felt the same with rejection with my peers, but I completely believed in the church. No doubts, honestly, until I was a missionary.

Oh, I wanted to be there, personally. Even though it was soul crushing. I thought my eternity was on the line, and I was likely one of the people making sure others didn't defect.

Stupid Mormon mission dream. I was stuck on the mission again for another two years. Wanted to go back to my husband, but I knew I couldn't.

You can't just leave the Mormon mission. They took my passport. It's trafficking.

I think that, for professional settings, we absolutely should expect people not to use "crazy." Outside of that? I kinda dig the lack of decorum. I might tease people a bit who use "crazy" liberally, but no one will lose me as a friend ;)

Same

Very understandable! I don't blame anyone feeling that way. I want to make sure I create a space where people can disagree with me and feel alright with it; I'm flawed, and some of my opinions may be misguided.

Honestly, my Mormon therapist. I was extremely depressed as a gay man, and she told me that I might have to leave the religion to learn how to be happy. And she said that way okay.

I only stopped believing after I left, not before. She saved my life.

Most uses of insane (positive) are describing objects or events, not people, yeah. Most people know it's inappropriate to describe a person with that term.

Yep! This is why I enjoy having these nuanced discussions in public - it takes patience (a LOT of patience), but it can be done if you give each other enough grace. And I try to let others say their thoughts without attacking them; I learn best by talking it out.

Oh, for sure! I've got my 12 pills a day to help me function mentally, but I find some sort of endearment calling myself Crazy Uncle Brian, just like the rest of my family loves my Crazy Aunt Sadie. But we've both made it clear that we're fine with those labels.

I personally prefer to tell people I was a dumb kid who only found out he was autistic at 37 :P

I'm personally never gonna label someone else as neurodivergent unless they do it themselves; there's a lot of stigma that goes into the term for various reasons, but if it's a useful label for them, I'm happy they have it.

And I think what bothers me is when people say that describing something as crazy (positive) is offensive. By the numbers, it's really not to the great majority of us with neurodivergence or mental illness.

But I think we can all agree that it's informal and unprofessional.

I'm also not going to stop using the word Mormon; I'm ex-Mormon, but while I was in the church, part of my money went directly to the "I'm a Mormon" campaign.

I guess... we should be deliberate in language and take the world around us into consideration. And when professional, dress up your words.

I would urge people who are offended to consider the reasons why, though. I grew up Mormon, and we were proud to be called Mormon. However, the majority of Mormons now consider the word "Mormon" to be offensive. Even the Associated Press uses it.

But their leaders told them to be offended.

Doing a gig at a comedy club? Comedians are less formal, so you can probably get away with "crazy" in a positive sense. Performing for a charity? Consider that 7.7%, and find ways to reword your thoughts.

Honestly, the vibe I get is that people mostly don't find "crazy" or "insane" to be offensive. Rather, it's the lack of professionality this language shows. When performing for a group, we should take that 7.7% of people with neurodevelopmental differences or mental illnesses into consideration.

I also had one "yes" responder say they had wanted to explain because they put that for reasons others likely wouldn't. I hope they tell me why - my guess is they're more offended by the lack of creativity or thought in how people speak, but that's just an assumption.

Since we hit over 100 replies, I'll share the current data.

Right now, 92.2% of respondents said they aren't offended, and it's genuinely more lopsided than I expected. I was thinking it'd be more like 60% or 70%.

I hate, hate, hate "unalive." It's honestly so much worse than what it's replacing.

I like mystery race, but it doesn't describe it well to people who aren't already in the community. "Going into it blind" is a common English expression and very easily explains what's happening.

It's more to help me understand how broadly people take offense to it. I've been under the impression that it's the majority, but I'm unsure that's the case.

Thank you! And don't say how you responded - at least for now!