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[Vector]

Bay 12 has historically had more out trans women than known AFABs, LOL. Why -- I couldn't tell you.

[methylatedspirit]

Huh. I suppose I could speculate that it's something to do with the factors that pull people into GD (which are very weak right now, but still), which (to my knowledge) are a) Dwarf Fortress, and b) word-of-mouth. People either come for Dwarf Fortress, stumbling into General Discussion (like I did in 2019), or a friend who's already on Bay12 pulled them in. My own data suggests that both occur roughly equally, but I only have 2 years of data to work with (also, I've been here for 2 years? Wow.). I suspect the Steam release of DF will bias the results towards DF, whenever that happens.

Are AMAB people (regardless of the gender they currently are) more likely to be pulled in by violent games (and DF is definitely violent if you go by how it's described outside of Bay12)? That's the thing my speculation is hanging on. Even if they push hard to not be male, completely going "fuck being a man, I wanna be (a) ____!", does the cultural baggage still affect them enough that it still affects the choice of video games that they choose to play and subsequently join the community of? Or maybe I'm forgetting order of operations; they join Bay12 first, then they realize they're trans. It's slightly more plausible that way around.

I mean, it's probably total bullshit to think of it this way. My Bullshit Meter's in the 20% - 40% range, likely an underestimate because it's my own "work". There's an off smell, but I can't pinpoint where.

[Vector]

It's definitely Join Bay -> Realize (or come out with) transness.

Dunno about the violence question.

[Caz]

I think there are more enbies (though I'm lumping in genderfluid, despite it containing both binary and nonbinary) than there are girls on Bay12 General Discussion (definition: is active-ish within the past week or so here). I count 5 enbies to 2 girls, though it's likely an underestimate on at least 1 side. Honestly, I think that's kinda wild. More enbies than there are girls.

The population of Bay12 GD is (note: very rough estimates) somewhere between 20 to 50. This implies that the enby percentage is between 25% and 10%, which is also wild. The enby percentage in trans populations is apparently 25% to 35%, but I can't find any estimates for the general population. I don't actively keep mental records on trans-ness specifically, so I can't say anything there. I only keep track of gender because I think that pronouns are important.

*I'm only counting those who have explicitly stated their gender/pronouns. I refuse to question stated genders, so it's simultaneously a loose and strict definition. Loose in that anyone can declare whatever and I have to accept it, but strict in that I only retain it if it's stated outright at least once.

Makes me wonder whatever happened to that Bay12 census.

[McTraveller]

I don't know what those acronyms are... I'm getting too old for all this...

[Vector]

AFAB - assigned female at birth
AMAB - assigned male at birth
ACAB - all cops are bastards

enby - non binary

[scriver]

SAAB - Svenska Aeroplan Aktiebolaget

[methylatedspirit]

The i7-11700K has been tested, and... it's not looking good. First off:


You know, just casually pushing out 58% more heat than the competition (the Ryzen 7 5800X) in AVX2 mode. The same power as an i9 from two generations ago. Perfectly normal. Secondly:



It consumes all that power, and it just gets denied by not only the Ryzen chip, but by its own predecessors. This was once a company that prided itself on gaming performance. Congratulations, Intel, you just played yourself.

Still:



At least it still does DF well? Granted, the advantage evens out with a larger worldgen:



This whole 11th Gen launch is probably the second biggest mistake I've seen from Intel (first biggest mistake being the Pentium 4). Should've skipped this generation entirely, waited for Alder Lake (12th Generation) next year; this shit isn't worth it. If it's like this for the i9, I'm inclined to say: don't buy this. Skip the entire generation.

[Egan_BW]

Nintendo invented the first time machine in the 90s. Every other videogame company soon followed suit. By creating a localized time loop, they're able to harness infinite computational power.
Videogame graphics are currently as detailed as is possible in any universe.
However, this created a marketing problem. How can you ever sell new hardware if the customer already owns the perfect system?

To create the illusion of progress, the console manufacturers use their time machines to travel back in time and replace their games with progressively uglier versions. Your memories of the graphics of old games are actually perfectly accurate, it's just that over time these older games are progressively reconned into being less and less detailed until you get a bewildering pixelated mess.

[King Zultan]

That feels true to me.

[methylatedspirit]

We need to go deeper.

Going deeper. All details left uncensored. You can probably figure out how I live based on the desktop alone.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Here's a dump of funny things I found while doing this:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Anyway, time to run DBAN (DBAN is discontinued and will not boot on UEFI-only systems) ShredOS on the two hard drives I forced into this situation.

[Maximum Spin]

Going deeper. All details left uncensored. You can probably figure out how I live based on the desktop alone.

Are you... are you secretly a middle-aged office clerk?

[scriver]

Vampire Malware Workstation, nice

[methylatedspirit]

Vampire Malware Workstation, nice

The "Vampire" part's correct. When I was done and shut down the VM, it forgot to give back the 8 GB I allocated to it, so it did end up sucking up half of my RAM for nothing. I only noticed because I was trying to play a game, and it warned me that I had, like, no RAM free. I checked Task Manager, and indeed, I had all of 1-2 GB free, taken up by some ghost of a program that didn't show up in the Processes view. A restart fixed that, thankfully.

Whether or not it was doing anything nefarious with those 8 gigs, I don't know.

[King Zultan]

It was probably filling those 8gigs with a secret stash of program porn.