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[Arcvasti]

Wait, does this mean I need to revise which pronoun I use to refer to you?

Spoiler: Pronouns are dumb. (click to show/hide)

Being called Boy/Man/Sir has felt weird to me forever, but I'm still "he" as far as anyone else is concerned. That said, "dude" or "guy" are great, since there's some flexibility there. And, er... being called "she" is fine too. There were a few weeks some 5 years ago when everyone on the forum referred to me as female (because apparently that's what I sounded like in writing?), and that felt good. I've considered setting my pronoun-of-choice on the She side some day in the indistinct future, but I'm kinda not ready to commit to that at this point. It's complicated, because even if I was publicly identifying as female it'd be as some kind of tomboy, for lack of a better word.

I'm upset that there's no decent neutral pronoun in English yet ("It" is dehumanizing, and "They" is awkward and impersonal). I'm at a point where I feel dumb asking for a specific pronoun, so whatever works. I'm just a person, personing around. As far as I can tell, my gender is *shrug*.

I use "They" all the time. Awkward and impersonal are staples of my speech anyways. Plus pluralizing someone seems vaguely respectful. Monarchs refer to themselves as "We" and, in french, pluralized second person pronouns are also used as formalized singular second person pronouns.

[McDonald]

I was playing a really intense game for an hour, and when I'm nervous I have a weird habit of shaking my legs up and down. My calves are really sore now.

[Molly Renata]

This lovely fictitious woman from a really old spinoff anime.

She makes me sad all the time. ;_;

[AlleeCat]

So? Taking the stats seriously assumes they don't.

Which is indeed an option

Except that most of the female forumites don't set their gender. Also, a male/female ratio assumes that people can only be male or female, which is also untrue.

[Orange Wizard]

those stats are meaningless because spambots

Most of the spambots are set as Female, according to Toady.

Except that most of the female forumites don't set their gender.

Can you verify that?

Also, a male/female ratio assumes that people can only be male or female, which is also untrue.

On the forums. There's only Male and Female. And blank, which could be anything.

[Spehss _]

Just went and had an impromptu hour long talk with my mom about emotions after coming in the living room to get a snack and finding her crying on the couch.

Much of what upsets her is just that she and my dad are getting old. Dad's 66, she's 65, health problems are catching up with them, he worries about him and herself, she worries about her and himself, etc. They don't go out much because my dad is having issues with his legs, his feet are sore all the time, my mom is developing issues with her legs but she still wants to go out and do more things together more often, etc etc. She worries about something happening to him and she'd have to live on, or if something happens to her and he'd have to live on. She worries that he's just resigned himself to being her caretaker, all these things with the two of them growing old together and what could happen next.

It's a hard thing to talk about. It's not a simple "yes/no" "find the problem and solve it" sort of thing. Best I could do is offer emotional support and a place to vent and occasionally offer suggestions.

Wish there was a simple cure to aging. 

[Spehss _]

I have a rather unsuitable joke for that that I'm not going to even touch.

Unfortunately, usually one person has to live on without the other, even if it's for a short while. Not really anything you can do about that.

...When I said cure I did not mean like that, mang. Clever, though. Excellent dark humour.

Was thinking more like immortality through cybernetics or something when I typed that. Something simple like that.

[Yoink]

It's so cold this morning that breathing gave me a brainfreeze.

[Dutchling]

It's so cold this morning that breathing gave me a brainfreeze.

relevant avatar?

[Descan]

...When I said cure I did not mean like that, mang. Clever, though. Excellent dark humour.

Was thinking more like immortality through cybernetics or something when I typed that. Something simple like that.

It'll take me a while

I have my own mum to worry about that way too :c

[Spehss _]

...When I said cure I did not mean like that, mang. Clever, though. Excellent dark humour.

Was thinking more like immortality through cybernetics or something when I typed that. Something simple like that.

It'll take me a while

I have my own mum to worry about that way too :c

Fear not, if people can't figure it out, the self-learning artificial intelligence we eventually develop will, right after it achieves super-intelligence and right before it assimilates all of humanity into the borg.

[Descan]

I'm pretty sure the furthest into a hive mind I'll go would be controlled internet tap directly in my brain :v

I.E. one I can shut off, and can control what passes through it.

[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

Just listened to the most depressing thing I've ever heard...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Madeline by Tickle Me Pink

Reminded me of all the suicides freshman year :/
Sad sad song

[Spehss _]

Don't question it. Joe Satriani made a song called 'The Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing' so there are weirder names)

I love prog rock. If I didn't love it for the music, I'd love it for the naming conventions.

Sad song: Adagio for Strings as conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

[wierd]

I'm pretty sure the furthest into a hive mind I'll go would be controlled internet tap directly in my brain :v

I.E. one I can shut off, and can control what passes through it.

You can't control what passes into your brain normally (see: Brainwashing). An internet tap would be just as vulnerable.

The furthest into a hive mind I would go, would be a local hive that only has my own consciousness inside it, with dedicated filtering components to establish connections with outside networks.

Imagine:  Borg from startrek decides that instead of assimilating other people, it builds a big room filled with bioneural gelpacks, and replicates its own conciousness inside that framework and uses that as its collective.

(That concept is very alluring to me actually. It would have all the distributed processing advantages, with none of the real multiple personality disorder issues, and would enable me to survive after the physical death of my original physical body, and would do so without requring other sentient beings to be subverted to my will. They would all be ME-- literally.)