DeltaAro

What went wrong with Final Fantasy IV?

He claims that LAION benefits from a copyright loophole as a non-profit and that's a myth. The actual reason is that they don't distribute the images themselves. It's just a dataset that relates descriptions to URLs. To train your artificial neural network, you have to download all the images by yourself. Realistic text-to-speech is also beneficial, since it allows visually impaired people to listen to books in higher quality. Niche books rarely have an audiobook version.

"homosexual" ... nobody uses this outside of a SAM context. This term is discouraged since how long? And that already explains the part of the problem. There is no term like "gay" or "lesbian" (referring to sexual and romantic attraction) because a lot of asexual awareness was about "we can still fall in love". So in general, sexual and romantic orientation are strongly correlated. But the other orientations are not. Sensual, aesthetic and affectionate attraction are very commonly "pan" (maybe they're repressed because of homophobia, but that's another story). But as concepts they aren't even known to the general population. We just talk about them to make asexuals or aromantics less confused (aros confuse platonic with romantic, aces sensual and aesthetic with sexual). So if the cultural norms allow sensual activity like touching someone's hair (which still passes as "acceptable for a friendship" between women) it can happen. No orientation or label can prevent this. Just tell people you don't like it, and hopefully they stop without much drama.

Yum of course! Vegan vegetable lasagna with ricotta? (ricotta is made from silk tofu and cashew)

On which subforums do posts contribute to the overall count? Posts on arcade subforum don't get counted, anything other one? Should be mentioned in the FAQ perhaps.

Spoiler At the second play through, all those players who found this segment adorable, will join me in cursing the absence of a skip button. 😃

You don't necessarily need a relationship to find out. Lithromantic also means that romantic attraction fades when it is reciprocated, which could happen in the process when forming a relationship. There isn't anything wrong with it just being a phase. If you feel differently later, that will come naturally. If you cannot find a good label, despite a lot of searching, in the end there's always quioromantic. That fits by definition, then. Otherwise, good luck!

Yeah, the shortage is finally over. But you had to buy the bundle, it seems? I mean, it has 94% on metacritic, so graphics and gameplay are very good. Perhaps that's slightly overrated since it's so video-gamey at times. In Souls games, your character could kill dragons, demons and golems but could not break through a generic wood door. But GowR takes this to another level. Here, some humble ferns present an impenetrable barrier. 😆 It's a bit too violent for me to really like it. But I can't seriously regard this as a flaw, since it's called "God of War" and it's PEGI 18, so I was warned. The difficulty is adjustable, I played it on normal. The mobs are a bit overpowered compared to the main bosses, which are more spectacle fights than a tough challenge. This is kind of weird, honestly, that some random group of Draugr is as difficult as Heimdall himself. Oh, well, one thing: it has a 90 min teen romance segment between Loki and Angrboda. You do activities like riding on some sort of cow and collecting fruit. 🙄 IMHO that should all be put into skippable cutscenes.

Done with God of War Ragnarök. I'm now playing: the following game: It's just one disc on PS5. Ultra-HD Blu-ray with 100 GB!

There also is nothing wrong with the other guilty pleasures mentioned here. But we believe they (fanfiction, shonen anime, ...) are below our intellectual level or refined tastes. Still, we like them. So this conflict with our self-image we call guilty pleasure. 🙃 Sex OTOH or romance cannot be a guilty pleasure because it's simply not highbrow or lowbrow in the first place.

To be fair, there is a difference! @The Aro Mando Echo is a white-on-green aro Mandalorian, while you're a green-on-white aro Mandalorian.

Hi! I like your avatar, it is 100 % like I imagine an aro Mandalorian to look. And green as we know is a canon color for Mandalorian armor, symbolizing duty.

They had to leave because the Englishman didn't like it. --- A man finds an aardvark on the roadside. Thinking the aardvark is lost, the man takes it, drives until finding a police officer and asks what to do. "You should take it to the zoo" replies the officer. One week latter, the police officer sees the man driving with the aardvark by his side. "What are you still doing with that animal? I told you to bring him to the zoo." I did exactly that. He loved it, and now we are going to the movies. --- (you know it's an old 🐧 joke 😝)

See here. You can add more than one question, but I don't think you can extract the data to calculate correlation, so I left out questions about sexual and romantic orientation. Anyway, the MBTI isn't a good tool for scientific analyses. Haha. It chops up a continuum into binary categories. But what I really like about it is that it doesn't contain negative traits. Big Five may be 1000 times more accurate and scientific, it's not something you could ever use for community building or as a tool to get to know each other. Just imagine you casually do Big Five with your classmates or coworkers, and find out that some score very high at neuroticism. 😧

@Harvest made the suggestion that we shouldn't just have a normal threat about the MBTI, but instead a poll!

Sorry for the nitpicking, but this example is a bit weird, since this isn't even obviously 100 % bad on the level of society. Mental health isn't like e.g. cancer screening, where the resources exist, but are underutilized. Instead, the demand for mental healthcare services is very high, but there are not nearly enough mental health providers. So the stereotypically masculine trait like stoicism isn't always negative. It depends... To me, this is like asking what I find problematic about romance. Sure, I could provide a long list, but then someone comes along and tells me that this is unfair because it's all just an expression of amatonormativity. OTOH, if you remove all the strange stuff from romance, is it even romance anymore? Most cliché masculine and feminine traits aren't bad per se. It depends on the situation. But again:

Pardon my uninformed question, but if you put sex on a pedestal on a board for asexuals, aren't you doing something wrong?

Positive sexual experiences often trigger romantic feelings, that's extremely common. But then they usually sustain and don't just go away afterward. The labels closest to your experiences are aroflux and demiromantic. I haven't found any more specific labels.

a concrete umbrella taken from here (so many examples!)

They assume that same-sex friendships are better or less fraught with problems, because sexual/romantic attraction won't get in the way and there's deeper understanding and more equality between people of the same gender. Very big assumptions, IMHO, especially since not all people are cis, straight and gender-conforming. It's difficult to draw the line between what constitutes 'core' identity (where any effort to change is harmful and impossible) and traits that can and should be changed. If I were a therapist, I wouldn't criticize friend choices except if those "friends" are obviously harmful. It would feel like violating boundaries to push a wedge between some friendship of my client because of my preconceived notion of how friendships should be. So is heterosociality LGBTQ+? There are no 'official' criteria, so I don't know.

Shōnen anime. Very guilty pleasure: Shoujo anime.

Looks great! Subaku? The sword reminds me of the Buster Sword from Final Fantasy.

AFAIU this wasn't about a legal ban and instead about losing all disability benefits if a disabled person marries. Aros who find this funny are aspiring aro Dr. Evils, of course. The official "logic" behind it is: "You get these new benefits of marriage, so we take your old ones".

Sorry for my long last post. What I mean is: for whatever reason, alloromantics really like to compare romantic love with madness. While paradoxically believing that love is what makes you human! Both ideas are deeply entrenched in our culture, and aros feel forced to react to them. Of course, this harms neurodivergent people again. But you would have to teach aros that they should not agree to the ideas of alloromantic mainstream and just interpret them differently. E.g. gleefully agreeing that love is madness. Or the "I assure you, I'm not a psycho because I experience this other type of love xy" groveling. Instead, they should reject those ideas completely. Obviously, this is not going to happen tomorrow. I belong to the 10 %. 😇 Who knows what emotions are, correlation doesn't mean it is the thing. Lightning isn't thunder. I don't know what those aros are up to here. It's perhaps a reaction to mystical ideas like "soul mates" which exist for romantic love but not for other emotions like friendship. So saying "it's just chemicals" could exactly mean that romantic love is not fundamentally different from other emotions. I don't know.