Trainguyrom

Idk I was on reddit 11 years ago and I wouldn't trust any shit I posted back then...

Nice parking job rita!

Very real! I've only convinced my wife to play with me some so far lol

Would that be like on a tripod in the audience area recording the screen?

Fun fact: this is how films get digitized, they play the film in a tiny movie theater just big enough for the camera. The whole apperatus is about the size of a washing machine

I'll respond because it seems like you're trying

Most guys have in mind with some gay twink trying to Hit on any guys they can.

I'm not sure how common this mental image is, but try to get it out of your head. The fact is there are some people who just want to have lots of sex with lots of people, some of these people happen to be straight, some happen to be gay, some happen to be guys, and some happen to be gals and some happen to be anywhere in-between any of the above. And that's okay, because different people are different and who cares what happens between consenting adults? And you know what else is okay? Some people don't want to have sex with anyone, some people only want to have sex with certain people, and some people are anywhere in between.

Most gay people are just normal regular everyday people with just a different preference in people that Theyd Date

All. All gay people are just people. Sexual interest is a spectrum, some people are only interested in other people of the same gender, some people are only interested in people of the opposite gender, and some people are somewhere in between, maybe mostly-straight or mostly-gay. And that's okay no matter where on that spectrum you fall.

On top of that both romantic interest and ones own gender are spectrums as well. These spectrums can have very different settings from each other and that's okay too. On the subject of gender, people have a physical and a mental gender, and sometimes those don't match. That's okay too (y'know as in it's okay to have that problem and be working to align the two in whatever way that makes them happy)

Most cis people totally envision either some annoying gay twink or a drag queen

First of all, don't use that slur. Full stop.

Secondly, drag is not a gender nor a sexuality nor a sexual or romantic interest. People who do drag are just people who do drag. They can be anywhere on the various spectrums I already outlined.

I have a feeling though that nowadays regarding representation, people that are pro gay & lgbtq do not really help at educating unaware cis people

They are trying to educate unaware cis/straight people, its just between algorithms, echo chambers and those who wish to eliminate everyone who isn't white straight cis, there's plenty of corners its not reaching.

This is not a failure of gay people, and this isn't any one gay person's job to educate the world. This is the world trying to pretend that gay people don't exist, when in fact they do exist and have existed for as long as gender and sexuality have existed

The reason we have pride is because we are in the first time in human history when anyone who isn't cis, straight, etc. isn't forced to ignore or suppress those feelings but can actually go be exactly who they want to be and be with whoever they want to be. Even now, as kids start to realize there's something different about them, they're first led to believe it's because there's something wrong with them. This might last a short time, this might last a lifetime, but pride is about squashing those self-doubt demons and shouting out to the world "I AM WHO I AM AND YOU WILL DEAL WITH IT!"

The importance of representation is in helping put the image in people's heads that it's okay to be different and that you don't have to be a white cis straight male to do certain things. Whether it's Mr Rogers sharing a pool with a black actor on a hot day, or Lt Uhura being played by a black woman in Star Trek, or Kora kissing Asami in Legend of Kora, or anything else, it's about showing and helping people know that they can be who they want to be and they can be happy about it. Media drives a sense of normalcy, so what's normal in media becomes normal in society. If it's normal for gay people to exist in media, people will see it as normal for gay people to exist in society.

Now, more on topic, Kingdom Come Deliverence is in a weird spot because it sets out to be the most realistic representation of a specific period and place in medieval history as possible. In the medieval period (and for most of history for that matter) people didn't really have an individual identity, so the idea of gay or straight people didn't really exist. They were however extremely sexist and mostly considered whoever did the penetrating to be powerful and whoever is being penetrated to be weak (and there's some hilarious historical texts where people are just generally confused about what to think of lesbians because there's no penetrating going on so did anything actually happen?) so CK:D in being an accurate period piece happens to place itself right in the crossroads of this culture war, as it presumably depicts gayness as many conservatives would prefer, something to be hidden away and ignored and maybe prosecuted if it gets too inconvenient for them, but CK:D depicts it this way not as a handout to conservatives but as an accurate depiction of history without commentary.

So TL;DR: gay people are people and different people are different and that's okay

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The average rent in the US is about 1600/mo, and the median household income is 83k/yr. Obviously these averages/medians will change dramatically when looking at individual places, but if you live in a major coastal city that's infamous for being unaffordable you will absolutely need roommates to afford rent.

However there's also plenty of major cities which are not unaffordable so while you can have your eyes pop out of your sockets looking at LA, SF, NYC, etc. Toledo OH or Milwaukee WI are just quietly going on about their day being relatively affordable places to live with plenty healthy local economies

Prices adjust to what people can afford

Ehhhhh only to what it can be reliably sold for, not to what most people can afford. If 10% of people are multimillionaires (and they are in the US) but 40% of people don't even have $500 to their name (also is the case in the US) you can absolutely continue to see a housing market that is in part just passing wealth around that top 15%, especially if they can turn around and rent the investment properties to the bottom 50% to make even more money

Now, things do get really interesting when the wealthy aren't interested in the property in a given area, and the market flips from ponzi scheme to actually being houses that people can realistically afford and do live in. Of course such places also tend to be on the knife edge of also being mortgage deserts because they tend to be very small towns with dwindling populations

I've realized for myself, the social media platform itself can make a difference. Lemmy with the clear direct replies makes it much too easy to get into a direct back and forth, whereas on Mastodon it's way harder

But also, finding things to do with my time offline has helped immensely in breaking some of those nasty feedback loops that digital stuff is designed to sink people into

Soooo "Top 20" what? Developers? Distributors? Games? Game engines? Game platforms? People named Steve?

Seriously if they're just going to regurgitate the headline from a trade report they should actually write more than just the headline

Dude it has no business being anywhere near as fun of a game it is. Personally I find the ship to ship combat unmatched in any other game. Super satisfying, and nicely scales if you have more than one person on the ship!

Again, shits bad, but you're conflating the experience in famously unaffordable cities to the entire country.

The median home sale price in the US for Q4 of 2025 is almost exactly 400k. A conventional 30 year mortgage with 20% down comes out to a monthly payment of $2200/mo, and for a healthy ~30% debt to income you'd need a household income of about $100k/yr. Yeah that's not great at all, but that's with everything 100% conventional and median. You can reach 100k household income with 2 incomes pretty easily since most professional careers will pay around 40-60k/yr

Shop for more of a starter home at 300k (again, the median is 400k which means depending on the market you can very easily spend more or less than that and there's plenty of large cities with home prices starting around the 200k range) and that comes down to about $1800/mo or a household income of 70k. That's feesible for a single working professional at mid/late career, but more importantly that's an easy household income to hit with 2 average working class incomes

Again, shits bad but it's not completely unattainable in most of the country. Saying that because no average person can realistically expect to be able to buy a home in LA or Seattle or New York therefore nobody can isn't spitting facts, it's being a doomer. Can an average person expect to buy a property in a city where the median home price is nearly 7 figures? Of course not! But that's not the reality for most of the country.

Most large cities follow the median home price of 400k, some happen to have lower and some happen to have higher medians. And even better, for a person who isn't too married to the idea of living in a major city, small town America has plenty of wonderful homes for under 200k or even under 100k and some of these small towns are actually quite lovely and haven't been completely destroyed by conservative politics. Again, I'm being real here, shits bad, but it ain't the shitshow youre describing for the entire county