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I think it's just internet impression.

Being gay is soooo much easier today. I would say we reached the utopia, because I don't hide and yet my life doesn't seem different than straight people.

The screaming ones one both sides, the "everyone must know I'm gay" and the "no one should be allowed to show they are gay" are the minority, but they sure are loud. And internet is their megaphone.

But that depends on the country of course. I'm sure gays in Saudi Arabia are not happy.

It always annoyed me so much that gay was a personality type like goth or nerd or jock, in US media.

Yeah. Same. The dream was to just be normal. That liking guys is the same as liking girls. You can be a femboy gay, or a macho yanktank straight, or the other way around. But it's not anymore simply who you like that catches people attention.

You can simply be gay, and that is just one detail of your life. Not a whole fight anymore.

As an older gay guy, as you grow older, being gay stops being important. You just like guys, and the other guy like girls. That's it.

And it's actually kind of annoying how some people make that their entire personality. But when I left my mom's house I even hanged porn pictures on my room, to tell everyone what I am and that I wouldn't hide anymore. So I was the same.

But over time I realised that I should never have to hide, I didn't have to keep showing either. I didn't really want. I just did it because I was angry I had to hide.

My point is; we are here. Just not that visible.

Plus we didn't have internet back then. Thank god. I wouldn't want to see again the things I would have written.

Edit, I must also say that it's because a lot of people fought for our rights. I couldn't just be a guy who likes guys back then. It's a luxury I love. I can say stuff like "my partner, he does this or that" and it never becomes "what, are you gay?" anymore. It's just like a straight guy talking about his female partner most of the times, and that's awesome. I can choose to make it my personality or not these days without having to hide.

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That's amazing!

I was thinking of doing something similar with a battery fan and that video will help.

Pretty much same. I thought it was a Zelda clone and got hooked by the gambling mechanics.

I don't even know what the story is anymore. I just put in autoclick and check some times to see if the game needs me to move to another place for another 6 hours of talk.

I used to pay attention but it's just empty sausage to keep the player engaged longer cheaply. There is no puzzles or game play.

It's as interesting and addictive as a slot machine, but with 10 hours of torture between each pull of the lever.

Fucking cancer that still has me poisoned.

Every time I play I think "I should uninstall this garbage, this is not even a game, why am I torturing myself like this?". Then I my addicted brain goes "oh, but there's only x amount of primogems I need to get to try one last time to get this shitty character that is the same as every other one but with 1% bigger numbers. I already wasted so many months on this, I can give up now".

It's amazing how well they domesticated the human brain and that I let myself be controlled like that.

To call this slot machine, talking simulator, lollie masturbator thing a game is an offense to games.

And camera and GPS. If it's just voice and text we could use a dumb phone.

And then they could bundle with matrix and become common place. Like apple users think face chat (or whatever the name) is the name for video call, since it's part of the phone and they never used anything else.

But that's kind of day dreaming...

That's a good point. But until it becomes like desktop Linux they will need money, lots of it. Without it it won't be an option for people, rich or poor.

But I can't imagine a company, no matter how nice, that will lower the prices once it doesn't need it anymore. So yeah, you raise a good issue. I don't know the solution. Your suggestion is a good one, though unlikely to work for the same reason. Most people are not that nice.

Still... that's bad...

Better than nothing, but bad.

But if it's the only viable alternative, I would still invest on them. Idealism might just result in us having nothing.

Yeah, the first one is the most important. The second is awesome, but personally I would say being usable as a phone is maybe as important as being open source, if the options are having a fully open source software, but not usable, or mostly open source but usable as a phone.

Though I'm kind of not sure. It kind of really needed to be both; usable and fully open source...

1- being open source. Yeah that's required. I have to check on that. They were open source last I checked.

2- free as in freedom, not free beer. Like I said before, if Linux relied only on donations of its users it would have never turned into what it is. It was company investements.

How can a project like Sailfish get the support it needs when even Microsoft failed, that's a big question. But I doubt it will be with donations. I really don't know, but I'm sure it will need a lot of money.

And as far as I know the alternatives are not really usable. So until/if they are, then they are not comparable to Android.

Maybe that's what I missed. Isn't it open source anymore?

That would be really bad.