Do the Star Wars aliens count?

I can’t think of any “anthro” characters in Star Wars other than Ewoks and Wookies, which I’m sure there is some niche forum or subreddit out there dedicated to fawning over Chewie’s long, shaggy hair, but not quite what I mean.

Marvel had a few characters but none of them have been introduced in the MCU as “attractive” in any capacity. (They did my girl Wolfsbane wrong.)

But I feel more like this most days.

I wonder how long before we get a mainstream anthro character that’s seen as a sex symbol. (Cartoons don’t count, I mean designed from the ground up to be mass-market appealing.)

I have thought about this reply for about 9 hours and still cannot connect it to my comment, unless of course you left out one word:

moved from America to Germany because of PTSD and hate towards America Online.

If this is what you meant, then yes, I wholeheartedly agree and support your friend. Just trying to cancel their service alone was traumatizing.

I found myself in this same situation as a teenager with no social experience in my first months on AOL.

I mean, I went on to continue to operate and run relationship advice forums and learned a lot about psychology and emotional intelligence and have been thanked by a lot of people for using those tools to provide perspectives to people struggling in their personal lives.

But still, it’s pretty wild that in the last three decades or so we’re still treating everyone as the same faceless entity on the internet, for better or worse. (Usually worse. You need to start assuming anyone you talk to online is like, 12, because most of them are.)

I know how my comment makes you feel, maybe better than you.

I want you to ruminate on that one thing, that it’s your responsibility. Whatever challenges are in your way, those are what you need to organize and figure how many of those challenges are surmountable and how many are products of your brain seeking safety. If you’re not reaching out for help and spending every waking moment reading and watching how to change your thoughts and feelings so you can accomplish that ONE goal, you are not owning up to your responsibility.

Your breakthrough may feel far off but it will arrive if you start shifting your view to seeing your own thoughts as a challenge or even an enemy to overcome.

In every single case of mental illness, the door is right in front of you but it can take YEARS to turn the knob. If you’re not trying constantly to get there though, you will never turn it. If you’re not tackling like an actual fucking challenge set against you and letting your mind tell you stories for why “nobody understands your problem” and why you’re stuck, you are throwing away something you will regret throwing away later. I promise you will resent every fucking moment you argued with strangers on the internet about if you deserve to feel this way or think these things.

I hope my comments make you mad and you think about them. I won’t see your reply.

It’s also kind of a joke about false attribution and how superstition, and eventually religion is formed.

I am well aware of how mental illness works. I am saying don’t leave it on people, nothing more and nothing less. Your mental illness may not be your fault but it is your responsibility.

I feel that.

It was kind of a nightmare, I still have dreams about it because it was entire lifetimes of memories and experiences all blended together in piles. Childhood trinkets covered with dust and bugs next to a box of photographs all stuck together from water damage, next to unopened toys in perfect condition but were actually worthless, next to something that would have been worth a lot of money if it had been stored properly, and so on. It was just one heartbreak after another going through it all. It spanned multiple storage units and homes and everyone was angry about it, from the managers of storages to the people who owned the land the homes were on.

That’s before even getting to the unending hassle of storing the stuff I was trying to sell off or get rid of. I never did finish the task, I lost my own home at the time and just had to leave a pile in the garage for the next owners to go through.

The 90’s were a golden age for companies to trick people into thinking they were going to get rich someday. It had to do with the rising popularity of shows like Antique Roadshow and the expanding reach of media and stories about old comics and paintings being discovered in yard sales and auctioned for tens of thousands or millions of dollars.

I still have boxes and boxes of “first issues” with die-cut, holographic covers and other stupid gimmicks. I already dumped my old collection of trading cards and action figures all trying to cash in, I’ll probably have a big free box of comics and donate or burn anything leftover.

After having to deal with the shit my hoarder parents had accumulated after they died, all I can advise is make sure you get that shit sorted out or cleaned out before you pass away if you have any family at all.

Having to manage those hordes of shit was fantastically difficult. It’s not “The Sims” you can’t just drag everything to a taskbar and exchange it for cash. The time investment alone of trying to auction or yard sale or swap-meet everything makes it almost completely worthless to attempt.

The number of things I managed to recover and sell that weren’t improperly stored and had value was probably less than a couple thousand dollars in various antiques, which took me years to sort out and find buyers for. From nearly forty years of accumulated shit that cost more to store than could have ever generated in return.

My parents were like this. Figuring out how to deal with their hordes of shit was one of the hardest things I had to do. Most of it got thrown away, but there was also so much shit with actual value, that I spent years going through it all until finally giving up. I’ll never know how many tens of thousans of dollars worth of shit is now landfill.

The lesson here is that collecting every little thing for some kind of imagined “value” is that you will never, ever, ever have the time nor energy to cash any of that investment in.

I looked into that.

I would have to scrape together my sources but it kind of looks like millennials are the ones who cooked us. The last several federal elections have had the highest turnout of “youth voters” in American history, and in this context, youth voter means under the age of 27 or so.

A lot of Gen-X actually had/have pretty stable political leanings because we didn’t experience the full brunt of societal political brainrot through social media during our most formative years. The generation that grew up already in a sea of message boards and forums are the ones who started latching onto incel-culture, cynical group-think online, and memes that convey feelings without real thought behind them.

We have a lot of meetings trying to figure out ways to stay under the radar.

We’re the ones quietly keeping the place running and not being hyperbolic and infected with social-media spawned WWE theater and brainrot.

No, really, we are young enough to have a firm grasp on current events, but old enough to have lived in a time before ALL of this media/information deluge started changing people’s brain structure, and we have boomer’s work-ethic beat into us so we’re just getting our shit done and surviving as the world spirals into weird nonsense all around us.

When you hate certain people online but want to wrap that hate in some kind of societal prescription as if we haven’t had wealthy celebrities talking about social issues and infecting kids with brainrot since media began. Gen Alpha is going to be like every previous generation with their own sets of challenges and abilities.

If you want the influencers to go away, you have to stop baiting people to argue about them, just let them be.

Nah, it’s now metastasized through culture that it’s lost meaning. It’s now just a “style” and that’s okay. The world moves on.

Once upon a time, wearing blue-jeans or growing your hair long as a guy was considered a niche sub-cultural movement.

You can find new things to feel misunderstood about!

Best reply I’ve ever gotten on Lemmy.

There was a version we played where you use pencils, you draw your battle force on one half of the page, the opponent on theirs. Then you draw a mark next to the unit you are shooting with by drawing a dark spot. You fold the paper in half and rub the back of the paper to see if the mark lands on your opponent’s unit. Of course, you have to draw the explosion in great detail and go “KERSHBOOOSH” or something.