knightly the Sneptaur

That’s an extreme take that I honestly can’t take seriously, communities are defined by either geographic boundaries or some property that their members hold in common.

You wouldn’t say that it’s exclusionary to recognize that a short person isn’t tall or that a New Yorker isn’t a Texan. That’s just nonsense.

The point on humor/irony or “evil” as you framed it is fun as well. In my simple understanding it’s akin to a statement of empowerment much the same as being a bad bitch. Love it. Be the Dr Evil you want to see in the world. Cpt Hammers be damned. (Not that a villain needs permission). I hope one day the status quo catches up to your virtue and you are all able to find new paths of decadent evil to engage in.

Honestly, I had to come back and respond on the last bit of this specifically, because your well-wishing really hits at the heart of my personal feelings on the matter:

As a person-of-villainous-character, the ultimate apotheosis I seek is to not be merely defeated, but vanquished utterly by the absolution of obsolecence.

As long as queer folks are othered, we will always be villainized and in so doing the queer villain identity will be perpetuated. Those who imagine themselves heroes for opposing the existence or dignity of LGBTQIA+ people cannot reject us in any meaningful sense, for queer people exist regardless and it is their opposition that makes us villains.

So, let us take pride in their scorn and wear their shame as a badge of honor until the day that there is no more scorn and shame to be found.

There’s nothing ironic about queer outcasts sharing a bond of unity and common cause with non-queer outcasts without giving up their identity as queer folks.

The venn diagram of Metalheads and Queer Villains is neither a circle nor entirely separate. Indeed, some of my favorite queer villains are also metalheads, punks, and/or transgressive rockers.

There is intersectionality here, and your feeling of “separate but equal” about it is merely a product of a society that abhors the complexity and ambiguity that allows us space to thrive.

People can be more than one thing, we all contain multitudes.

People can also appreciate the uniqueness of a group of folks without themselves being of their number. I, for example, am not a metalhead because I have only tangential interest in the genre, but I have much respect for the way the Metal community makes an effort to reject Nazis and other fascists that try to weasel their in among their number.

Had to come back and share a comic that hit me pretty hard recently:

https://www.tumblr.com/welldrawnfish/746506639642951681/to-be-trans-is-to-change-for-the-better

Solidarity, my friend! I’m always happy to share with open minds such as yours!

I am more than happy to engage in good faith! Though, please excuse me if some of my commentary is provocative. That is, in a very deliberate way, part of the ethos.

This seems exclusionary to an entire group of allies

That’s intentional, because queer villainy is fundamentally about the building community amid the shared struggle of outcasts rather than bridging the gap between outcasts and wider society.

We have no desire to integrate, to debate the merits of tolerance under an intolerant regime, or to seek acceptance from those with normative perspectives. Our existence stands in direct contravention of those norms and we will not apologize for rebelling against them.

Is this in jest to keep with the villain motif?

No, it’s fully sincere. Queer Villain Pride is a non-cisheteronormative space. Allies can be allies and as individuals we welcome whatever support is offered, but only queer people can be queer villains.

Is it a brand of humor and irony that I’m not privy to as a person outside of the community?

There’s an aspect of that, but it’s mostly centered around our self-styling as villains and the irony inherent to finding power and a sense of aesthetic identity in one’s exclusion from “polite” society. “Evil” but only in the narrowest sense of rebellion against an intolerable status quo.

Should I just accept its gate keeping as empowerment and move on?

That’s likely the healthiest response. Queer Villain Pride isn’t an organized group with membership rolls and the like, there’s nothing preventing a straight cis person from pretending to be one of us other than their own sense of hypocrisy.

Does half of one count as 1 pill?

I guess I’m at 6-8 depending on how you count them. Being trans is complicated. =3

It’s a pride flag specifically for villainous and/or villain-coded queers: https://distressedegg.fun/qvp

Nah, having Lord Vigo looming over our shoulders when we give out candy on Halloween is enough.

Me: immediately ruining the first impression with a full-size framed reproduction of the painting of Lord Vigo from Ghostbusters 2 looming over the foyer. Visitors are often distracted enough not to even notice that it hangs across from a pirate skull and crossbones flag and a queer villain pride flag.

Then they get to the living room which seems weirdly normal; tastefully matched furniture, a couple of landscapes and a reproduction Matisse on the walls, reasonable quantities of clutter on the end and coffee tables. It’s almost normal enough to make one forget that the Scourge of Carpathia is watching over their shoes.

But then there’s the sign by the bathroom asking guests not to use it for summoning demons. The Van Goku painting of Son Goku from Dragonball throwing a kamehameha in the style of Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. A strangely ominous black and white photo of llamas hung by the basement door over a sign that reads “A little party never killed anybody”.

No, that first impression was correct. Mine is a house of weirdos. =D

Most software errors are edge cases, like when a program receives an input from a user that the programmer didn’t account for.

The software tester is “fuzzing” the input function of the bar by throwing a bunch of weird inputs at it, like jumping through the door rather than walking or ordering absurd, negative, or non-numerical quantities of beer. This is a common way of testing software to make sure it won’t crash and burn if unexpected things happen.

Satisfied that the inputs for entering the bar and ordering beer are working properly, the bar opens, and the very first customer still manages to crash it by asking something entirely unrelated to ordering beer.

It definitely feels like that!

Have a classic joke on the subject:

A software tester walks into a bar.

Runs into a bar.

Crawls into a bar.

Dances into a bar.

Flies into a bar.

Jumps into a bar.

And orders a beer.

2 beers.

0 beers.

99999999 beers.

a lizard in a beer glass.

-1 beer.

“qwertyuiop” beers.

Testing complete.

A real customer walks into the bar and asks where the bathroom is.

The bar goes up in flames.

Indeed! That kind of scale-sensitive value-based sort requires the data to be invariant in other ways, though. For example, “Episode Three” has 13 charachters, so it would come after “Episode Four” which only has 12 and therefore must be smaller.

Turns out that sorting things is way more complicated than it seems. The wikipedia page on sorting algorithms in computer science lists 37 different ways to sort numbers and it is far from an exhaustive list.

Yeah! In general, Normalization refers to adjusting values measured on different scales to a common scale.

Consider 1 and 10. The value of the first digit of both numbers is 1, so a scale-invariant numerical sort sees both numbers as coming before 2.

Normalizing both numbers to a two digit scale gives us 01 and 10, which sort as expected with 02.

This is 100% my pet peeve. Obviously Y-M-D-H-M is the correct format for timestamps because an alphanumeric sort will put them in chronological order.

Basic sorting is always like this, the joke is that way too many people still number things badly. Alphanumerically sorting variable-length numbers without normalizing the number of digits will always result in situations like 02 < 1 < 109 < 11 < 2

Ah, that’s on me then.

The meme is talking about the parties, not the people who support them.

It was big news 75 years ago too.

Time to move to the opposite side of the planet, right?