Hiver

If I were Jeffy B and/or G, I'd get Grubb and Voidburger to prerecord segments to drop into the Bombcast if they can't make it to the regular recordings. It feels like it's time to reconsider what the bombcast is, because I don't think it's four or five friends talking about video games anymore.

Ybbaaabby!

I am still mad about that definition of what a server is. Any computer can be a server. I can run a website off my raspberry pi on my home network and disconnect the router. The raspberry pi is still acting as a server when I want to view that webpage.

For the RiffTraxian Bombers around here... Is corn a fish?

I recently had an idea for a story about transhumanism. Ya'know, uploading your mind to a computer, downloading it into whatever body you choose, replacing or augmenting natural body functions. I thought it would be interesting to see a transgender person as the main character. Would he feel more or less comfortable switching bodies between genders than a cis person. Would he find his reproductive bits didn't matter to him at all? These questions were intended to be a sub-plot - character development inside a cyberpunk noir style story. I thought that angle would make for a very interesting character. I don't claim to have enough insight to be able to speak to them in depth, so I wanted to get takes from my trans friends.

I talked to a few trans friends about my idea in a semi-public forum. Everyone I tagged directly was very supportive and helped me find an angle that would give my character his own experience without being cliche or offensive. Then people came out of the woodwork asking why I felt I should be the person to write this story. My argument was basically: "Because it's my idea, that came out of my head." However, enough people came at me with arguments like the one presented in this article that I decided not to use a trans character. Maybe that's my failure; I wasn't brave enough for my art. I do not want to be branded as a patronizing cog in the machine that steals culture from the marginalized for his own profits. I don't want to be the guy who puts on blackface to tell a story. Now the protagonist is another cis guy, and I found other ways to develop the character. My story suffered, and there's one fewer story featuring a transgender character.

So, you're welcome. If you know a transman who's interested in writing a scifi book, I'd still love to discover that story.

I nearly cried from laughing. When the kids whiff the high five? Oh man, so awesome.