The character Berdly is an archetypal “annoying nerdy kid” character. He’s a gamer, he’s weird with girls, he thinks of himself as an intellectual.

The first person in the screenshot is presumably making a joke, but the message could have plausibly been made by Berdly (minus referencing sex).

The second person says that the first person’s profile picture (of Berdly) is affecting their behaviour in the same way that the mask from The Mask (1994) takes over the body of its wearer, suggesting that the first person’s behaviour is out of character for them.

This is funny because of the clashing tones between the two messages (the floweriness vs straightforwardness) and the (absurd) idea that a profile picture can possess you.

#F5A9B8 at (10,20)

For those curious, there is actually a reason. It compresses better in QR codes: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capital-letters-smaller-than-qr-codes-with-lower-case-letters/

Fair point. I was just thinking of landlines provided by ISPs with their phone packages. Still, surely we can do better?

They should really upgrade the audio quality, phone calls sound so bad still…

!! Congrats! Hope you get what you want soon

It is really weird to suddenly have emotions and to be like, affected by the world around you suddenly X)

Lmfao samee, I getcha. I had nothing against my skin before, but it was never comfy. I didn’t even realize it because it was just normal, and when it felt worse it felt like it just needed a shower (where I incidentally rubbed my skin raw. Which I didn’t even process as probably-not-great).

The body is a hodge-podge of Rube Goldberg machines, and trans research is wayy underdeveloped. Method of delivery and absorbancy and a billion other things probably affect the effects.

Out of curiosity, the skin changes were a huge boon to me (one that I didn’t expect to be so nice), so there’s a world where it was partially psychological. Was body odor a big dysphoria source for you?

Yeah, in my little experience basically all of the effects of hormones are “in general” at best, both in timeline and actual effects.

Personally my libido went up a little but unlike OOP it was very much present before too.

Meanwhile the skin softening stuff took a week or so to be noticeable, when it definitely “should” take longer.

Well, in the first bit of the Hitchhiker’s guide, there’s:

“You’d better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace. It’s unpleasantly like being drunk.”

“What’s so unpleasant about being drunk?”

“You ask a glass of water.”

Which does fit, even if it’s not necessarily a “well-known phrase”

I don’t think Dipper ever makes that face, Gumball looks nothing like the other shows (love Gumball’s style tho, amazing mix of style), I haven’t watched the other two much

Also the top covers like 80 years of animation and not 10

Ooo, I’ll have to check it out!

I was iffy about boobs and then I started getting some and nah this is pretty great. A bit annoying (ow, stairs), and I still don’t want big boobs, but don’t let it stop you!

At a guess, closed captions can’t really be done live nearly as well. Also, can’t have those if you’re there IRL

I’m on a really low dosage of spiro (25mg/day), so that might be why I haven’t felt it as badly.

But yeah, that’s basically what I did. My doctor is actually pretty okay (didn’t mind that I didn’t have the psychiatric diagnosis that you’re “supposed” to have (not a legal requirement)), but she definitely did underdose me, and I am awful at making appointments, so I’ve just increased my own dosage of E in line with what’s actually a reasonable amount.

Is spiro really that bad?

I get that it’s the least effective among the choices but it also has the fewest side-effects, from my understanding…

Something to bring up w/ my doctor, I guess… I’ve been trying to reach them for a dosage increase anyway

Oh, I can confirm this! I went from skipping lunch almost every day to essentially never completely full. And if I skip a meal I become basically useless. It’s great!

Also congrats on already feeling weight after 23 days! My own started aching pretty much immediately (hurt for a few days), but it’s gotten more annoying recently and I can actually feel/see 'em now (I hit 100 days exactly today actually!)

How do you feel? Did you already get the skin smoothing? That was the biggest QoL change for me

Every time I read it I think “well, I remember it, it’s not going to be as funny”

And every time the steady rising tempo with no breaks just. Completely kills me halfway through

It’s (genuinely) interesting that big-time AI enthusiasts always assume that if you dislike AI, it’s because you don’t know how to use it (and not because they have different priorities or have conceptual issues with it or such). It was the same thing with crypto and NFTs.

I know a good amount of very skilled developers who tried AI several times in different contexts, and always found the tradeoffs much too bad to be worth it (in terms of accuracy, precision, cost, speed, whatever), and yet they still get “oh you just haven’t tried my favorite AI tool”.