When I was playing Resident Evil 2 as a kid, I was really invested in Sherry, the kind of annoying, little girl side character that you have to escort around.

The fact that this zombie apocalypse game trojan-horsed a family drama into its plot was fun, and 12 year old me, who always picked the boy character when playing Pokemon, because I felt like I had to, was confronted with a lot of confusing feelings when RE2 made me play as Sherry.

Anyway, I’m Transgender now.

IQ is pseudoscience

Physical media is superior. Don’t get me wrong, I love the convince of being able to stream any song I want, whenever, from my phone. But you don’t actually own that music, not even the digital music you bought.

So having that physical backup is good. But also, it’s just a fundamentally different experience, to have to put a record on a turntable, or a tape in a cassette deck, and listen to an album from back to front.