Posts made by insomniac7809

@tinuviel said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@insomniac7809 said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

After all, that's what 1984 is about, the totalitarian point of view in which the potential of a word to hurt means it has to expunged from the lexicon outright.

That is not what 1984 is about.

It's a valid reading of the text. Anything that 'hurts' the governmental machine is removed. Emotions, words, people, etcetera.

Well, first off, that's really stretching the analogy when we're going from "removing things that hurt people" to "banning things that 'hurt' the hold of a totalitarian regime."

Second, the point in 1984 isn't really removing the anti-Party concepts so much as it is to keep them as something that's constantly abused, degraded and tortured ("boot on face" etc) for the sake of glorifying the Party. Removing hurt isn't the point in 1984, inflicting it is.

@deadculture said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

After all, that's what 1984 is about, the totalitarian point of view in which the potential of a word to hurt means it has to expunged from the lexicon outright.

That is not what 1984 is about.

@insomnia I mean, I don't think it's that hard to get. It's a label that's supposed to be a negative, somehow, but why the hell should people who it's applied to shy away from it? At all?

The connotation of the swastika in Western society is Nazis. The connotation of identity-related slurs is to reinforce a negative social position of the identity they refer to (which is how neutral terms can become slurs over time as they take on the negative social connotation). SJW just means that the person being labelled as such supports a thing that they do, in fact, support. Which is, as perceived by the recipient and by a literal reading of the term, justice and doing good. Why the hell shouldn't people jump into that particular brier patch?

@insomnia said in MSB, SJW, and other acronyms:

I mean in all honestly, I see SJW as a slur. Well slur is probably strong. I honestly get wanting to make change, and make things better for people, but the people who have adopted the title, the vocal minority of assholes have ruined it. Kinda like how the Swastika was a luck symbol, I don't understand why people would willingly say they are a SJW after most people view it so badly. So yeah for me, if I ever were to call someone an SJW it would be meant as an insult.

This is veering off topic, but... I call myself an SJW because a) the sort of people who use SJW as an insult are the sort of people I'm quite content to be insulted by, for the most part, and b) it's fucking awesome. Seriously. A warrior of justice. That's a fucking superhero. Why would I be insulted because somebody wants to call me a superhero?

@arkandel Technically @Templari complained about being dogpiled, which is exactly the sort of community-based free speech shouting down that "no moderation" advocates.

I just don't really buy the whole "community will regulate bigoted shit-flinging" deal, especially on the intertubes.

That works as long as the community has a strong core of non-shitbags who are, for whatever reason, dedicated to sticking out and shouting down shitbaggery. As opposed to non-shitbags just picking up sticks and going somewhere with a less unpleasant shitbag/non- ratio, which itself skews the ratio shitbag-wise, making it less appealing to non-shitbags, and on and on and now you have 4chan.

@insomnia said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

yay steroids

Guys, so we're clear, taking this out of context for humor value would be wrong.

@seraphim73 said in Open Sheets?:

@mietze said in Open Sheets?:

Would I want it on a huge impersonal ten alts for every player pvp disconnected/uninvolved staff game, no.

This is actually the type of game I would most want open sheets on. If Staff is uninvolved, you have no way of knowing if the player of the character your character is trying to kill is lying about their stats. Unless the game has open sheets, then you know for sure.

There's always the option of coded combat, and the like. On Arx, I can't see the sheet of the guy I'm fighting, but the rolls are all going on under the hood so it matters less.

@auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I woke up with Christina Aguilera's Genie in a Bottle stuck in my head.

...I probably hadn't thought about that song in fifteen years, and now it's in my head too. So. Thank you for that.

I get the argument for open sheets, and I can understand where people are coming from.

I just do not like them Sam I Am. If that's the way the game is played it's not a dealbreaker for me, if there's something else that the game has to offer. But that's my preference.

Frankly, I really like the way Arx handles it. To whit: everything you have OOC access to, you either have found out or can find out IC. I don't like having to keep what I IC know from what I OOC know separate beyond what I have to and I really don't like trying to second-guess whether my PC could have figured out what I already know to be the case OOC. I don't like e-peen wagging about whose stats are most badass but I really don't like the answer to "can I take 'em" to be visible if there's any PVP going on at all.

Just my take.

Breathe is a verb.

Breath is a noun.

Staff Sgt. Batholemeaux P. Insomniac saved my life in Korea. In 1973.

...or maybe I just feel like reiterating the "named myself after my godawful sleep schedule" for two posts in a row is boring.

@thenomain said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

@insomniac7809 said in Geist 2.0 Kickstarter:

after he drove trans RPG developer Avery Alder, writer of Monsterhearts, out of publishing for some time

...Why?

I suspect that the answer is that Zak Smith is a professional troll, but I'm always willing to be disappointed in assuming that some people are jerks for the lulz.

I don't know. He hates her for some reason, that seems to be enough.

Although, for what it's worth, he doesn't seem to be transphobic in the general sense. He pulled his podcast off the Escapist because it gave transphobes airtime. But if he has issue with a specific transperson, deadnaming and harassment start popping up.

Not really a defense, just getting facts clear for the sake of a) accuracy, and b) preemptively in case a bunch of people show up talking about how they've never heard of Zak Smith but he sure does sound handsome and successful and do we know for sure he had anything to do with the people he dislikes getting death threats in the mail. (This happens a lot.)

ETA: Okay, so according to what I've found, Alder... removed a stretch goal from a kickstarter that would have been written by a friend of Smith's, over the friend's defense of Smith's previous harassment campaigns.

@thenomain I haven't heard on any word that Smith has been involved in anything beyond their text game. (Where, yes, the game included a trans vampire named Avery, after he drove trans RPG developer Avery Alder, writer of Monsterhearts, out of publishing for some time.)

I don't know about alt-right edgelord stuff in Changeling, personally. When Hill left the spot, according to his own account on rpg.net, it was over the fact that White Wolf/Paradox would hold final approval over all the material he wrote, while being willing to hire ZakS (and releasing a new edition of a short story anthology, published with the name of accredited sci-fi/fantasy editor and convicted child molester Ed Kramer on the cover).

@coin Okay, from what I heard from the people involved (David Hill among them), David Hill's issue were not with OPP, but with White Wolf and Paradox entertainment, who are not the same thing but do hold the rights to ChroD that are licensed to OPP. His issue wasn't with the production of Changeling directly, except that it's now being published under a license to people who hire people like Zak Smith (who, according to Hill, organized a harassment campaign against himself and his family).

So tge Fantasia Film Festival in July is going to debut The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot, starring Sam Elliott.

@jaded said in RL Anger:

I saw one once that had one that stuck with me, it was:
The jumper's body hit the pavement and exploded like a garbage bag full of beef stew.

It's evocative, that's for sure.

@admiral said in RL Anger:

I had a really, really interesting talk with a black coworker about the allegations against Bill Cosby. He claimed there was a lot of skepticism in the black community about the timing of the charges against him. I tried whitesplaining to him that it wasn't because Bill Cosby was black.

I mean, does it make a difference that the guy who pointed it out (that is, pointed out that Cosby had been paying off and trying to silence accusations for decades on the public record) was a black comedian?

Don't look at me like I'm a crazy person when I check if the 'oh' in your email address is the letter O or the number 0. It could be either and it won't wotk if I get it wrong.

@sockmonkey said in Character 'types':

I'm with you on this. Nearly all of my WoD characters had substantial backgrounds which I always wrote for me, for my own benefit. Most of the details never came out in RP but I needed to go through that process to get into the head of the character I was creating and so I would know how to feel, how to react, how to move forward once IC. I know a lot of people can just roll out with a rough outline, a general concept and GO but I've always needed more to get into the skin of my PCs.

(do i have a problem?)

Nah, just a different style.

My thing is the polar opposite; @Aria can testify that getting me to give any details about a character or a dynamic before I get on the grid is like pulling teeth. Until I have a scene or two in, there's just nothing there for me. I start out with a general concept and a few really key history points, but I need to play a character to figure them out.