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@Insomnia So gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood

@Thenomain said:

@Coin said:

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

@Coin said:

This is true--in Asia.

It's true in a lot of Native American tribes in America as well. My first job out of college was in a Res town and, even having lived in the West all my life, I was surprised by how often it popped up in art and older drawings (there was a fairly big 'whirling log' style one on a bridge in town). I got used to it (the context is so very clearly divorced from anything related to Nazism), and I now just find it depressing how thoroughly it was co-opted.

Even if it were public knowledge that this particular symbol was part of Native American symbology, it would get buried handily under the more common, archetypical, sanitized shit like feather headdresses and arrows and shit.

Did you know that "gay" really means happy? Any non-definitive use of it is based on culture and therefore nobody else is allowed to get upset by its use and blah blah blare barf garble blee.

Did you know that "bad" has probable roots in the Old English "bǣddel", meaning "hermaphrodite; womanish man"?

Gives a whole new context to people using "gay" torefer to something they don't like. Almost like linguistic history repeating itself!

Not that I support it, but I do find it fascinating.

@Three-Eyed-Crow said:

@Coin said:

This is true--in Asia.

It's true in a lot of Native American tribes in America as well. My first job out of college was in a Res town and, even having lived in the West all my life, I was surprised by how often it popped up in art and older drawings (there was a fairly big 'whirling log' style one on a bridge in town). I got used to it (the context is so very clearly divorced from anything related to Nazism), and I now just find it depressing how thoroughly it was co-opted.

Even if it were public knowledge that this particular symbol was part of Native American symbology, it would get buried handily under the more common, archetypical, sanitized shit like feather headdresses and arrows and shit.

@WTFE said:

@AmishRakeFight said:

The symbols inclusion into a certain horrifying ideology often negates its far more innocent origin.

You understand, don't you, that it is still used in that innocent (indeed meritorious) meaning? That people who view the swastika as a symbol of health, good fortune, moral uprightness, etc. outnumber the people who view it as Nazi by about 3:1?

This is true--in Asia. Unfortunately, Western society can't move beyond recent history, or look past it.

Oh god, not the Mary Sue thing again. I'm noping the hell out of that.

@Thenomain said:

@Coin

Since when did any lives matter?

I'm a Humanitarian, man. Well, sort of.

As a part of the human species, I think human life is important.

As a part of the human species, I also think humans are pretty much the absolute worse, and am not under any delusion that the world wouldn't be 1000% better off without us.

@deadculture said:

@Cirno said:

@deadculture

Why... would they do that?

Since when have white people needed a reason to do anything, pal? Are you familiar with the last 1000 years of history? You're talking about the people that initiated two world wars and Overseas Colonialism for fun and profit.

That 'professor' isn't exactly the paragon of cleverness, either. If some slab-sided white girl approached me and said "I have cancer", I'd be all like, "Get the fuck out of my face."

EDIT:

My response to the downvotes is as follows:

Must be hard living as a Black Lives Matter movement member.

Must be hard waving your All Lives Matter ambiguity around.

The only real way to do this is to parallel it--make your own story.

@Roz said:

Finn/Poe for life

Rey/Finn/Poe also for life

Sucha nice little sandwic--Imeanwhat

It's Finn's expression in the bottom panel that has me in stitches every fucking time.

@surreality said:

@Sessurea said:

so what other way is there for the few people who do want story to find each other, connect, play, without having to be perma-braced for the text-only version of unsolicited dick pics?

...or, sometimes, three offers+ of actual dick pics daily. For no apparent reason. I'm gonna go crawl into the shower and scrub that memory off, now.

It's like the dickpic version of that dialogue from Snatch:

"Dyelaikdeks?"
"Whut?"
"Oi sed, dyelaikdeks?"
"Wha' is he sayin'..?"
"Deks. Deks. Laikputteminyapussdeks!"
"OH. DICKS."

@Arkandel said:

@Derp said:

So far the only Jedi we've seen be in a relationship (in the movies, mind you -- Mara Jade is still <3) was Anakin, and love of Padme drove him to atrocity and desperation and all that. I think there would be a nerd eruption if a Jedi shacked up with someone.

Correlation does not equal causation. Unless the Jedi Council can show Darth Maul etc also fell to the Dark Side because they had the hots for a chick, they might as well blame it on sand since it's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

Luke is far from a Jedi traditionalist--he is the product of breaking Jedi tradition, in fact, in more ways than one.

@Roz said:

I know Abrams actually talked about the difference between the fighting styles in the original trilogy versus the prequels and him preferring the less refined, more brutal fights of the original trilogy. I've always agreed with that thought, so I was excited to see fights more in line with that style. And that's a great Reddit quote about it, so thanks for posting that.

Overall? I was kind of underwhelmed. There were moments that I really liked and that I found very affecting, but I actually spent long stretches of the movie a bit unenthused. I'm wondering if a second viewing will let me relax a bit more and be more into it.

One thing I've been bothered by, though: why Ben? That is, why the name? Like, it was Obi-Wan's alias, to begin with, and neither Han nor Leia were the ones close to Obi-Wan. Luke was the one with the close personal connection to him. It just felt like a strange choice to me. I guess it could be more of a note of respect -- Obi-Wan was integral in rescuing Leia and beginning the journey of the trio together -- than personal.

"Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope."

Hardly a passerby in Leia's life. And "Obi-Wan" is a shit name. Ben is better.

They should have named him Wedge, though.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

Also, your mom.

Fuck you!

And also, your mom.

@Arkandel said:

@Coin said:

@Arkandel said:

When I was playing on a MUD it was simply called mudsex.

Which makes way more sex than the hilariously named "tinysex", I mean... come on!

Yes. It makes tons of sex.

Fuck you!

In your dreams.

Or maybe some raunchy scene in a temp room. HEYO.

@Arkandel said:

When I was playing on a MUD it was simply called mudsex.

Which makes way more sex than the hilariously named "tinysex", I mean... come on!

Yes. It makes tons of sex.

@Derp said:

@Cirno said:

It makes me very sad that this did not actually happen. They make such a cute couple.

It's Disney. Interracial couplings will not be happening on the big screen. Just on their own private channel. We're still far too conservative for all that. Give it twenty more years.

I don't know. It might take another two movies, but I have the feeling Finn and Rey are destined to be together. We'll never see'em bang it out, obvs, but I think they'll end up together.

Or did you mean actual depicted sex when you said "coupling"?

@Arkandel said:

Some men just want to watch the world burn, eh?

Also, your mom.

@Arkandel said:

By the time a new Star Wars MU* goes through the process of development, having a grid built, coded getting a wiki, tested etc it'll be weeks/months. By that time the movie will be relatively old news, at least for the purpose of thrilling players enough to attract them over.

However, by the time it opens there will already be hype for the anthology movie that expands the official canon in a way the main movies never have, which is arguably more important for encouraging a MU.

@Apos said:

@Arkandel I believe you're correct, and because of that I think new games absolutely must be accessible to players that have never MU'd before. For me, and what I've been working on, that partially means that I don't think I can require players to have access to any materials outside of the game at all. I just don't think I can expect players to know a game system, no matter how popular, and attract anyone that's not already MU'ing unless they have hardcore MU friends that try to sell them on it. WoD is popular and great, but there's tens of thousands of younger roleplayers out there that have literally never heard of it, and for the majority of them there's no way on earth they will go through the trouble of buying a book or ripping off PDFs to play a retro text game that already feels like a throwback without graphics.

When one MU I was on closed and I went to the Reach, I had a surprisingly difficult time convincing other mush players not familiar with WoD to try it... and these were players that had been MUSHing for years, much longer than me. It's not a dislike of genre, it's the -work- involved that is a perceived barrier for entry.

So for the game I'm creating I'm going with fully automated coded systems for basically anything that would require someone to do the equivalent of consulting a rulebook. I frankly feel like I have no other choice.

What kind of game are you working on?