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@WildBaboons said in Considering Arx? Consider Deepwood!:

I like how "legit" was put in quotes because deep down Sam knows she's still a fraud

I'm not sure how to react to that. It was supposed to be funny, I guess?

@mietze I think you could really have fun with any of the characters available. While I think you'd make an amazing Mia, it might be too much timesuck for you; however Peri or Oona might be right up your ally. Peri's basically Moana, Oona is a sassy old lady who lets people think she's daffy while actually be pretty damn clever.

@Thenomain said in Considering Arx? Consider Deepwood!:

@Cupcake said in Considering Arx? Consider Deepwood!:

Our fatal flaw: wood puns.

Not mistaking the holdings for an 1800s Western?

... get it? Eh? Eh?!

I generally approach all characters from a bisexual baseline and from that the individual player can decide. A character who currently has an opposite sex spouse (like Mia) may also like the same gender, and characters who were formerly married, ie widowed, divorced, etc, may also have desires toward the same gender, and vice versa. It's really no big deal.

@TNP Not written as such. Sir Kerr and Count Orrin had a wives (which doesn't mean they can't be attracted to men if inclined), and Mia Riven is married to a man, but that about it. I try to avoid writing sexuality unless it's important for a spouse to be included as part of the history and story seeds. Arx has no hangups about sexuality; Samantha certainly doesn't.

Our fatal flaw: wood puns.

@toreadorfool: Alas, Sam is the only "legit" Deepwood left, although Rymarr married in, because they were all massacred when she was five (tres tragique!). But we would happily accept either roster or original characters who are part of the Deepwood household; knights, a steward (someone app Bethany PLEASE), etc.

@Arkandel said in RL Anger:

Really, Lebanon?

I'm over here having a heart attack from not surprised. It's very normal for the Arab countries to refuse to acknowledge Israel in any way. It's particularly notable during the Summer Olympics.

I've decided to post this as an external thread to the main Deepwood one because I know there might be people who could be giving Arx a look and are on the fence, or might not want to wade into an extensive thread but might look at a separate individual topic.

House Deepwood holds a sizable March within the game with both roster characters as well as opportunities to create entirely new characters in Deepwood and its vassal Houses, as well as new Houses from the ground up. We are very friendly for those who are new to the theme and/or system.

Here is a list of currently available roster characters.

Would you be interested in playing a noble within an established House? Take a look at Mia and Nigel.

Would you like to play a House from the ground up but not have to deal with building a House yourself? Take a look at Oona, Peri, and Kaldur. The head of House, Orrin, will most likely come back onto the roster soon as well.

We have commoner knights (like Kerr), brilliant stewards (like Bethany), and openings for minor nobility have been made available in the new Barony of Whitehawk, namely Eshken and Emele.

And if you want to start your own House, from the ground up? Deepwood has recently had a significant land expansion and is looking to ennoble new Counties and Baronies from amongst the newly Prodigal* population. We are happy to consider new House concepts!

(*Prodigal: Members of clans and tribes who previously lived independant of the governance of the Compact who have decided in relatively recent time to join it.)

If interested, please feel free to contact me via PM here, or on the game at play.arxmush.org:3000 as Samantha, or reach out to any House Deepwood member, or any member of the vassal Houses.

I'm also happy to answer questions here on the thread.

Boy howdy.

Your analogy doesn't work.

The bakery didn't have a posted sign stating "We do not offer service to same sex couples."

However, the women only night was advertised as EXACTLY that. So if a man looks at the advertisement and decides that he's going to purchase a ticket, it isn't because he somehow accidentally missed the memo, it's because he willfully chose to purchase a ticket to a women only event to make a statement.

Also, to clarify:
Jason is Nazi.
Susan is a bigot.

Put a pin in that;

For obvious reasons, I take the term "Nazi" very seriously and I don't apply it casually. Whenever I see or hear people saying that Nazis/White Supremacists have the right to be heard, the reaction is visceral for me, and for a lot of Jewish people. "Nazi" isn't just a catch-all term for someone who's a dick to us, or men prancing around in fancy jackboots. It doesn't even represent a vague idea of genocide. It represents a very real and pervasive piece of history involving entire branches of family trees (and entire family trees) being wiped out, it involves ancestral memory of cattle cars and tattoos, wire fences and ghettos.

And in all serious, if you think I'm being melodramatic? Maybe I am, but I stand by every word I say.

@Catsmeow said in RL Anger:

It does not go:
Nazi: Grr, Imma do a a thing!
Nazi does thing.
You: Bad wrong
You assault the Nazi
Nazi: Hey, you know you are right. You kicking my ass made me see the right way (aka your thinking).

Well actually, it kind of does, because in a very simplistic way, you just summarized World War II and its aftermath.

Punching a nazi = bringing hate to solve hate.

Because punching a nazi is not equivalent to hate, it's refusing to tolerate bigotry or the abuse they would inflict if they had the opportunity.

@Thenomain said in RL Anger:

In other words, "It's always okay to punch a Nazi" is a perfect example of bringing hate to solve hate.

This was sarcasm? Please tell me this is sarcasm. I honestly can't tell.

I am too old to be a hipster.

dancing in napalm

I want to watch Wonder Woman with all of my friends that I usually go with.

I would also love to watch Wonder Woman a second time with my lady friends in a ladies only environment.

I would not begrudge any men who wanted to arrange a men's only viewing of a movie for charity, either.

@HelloProject I want your sneakers.

@Jim-Nanban That would imply I consider ladies only charity viewings of Wonder Woman to be horseshit, which I don't. But the folks (mostly men, some women) who cry about how it's horrible sexist segregation both amuse me and make me tired.

@Apos, I could use some clarification on +firstimpression. I'm assuming that when you receive a +firstimpression from someone, the information you're getting is entirely for OOC giggles, since there's no way to know someone's internal narrative.

I mean, my PC is hardly going to say complimentary things about say, Victus...but I'd still like to do one and imagine both his player and I would get a lol out of it.

Could you clarify how we're supposed to process it?

Does anyone else find it interesting that the MRA's screaming about other people being snowflakes who need a safe space are suddenly crying and winging that they can't into ladies only charity viewings of Wonder Woman?

I mean, this part makes me laugh, but the whole thing makes me angry.

@Thenomain said in A Constructive Thread About People We Might Not Like:

WORA had a wiki. The WoraWiki. It was, I admit, hilarious. It was damaging, and full of rumors, and as far as I can tell had no lies in it that anyone came forward about (and when they did we deleted the lies, but not the rumors, I realize the irony and that was the point). Almost no anonymity.

Oh believe you me, it sure as shit did. The WORA wiki was basically a festering hole of bitchery and assumptions that any attempt at correcting would only result in more bullying and abuse.