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@ominous said in Recipes and Shit:

It sounds a bit like a Cincy style chili in a way --

Like, I know you know this, so I'm going to say it once: don't ever mistake my chili for that shit slop they call 'Cincy-style' chili.

@lotherio said in Of Dreams and Nightmares:

Regardless I'm curious how your take would go in world building; but I like the world building aspect of things over the crunch of mechanics myself.

The first step is not the world, but the location. I think that a homebrew system and setting needs a very particular location to start with, in which all of the important elements are displayed and explained. Where is the tension? What does everyone else (the NPCs) do? And where do the characters fit into this microcosm? A location needs to be a place that encapsulates all of these starting questions.

That's where I am right now: where to start? City of Mist puts the PCs in a City, and that's always an easy place to drop someone. So, I'm thinking of starting there, but I'm not sure of the overall location. Will it be a fantasy world? Post-apoc? Modern reflection? The selection is important because the more esoteric the setting, the more difficult it is for a player to get engaged.

New rule for this thread:

You must name your recipe with something hilarious or salacious.

“Why I have Diabetes?” Chef’s kiss.

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

Putting it all together in my head, I now see why I didn't like PBs to begin with, and it's not me being some old man shaking a cane at those darned kids.

I think we're past the point of needing to justify our likes and dislikes, so this really reads to me like an attempt to shame.

If you don't like PBs, then don't use them. Stay off the wiki entirely, and don't look other folks up. Kind of simple fix if it is truly upsetting.

I use wikis to figure out who I want to RP with, and my decision isn't based on what PBs they use.

Scenes from a Law Firm before a Massacre

Act III, Scene i

Partner: One of my clients needs to have a commercial deal closed by December 1.
Me: Okay. It's November 11, so I doubt that's going to happen.
Partner: He thinks otherwise, so here's the title company he wants to use but has not called yet and a copy of the purchase agreement.
Me: Can I talk to him?
Partner: Not unless it's absolutely necessary. Can you get it done?
Me: No.
Partner: Well, try your best.

Act III, Scene ii

Partner: It's November 12. What's the status?
Me: I called the title company and left an e-mail. Can't really close without them, so I'm waiting for a response.

Act III, Scene iii

Partner: It's November 13. What's the status?
Me: Same as yesterday.
Partner: Did you call them?
Me: Yes. I called them yesterday. And left an e-mail. I'm waiting for a response.

Act III, Scene iv

Partner: It's November 14. What's the status?
Me: Look, how about I just tell you when I have the title company on board?

Act III, Scene v

Me: Well, they called back. They can handle the deal, but they don't think they can close by December 1.
Partner: Why not?
Me: Thanksgiving, mostly. We need a title report finished and a policy issued. We need a legal description of the parcel. We need other documents too.
Partner: So when will it close?
Me: Not on December 1.
Partner: Why not?

Act III, Scene vi

Opposing Counsel: I know it is November 30, but here are the documents for closing.
Me: This easement won't work. We need to revise it.
Opposing Counsel: Okay.
Partner: So when will the deal close?
Me: Not tomorrow.
Partner: Why not?

Act III, Scene vii

Opposing Counsel: It is December 1. What's the status?

(Stage explodes into violence.)

FIN

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

Alright, let's test this.

Honestly, it's easier when you can present your position more succinctly. I have, like, ten posts to read and respond to. And you deserve a fair response.

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

Let's say you use Sporty Spice (the best spice btw) as a PB and roleplay out an artful ts scene that just happens to include both your RL kinks and the kinks of the partner. This may or may not involve "chair gratification" by yourself or the other, which may or may not be admitted to.

Now, you're at dinner and someone brings a friend. It's Sporty Spice herself.

DO YOU TELL SPORTY SPICE THAT YOU HAVE USED HER LIKENESS AND IMAGE IN LINE WITH A SEXUALIZED SLASH-FIC SCENE WITH ANOTHER PLAYER WHO HAS A RL KINK FOR HER?

Of course not. I don't express my sexual desires to people I don't really know. That doesn't mean I don't have them, and it certainly doesn't mean mine are wrong or creepy.

... if the answer is no, I'm pretty sure that line of thinking will end in "...because it would embarrass me and come across as creepy."

Well, of course it would. Do you approach everyone you have a sexual desire for or fantasy about and confess it? I doubt that you do, but I wouldn't fault you for keeping it to yourself.

But going back to the first question, no, there's no harm in what you're proposing. There's no harm to Sporty Spice because they have no knowledge; there's no harm to me to keep my fan-fic making to myself; and there's no shame in keeping your private thoughts to yourself. My lack of shame may repulse you, but I can live with that and have no obligation to convince you of its rationality.

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

Would it affect your life at all if someone you didn't know admitted to masturbating to pictures of you?

No.

What if they told you not only did they do kink-stuff using your likeness, but simulated a "relationship" with another person who was also gratified by your image?

Not at all. To each their own kinks? I might even be flattered.

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

Maybe it's just me and I've been away from this shit long enough to step back from a 10,000 foot level and analyze how fucking weird this community can be.

You may feel that tall and above things, but I think that's due to your pedestal of self-righteousness. We've both participated actively in the hobby. And if we liken it to a vice like an addiction, the first step to actual recovery is to admit that you will always be an addict. I think you're just as much of a creepy weirdo as the rest of us, no matter how long you've spent outside of the hobby. The difference between us is that I accept this, but you apparently do not.

@boneghazi

I don’t have any issues with your posting or others discussing it. Just because I live now in a backward ass country when it comes to marijuana laws doesn’t mean it isn’t a lawful plant elsewhere.

@Ghost said in The Case Against Real PBs:

I'm gonna leave this alone, but next time I'd respect you attacked the idea. I'll keep the rest to myself.

I did.

You wrote:

... my litmus test is "is it wrong to use a 'real' person's image (ex: Facebook, your RL girlfriend, or someone's mom) as a PB?" and if the answer is yes, then for the same reasons it's wrong to use celebrities, too.

I wrote:

There's no harm in using a picture in public domain

You provided an example and asked the following question:

DO YOU TELL << CELEBRITY >> THAT YOU HAVE USED << THEIR >> LIKENESS AND IMAGE IN LINE WITH A SEXUALIZED SLASH-FIC SCENE WITH ANOTHER PLAYER WHO HAS A RL KINK FOR HER?

I replied:

Of course not. I don't express my sexual desires to people I don't really know.

Then you asked, of another person (I think):

Would it affect your life at all if someone you didn't know admitted to masturbating to pictures of you?

To which I wrote:

No.

You asked another question:

What if they told you not only did they do kink-stuff using your likeness, but simulated a "relationship" with another person who was also gratified by your image?

To which I wrote:

Not at all. To each their own kinks? I might even be flattered.

I'm not sure how I can more directly answer the questions and ideas you've posed.

All that said, you are entitled to feel the way you do. My first response best sums up my feelings:

I think we're past the point of needing to justify our likes and dislikes, so this really reads to me like an attempt to shame.

In other words, you don't need to explain why you don't like real PBs to be used in wikis.

Some people would be horrified if they knew someone used their likeness for fap material; others are probably well aware that their likeness is used for fap material (I'm looking at you, Lea Seydoux). I fall towards the latter side, clearly, but it's a matter of personal opinion and taste.

To paraphrase my partner, we're all catfish looking for catfish who know they are catfishing ... so we're all a little bit creepy, in a self-aware and self-indulgent way.

@mietze

Shrimp is awesome and versatile.

I like my shrimp fried. You can make a pretty easy breaded-shrimp if you have some Italian bread crumbs lying around, or some cornmeal, or whatever.

• Get shrimp.
• Put buttermilk in bowl for dipping. A beaten egg also works.
• Flavor that dipping up with some barbecue sauce.
• Dip peeled, de-veined shrimp in the bowl.
• Get another bowl and fill with bread crumbs, cornmeal, or flour.
• Flavor that coating up with some salt and pepper.
• Roll the dipped shrimp in the coating and set aside.
• Get a pot.
• Put oil in pot.
• Heat oil in pot on stove.
• Fry them shrimps.

Eat.

@kk said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

And I for one don't want to hear even on MSB people wishing covid death on other people.

To be clear, I actually do not wish this. I am not sitting here praying for the demise of the unvaccinated. Far from it: I hope they decide to get vaccinated in order to better protect themselves from the virus.

Rather I struggle to find sympathy for people who elect not to take the vaccine and end up suffering consequences for it. And you will find me on the side of folks who are willing to say that the voluntarily unvaccinated have caused countless hospitalizations and deaths.

@tnp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

But cat litter travels over hardwood floors MUCH more easily than it does on carpet.

I have to sweep up every day. Sometimes twice.

Still better than having to use a spotbot when the fuckers throw up shit they shouldn't have eaten in the first place.

@Luna said:

Goals? This flat white girl ass has got to do something. That something means get rounder.

I'm Asian, so you ain't got nothing on the flat-ass problem.

That said, squats, kettlebell swings, and deadlifts are going to be your friends. That's a good way to target your glutes, as well as getting a killer sweat up if you pound hard enough.

He was the only memorable part of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.

@Admiral

You have been civilly-assaulted. If you are in Ohio, then you have been the victim of menacing.

Your employer may not be held liable under a theory of vicarious liability for your co-worker's threats; however, they could be held negligent if they take no steps to address the situation and the behavior persists. Under a negligence theory, the issue would be whether a reasonably-prudent employer would take steps to ensure no further harm was done. And, yes, being the target of verbal threats of bodily harm does constitute "harm," even if the monetary figure may be low.

No employer wants to be the target of an employment-related lawsuit. Might want to look into plaintiff's employment attorneys in your area to consult.

@WTFE said:

Don't do April Fool's Day jokes.

I think what Library and Archives Canada did today was both funny and classy. And if you don't know what I mean, then you're missing out.

@Kanye-Qwest said:

I hate read all 9 of those books, and each of them was the worst book I've ever read in my life.

If the first was the worst, why the hell did you read the others?

I read the first chapter of The Da Vinci Code, and then refused to read any more. It was horrible.

I don't understand why anyone would want to waste their life on shitty reading. There's a lot of it out there.

@Lithium said:

This is why people who demand proof, or are 'rationally skeptic' are part of the problem. It is the unwillingness to believe another human being that makes it even hard to stand up anymore. It's why so many of us keep our fucking heads down, and just deal because all to often to do otherwise isn't going to help us, it's going to make it worse and that is only reinforced by the 'proofers'.

I want to hook onto this, and expand upon it just a little to make a point.

For those of us rational skeptics -- I am one of them -- that usually demand proof of things to change our beliefs, it is important to note that one can disbelieve a person's story, and yet still take action. Taking precautions based on risk is a rational thing to do, which means that even if I don't believe everything someone tells me, I have the intelligence to recognize the possibility of truth and therefore take action in the abundance of caution. Where that preventive action may have a high cost, one may conclude that the benefit of prevention does not exceed the cost of taking it, but that simply isn't applicable here.

Outside of the law enforcement scenario, it costs nothing for any of us here to believe anyone's story. So, why not believe it? And, if we do that, then shouldn't w take precautions and act? Of course; that's perfectly rational.

So, let's change the social zeitgeist.

@mietze

I can't tell if you're being dry or sarcastic or not.

But, not drily or sarcastically, I never said anything about being sweet and honeyed. I said "advocating and acting within the confines of what was socially-acceptable at the time". Back then, activism involved defiance of the law; however, "defiance of the law" is neither sweet nor honeyed.

Loving v. Virginia? Decided in the confines of the U.S. Supreme Court.

The 1964 Civil Rights Act? Approved in the confines of Congress.

You need not laugh or cry, but you can choose to. I cannot; I am lawyerbot.

@Arkandel said in RL things I love:

@Ganymede has bypassed security protocols! We have a breach!

Fool. The Brotherhood cannot stop the Institute's Coursers.

@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:

So... dunno, if you pick Scarlet Johansson for a role in an A-list movie that's gonna cost $100m I can kinda understand the producers - they needed a big name for their big-tent film.

This isn't just any generic A-list film, however. It is an A-list film based on material that has a very strong connection to Japanese culture. I mean, you wouldn't cast a Scotsman as an Egyptian God, right?

Oh wait.