Posts made by Ganymede

@Auspice

@GreenFlashlight said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I just don't lose any sleep over it because on the list of problems I face due to my orientation, being badly represented by a few intellectually uncurious weirdos playing make-believe on a dying medium is just about the least serious threat imaginable.

And this is why I shudder when I see any East Asian PCs.

@AeriaNyx said in RL Sads:

I just found out my cat, Cricket, has cancer.

I know this sounds awful, but this isn't bad news.

I say this because I didn't know what was wrong with my kitty before we had to make the decision to put him down. He had two massive tumors in his stomach that made it painful, if not impossible, to eat. For months we watched him vomit up food he desperately wanted because he couldn't keep it in. We watched him wither away in sheer ignorance. When we found out why he was so sick, I felt so guilty and hurt that I cried in front of my kids.

I keep a photo of my cat on my phone. When people ask me why I don't have my kids' photos, I usually tell them, to their horror, how it reminds me to listen to my kids when they say they are hurt or not feeling well. I know that if my cat could have talked, he would have told me how it hurt to eat. Instead, that damn lovebug kept struggling to get up on the bed and nuzzle with us, and we were too damned stupid to realize what he was trying to say.

At least you know, and can help your loved one live the best life possible; I feel like I condemned my cat to months of torture.

You have my condolences and the bestest of wishes.

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

Not disagreeing with @Sunny's examples in particular, because as editor, their literal job is to be the arbiter of style for their organization. Just a corollary peeve that the grammar "rules" we learn in school often aren't rules at all, but styles.

Without condemning or condoning, I understand.

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

Singular possessive always gets 's, regardless of the letter it ends with. Plural possessive may or may not get the s after the apostrophe, depending on the letter it ends with and a few other weird exceptions.

The sorceress's staff belongs to Maleficent.
The sorceresses are named Maleficent and Gothel.
The sorceresses' staffs belong to Maleficent and Gothel.

Correct apostrophe use is critical to understanding homonyms.

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

My company is a mess. And I can't afford the 25 to 40 percent pay cut I would get from bring transferred.

I hear you.

Sucks ass.

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

'I said no. And if you go over my head I am going to have you transferred out of here'.

I'm pretty sure the new guy's boss will want a reasonable explanation as to why a request for more money to the company is getting tossed away because some dipshit would rather adhere to his own conspiracy theory than do what is best for the employees.

@buttercup

There are many ways to celebrate the March, including, but not limited to, marching in local demonstrations and participating in local activities.

This might keep your children safe while still politically active. Further, local work has a greater local impact. Also, less travel.

@Roz said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

not unthematic but AGAINST POLICY TO CRAFT, GANYMEDE PLZ

@Ominous said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Well, those might not be unthematic, considering the openness of the society to sex, but there's no reason to craft them.

... unless you use them.

@Jennkryst said in Welcome to the Euphoria!:

Depends on how weird is too weird.

If you know how World of Darkness stats work, then FS3 should be fairly simple to pick up. It's the rest of the code that will shock and amaze you, and make you never want to set foot on an average WoD game ever again.

@SinCerely said in RL things I love:

How many cats do you need to have before you can have the 'cat lady' title?

Allegedly, more than two.

@Ominous said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

And, as I said in the first post, Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau are also very interesting settings with well developed cultures, and they don't have any mechanical reinforcement.

These games are about puppies and kittens respectively, so I think you ought not need mechanical reinforcement to spot the differences.

@Auspice said in RL things I love:

Cause, I dunno. I just don't believe in the old 'they lashed out because they are gay and didn't know how to handle it' thing. It took me a long time to come to terms with being bi and I never once thought 'yknow what I'm gonna treat LGBT people like shit' and sure people are different but bullying is never okay

I get.

But this motherfucker was up in arms against Trump for the longest time until something happened, and there's no doubt now that the "best kept secret" in D.C. got out to Anus Tangerinus.

I don't like outing anyone against their will, but when the object of the blackmail is a part of your identity that you should not be ashamed of but you keep secret because you want to keep power, then it's time for the people against whom you have abused that power to remove it from you, one way or another.

I don't care that Sen. Graham is gay or uses male escorts; I care that he is a shithead who deserves to burn for continuously backing someone who's perfectly happy to watch the country catch flame so long as he gets his.

To be fair, a gay friend of mine objected to this because he said that coming out is probably one of the most difficult things to do, and should be on a person’s own time and in their own way.

But then he agreed that, fuck this bootheel, he gets what he gets.

I can't wait.

@silverfox

If you need someone to explain the jargon, DM me. There are few variations in Declarations across the states.

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I know this is getting a bit lengthy, but just let me name a few probably unlikely and unexpected pieces of media that I just don't think are good to take inspiration from.

Your post is awesome, actually.

How do you feel about Roc? If you have watched it.

There was Match of the Millennium, but that was more of a fighting game. Street Fighter's system wasn't terrible, but it wasn't great.