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Sigh.

Becky Lynch is like...the best thing right now.

Dreamy-sigh that is. She's so great.

@Insomnia WAT.

PROOF NOW. I AM INTRIGUED.

@Arkandel My SOs family tried to suck us into that. Shudder.

@Auspice Motherfucker.

You ironically post that right as I'm texted and asked to pick up cat litter on my way home.

Could you imagine asking your spouse after hooking up:

Hey, since we are finished I thought I'd give you a survey and you could rate my performance. I need to meet my KPIs.

Does <Dude> fulfill your sexual needs(check one)

• Most of the time
• Some of the time
• No Opinion/Ambivalent
• Fails to meet expectations
• Greatly Fails to meet expectations

And if you don't get a 3.5 average monthly review you're placed on probation.

I like the idea of a stable of all-Douchebag Johnny Cage approved movie martial artists with sponsorships.

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@Auspice Most people with large salaries are always one bad year away from being an hourly wage slave. I wish more people at that level acknowledged that.

The number of people I know with college degrees who got sick or had some other life event that got them let go and can't find their way back into their old field is pretty high.

@Auspice I could start a gofundme for "The other Ghost hanging around in Texas" tour.

Taco Bell.
Dave & Busters.

Ooo.ooo.

Bonus points if the wiki domain is something like:

wiki.mortalkombatmux.kom

@Coin said in Why no Mortal Kombat MU?:

@Ghost said in Why no Mortal Kombat MU?:

And outlaw hard C's.

It's not coded; it's koded.

Unless it's names, like Cassie Cage and Ermac and Scorpion and, lolololololol, Jacqie which I feel they specifically did to give the whole k thing the finger, lol.

Korrekt! We kan skratch them off the list.

And outlaw hard C's.

It's not coded; it's koded.

A MK MU would be both the best and worst game for players who don't like character death:

Plus Side: Your character could be shot 18 times, lose 6 gallons of blood, 3 spinal fractures, their skull imploded, 32 separate 3rd degree burns, and have their skull imploded again...and not only still win, but celebrate it by doing a backflip and dapping.

Downside: Losing a match contains everything above minus the victory part, then add in: Having your testicals telekinetically ripped out, filled with mercury and frozen, shot like bullets into your eye sockets, and then you are uppercutted into an inescapable pit of razor sharp spikes where you die die. Dead die. Total die.

@Wretched said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

I hope this helps all of you testicular free people in the Rp, thanks

Also: Sitting on your balls.

This sucks and it happens way more than you'd think.

+5 to the non-scrote carrier who roleplays that.

@Cupcake said in Sexuality: IC and OOC:

So my notion is, if you are self-assessing your capacity to portray another gender or sexual orientation, if you decide that you don't think you can do so because you genuinely don't feel you can grasp the nature of that gender/orientation and you would come off as a caricature (which for obvious reasons you wouldn't want to do), does that make you mindful of your own limitations, or limiting yourself in an unnecessary fashion?

Should people who feel like they can only meander down one of these particular paths have to feel like they should be embarrassed or ashamed about it?

(FTR, I'm not accusing anyone of shaming or embarrassing anyone else, but I do feel like there's a tone here from people who pursue certain singular characteristics like they could somehow do better, myself included.)

I dig this philosophical approach. I dig the questions.

My own 2 cents on this is that anytime you are writing a character whose perspective is different from your own real-life perspective you're going to get a few things wrong. In good faith is a useful term, here. Is it an attempt in good faith or meant to be a caricature? The only way to know for sure is to ask the player, because assumptions can be (and often are) assumed to be negative until proven otherwise. Plenty of stories in this thread show that.

My OOC preferences are my own, and I prefer to RP characters with different perspectives than my own. I've RPed a decent amount of the spectrum. However, I tend(ed) to shy from a lot of acted out sexual RP (near the end) because I'm honestly not in it for that particular aspect of RPing. I found that that when it comes to sex/relationships on these games the place where IC/OOC separation is at its thinnest is on this very topic, and that's danger zone for me personally.

So here's my take on roleplaying genders/orientations:

• The point of writing fiction is to create a character and to not make yourself.
• With this in mind, if the assumption is that it's fiction, then the perspective of the player should be less important than that of the character.
• Who you are may or may not share some similarities with who your character is, but altogether people shouldn't be judged Oocly by their choice in characters. The point is to write something that isn't entirely you.
• HOWEVER, it's important to understand that if someone is roleplaying some gender/orientation trope that you identify with in a way that you don't agree with, but it's being done in good faith, you never know...they might just be feeling through their own gender/orientation situation through IC role play.

It's a tricky balance. How does one approach being supportive of IC/OOC sexuality and attempt to identify whether or not someone is doing it in good faith without slipping into the realm of gatekeeping?

IMO the only answer is to focus on the characters and make side commentary about the stuff the writer did that you really liked. What you know/assume about the player only makes it easier to judge, and less judgment is better.

@Arkandel said in General Video Game Thread:

https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/03/25/the-lord-of-the-rings-gollum-announced-for-release-in-2021

That feels like an April Fool's joke.

3 coworkers. All three are friends. 2 female, 1 male.

Coworker female A marries the male. Takes his surname.

Coworker male leaves company. Coworker females remain.

Notice that coworker females A and B don't talk to each other.

TMW you find out Coworker female A is going by her maiden name again, but ALSO find out Coworker female B is now engaged to the guy.

ETA: I swear, my life exists as a mostly drama free cottage on the tumultuous shores of Drama Island. I should not know the things I know.

Yanno, banned or not, I really did like True Detective 3.

@Thenomain

@Lotherio My SO, who I very much love, stomped a nerd's dick in the dirt once when he did this.

Guy: Oh, so you like the X-Men? So youre into mutants, like Juggernaut? (obvs trick question)

Her: Cain isn't a mutant, but right now Colossus has the Crimson Gem of Cyttorak

Guy: Whoa, wait, Colossus got it??

Me (mentally): "Yeaaaaaah you kick that ass, baby. You kick that ass hard."