Best posts made by GreenFlashlight

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

And someone sincerely asked me if it's actually true that black people love grape juice, and why is that if it is true.

Wait, is that actually a stereotype? God, I've lived a sheltered life.

I really don't think there's any need for someone to come in here acting like the sky is falling. That's what The Quartering's YouTube comments section is for.

Is he the one who said the human species would die out because the new She-Ra was teaching women the extremely wrong idea that it's okay to not focus their beings on looking sexy to men?

@mietze said in Flincher14 banned:

@greenflashlight it was a typo. Sorry. Has been corrected now.

...That was such an obvious typo I feel like I shouldn't have needed it explained. Sorry about that.

Two hours long but very comprehensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkoGBOs5ecM

@Runescryer California is probably better. It's open to more plot ideas and character concepts.

Thank you for moving the forum, but also, you missed a chance to name it NuMU Soapbox.

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

Someone put up posters all over work for a fundraiser they're doing for Australia.

And I'm like.
This is cool what you're doing but covering the poster with glamor shots of yourself plus like, two stock koala photos is weird and means I am prob just gonna look for an official foundation thanks.

(p.s. Australia is more than just koalas.)

Yeah, I won't take shots at anyone trying to help, but I'm really suspicious of how basically every story I hear about the Australian fires frames it in terms of animals dead and contains no mention at all of the effects on the indigenous population. It makes me think there's a horror going on there we're not being told about.

@Jeshin said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I would probably say that it's a little creepy / off putting when anyone walks a mile in someone elses shoes explicitly for hawt seches purposes and makes it painfully obvious that is what is going on.

I don't understand, are you suggesting lesbians in particular/women in general aren't defined by fuckability? Why, the only thing that prevents that from being heresy is that it's too nonsensical to even consider!

firmly affixes monocle in place

@jennkryst When did you get backer stuff? I haven't got anything in my inbox about it since pledging.

@surreality said in Separating Art From Artist:

I don't think, fwiw, that Kestrel or GreenFlashlight are suggesting the equivalent of 'comin' to take our guns!' re: any works of fiction/etc.

For my part, and I know this is probably lost because it was in an entirely different thread, my original point was only that I think it's dishonest to try to divorce art from the person who created it; and I think attempting to do so is usually an admission of the problem they're trying to avoid, because if they didn't think it was a big deal, they wouldn't be deflecting. Like, if someone thinks the literary importance of a white guy whining that the Abrahamic God not existing means the universe is unfair because it won't prioritize man to the degree he wants them to be prioritized is more important than him being an explicit fan of Hitler, then I wish they'd just say so instead of asking us to pretend there ain't some fucked up stuff going on in those stories.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I explicitly said 'men' and 'people socialized as male', which clearly isn't saying 'anyone socialized as male is a man' or I'd have just said men.

Yeah, but you sure did seem to conflate them when you said this:

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

My point is that "male socialized" people playing lesbians isn't necessarily a cause of poor lesbian representation, since lesbians with that alleged quality exist. It's like saying "a lot of redheads play lesbians; lesbian representation isn't great."

I'm not going to lie and start saying that men playing lesbians hasn't been terrible for lesbian representation because it's now not PC to say something that's been true forever and will continue to be true forever. If it doesn't apply to you/someone you know/someone you've heard of, that's great and I'm not debating it.

Just sayin.

@derp said in Roster Characters & WoD?:

Do you write another carbon copy of that character?

It does have an honored history in RPGs. We've all heard the stories of the time Bob the Barbarian died in combat with an elf, so he was avenged by his long-lost twin brother Rob the Bob-barian or whatever.

@Pandora said in Separating Art From Artist:

Censorship begins with someone's personal views on a work or body of works.

Slippery slope.

I'd like to try a consent-based game that isn't superheroes. I've noticed a lot of superhero conflicts are resolved effortlessly to make the PCs look cool, which to me undermines drama, but I have a theory that a genre less about power fantasies wouldn't be so prone to that kind of thing.

@Prototart said in ISO: a comics/superheroes MU* (give me your recs):

(it has been a long term thought experiment between @GreenFlashlight and me to try to turn Mantra into a char that isn’t so weird and oogy)

I hadn't been as aware of the Malibuverse's inciting power event, so if I had it all to do over, every hero in the Malibuverse would be infused with, uh, whatever the goo was that gave Prime his powers: everyone who has powers has that goo inside them, giving them an alternate form in addition to the powers.

That way Mantra can be an actual middle-aged woman who has to think about how she feels that when she's a superhero, she abandons her body to assume the form of a twenty-something porn star with a barely-there costume that apparently amplifies her magic. I really want to see a story some day about a woman who's had to struggle all her life with the realities of falling short of beauty standards and having to make peace with being a human being in a world that wants her to be a sex fantasy suddenly gaining super powers that incidentally turn her into the sex fantasy she doesn't want to be but also kinda wants to be. Her powers make her a male power fantasy and she feels guilty about liking it as much as she does.

(Yes, this is autobiographical as I deal with similar issues of knowing I shouldn't wish I look like a magazine cover but still wishing I looked like a magazine cover.)

I never saw Inception, because Christopher Nolan movies always tend to be about his creative process, which itself is usually about suppressing emotion to abide by patriarchal English virtues and I've seen that movie enough times already, thanks.

@reversed said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

@Prototart said in [NSFW] Erotic RP Concepts:

there’s stuff i’m into that used to be so weird that only @reversed would do it to me but now it’s basically just, vanilla

Agriculture is normal now

I'm pretty sure there's a plowing pun in there somewhere.

@Surasanji Would play either. Second sounds more fun, but yes, either.

@bored said in Separating Art From Artist:

You presented a counter-argument to the idea that collateral damage to dependents was a valid concern. You did it while blatantly avoiding mention of the most likely victims of such a scenario. Sarcastic delivery aside, I am pointing out the holes in your argument as presented.

You are doing so by presenting them as my own. Don't do that. It's dishonest and rude.

And, not that you asked, because you are not interested in knowing what I think if it might conflict with what you have decided I think for the sake of arguing against me, let's say this Klansman does have a child dependent on his Klandaddy for support via the one and only job Klandaddy can get, and that outing Klandaddy will harm that child's financial future. Why are we pretending that child is the only victim here? Klandaddy is in the Ku Klux Klan. He believes non-white people are subhuman and he takes action to support those beliefs. In the best possible cases, he merely engages in the passive violence of oppression via legislation. In the worst, he is actively violent to non-white people, attacking them physically.* Am I to look at all the victims of his Klan violence and say, "Sorry, I coulda done something, but that would have made his kid collateral damage, so I figured it was better for you all to just suck it up?"

*and really, I could make a serious argument the personal violence is less damaging on the whole than participating in organized oppression, just because of the scale of the damage done

Depends on which setting I'd be required to buy books to understand.

@Surasanji said in Interest Check: Exalted 3rd ed Mu:

@GreenFlashlight
Do you mind if I ask why the second idea works better for you?

My personal experience with Realm games hasn't been terribly positive. There has tended to form a hierarchy based around who has the most obsessively devoured trivia around the society as described in canon that feels pretty exclusionary to someone who likes the game but doesn't have the money to buy all the books or the time to cross-reference factoids on social media with the creators. That may have just been part of the toxic culture surrounding second edition, but either way, it left an impression on me.