Posts made by GreenFlashlight

@arkandel said in Critters!:

RIP Daffy, 2004 - 2021.

All sympathy to you and yours, arkandel. Thank you for being a good momma to your smolboi.

@macha said in The ADD/ADHD Thread (cont'd from Peeves):

So now I have a bunch of links and bullshit.

Oh, please tell me they're the kind of "So your brain doesn't prioritize time well? Our advice is to ignore your brain and prioritize your time better" self-help.

I just really like this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UdTxJq2mTk

@l-b-heuschkel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I'm very, very tired of even the most basic of things not being disability accessible.

uuuuuuuuuugh I feel that. When my sister's husband got confined to a wheelchair, it was a very eye-opening experience for me. Disney World, the very definition of "not a basic necessity," was the only part of his life that was designed with his accessibility in mind.

I just spent a day's wages on getting my car out of a snowbank. On the plus side, I shouldn't need to waste money on a lunch today because I must have gotten a meal's worth of calories because standing out there in the cold so long made me drink so much snot.

@sunny said in Dead Celebrities 2021 Edition:

What level of badness means that it's OK to be happy he's dead in-thread?

The line is not determined by the badness of the deceased. It's determined by relative ideas of conceptual badness. Cheerleading for government austerity measures that have led to demonstrable suffering for millions of Americans, advocating for meaningless wars that have killed millions of Americans and less militarily advanced foreigners alike, reading off obituaries of gay people who died of AIDS on the air for the purpose of mocking the dead, spitting invective all over the airwaves about how women are sluts and succubi out to steal honest men's semen and money: sure, those things are bad, but are they really as bad as being glad that the person who made a career of doing those things can no longer do those things? So much for the tolerant left, amirite?

@ganymede What Walt would have said is kinda the problem, innit?

@arkandel What can I say? With their reputation, Disney is kinda touchy about people who engage in soft Holocaust denial on their dime.

"You broke my heart, but he has made it whole again."

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

Had an ultrasound on Monday, got told "your doctor will have the results by this afternoon". Doctor told me "if you don't hear back from us in 24hrs, call us". Didn't hear anything on Monday, so called Tuesday to find out what was up...

"Oh, <your doctor> isn't going to be in for the rest of the week."

Ugh, I know exactly what you're going through. I got injured at work a week and a half ago. I'm on light duty only, not cleared to do any tasks that can't be completed from a chair, until I've had a follow-up with a doctor clearing me for work. The orthopedic group has called me several times trying to schedule an appointment, but every time I call them back, they say because it's a work injury, they can't talk to me; they have to talk to my employer's insurance adjuster.

Which would be fine if my insurance adjuster would return my calls.

Oh well, I guess they can keep paying me to sit on my ass.

@derp said in Sensitivity in gaming:

And it's an irrelevant question

No. Stop that. You don't get to tell me what is and is not relevant to my process of trying to extrapolate an answer to a personal question which is not directly addressed by your statements but only prompted by it. If you don't want to answer the question, then just don't answer it.

I'm dropping this "discussion" now because I get the feeling we're two posts away from moving this thread to the Hog Pit, which I'd rather not do to anyone actually interested in the original topic.

@derp said in Sensitivity in gaming:

Fine. Substitute Canadian Geese, then. Or Spiders. Or the one I started with, the actual example given earlier, Underwater Horrors. I didn't make that shit up.

That's not the question, though. The question is whether you have ever in your life seen or heard of a person being upset that a trigger warning was not given for the example you provided. Because if you haven't, I am struggling to understand why you would make something up just for the sake of mocking it unless your goal is to damn all triggers by association with the one you made up specifically for the purpose of mocking it. Especially in light of previous comments you've made, it sounds very much as if you're constructing a world where it's okay to hurt people because they aren't legitimately asking you to respect their own pain, they're all maliciously out to get you personally by tricking you into thinking they're actually in distress.

Or, stripped of the obfuscating anger I'm using as a defense against my real feelings here, I'm trying to figure out how afraid of you I should be, because it comes off like you deliberately refuse to even entertain the possibilities that your actions might harm others or that it's a problem if you do, because compassion is a resource you limit to immediate friends and family.

I know I'm going to regret asking, but:

@derp said in Sensitivity in gaming:

Content Warning: Penguins might be great for that guy with that traumatic zoo experience, but to everyone else it just sounds stupid.

Do you actually know/know of a single person who has ever asked for this trigger warning or been angry that this trigger warning wasn't included; or are you just crafting ridiculous examples for the sake of being dismissive?

@insomniac7809 said in Sensitivity in gaming:

Oh, absolutely. I kind of glossed over this in my rambling, but I did say that the worst offenders with the widest reach are the ones who suffer least from people trying to hold them accountable.

Sure. My intent was to agree with and expand on your point, not to correct it. I have no argument with anything you said.

@insomniac7809 said in Sensitivity in gaming:

So, all that said, people are going to have their opinions but usually I think the concerns about being cast eternally into the darkness of Cancellation for a single misstep are taken pretty far. (It wasn't tasteless jokes that got Louis CK on a lot of people's shitlist, it was years of using his position of power to make women watch him masturbate.)

Reminder for context that Louis CK is not canceled. Despite everything he's done, he was greeted with a standing ovation when he returned to standup barely a year later, and he's currently in the middle of a sold-out international tour.

I mention this to explain why I have absolutely no patience with anyone who complains about being "canceled," because it never means what they pretend it means. It means they think they're so special it's unjust for them to suffer consequences when they spend a lifetime being shitty to people.

@derp Thank you for stating it so baldly.

@arkandel said in Sensitivity in gaming:

In your opinion how much effort should game runners (be that for a D&D game or a MUSH) be reasonably expected to put into not offending players? Or if that same question is flipped around, when are a player's demands to not be triggered crossing a line?

I don't know anyone who wants to not be offended. The people I know want to not be hurt. They want to not have their unhealed wounds torn open by people who don't understand or respect how much trauma hurts to live with. I don't think that's unfair to ask for. I know sometimes people will cross the line because of poor communication, and sometimes even that is enough to destroy the bonds of trust in a person, but in most cases, a heartfelt apology from the person who hurt you is enough to solve it.

I am hard-pressed to think of a single circumstance in which one person can say, "Please don't hurt me," and a second can reply, "That places an undue burden on my ability to play make-believe," without that second person deeply sucking as a human being.

If there are genuinely people out there who just want to not be offended, then fine, I guess they're snowflakes or whatever; but I am not prepared to accept their existence on the word of a YouTuber who, at roughly 2:30 into his video, gets angry that there exists a forum site which does not allow people to post Qanon conspiracy theories on their site.

@ganymede said in Good TV:

Now, you see, that's where we differ. Kat Dennings' Death resonated with me, but I suppose I have a thing for sassy emo girls.

She sounds less sassy to me than impatient, and while I know how small and petty a thing this is to get hung up on, very few Americans, least of all her, should ever try to read the line, "I shouldn't like to say where she is."

@ganymede said in Good TV:

As for The Sandman, the cast seems a step down from the Audible books.

I have a hard time imagining liking anyone's Lucifer as much as I like Michael Sheen's, buuuuut I also have a hard time imagining disliking anyone's Death as much as Kat Dennings's, so I guess on aggregate I'm willing to give the new cast a shot.

@ortallus Given that Morpheus's good-old-boy misogyny is kind of an important plot point in the comics, I wonder what changes, if any, accompany Lucien being a female character now. I'm definitely not complaining that the Dreaming is less of a sausagefest now, just curious if this change implies more changes.