Posts made by GreenFlashlight

@Macha I'm so sorry. These losses hurt.

@Chet said in Vietnam War MUSH:

How about a MUSH that takes the history of the Vietnam War, the epic struggle of fighting communists in the jungles of a foreign country, and applies it to another theme, to avoid the negative connotation of race?

Race is not the only negative connotation to the Vietnam War, so depending on why you're trying to avoid negativity, this seems like a half-measure.

@nyctophiliac said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@Jennkryst Might have been diabetes related. It can really mess your kidneys up unfortunately.

That was my guess, but I didn't want to say anything because I was afraid it would set off some "diabeetus" jokes.

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

@Ganymede said in Magicy Shenanigans - high fantasy or more modern:

May I suggest not requiring Mastery to make new rotes?

I personally never understood that requirement. If magic is individual, why can't an individual who can cast a particular spell figure out how to do it?

Because holding rotes over newbies' heads enforces a system of control that makes the apprentice/master relationship justified by the mechanics as well as the fluff. Like you implied (or maybe I just inferred it), it's probably not relevant to a game that doesn't use the setting.

There's a couple of lesbians at work. At least a dozen, to hear the way people talk. I've been hearing about them a lot lately. To listen to the rumors, they form an elaborate hierarchy within the building based on their sexual availability to one another; you know, "Oh, X comes in hours late for every shift but no one can do anything about it because she's fucking the boss, which makes Y jealous because Y is fucking Z but Z is fucking all three of them..." Trying to keep track of it reminds me of the time I was friends with a guy who kept trying to explain wrestling to me, except instead of belts and championships and betrayals involving folding chairs, every event and every grievance is about fucking.

I'm not gay. Not really. I tell people I am because it's simpler than explaining I'm homoromantic but as some unclear point on the asexuality spectrum and that I privately question whether I'm actually on the asexuality spectrum at all or just have a low libido combined with emotional issues that make it difficult for me to trust people enough to want to fuck them, but properly speaking, I'm not a lesbian. Nevertheless, I hate how much of the gossip at the office is about how the gay women secretly hold an inordinate amount of power, like some kind of conspiracy, and are using their sexual wiles to prey on all the innocent women because that's just how lesbians are, constantly fucking and trying to fuck every woman who comes into their field of view. Because everyone knows, if you're attracted to women as a category, then you're not only attracted to all women without regard for who they are or how compatible they are with you, you're also so ravenously horny that you define your personal life and your career trajectory around how well you eat pussy.

I'm just tired. I'm going to go rewatch She-Ra now.

@Quinn said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

This kid, man. Clumsy as hell but somehow, SOMEHOW has managed to avoid any serious injury. But today we're going to go learn the drive to the local hospital. Just in case.

Kids are resilient. Still, it's scary every time. I'm glad it was nothing serious.

@somasatori said in Favorite Youtubers?:

The latter making me feel a little inspired to come out as bi to some friends, which is silly to say, but it is what it is.

That's normal. When someone says, "I'm out and I'm okay," it can make the audience think, "If I come out, I might be okay." I hope it was a supportive experience for you. You deserve it.

@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:

This is a gentle reminder that Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie, and possibly the best comic movie, of all time.

I want to say I like Superman better out of loyalty to how long I've loved it, but honesty makes my fingers pause at the keyboard.

@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.

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.

I get the feeling that things I find erotic (bonding over shared interests, laughing at inside jokes, slowly earning trust, nervousness about making things good enough for your partner melting into reassurance that you're safe with them) would not be considered erotic here, so... I dunno, That One Lesbian Fuckboi Who's So Hot Even The Straight Girls Are Like 'Damn Gurl.'

@ZombieGenesis said in Gauging Interest in a new Erotic RP MU* (with anonymous survey):

Even if the focus isn't on erotic RP(though it certainly could be) I'd just like to see more games that don't shame players for engaging in erotic RP. A lot of games nowadays have policies in place that amount to "do it but don't post logs about it or discuss it in any way" and I think that's a shame.

I'm not sure that's shaming as much as an attempt to cultivate a particular audience and/or not have the owner and staff on the hook for whatever possibly illegal stuff the players might get up to.

@fatefan said in Avatar / Korra game considerations:

@Wretched It probably could be fun, but I am not convinced that the scope needs to be expanded beyond human PCs.

Remember that fox in the desert library who got in trouble for telling the giant owl spirit that radios are boxes with tiny singers inside them? If you allow spirit PCs, someone (I'm not saying me but I'm also not not saying me) could play that fox who is working as a bartender now because she was cast out from the library. She would have many daily struggles like how to serve alcohol when you don't have hands, but she would also have many daily successes because when people tell her their troubles she can lay her head on the bar and let people pet her between the ears until they feel better.

This is obviously very very compelling and is therefore an excellent argument for spirit PCs.

Arousal darkened her skin to the warm rosy color of a well-smoked salmon patty. The sight of her made him ache with lust, as if to sprinkle her with salt and a twist of lime juice. He laid her on the sheets as gently as if he were laying her on a bed of rice. The lubricated marital aids lying beside her, waiting for their turns to be used, reminded him of spears of buttered asparagus. He looked down at her and lowered his mouth to her lips as he would to bite into a cheesy garlic biscuit. He missed the Red Lobster in town that had closed earlier this year.

@silverfox Huh. I never thought about the ubiquity of using food to describe people's skin color. In one way, it seems kind of natural, since food is a fairly universal experience and thus makes an easily comprehensible illustration. My problem with it is, why is it so important to you that I picture exactly that shade and hue of melanin when I imagine your character? I know a lot of people like to go into painful detail, and I understand the importance of being clear about major details, but skin hue is something that can usually be described in very loose terms and still convey what it's meant to. For example, if I'm describing a shut-in who doesn't get much sun, "pale" conveys that and no one has ever asked me if my paleness is more akin to cream, filet of cod, or vanilla with a sprinkle of cinnamon.

My favorite technique to describe a person's skin is to do it for ALL my characters. POC descs usually call out their race, so I insist on doing it for white characters too. I refuse to let myself fall into the trap of thinking white people are a default and everyone else is an aberration whose not-whiteness needs to be emphasized. If the level of detail I put into a white person's desc makes me feel like a white supremacist, then I back the hell off and apply that same level of restraint to a POC desc.

@silverfox said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

What minority groups don't have particularly good representation on Mu*s right now?

Good as in well done, or good as in proportionate?

@HelloProject said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I've literally never seen someone play a butch lesbian in MUSHing in my entire life, which is a perfectly valid concern.

Wait, is "butch" still a thing? I thought we stopped saying that years ago.

But you're right, total lack of diversity there. I've tried to play all kinds of alternative look gay women, and they never caught on.

What some people are questioning, I feel, is the weird squirrelly language on the topic of trans people, in addition to the questionable male socialization thing. Like, that's the stuff that comes off as TERFy, not the talking about lesbian issues.

Mm, to be fair, the lesbian issues thing doesn't help. It's fine on its own, but it's one of those things TERFs often bring up to muddy the issue, like women's domestic abuse shelters. I don't have a bingo yet, but that is a spot on the card, if you know what I mean.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@GreenFlashlight That was tackling the pretty uncontentious part of what I'd said, I left 'male socialization' out because I wanted to talk about lesbian representation being diluted by men for years & that being something we've talked about forever, versus the newer mainstream coming to terms with people socialized as male who no longer identify (or never identified) as men.

Fair enough. I withdraw my dispute with that bit.

Spellcheck is telling me 'uncontentious' is not a word and it's stressing me out.

Same with me and "undisprovable."

@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.