Posts made by GreenFlashlight

@Caractus said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@GreenFlashlight said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I don't hate or fear anyone for having gender dysphoria.

I doubt anyone here is judging you for your private feelings. They're upset because of the actions you take by continuing to post TERF talking points.

Based on attitudes like that, I recently concluded that people prefer Mu*ing as a small, obscure, sparsely populated hobby because they can be bigots in peace.

I might be misunderstanding you, but personally, I don't care about anyone's feelings. If you're* being shitty to trans people, then your shittiness is not mitigated by whether you feel fearful or hateful during your shitty behavior. Even if I were inclined to police someone's thoughts, I still wouldn't want to capitulate to people who change the subject from their demonstrable actions to their undisprovable feelings. That's a trap, and I don't like falling for it.

*generic "you," not you personally

Random thought: if the game is post-Korra, there's no reason we couldn't have playable spirit characters.

ETA: apart from all the game design difficulties, I mean

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

I don't hate or fear anyone for having gender dysphoria.

I doubt anyone here is judging you for your private feelings. They're upset because of the actions you take by continuing to post TERF talking points.

@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

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

@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?

@Ominous said in Favorite Youtubers?:

@GreenFlashlight
At 3:35 he says that you cannot resist an unlawful arrest, which is not true in many states.

Clarification: Typically this requires excessive use of force by the officer in affecting the arrest first. I think it's only few states that allow resistance without excessive use of force

Are you talking about American states, Canadian, or both?

@Ominous said in Favorite Youtubers?:

Good video. He gets a few things wrong, but still a good argument.

What things?

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

https://globalnews.ca/news/7120933/family-guy-cleveland-voice-actor-steps-down/

Ask yourself why someone who has voiced a character for 20 years decides to step down, for the reason he stated.

I can't agree with the presumption that the reason stated is not the reason. After all, the Cleveland Show was always very careful not to speak for black people through Cleveland's character;* the closest they ever came was an episode making fun of how white he acts. They did this because they recognized the inherent problem of white people putting words into black people's mouths and they figured that as long as they did it nicely they could still have a show about a black man played by a white man.

I'm less hardline on cartoon voice casting than on screen casting because I think it's a different discipline in a different medium with different needs from its performers, but end of the day, Cleveland was a rare opportunity for a black actor to get a paycheck, and that paycheck has spent two decades going to a white dude. That's kinda messed up.

*And I can't recall an episode where any other character meaningfully discussed blackness, either. The closest I can remember is them not liking Federline.

@insomniac7809 I've never seen the movie, but I've seen all the reviews savaging it for robbing the characters of their distinctive personalities, butchering the plot, and some really unpleasant racebending subtext.

Savage Worlds seems like it could handle bending pretty well.

@bored said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Lol, I was confused why I was getting upvotes on a years old thread suddenly. Confusion alleviated.

I like to show my appreciation for good posts.

@Kestrel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Ancient drama archive for your headdesking pleasure, because who needs craniums anyway amirite.

I'm on page two. Why am I still reading this? What is actually wrong with me?

@insomniac7809 said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Kestrel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

like giving your Jewish character a hunchback and a hooked nose and making them a diabolical banker with gold telekinesis powers,

Ooh! Or a diabolical Israeli banker vampire with designs on undermining foreign nations on this site as part of their game pitch!

(Pepperidge Farm remembers.)

I beg your pardon?

@Macha said in Ridiculous Embarrassing Moments:

I have lain awake many a night, reliving my worst hits, again and again.

Then someone asked me to remember something humiliating someone else did. And I couldn't, at least not in any sort of quick fashion.

So I am trying to stop agonizing.

My sister and I had nearly this exact conversation this morning when I told her this story. You're not alone.

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

And him fucking with Job, and killing all the Egyptian kids to prove a point.

"God doesn't want you to bad things but he won't stop you from doing bad things because then he wouldn't get to punish you for doing bad things."

I just wanted a soda. Preferably, a grape Sunkist. Every gas station in town has grape Crush, but Crush is an inferior soda and I will fight you over this, so I went to the gas station nearest me. I noticed the lights were dim and no one was behind the counter, but if you knew this gas station, that wouldn't surprise you. The night staff is, uh, not excellent.

So I went in. I could hear a voice from too far away to make out the words, but prior experience led me to believe this was probably a cashier back in the back on their phone, whom I'd have to track down to actually pay for my shit. I got my grape Sunkist and picked up a bag of TGIF cheddar and bacon Tater Skins on a whim, then went up to the counter and waited patiently for a minute.

The longer I waited, the more I became suspicious that the words I was hearing were repeating. Frowning, I walked around the corner to the place where the gas station joins the attached oil change place, and I'm glad I was wearing a mask because I'd just as soon not have any video record of the look on my face when I figured out it was the security system chanting, "Motion trigger activated. Please enter code."

I returned to the counter, gathered my purchases, returned them to where I got them from, and called a helpful-sounding woman who asked me what the nature of my emergency was. "Uh, I think I accidentally just broke into a gas station," I told her.

"What's the address?" she asked.

"I don't know, but it's on ------ Street, the one right across the road from the barbecue joint," I said.

"Are the lights on?" she asked.

"Yeah, and the door was open. I just walked in. I didn't even know they were closed until I heard the alarm," I said. I'm like eighty-seven percent sure I was not whining.

"Alright, you just sit tight there and I'll send someone out," the dispatcher said. She was trying very politely not to laugh so let's say eighty-six percent.

I went outside and waited for fifteen minutes, passing the time watching She-Ra reaction videos on my phone. Eventually, two units showed up and two very wide men in bulletproof vests with Rob Liefeld H-shaped bandoliers got out. They were both shorter than me, which was scarier to me than that they were cops or all the gear they were carrying. Men who are shorter than me always seem to think they have to prove something. I felt my shoulders hunching to make myself smaller.

I don't want to drag it out after that paragraph, though, because nothing happened. They saw the lights were on, saw the door was open, and saw the door was open because whoever had locked it had locked it with it open so the bolt coming out of the top of the door would actually prevent the door from locking. They took my ID down and sent me on my way. So all's well that ends well. I'm just a little unsettled by how quickly it stopped being funny.

I could see Aang doing that.

If the Avatar is unplayable, then I don't really care what they're doing, but I do wonder how canon purists will react to the Avatar being removed from canon. It might save more effort to just say "oh the world's pretty much fine so the Avatar is off doing Avatar stuff and will be back if Sephiroth or whoever pops up."

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

The more reasonable people are the ones who would take things at face value, and not assume the worst.

but

@TheBigD said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

The point is that back in the day, the more reasonable people would be willing to have a discussion about the implications of a white person portraying a black person in a roleplaying game.

How can you both take things at face value and have a discussion about implications, unless your stance is there are no implications so the discussion shouldn't happen?