Posts made by Groth

There American lewdness laws are so absurdly specific. This is the Swedish law against public exposure:

10 § Den som, i annat fall än som avses förut i detta kapitel, sexuellt berör ett barn under femton år eller förmår barnet att företa eller medverka i någon handling med sexuell innebörd, döms för sexuellt ofredande till böter eller fängelse i högst två år.

[S2]Detsamma gäller den som blottar sig för någon annan på ett sätt som är ägnat att väcka obehag eller annars genom ord eller handlande ofredar en person på ett sätt som är ägnat att kränka personens sexuella integritet.

In English:

A person who, in cases other than those previously referred to in this Chapter, sexually touches a child under fifteen years of age or induces the child to undertake or participate in an act with sexual implications, is guilty of sexual molestation and is sentenced to a fine or imprisonment for at most two years.

This also applies to a person who exposes themselves to another person in a manner that is liable to cause discomfort, or who otherwise molests a person by word or deed in a way that is liable to violate that person’s sexual integrity. Act 2005:90

Notice how it manages to not talk about nipples or areolas?

@Auspice said in Depression Meals:

It's how I learned to make alfredo sauce, from scratch, on the fly. Sans recipe.

Isn't Alfredo sauce literally just cheese melted into butter?

My go-to low effort meal of the week is boiled hot dogs.
Preparation steps are

1. Put water on boil.
2. Hopefully remember you put water on boil before it's all gone, turn off the heat.
3. Throw in the hot dogs.
4. Come back a few minutes later to take them out of the water.
5. Enjoy!

Now if only they'd stop selling the buns and weiners in different amounts.

Having one of the people whos poses you most appreciate tell you they like your writing feels really nice.

I went through the last year of posts to the Aresmush forum discussion and I couldn't see Faraday giving a rude response to anyone.

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

@Auspice Oh no.. I bitch as Ashen-Shugar too... I don't do anything with Evennia directly, I have someone on my dev team that is a wiz with Python and such, so we can make what we want happen.

I am at this point rather surprised anyone wants to work with you.

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

Usually I catch my missing words before I post the pose but sometimes I don't and I die a little inside every time.

@surreality
It's spiral pasta or nothing! Especially if you fry them in a pan after boiling so they become crunchy on the outside.

I guess while we're at it, I should nominate Neetu Chandra, Priyanka Chopra and Caity Lotz.

@peasoupling said in PB 'realism':

Crop the face really tight, assume the actress bulked up for the role! Like Christian Bale. Solved.

This reminds me of my #1 peeve with PBs. Which is when other players take it upon themselves to google search for more pictures of the same actor/actress in less clothing and link them to you because they think your PB is sexy.

I picked that specific picture with them in that specific pose with those specific clothes because that expresses the personality I want get across. Please don't try to create your own sexier version of my character.

@bored said in PB 'realism':

It bugs me if there's an obvious stats mismatch. When I had my Size 18 Pendragon character, I picked a 6'5" actor. I onced changed a roster's prior PB from a prettyboy choice to someone with muscles because he was strength 5. I realize it may be harder for female characters since these body types are not well represented in media, but I appreciate the effort in at least picking someone who's a little athletic vs. exceptionally tiny, fragile-looking, etc for your hardcore warrior character.

In fairness to people picking tiny, fragile-looking characters for their hardcore warriors that has been something of a trend in Hollywood and other visual media. I think the only athletic looking action star that comes to mind is Michelle Rodriguez.

@surreality said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

@Apos I know some folks use Poser or DAZstudio for that already. Results... vary.

At this point those programs take a fair amount of skill and artistic talent to create a good looking result. I do think that in the next decade we might just see some pretty amazing / horrifying stuff come out of that.

@Seamus
If that talent agency replies something along the lines of 'Please stop using our models likeness' then obviously you should stop using their likeness. I really hope noone is intending to walk up to Jason Momoa and tell him about all the people using him for sexual gratification online because that sounds a lot like harassment.

While using someones likeness without their consent is iffy, I consider it a victimless crime unless they happen to know about it.

@Tempest said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

I have always found it very weird how much credit photographers get, generally speaking in regards to the modeling/etc industry.

Like it’s not unusual to find pictures and have NO IDEA who the model is, but the photographer’s shit is watermarked all over it, listed in the description of the work, etc.

I don’t get it. And it has honestly always felt VERY fucking weird to me, in a sort of ‘dehumanizing the model’ kind of way.

Down with photographers.

The argument is that the creative work is being primarily done by the photographer (They're responsible for creating the set, arranging the lightning, directing the model etc) while the model just happens to be in the picture.

@Seamus
The rules protecting the likeness of a person are pretty weak overall and is the reason you every now and then get these news articles about a random tourist family being used for billboard advertising since some random photographer took their picture and sold it.

Does being an actual lawyer make Best of Legal Advice more or less funny?
https://www.reddit.com/r/bestoflegaladvice/

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

trying to get the 'stuck feedback' out.

Stuck feedback sounds a lot like someone once being told about how routing table caches work and promptly forgetting all about it except the part where unplugging the Ethernet cable sometimes helps force a reset.

@TNP said in General Video Game Thread:

Anyone play Disco Elysium yet? Does it live up to the reviews it's been getting?

It's definitely a game worth playing.

Kipo is very enjoyable. I'm a bit of a sucker for infectiously optimistic protagonists.

@Derp said in General Video Game Thread:

@Auspice

I liked the first Final Fantasy 13. The second one was alright. The third one got -- messianic salvation of the world's souls before the end of the world and I just can't even.

I never got past FF13's 20 hour tutorial.