@Arkandel I read them! I do!
I also read logs where people totally ignore my descs that I have written to pose things that aren't accurate and-- I feel so disrespected, you have no idea.
I find not reading descs as lazy as not reading other people's poses. Happens to all of us sometimes, but man. At least try, some of you.
apparently cancelling a gym membership is like mission impossible.
i am also allergic to pot smoke and I live in Colorado. going to concerts and shit is horrible.
Also to throw this out there, I've very rarely ever needed to refer to someone by their race. What context are you all (ambiguous term) running into this that it's becoming such a big issue that you can't just /not/ call someone an Asian?
Mostly, they like to be called their names.
@Tinuviel I don't think that's necessarily always the case. I have definitely thought someone in my tribe has been wrong, and an outsider has been right. And even if I do tend to believe people I am friends with more than people I am not, there's a certain line that I won't cross in defending my friends. I won't start whisper campaigns about people behind their backs. I won't attack people's personal lives over MU* games. The worst I will do is what anyone might see me do about SaintChief (that is, calling things out on this board for people to either believe or not, in full view of whoever to defend themselves or their friends), and that's because I am not always the best person. If I were a better person, I'd move on and live a healthy life.
But even then, there's only so far anyone should take things. If I had a friend who was so hurt by someone else that all they could do was whisper personal things and bad things about them to me all the time? I'd tell them to block them and move on with their lives.
@Coin said in RL things I love:
@Thenomain said in RL things I love:
@Auspice said in RL things I love:
I know Fearless Girl really upsets the artist of the Wall Street Bull, which makes me hate it more. I wish it'd be taken down.
I'm of deep conflict on it. On the positive side, it brings a needed conversation to the fore. (Would've been even better if the girl were hispanic or black.) On the negative side, exactly what you and others have said. Wall Street may have hated the Bull when it was first installed but it was done with love for America and has become a strong symbol for Wall Street and New York; the Fearless Girl demeans that love and has become a strong symbol for the more tolerable (1st and 2nd Wave) Feminism.
On the other hand, Charging Bull is a symbol for the USA and especially Wall Street's "indomitable spirit", which in this case pretty much means (and cannot be more accurately represented) "we will rampage and thrash all over anyone in our way".
And, it is undoubtedly a /male/ symbol of USA and Wall Street. (There are no female bulls, man.) It's always been a male symbol, even before Fearless Girl. I remember seeing it as a teenager and absorbing it that way. The artist might have intended something different, but it's always really meant that for most of us women.
Fearless Girl might have accentuated it, but she didn't change it. That's what people are overlooking here. The artist took the hidden meaning that (some? most?) women saw in the statue and made it a conversation that might be uncomfortable, even if she was paid for it.
@tek I mean, it has been done before and it will be done again. @Roz has had someone go around whispering things about her behind her back. @Kanye-Qwest has had the same person do that.
Like, people be like that, sometimes.
I think it's fairly easy for me to say that art is defined by a mixture of who is perceiving it and who created it. You can't disentangle your art completely from its audience. I could put my poo on a pedestal and tell you that it is about the life cycle, but my audience doesn't have to take that explanation nor should I expect them to.
If I put my poo on a pedestal and explained that it was an experiment on how others perceive it, then yes, me saying that is going to affect how others process it and that's valid.
And I am telling you, when I saw a bull in the financial district (before Fearless Girl, I promise), there is no part of me that didn't think of the male-dominated Wall Street culture.
He can defend it all he likes; he does not get to say that the audience doesn't get to interpret his art in a different way through a different cultural lens based on the lives they've lived.
(And this feels like a necro. Sorry I didn't see it until just now!)
It would really suck to have your personal life spread around by other people. I do believe you that your sex life was spread around to people. Idk who, definitely not to me. But, let's be honest, you have engaged in whisper attacks before, Auspice. So do I believe that you have retaliated in return by launching your own whisper attack about surreality? Sure, I can believe that, too.
Mostly, I just wish you and surreality would put each other on block and not engage with each other. Because this seems like Some Shit.
oh. OH. the reason why i have been hot as shit all day and nauseous because of it, is because our air conditioner is broke. and has been. all day.
15 minutes left on the longest day in the world.
@Carex holy shit, there are so many red flags in your post, mate. like honestly, don't TS with minors. it's a simple concept.
I wasn't sure where to share this story, so I'll just share it here. It's a fun story, but it also involved me waking up at 4:30 AM to the sound of cats growling and hissing and generally going off on each other.
I have two cats, one is old and grumpy, named Hides In Bushes And Trees. The other is not as old, a black cat with a few stray white hairs on her chest and orange eyes, named Orangejuice McSofa. I woke up to Hides hissing and growling and OJ for some reason. She wouldn't stop even after the usual 'staaahp' and waving at her, etc etc, which will normally end their spats.
So I got up, turned on the light, put my glasses on and was like WHAT IS IT. But then I heard another cat on the other side of the bed and I was like-- oh shit. I looked on the other side of the bed, and it was OJ. I looked back to the cat I /thought/ was OJ and see that it is not. It is an imitation OJ (that's actually skinnier and such differences I missed as I was waking up). Hides is still freaking out at this point, about to have a heart attack I think because this cat crawled into an open window in my basement condo.
I get them locked apart, set out food by the open window for the imitation OJ, who keeps hissing and growling and screeching at me whenever it sees me. Finally, after a while, it decided it was time to go. I closed the window.
Hides still hasn't forgiven me for this all happening??
@Quinn man, i meant to say that i loved your idea for that event. seemed super well-thought out and fun.
I would argue that philosophically, it is skin off your nose, in the long run. Morally, emotionally. Your words and actions have a weight on the world, whether you choose to acknowledge it or care or not. No one gets through life without making any negative impact, but those that don't have any care about the impact that they make? Idk, man.
@Apos said in The Game Game:
What happens with more games I find is people are just more likely to stick in the hobby and eventually return to one game or another as their interest waxes and wanes.
agree 110% with this. when i wasn't playing on arx, but there was no arx game to fill that niche? i bleeped out of the hobby. i've come back, a bit, but i've never come back to MU*ing in quite the same way as i did before.
because i was forced to get other hobbies and other friends. now people ping me to play video games and do other shit with them, and i just have never hooked back into the same active player i was before.
would that have happened if there was a game that i could have replaced arx with at the time? idk.
eta: also apos said it and he's a head wiz of a game with 200+ players. so it can't be false.
@mietze I also require a whole cake of jello-o shots, and then I will be down.
ETA: IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE, iykwimaityd. budamcha.
@shangexile We... are? Maybe not form factions, but 'naming and shaming' is our foundation, Brometheus. And if you were to have come and post reasoned arguments and join into the conversations and not just try to troll one person with your creepy behavior, no one would have cared, bro-m-g. Actually, your last two posts have been the /best/ in stating your point, broski; It's a shame you didn't start with that.
And I honestly don't give a shit if anyone continues posting after they said they'd leave. No one's kicking anyone out here; if you want to keep walking back into the club and then making another exit just to repeat it, go for it. (Metaphorically, of course.)
