@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
One of my oldest friends lives in Nashville now, but is from the Lexington area and... yeah. Legit.
I also lived in NKY for a bit and yes, legit. It was a THING to make it very clear you were in NORTHERN KY (or even just to say Cincinnati if you lived right on the river).
Cincinnatian originally, the most Southern Northern city. Now from Louisville, the most Northern Southern city.
@silverfox said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
"Resistance to equitable funding for schools has also been supported by several belief systems about the causes of poverty. One of these, the ideology of individualism, holds that success and failure result mainly from individual effort rather than social circumstance. The people of the United States are known around the world for their strong belief in the power of personal effort, but this can lead to associated beliefs that blame impoverished persons for their lack of success in life (see Kluegel & Smith, 1986).
Which is a hold-over from our Puritan roots and their Calvinist beliefs that God rewards the good with success and punishes the immoral with failure. We've just replaced God with the economy and good and immoral with hard-working and lazy.
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Because it's America, the hats are very big during the Kentucky Derby. Which is really, IMO, the only reason anyone cares anymore. Excuse to wear ridiculous hats.
@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Ominous While I understand the horse racing bit... it's very odd here. Being interested in horse races for Australians, at least, is a rather high class interest.
The Kentucky stereotype sums up the big societal divide in white Southern culture, which is based around land-holding aristocracy. Horse racing is the purview of the wealthy plantation owner. When you drive around the Lexington area, you will come across massive horse farms with giant antebellum or modern mansions surrounded by manicured grounds that were once tended to by enslaved black people and poor Irish immigrants paid meager wages.
Walking around barefoot and fucking your cousin in high school comes from the other side of the societal divide. Drive about 20-30 miles east or south of Lexington and you're looking at: https://youtu.be/pDlZLsJJkVA?t=11
It's a combination of skin tone, ethnicity, culture/subculture, etc. Every piece of the puzzle further categorizes you, making it easier to stereotype.
I'm white, but the moment I start throwing around the y'alls, I'm a Southerner - a bit lazy, a bit stupid, polite in a folksy Southern way (sweet tea and "bless your heart"s for everyone!), incredibly racist, sleep on the floor while my prized gun collection gets the bed, and love Nascar, Dolly Parton, and Jesus in that order. If I point out I live in Kentucky, replace Nascar with horse racing and add drunk on bourbon, walks around barefoot, and probably fucked his cousin in high school to the list. The lazy and the drunk on bourbon are the only accurate ones.
Speaking of which, I love this comedy sketch about Southerners and Hipsters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbRVr0_ak48
Anyways, this is true for all races. If a black man has dreads, a billed hat turned sideways, pants that are hanging down below their waist, a pair of Air Jordans, a gold grill, and a bunch of bling, they're going to get pegged as something different than a black man who has a short hair, nice but not gaudy glasses, suit and tie with matching hat, polished black dress shoes, and the only bling being a rolex watch on the wrist.
@HelloProject
I would've guessed Brazilian or some sort of Mediterranean, which would include Greece.
Double post to say:
I just realized that Donald Trump's impeachment proceedings ended at the beginning of February this year. Does that shock anyone else? It feels like that ended ages ago, but nope - 4 months ago. This year is all sorts of fucked up.
@Tinuviel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Unfortunately, styles, guides, and grammar prescriptivism are very, very, very heated topics in certain circles.
We talk about Mu*s here. Nothing gets more heated than that, so we should be used to heated conversations by now.
I thought it was pretty obvious that you were joking.
@Roz said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Objects of unthematic nature proliferate...
Like dildo tchotchkes.
Well, those might not be unthematic, considering the openness of the society to sex, but there's no reason to craft them.
@Rinel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
But you can just do this by having well-developed cultures for the groups
Yes, you can. Another tool in the toolbelt doesn't mean it suddenly becomes the only tool. And, as I said in the first post, Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau are also very interesting settings with well developed cultures, and they don't have any mechanical reinforcement.
I am just going to leave this here to sum up my feelings on this year.
All of the non-human species have better stats and abilities than humans, so the mechanics are there as both a way of adding flavor to the characters of that species and giving them some form of balance against humans. Though, there are also benefits to having high Grief, Greed, or Hatred, so it is a balancing act to keep them high but not at the breaking point. Faith is an optional add-on and it's tied to human magic. Most of the mechanics reinforce a kind of Tolkien-esque view of the species. Elves live so long that the years begin to weigh on them, until at Grief 10 they sail off to Valinor. IIRC, Grief also helps them power their magic spellsongs too. Dwarves get empowered the more gold and things they gain, until at Greed 10 they lock themselves away in a vault.
Someone else could come up with different stats to reflect their world. The brilliant part is having a stat that influences how a character is played differently than human characters, so the other species aren't just humans with funny ears attached or hairier feet and smaller height.
There's Netrunner and there's Android: Netrunner. Netrunner was a Richard Garfield-created, WotC-produced collectible cardgame that came out in 1996. In 2008, Fantasy Flight Games released a board game called Android with its own setting. In 2012, Fantasy Flight releases Android: Netrunner which used mechanics and ideas from Netrunner and the setting from Android.
I know nothing about any MUDS that take place in the settings of any of the products; though, Android is a pretty good if standard cyberpunk setting.
@HelloProject
That's because most fantasy races are treated like an exotic other to play, rather than an actually developed culture to explore. A few games do explore other races/species, though, like Burning Wheel's racial mechanics with Elves having Grief, Dark Elves having Spite, Dwarves having Greed, Orcs having Hate, and Humans having Faith. Pugmire and Monarchies of Mau also delve heavily into the differences of the two species/cultures in ways I just love.
@Rinel
Limps and atrophied limbs don't exactly make people's fun bits feel tingly.
@egg said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Play a POC, it wouldn't kill you.
Yeaaaaaaaah, no.
It feels a bit too much like this:
While it might not kill me, it might offend a person of color, so I'm going to politely say no. I don't judge people who do it at all, but I personally do not trust myself to do the character appropriate justice.
You live! I'm so happy.
Your silly avatar of an overly cheery banana always makes me smile.
Also, your Affinity idea is a good way of ensuring people need others to get shit done rather than being an army of one.
I'm not sure what I think of CSPS. I need time to cogitate on it.
@Derp
Perhaps it is the lack of a routine? Without a structure to the day, one cannot become complacent enough to go on autopilot, allowing their brain to focus on RPing?