Please don't do to communities of color what the MU* community has done to lesbians.
If you care about diversity in gaming, reach out to your black friends, your gay friends, your trans friends, your disabled friends, and let them know what they're missing out on in this hobby.
RP that's good not for how long it lasted but how deeply it resonated. I'm such a sucker for the little things. /nostalgia
Every tiny little thing about the FFVII remake has been making me smile. Anyone else getting all up in the NPCs personal space to hear their conversations?
The couple in the slums arguing because while she was supposed to be at work in sector 8 and he was supposed to be at an interview in sector 1, they were both cheating on each other at the time of the reactor explosion and got caught where they weren't supposed to be? Made my day.
This is how you do a remake. All the extra conversations and exposition are amazing. And hearing the NPCs talk about food shortages and how ugly people can get when there's store rationing going on really hit home for me, as the stores in my area are limiting customers to 2 of any item and only one cart & it seems ridiculous how selfish people can be in even quite civilized places.
A slur is still a slur even if it's a slur you want to keep using as a slur while arguing that it's not.
Work from home they say, the day before Animal Crossing comes to Switch & the Final Fantasy 7 remake comes to PS4. Sure, I'll "work" from home.
Look for the positive, beautiful things that come out of this mess.
Dolphins, swans, and fish reappear in Venice's newly clear canals during the lockdown
@Macha said in The Work Thread:
When you have a coworker that you can bullshit back and forth about a meme asking if it is "For fuck sake" or "For fuck's sake". And they're actually pondering it.
Good on them, if it's for a work email you've got to be professional, after all!
ETA: I can't get spoilers to work and I don't really want to quote that shit anyway; scroll up.
@Pandora said in Tyche Banned:
Racial slurs, threats of violence, malicious intent to make people feel unsafe or unwelcome - all of these are against the rules & I personally don't understand why @Tyche wasn't banned ages ago, as much as we've discussed spirit vs. letter of the law here.
Don't act like I didn't cover that sort of situation in my post, it's disingenuous & that's only if I'm being generous about your intentions.
My favorite new author is a struggling young artist & I started supporting him on Patreon last year, in October. The tier I subbed at gets you a handwritten thank you card, a bookmark, stickers, and the best part - a collectible fridge magnet in the shape of one of the cans of the canned human meat they eat in the cannibalistic post-apocalyptic setting of the novels: "Good Boy" made of healthy young people, "Foi Ras" made from the liver of people that were force-fed corn, etc. It's grim, I love it.
Anyway! I subbed in October. So that's October, November, December, and now the end of January. I didn't get any of the things in the mail! I was so miffed, and since I finished reading all the books to-date anyway, I cancelled the sub and added the reason was not getting the tier stuff. This was like 2 days ago. TODAY, I get a package in the mail from him with all the stuff and a personalized note apologizing that it took so long and including some extra freebies - including the full set of the magnets!
I feel terrible for being an impatient asshole, but I'm too fucking embarrassed to re-sub. What do I do? So annoying!
@Kestrel said in Tyche Banned:
Some topics don't deserve civil discourse.
I disagree with this sentiment.
Racial slurs, threats of violence, malicious intent to make people feel unsafe or unwelcome - all of these are against the rules & I personally don't understand why @Tyche wasn't banned ages ago, as much as we've discussed spirit vs. letter of the law here.
But the prohibition of anything you can describe as civil discourse (which would preclude the examples named above and many other circumstances that we all as semi-functional adults can agree on without having to name them outright) is where I personally draw the line. I don't make or enforce the rules here, but I do enjoy the banter even when you're all completely wrong & that wouldn't stop me from leaving if we ever got to @Kestrel's stated level of wrongspeak/wrongthink policing.
@nyctophiliac Your SIL is a cow, hang in there.
Not reading descs carefully on Shang before agreeing to a scene is a good way to scar yourself for life.
Is it prose-y? Sure. Is it hard to read? No. FFS it's 7 sentences, not 7 paragraphs.
@Ghost said in Savage Skies Stuff:
Yanno, despite the fact that I'm very openly in agreement with @Pandora and some others in my dislike of PBs I thought of something and I cant shake it this morning.
In the era of consent, #metoo, etc isnt it a little weird to use another human being's likeness to lure or partake in TS? Story/RPG stuff is one thing but technically if you're choosing some hot actor/actress, pasting their pictures on a wiki, and then describing their likeness to other players while cybersexing them, isnt that teeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeechnically sexually exploiting that other human being without their consent?
Good luck convincing anyone on MSB that does a thing that the thing is bad.
@hedgehog I'd feel bad for the opener if people don't show up because of allegations against some other dude, but even if you don't go, at least you've already given them the monetary support.
Some U.S. states are pushing for new distinctions in law that I'm sure are going to be seen as discrimination against gender-identity due to push-back about how gender-identity is overshadowing sex-based rights. States Weigh Measures to Stop Transgender Athletes From Competing in Women’s Sports
She didn't cancel herself, she canceled her release due to fear she'd be canceled otherwise. You don't aim a gun at someone, watch them break an ankle running away, then tell the police 'she injured herself, I didn't touch her'. Or I mean, you do, and hopefully your attorney can make that work for you, but you're still a gun-wielding maniac.
@Rinel said in Separating Art From Artist:
Most of the people upset about cancel culture, and who are affected by it, are unrepentant bigots who are being deplatformed.
When the word bigot is used against people who've done something bigoted, fair play. When the word bigot is used to describe people who disagree with the louder voices, not so much. So no, I don't disagree with what you've said at all, but I am wary of falling in line with anyone's idea of what makes a bigot in these hair-trigger times.
@Groth said in Well, this sums up why I RP:
The most fun I've ever had with a character was when I had an explicit OOC goal of getting them killed and I eventually succeeded over a period of about 3-4 months.
Did they die doing something daring or heroic or exciting, or did they annoy someone into beheading them?
