Posts made by reimesu

Look. I loved that stupid supplement, back in the days before I realized how very racist it was. And even if "everyone's a little bit racist", that's no excuse for people not to work on it.

GRRM got his start in fantasy during a time period where people weren't taught how many ethnicities were roaming around Europe. The place was never as white as people were taught it was. Thus, the sheer whiteness of fantasy. Do I think he's racist? No, I think he never thought about it.

However, that doesn't apply on a current day game. Claiming one is staying true to "the source material" when the author has said "Hey, that's actually a good idea" is still something to be called out. Out and out saying that people of color will not be included because the game runner doesn't want to is fucking racist. It's 2022 and there's no goddamned excuse for it.

This reminds me very much of The Big Red Book from Monty Python, back when I was a kid! (Kickstarter clearly has my number.)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/exaltedfuneral/monty-pythons-cocurricular-mediaeval-reenactment-programme?ref=3oou9o

@Runescryer You weren't wrong to conceal Lithium's identity before you had proof. That was responsible. Lithium outted themself, but that's not on you.

Oh, shit, he was awesome.

@Macha I found that one at https://atplaytoys.com/products/light-music-bar-diorama just now, but look for dollhouse kits, you'll find things like this.

@Macha Someone close to me lost their dog some time ago and ended up with a new one about a year later. She still grieves for the loss of her first dog. Doesn't mean she loves the new one any less. Each relationship is its own.

Also, I think it was kinder of Remy's first family to keep the older dog who'd have more trouble adjusting and letting the younger one go to a good home.

@Macha Mazel tov!

@Macha Screw those people. If you want to do it, do it. If you think you can love a sweetiepie who's going to love you back? Run with it. Grief doesn't run the same way for everyone, nor should it, people aren't cookie cutters of each other.

@Runescryer One could argue that given the events of the end of the Sandman run, it's an exercise in how much one point of view can change and still remain the same person. (That's as non-spoilery as I can get.)

@Macha You're doing what's best for him, not you. That's kindness, not failure.

@Macha I'm sorry for your loss, this is hard.

@Hella He was wonderful!

And I finally let myself finish it. And cried. I really want season 2. I want ALL the seasons.

@Runescryer Admittedly, every time Martin Tenbones came on the screen, I had to yell "MARTIN TENBONES!" Like he could hear me.

@ZombieGenesis Oh, no! This one hurts!

@Runescryer I'm on The Collectors right now. But I concur!

Only finished the first three eps, but holy shit.

The Sandman is fulfilling all of my wildest dreams.

I love that Ares has the ability to do asynch RP. (I mean, whether I like the "takes freaking forever and a month" scenes or not, some people love that so the fact that the capability is there makes me happy.)

But I also very much like the way XP is handled, it keeps people from advancing too fast and you can't rack up 100 XP and then spend it all at once.

I also like the ease of making a cha...ok, if I start talking about everything I like on Ares, we're gonna be here all day.

I'm not on any Ares games right now and while I have now discovered the joys of BeipMu, I am missing the Ares interface like whoa.

According to a tweet from George Takei, we lost Nichelle Nichols today.

@Selira @Mietze Well, if they'd made the choice to behave here, they wouldn't be there, now, would they? I mean, seriously, for a bunch of people committed to protecting mental health, the banned people didn't give much thought to who they were harming when they continued to throw their temper tantrums and then got banned for it.

So, they made another board where they could do what they want and be as mean as they wanted and STILL ended up with rules like here, but they're not enforced.

You can say what you want but your board is public and anyone can read for themselves. Just like the boards here are public.

However, again, feel free to respond, I'm pretty done with this idiotic argument.

@TNP I disagree. I know too many people who won't come to MSB because it was downright mean. And people who still won't because they don't trust it. Can't say I blame them, given how many times we've had to point out that people are attacking the person instead of the idea.

The fact that a whole group went and formed another board just so they could continue being really mean to people says more about them than this place, really.