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@Derp said in The Work Thread:

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

places that literally have their support staff committing the unauthorized practice of law (another unnamed public defense office)

My usual creative end-run around this is to walk into the attorney's office and say, "Ok, so, such-and-such case. I figure that we're looking at blah-blah-blah, and we should let them know about this-and-that, making sure they understand the whoosit about the whatsit, and if they try and drag us off the path, we just tell them that it's outside the scope of our representation. Nod if you authorize me to say all that."

That's what we did. It's not illegal if you say "but ask your attorney first" or you have the attorney sign what you wrote without reading it!

(It totally is illegal)

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

A lot of people with male socialization play lesbians.

...a decent number of people with "male socialization" are lesbians. Unless you're using that phrase in a different way than most people do (i.e. a TERFy "not real women" way).

@Ghost

Sorry, I was very unclear. I was talking about a WoT RP setting.

The tv series, like the books, is going to be a joyful and complete disaster, and I cannot wait.

Tai shar Manetheren.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

@Rinel I'm not the thought police; I don't care what people call themselves.

...right.

My point is that "male socialized" people playing lesbians isn't necessarily a cause of poor lesbian representation, since lesbians with that alleged quality exist. It's like saying "a lot of redheads play lesbians; lesbian representation isn't great."

@SG said in Good TV:

WoT had some pretty cool monsters in it, but oh my god, I wanted to murder all of the protagonists in every way possible!

sniff

tug braid

cross arm beneath bosom

woolhead

ETA: Myrddraal remain some of the creepiest minions of evil around. The cape not responding to the wind is my favorite part.

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

The fact that "No, everything is fine and not liking the way lesbians are represented in games is dogwhistle terfery" is the response

The response I'm seeing is "why are you bringing trans women into this," not "everything is fine."

Yes, people do a poor job of roleplaying lesbians. Cis and trans lesbians have every right to talk about this. And being shoddy (at best) with your definitions by moving from "men and male socialized people" to "men" and back again is going to raise eyebrows, because casual conflation of men and trans women is a thing TERFs do.

As is claiming erasure when people push back on their nonsense, which is why

@Pandora said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

lesbians don't get a voice in lesbian diversity representation unless they're trans, and that's disturbing.

is not only eyeroll worthy but yet another dogwhistle. You claim that you "try to be really honest here," so I don't know if you just constantly speak out of both sides of your mouth and don't realize it, are actively lying, or are simply terrible at formulating and communicating your thoughts. Because a bunch of people have had alarm bells go off when you started talking about this topic, and the fact that you're not backing down after the reasons for that have been explained to you means that you're either stupid, utterly callous, or an unrepentant bigot. Those aren't mutually exclusive, of course.

The most charitable interpretation of your posts is that you're really fucking dumb, but I've read enough of your posts since I've been here to doubt that your intellect suddenly evaporates when this particular topic arises. So I'm somewhat at a loss as to how to proceed charitably.

"fyi, everyone

in addition to 'labial,' 'frenulum' should be used WITH CARE."

Yeah, and especially when you get into roleplayed nonconsensual stuff. There absolutely has to be a barrier between public and private there, OR you need to make it excruciatingly clear to everyone from the start what people are getting into.

@Wretched

They basically mention it throughout the article, but this looks like a glaring example of correlation and not causation. Who drinks a lot of diet soft drinks? People at an unhealthy weight who are trying to watch their weight.

@HelloProject said in Gauging Interest in a new Erotic RP MU* (with anonymous survey):

I thought ERP was only something people into VR said.

It's the only term I ever saw used in the MMO RP communities. TS is a linguistic remnant so vestigial it makes goosebumps look useful.

ETA: astonished that @Jennkryst posted without asking about how mummy wrappings can be used in shibari

I've always loved the rotoscoping effect, ever since I saw a trailer for A Scanner Darkly. But it is definitely a bit odd, and I can totally see why it would make people uncomfortable.

@Jennkryst said in NOLA: The Game That Care Forgot:

Someone either talk me out of Centaur Changeling, or explain how do horse half.

Bustles.

I just got an electric shaver for my face (I absolutely cannot stand dealing with my facial hair) and it is so good and so smooth and so perfect and I am very happy.

The more Changeling I read the more it seems like a game centered around surviving decades of physical/mental/spiritual rape.

This is some grim shit, folks.

But there's also the possibility to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt it, which is nice.

ALSO

@Auspice said in Should Rinel become smol birb?:

Because not all of us play on Arx

IT'S NOT MY JOB TO FIX YOUR PERSONAL PROBLEMS PEOPLE THERE'S A SIMPLE SOLUTION HERE

Update: I messed with FS3 and have utterly broken character creation.

THANK GOODNESS FOR RESET TO DEFAULT.

@insomniac7809

Christmas music shouldn't even be getting played. Christmas starts on sundown of December 24th and continues until Candlemas.

WE ARE IN ADVENT, PEOPLE.

/anglocatholic

IF IT HAS A PULSE
TAKE ITS SKULL
IF IT BUILDS A HOUSE
SMASH IT FLAT
STRENGTH IS MY GOD
THE GOD OF SHAPES
IF MY GOD SHOULD FAIL ME
I WILL KILL HIM TOO

ETA: I wanna be a demon
ETA2: in the game. already sufficiently eldritch horror irl

@Auspice

I did say to someone who was grumping seriously about Christmas music and liturgical seasons that if people want to celebrate the birth of Jesus several weeks early because the holiday brings them happiness and the world is an unhappy place at present, then that should bring joy to a Christian's heart.

They actually agreed with me! Twitter is weird.

ETA my advent playlist is though

@insomniac7809

The foolish conservatives, of course, miss the fact that Christmas is suffering an attack from the rear--the Christmas season runs through Epiphany, until February 2nd!