It's true that most of those series are very, very white (WoT has a pretty diverse cast, though not really in the main characters). Which is fine in and of itself, but it's sort of a Bechdel-y systemic issue.
The problem of course is that if you change someone's race (e.g. black Siuan Sanche instead of vaguely Mediterranean) you'll have an explosion of angry nerds screaming about the SJW menace.
I didn't wanna play witcher 2 because I haven't finished witcher 1, but witcher 1 is HORRIBLE
where the first two games are in their own little alternate continuity, the third seems to take place within the book continuity, set right after the final book.)
Wait a minute
hold up
you're saying I can read books and skip the first two games, and just play the good one?
This is like the best news ever.
@Ganymede I see you are a fellow person of culture by the .gifs that you post.
Actual real world peeve: I hate, so much, that I have to charge people so much to help them out. My firm is reaching a totally untapped market statewide because all other private attorneys charge insane amounts of money, but even with us making very modest incomes (read: less than the public defenders) we're only able to help so many people pro bono.
I know it's irrational to feel guilty about this when it's the fault of the system, but seeing someone who really does have a shot at freedom and not being able to help him because of money? It's obscene on a really fundamental level for me, and I feel like I'm complicit with the system every time it happens.
@surreality Thanks. It's not bad for me, thankfully, at least thus far.
@Sparks @Auspice what is bullet journaling oh god don't play with guns
I, however, being an enlightened Frankensteinlet, have essentially no hormonal cycles whatsoever. What's that you say? That probably isn't healthy? Well I'll have you know that no studies whatsoever have been done on the long-term dangers of my medication regime, so it's obviously safe!
@surreality said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Some people do have real, documented issues with this, as something that really exists in the real world -- and if you're so bloody aware as you present yourselves to fucking be, you know this already -- and I'm one of them. So fuck you really hard, you sanctimonious, 'read only what you want to read into something', pre-judging shits.
Interestingly enough, there is at least some research indicating that males have long-term (i.e. not daily) hormonal cycles as well--it's simply that they don't exhibit obvious physical symptoms of such cycles.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Macha said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Auspice My doctors want me to exercise more, but won't give me anything for the pain to help me do it (Fibro sucks!)
It's why I argue so hard for marijuana legalization.
A lot of prescription pain meds don't work on me or barely work (I always thought klonopin and tramadol were pretty much sugar pills and to this day I don't get what people see in them: I take one and it's like nothing happened) but weed can help me function (I have a really powerful cbd gel that works better than any anti inflammatory med I've ever taken).
Hold on a second. What horrible excuse for a doctor was prescribing klonopin for pain? That's a benzodiazepine. A really, really strong one. It's for seizures and crazies like me who panic at the drop of a hat--not pain.
Ugh. And of course there will be replacements soon to fill the void. Gross.
Without knowing more about the laws of your state, all I can say is that she should get a legal consultation. I'm not comfortable giving any advice that would give you or her the belief that she does or does not have a claim, because I just don't know.
It sounds awful, though. Is there any way she can have it replaced?
@ZombieGenesis said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I'm a big believer of calling things what they are not using hyperbole or ridiculous comparisons to get points across. We do not have "concentration camps" on our borders. Using that phrase belittles and demeans both what is happening now and the actual concentration camps that existed during WWII(and other times).
What we have are centers that appear to be offering inhumane and barely livable conditions to people we've invited to be guests of our country. The conditions of these centers are unforgivable and the death rates are inexcusable.
So they're "centers that appear to be offering inhumane and barely livable conditions" to people almost entirely of an ethnic group who are being held there with limited legal recourse, but they aren't concentration camps? What are concentration camps, then? Are the British camps of the Boer War no longer concentration camps? What of the Japanese-American internment camps? Those had better conditions than what we're seeing now.
You say you like calling a spade a spade, without hyperbole, but then you refuse to call these camps what they are. Just because we haven't recreated the death camps at Treblinka or Birkenau doesn't mean we aren't treading down the path we trod with Native Americans and Japanese-Americans.
People say "never again" loses all meaning when it's brought up too much, but in fact overuse of the term merely weakens it. It's only rendered truly meaningless when all analogies to the horrors of the past are forbidden.
@Tyche said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Because a gang had come to their church during service and murdered her husband in front of his children, his wife, and his congregation. During this assassination, they also murdered a mother and her toddler, two men, and a young girl.
Damn "animals". That certainly qualifies to make the world list of massacres. Which one was it?
This sort of thing happens all over the world without notice from the US media. See above re: you and the bubble you live in. I'm not giving out the identifying details of a former client, and especially not to someone like you.
1-800-273-8255. That's the national lifeline. The director says that only around a third of callers are considering self harm. All the others are looking for emotional support or information on nearby resources. If you're feeling hopeless or like things are falling apart, give them a call.
The fact that the conditions asylum seekers are fleeing are worse than detention is not an excuse. Do you know why my asylum client came to the US with her kids? Because a gang had come to their church during service and murdered her husband in front of his children, his wife, and his congregation. During this assassination, they also murdered a mother and her toddler, two men, and a young girl.
If you're trying to be sarcastic, it's because you know fuck-all about the world outside your comfortable life. Grow a sense of moral courage.
This should go in politics but I don't care.
We've got concentration camps being set up in the States, and I feel so angry and so helpless because I can't do anything to stop it. You can't just storm the Bastille these days--they've got machine guns. And a friend pointed out that as a lawyer I can help people, and yeah, I can, but while my cases wind their way through courts children are literally dying of government neglect in these facilities.
@Tinuviel said in RL things I love:
@SG said in RL things I love:
but tear through that loaf of french crusty bread inside 30 minutes of getting home from the store
Well you have to, after an hour French bread becomes inedible.
That's why pan perdu exists, mon ami.
@Ganymede It's bizarrely wholesome given how hilariously crude it is at times. I still need to watch season 5.
Which of the like eighty billion versions is it? I've also not seen it and intend to.
@Ghost said in RL things I love:
I dont understand a word that you just wrote, but I salute your victory.
A prosecutor said "I can do X." I said "no, you can't." A judge listened to us and said "you can't do X." The prosecutor said "I WANT TO SEE YOUR SUPERVISOR" and wrote a big long letter to the appellate court saying "I can do X." I wrote a big long response to his letter saying "no, you can't do X." The appellate court listened to us and said "you can't do X." The prosecutor said "I WANT TO SEE YOUR SUPERVISOR" and asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to grant him a hearing so that he could argue that he can do X. I wrote a response to the Louisiana Supreme Court saying "this jabroni can't do X--you know it, I know it, he knows it--and he doesn't deserve a hearing on the matter." The Louisiana Supreme Court didn't grant him a hearing.
tl;dr I won and there's literally nothing he can do about it.
In the other case not much has happened yet. I just said "hey you should do X for my client" and the state said "no and you shouldn't even give them a hearing" and I said "yes huh you should" and the court said "we're giving them a hearing."
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