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I am having a GRUMPY DAY for no good reason. That is all.

@Ghost said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

Apologies. I thought we were answering a guy asking for advice.

That's really unkindly dismissive.

@Ghost said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

I said the same thing everyone else did: choose the right people/good team.

That's not what anyone else was saying or talking about, though. The reason it was a frustrating post was because it was an unnecessary reminder to make sure you only hire women that deserve it, when the topic at hand is how to build a workplace that's supportive of women when it's thus far been male-dominated. These aren't the same issue, and is difficult for women to repeatedly hear people bring up the former in discussions of the latter because it is, in fact, a derailing of a topic that is incredibly important to them and affects them on a daily basis. It is a reminder that there will always be a contingent of people wondering if we're even qualified for our jobs.

@Arkandel said in Accounting for gender imbalances:

@Caryatid Do you think the gender imbalance is something that ought to be addressed in the interview?

For instance does a question such as "we're currently a team consisted only of men, how do you feel about that?" sound like we're preparing to listen for feedback and keep things professional, safe and constructive or signal we might be shedding too much of a spotlight on gender right out of the gate?

Tbh that sounds like a question that opens you guys up to legal liability re: accusations of gender discrimination. (Also, personally, that question would kind of moreso give me the opposite impression: that the company was trying to assess whether I could be a Good Sport about all the Guys Being Guys.)

I know that a lot of women experience getting talked over and not heard in meetings a lot in professional settings. So something to keep in mind might just be -- being aware of that possibility in meetings and whatnot. If you notice that anyone on the team ends up doing this -- probably without even realizing -- a simple, "I think X had more to say about that, hold on a sec," can do a lot. (It's rude behavior to or from any gender, it's just something that women report experiencing more than men. Some people are just INTERRUPTERS in general, but it's sadly a thing where some guys habitually talk over their female coworkers. Often without even really realizing/being conscious of it.)

I'm gonna ping @Sparks because she is a woman working in the tech sector! And I bet she has good life experience there. My own professional experience has been blessedly -- pretty decent as far as gender stuff goes? I worked in theatre and I often worked with more women than men in my department.

Going from the glory of Triple Triad in VIII to dumb stupid Tetra Master in IX made me want to throw myself into the sea.

@Admiral get BACK satan

Guys, nobody is talking about the MOST IMPORTANT THING, which is that Final Fantasy VIII is being remastered.

Handling apps for superpower stuff is honestly just the worst. I hated it so much.

No horse, no knowledge, just wanna say: congrats on kicking cancer's butt, and I'm glad it was caught early.

@mietze Yeah, I'm not surprised. I know I as a player definitely remember when a GM has clear expectations and enforces them. And it makes me very much want to be on their PRPs again in the future, because it indicates a philosophy of respecting the overall group's time.

@Ghost said in GMs: Typical Player/GM Bad Habits:

I hesitate to say that maybe there's a better way, like include in the prp signup a quick one-sentence explanation of how their character would be involved. Probably wouldn't go over well though if PrP runners got to pick their players.

That's so fucking nuts to me. I know exactly what you mean, and you're right that people would get salty, but that salt would be straight-up bullshit. If a PRP runner has a lot of demand, they should be able to pick from the volunteers whoever might be best suited and most fun for the plot they have in mind. But I also hate the signup system that boils down to "first come, first serve," because it just favors -- whoever's online when the event gets announced.

@surreality Oh I'd forgotten his username here also had Zombie in it, so both names might have been referencing him. He's the one who wrote this post when he got banned for stalking.

ONE of the names used -- Shadow -- was one PC of a guy on Arx who was banned for creeping and stalking and then proceeded to literally stalk staff and players on social media, spent a lot of time connecting as a guest to hurl abuse in random pages and the like, etc. I did assume Skew was using that one to purposefully reference that guy, who was like a hugely overt terrible person. I am not particularly concerned with protecting that particular player's identity or whatever as his issues were numerous and well-documented.

I have NO idea about the other one or whatever situation Scorn seems to be referring to, which sounds different.

@Ghost said in Fandom and entitlement:

@insomniac7809 said in Fandom and entitlement:

Like, Catwoman was considered a risk, because it was a superhero movie about a POC woman (even if Halle Barry probably works for a gender flip of the "any white male, or Will Smith" criteria that movies were using in ~1998). It flopped, but that might have had more to do with the movie being steaming garbage on toast.

I don't think that Catwoman flopped or was "risky" because she was a POC. I think it's pretty well documented that it had a shitty script/screenwriting, people didn't like the character design (open for heels), and that critics butchered it in the press. At the time Halle Berry was losing her strength as a leading lady with Gothika and Die Another Day.

Hancock netted over 400 million in profits, Halle Berry was well liked in the X-Men movies, and both have a pretty loyal fan base. So when you're talking "Black Leading Actor/Actress", you gotta look at what is successful and compare it to what wasn't successful, then ask why. In Catwoman's case it's pretty clearly that it was considered all around to be a shitty film with a 9% tomatometer and 18% fan score on rotten tomatoes.

I think we all know that. It flopped because it was terrible. The point is that there's generally strong sentiment that you hear in Hollywood wherein that flop is taken as reason/excuse to "take fewer risks" on movies led by PoC and women. That is: they take the wrong lessons from it, because it's easy to just continue to add excuses to the overall pile of "if we make a movie with PoC, white people won't see it, and if we make a movie with women, men won't see it," etc.

tl;dr Hollywood is incredibly risk-averse but it's also not great at identifying its own opportunities.

@mietze said in Scene Set Ideas:

*Someone is sitting in the location and suddenly notices that they have a bug/spider on them. In that same vein, having a mouse run over someone's foot in a coffee shop/other establishment.

SOME OF US have had GIANT NYC RATS RUN OVER OUR FOOT IN REAL LIFE and would appreciate SENSITIVITY REGARDING THIS ISSUE, MIETZE

@insomniac7809 said in Good TV:

@Rinel said in Good TV:

@Jaded said in Good TV:

@Arkandel said in Good TV:

@Testament One thing I heard (but haven't verified) over the radio this morning was the Russians aren't pleased with how Chernobyl was made. The argument was "imagine if Russia had made a mini series about 9/11 and everyone in it had non-American accents".

I have not seen the show yet, is that fair criticism?

Not really. It's a British production, and they use accents to portray class divisions that wouldn't be accessible if they were speaking with a Russian accent. And why is Russian-accented English any less absurd than British-accented English? You could do Russian/Ukrainian and subtitle it, yes, but then you'd miss out on a lot of the nuance.

Yeah, I haven't seen Chernobyl yet, but I'd rather see English-speaking productions feature English-language accents, rather than make a dramatic actor perform role in decadent Hollywood Rooshan Accentski. Like you say, presumably the characters are diegetically speaking their native language anyway.

The thing I find weird is the actors who AREN'T doing British accents. I think maybe a couple of them weren't actually British (like Stellan Skarsgård) and so just weren't putting on an accent. But I'm SO CONFUSED as to why Emily Watson seemed to have some sort of Russian or Eastern European accent. Like. Why??? It was just so weird because she seemed to be the only one attempting to put on an accent.

Anyways unrelated but this article about Chernobyl was interesting. (No accents mentioned.)

I WON'T BE SHOWN UP BY SCAR.

Blonde Women

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(The people in the two folders of POC also double-up in the appropriate hair color folders, so you'll see them both places.)

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