Posts made by Roz

Final Fantasy XVI announced for PS5.

@Coin said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

@Arkandel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

I don't mind some aspects of the cancel culture. I do dislike this immense effort to preemptively not possibly do anything that can be taken as offensive, though, regardless of intent.

Case in point was a potential plot for a new Star Trek movie (... for some reason that's on my newsfeed a lot lately) where a virus was killing large parts of the galactic population, which was nixed due to Covid-19.

We can't make movies about pandemics now? Would someone think they were too pro-virus?

This has nothing to do with cancel culture at all, IMO.

It probably has less to do with that and more to do with not wanting to grind people down with a plot about something they are actually going through at the moment.

I didn't want to see a movie about someone losing their loved one to cancer when I lost my grampa to cancer, for example; many MUs don't include COVID-19 in their modern, contemporary settings because escapism is about escaping reality.

Yeah, I think this is pure business. "People aren't gonna wanna watch a movie about a pandemic during the midst of COVID-19, so let's do something else, because what we are doing is making a movie to sell and make money."

Pandemic stories aren't cancelled. They're just not good business right now. Or people are predicting they aren't, at least.

why the fuck are you sending me requests for status updates for things i have nothing to do with. why are you sending me attachment of copy for things that are not my job to design. i am not a graphic designer. i am not the art director. i am not the project manager.

WHY, SUSAN

@Sunny today i got mad that i live in an endless cycle of having to do laundry in order to keep wearing clothes

@GreenFlashlight I got real confused for a second thinking you were talking about She-Ra.

Considering the thread is ostensibly about thoughts about web portals as related to how something would be developed for Evennia, maybe we could take more specific Ares development thoughts to a different thread or the Ares forum?

I wish that Ares could be mentioned in a thread without the same fight happening.

Guys, you don't need to try and argue people out of their own life experiences and preferences.

@Derp said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@Wizz said in Health and Wealth and GrownUp Stuff:

@RightMeow

I'm not sure that I do love it anymore. The books have had sentimental value to me because I grew up with them, but how I feel about them as an adult has changed a lot, and especially in the light of the author's views that I personally find hateful a lot of that fondness for them has dried up.

Also, I dunno, I wouldn't exactly compare a former fandom to a former religion. But if I'd gotten a bible verse or a cross, just speaking for myself I'd probably feel pretty strongly about altering or removing them too when I became an atheist.

I mean, you do you, but personally I don't think you can judge the value of a work by the character of its author, no matter how popular that seems to be in the cancel culture movement. If that were the case nobody would ever read anything at all. Most works considered to be masterpieces were written by authors with some serious problems by contemporary standards. Distinguishing one from the other is perfectly acceptable.

That's a very personal decision for each person, and it can be really dependent on your relationship with the text and the issues with the author. The idea that an author's character is somehow completely independent from the art they create is a very simplified view of how art is created in the first place. I don't tell people to abandon art when they come to realize that the creator holds beliefs they find deeply offensive, but on the flipside, I get really irritated when people argue at others deciding they have to put away something beloved because they can't stomach it anymore due to the author's words or actions. Art and artist are intrinsically interwoven, and you don't have to cry "cancel culture" because one person is navigating their personal relationship with a piece of art. @Wizz isn't telling anybody else they need to toss their copies of Harry Potter. He's talking about rethinking a permanent mark on his own body.

Getting to circle back on story threads that began literal years ago. Continuity's so hot.

@Sunny Aw man of course

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It came out last year, but I just watched Unbelievable this week on Netflix. Definite content warning, which will be very clear if you check even the briefest synopsis, but damn, it is an example of how to do stories surrounding sexual assault in an empathetic manner that respects the weight of its subject matter. It centers on the experience of women, both in the victims -- who are diverse both demographically and in their widely varied responses to trauma -- and the detectives who work this case. And it's all based on a true story (and very accurate to it, in fact).

@Cobaltasaurus said in Pacing in Ares Scenes:

@Roz said in Pacing in Ares Scenes:

There's a lot of "I'd prefer" in the responses, but I don't think that's what was being asked.

The problem is that it isn't cut and dry. It depends on if the scene is specifically stated as a "slow web scene" or a "live scene".

Well, yes, but I think the question is what is the assumption if it's NOT specified. I read it as a sort of preliminary discussion about how to best frame expectations. If the opinion is really "I have zero assumptions at all," I guess that'd be fair, but I don't really believe it.

I think the conversation else-thread this spun off of was really an illustration of the difficulty in competing assumptions, and I do think it'd be great overall to have game policy and usable tools that really clearly lay out etiquette as that specific game wants it to be. Certainly it's right that the real solution is excessive clarity. As a community, we often tend to assume that others are thinking of the same unspoken rules as we are, which tends to exacerbate problems like this.

I didn't read the poll as "What do you PREFER," but rather, "What is the most common expectation that should be assumed unless specified otherwise." They're two very different things. I read it as an overture of "What would be the best way to set game standards and expectations to that different RP preferences can coexist in the most seamless way possible." Because a lot of friction just comes from different expectations.

There's a lot of "I'd prefer" in the responses, but I don't think that's what was being asked.

@Aria said in RL Sads:

@Sunny

So, one thing that I tell people over and over - and @Testament has heard this from me literally yesterday - is that it's really hard to be someone who is both pretty smart and mentally ill. When you're smart, you take pride in that great big brain of yours! You come to trust it and its ability to synthesize information, solve problems, think creatively, etc.

But here's the thing: Your brain is also full of lies.

My brother -- for whom depression ended up a terminal disease -- had a genius-level intellect. He was probably the smartest person I knew. He studied and taught logic. But he could not logic his way through therapy, he could not logic his way out of depression, so in the end his logic brought him to a really horrible conclusion.

Depression lies. Anxiety lies. Mental illness lies.

Please take care of yourselves.

I can't even imagine picking up Peace Talks and remembering anything that happened in the previous books at this point.

@Deviante said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@Derp said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@Coin said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

@Derp said in Dead Celebrities 2020:

Naya Rivera, aka Santana Lopez of Glee.

Fucking tragic, man.

That whole cast is cursed, I swear.

I said the same thing earlier. This story is so sad

God, right? That's three of them. I mean, one was kind of complicated in terms of feeling sad, considering the circumstances, but -- what the heck.

@reversed you are a MENACE

@reversed ooh bb you till so good