Posts made by saosmash

I was surprised and delighted when Galavant got season 2 -- I'm not shocked that it didn't beat the odds for season 3.

I'm sad about Agent Carter though. It's a way better show than SHIELD. SIgh.

They've pulled some pretty great stuff with DD and JJ and I'm looking forward to LC. I can see why they chose to do IF last -- it's going to be the hardest sell.

I never want to read William Shatner and mind control semen in the same vicinity ever again.

Yeah but isn't it more racist and gross to constantly exclude Asians than it is to, you know, sometimes cast one in a role that is arguably racist? If you know you're making a movie that draws on Asian story elements do you really make it LESS bad by casting all white people? I mean. What if you cast somebody as Danny Rand who is, I don't know, Latino or Native American or something?

There's a lot of things you could do that aren't weird white savior tropes but at this point the accompli is fait. I still love Iron Fist comics so I'm ... fingers crossed that it doesn't suck.

Re Ancient One, didn't they already move that out of Tibet into Nepal? Couldn't they have found somebody Nepalese in that case? I mean, I just don't really buy that their only solution to the Tibet issue was ... white person! I like Tilda Swinton generally speaking and I'm bummed.

Same with Scarjo in Ghost in the Shell. CAN WE NOT? But that's probably OT for this thread.

I was a little bummed out by the Danny Rand casting, too -- the guy hasn't impressed me much on GoT either, leaving aside the whole white dude versus potentially Asian American thing -- but ... I love Iron Fist so it's not like I'm not going to give it a shot.

The Russos have rewarded my faith in them. I am happy. Especially Black Panther was GREAT.

Omgggg. MULTIPLAYER STARDEW? Does that mean I can pet my friends' cows??

It's Friday and I have no afternoon appointments! I'm so happy.

I typically build the character to fit into the theme/setting, but I'm there to play the character. So -- both??

Jackasses swearing at me in the jail again. Look, it's not like I really care, since you're in jail, but how is it that my inability to protect you from the consequences of your failure to appear in court makes me a cunt?

As a staffer, I generally delight in players running plots because it means a plot is happening on my game and I don't have to run it/can maybe even play my PC in it.

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Why play on games if the community isn't at least mostly people you enjoy communicating with?

@Ganymede Oh my God I can't stand dumb discovery games. Criminal practice is so much more chill about all that. My prosecutors never dick me around on that shit.

There is this weird belief among plaintiff's lawyers that the more annoying you are the faster you win versus deep pockets. I used to work for a guy who thought this way. As it turns out, I learned very quickly that it's not true. And now I do indigent defense.

Both the games I play on have RP channels for finding RP, so I typically will go on the RP channel and go hello I would like to RP if I don't have anything scheduled. Usually someone will bite, but if no one does I'll go play video games.

I'm not sure why everyone's so down on hanging out on OOC channels. What else am I gonna do at work? WORK? Please.

And when evidence that it happens is presented, to whom? Who is the neutral arbiter that decides the weight of this evidence?

If you're going to use the adversarial system as a metaphor for how our culture processes information, who are you saying is the judge of whether these women are lying about what has happened to them? Consistently? Pervasively? Over the course of time? What is this nebulous 'internet' that would have me believe things that aren't true? Is it, you know ... women in other places than me who nevertheless have had similar experiences with men in geek circles being douchebags?

Not all men are harassers. Not all harassment is blatant and obvious. Not all women recognize when they are being harassed.

Not all geek circles are automatically and immediately terrible. Why, I am at a comic convention right now, and spent a whole day yesterday wandering around by myself and had no negative experiences whatsoever with any of the men (or women) I randomly talked to or was seated near. And yet, I do not take this day of nothing bad happening to me as evidence that nothing bad happened to anyone else ever.

I think that the fact that every single conversation about this becomes a demand for more evidence that it happens instead of a review of the massive screeds of evidence that it happens is a problem. Ten women should not have to say the same thing before it counts the same as one man saying "I've never seen this happen."

Women don't always necessarily notice it until it's pointed out. I used to say that I'd never been harassed really, but reading other women's accounts I realized that I'd actually just been minimizing shit that happened to me for years, like when I was 17 and working front desk at a budget hotel and started using my LOTR ring of power as a fake wedding ring so that truckers would stop leering at me, or when I was traveling for a job interview and had people shout random shit at me in the parking lot of a different hotel in the middle of the night, or when I was 19, stopped by the side of the road with engine trouble, and had random dudes drive by in their truck and yell dumb shit at me and a friend -- the male friend I was with at the time was more disturbed than I was because he was like what the fuck was that about and I was basically just like ???? ... or stuff you don't even notice like "Hey, smile! Why aren't you smiling?" or ... you know, I could go on. I've got some weirdass stories as a female public defender, let me tell you.

But the fact is, a lot of the time this stuff is so pervasive, low-level, background noise, that it's EASY not to notice. Even when it is happening to me. As a nerd I'm not always super aware of my surroundings even when they are relevant to me personally. I'm sure the same is true for many male nerds. I'm not passing a moral judgment on this. But just because you don't notice a thing doesn't mean it isn't there.

Agreed w/@scissors. I've not run into issues as a woman on MU**s. But I've also only played on games that were incredibly female dominated or, in one memorable case, roughly m/f equivalent. I have run into bad experiences on forums, on twitter, during my brief period of time playing on MMOs rather than singleplayer games.

My comic shop is a safe space with a welcoming, supportive environment and multiple employees who are either female or visibly genderqueer. My tabletop group is full of dudes but they are quite well-behaved.

Every woman I know has stories like this, ranging from relatively minor stuff to the outright horrifying. It's not far-fetched, it's reality. People in reality behave in many very stupid ways that seem counterintuitive or against their own best interests. Some people vote for Donald Trump.

I love when you get a new player who out of nowhere turns out to be SUPER COOL and ENGAGED WITH THE GAME'S STORY RIGHT AWAY. Where were you hiding before, new person??