Best posts made by Selira

Bliss Whisper! I'm here to steal your girls and your swords, in that order.

Technically an alt as well, but, that alt is languishing rather hard. Poor guy.

Maria Creveling, aka Remilia, age 24

First woman to play professional League of Legends at the top level and one of the only openly LGBT pro players ever.

Mental health is important, everyone.

The moment something clicks into place, and multiple huge mysteries unravel in your head at once, and something that seemed arcane now becomes stunningly clear.

Still more to go.

Old TV but still good TV:

"The Skeleton Dance" has its 90th anniversary today. Let's be spoopy.

breaking news:

people talk more about bad shit than good shit.

breaking news:

that is not new information.

@BobGoblin Without delving into the politics of it, because that's a whole other board, the questions that determine whether or not philanthropy is enough for us to like someone are these three:

1. How did he get that money?
2. What else did he do with that money?
3. Did the good in his life offset the harm?

For many, many people, the answer to number three, in particular, is a very firm no. This is not just about one bad act.

Edit: I firmly don't believe in death invalidating all the harm caused in someone's life, or this idea that we should respect the dead just because they are dead. Death is not a free pass to forgiveness, and glossing over the harm they caused empowers other people to make the same choices.

@devrex said in Something Completely Different:

Over. Opinions. And in my opinion, that isn't right.

Especially as it would be more productive to engage with the opinion. A person is not a label because they hold a wrongheaded view. They're a person with a view. Views can change. Maybe you're too tired to engage your family with that over the Thanksgiving table (god knows I am) but it's a forum. A place to discuss opinions. And engage with opinions. The original actual opinion would be a bonus.

An opinion is not a sacrosanct thing.

It is, as you said, something that can -- and often should -- change. Hiding behind them as a defense is always something I saw as particularly cowardly and intellectually dishonest. People should absolutely be put on blast if their opinion is bad, and the opinion should be tackled and argued.

In Oregon, nudity is protected free speech, and thus we have the highest per capita concentration of strip clubs in the country in Portland.

Perhaps educate yourself before going on yet another one of your ill-informed owning the libs rants.

@devrex I don't know, I see a lot of people right now claiming people were bullying when they were pushing back on someone's stated opinions and the arguments that they were making with those opinions.

If someone has misogynist opinions, they're a misogynist.

If someone's opinions involve a lot of rape apologia, they're a rape apologist.

This is how words work. What we say is very much a thing we're actively choosing to do. It's not "sticking someone in a box," it's calling a duck a duck.

Hey everyone -- please remember that we're human and we've all just been through something that humans really aren't supposed to have gone through. This shit is taxing as hell on our mental health and if you've been pushing that to the side, as society starts to move past the pandemic and you're struggling, then 1) remember that it's okay and expected and 2) try to take some time to address that. Depression, anxiety and even PTSD rates all shot through the roof recently. There's help for all of them out there.

Take care of yourselves.

I suspect you might be a tiny bit biased here, @Pandora. Just a teensy bit.

I wanted to like kale, but no, that's not happening. Thankfully, I love almost every other cabbage cultivar (I'm about to roast some Brussels sprouts) so I can get away with it.

Why kale, when there's broccoli?

I didn't get huge into music until I was a teenager, then I was poor and pirated. It was basically streaming music that was my first, legitimate ownership of music rights, and it's felt really relieving to be able to do that - plus, I've found a ton of things I probably never would have found otherwise through using Spotify.

It was pretty much a lifechanger for me.

paging @Dreampipe, paging @Dreampipe, your dream thread has arrived.

@devrex Oh no, people are being treated as if the opinions that they voice consistently might be indicative of who they are as a person!

I can't think of many cases where a misinterpretation of someone's opinion was what got argued as, except, actually, maybe to myself? But you know who came and defended me, and pointed out a lot of people were misreading what I'd written? Many people whom others would call part of the 'clique'. The irony here is that you're doing exactly what you're arguing against, classifying people by a misunderstanding of who they are and what they've done.

The people who've recently had massive blow ups at them all deserved the pushback they got. They stated bad opinions or did very shitty things. It's not a shock that a lot of those people are giving you likes right now.

But, maybe, I'm reading things wrong. Maybe there really is a consistent pattern of people being inappropriately labeled and their arguments twisted, but you know, maybe make your arguments better to make it explicitly clear what your point actually is. Maybe when people call you an asshole, instead of going "NUH uHHHH SHUT UP" you take a step back and reevaluate what the hell it is you're writing and how you're coming off.

@Aria Hey so, this is unfortunate that this is the case, but we went through the episode and couldn't see shit, and then turned the brightness on the TV way up and went back and ... Oh my god, it's entirely different. There is a ton of detail and you can even track the flow of battle.

Just. Normal brightness you won't see a thing.

@hobos Yeah, you have to be actively willing to work on your flaws and show that you are actively listening to the people from those communities who say you hurt them. That's the line.

I liked it. Seventeen years and I'm satisfied. Wasn't perfect, but I'll take it, and anyone who wants to tell me how wrong I am for that:

You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

One look at your post history and Reddit history pretty clearly demonstrates you struggle with this. How are you, @Ghost, pledging to walk the walk and resist your inner urge to dance in flames?