Best posts made by Selira

Wait, there are people who plan their poses before they write them?

@ghost So you don't intend to look at yourself critically. I know you don't care about anything but your own opinion of yourself, that's been made rather clear.

If this forum is to change, people like you need to really take a hard look at yourself. This weaseling isn't healthy for any community.

I'm out. Everything I've said holds.

This week has been so rough for me so far. I didn't watch my diet or my liquid intake and it shattered my focus. Suddenly I couldn't bring myself to do anything - and started feeling sick, because I literally did not realize how hungry and dehydrated I was.

It's now 3:41 in the morning, and after chugging water, stuffing my face, taking a long nap last night and forcing myself into a bath, I'm able to face the work - but the anxiety over unread emails is not helping. Oh well. Time to get this done.

I got Detroit: Become Human from the Black Friday sale.

Hold on, just a little while longer...

This game is going to stick with me for a long, long time.

Just to be clear "The Magicians" is an incredibly dark show, and, while fantastic, many episodes have left me shaking with emotions. It doesn't pull punches, so be wary.

@reimesu said in What Would it Take to Repair the Community?:

@Selira @Mietze Well, if they'd made the choice to behave here, they wouldn't be there, now, would they? I mean, seriously, for a bunch of people committed to protecting mental health, the banned people didn't give much thought to who they were harming when they continued to throw their temper tantrums and then got banned for it.

So, they made another board where they could do what they want and be as mean as they wanted and STILL ended up with rules like here, but they're not enforced.

You can say what you want but your board is public and anyone can read for themselves. Just like the boards here are public.

However, again, feel free to respond, I'm pretty done with this idiotic argument.

You're right. All the posts are up there, on both boards, easy to read. We can all see you actively lying about what happened.

People were upset. People have a right to be upset. People are still upset.

It's also not my board. I'm a member of both. Still.

@Rinel I'm hoping people hold the biggest one for everyone who is lost after all of this is done. That's something I'd like to come down there for.

Lovecraft Country was everything I was hoping it wod be and more. Seeing black voices reclaiming the works of one of the most prominent racists in America and using it to expose the horrors of America? Yes, yes, yes, yes.

Having had someone just burst into a room a friend and I were working through and immediately eat a slice of pie, broadcasting the hint to the whole room -

Please give us an option to make private rooms that other people can't join in future things like this.

Overall, loving it, we're just going to back out and get back to where we were later.

@deadempire Been lurking here about a year and a half now? :D? Hi!

@Zobi

Also, HIIII right back!

@Shincashay omg hi what up

@Goblin This is America. Don't catch you slippin' up...

Seeing a plot I've been waiting for for a long time start to kick off. I'm so unbelievably excited for this!

@badger time blindness is vaguely related.

@devrex Oh, I've definitely seen plenty of people whose arguments collapsed down into "NUH UHHHH SHUT UP."

A great example just preceded the politics forum and Hog Pit being shut down!

I'll be frank, I think 'name calling' is a bad accusation, because it's people describing a behavior. It also wasn't ever against the rules in the Hog Pit to use saltier language.

But here's a great example where, yeah, I needed to step back and look at what I was writing -- I was using a general 'you' and didn't make that clear, and it looked like I was accusing you of things I don't think apply to you directly. I think you often argue in bad faith and have a real problem seeing your own biases while accusing other people of doing just that, but I don't think you use toxic language.

Probably is a blind spot. Happy to admit that. Still looking for cases where all this supposed bullying happened.

fucking sigh.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/le-a/

Samantha wasn't a popular, common name and seen as an odd one until Bewitched came out. Names develop, morph and change, move in trends, and always have.

Oh, no, a name has a spelling you haven't seen before. So what? What does it matter, aside from trying to make a child feel bad? What does it matter, aside from the criticism often carrying racist and classist undertones?

Inka, Uwe, Vercingetorix and Gaius are not common English names. Jack is a corruption of John which is a corruption of Jonathon which is a corruption of Yehonatan.

Yikes is right.

@reimesu Derp absolutely is one of the people who deserved the pushback he got. He was being an asshole, and got called on it, and proceeded to flip a shit. We've all seen where that led.

@Devrex I'm not trying to silence you. Keep talking. I'm disagreeing with you. Disagreement is not silencing, and maybe that's a key point of fundamental difference? I'm saying I don't think you argue in good faith because here you are claiming you hate seeing words being twisted while actively twisting my words into things I never said or even remotely implied. Like trying to say that I'm silencing you.

And yes, I think calling someone being an asshole one is a good thing. I'm also an asshole. I'm not saying volume makes someone right or wrong, but maybe if a bunch of people are calling you an asshole, you're being an asshole and should evaluate whether that's what you want to be at the moment.

(It is, for me, right now.)

Incidentally, this is this fucking guy.

pretty strong rewriting of history

it was a protest against an admin, a ban widely seen as unjust, and an authoritarian stomp down on anyone who expressed disagreement with it or didn't stay quiet when they were asked to, despite that never having been a thing before, and despite that being specifically one of the things that the protest was about.

the logs are there, i know you weren't here, go read them.

@kanye-qwest said in Good Music:

I can echo (from a year ago) St vincent and pomplamoose, and I think anyone in the world should listen to Gogol Bordello - Start Wearing Purple, Dogs were Barking, American Wedding, Illumination, I Just Realized...also the best live show I have ever been to, even in a small DC club.

Let's not forget Wanderlust King if we're going for their songs that get you absolutely pumped.

Final Fantasy 7 Remake has been everything I wanted and more.