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@Auspice

Seriously. I would give this woman's number to anyone in a heartbeat.

@scar

I'm ready for some solid nostalgia.I screamed in excitement upon seeing Data in that trailer because I SOBBED for hours after Nemesis.

@Kanye-Qwest said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

@kk

these pandas made me smile and that's good. more than an upvote worth.

@Derp

@A-B said in Tips for not wearing out your welcome:

Therefore, don't go taking anything I say here from now on, including this message, to be true or what I mean. Just think of it as the output of an amusing randomised chatbot.

So while these declarations can help some people, for most of us they honestly don't. I don't have any other frame of reference for what your'e saying than the literal text that's being put down. If you're not being serious I need you to say (kidding!) or give me some kind of clue you're not being in earnest in the moment.

I've got someone I've played with for.... god, seven? eight? years now. We've met in person. I know her like the back of my hand and I STILL get tripped up almost 2/3 of the time when she says things. The first few years we played I put her on @gag soooooo many times. So man. But her RP was always so freaking good that I kept coming back. (It wasn't healthy.) They come off as antagonistic, mean, and hurtful. I have to ask, "Are you serious?" SO VERY OFTEN, and it's only the fact that I HAVE played with her so long that I can take her comments and ask that question vs take her words as god honest truth.

If I don't know you from Adam? (or Eve, or your preferred person suit) Whatever you type and my personal filter are going to decide the emotion behind that unless you specifically tell me otherwise.

How dare you judge chocolate.

Norwood made an off hand comment about not wanting a kitten but then every other pose back was, "So you want a kitten huh?" It was fun.

You people are MONSTERS.

Oh good. I almost forgot a birthday. I don't manage to do it every year, but I like sending this person random junk and this is an excuse ICly to do it.

@Auspice

I'm dying to know who got the duck and mule.

@Tinuviel

I think that's a valid point, re: This is our escapism. (Have I said the word valid to you two or three times today? I don't know. But I do appreciate where you are coming from and respect what you're saying about it as reasonable points.)

I think I'm going to be with @Sparks though. I think it's important for us to think about representation and factors of race in all areas of our lives, even our pretendy fun-times. These are places were we CAN confront those issues - provided people aren't choosing to be dumpster fires at the moment (tb clear, I'm referring to people in general and how we turn into dumpster fires so super easily... not specifically anyone that's spoken so far) - where the stakes are exceptionally low. If we get it wrong we CAN retcon/erase what has happened and then move forward and DO it better.

EDIT: Oh god my grammar. I know there should be something other than a regular dash in there, and that my ()s are wrong but I DO NOT KNOW HOW TO FIX IT and still keep all those ideas together.

Kiddos come back to school tomorrow!!!!!!!!!

@Sparks said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:

Because when there are a lot of people out there who seem to think they can find more common ground with and more easily imagine seeing the world from the POV of literal alien species in Star Trek or Star Wars or Mass Effect or whatever else than they can with their neighbors who happen to have a bit more melanin content to their skin, it's demonstrably sure as hell something we as a human race could stand to work on.

So this is a thing I'm going to have to spend a whole long time thinking about. This resonated with me.

Is there a bridge between this and the fear of "getting it wrong" that several of us have expressed? Are they possibly the same idea just wrapped in different colors (which is a weird metaphor in the context of this conversation but I'm gonna go with it anyway because I don't recall the actual idiom)?

I don't know. I'm gonna go think a bit.

@Ghost

Totally got cornered by a guy in NY attempting to get us to do that. When we said no, he went, "So you are racist." It took all if me to explain that's not how racism works. #randomstorytime

@saosmash

100%

I think the only thing that IS unequivically wrong is to paint people who think differently than you personally as a "bad person" for having that viewpoint. It's okay to coexist with different viewpoints.

Er, I shouldn't hit enter before I finish my ideas.