Best posts made by Tinuviel

@saosmash Vicodin and alcohol.

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

@Testament I just do not get the toilet paper thing...

It's for wiping after using the toilet.

@WTFE No, no, and maybe. Though I did like that one place that used (I think) the FASA Star Trek system, a system itself probably isn't required depending on how the game is organised.

As a person that worked, extensively, with ASpace in the early 2000s... fuck space systems.

@surreality Agreed. The fight for education isn't just a fight against ignorance, it also fights against malicious and negligent miseducation.

@Arkandel I play games for the single-player.

If I am "manipulated" into buying what is ostensibly a single-player game and it turns out the single-player options are either limited or clearly tacked-on afterwards... I get annoyed. I rarely, if ever, play multi-player due in part to the fact, as I've said before, I play games for the story over anything else. I'm not there to be challenged, or to compete. I'm there to enjoy myself. I don't like sports, but I like reading, for lack of a better analogy.

I don't know if it counts as RL, since it's YouTube. But a channel I particularly adore is Jas. Townsend & Son. "A channel dedicated to exploring the 18th Century lifestyle." focusing on the United States' culinary history. It brings me joy.

@Arkandel
I can only speak to my own experiences regarding playing races, but these are my thoughts on the subject.

It's easy to play a Klingon, for example. Or a Cylon, or a Na'vi, or whatever. They're fictional, and you can spend an hour on Wikipedia looking up the broad strokes of how to portray them properly. But most importantly, nobody is going to be offended by your portrayal of a Klingon. You're not going to be racist by playing your Klingon in a stereotypical way, because they're fictional.

Playing a human being with hundreds or thousands of years of cultural separation from what you know can be daunting, and would require a great deal of work to do so accurately, or at least accurately enough to avoid offending people or being accused of racism. Playing an Aboriginal Australian, for instance, would be hard for me not because I don't know the intricacies of their various cultures. I don't know, necessarily, what someone with their belief system would do in X situation.

But the main reason I don't play people of colour in my RP is because I don't know a damned thing, compared to what I know about my own cultural heritage, and anything I do know would probably be seen as offensive at worst or a gross overgeneralisation at best.

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

I'm sure some people thrive in this type of waking up everyday having no idea where you will be or what you will do work, but it isn't the long term life for me.

No, we all hate it. All of us. Every last one.

To me, at least, Firefly is a setting best-used with small groups rather than public MU*s.

@HelloProject Time to report that shit to whichever advisory board licenses therapists.

@Goldfish said in Gray Harbor Discussion:

I feel they are within their right to say, 'Yo. Cool it with the Brits for a sec.' Because the game isn't set in the UK.

They're within their right to say anything they want. Doesn't make it sensible or something I agree with.

A concern I have with arbitrary decisions like this is that... what's next? "Okay we're getting a lot of queers in here, so we're putting a moratorium on not-straight-cis applications."

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

The best interpretation of the binding of Isaac that I ever heard

You and I played very different video games.

@faraday Isn't that basically what Hollywood is doing?

Chet is the person fiction writers tend to assume stoners are like.

@ganymede said in MUSH Marriages (IC):

I'm not clingy or needy as a player

And you write really good letters.

@arkandel said in MUSH Marriages (IC):

an immediate - mild, but clear - message

With a few exceptions, I'd say that many of our number are rather hesitant on the confrontation front - however mild it might be. Are we misinterpreting things, are we being too sensitive, are we being childish, are we, are we... we aim the blame for our discomfort at ourselves.

@Derp Well yeah, but symbolism-analysis of weirdly banal stuff is one way to do it. If you're trained to look deep into boring shit all the time, you'll actually use the critical thinking you're taught to. It's one thing to teach how to think critically, it's another entirely to teach when.

ETA: Also, once the book is in your hands it's not the author's book anymore. It's yours. What the author thought or hoped or dreamed doesn't matter.

@arkandel said in Let's talk about TS.:

there are assholes everywhere

That's my TS style.

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

girl scouts will turn your daughter into a satanist lesbian

Yeah, really dodged a bullet there.
/s

@surreality Honey, we're talking about TS, not engaging in it. Please don't spit until you really mean it.

@insomniac7809 said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:

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

I'll go out on a limb and say that... at least 70% of people don't know where it comes from.

Although if we ask ourselves "this thing is popular with The Youngs of America, where did it come from?" at any point in the last century or so, lacking evidence to the contrary, we're usually safe to assume the answer is "black people."

True enough. Though I am loathe to adopt such an Amero-centric world view.