@Auspice I also hesitate to think that what race the PCs are is any indication of diversity. Sure, they're diverse characters... but that's not remotely the same as an actually diverse game. If the latter is the goal, then being grumpy when white people play white people is so not the way to fix it.
If you are writing a piece of software. Be it an app, a major program, or a fun little toy... write proper fucking error messages.
"Hmm, it looks like something went wrong..." is not just useless, it's fucking annoying.
@onigiri said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Conversely, I had to hear someone use the n-word in a lounge because 'it factored into an academic debate about Lovecraft.' Some nerds do not get it.
I... I mean. Yes. Technically. It would.
But a MU is absolutely not the place to have academic debates. In the first case, because I demand to get paid for any academic debating I do.
ETA: This is meant more as an amusing "aww look Tinuviel is silly" rather than a legitimate response. Just don't say it, guys, c'mon.
@Testament Are you playing the Doom Slayer, or are you playing Ferb?
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@reversed said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@reversed said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
"Still bisexual but now annoyed" is how I'm going to describe Ember on Arx from now on, because it works regardless of context or situation
Teagan is bi.
Yet another perk of Arx: political marriage can be had and you can have your lovers over there, whatever. I'll have mine.Jeez, you don't have to go on and on about it, I accept your proposal, gosh.
I even made you this backpack to ride around in
A spoupoose.
@Auspice said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
It's definitely a thing that if you go 'too far' in a certain direction, you get to a scary place.
It's the same with everything. Too much of anything and it ends in death. Too much oxygen, too much water...
@Derp said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Derp said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Also because it's just easier. It's easier for me to tell people I'm gay and have them get all surprised when I hook up with a woman than to try and explain bisexuality is a real thing.
This is how I describe my sexuality:
Clearly you just haven't met the right man.
runs away, runs away very fast
She did, but I wasn't interested in listening to her recite Black's from memory over the canapes.
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
As for far-left extremists, they aren't the ones holding up "ARBEIT MACHT FREI" signs at protests.
Not any more. Let's not pretend that far-left extremists haven't done some godawful things in the past, though.
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Why should I be concerned that a bunch of idiots are misusing a term when I decide to use such term in an accurate, acceptable way?
That's not how language works. If the idiots are loud enough, influential enough, or simply large enough their meaning overtakes that which is 'accurate'. Republican already doesn't mean what it originally meant.
@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
I just want EVERYONE. All the time. Actual compatibility, attraction, etc. doesn't matter. Being bi just means I wanna sleep with everything that moves. SORRY.
I guess I'm bi, then.
You don't restrict yourself to things that can move.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Where is the line between hording and being sensibly prepared?
The kind of hoarding we're talking about typically happens during a crisis, preparation happens beforehand. It's not, to my mind, the amount that one stores (so long as it's not like something you'd see on Hoarders) but how one goes about getting things.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
What are good options to replace meat? I went with rice and beans.
Mushrooms, eggplant/aubergines, thicker stocks.
@kk said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Should we be gardening and raising egg laying chickens and stuff
If you're genuinely worried about food running out (it won't), then yes.
@Ganymede said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Tinuviel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
You don't restrict yourself to things that can move.
This is true. This is a video of my last tryst:
If you're attracted to clean laundry, you're definitely bi.
@GreenFlashlight said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Ganymede said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I would probably report that harassment to his boss, but I'm a no-nonsense kind of person.
I would almost be willing to call the police about this, no matter what my principles about the police are. Let's not forget Belly Mujinga, who got spat and coughed on by someone claiming to have COVID-19 and died of it a week ago.
Yeah... such an action does seem to fit the definition of assault.
@Coin said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Also, if you're not black, don't feel free to use the n-word because you're playing a black person (yeah, it's happened a lot). Same for other slurs. That's just... I feel that should be obvious.
Honestly, I think we should all refrain from using slurs - even those that our minority group has reclaimed, or are otherwise acceptable for us to use. Since there's no way of proving we're entitled to use them, it's easier to just not.
@surreality Email everyone, don't handle complaints. Done.
@L-B-Heuschkel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
I'd say that's a little dependent on when and where in the so-called Viking era, but yes.
Well, yes. If we're going to get into the superfine details of it, you're not a Viking because you aren't out raiding or trading or rowing across the North Sea in a boat that leaks for the first ten miles, so you just look like a greasy white boy with bad hair.
But if we're going simply for the aesthetic,a braid is perfectly acceptable.
@dvoraen Get a camera. You're either making porn or evidence.
@Groth said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
It is almost certain that male vikings didn't braid their hair because it would imply their hair was long and none of the surviving imagery seem to portray anyone with long hair.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.
@Rinel said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@dvoraen said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
There's a lot I'm leaving out, here, but sometimes I hear certain sounds and I wonder wtf was that.
Just casually bring up safewords around her in conversation and see how she reacts
(do not do this)
@L-B-Heuschkel @Goblin From my understanding American racism is mainly about skin tone, whereas European racism is more about which country you're from. Of course skin tone is an element of European racism, as it is everywhere, but it's not really the first thing that comes to mind when you think 'European cultural rivalries'.
Adulthood is going from back pain to hip pain to knee pain to neck pain to back pain to hip pain...until you die.
Ugh.
