@L-B-Heuschkel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
The word viking meant pirate until the romanticism of the 19th century attached it to the early medieval period known to pop culture as the viking age.
Well, we could just call them Danes then.
@Grayson said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@Tinuviel There's plenty of anti-Pole sentiment from the Russian side, too.
There's plenty of anti-Everything sentiment from the Russian side.
@Prototart said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
tbh I don’t think I’ve ever heard anybody say anything anti-Hungarian, but there’s like zero eastern european pop where I grew up
There's plenty of anti-Eastern European rhetoric bouncing around Western Europe. Especially against the Poles.
@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.
@Auspice said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@L-B-Heuschkel said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Short hair and excessive personal grooming were a thing.
They didn't steal women. Women just liked a man who knew how to bathe.
Well. That's not strictly, generally, true.
On the topic of hair styles, braids were a fairly common European thing. Even among the Vikings, though they did prefer shorter hair, when it was long they braided it.
So if you want to look like a Viking, for whatever reason, get that braided ponytail going.
@Sunny I seriously thought I was reading the MU peeves thread still...
@Ominous said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
I thought it was pretty obvious that you were joking.
Unfortunately, styles, guides, and grammar prescriptivism are very, very, very heated topics in certain circles.
@Kanye-Qwest said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
That's a problem with people playing against their RL type for shallow fetish fulfillment.
Hey, if I want to play a neurotypical person I refuse to call it a fetish.
Mostly.
@Sunny said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Sorry folks, apparently my tongue was not quite firmly enough in my cheek for my commentary.
A coder, an editor, and a linguist walk into a bar...
@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Every writing organization is entitled to their own style.
Hell, many organisations outside of the writing profession have their own "this is how we do" style guides. They're not usually as detailed as a grammar guide, but they're certainly out there.
@Sunny Oh, man. Now I know we can't be friends.
@faraday said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
Just a corollary peeve that the grammar "rules" we learn in school often aren't rules at all, but styles.
I mean. If you want to name it after the town, call it Oświęcim.
@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.
@insomniac7809 said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
Not gonna lie, if I need to read an ethnography to roll up a PC I probably won't.
You're the reason nobody reads theme files. 
@JinShei said in RL things I love:
the bisexual council needs to meet to decide our policy on this
Did you miss the meeting? I'll send you my notes.
Crucifixion was mentioned.
@Wretched said in Real World Peeves, Disgruntlement, and Irks.:
@Tinuviel So I just looked at the quote and your reply and still thought I was in the ADHD thread and was just going 'Fucking Same'
Substitute teaching is like... all of the uncertainty of ADHD and all of the powerlessness of executive disfunction. But professionally!
@SilentHills said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
a papoose of babies
That is technically a waaahdolier
@mietze said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
I guess but as far as anything pragmatic he was a giant rotting gross asexual monster.
I think I dated him in high school...
@JinShei said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@WildBaboons said in Diversity Representation in MU*ing:
@JinShei I still want that recipe
Chocolate plus lust.
So double chocolate?