Posts made by Tinuviel

@Apos said in Image Attribution & Creative Commons:

automatically change a character's PB to be grayscale when they died

Sepia. Everyone likes sepia.

@Auspice said in The Work Thread:

All I could think: 'Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach.'

And those that can't teach go to Law School.

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

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

It's like a sewer, but one of those old Victorian sewers with the nice brickwork, but it's still coated in shit.

what is this monstrosity of a sentence

Shuddup, Meg.

@Ghost We come here for the shitty. It's like a sewer, but one of those old Victorian sewers with the nice brickwork, but it's still coated in shit.

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

have explained by now but actively refuse to.

I have explained it. Twice. Using the simplest words I could muster.

You're reading far, far too much into my motives. I explained, you acted like an entitled fuckskull, I explained again, and now you're whining like an entitled fuckskull.

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

@Tinuviel Providing incorrect information knowingly is the definition of lying.

Yes, it is. Knowingly is the key point. You're assuming malice where there is no proof of malice.

You people and your instant leap from "providing incorrect information" right to "lying liar that lies" is fucking fascinating.

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

Then please do not waste my time with false offers to explain things to me; though I suppose it's a little funny you'd lie to me in the same discussion you try to tell me what is and isn't a lie. Not side-splitting or anything, but worth a smile, so thanks for that.

I did explain. That you didn't understand is no longer my fault. As for 'what a lie is' it's simple. A lie is a deliberate mistruth. Deliberate.

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

Phrasing it differently feels like a euphemism to me and I dislike using euphemisms, since they seem to exist to obfuscate.

Except that phrase very much is a euphemism.

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

I am willing to modify my behavior if you have suggestions.

Alright. Then stop making this thing a fucking issue. Two people disagree about something, and you're the one making it a big deal. Nobody owes you an explanation, as you weren't part of the initial conversation. So if you ask for help, don't act like a smug or entitled prick.

But fine, I'll try again.

First, this doesn't matter. It's two peeves coming into conflict. That doesn't matter. It isn't important. Nothing written here actually matters. Okay? Okay.

Second, nobody here knows all of the facts about any of this so making judgement calls based on next-to-no information is unhelpful.

Third, if one is trained to say "this is the reason" then one will say "this is the reason." If you have never been told, or learned, anything different that is not a lie, even though it is wrong.

Fourth, this shit still doesn't matter. At all. Stop asking about it. It doesn't matter. And don't try to be condescending, I do it far better than you.

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

It was still a lie whether he meant it to be or not.

No.

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

This confuses me

I don't care.

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

So... he was just following orders?

I'm going to assume you're just ignorant, but that particular phrase has a very specific reference. The rest of us call it "doing as he's told." You know. Like every entry-level schmuck does.

@GreenFlashlight Alright, I'll explain it.

1. We don't know the person was lying intentionally, most of the time they have a script they have to follow. So we're not blaming them for the BS.
2. If you want to blame the BS on someone, blame it on the people actually in charge rather than the poor bastard on the phone.
3. It's not a big deal. Nobody is making it a big deal. But you seem to think it's being treated like a big deal.

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

I'm really not getting what the great injustice is here.

Then why are you still going on about it?

He was a tier one schmuck, whose entire job is "Is it plugged in and also not on fire? Escalate."

@Kestrel said in The Savage Skies - Discussion Thread:

And I think, personally, it's good for people to let go of national pride, at least in the sense where it becomes tribal and creates a feeling of righteousness in viewing their nation against the world, or sees their history and culture as superior to others.

Agreed. Actual patriotism is far better than nationalism.

Perhaps as a result of my upbringing or my choice of career interests, I've never had much time for people that espouse shame for actions done before they were born. Usually, in my experience (with Australia in particular) this is little more than a platitude. Not that I'm accusing @JinShei of such, especially to have such a thing suddenly revealed would be a cause for great emotion, I'm speaking more generally.

There was a big to-do a few years ago, the Prime Minister publicly apologised to the Aboriginal people for doing all of the things one would expect from an imperialistic invasion and subsequent colonialism. But then... nothing changed. No great steps taken to ensure higher Aboriginal employment, no public school education of Aboriginal culture, nothing.

I'd much rather people take responsibility for the actions of today rather than some platitudinous attempt at blame-taking for the past.

@JinShei said in The Savage Skies - Discussion Thread:

I think the new information about something that is part of my identity should change how I view it.

Of course. I simply meant that constantly feeling ashamed for things done by other people in the past - even the recent past - isn't helpful. One shouldn't be overwhelmed with the shame of being something because someone else that was that thing did horrid things.

@JinShei said in The Savage Skies - Discussion Thread:

I came out entirely horrified and ashamed to be British.

Almost every people has done horrid things to others. I'm not saying that we shouldn't be horrified of, and honest about, our past but let it not colour your own self-opinion. Don't find fault where there is none.

@Rinel said in The Work Thread:

Also very odd that a eucalyptus is a white skinned, white featured woman instead of, say, a brown skinned one with aboriginal features.

Eucalyptus trees are white.

ETA: Also probably not a good idea for folks to draw Aboriginal people, you know, on fire.

@Ominous said in The Work Thread:

My opinion? Let it burn.

Just going to remind you folks that people are dying too.

@Kestrel said in Separating Art From Artist:

@Tinuviel said in Separating Art From Artist:

@insomniac7809 said in Separating Art From Artist:

Bowlderizing the language isn't any different from editing the text to clarify the characters' heavy dialects, which I've also seen done in several contexts.

I will pay money for a MU client that does that.

I'm going to cop up to being in favour of censoring phonetic accent styling.

It's not really censoring if we do it to ourself... it's subtitles.

@insomniac7809 said in Separating Art From Artist:

Bowlderizing the language isn't any different from editing the text to clarify the characters' heavy dialects, which I've also seen done in several contexts.

I will pay money for a MU client that does that.

@GreenFlashlight said in Separating Art From Artist:

@Kestrel said in Separating Art From Artist:

At what point do you separate the person behind the keyboard from the character they're playing?

At the point when consent is obtained or not.

I... what?

@insomniac7809 said in Separating Art From Artist:

In terms of what you, @Pandora and @Ghost are decrying as "censorship" in this thread

Did you actually read what I wrote? And the subsequent... entire end of the discussion?