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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 15, 2018, 11:48:30 am »
Quote from: Hanslanda on July 15, 2018, 11:45:55 am
Is it made of darkness and evil that strikes fear of inevitable death into all things mortal and sends my foes fleeing before me?
Nah, it's mostly intoxicating. As in, being around you makes people drunk. Or drives them to drink. One of the two. ;P

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Tilesets and Graphics / Re: ☼Meph Tileset☼ V3.2 (32x32) - 44.12 - Last updated 13th July - Librarian Update
« on: July 15, 2018, 11:47:08 am »
I just imagined sitting in a ceramic dwarf-made chair and I gave myself anxiety.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 15, 2018, 11:43:19 am »
You have an aura.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:43:55 am »
Yeah, that's a thing. "Gay for Pay" it's called. I'm not sure how prevalent it is.

"Seduce the straight man," where they don't pretend to be gay like with "gay for pay" but are seduced into gay sex by someone, is also a fairly large sub-genre of gay porn... For... some reason. I don't get it, myself. But then, I also don't get watersports, so whatever.

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Tilesets and Graphics / Re: ☼Meph Tileset☼ V3.2 (32x32) - 44.12 - Last updated 13th July - Librarian Update
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:38:25 am »
I think you should make a differentiation between "gameplay helpers" and "cosmetic mods." So things like the bone furniture would be in the latter, while the crematorium would be in the former.

They'd both be off by default but you might want a mod to aid in cleaning up your fort while still wanting a mostly vanilla experience.

(Of course, which ones are utility mods and which ones are cosmetic is mostly up to personal opinion. Especially when atom-smashing with a bridge is already a possibility.)

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:31:13 am »
I already said twice why it matters, I'm not gonna write the same thing a third time just to be ignored. I mean, yes, ideally it shouldn't matter, but we don't live in an ideal world, do we?

As for remembering; it's simple. Chop off the "trans" bit, and that's what they are. A trans person is going to identify (and label) as what they're going TO, not what they're coming FROM. That's the whole point, after all.

For the most part, at least. People are people and individuals and such. But if some person says "I'm a trans man" chances are 99.9% they're a man.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:19:06 am »
Er, no. A trans man is a man. That's why it's called a Trans MAN. And in fact, that's part of the problem; having women play trans men and men play trans women just reinforces the stereotype that trans people are just cross-dressing or playing dress-up, that they're not ACTUALLY men and women but just "a woman in flannel" or "a guy in a dress." So that's not helpful either.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

And I mean, it'd be great if your trans or nottrans status didn't matter for getting roles. But like I said, if you're a trans actor, you're very VERY lucky to get cast in non-trans roles; you're typecast already just by being trans. So having a cis person take a trans role is taking the only roles that anyone's actually letting you have away from you. That's why it's a dick move.

E:
Quote from: Dunamisdeos on July 14, 2018, 11:18:03 am
Got it, what were the roles? I feel like I'm missing out here. Thank you for educationing.
Tambor won the Golden Globe and Emmy for his role in Transparent. Huffman was nominated for an Oscar for Transamerica, and Leto won for his role in Dallas Buyers Club.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:16:17 am »
Scarlett herself name-dropped three actors who took trans roles as a defense for her taking one: Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman.

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:14:32 am »
The worst bit is that there are plenty of actually-left (or at least left of centre or liberal) women politicians around as congresscritters or what-have-you that could be their "first female president" token while ALSO not being basically a Republican who doesn't hate gay people in a pantsuit.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:07:47 am »
The thing about Scar here is that she could have just said no. Nobody is forcing actors to take roles, especially if they're high profile like Scarlett. And with trans actors especially, Hollywood is kind of full of dickweeds - they'll happily cast a white cis whatever in whatever minority role, but if you're trans or a (racial or otherwise) minority and you try for a cis or white role, you're "not a good fit" for the character. So if you're a trans actor, trans roles are kind of your bread and butter - having someone come in and take that from you too is kind of like the guy with 37 presents getting pissed at you getting one that he didn't.

This is all generalities of course - Scarlett is mostly just a lightning rod for a systematic problem with Hollywood being, again, full of dickweeds.

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Other Games / Re: Crusader Kings 2 is released.
« on: July 14, 2018, 11:04:00 am »
Quote from: Teneb on July 14, 2018, 08:33:36 am
Quote from: scriver on July 14, 2018, 07:24:39 am
Spoiler: Speaking of awful and great rulers, this is my guy as of yesterday: (click to show/hide)
He's doomed.
I mean, he's 67. So not THAT doomed.

e: also, immortal

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 12, 2018, 09:37:21 pm »
I legitimately cannot tell who was trolling who harder between scriver and bleep_bloop. Both trolling the other but in different ways, one nonsensically and the other by taking everything incredibly seriously.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: July 10, 2018, 08:16:44 pm »
Is he teething maybe?

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General Discussion / Re: AmeriPol thread
« on: July 10, 2018, 04:46:59 pm »
Again. Re-read. He said Sagan. As in Carl Sagan. As in the guy people had already been talking about for some posts already.

Nobody except you brought up Sargon.

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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you sad today thread.
« on: July 09, 2018, 08:01:40 pm »
The game is (was?) on sale at GOG for like 85% off, in case any of you want it.

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