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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
I'm not sure males get to announce that things are getting better; it's not like w ever experienced them as being worse. I've being to going cons or various sorts for more than 20 years and I've never seen any harassment to speak of, but that doesn't mean it wasn't there. These days I keep weather eye out for it, but again it's not likely to happen when I'm looking.
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
I was mildly surprised about Asimov. Not so much Ellison. He's needed a boot to the head for years' date=' just on the grounds of being a miserable, egocentric little turd and bully.[/quote']I know Ellison second hand. He's really insecure. Not an excuse for being a twerp, but it fits his personality.
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
Good grief that sucks.
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
Taken to an extreme' date=' disbelief bears a striking resemblance to zealous religious belief. The same certainty of one's rightness and superiority over all those "wrong" fools is certainly present.[/quote']When faced with a radical atheist, my usual stance is. "I can't spend time fighting for tolerance of my atheism because I'm too busy fighting against the intolerance of yours."
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
At first glance, I read that as "A large number probably think he's awesome, too - or he wouldn't have the CULT he does."
Amounts to the same thing.
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
Because social skills just flourish in a vacuum? Boys learn how to interact with females from the men they know interacting with females. No interaction with females' date=' no opportunity to learn.[/quote']Yes, but the point would e that there would never be any interaction between men and women. Completely separate worlds. Boys and girls would be born, grow old, and die without ever having to interact with each other. They would never miss what they never experienced.
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
Not even sure what to say. Men are creeps. Beginning to think we should bifurcate the country give one half to each gender and permit no one to cross the border. There may be benefits to women of having men around, but they do not outweigh the drawbacks Given that reproductive technology means procreation no longer requires physical contact, this is not a barrier to sustainablity. Child contracts arranged by matching services, payment to women who agree to have sons to ship back across the border. I could be worked out. Women would not have to put up with male creeps, and men would no longer have the chance to be creeps to women. With modern technology we could even go back and modify literature and movies and such so that children growing up in either state would never even be made aware of the other gender until after high school.
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
Obviously' date=' the solution is for more geek girls to hang around here.
[/quote']I dunno. This board can get pretty darn sexist, too, at times. I mean the entire Gun Girls thread, for example, is inherently sexist. As are all the other scantily clad pictures posted around here, and that's just the pictures. I'm sometimes amazed women can stand to be around males at all.
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
They'll be heading up to Edinburgh and Glasgow later. I predict Fun.I predict incomprehensible Scottish accents
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
I am sure that many of you are sick of this thread. I was just made aware of an article from the New Statesman. Thought that it might cause some more thought and perhaps some discussion. It does go over some things and events that have been discussed in this thread. I am posting a link to the article.http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/internet/2012/07/what-online-harassment-looks
Not sick of the thread, just sick of the abuse heaped on women. I'm not fond of abuse heaped on men, children,or animals, either, but the fact that the portion of humanity that feel it is socially acceptable or even virtuous to engage in that sort of behavior toward women in particular is infuriating.
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Re: Query's Art & Stuff Thread
Does her mom know she's dressing like that??Her Melt's Mom goes into a catatonic state every time she learns that Ivy has powers and them wakes up with amnesia about the revelation. No, Melt is not doing it to her.
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Re: Query's Art & Stuff Thread
Is she supposed to not see through the mask? Perhaps one of these "see with your mind" things?She does have several flavors of "see with your mind" but the mask is just one-way transparent.
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Re: Query's Art & Stuff Thread
Another character from my Teen Champions Campaign: Melt (as in Melt your brain)
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Re: Last Dance With Mary Jane...
Given where I live, first I'd have to check to see if the weed was owned by any of the local law enforcement or elected officials.
Ahem:
Nightwatch: Is the law, but in his time period, Weed isn't illegal.
Thunder: Could care less.
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Re: Quote of the Week From My Life.
I have a coworker who is literally a blabbermouth. She never stops talking, even to chew her food and eveything she says at the top of her lungs. Worse nothing she has to say is actually useful or interesting. No one in the department can stand being around her for any period of time.
Me: You know that's irritating.
Her: What's irritating?
Me: The fact that you never stop talking.
Her: What do you mean. I'm a quiet person.
Me: Being stuck in a room with you is like having my ears stuffed with rabid weasels.
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Re: Royal Pain
They'd still have enough information to actually confirm that the real prince is who he says he is. Particularly since a telepathic scan would show that the actual prince has all the memories the real prince should have and Masquerade doesn't. Eventually she would be found out and then there would be all sorts of trouble. Her plan makes things worse' date=' not better and it's not particularly heroic.[/quote']Okay. It's the internet. You are entitled to your conceit. I will point out that in a WWYCD, the only wrong answer is telling someone else that their character's answer is wrong.
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Re: Royal Pain
And what does Masquerade do when DNA tests and such prove the kid to be who he says he is? Matter of fact, any bodyguards the kid has with him would vouch for him as would anybody working at his country's consulate. They know where the ruler of their country is and they have more then enough information to verify his identity, even with his swiped papers. I'm thinking that any competent detective or, y'know, a telepath could thwart Masquerade's plan with ease.Once that happens, there's an international incident and Masquerade is basically a wanted criminal who basically usurped the rule of a foreign nation. In short her plan doesn't fix the problem, it just makes it worse.
Masquerade copies everything down to DNA and mind patters. As for the rest, you're moving the goalposts.
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Re: Royal Pain
Masquerade: Swipes the kid's papers, mimics his shape and powers (Mimicry shapeshift). Goes to his hom country and assumes thr throne in him place. She then call the little git an imposter and revokes his diplomatic immunity. She then finds some responsible and competent in his home country to abdicate rule to.
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
Eurydice refers to Vesper as "Hey' date=' you" or "The short one."
[/quote']Eurydice refers to EVERYONE as "Hey, you" or "The short one."
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Re: If accused of terrorism and emprisonned into Stronghold
This is similar to a character concept I've not yet had the chance to play. In my scenario, Lilith DesJArdin is a bomb-tech racing to the scene of a terrorist bomb when the bomb goes off killing hundreds of people. Lilith is not physically hurt in the blast but the sudden traumatic death of so many people triggers her latent abilities. effectively turning her into a second bomb. When additional rescuers arrive on the scenes she is staggering around completely out of her mind unleashing terrible power in all directions, she kills a dozen people before finally passing out. She wakes to find herself an unwilling superhuman and an helpless menace. Completely distraught, she offers no defense at her trial and gets thrown in prison. She figures she's a less a danger in there.
While in in prison she learns to control her powers and use them in self defense. Then the time comes that she learns of several superhuman prisoners planning to start a riot and escape, killing guards and the warden on the way. She arranges to interpose herself between the villains and their victims, and thwarts the riot. This has two salutary effects on her future. First she attracts the attention of a lawyer who attempts to get her released on the basis that she never got a fair trail. Second, the other inmates hate her so much that they start trying to kill her. After landing in the hospital several times, the state finally recognizes that they cannot provide for her safety.
By way of elegant compromise they release her on intensively supervised parole. She is to serve out her life sentence as an unpaid and unrecognized weapon for a superhero team (other PCs). This gives her a chance to redeem herself and eventually win her freedom.
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
Amateurs. One group I GM'd would often reach bottom' date=' and then break out the explosives.[/quote']A champions group I ran back in college actually lost a fight with an elevator. It was a fight they picked, and the elevator exhibited only passive resistance.
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Re: Make Your Own Motivational Poster
The double negative has always existed in English (as well as many other languages' date=' of course). The prescriptivist grammarians of a couple of centuries back tried to unilaterially veto the structure based on its absence in Latin, whose grammar they deemed to be an ideal for English to follow. Prescriptivists since have tried hard to clamp down on the double negative, but the reality of the language continues to escape their attempts at artificial rulemongering.[/quote']In teaching English, I have learned that most people (or at least most of my students) do not actually consciously form sentences. They have a variety of, for lack of a better term, blurbs each of which has a certain connotative meanuing that is only loosely connected to its denotative meaning. When they talk, they just grab for a connotative meaning, grab a blurb in that area of the memory, and throw it out the door. When you ask them to analyze what they just said, or even to write it down, they literally can't do it, because language for them works at the blurb level. They're really not capable of expressing any idea that's more specific than, "dislike that," or ," not gonna do it," or ,"funny."
It's an exercise in fuzzy linguistics.
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Re: [4E] Worst Disad
The worst disad I ever heard of was a 50 point mystery disadvantage. I will let Teh Benneh tell the story because it is his to tell.
For my part my brother used to routinely take 30pts. "Crap the GM is going to do to me whether I want him to or not."
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Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
Yeah.. this conversation will boost Ivy's self esteem...If this conversation was being held in Ivy's earshot... Don't tell me. She's standing right behind me, isn't she?
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Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
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Re: Interesting article about Sexism in Geek Communities
Got her.