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There are long lines at Bergen Airport Flesland.
"There's just a lot of travellers right now" a spokesman said.
Fascinating stuff.
Meanwhile:
Cat font.
No. Since I genuinely believe that they'll be far worse off if I suggest what will make them happy. If that was the way the world was, it would be an evil act of me not to act then.
My friends once installed a penis font on my laptop. It was surprisingly legible.
I take what I think is true about the world and follow it to its logical conclusion. That happens to include stuff like "don't do meth" being a statement I can fully support.
I am not sure where our central disconnect is here, but i think it's fine to distinguish between a sincerely held religious belief that requires postulates generally considered religious to be supported, and a belief like "doing meth is bad" that only requires postulates like "it's a safe assumption that people want to be happy." I get frustrated and find the conversation reminiscent of Being and being when people won't make that distinction, and I think it's unreasonable to evangelize without discretion or to legislate at all when the subject falls in the first category.
Anyway, I'm going to bed, be excellent to each other, etc.
Gelding. I wanna have a conversation. With you about privilege and the meaning of fairness. As well as empathizing with a facet of not being really scared about getting into a fight from a very young age (One of the few things my parents did for me I greatly appreciate was enlist me in Tae Kwon Do when I was 5. Pid dividends when I started getting in real fights in junior high.)
Was the carrying a weapon a fear of extreme homophobia, or just something you did at the time?
my point is that "doing meth is bad" needs a definition of bad to make sense, and if your definition of bad is, from my perspective, way out of whack, then it's only more whack to arrive at the then faulty conclusion that doing meth is bad.
Not that it isn't generally very good for the world that people do arrive at the faulty conclusion.
I am not disagreeing with this in the slightest.
And for a lot of people the desire not to be a dick wins over conviction.
alright. Let's give it a shot.
Crack open a beer and let me tell you all the good things about letting yourself get bricked up in the monastery wall.
I really value the friends I can speak my mind with, but I agree going up to strangers and being hostile about their beliefs/unjust values Is no way to really enact change in this day.
Not a fear of extreme homophobia, no. A habit borne of upbringing and lifestyle, really. My father was something of a survivalist and, when I was a child, believer in an upcoming downfall of civilization towards fascistic command by a foreign power (the US or Russia, in most of his conspiracy theories), and despite my best efforts had an impact on my mindset and worldview. In my teenage years, when I was at my most flippant towards potential violence and my most casually disinterested in the threat of violent homophobia, was also a period in my life in which I was a violent criminal and being armed was simply a matter of practicality.
In the view I had in my teenage years and early adulthood, there were things far scarier that could come at me without warning than a group of buffoons calling me a faggot, so in a way I had a sort of arrogant and almost welcoming attitude towards it.
Otherwise I might just have been in a bad enough mood to act offended that they were so easily dissuaded and weren't going to go to any more effort than that to keep me from eternal damnation.
Were you who Omar really was based on?
at a period in my life
i knew all too well
I didn't know there was such a thing, but I'm honestly not suprised.
Hm... wish I had thought of that prank back in college >.>
@DasUberEdward I could watch this forever
I once set a roommates' browsers' default page to a gay porn shock site.
He got back and was like "haha, very funny."
And then switched it back.
After spring break he came back and said, basically "So you changed my Internet Explorer default page too and my dad uses that computer when it's home."
There was something you said about coming to terms with your privilege, and was curious if you could quantify that at all. What things do you feel were unfair, and why so broadly? (Beyond the being a larger more able to defend yourself white male) Do you feel some of the disadvantages you've had in your life balance some of these advantages?
who have no reluctance to violence, really
there are some who lack that reluctance because they understand it's periodic necessity, and while they might be reluctant to find themselves in such situations once they know there's no two ways around it, they accept the reality of the situation and do what they can
and then there's the sort, out of a personal sickness, go seeking it out and live in it and it's generally indicative of some much larger problems
i'm on the former side of that nowadays but i've been on the latter, and in either case it's not the sort that all people are and when you are the sort it's in your best interest to understand that for what it is
not something that makes you better than other folk, but something that does mean you deal with less shit than they do
it should engender sympathy, not contempt, and awareness of one's own privileges versus those that don't got em
BOY WAS HIS DAD SHOCKED
I love Trainspotting. I think dope dreams/dt dreams are the exception that prove my rule about TV and Film being better without dream sequences.
Except Joffrey getting slapped.
i can almost kind of understand psychopaths. a little. not really. maybe.
I feel like seeing it as a balancing act is wrong-headed. To view it as a privilege here is metered out by a hardship there, and vice versa. I think that's the wrong attitude to take.
I think that attitude leads to "hardship olympics", where you see tumblr communities full of people racing to the bottom of the pile of who has it the hardest, people in progressive and liberal communities denigrating each other based on how many checkboxes they hit that somehow outweigh the fact that they might have it shitty in some parts of their life. People looking at a rape victim and saying "Well at least you're white". Or whatever.
It's not about that. It's about understanding where you have and where you have-not, and knowing how that impacts you. Knowing how that makes your life different, not necessarily harder or easier, than other peoples. Knowing where they have it easy and you don't, where you got it easy and they don't, it allows you to better understand people and get into their shoes and empathize with them more. I've struggled with empathy my whole life, to the point that I had a psychiatrist once look me in the eye and tell me I was incapable of it, so I've worked to find the methods by which I can understand and empathize with someone else's life and where they're coming from.
My physicality has been a net gain in my life. It was a net positive. What I used that physicality for at various points in my life is questionable and often highly negative, but those weren't my privilege those were how I abused that privilege.
I didn't have to be afraid to hug and snuggle up to my partner on a park bench. My partner did! That alarmed the shit out of him. Me? Not so much! Why? Because of that physicality, because I had that privilege. So, I got to live my life in a little less fear than him, a little less concern than him, at least when it came to public displays of affection. I didn't really understand that at the time. I was immature, judgmental, unable to grasp that I was not a par to be reached but rather my own idiosyncratic little nodule.
Did I have hardships of my own that he didn't? Of course. But the point isn't that some are more privileged than others. The point isn't about the "balance" of it. The point is understanding it, and knowing what it is and isn't. It impacts how you treat people.
also i've been surgically sterilized
so
Yea, me either, but alas I gotta try and force myself to get some shut eye for some appointments/work I got tomorrow. I still have so much good TV to catch up on, though, and home tech work I wanna do instead...
Meh, sleep time. Good night [chat]. Watch this weeks GoT ASAP. It was awesome.
I try to deseasonalize it and I get a time series with even more obvious seasonality
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