tegan

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  1. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    You're probably right, though I'm still having trouble kicking the habit of taking her with a grain of salt.
  2. Life

    I'm feeling pretty upset and stressed about some stuff lately and a break from some of the internet might be good for me. I dunno. Also, still looking for a job. I've done two job interviews this week and I have another next week. I'm not really sure how I feel about the one I'm interviewing for next week though. It's probably the one I want most, but it comes with some huge caveats.
  3. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    I agree, but I linked that because it mentions some shitty things that are in that very comic and relevant to the situation at hand. I probably should have just typed up something myself though. Sorry. You know Merus, I really hope that you eventually reach a point in your life where you realize that it's possible to assess multiple facets of a person before you come to a conclusion about their character, or decide that no conclusion is needed at all, because this shit gets real old. I don't have some grand list of who I'm "allowed" to like and who I'm not. I straight-up said that I "didn't know how to feel about her," not that I like or dislike her. I can like Moen's Oh Joy Sex Toy comics without liking some of the shitty things she's said. I'm pretty sure we've had this exact conversation before in private, and it's still downright childish to stick your finger in your ears and ignore that pretty much everyone can and has done bad things and don't really need your help to whitewash them as perfect angels. A week ago you defended Hugh Fucking Hefner as an ally. I dunno if it's just me, but your "argue with everyone on every point" schtick has gotten really irritating.
  4. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    Maybe put that in a NSFW spoiler, Smart Jason. I'm also not really sure how I feel about Erika Moen, generally. I'd like to make note that the guy who wrote that fucking laughable defense of the game is a Gamergater, tagged the original post with Gamergate, and has been calling for Gamergate to defend Fire Emblem. Ethics in journalism, guys.
  5. Last night's premium stream was fucking incredible. Also, it's been two years since we last had Ryan Davis. Miss you, buddy.
  6. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    Mediocre at best. There's no religious opposition against it like there is in the west, but you can't get married and things like hospital visitation rights and co-renting are only being considered in any part of the country as of this February. There's also no laws against gay sex, but the law also considers gay people unable to have real sex, calling it "an imitation." Transgender rights go so far as being able to legally change your gender, but there's still huge problems with it. There's a mention on that wiki page of a transgender woman prisoner who, even having had sexual reassignment surgery, was still being held in a men's prison and treated as male. Culturally, Japan is really weird about representation. Someone I knew once positioned it as "Japan is fine with putting gay people in fiction, because Japan regards gay people as fictional." You see a surprising number of LGBT characters in things, but their sexuality is often played for laughs, treated as a teenage phase, considered perversion, or fetishized for a straight audience. I'm a sucker for trying almost any LGBT-focused Japanese media I can get my hands on, and I can count on one hand the amount of times I've actually seen a happy adult gay couple in anime, manga, or Japanese games. In terms of public figures, homosexuality is the kind of thing that is seen as sort of a... personal quirk? Not necessarily disliked, but you don't want to be gay or have relatives that are transgender or otherwise be connected to it. There's very much an idea that being LGBT is a novelty. The only LGBT celebrity mentioned on that wiki page is Matsuko Deluxe, which is kinda like if the most prominent LGBT celebrity in America were Divine. I wanna stress though... Japanese culture be damned. This is a Nintendo thing, not a Japan thing. There's been big strides in LGBT rights in Japan in the past little while, Nintendo is an international company, and regardless of the situation it's not really a matter of their intentions being misunderstood due to a cultural barrier, it's a case of their intentions being fundamentally fucking disgusting.
  7. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    I secretly want a deliberately inaccurate Robocop cartoon where Murphy's original name is Robert Coppola. Like how there was some English version of Astro Boy where they changed Tobio's name to Astor Boynton, except even dumber.
  8. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    Man, I really wish I hadn't mentioned the Fire Emblem thing here in any sort of positive light, because basically the way Nintendo is handling their first openly gay characters is utterly reprehensible. TL;DR: in Conquest version, one of your squadmates is openly lesbian. Female player characters can't romance her, but male ones can. See, she feels that her lesbianism is a weakness that makes her less of a woman, so dudetagonist drugs her drink with magic powder that makes her temporarily see men as women and women as men, which is used as the cornerstone in what is essentially magic gay conversion therapy. In the end, she falls for him, because of course she does. This might actually be the worst thing Nintendo has ever done.
  9. Happy Birthday!

    Happy birthday, Canada!
  10. So I know this place skews a little older than me, so it's likely that none of you have the nostalgia to care about this, but really want to see a postmortem on Neopets. For those who don't remember, Neopets is an online RPG-ish, Virtual Pet-ish, Gaia Online-ish thing launched in 1999 and meant specifically for kids. It's still going after sixteen years, and has generally aggregated to be one of the largest spaces meant for kids on the internet. And I mean for kids. There's a larger discussion to be had about making safe spaces for kids on the internet, but like... if you're under 13, you need to have your parents sign and in fax a form in to use the chat features on the site. Anyway, last year, Neopets got bought by Knowledge Adventure, the company that makes all that Jumpstart edutainment software. They severely downsized the staff without warning, firing community leaders who had been with the site for years as well as the entire creative team, leaving the site running on a skeleton crew. Site features also began breaking in ways that still haven't been addressed. As of yesterday, a server move turned off most of the word filters and kept the moderators from logging in, and within about fifteen minutes the entire site had become an amazing flash mob made of porn and people looking to score crystal meth. A bunch of people I follow on tumblr who were just the right age to still have fondness for the site began to break down everything they knew about what's been happening at Neopets, and it sounds like exactly the kind of trainwreck I'd love to read a book about.
  11. The Fanart Collective

    Fanart, fanart, fanart Some is good and some is bad Fanart, fanart, fanart Ask your mom or ask your dad You all know I have a thing for terrifying or inexplicable fanart, but I also like finding the goo stuff too. I figured it would be nice to have a catch-all thread for posting that sort of thing in without cluttering up the Comical Image thread. I'll get the ball rolling with some King of the Hill, because King of the Hill fanart is alway amazing.
  12. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    It was the name she used on her employee ID when she worked there, even, and she got banned while she was at a Pride event, on the same day as the SCOTUS decision. It was basically the worst possible PR move on Facebook's part.
  13. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    "Queer" is mostly a catch-all, in my experience. I occasionally use it as a self-description, but not often. It's also one of those N-word deals for me, where I don't like straight people using it to describe me, but that might just be because it was my parents' slur of choice. In other news this week: Bad News: Remember how Facebook added 56 non-binary gender options to the dropdown list a while back and got universal praise for the decision? The former employee responsible for the decision, a transgender woman, has been banned from the site due to their "real names" policy. Ugh. Good News: Scott Lively; the pastor who helped pass America's first anti-gay legislation, created Uganda's infamous "kill the gays" bill, and wrote a book about how the Nazis were founded by gay people; is being put on trial for Crimes Against Humanity. Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.
  14. Games Writing (Writing About Games)

    I'm reading them on a tablet, personally, and haven't touched the other magazine stuff, but Scroll came in both a PDF form (with loads of photos and graphic design) and an ebook form (mostly text with a few small photos) to cover just such an issue.
  15. Games Writing (Writing About Games)

    The Bible Adventures one is amazing.
  16. E3 2015

    IT'S (almost) THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN, FOLKS! In just two short weeks, we'll all get to worship at the altar of rampant consumerism and cheer at grown men announcing toys on a stage in front of increasingly elaborate projector setups. We're gonna be talkin' 'bout E3 in Thumbs IRC this year instead of Steam Chat. Remember how to join? I've got my traditional bingo card all set.
  17. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    The Onion is on fucking point today.
  18. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    To be honest marriage has never been quite as important as issues that are harder to rally behind and make changes to, namely protection against LGBT-focused hate crimes and domestic abuse, and I can't help but feel like it's going to be a lot harder to finally get that stuff taken care of. Sorry for shitting all over this; I really am super stoked.
  19. QUILTBAG Thread of Flagrant Homoeroticism

    On the one hand, I'm super stoked for you guys. On the other, I can't wait to hear about how homophobia is over just like sexism and racism.
  20. I feel like Cuphead knows what it's doing. It's got sort of a Mega Man or bullet hell feel to its gameplay, and those games are all about having slow, predictable character movement rather than trying to embellish it with extra frames of flourish that can mess with your timing. Having a character that moves like something from an era where everything was like that seems like a choice that they made very carefully in service to their gameplay.
  21. As someone who fucking loves very naive early animation and comics, I'm super stoked for Cuphead. I'm not really sure what's up with the sentiment of "they should have just done this other, completely different visual style instead of this one that they very clearly wanted to use and obviously put a lot of effort into nailing." I have to wonder if they'll go all the way with the visual jank of the stuff they're mimicking, ala Osamu Tezuka's Broken Down Film. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbUYVVmWESg I fell asleep during the cast, so I'm gonna have to relisten to it, but I did want to say I got stuck on a swinging gondola ferris wheel once. It had spun all the way around to the point where my gondola was at the very top of the ride and then broken down and needed to be serviced. I was stuck there for something like half an hour while it swayed in the wind.
  22. The Dancing Thumb (aka: music recommendations)

    Lately I've been looking for new music/rediscovering stuff I only listened to when I was a teenager, and finding some really surprisingly good stuff.