James

Third burning building analogy of this discussion! I mainly bring that up because I made the first one because of how very smart I am. Yours is good, though. (Sorry, I'm awful.) ----- This stuff keeps seeming like it's winding down, then there's some new burst of terribleness; a little explosion of putrid shit. I find it draining to witness, and I'm not even getting involved in any real way (to my discredit). I can't imagine having to put up with this kind of nonsense (though not always so high-profile) for a large portion of my life.

Wait, Chris is younger than me? Fuck. BECAUSE HE SEEMS LIKE SUCH AN OLD MAN, YOU SEE. Happy birthday Chris Remo.

It looks like everyone gets ten invites to hand out, so there should be plenty to go round. So, thread readers of the future, if you have any interest in this at all, just speak up and I'm sure someone will sort you out. (In other words, I have ten that I don't know what to do with.)

The lack of horizontal scrolling killed my terrible not-really-a-joke response.

THANKS E-PAL. One day you'll realize how your taste is an affront to all things decent and pure. Incidentally, since I'm using a different username than usual, this is the thing that it is: PJM

I like monospace just fine for coding and command prompts and all that, but for more human text I find it pretty weird. Anyway, if we can put our typeface dispute behind us I would gladly receive any invitations you have to give. Well, just one, but it sounds fancier how I said it.

Yes, but ostensibly with better policies and a less ethically compromising (albeit currently undefined) funding model. Also, an ugly monospace font like everyone's passing typewritten notes to one another.

Yeah, the openness and careful consideration are definitely appreciated.

My tweets are neither frequent nor high-quality, but I wouldn't mind an invitation if there are still any going.

If they can put a stop to the "doxxing", that would be a pretty major fucking win in my book. Of course it's not nearly the whole problem, but it's an outrage I'm sure we'd all be glad to see the back of.

Fact whose fun-ness is in a state of quantum uncertainty: The dog that was the model for the original His Master's Voice painting came from Kingston upon Thames, which is just down the road from me and is where I do the majority of my cinema-visiting. Also a bunch of kings were crowned there like a thousand years ago (no hyperbole). It also has a completely nondescript stone. Anyway, ace posters. The latest one is brilliant.

Hahaha, those are brilliant. You're pretty hardcore, Dibs.

It's a bit like medieval people buying indulgences (although looking that up it appears those weren't the straight-forward absolutions I was lead to believe they were). Or a product of capitalism: everything can be bought, even good character. Not that I think that the end result is bad; merely that it doesn't demonstrate anything especially good about the donators. Character isn't a simple formula where you put more into one side than the other and come out A-OK. I mean, we should all give to charity if we can. Doing so doesn't make us angels.

Jesus fucking Christ.

Wow.

Could it be that the totally non-sexist medium they're so valiantly defending has left them ill-equipped to conceive of women in any other context?

I don't really follow any YouTube personalities (I find most of them pretty obnoxious (which isn't to say I don't enjoy dumb or base things)), so my brain totally conflates JonTron, TotalBiscuit and CynicalBrit (and possibly others). I've been finding recent discussion pretty confusing. Argument to moderation is something I have a tendency towards (although not in this instance, thankfully), but yeah, it's a fallacy. The truth isn't always in the middle, but it's easy to seem like you're being level-headed and more mature than those at the extremes. Kind of like how it seems cooler to be snooty about things than to be enthusiastic for them.

It was in the episode 173 thread. Nachimir's screenshot is hilarious and distressing in equal measure.

Like, add to favourites.

A) It's probably lost to time It was specific to particular forum software (phpBB, I think) C) I could probably knock something together for a specific forum if you wanted D) The code would be bad but don't worry about that E) I imagine several people have already done a better job F) I kind of want to do it anyway Some modern forum software actually has in-built mute functionality, so it's worth checking for that. That said, it can be helpful to know that someone has posted, just not what they posted. For context and all that.

No, melodica version AKA the definitive rendition:

I made my own Greasemonkey script to do something similar to a specific user on another forum once. That was mainly because I realized my constant conflicts with him were probably quite annoying for everyone else, though.

It's no worse than cheeseburgers. They come from Cheeseburg, you know.

Oh yeah, congratulations too, I guess. Though I do feel kind of jilted after that special time we spent together in the Destiny Alpha. Did that mean nothing to you? (All ten or so minutes of it.)

Great episode. Cool comic; thanks for linking to it. The thing that resonated with me the most in the latest episode of Tropes vs Women (but which apparently didn't strike the same chord with a couple of people earlier in this thread) was this: It's something I've felt for some time now – I've been uneasy about fictional accounts of oppression that are clearly framed as bad, but which nevertheless felt exploitative in their own right – but it was something I had difficulty succinctly expressing. It seems so obvious now that I can hardly believe this ever gave me trouble, but that's how these things often go. At one point I think I babbled about works having to "earn the right" to include such grim subject matter, but I quickly realized that that was crass and didn't effectively convey what I meant. The above quote really hits the nail on the head. Without critique, it's just colour. It's ambience. It's the wallpaper on the room the story happens in. The author pays lip service to the injustice, but the lack of thought and care put into such a serious topic is kind of insulting. A lot of the talk pages and pages back was about context. The accusation levelled at Sarkeesian is that she ignores context. Context is important, but context isn't just where something sits in the world of the story; it's also where it sits in the world of the audience, and where it sits in the substance of the story, how the story treats it. To invoke real human horrors just to establish a tone is vulgar. Sarkeesian isn't ignoring context; rather, she's considering a wider context than her critics. Nothing is off-limits for art, but artists have a responsibility to be mindful of their subjects, and treat sensitive topics with the care they deserve.