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Libertad! posted:Even though the guy's like a big businessman used to this, it's not kosher to make fun of people's names when we can't necessarily choose them when we're born (barring some cultural traditions). One might retort 'just legally change your name,' but by then you've grown used to it for nearly 2 decades. That man has a name most of us can only aspire to.
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TheTatteredKing posted:Missed opportunity to name your kid Richard, Cocks senior In high school I played sports against a kid named Guy Sack
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Man, the closest I've come to any of that is that I once worked with a guy named John Holmes.
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I know a guy named Richard William Reach. His AIM name was DickWillReach. He's awesome.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Man, the closest I've come to any of that is that I once worked with a guy named John Holmes. I currently work with a guy named that
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Nystral posted:I know a guy named Richard William Reach. His AIM name was DickWillReach. He's awesome. I knew a Richard Wanke.
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I have had the pleasure of knowing both a Constance Harden and a Richard Aycock.
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I once played a game called "GURPS."
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Bedlamdan posted:I had an asian TA in college literally named Bamboo Dong. Ah yes, sustainable growth.
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jadarx posted:I knew a Richard Wanke. I've got a friend who works with a, no joke, Richard Punches
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In college my friend named S. Beaver was put in a dorm room with M. Shaver.
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Bruceski posted:In college my friend named S. Beaver was put in a dorm room with M. Shaver. I would love if their kids got married and did the joint name approach: Beaver-Shaver.
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I had a Navy friend who had spent some unfortunate time as Seaman Schott.
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I knew one guy whose first name was Xev and another guy whose last name was Xeriax and I've always been angry that they weren't the same guy.
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One of the postgrads on my degree course was Richard Head.
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Kid in my Highschool was named Gaylord Inglebert Humperdink (He was special needs, so no one really had the balls to make fun of him for it), and one of my co-worker's email address was khunt@thing.tla
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A local urologist is named Dr. Leak.
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moths posted:I had a Navy friend who had spent some unfortunate time as Seaman Schott. I was cleaning out a filing cabinet in my last ship and found documentation of a Seaman Stane.
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Bedlamdan posted:I had an asian TA in college literally named Bamboo Dong. I can believe that because there is someone named Bamboo Dong who writes for Anime News Network. Either it is the same person or somehow there is 2 people in the world named Bamboo Dong.
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There's a guy in my office named Manny Orgas. Which is a perfectly fine name, were it not for the fact that the office's email naming convention scheme is [last name] + [first initial]
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http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=dick "Dick" didn't mean "penis" until at least 1891, and probably not widely used that way until some time after that.
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I've met a man named Richard Tucker. He did not go by his full given name.
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Auralsaurus Flex posted:I've met a man named Richard Tucker. He did not go by his full given name. Rich Tucker? idgi 
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MikeCrotch posted:Rich Tucker? idgi Dick Tucker
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That's enough dick jokes for the industry thread. Take it to the chat thread!
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ProfessorCirno posted:The actual reason is that Mike Mearls is just as much a shithead as they are. The problem isn't "Mearls was fooled into thinking they'd be good for the company," the problem is "Mearls is actually a representative of this industry in the first place." He absolutely stands by every lovely thing they've done. He has repented of Tarnowski, IIRC. (All it took was a racist screed about burqas!) Mike didn't seem to understand that people were less than forthcoming with him about information about the harassment because he was in direct contact with the perpetrator and basically wanted to run information by that person that would continue the harassment. I mean the main thing you have to understand with WotC is that the folks there have contractual restrictions on their speech and are otherwise motivated to tell you that poo poo tastes like ice cream. Other outfits will have their biases (and sadly, company interest in personal speech beyond basic human decency stuff is getting stronger) but WotC is where I have heard the phrase "non-disparagement clause" emanate from.
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Incidentally, on WotC and hateful speech: I learned yesterday from Mark Rosewater's blog that at tournaments, use of misogynistic or hateful speech is now against the rules - if you witness someone using slurs or stuff like 'that deck raped me' they encourage you to call over a judge to handle the situation. This, I think, is a real cool thing.
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Mors Rattus posted:Incidentally, on WotC and hateful speech: I learned yesterday from Mark Rosewater's blog that at tournaments, use of misogynistic or hateful speech is now against the rules - if you witness someone using slurs or stuff like 'that deck raped me' they encourage you to call over a judge to handle the situation. This, I think, is a real cool thing. Whoa, nice. I can't wait to finally be able to use this in tournaments instead of just calling people out on their poo poo.  e: just looked at his blog and didn't see anything about it. Link please? e2: thank you \/ \/ \/ Chill la Chill fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Apr 14, 2016 |
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Mors Rattus posted:Incidentally, on WotC and hateful speech: I learned yesterday from Mark Rosewater's blog that at tournaments, use of misogynistic or hateful speech is now against the rules - if you witness someone using slurs or stuff like 'that deck raped me' they encourage you to call over a judge to handle the situation. This, I think, is a real cool thing. Yeah, that is good news. And I think it calls for a bit of a reality check that could be hopeful or dismal, depending. This hobby has a lot of internal cultural problems, but it's not bad that we have these conversations. In other subcultures a lot of the same things and worse happen, but you've got barriers to talking about it. Generally, the scenes I've been in where passing on a technical skill or being in a set hierarchy are things, you've got bad poo poo going on people can't address because 1) you need to learn from the person being garbage; 2) coach says to shut up.
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MalcolmSheppard posted:He has repented of Tarnowski, IIRC. (All it took was a racist screed about burqas!) Link? MalcolmSheppard posted:Yeah, that is good news. And I think it calls for a bit of a reality check that could be hopeful or dismal, depending. This hobby has a lot of internal cultural problems, but it's not bad that we have these conversations. In other subcultures a lot of the same things and worse happen, but you've got barriers to talking about it. Generally, the scenes I've been in where passing on a technical skill or being in a set hierarchy are things, you've got bad poo poo going on people can't address because 1) you need to learn from the person being garbage; 2) coach says to shut up. I think a lot of those cultural problems stems from nerds being so backwaters about decency and language. Pulling them kicking and screaming into the 21st century is going to be...interesting, that's for sure.
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I waiting to see the first "Pro Tour Qualifer" level player or above catch a game loss for saying stuff that gets said pretty much on the regular by people not known as LSV. It's nice to paean to the Judge's authority but the de facto reality is not a lot of regular players are going to make waves in a (weakly) closed society.
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Gerund posted:I waiting to see the first "Pro Tour Qualifer" level player or above catch a game loss for saying stuff that gets said pretty much on the regular by people not known as LSV. It's nice to paean to the Judge's authority but the de facto reality is not a lot of regular players are going to make waves in a (weakly) closed society. Well, I'm more concerned that judges won't apply any real penalties as they should be. I know the judges working at certain local stores would do so but I know others won't.
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MalcolmSheppard posted:He has repented of Tarnowski, IIRC. (All it took was a racist screed about burqas!) Mike didn't seem to understand that people were less than forthcoming with him about information about the harassment because he was in direct contact with the perpetrator and basically wanted to run information by that person that would continue the harassment. I relayed (and found links for) a bunch of things at the request of several people and never heard back, IIRC. I was told that he was just gathering information for his boss and got asked some followup Qs, but that was it. Did he ever say anything publicly? Not that I don't believe he'd wash his hands of the Marxists are coming to impose Sharia law on gamers! guy, but still.
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Mors Rattus posted:Incidentally, on WotC and hateful speech: I learned yesterday from Mark Rosewater's blog that at tournaments, use of misogynistic or hateful speech is now against the rules - if you witness someone using slurs or stuff like 'that deck raped me' they encourage you to call over a judge to handle the situation. This, I think, is a real cool thing. This is a really good sign for the health of the hobby as a whole.
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Gerund posted:I waiting to see the first "Pro Tour Qualifer" level player or above catch a game loss for saying stuff that gets said pretty much on the regular by people not known as LSV. It's nice to paean to the Judge's authority but the de facto reality is not a lot of regular players are going to make waves in a (weakly) closed society. What's LSV mean in this context?
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paradoxGentleman posted:What's LSV mean in this context? Its a players name Luis Scott-Vargas.
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jivjov posted:This is a really good sign for the health of the hobby as a whole. Is it, though? I mean, they're admitting there's a problem, but I don't see much actual action being taken. People won't call anyone out on it. I mean, whatever happened with xbox live banning or suspending you for hate speech? That was a ~big deal~ a year or two ago and I don't think that was ever actually enforced. paradoxGentleman posted:What's LSV mean in this context? He is a wizard poker professional who is the only one I know of that isn't full of poo poo.
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Chill la Chill posted:Is it, though? I mean, they're admitting there's a problem, but I don't see much actual action being taken. People won't call anyone out on it. I mean, whatever happened with xbox live banning or suspending you for hate speech? That was a ~big deal~ a year or two ago and I don't think that was ever actually enforced. It is going to come down to individual judges being willing/able to make rulings on stuff like that stick...but the fact that the higher ups are willing to say "this is unacceptable behavior" at all is a great sign. And honestly, if people know about that blog post and know that they can call out toxic players, I really think they will.
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Chill la Chill posted:He is a wizard poker professional who is the only one I know of that isn't full of poo poo. Has Kibler done something lovely lately?
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