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I'm reading bell hooks right now and she keeps using "females"/"males" and "women"/"men" interchangeably, it keeps weirding me out in an otherwise good book. Anyway here are some character illustrations for Anachronox that I found in an old magazine and laughed at. Coming up with good names is hard, I guess!  
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There's a funny joke in there about how those are the "two genders" but I can't find the wording
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Apr 29, 2022 00:07
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Woebin posted:Anyway here are some character illustrations for Anachronox that I found in an old magazine and laughed at. Coming up with good names is hard, I guess! Man, do I miss Idle Thumbs.
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Apr 29, 2022 00:40
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Should have named her Vagina Bones
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Wanna poke that belly
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Woebin posted:I'm reading bell hooks right now and she keeps using "females"/"males" and "women"/"men" interchangeably, it keeps weirding me out in an otherwise good book. You should read Ancillary Justice and its sequels. All the characters are referred to with female pronouns because it's "translated" from the language of the fictional space empire of the setting, which does not have gendered pronouns. The books are also excellent, and this language quirk isn't even a major point in them.
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Hyperlynx posted:You should read Ancillary Justice and its sequels. All the characters are referred to with female pronouns because it's "translated" from the language of the fictional space empire of the setting, which does not have gendered pronouns. Also this is never explained, first your like “there is a lot of female characters in this book” then your like ooooooooooo language is a weapon.
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Apr 29, 2022 03:33
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Woebin posted:I'm reading bell hooks right now and she keeps using "females"/"males" and "women"/"men" interchangeably, it keeps weirding me out in an otherwise good book. laugh all you want but it was a great fuckin game
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Apr 29, 2022 04:31
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everydayfalls posted:Also this is never explained, first your like “there is a lot of female characters in this book” then your like ooooooooooo language is a weapon. There was a scene where a character is trying to guess which pronoune to use in another language and was like "ah they seem mad, I must have picked the wrong one" I really liked it because it reminded me of when I was learning English as a kid and did the same thing 
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(trying not to snicker as I spin my blindfolded friend) okay, the pinata's over there...
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Elissimpark posted:(trying not to snicker as I spin my blindfolded friend) okay, the pinata's over there... (Friend cracks the cat in half, spilling candy all over the ground) me: wait what? If that's a piñata, where's the ... HOLY gently caress! (Cut to some kid's birthday)
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Apr 29, 2022 06:25
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When I worked at a game store/video rental combo place, I printed a sign that said "NOW UNDER 24 HOUR SURVEILLANCE" and taped it on the mirror in the employee bathroom. Got the store manager pretty good with it. (No trouble or anything, we all had a good laugh.)
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Apr 29, 2022 06:31
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Hang in there, Baby!
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Apr 29, 2022 06:42
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Look what I'm whippin' now
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everydayfalls posted:Also this is never explained, first your like “there is a lot of female characters in this book” then your like ooooooooooo language is a weapon. It definitely is explained, at some point Breq literally says Radchaai doesn't have gendered pronouns. But the cool thing is that she defaults to female rather than male, because why the gently caress not? Also, from memory, only one character in the series has their gender (or at least sex) confirmed in any way, and I think that includes the Nilters: Seivarden, male. Hyperlynx has a new favorite as of 09:20 on Apr 29, 2022 |
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Hyperlynx posted:You should read Ancillary Justice and its sequels. All the characters are referred to with female pronouns because it's "translated" from the language of the fictional space empire of the setting, which does not have gendered pronouns. You mean from Finnish?
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Son of Rodney posted:I've put 90 hours in elden ring and never found her. What the gently caress. She's disguised as not a snake.
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Apr 29, 2022 10:46
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Paladinus posted:You mean from Finnish? Radchaai might be Finnish, I don't know. Maybe they won the Hyperwar in that timeline... I didn't know Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns! Cool.
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Apr 29, 2022 11:25
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The Lone Badger posted:She's disguised as not a snake. After checking out a guide I did in fact find her and did parts of her quests, just not after she transformed. Man, this game still has a lot of stuff to find, it's insane 
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Apr 29, 2022 11:43
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Hyperlynx posted:I didn't know Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns! Cool.
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Apr 29, 2022 12:04
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https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1519993598787399681?t=6fF-9gTjwOkxxCZTYhPXiw&s=19
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Rascar Capac posted:https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1519993598787399681?t=6fF-9gTjwOkxxCZTYhPXiw&s=19 LISTER!!!!
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LifeSunDeath posted:LISTER!!!! This is amazing. Red dwarf and napalm death. Like chocolate and peanut butter.
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Hyperlynx posted:I didn't know Finnish doesn't have gendered pronouns! Cool. Until recently, they didn't have gendered haircuts.
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knuthgrush posted:This is amazing. Red dwarf and napalm death. Like chocolate and peanut butter. If you're into enjoyable Red Dwarf spottings may I interest you in Death in Paradise. I was like who the gently caress is that quirky police man for a dozen episodes before I realized it was The Cat
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Rascar Capac posted:https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1519993598787399681?t=6fF-9gTjwOkxxCZTYhPXiw&s=19 Lister's seventeen year old, "crypto fascist" accusing self would approve.
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Rascar Capac posted:https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1519993598787399681?t=6fF-9gTjwOkxxCZTYhPXiw&s=19 ! ! !
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Rascar Capac posted:https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/status/1519993598787399681?t=6fF-9gTjwOkxxCZTYhPXiw&s=19 I went to a music festival at a brewery last weekend and at 4 pm between two local country acts, there was a punk/hardcore band. They were actually really good but had clearly chosen their edgiest songs, so while I was playing airplane and spinning around with my 3 year old daughter on the lawn they announced a song by saying "This is about killing someone with a knife and wearing their skin ONE TWO THREE FOUR"
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HenryJLittlefinger posted:I went to a music festival at a brewery last weekend and at 4 pm between two local country acts, there was a punk/hardcore band. They were actually really good but had clearly chosen their edgiest songs, so while I was playing airplane and spinning around with my 3 year old daughter on the lawn they announced a song by saying "This is about killing someone with a knife and wearing their skin ONE TWO THREE FOUR" My 3 year old nephew came up to me the other day & said "doo" and I was like nodding, okay where is this going, then he carefully uses his left hand to fold the fingers of his right hand into the devil's horns and starts growling "doo, doo hast, doo hast mik" while headbanging
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I heard Big Balls when I was 4 or 5 and ran around the house singing it and my parents and their friends couldn't stop from encouraging it.
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Carthag Tuek posted:My 3 year old nephew came up to me the other day & said "doo" and I was like nodding, okay where is this going, then he carefully uses his left hand to fold the fingers of his right hand into the devil's horns and starts growling "doo, doo hast, doo hast mik" while headbanging And then everyone stood up and started clapping
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:And then everyone stood up and started clapping If someone trained a kid on Rammstein I probably would.
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This maneuver is always successful without regard to the out cum.
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Apr 29, 2022 20:17
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:And then everyone stood up and started clapping Do you find it beyond belief that a toddler would imitate words and mannerisms to a song they heard
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Apr 29, 2022 20:41
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toddlers don't even exist. I would know, I'm a parent
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Preschoolers are basically parrots and I have no difficulty believing a goon is the sibling who never mated and has terrible taste in music.
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MY toddlers only recite lyrics from deep, meaningful songs (Fleetwood Mac), and they do NOT "headbang"
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Sandwich Anarchist posted:MY toddlers only recite lyrics from deep, meaningful songs (Fleetwood Mac), and they do NOT "headbang" My neighbours kid is going to be so broken when she works out the Venga bus is not in fact coming. All of those people jumping and for nothing.
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