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Being a person who rarely enjoys watching other people play games, I often forget that streaming exists. The idea of it outpacing conventions for modern game-selling is interesting though, just a sign of a changing world. I'd still rather go to a gaming convention than watch a stream, generally speaking, but most of the time I choose to do neither of those things and buy my games based on
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"A work should be judged on its quality, as determined by my life experiences as a straight white dude" often also results in dismissal and denial of the works of people outside that experience. It's phrased in some kind of coded language to pretend it's some quality of the work that's being dismissed when it's ultimately the lived experience of difference that is being judged--basically howtosuppresswomenswriting.txt. There's also often the difficulty in explaining why, for instance, it might be interesting to have a game be about a group of African superheroes defending their secret hidden country and the issues they are facing in deciding (or not) to engage the outside world to someone who has only ever sought the American experience. The worst conclusion to draw from any misfire is that "things with X" don't sell, like saying Catwoman is proof that black (female) action leads can't draw audiences.
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Apr 25, 2018 11:42
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Subjunctive posted:In orchestras they do blind auditions, and it really changed things. You could do blind writing samples too. You can do blind writing samples but a lot more of the person's identity comes through in those, even from subtle things. There was a joke thread that made the news recently about male writers describing female characters which highlighted a lot of the ways one's gender or sexuality are hard to disguise in the gaze employed in writing. Word choice can often tell you someone's national origin even if they're trying to set a scene in the US. Things like that. Then of course you get to serious differences of opinion in what constitutes "good" writing. Some people like Faulkner, some like Hemingway, and this is a case where both sides can be right at the same time, but the hiring committee are the ones who get to enforce a preference. (This sort of thing is vexing in my RL job which is college admissions, where the term "Objective Standard" should be followed by a ten minute long peal of desperate laughter)
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May 23, 2018 15:58
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homullus posted:Those sound like good reasons to use blind writing samples though? Why would you interpret those as good reasons? It means that when you say "blind" they...aren't actually. And reviewers tend to pick writing that adheres to their unconscious (or conscious) biases.
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May 23, 2018 19:24
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Comrade Gorbash posted:I agree that lack of transparency is a major cause of all this. Creators are often too reticent to lay out budgets, and especially too reticent to budget in a cushion, and the lack of shared knowledge mean creators often have to learn this stuff individually, so the same mistakes keep happening. It doesn't help that budget secrecy is just "business normal" for most enterprises--there are good and many bad reasons for doing that. And then of course those Kickstarter people who put something honest in their budget like 'minimal salary for working' get nailed to the wall for "cheating" backers by expecting to be paid for their labor. It's not just RPG Kickstarters, independent authors who mistakenly admit that some of the KS money would to towards paying rent have gotten huge pushback for...wanting to make a living.
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May 29, 2018 20:22
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I thought the Mekton Zeta relaunch also included a system revamp/update but it's been a while since they talked any specifics and I can't really remember what was suggested. I know it seemed relatively crunchy to me but that is what a lot of mech-related players would want. He's posted another update since explaining that they have to do some kind of bulk process with Paypal to get refunds out, and that is to avoid at least the customer (but realistically also R Tal) being charged fees. I'm okay with that and I appreciate the good faith effort at least. I wish they'd handled this project better--I know there were other things going on, and maybe Pondsmith was just overcome with enthusiasm and/or wanted to get on this brand new (at the time) Kickstarter train to do a pet project that blew up bigger than planned and required a lot more commitment than anticipated. I'm not expecting any eventual release but I'm not really mad about it either.
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Jun 27, 2018 16:16
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I'm also on (at least parts) of SA because it allows adults to be in the room and has little patience for creepshows. I also actually value the dead gay aspect of SA--RPGnet has some good content, but threads move so goddamn fast if they're even a little bit popular. You manage to catch something on the first couple pages, read through, work up a response and there's already another page or two--it's really hard to participate and with so many people talking it can make actual conversation difficult. But still good on RPGnet for this new modding policy. That makes me wonder if SA would go the same route, but then again direct MAGA support is pretty clearly relegated to D&D and creepy MAGA nonsense in other fora already isn't tolerated.
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Nov 2, 2018 05:51
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So Steve Jackson games is apparently trying to have a convention. Fnordcon they're calling it. I'm not particularly excited by most of it but I suppose I am slightly surprised they weren't doing something like this a long time ago. Doesn't Palladium somehow still manage to host a yearly convention of some kind? Anyway though $40 for a chance to play Munchkin is an opportunity I think I can miss.
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Jan 24, 2019 23:35
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My experience with anime fandom was more chuds, less maga--this was several years back and at that point they were mostly just pasty white kids with zero self awareness of how privileged they were to claim they were "not into politics." If there's a harder right-wing streak now I suppose I am not surprised, patriarchal entitlement is a hell of a drug. Of course, as loud as those assholes are, youth voices seem to be pushing back pretty hard against regressive values if one trusts opinion polling.
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Mar 15, 2019 02:01
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I think you’re thinking of Phil Brucato, who is probably more likely to the stalker/harasser. Rein*hagen might have been bothered by some of the same goth types that used to bother Anne Rice, basically wanting their scene to be real. He’s still a douche though.
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Hey, guess who's trying desperately to keep their heads above water just a little bit longer? Also I think I had a friend back in the day who played The Game--he had a very similar (smaller) map on his wall and I would see him filling out his turns sometimes. 'Straight up Cold War' has never really been my jam so I didn't play, but my area had a lot of 80s-90s vets who played a lot of gay black hitler alternate history bullshitting with each other all the time. Also from several pages back, Ernie Gygax's story sounds depressingly similar to a lot of folks from my hometown--they were handed alcohol less readily but definitely had access by early high school. A lot of entertainment just revolved around drinking, they didn't really have money or access to coke the way Ernie did. Opioids were a few years away yet. I have lost touch with that region but I worry for some of the folks I used to know. occamsnailfile fucked around with this message at 23:28 on May 15, 2019 |
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May 15, 2019 23:23
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I'm not sure what point he's trying to make--that criticizing the white supremacy in mainstream American culture is somehow undermining science?
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May 18, 2019 16:45
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Mismeasure actually predates Bell Curve by over a decade which makes Bell Curve's lovely science all the stupider. See also: The Flynn Effect for more reading on 'IQ'. I get the notion of INT being intended to be 'smarts' as an abstract but it covers a lot more than STR does as 'brawn', including things like critical reasoning, spatial ability, memory, and critically, especially for D&Dalikes, it covers 'knowledge' which is where it becomes really problematic. In fact, IQ = knowledge is a fundamental flaw in IQ testing since the beginning and through now. Every attempt to make an IQ test so far has come from a western, white, middle-class knowledge framework, and then denied that it was doing so. 'Being educated in a particular setting' != 'smart'.
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Aug 16, 2019 18:41
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People complaining about "cancel culture" sound exactly like the shitheads whining about "political correctness" in the 90s, except that now they occasionally face meaningful consequences for their lovely behavior. Even individuals who aren't direct harassers complaining are doing so because they want to preserve the culture of privilege that insulated them. This also includes women they use as fig leaves, who are trying to win some degree of secondary privilege by being "the cool one," in much the way that marginalized people have often collaborated with oppressors to gain some sliver of advantage.
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This is an article explaining the appeal of the abusive depictions in 50 Shades of Gray to Christian women in particular. In particular it goes into how victims of toxic or abusive situations sometimes seek depictions of them in order to rationalize or have some sense of control of the narrative--not necessarily healthy responses, but comprehensible ones. Responses about which they will get extremely defensive if called out on their unhealthiness. This is obviously not unique to 50 Shades fandom. I don't know HGMO/Bliss Stage well enough to suggest it might be similar but on a very surface reading it seems like it might be. I've also seen people get really bent out of shape about fanfic ships. Like completely incapable of simply ignoring alternate interpretations. Sometimes takes the form of attempted erasure of queer not even subtext, but text, such as the end of Korra. Sometimes it's just that they cannot handle Jean dating anyone but Cyclops, and will write about Jean dating Wolverine as abusive or psychotic or whatever other bad words they can think of to try and convince people that they're having fun writing fan-made porn based on funny books wrong. Those accusations get particularly ugly when you shift to writing about, say, Kitty Pryde in any capacity. Or queer ships. Or stories addressing trauma. That's kind of where this 'anti' sentiment comes in, and I've seen it, though more pre-tumblr as my interest in fanfic largely faded. That's not to dismiss the existence of genuinely vile material, it exists, and deserves opposition. But who has the time to wade through vileness to determine the genuinely unworthy? I haven't seen even the smallest whiff of whatever thing is going on with Muir but without any context I am completely unsurprised that something like this is being dug up and paraded--she's an extremely online young woman whose first novel has made a huge splash, and there are going to be sour grapes among others who never managed to escape the fanfic mines and receive "legitimate" praise. I put that in scare quotes because I don't think fanfic is illegitimate, but that's a separate discussion. occamsnailfile fucked around with this message at 04:52 on Nov 29, 2019 |
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MadScientistWorking posted:Most of the stuff surrounding Benjamin was just lies though. More often than not what happened is people like Arivia would go ballistic over stuff that never happened. 1. "Benjanun." 2. There's quite a lot of documentation out there of the individual's bad behavior. Like as often as you want to make vague allegations about Paizo you should be wary of making that charge.
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