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The Old Hack
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I was replying to Vorlonagent who said that there might be something concerning about it and failed to realise that you might not be addressing that particular question. And I still don't see what should be concerning about it. *scratches head* Sorry about the confusion.
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Some of the best forms of entertainment do not involve very much technology. Tabletop roleplaying involves such sophisticated things as writing paper, pencils and dice. And the creativity of a storyteller. And in some of these games you even make do without the dice. In fact, come to think of it, all you really need is the storyteller.
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I still entirely fail to see how it is concerning. Maybe I am using the wrong version of that thing which supposedly defines mental illness. *shrugs* I handled it rather differently in a similar situation. I just looked at the guy in question and told him, "When I want your opinion of how I am supposed to play the games I like, I'll be sure to ask for it." He didn't comment on it again. Then again, I tend to get rude and unpleasant when I am pushed.
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Hm. I can see what you mean, but Tedd has gone way past these traits by now. He has had a girlfriend for quite a while now. He is more and more open to the world even when you take his occasional obsessions into science (or SCIENCE!) into account. This may be the explanation but if it is I hope Mr. Verres begins to show signs of noticing before long.
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I admit I don't see how. *scratches head* Hm. As in he may presumably be considered more responsible for how he thinks and acts? While I agree that this is important, I still don't quite see your point.
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This reminds me of a gaffe once committed by some hapless person in the Copenhagen office of tourism. Apparently they were really reaching to find something interesting to say about one of our suburbs. Then someone noted that they had the oldest 'ordinary' housing building in the entire region still standing, probably because inner Copenhagen burned down with depressing regularity during the pre-renaissance period. So they wrote about this in a folder for tourists. The problem was that the French version of this stated that this was Copenhagen's oldest 'maison ordinaire.' Which unfortunately in French is used as a euphemism for brothel. Not quite what was intended.
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Marvelous, marvelous man. I wish more people paid attention to him. *sigh* Mind, he had his flaws, too. But I really admire him for his good points. (Though possibly the most controversial idea of mine ever was when I disagreed with him. He is reputed to have said or quoted, "A penny saved is a penny earned." That made me think and suddenly I realised he was wrong. A penny saved is worth more than a penny earned. The penny saved isn't subject to taxation. That was the point where I went completely off the rails and started to speculate on whether this could be considered tax evasion and how the Danish Bureau of Taxation could deal with that. For example, if you bought things on sale, clearly the DBT could demand that the price reduction be taxed. For example, you saved 200 crowns from buying a cheaper CD player, obviously you owed a percentage of that in taxes. Also, if it could be established that you owned a car but used public transport to save money, these savings too should be taxed. And so forth.) (For some reason, when I told a friend of mine about this idea, he told me to never, ever, ever go to work for the Bureau of Taxation. Clearly, I had far too many insane ideas to be allowed to work for them. And so the notion of enforcing taxation on the saved penny died its sad but probably deserved death.)
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I don't quite agree. I think the point is that Ed Verres has to realise that not being cisgender is not 'unhealthy' or 'a disease.' Still, I suppose it could be worse. He could think that being gay or noncis was an abomination in the eyes of God. *sigh*
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That's a clever alarm system. So whenever you heard someone in the Nile go, "AAAAARGH AAAAAARRRGHH I AM BEING EATEN BY A CROCODILE" you knew there were crocodiles in the vicinity. In fact, I hear Disney World uses that very same alarm system today.
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Surely nothing so drastic will be required. We can just make do with the preexisting alarm systems we have like the one on Hawaii... ...on second thought, let's by all means get dragon sirens. And do some failure point analysis on existing systems, and upgrades too. Pharaoh, how did you guys do it in ancient Egypt? Did you have criers and semaphore systems atop the pyramids?
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Agreed on both counts. Well said.
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http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=2453
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Ah! Got it. My apologies. Incidentally, Arthur just confirmed for me that he views magic's existence as dangerous and detrimental to humanity. That "Better the enemy we know" line of his just about said it all. Also, I am going to be very interested to see how the three of them will function now that they are on the same side.
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WoM said, "This logic is insufficient." That looks like disagreement to me.
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Oh come on. Everyone knows that that was when they held the first Indy race.
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You are entirely within your rights to dislike snow. I can deal with that much snow and more than that, I've been privileged to deal with several feet of snow left behind by a blizzard, but that doesn't mean that I like snow nor that I ever will.
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I just finished a post about time periods and events that transformed our world and my immediate reaction to this was a confused wondering of how there could possibly have been an Indy race back in 500 A. D.
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It can be done. There was an amazing book series set in Rome around 73 AD that was written as noir pulp fiction. It was well researched and got everything historically right while at the same time written in a hilariously anachronistic 1930s hard-hitting two-fisted detective style. I wish I could remember the name of the author but it escapes me at the moment. I understand that unfortunately the TV series made of it got nearly everything wrong. It made the smart and independent heroine into an appalling witless save-me tofu princess, for example. But I still think that it could have been really good if they had gotten a decent producer and director to do it. As to things having not changed enough, it is amazing what a difference two years can make if it is the right two years. Back in 2002 I spent some time thinking about how I could hardly recognise the world of its day compared to the one I used to live in. I suspect that many Americans would have said the same thing in, say, November 1942. There are more examples of this even in our lifetimes if we stop and think about it...
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Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, No escape from reality. Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see, I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy, Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low, Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
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At times that is doable. Given that I am an objectionable old hack, my own preferred manner is not to turn the other cheek but to ideally use the other guy's momentum against them in a judo throw to send them flying. And if that turns out to not be enough, then to hit back with much more force than they used and ideally break the arm they used to hit me with. Yeah, it may sound excessive to some, but what the hey, it worked against the Nazis.
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Justin owes Melissa exactly two things. And one of them is jack. She may not have outed him maliciously, but she still outed him. And afterwards she stalked him obsessively for years. While I hope Justin will someday get fully over his anger, he damn well has the right to do so in his own time and as he himself heals. And even then he has no obligation whatsoever to 'start over.' He might forgive her all the way -- I hope he does -- but he does not have to do anything whatsoever he himself does not feel any urge to do.
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See? So easily resolved, all of this! Dan doesn't want his characters to suffer through drama!
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It's okay. I've mostly gotten over them now. I just don't like to have them poked at.
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...it is not tolerant. I placed it in quotation marks deliberately. It is denial, which is completely different. "Your identity is a delusion and you will get better." And yeah, a daily kick in the stomach is better than daily torture with red hot needles, but is it good? Well, that was what quite a few posters back then did, Tangent most certainly included, and it got really, REALLY old.
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I remember that argument. I felt it was particularly annoying because it stated that "Mother believes child's homosexuality is a 'phase' that will pass" is the same as "Mother accepts child's homosexuality and supports their way of living." These two are not the same. In fact, the former is rather like not accepting that your child is transgender, continually deadnaming them and being 'tolerant' of their 'foibles.' Then, of course, we have examples of the 'easy resolution' between Justin and Melissa, Adrian and Pandora, the current tension between Tedd and Mr. Verres as well as Susan's continuing struggles with her father's adultery. Oh yeah, not to mention the 'easy resolution' between Mr. Verres and Adrian. It is obvious that Dan has no idea of character drama and writes in much the same way as Laurell K. Hamilton or Stephanie Meyer. Feh!
