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    animalia reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story Wednesday February 13, 2019   
    Maybe it might have in the 1970s.
    But most government work enforces No Smoking rules now.
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    animalia got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Friday February 1, 2019   
    Especially when they are based on inaccurate and/or outdated information.
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    animalia reacted to CritterKeeper in Story Friday October 26 2018   
    I love Dan's commentary about whether to leave out the swearing or not.
    I suspect Rhoda will be even less likely to get detention for her outburst than angry-Diane or angry-Susan would be.  She looks scary!
    I do hope it's only temporary....although Rhoda going off on a long furious rant is appealing too....like  watching a kitten being fierce!
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    animalia reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story Monday October 29, 2018   
    We thought Rhoda was a guppy swimming with sharks.
    It turns out that she is a Piranha.
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    animalia reacted to Stature in Story Monday October 29, 2018   
    It sure is a big 180, that I am still skittish. 
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    animalia reacted to hkmaly in NP Friday Oct 19 2018   
    Dan wouldn't like to reveal how NEW Pandora would look like, but maybe he can show OLD Pandora? He can do anything he wants with non-canon timeline ...
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    animalia reacted to hkmaly in Story Wednesday September 26, 2018   
    ... is the elephant still there?
    How much of the class she was supposed to be in already passed?
    And Diane, unfortunately, learning about your mistakes is necessary step to fix them. Yes, I know, I would also prefer some other way.
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    animalia got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story Wednesday September 19, 2018   
    It’s just I wish I had thought of it a few days ago. I realize it would have been useful for a discussion in another thread. But I got upset and the idea of using this paradox as a metaphor that could allow both sides to bridge the gap without upsetting each other never occurred to me.
     
    #hindsight
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    animalia reacted to Tom Sewell in Story Wednesday September 19, 2018   
    No, but I have heard that you can never cross the same river twice. And I had a computer where I eventually replaced every part except the casing and the power supply.
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    animalia reacted to hkmaly in Story Wednesday September 19, 2018   
    His name was Solan. She gave him to a group of centaurs after the death of his father, Borias, who was killed in combat against a warrior in Xena's employ.
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    animalia reacted to Tom Sewell in Story Wednesday September 19, 2018   
    Well, Lucy could actually be honest about her feelings to Diane. But of course, those things don't happen in EGS unless there's something like an attack by a Spider Vampire, or getting invited to Grace's next birthday party.. Or maybe a mysterious floating woman telling Lucy to do it.
    Adrian obviously has to come into this story in a big way, but when is another question. It's not established whether either Diane or Lucy is taking one of Adrian's classes this semester.
    Pandora could advise Lucy at any time from her return, but I don't see her up to marking Lucy or anyone else for awhile.Jerry reset during the last spring break, and he didn't show up as Zeus until New Year's. Pandora's "refresh"  should make her recovery faster, but it's only been three days, and the last comic in Sister 3 took place at "an unknown time."
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    animalia reacted to Scotty in Story Wednesday September 19, 2018   
    Lucy's telling herself that it's too late and to just give up, but maybe she'll make one last ditch effort to finally tell Diane how she feels? I dunno if Diane will be able to return those feelings though, worst case scenario is it ends like Justin and Melissa, with them parting ways, or they actually talk about it and they remain friends like Elliot and Sarah.
     
    Lucy's issue is that she got caught up on hoping that one day Diane would have the same feelings for her despite holding in her feelings for Diane which started when she denied repeating the "I wish you were a boy" comment. Diane had pretty much held onto the whole idea of finding the right guy that she could have a family with and while her methods of doing have certainly not had the result she was hoping for, that was her goal. You could say that Lucy using the dates to be close to Diane in the hopes that something more could develop might be selfish, but love is illogical and Lucy fell into the same trap with Diane that Justin did with Elliot, only it evolved into being more like George was to Justin, even Lucy becoming nicer to Rhoda later is a lot like how George changed his attitude towards Elliot after Justin said Elliot wasn't his boyfriend.
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    animalia got a reaction from hkmaly in NP September 10, 2018   
    First off I feel like I am often bad at explaining my own arguments so I often quote others. This was clearly a mistake. I am trying to start over.
    Second I want to preface this by saying something that while I feel should be obvious, but too often isn’t. No I don’t know how you feel. And this is only natural because I’m not you. The best I can try to do is try to imagine how I would feel in your place, or draw from the closest experience I have but even then no two people are exactly the same and no one will ever be able to know exactly how another feels. The best we can do is try to empathize.
    Second what do you suggest as an alternative? I am not saying that we cannot try to be respectful to the cultures we borrow from. People should ALWAYS try to be respectful to the cultures they borrow from, But what happens when people become to afraid of mesing things up that they don’t even bother to interact with other cultures? 
    Speaking off drawing from our own experiences let me talk about a VERY personal experience. Because I can relate to that fear metaphorically through my fear of romantic interactions and the various rules involved with them.
     
    There is nothing I desire more in the world then to have a satisfing and emotionally fulfilling romantic relationship with someone. But at the same time my idea of dating someone who isn’t a friend is word for word the same as what Eliot and Susan have said. Now add to this the rule that you don’t want to pester someone who doesn’t have an interest in you, which is something that I can respect. I wouldn’t want to be hounded merciless by someone else either. Well with all of these complex rules I have all but resigned myself to the fact that I am likely to remain single. Why? Because of all the obstacles to a relationship. I’d have to make a friend who happens to be a girl. And yes I do mean happens. It won’t work if I go looking for it too deliberately. I don’t even make REGULAR friends easily enough. I feel like people toss around that word to casually. I would then have to fall in love. And here’s the real kicker for me. BECAUSE I can appreciate the desire of people not to be pestered I can only ask her out once. After that, (assuming we could remain friends) I would say that if she changes her mind to let me know about it but don’t expect me to ask again, no matter how much time has past because I don’t want to be a pest. All of this time I would be dealing with the fact that it is ENTIRELY POSSIBLE SHE FORGOT that I said she would have to be the one to tell me if her feelings change, as I am ill equiped to notice what she is feelings unless she comes out and tells me. And I know this firgering it thing is something that can happen because I will often preface a conversation with “tell me if x” only for my folks to forget it mid conversation. Combine it with the fact that I’d be so concerned about  pestering het that I’d never bring it up again because I have now been told this is something not to do. And I only have one chance.  This is because my deafult and really only way of dealing with conversations is tell me if something I do or say bugs you and I will stop it.  I will treat you the same way. At the same time no topic is off of conversation for ever. Because some topics that bug people on one day may not bug them when their in another mood. But that means that a topic like this that I am not allowed to approach multiple times is impossible for me to deal with besides the one shot approach.
     
     If it isn’t clear what this has to do with being so afraid of messing things up they stop bother to interact interact with other cultures, I will make things clear.
     
    Here I go. Trying to navigate the complex rules of what we are and we are not allowed to borrow from other cultures and why the frustration of dealing with such a thing might lead people to give up reminds me of my own frustrations with the various romantic rules have disusded me from even trying. And here is what happens when people are discouraged from even trying to reach out across other cultures. When people discouraged from trying to reach out across cultures, people will end up not understanding other cultures. Which leads to even more ignorance and isolation. 
     
     
     
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    animalia reacted to detrius in Story Friday September 14, 2018   

    http://egscomics.com/comic/2014-07-28
    Posting this felt relevant for some reason.
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    animalia got a reaction from ChronosCat in Story Friday September 14, 2018   
    So are you suggesting that Lucy has a crush on Diane? I kind of got that vibe as well but didn’t want to make assumptions.
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    animalia reacted to weirdee in NP, Wednesday September 12, 2018   
    That sucks. Nobody has even had For Real Sex yet, and the person having had the most implied "action" is Raven lol

    What's wrong with having big tits and chiseled abs and small clothing....
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    animalia reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in NP, Wednesday September 12, 2018   
    You have offended someone.
    We won't say who you offended.
    We won't say what you did that was offensive to them.
    We won't say what you must change before we will change our judgement.
    Now stop doing the things so objectionable that we can't even say what they were.

    Criticism at its most constructive.
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    animalia got a reaction from The Old Hack in NP September 10, 2018   
    Fair enough. Thank you for meeting me half way.
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    animalia reacted to The Old Hack in NP September 10, 2018   
    My opinion of that is entirely irrelevant in most cases. It depends on the people of the cultures he is borrowing from and their identity. Gaiman could be perfectly respectful of Norse mythology but might unintentionally have insulted or misused myths of, say, the Cherokee. What matters is if you have a cultural identity and the writer dresses it up in clownface and makes it do inappropriate acts in the name of entertainment. Let's say someone makes a story in which George Washington is a transvestite stripper and prostitute with artificial oversize buckteeth as well as a complete coward. This is just a vague feeling of mine, but I bet that at least some Americans might feel a bit uncomfortable as the rest of the (non-American) audience howls with laughter and agree what utter prats these revolutionaries were.
    Understood and accepted. You couldn't have known what a massive trigger Shriver's arguments were for me.
    Now that I can understand and empathise with and I apologise for completely missing your point. And there are many valid parallels. Unfortunately this is a signal to noise ratio problem, one which the Internet unfortunately tends to amplify due to the presence of trolls and attention seekers. The argument "they are just looking for reasons to be offended" is not wholly untrue, because every legitimate cause with people who are genuinely trying to deal with a problem will attract parasites who do just that.
    If your argument is "please try to understand that I am doing my best and that I can stumble," I can only say that I respect that and will do my best. I am truly sorry that communication failed in this instance even if it did prove an inadvertent example of exactly what you meant.
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    animalia got a reaction from Entropy in NP September 10, 2018   
    @The Old Hack I think you missed a couple of points, for example.
    “In 2013, I published Big Brother, a novel that grew out of my loss of my own older brother, who in 2009 died from the complications of morbid obesity. I was moved to write the book not only from grief, but also sympathy: in the years before his death, as my brother grew heavier, I saw how dreadfully other people treated him – how he would be seated off in a corner of a restaurant, how the staff would roll their eyes at each other after he’d ordered, though he hadn’t requested more food than anyone else. 
    I was wildly impatient with the way we assess people’s characters these days in accordance with their weight, and tried to get on the page my dismay at how much energy people waste on this matter, sometimes anguishing for years over a few excess pounds. Both author and book were on the side of the angels, or so you would think.
    But in my events to promote Big Brother, I started to notice a pattern. Most of the people buying the book in the signing queue were thin. Especially in the US, fat is now one of those issues where you either have to be one of us, or you’re the enemy. I verified this when I had a long email correspondence with a “Healthy at Any Size” activist, who was incensed by the novel, which she hadn’t even read. Which she refused to read. No amount of explaining that the novel was on her side, that it was a book that was terribly pained by the way heavy people are treated and how unfairly they are judged, could overcome the scrawny author’s photo on the flap.
    She and her colleagues in the fat rights movement did not want my advocacy. I could not weigh in on this material because I did not belong to the club. I found this an artistic, political, and even commercial disappointment – because in the US and the UK, if only skinny-minnies will buy your book, you’ve evaporated the pool of prospective consumers to a puddle.
    I worry that the clamorous world of identity politics is also undermining the very causes its activists claim to back. As a fiction writer, yeah, I do sometimes deem my narrator an Armenian. But that’s only by way of a start. Merely being Armenian is not to have a character as I understand the word. ... 
    Efforts to persuasively enter the lives of others very different from us may fail: that’s a given. But maybe rather than having our heads taken off, we should get a few points for trying. After all, most fiction sucks. Most writing sucks. Most things that people make of any sort suck. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make anything. 
    The answer is that modern cliché: to keep trying to fail better. Anything but be obliged to designate my every character an ageing five-foot-two smartass, and having to set every novel in North Carolina. 
    We fiction writers have to preserve the right to wear many hats – including sombreros.”
    Basically she did all that stuff you said she should do and she constantly tries to better. People get outraged DESPITE that.
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    animalia reacted to Pharaoh RutinTutin in Story Wednesday September 12, 2018   
    I am having trouble keeping score in this blame game.
    And despite the EGS Standard Operating Procedure, I don't see how we will be able to blame this one on Tedd.
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    animalia reacted to ChronosCat in NP September 10, 2018   
    I have mixed feelings about this one . On the one paw, I agree with the point Dan is trying to make. On the second paw I'm tempted to argue semantics; while it's impossible to tell a story without some political messages to it (intended or not), the specific term "social agenda" implies to me that one is intentionally trying to bring about real-world change, and (keeping in mind I have no idea what comic Dan is referring to or what the story behind its creation is) it seems possible to me that the creators had no greater goal than to tell what they considered fun stories. On the third paw, often people who claim they have no social/political agenda are lying, so maybe they had an agenda after all.
    On the fourth paw, I also have some semantic issues with panel two. A lie and a truth placed side-by-side do not necessarily a paradox make: strictly speaking a verbal paradox should be a singular statement which contradicts itself; two contradictory statements are an antinomy. (Of course antinomy is obscure enough that my spellcheck doesn't like it, and honestly I just discovered the word myself, but that doesn't change the fact that the situation in the comic does not fit my definition of paradox.) ...Also, that's not how paradoxes work, but I'm willing to let it slide for the sake of humor seeing as this is non-canon.
    Incidentally, that's a pretty impressive triple-starburst in panel two. I'd cheer for it, but I'm pretty sure it's part of the "paradox" special effect rather than a proper "background".
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    animalia reacted to partner555 in Story Friday September 9, 2018   
    HAHAHAHAHAHA!
    Oh Diane, you're going to have to accept that lots of boys (and girls) are gamers if this wasn't what you were expecting.
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    animalia reacted to Scotty in Story Wednesday September 5, 2018   
    Now I'm feeling bad about Lucy. She was once just like Rhoda, insecure about herself and how people treated her, then Diane came in and helped boost her confidence.
    Now Diane's behaving like Lucy once did and that's whats got Lucy mad, she's seeing the person who helped her feel better about herself crumble in front of her.
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    animalia got a reaction from The Old Hack in Story, Monday September 3, 2018   
    This is the problem that comes from making assumptions about people. We all do it (including myself as previously mentioned) but that doesn’t mean it’s not problematic.