Lurker > Paratroopa1

Having lived in Manhattan, 2 miles is a fairly low bar for the furthest walkable distance, 3-4 miles sometimes ends up being a reasonable ask

cmon guys, seriously

Wanglicious posted...

i'd go a step further - it shouldn't be a mandatory position in the game and should be skippable. don't even think it should be in the game at all.
but it's a clear mistake that'll be fixed asap in a patch, so won't be a big deal.

Keep in mind they'd only bother to patch it IF people made a big deal out of it

The hard times is fucking great

As someone who isn't particularly familiar with and doesn't particularly care about the cyberpunk genre, the perspective of someone who also doesn't really care one way or the other matters to me more than someone who does

Pig

Peach

Crazy On You is plausibly about "Heart" anyway though!

azuarc posted...

Uhh... Heart - Crazy on You?

Somehow, I don't think that's what you meant.

I'd say this counts imo

Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart

I'm basically sort of ignoring ports on other consoles unless the port's significantly upgraded, and even then - I'm not stripping credit from the GC for WW just because WWHD exists, but WWHD does give Wii U points too

If I were going to count virtual console stuff though I would just say the PC is the best Nintendo system and be done with it lol

PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

Have you come close to the stench though?

Because they don't bathe.

the fact that you're clearly being ironic doesn't change the fact that you're giving me supporting evidence

I've never personally come into contact with toxicity recently as bad as people who really, really hate Melee

I'm constructing a list of my 100 favorite games from 1980-2009 (to compliment my 2010-2019 list) and it only has two Wii games on it lol, not to hate on the Wii but I feel that it has the weakest first party library of any major Nintendo console by miles

2005-2010 was sort of an awkward time

I Mother Earth - Rain Will Fall

NES > SNES > GC > Switch > N64 > Wii U > Wii

third, it seems!

lol

SantaRPidgey posted...

And yeah obviously people picking their own names can be normal, but usually the names people pick stem from their legal name. If someone starts working for your company, and insists of everyone calling the "sea otter" there's a level of uncomfort and resentment there that's hard to pin down.

Again, I am aware of the fact that everyone here calls me Santa, and even that there are certain variations of my own name that I will correct people on if they refer to me improperly. I'm just saying that radical change that I think most people cringe at is probably at the root of a decent amount of transphobia. Maybe I'm not making any brave revelations or anything but this was something that I just recently realized was at the heart of my own transphobic lizard brain thoughts.

Why is it that people always jump to like crazy names, like which trans people do you know (if you know any at all) that are calling themselves weird shit? Most will just ask you to call them a different normal first name. It isn't that hard. Even if it is weird, it doesn't matter. When people tell you their name that's what you call them. They probably aren't showing you their birth certificate so why do you give a fuck?

Meanwhile, my mom did actually have a cisgender coworker change her name to something unusual, and it was never a problem

SantaRPidgey posted...

Lesbians traditionally have weird power dynamics in their relationships. I as a straight male have no judgement nor skin in this game, but it's an occurring phenomenon. The only example I can think of in popular culture to point to is she-ra and catra's relationship.

Lesbians have weird power dynamics... and your example is a fictional couple

Yeah, somehow I'm getting the feeling that you don't actually have a lot of informed experience this one

By the way, if you think lesbians have weird power dynamics, let me introduce you to heterosexual couples sometime. Some of the shit they do is WILD!

and if there's anything that trans people know a lot about, it's having an unreasonable amount of difficulty cracking an egg!

thank you, I'll be here all night

SantaRPidgey posted...

Also knowing someone's partner's gender is incredibly important to conversations just because straight people and gay people go through different things in a relationship. Gender gives you a better idea of what metric to measure things they say and also the expectations for their life/career goals

what sort of fresh heterosexual nonsense is this

Kirby. The series is so varied that there is no such thing as a Kirby spinoff.

but where's the one based on The Enigma of Amigara Fault

There's like 500x more complaining about "defund the police" than there is anyone using it as an actual slogan

I see the transphobes have come out of the woodworks, so fuck having ever tried to be nice. What a mistake that was.

He isn't welcome here. Ignore him.

Don't talk to him.

GuessMyUserName posted...

in the last thread where he brought up his opinions on trans issues entirely unrelated he actually said you have to be physically attacking trans people to be considered transphobic (among other garbage about misgendering and free speech)

soooo yeah

It was a joke about how the word "you" is vague - it could refer to me, or us

I can't tell if Nanis asked me if I have xe and ze, or if everyone has xe and ze. oh well, welcome to english

Nanis23 posted...

Don't you already have xe and ze?

I don't know, do we? Would you call me xe/xer if I asked?

Nanis23 posted...

Make another word if you want

Do not even try to pretend like you would actually be okay with this if we did. I know you wouldn't.

CasanovaZelos posted...

Part of the reason I'm hesitant to mention my pronouns while meeting new people is it feels like playing Russian Roulette but where the bullet is this exact conversation for the nth time. I swear, every time there's a major news story on transgender issues, I encounter this same argument in multiple places and it's just so exhausting.

Aside from the times that I've passed kidney stones, I have never known relief like that of the face of a nonbinary person when they realize I'm not going to filibuster their they/them pronouns to death on them

MarkS222222222222222 posted...

Let's say we just use pronouns to refer to ones sex and not their gender

We're all going to have to take off our pants for this and I'm afraid that not everyone is as comfortable with nudity as I am

You do actually use pronouns for gender presentation, not for sex, you just might not be aware of it

DeepsPraw posted...

Singular they is mostly fine, but I feel like there are certain situations where it feels a little contrived. I wish I had some concrete examples, but I know it when I hear it. Like there's certain points in natural conversation where avoiding gendered pronouns just sounds artificial

I mean, singular they isn't contrived when it's what someone asks you to refer to them as. At that point, it IS a gendered pronoun, you aren't "avoiding gendered pronouns" by using it, you just slot it in wherever it goes. I can't think of a single instance where 'they' grammatically cannot conjugate, so just keep using it, and trust me, eventually you just get used to it. I've been using they/them for people since the late 00's, it's a native part of the language to me at this point. Heck, commentary standards for twitch restreams in all the communities I'm in have gotten to the point that you use 'they/them' for anyone whose gender you don't know, and it eventually becomes automatic even in speech.

MoogleKupo141 posted...

theoretically if we could get a consensus on xe/xer or whatever as a neutral option that would be alright, but the thing where people just kinda make up their own pronouns feels like it defeats the purpose of pronouns being generalizable... at some point youve just invented names again

I think the problem here is that pronouns, in the way that we created them, are kind of pulling double duty:
1) They simplify language so that we don't need to state someone's name every time we refer to them
2) They denote someone's gender

Nobody really finds #1 to be controversial, but #2 is a whole big ass problem that's kind of gotten tangled up with it. Having an infinite number of gender identities with which to describe the wide range of gender-related traits that people have is lovely - I would liken it to having, say, a hundred different words for varying shades of red instead of just the word "red" for all of them - but having an infinite number of pronouns sort of butts heads with goal #1, which is to simplify language, and I think this is where neopronouns run into a stumbling block, because different people kind of have different things they want to achieve with them.

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

remember when people were trying to make stuff like "xir" and "thon" happen and were ridiculed? and by now we've just settled on singular they because, as mentioned, it has an established historical usage despite what pedants say?

it just seems like the sanctity of the english language is not the actual point of contention

I know a couple of neopronoun users, it's still a thing! But trying to get even some very accepting communities to go along with it is kind of like pulling teeth because people feel like they're being strung along in some kind of weird social experiment, so they often give up. Singular they/them has a great deal more established footing, so people take to it pretty quick.

Singular they/them and plural they/them being confusing IS ACTUALLY something I have seen happen, so it's not like, an entirely fictional problem - but the confusion is generally brief, filled in by context, and at worst, still not really that big a deal in comparison to the happiness and comfort of millions of people and the glow on their faces when you call them by their preferred pronouns. Were it the case that we had a more effective way to introduce a non-gendered pronoun to the english language, we would, but we don't, because this is still the least hostilely-greeted option by a wide margin, and hell, for any english speaker this is nothing new - we put up with the language's weird quirks all the dang time.

It can take time getting used to, sure! But that doesn't mean you can't be a "they." I know this is the case because I know many wonderful they's who exist just fine in communities that use their pronouns and don't get confused by them. If it's challenging to get used to at first, that's perfectly fine, but don't mistake that for an insistence that we're all wrong for getting on just fine with singular they/them. It's around, it's not going anywhere, and you'll get used to it with time.

MarkS222222222222222 posted...

Right, what matters is that the end person understands what you're communicating. This is not being a stickler for grammar.

"They" singular is used when you can't be any more specific

I understand that you're communicating to me that you're an obstinate pedant who doesn't accept nonbinary people

DeepsPraw posted...

Don't you think it's weird to read something like "Elliot Page was nominated for Best Actress for his role as a pregnant girl". Imagine you had no idea who that was and you read that. You'd be wondering why anyone would cast a man named Elliot in that kind of role.
Or something like "Caitlyn Jenner won the gold medal in Men's Decathlon". It's dissonant

It's only dissonant because you're not used to seeing it happen - there aren't very many widely famous trangender people. It's not gonna seem weird in a few years. Give it time.

DeepsPraw posted...

I've always thought the retconning of names and pronouns was kinda weird. Makes reading things like wikipedia pages awkward and confusing

If you think this is awkward and confusing, try being transgender!

An increasing majority of people have adapted to they/them, every community I'm in has accepted its usage openly, and it's been a pronoun option on pretty much every form I've filled out with pronouns in the last couple of years, so really it's just a matter of picking up all the stragglers on our way to Theyville at this point

LordoftheMorons posted...

It should be Best Actress regardless, right? Best Actor is a separate category that he wasn't nominated for; there's no contradiction between Elliot being male and Elliot winning Best Actress.

Referring to the character by their pronouns even if they're different than the actor's also makes more sense to me, but if there's a consensus against that then I'd be happy to change course!

Yeah this is what makes sense to me. Elliot Page wouldn't be eligible for the Best Actress category in the future, but he WAS at the time, and that was what he was nominated for - Best Actor was a category which he was not nominated for so it would be incorrect to say as such.

Bartzyx posted...

You would not refer to a female character in an audiobook as "he" just because the narrator is male. The character is female regardless of who is voicing or portraying her.

I call this the "Bart Simpson" rule

I don't think Capcom can trademark the idea of umbrellas

TomNook posted...

I guess I got tripped up by them saying "Always", so I doubted my initial thought as being wrong.

And no, I wasn't saying CE was specifically a trans community, but I was asking those in that community. The post was from an Elliot Page topic there, so it was already being talked about, and there were those in that community weighing in.

Nah, you're good. Actor and character are separate entities, unless they're like, playing themselves.

I swear to god that until I heard about Elliot Page today I thought The Umbrella Academy was some Resident Evil thing

TomNook posted...

See, this is what I originally thought too, but I actually asked the trans community about this earlier today.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/79146437/947814451

My first instinct was to do as you thought, but it might upset the person in question by doing this. Now my response I got was only from one person, and it might be different among others. You'll really won't see a consistent answer, but I valued an answer more from someone in that community until I hear otherwise from more.

their response looks the same as ours? 'she' for the character, but 'he' for the actor (even retroactively)

...I was unaware that current events was "the trans community" lol

Underleveled posted...

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it still okay to refer to female characters that he played with female pronouns if we are talking about the character and not the actor?

Yeah, I would describe the character as 'she'

I would also probably say it's best to say that Elliot Page was nominated for Best Actress for his role in Juno

I do think the standard of not deadnaming him even though he is a very well known public figure is very pleasantly courteous though, I'm happy to see people doing that

Great_Paul posted...

I know I've seen people discuss Sound as a type.

Sound was the one I was gonna say. Seems like the most sensible missing element - I'm pretty short on other ideas. Light, I guess, but that seems less interesting.