I’m not policing anything I asked you a question

Was using an ableist slur really required to make your point?

Its crazy to me how many people don’t realise that scott is portrayed as an awful guy. Dating a teenager as a mid twenties y.o, even though he doesn’t actually like her, never apologised to his ex that he still hangs out with for being a massive douche, freeloading off his friend for ages, the list goes on. Over the course of the film he smoothes some of these things over and that is supposed to redeem him marginally in the viewers’ eyes but like. Ugh. At the end of the film “nega-scott” is literally just a nice dude. What does that tell you about actual scott ;-;

Too slop didnt read

I think you missed a zero

Its a reference to an xkcd comic linked elsewhere in the comments

That’s awesome as hell

An aside, I read the title as “world’s largest trans f-slur” and was insulted nobody had reached out to me for comment

Celeste, sorta. It wasn’t so much that it didn’t click, I just got distracted with other things and it took a back seat for a few years. Came back to it and ended up 100%ing it (not including every golden berry) and am now at roughly intermediate/advanced skill level for custom maps

UK here, 2 hours

Good for you? I guess? Do you also feel the need to announce that fact when you announce your support for sex workers and their rights or what’s the point here?

Parasites

Just shows how much they don’t understand Disco Elysium. Because the whole time you are playing it you are being shown how bad the police are. Even if you’re playing an absolute saint of a playthrough, your actions prior to that were neglectful at best. Not just your division but the entire police force is in the pocket of the regime. Half the people you interact with don’t trust you, from the get-go. The whole fucking game is screaming ACAB while still allowing you to engage in a wonderfully crafted world that plays on the tropes of a buddy-detective story.

Yea it gives me big ick when people do that. Oh good heavens no I would never use the services of a sex worker. But er, support them, I guess.

The lack of self awareness hurts

Eh, shrug. Send a couple bucks to a swer with low following on their kofi or something if you wanna support them financially without breaching the boundaries of your marriage. Or attend marches and protests for their rights.

It depends what your standard is for good enough, honestly. If you’re making art for the art, I certainly haven’t seen anything from AI music that seems actually artful, and I wouldn’t feel comfortable putting my music out into the world that didn’t feel like art to me. If you’re churning out 30 second jingles for advertising or microtransaction-riddled mobile games, maybe then the standard is lower

E: of course, if “good enough” is “enough to make a C suite douchebag give it the okay with dollar signs in their eyes” then yeah.

I mean it matters in the sense that you just won’t eat if you can’t muster up the mental energy to make a meal.

E: this was me

There are still places with surprisingly good value for money, but they’re rare. Greggs has been this for me, recently, though maybe a useless point of reference for anyone outside the uk

It depends on the type of game you’re running and its an expectation that should be set from the beginning (as is “whether a 20 is a critical skill check at all”)

My games tend to be more grounded, so when I have run critical skill checks, they are a success with a reasonable bonus. A critical persuasion check might have the guard believe your phony story but also accidentally let slip some useful info as you’re passing through the gates because he’s let his guard down.

But in a game where the vibe is more out there and power fantasy-y, heck yeah, let your 20s rewrite reality!

To be clear, I don’t think people are transphobic if they disagree with my solution. I think they are sharing a transphobic view if they share that the solution is to exclude trans people. We can completely divorce this conversation from my idea of how to solve the issue. People far more qualified than you or I will be the ones to figure this out. I can only hope that they will not so willingly throw trans folk under the bus.

You mention disability sports and open mic nights.

I’m not disabled, nor have I studied this, so I can’t speak to how they feel about having a total separate set of events. Whether or not it is acceptable is not for me to comment on. It feels, to me, a bit exclusionary in an icky way, but I can’t begin to comprehend the lived experiences of the disabled and how or why disabled sport being its own thing has been good or bad for them.

Open mic nights being inaccessible to deaf folks is perhaps a bad example, because sign language interpreters are well established and if they wanted to make their open mic night accessible they could, very easily.

Anyway, I appreciate that you have taken the time to have a discussion about this but I think I’d like to disengage from this thread now - keep well

This really doesn’t seem reasonable. Many sports favour size but that’s not the end all be all.

Use size where appropriate, use lean muscle mass where appropriate, use something else where appropriate. Clearly hockey is a case where size is a useful but not perfect metric, so it may need to be taken in conjunction with other metrics. I do not think movement between divisions would be common, as ideally it would be largely based on physical characteristics which people don’t have much control over.

Anyway, I should be clear, I am not overly attached to my specific idea of how to divide up sports, I am moreso just opposed to the idea of excluding trans men from mens sports, and trans women from womens sports.

Yes, people watch the paralympics etc but vastly fewer.

The way sports are framed in the media/society I think is largely to blame for this. The advent of people generally finally giving a damn about women’s football, for example, is almost certainly due to a shift in the media narrative surrounding it. If the media and the promoters hype up some division the same way they do another, I reckon you’ll see the support.

And at the end of the day, these changes would be so an almost insignificant proportion (the number of people who become a pro athlete) of an already small percentage (number of transgender women - I mean, maybe in gymnastics there’d be an issue but for almost every mainstream sport, the concern is pretty unidirectional) can play in a hardly watched league and everyone else just has to suck it up.

My suggested approach might not be the way to do it, but yes, transgender people do not deserve to be relegated to their own little box where they won’t be bother anyone. You expressed concerns about whether people would watch “lower” divisions in my proposed solution - do you truly, and I mean genuinely in your core, believe that trans exclusive sport divisions would even get a second glance?

is kind of proof that this isn’t an issue that makes someone a transphobe.

I think this is somewhat fallacious. Just because my proposed solution may be unrealistic doesn’t make the exclusion of trans people any less transphobic.

According to Gallup, about 3/4 of Americans are opposed to transgender women in women’s sports.

Yeah, I am well aware of the transphobia problem in the usa ;P

I understand where you’re coming from on the Left Idealism. Its an in-joke on the left for a reason, right? Its just like, exhausting to always be the one who has to compromise. I imagine many marginalized folks from other backgrounds can agree.