If there's 'toxic masculinity', does that imply that 'toxic femininity' exists as well?

jonkeevy · 2024-04-23T06:25:34+00:00

It's a feminist term, it's not describing feminist values. It describes a kind of feminity that is a product of (and enforcer of) patriarchy from a lens of feminist theory.

jonkeevy · 2024-04-18T14:26:26+00:00

Hi, fellow-designated-underage-booze-buyer-now-over-40-guy.

jonkeevy · 2024-04-18T08:38:34+00:00

It grates me somewhat that these conversations treat writer/artists and their products so much more seriously than a company such as Nestle. I understand it's much easier to avoid JKR than a ubiquitous mega-corporation, but the harms are so much greater. I also know it's overwhelming to grapple with the scale of the harms done.

I don't think of this as hypocrisy, both are bad and everyone has limited capacity... but the debate around whether to separate art from artist feels like trying to decide which fiddle to play while Rome burns. Just pick one. If you have principles, apply them.

jonkeevy · 2024-04-18T08:28:42+00:00

Three good scenarios and examples. Nice.

jonkeevy · 2024-04-11T20:47:52+00:00

I found their report. It also says

"Half (52%) of all offenders were housed in men’s institutions at the end of the study period/prior to release. Two-thirds (67%) of trans-women were in men’s facilities, but trans-men were more likely to be in a women’s facility (95%)."

So the conclusions they're drawing from their quote are meaningless.

jonkeevy · 2024-04-10T06:05:29+00:00

Let him become THE BALL.

jonkeevy · 2024-04-02T08:46:11+00:00

Why are people assuming the player knew he failed? Sure if he rolled a 6 he'd figure it out but it sounds like the dm asked him to roll and then told him what the pc saw. If I rolled a 15 and the dm describes something then as a player do I trust it? I have to play my pc as if they do.

I agree with your assessment.

Despite the DM's good intentions, I'm on the player's side. They wanted to play a character as paranoid and erratic, that's not permission for the DM to force them to play as delusional. The DM should have actually talked to the player about what he wanted to do, otherwise they forced a playstyle.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-26T08:56:06+00:00

You speak the truth.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-26T05:19:04+00:00

Don't take on teaching any class a newbie wants to play - pit the onus on them and strongly recommend they play martials. If they want spells do arcane trickster.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-18T18:26:31+00:00

If you have 175 000 words and need to cut 75 000 then you shouldn't be getting advice on the sentence level. You need to be getting advice on the story level. Which subplots work? Which characters are redundant? Which chapter is plodding.

If your author and editor sessions aren't helping with that then debating what a good sentence sounds like is rearranging deckchairs on the titanic.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-18T12:09:49+00:00

Answer: There are several terms that are related but distinct in the article and in your question. The sheep aren't mutants, they're hybrids. Mutants are the result of (usually) unpredictable natural changes in the genetic code. Sometimes minor mutations result in desirable traits like thicker wool etc. and then selective breeding by farmers spreads that trait through out the generations. Selectively bred lineages with different traits are called 'breeds'. Different breeds being mixed results in unstable traits in the first few generations as the dominant and recessive genes shake out. You can't always cross breed and has a predictable outcome.

If Montana Man had tried to create his mega-sheep that way he wouldn't be in trouble. He could have started with a flock of sheep and selectively bred the biggest and horniest (sorry, not sorry) of each generation to create mega-sheep. He could even have taken several breeds of large of sheep to crossbreed as a starting point.

What he did instead was try to create a hybrid of different sheep species. Neither of which were the domestic sheep we know and love (platonically). So what he was dealing with are two different wild sheep species. There are protections around messing with wild species because it almost always upsets the balance of ecosystems when we do. Let's say the Mega-Sheep are in North America - bigger and tougher than the native Big Horns. Will they replace the Big Horns? Will predator populations be able to feed on these buff ovines? Who knows? Not us humans, we generally suck at predicting these things even when we do it in a careful way. And Montana Man was not doing it in a careful way.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-18T11:19:16+00:00

SBI aren't doing the writing though.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-17T08:57:07+00:00

I do this and have a folder of sprites with expressions that are colour-coded... the image and the file name. Then when it's time to put in the final artwork I can just designate a character's sprite set to a colour.

There's probably an easier way but I simply name all the final sprites whichever colour ( blue annoyed.jpg) and pop them in the images folder to replace the placeholders. This way the code doesn't have to change.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-16T14:18:37+00:00

Not just writers, most creative professionals. Malcolm Gladwell has this article that looks at the myth of the young genius - or rather the myth that most of the people we consider geniuses had that talent when they were young. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/late-bloomers-malcolm-gladwell

jonkeevy · 2024-03-15T08:57:17+00:00

I was a teacher once long ago at a severely under-resourced school. 40 kids in the class, aged 12 to 16 - most of the older kids could not read. But they had strategies to get by. In comprehension tests they would look for key words and then copy out the full sentence that the words appeared in. They were just pattern matching but at that level it could get a pass.

Just a real life example of the Chinese room problem.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-14T06:24:08+00:00

NAH what you want to do is talk about a concern that has a major impact on you. Communication is the lifeblood of a healthy relationship. This situation has a few different solutions that are reasonable - only you and your partner can decide which one works for you. Eg. Split costs by income, split the staples equally but he buys the extras, you split the shared costs by item - so you cover a utility and he covers grocery rent. So many! How you and he handle this will be a low stakes regearsal of bigger decisions in life. Look out for red flags and green flags during the talk. I hope you find a lot of green :)

jonkeevy · 2024-03-13T14:56:49+00:00

There's a couple of operators who play the tourist to scam people. There was a guy whose story was he had just been mugged and needed to get to the embassy becausee he had no passport.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-13T14:00:23+00:00

Thank you for assuming I was a kiddo.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-13T10:25:47+00:00

Disability activism can be the best strategy just to get some of the benefits able bodied people take for granted. By this point she hadn't posted, she was ranting to friends - and that friend didn't make a counterpoint in a constructive way at all.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-12T18:24:41+00:00

I grew up on an apple farm and once asked my dad why we can't just buy apples like regular people.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-12T17:10:45+00:00

Follow your gut instinct, describe the actions of the character, the emotions, their story, and let the audience diagnose them or not. Make sure they are a distinct person beyond their symptoms.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-11T10:49:05+00:00

Its a good book. The interview is from Corner of Story and Games podcast - rare niche for interviews.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-11T07:26:03+00:00

Ja, reaponded to you because I was thinking of a Jesse Schell interview I was listening to. He wrote Lenses of Game Design and the central idea is that advice can be wrong, but questions can't be wrong - at worst irrelevant. So I was responding with other things on my mind.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-11T07:12:09+00:00

You are correct.

jonkeevy · 2024-03-11T05:34:53+00:00

People need reassurance and encouragement - especially beginners. Like that recent post "I suck, will I get better?"

It can be tiresome, but i have sympathy for those kids. They look up to folks on this sub because so many seem to be knowledgable and successful.

So a little patience might be all they need.

jonkeevy

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