Comments on: Annotated 22-8

By: Lurklen

Lurklen — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 21:04:58 +0000

Cosplay is one of those weird social stomping grounds. Its whole thing is “look at me!” but there is definitely a good way to look at a cos-player, and a bad one. Exactly when the line has been crossed is so difficult to find that I don’t disparage people who would rather not deal with it at all. I mean there are only so many people in skin tight, brightly coloured, often revealing, clothing you can look at before you have to acknowledge the majority of the thing is sexualized and it is literally about being attractive to the eye. For good or ill that is just a mainstay of the sub-culture.

And understandably that makes many uncomfortable. What’s funny is that it can make the person dressed like Power Girl uncomfortable too. It’s a weird hobby in that way. I think in general people should just look, then move on, and we should all accept that looking does not equal touching and that desiring does not mean engaging and give ourselves a break. Sexuality is only an issue when consent lines are crossed, by appearing in public they’re giving you permission to look (though nothing else) and cos-players are desiring to be looked at, they didn’t put all that work in for nothing.

But I get the anxiety on both sides, how often in other aspects of your life are you confronted with a fit man in a skin tight onesie covered in spider web patterns flexing and showing of the backside he spent the past year sculpting into comic book worthy perfection? Your answer will likely indicate your comfort level with that situation lol.

By: tlhonmey

tlhonmey — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 19:27:49 +0000

At the same time it’s not unreasonable in this particular universe. “Let’s wreck the whole game and destroy everyone’s good time” griefing, in my experience, is largely a 12-year-old-boy phenomenon. Though the age might be physical or mental.

Although, at the same time, lots of those people choose female avatars just because they think it makes them special… So in some respects it’s odd that the cultists aren’t majority female. But maybe Arkerra just attracts a certain kind of griefer.

By: Kammon

Kammon — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:14:12 +0000

So, now we’ll never know if this cat is dead or alive; or if it’s in a quantum state of potential.

By: Athaic

Athaic — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:57:38 +0000

It escaped when Ashok’s home was broke in by his worried military teammates, went through a few rescue families, and eventually ended up as the familiar of a self-styled gnome sorcerer.
Who was actually more of an alchemist than a magician. So from time to time he would mix chemical stuff which will produce a very awful smell, and there is the occasional explosion, but apart from this… That beats being in the house of a dead cultist.

That’s my story and I stick to it.

By: Keiranhalcyon31

Keiranhalcyon31 — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 07:50:15 +0000

Was the term “incels” a thing yet when this was written?