Not a bar, but plays one on TV

Yeah. Good write-up here: Did he just harass you or are you imagining it? You might be a victim of ‘crasslighting.’ (Washington Post)

the notion that someone mentioning they're a girl must necessarily be a cry for attention is tied back to the hostility toward women who admit being as much on the 'net, the exclusion of them, the harassment directed their way for being women, and the handling of them as sex objects.

Part of a roleplayer's skill repertoire is being able to say "Oh hey, that's a cool idea I just had. And I'm not going to do it."

And the "RPG community" is more a fractured collection of loosely related independent communities, and the Stack is one of the few places very different small communities interact directly in ways which explicitly detail their play assumptions.

In other words: the practical purpose this monograph is to better understand why RAW discussions so quickly assume people are taking sides, why the tag is considered a necessary bulwark to reduce/prevent the molestation of RAW answers on the Stack, and why the tag is also considered an aggressive territory-marking action giving undue value to the perspective.

> Not all a man knoweth may be said, not all that can be said may be regarded as timely, and not all that is timely may be suited to the capacity and policies of Stack Chat.

In another game we were so friendly to a goblin that he switched sides and established a dynasty of goblins who worked with the party's nation as advance scouts who'd sneak into enemy territory and make friends with the locals so the enemy army wouldn't have local cooperation.

I don't know how different things are in the US, but I'd recommend having a chat with your parents about their education experience.

@Adeptus "Come and see the poorly thought out mechanics inherent in the concept!"

I think the poorly thought out mechanics are inherent in the concept :P

Kickstarter: The Out Side - real life trans & nonbinary comics anthology.

@BESW I find it unfortunate that Ryan's approach is unnice, because I think the community would benefit from a nicer speaker in favour of keeping the tag.

@doppelgreener Can I request answers in the form of an epic love ballad?

Maintaining our comfort zones isn't an emergency scenario, and shouldn't involve potentially expelling a person from future play.

"Shrill Harpies and Police Procedurals" sounds like a TV actor's tell-all autobiography.

Dear Netflix: Please add a feature where I can twine multiple concurrent seasons of connected shows, like Buffy/Angel or Arrow/Flash/Supergirl/Legends of Tomorrow.

Reminder that the Fennec Jedi exists.

I find I need headphones to drown out the white noise generators someone installed...

This photo of Uluru is beautiful, and I checked to be sure that it's following the guidelines for respectful photography of the sacred place.

Lets keep that subject off the table, maybe. We can talk about a lot of things without rancor, but this year talking about national politics is just asking for trouble.

Saimaa Ringed Seal webcam

Need experience to get a job to get experience.

The American psyche is deeply invested in the idea that "anyone who works hard can succeed." Unfortunately this has fallen into an attitude that "Anyone who does not succeed has only themselves to blame."

(Of course, we know that the vast majority of people in prisons don't need to "better themselves," they need to live in systems that don't withhold or criminalize the things they need to live with dignity.)

I figure some time in my 30s I'll go from looking 23 to looking 65.

"5 Ways to Show Up for Your Fat Friends as We Start to Reunite Again" by Aubrey Gordon for SELF. Showing up can look different thanks to the pandemic.

That awkward moment when you invent a bogeyman and then someone tells you it was behind you the whole time.

the multibear is a horrible houseguest

"The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML" by Terence Eden.

@Adeptus As a person whose religion believes science is the best tool for understanding the physical world, [high five].

Dear Princess Celestia, Today I learned that Aliens are coming for all of our brains, and you need to hide the peanut-butter.

@Miniman I originally read that as "[Rabbit is] like goat, done wrong".

(I think I just seriously recommended TV Tropes to help someone)

BESW's Wiz8 Compendium v04

BESW's Wiz8 Compendium v01.

not enough blink tags or construction signs.

I've found the Stack Exchange has been an excellent ground for battling my Someone is Wrong on the Internet impulses.

I assume his parents were Darlene and Kenneth, and that they were insufferable.