What kind of childhood did you have?
I hope youāre sipping it. Youāre meant to sip it.
Even nerds are socially savvy enough to know that overt misogyny or racism gets them pilloried. Well. Most nerds, anyway.
I donāt believe we share any discord servers these days but I am aware of similar slurs being used and normalised - less so these days now that people offer resistance to it.
puts on batman mask
people like meā¦
Told you, it tastes rly horrible, but it fixes you right up.
Remember to drink a lot of water since itās basically like drinking seawater.
The kind of childhood where kids are free and used their imagination to make toys.
Also Iām from a tropical island so yeahā¦ Fishing is a big thing there.
ā¦Are you Moana?
Oh yeah? Well I grew up in wales where sometimes our neighbours would eat each other.
I WIN!
Haha no. Close enough but no.
You suddenly became very cool
Tell me that you at least sail the seas looking for a new island for your tribe.
We donāt but thereās an immigration problem there from neighboring Islandsā¦ I guess it counts?
Shark meat sounds wack.
Whatās the texture of it like? Iām imagining the same texture as any other fish but just bigger.
So in other words, it doesnāt translate (mostly) to their language, because, as we agreed, itās context bound, and people donāt just blurt out things in one context because they do it in another?
Donāt you usually just eat the fins?
The fins taste like jerky in soup, at least.
Mostly ate the flippersā¦ But itās very chewy unless you cook it with something else. I ate it in that former, lasted longer in my mouth and I guess I was a dumb kid who loved drooling.
I mean honestly if you had them boil the water first, what you essentially made them drink was saline solution.
Saline is distilled water with 0.9% salt concentration, or about 2.5g (half a teaspoon) of salt per 200 ml of water.
Damn that worked fast. I feel so much better already.
Thanks again Atahlani!
A pleasure. My father taught me the trick.
People donāt usually have Touretteās, no.
The mentality between overt discrimination such as slurs and more subtle forms like dogwhistles or unconscious bias is the same. Normalising one also normalises the other.
Is it fins only because the rest of the shark has all kinds of toxins due to their carnivorous diet?
I heard the toxin buildup is even worse on fish.
How am I supposed to be a forum nobody without giving my two cents on an issue like this?
Blizzard has used a particular piece of profanity to describe Sylvanas more than once. Iām not particularly surprised or put off by player characters using that piece of profanity to deride the Banshee Queen. Itās canonical profanity, famously used to describe this particular character. This is one of the very rare instances in which modern profanity can be used without being jarring or immersion-breaking, in my opinion.
ā¦ Which absolutely doesnāt excuse any other instances of profanity or accusations of prostitution that supposedly occurred on both of these evenings. Weāre playing a rather whimsical fantasy setting, thereās no need for extra gritty insults and slurs. āCorpse queen,ā āmurderous witch,ā and yes, even the occasional synonym for a female dog are acceptable. A heap of juvenile cussing that sounds like a teenager browsing Urban Dictionary for the first time, isnāt.
So maybe itās better to focus your attention on those more extreme instances of profanity and gendered slurs. Clutching your pearls over the parroting of a canonical insult that was uttered almost a decade ago seems a bit much, when from the sound of it, thereās much worse profanity that was thrown about that should be focused on instead.
EDIT: Wait, damn it. Did I arrive after it ended?