Blake Posted June 14, 2022 Share Posted June 14, 2022 Feel free not to answer if it's too personal or you simply don't want to go into it, but... As my fellow they/X, I'm very curious about your experience, rather than mine, and would just like to listen to you explain a bit about yourself in that regard, so that I can expand my horizons a bit. What led to you being... you, i suppose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted June 15, 2022 Author Share Posted June 15, 2022 16 hours ago, Blake said: As my fellow they/X, I'm very curious about your experience, rather than mine, and would just like to listen to you explain a bit about yourself in that regard, so that I can expand my horizons a bit. What led to you being... you, i suppose? I was first introduced to the concept of dual pronouns on a Desert Bus for Hope stream. It was Matt Griffiths who was like "I have a he/him pronoun pin and a they/them pronoun pin because I want the English language to be more gender-neutral in general," and I was like, "Oh, that's neat." I didn't really do anything about it until a few years later when I realized I was ace. Like a lot of people (or at least, a lot of people I see on the gsrm internet), realizing my sexuality got me thinking about gender, and the thought, "You know, I wouldn't mind being called 'they' on occasion." Choosing he/they, though, was never really formalized. I never woke up one morning and was like, "I'm going to use he/they pronouns now." I mean, I guess eventually I bought some pronoun pins off Etsy, but even that wasn't a big deal in my "real life" life. Honestly, I wore the pronoun pins at work more to try to show solidarity with a trans coworker than personal expression. She was probably also the catalyst for the swap to they/he when it comes down to it, as I've since developed a visceral reaction to masculine honoriffics ("sir" especially) after working there and especially after watching her deal with it for months from customers. I don't think I'm going to stop hearing it unless the world starts accepting "boss" as a proper alternative and not just an occasional thing you see in translations of Persona games, but it's definitely changed my perspective. For a brief moment, I flirted with going pronounless -- which would have put me in some pretty rare company including the Magic: the Gathering planeswalker Ashiok (until Wizards of the Coast changed that seriously what the fuck), electronic artist SOPHIE, and Shadow the Hedgehog -- but that's real hard to manage even on the internet where things can be revised (see literally every other eulogy after SOPHIE's death) and I defintely didn't want to try and force that on people saying things out loud. That's kind of how I feel about my pronouns in general, I guess? As a convenience? They're the closest thing I have to a definitive label, anyway. If I had to describe myself, best, it would be the sort of person who can and does get gender euphoria from saying "I do not wish to respond" to online questionaire's asking about gender, even when a nonbinary option is available. I know that's still under the nonbinary umbrella, and if you made me pick a specific branch of that I could probably pick something out ("Voidpunk" has come the closest besides the generic and ironically-named "Labelless"), but yeah, I like the idea of just saying "no" to stuff like that a lot. Maybe it'll all change in the future. I've embraced the uncertainty on stuff like that. There's definitely stuff I'm leaving out here and it came out as kind of ramble, so feel free to ask more here or DMs if need be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yui Posted July 10, 2022 Share Posted July 10, 2022 what's your spaghetti policy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted July 10, 2022 Author Share Posted July 10, 2022 12 hours ago, yui said: what's your spaghetti policy? don't break it, salt your water, and if you order it at a restaurant it won't taste as good as you think it will so order something else instead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCow Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 In games, would you rather use a character you really like and are okay with or one you don't like much and are great with? (like as in enjoy, and like as in like the character/design) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted January 4, 2023 Author Share Posted January 4, 2023 On 1/2/2023 at 7:35 PM, LordCowCow said: In games, would you rather use a character you really like and are okay with or one you don't like much and are great with? (like as in enjoy, and like as in like the character/design) i'm not even learning a game unless there's a character i like looking at and i'm also bad at a lot of games so i guess the first one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted April 14, 2023 Author Share Posted April 14, 2023 On 4/14/2022 at 3:50 PM, radio414 said: it's my birthday ask me things Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted June 29, 2023 Author Share Posted June 29, 2023 gonna be in a car for like six of the next nine hours for a concert ama Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 look at me hopping on a trend but asking questions too so my bump actually appears lower down than my questions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCow Posted November 27, 2023 Share Posted November 27, 2023 For some reason this is the first thing that came to mind Favorite dragon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted November 27, 2023 Author Share Posted November 27, 2023 2 hours ago, LordCowCow said: Favorite dragon? uhhhh my mind went to saphira from eragon i guess that was kind of the "first" dragon where i was like "oh she's cool" but i wouldn't say she's my favorite. i think spike from my little pony (g4, didn't watch older gens so idk how those versions were) is underappreciated, like, he has fans, but it's always "the mane six... and spike" which sometimes gets examined but not really. him getting wings was dumb, though. i've got an mtg commander deck that, while it technically has a running stable of possible commanders for it, i still call it my "nicol bolas" deck sometimes. he's pretty cool, just sitting there reading a book and/or plotting to take over dominia. oh i've got this guy on the sleeves of two thirds of my decks actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yui Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 How would you do the trolley problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted November 28, 2023 Author Share Posted November 28, 2023 12 hours ago, yui said: How would you do the trolley problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCow Posted November 28, 2023 Share Posted November 28, 2023 What do you look for in a Main Character? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted November 29, 2023 Author Share Posted November 29, 2023 5 hours ago, LordCowCow said: What do you look for in a Main Character? I don't really have one for stories I'm reading or watching or... I guess the word is "consuming" but that feels wrong. I dunno, that's just not where my taste lies. This might be resultant from reading a bunch of old science-fiction novels as a kid -- especially Asimov and Clarke -- who were more interested in the conceptual thing itself than the nuance of the characters exploring it. It's something that has certainly influenced my personal writing, and while I can try and push beyond when I need to and create characters with internality -- I'm currently rewriting and editing one of those now -- a lot of my scribbling revolves around one person telling the story of a weird thing that happened to them. Like, I do try to inject character there. I like the implication that they *need* to be telling their story just so they can make sense of it too, and one person's musings about the hitchhikers they're picking up on the road would be different than another person's seeing aliens fighting by chance through their telescope (real stories). But at the same time I do strip out, say, gender, from them, almost preferring the ambiguity there, even if it made writing workshops in class super frustrating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted April 14, 2024 Author Share Posted April 14, 2024 birthday bump am i ycmaker who can say Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LordCowCow Posted April 14, 2024 Share Posted April 14, 2024 If you made a forum what would it be for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted April 14, 2024 Author Share Posted April 14, 2024 53 minutes ago, LordCowCow said: If you made a forum what would it be for? a lot of my interests still have fora it's a little weird actually. i guess i think "the forge" ttrpg creation forum shutting down is sad if only because it's harder to find the discussions that led to apocalypse world, fiasco, blades in the dark, and so many more modern mainstays or at least their inspirations, so i'd make something like that call me rpgmaker oh wait that's taken isn't it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yui Posted April 27, 2024 Share Posted April 27, 2024 you gotta give up forever, one of the food groups as shown in that not very accurate food pyramid every millennial grew up memorizing. what group is on the chopping block for the rest of your life? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted April 27, 2024 Author Share Posted April 27, 2024 37 minutes ago, yui said: you gotta give up forever, one of the food groups as shown in that not very accurate food pyramid every millennial grew up memorizing. what group is on the chopping block for the rest of your life? vegetables aren't real they were made up by big chef to force-feed kids brussels sprouts before brussels sprouts were cool look it up if someone says "hey that's a carrot you're not allowed to eat that" i'd just be like "um actually this is a root" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamazenta the OS-Tan Fan Posted July 10, 2024 Share Posted July 10, 2024 Do you like Tacos? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted July 10, 2024 Author Share Posted July 10, 2024 1 hour ago, Zamazenta the OS-Tan Fan said: Do you like Tacos? like is a strong word, but i think they're pretty neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zamazenta the OS-Tan Fan Posted July 10, 2024 Share Posted July 10, 2024 1 minute ago, radio414 said: like is a strong word, but i think they're pretty neat Your just copying Yui like is not a strong word unlike Love. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yui Posted July 27, 2024 Share Posted July 27, 2024 is there a particular food you don't like but it seems like everyone around you does? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radio414 Posted July 27, 2024 Author Share Posted July 27, 2024 (edited) 9 hours ago, yui said: is there a particular food you don't like but it seems like everyone around you does? Everyone I know who knows about Ethiopian food loves it, and I get why, but I have gone to an Ethiopian restaurant at least three times with the mindset of "oh, surely I will like it this time" and I just don't. I like other African food, like, there's a reasonably popular Somalian chain that I rave about and those two countries are right next to each other but alas. For a specific food and not a restaurant genre, sweet potatoes/yams. Edited July 27, 2024 by radio414 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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