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2024-05-11, 05:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Doin' a bad job of it, all the other seagulls seemed to dislike the customer.
You're right but also I look at news of octopi doing all the **** they do, our growing understanding of dolphin minds, and orangutan's making medicine, and am like "naw that might have already happened".
Hell yeah FF14!
Yeah fiction tends to simplify things.
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2024-05-11, 05:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Honestly I'd have said a radio drama would have worked better than a film, at least for the first book.
On the cyberpunk thing, fiction basically has to simplify to make stories concise and understandable to a broad audience. Also sometimes to make a point more easily.
It's why most fiction has everyone lined up into 'with MC' and 'against MC' categories.
Side note: an idea I had for a queerish fantasy novel has evolved into 'knight falls from grace, winds up travelling with an adventuring party/lesbian polycule, has lots of sex, and learns how she should stand up for more than the "normal" even when she doesn't understand'. I might have issues.
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2024-05-11, 05:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Don't forget that murders of ravens have been observed semi-recently forming bonds with packs of wolves. Leading them to carcasses to tear open, playing with them. Even evidence of emotional bonds between specific wolves and specific ravens.
So yeah, birbies are domesticating other animals.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2024-05-11, 05:56 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
With streaming bringing the audiobook back in a big way, I'm not sure that radio plays are really where adaptations would go. I listened to the whole series, a radio play wouldn't really do it for me. Not that I'm terribly interested in a film version, gotta admit.
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2024-05-11, 06:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I dunno, the radio drama is still the best version of The Lord of the Rings ever released. Bill Nighy makes a perfect Sam, I wonder why the films didn't cast him...
I also highly recommend the Earthsea one the BBC did about a decade ago. And their Lovecraft adaptations, I cannot describe just how amazing those are. In fact just download BBC Sounds and binge the radio dramas.
Good Radio Dramas are different experiences to audiobook, especially good ones which use as little narration as possible. The original ones are generally a safer bet, but adaptations can also be excellent.
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2024-05-11, 06:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-12, 04:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-12, 07:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-12, 08:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-05-12, 08:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-12, 08:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Snatch theft seems like the closest human equivalent, I think.
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2024-05-12, 06:03 PM (ISO 8601)
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Happy Mother's Day everyone. Today is a difficult day for me because my mother passed away in 2011 from Type 2 Diabetes.
It's time to get my Magikarp on!
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2024-05-12, 09:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Species don't last forever. When your people are gone, the sea will swallow it all. I am forcefully removed from the forums for anti-Dutch sentiments.
Thanks for the tip. If I'm at a Starbucks, I'll try the lemonade and the sandwiches.
Oh, I see.
Oh, I see. I guess I've never felt love like burning hatred before.
That's really frustrating. Sorry for your cousin. I think conduct disorders have no real reason to exist and the fact that they do is consistent with the argument that psychiatry is really about control.
I think this is too kind to the homophobic hospitals that hospital visitation and gay marriage laws were written to address. It was not too long ago that Janice Langbehn was prohibited from seeing her dying partner—and not for any medical or logistical reason, as I'm sure you know.
Hence the need for human hunters, right? That's a good point.
Mass permanent marriage. Everyone is married to everyone else at all times.
That's really hard. I'm sorry for your loss.
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2024-05-12, 09:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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I would agree, except I'm not arguing on that basis. I'm arguing on how the current American system is set up, and even then I have said (several times, at this point) that I'm not opposed to easement of restrictions being further expanded for poly marriages. That doesn't mean that there aren't actual medical/logistical reasons.
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2024-05-12, 09:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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That's going a bit to far. ADHD is a real thing, and if you have it and have it bad then these medications in the proper dosage will help.
The problem is that there is a bad habit of teachers wanting to dismiss any child that won't sit still or has trouble paying attention as merely having something "wrong with them" and wanting them medicated to make their jobs easier when honestly they're probably just being a kid. which is a problem, because Ritalin is almost identical in makeup and effect to cocaine, most other ADHD medications are literally amphetamines, and one called Desoxyn is literally just straight-up meth. Now there's a world of difference between taking this stuff as directed in pill format and shooting or smoking the hard stuff you bought from a shady dude behind the hardware store but it's still not the kind of stuff you want to be taking if you don't need it, ya know?
...Granted, there's an argument to be made that ADHD isn't so much a disorder so much as a natural variation. I saw a thing recently that extrapolated that 1 in 4 kids has at least some ADHD symptoms while the percentage is much lower for teens and adults resulting in debate on whether or not it is a result of overdiagnosis or people with more mild symptoms figuring out how to compensate on their own as they get older.
(it's almost certainly both.)
Though if we're being completely honest I'm not sure oppositional defiance disorder is a real thing. The symptoms are all motly some variation of not automatically deferring to authority(which there are a million and one valid reasons not and is also um, the default for a toddler) and I've seen it said that a significant number of people diagnosed with it are diagnosed with it because you can't legally diagnose someone with antisocial personality disorder until they're 18.Last edited by Rater202; 2024-05-12 at 09:49 PM.
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2024-05-12, 11:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, I see. I misread you and thought you were making a general statement.
ADHD is generally considered a neurodevelopmental disorder, not a conduct disorder. Conduct disorders are disorders found in the Disruptive, Impulse-Control, and Conduct Disorders section of the DSM. They include ODD, Pyromania, and similar disorders. I don't think conceptualizing these tendencies as discrete disorders is very helpful.
But I agree with you more broadly. Antipsychiatry is flawed. Psychiatry has some utility for those of us suffering psychologically. But we also shouldn't underplay its utility as a form of control. In the US, Black people fighting for their rights were diagnosed with schizophrenia at a disturbing rate.
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2024-05-13, 12:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Like in Futurama 2
Or possibly they're underdiagnosing politically active white people. To me most activists on both sides of the aisle come off as completely insane. I could give more detail but forum rukes forbid it. Suffice it to say that this strikes me as more of a white privilege thingLast edited by Bohandas; 2024-05-13 at 01:03 AM.
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2024-05-13, 01:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-13, 01:55 AM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, I’ve never watched it.
Metzl’s book isn’t commenting on contemporary events or politics. His book is centered around the 1960s. He argues that around that time, schizophrenia (which was originally a disorder heavily diagnosed for complacent white housewives) was reappropriated for Black civil rights activists. White privilege is, as always, a part of the story. But I think anti-Black racism and psychiatric coercion are more useful concepts here.
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2024-05-13, 04:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
I didn't realise Heinlein posted here!
...I've noticed a disturbing trend online of people suggesting that Astarion isn't okay with Durge also dating Halsin. This completely baffles me, Astarion was clearly expecting it to happen and if he cared he'd have spent less time workshopping his snarky comeback.
Like it's clear that Karlach has reservations, but Astarion doesn't care.
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2024-05-13, 04:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Astarion has been deeply traumatized, especially regarding romance. Just because he says one thing doesnt mean he actually necessarily means it, even if he doesn't realize it. Getting him to examine and verbalize his feelings about that stuff is part of his whole character arc.
“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-05-13, 05:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
Yes, but he also really doesn't care here (especially as he's at the point where he will stand up to you if you break his trust). Part of it is Halsin being open about having no intent on it being long term and having no desires to monopolise emotional intimacy. Astarion has a lot of trauma and issues, but seeing this scene also means you've had the opportunity for him to dump you from breaking his trust.
Astarion does have issues with other romance options, because they're a lot more threatening to what he doesn't want to lose.
Plus I just kind of ship Astarion and Halsin, they'd be adorable and Astarion kind of needs the support the big bear would provide. Plus once his better able to deal with his trauma both would be great dads.
Also the developer notes are that he's being genuine.
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2024-05-13, 05:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-13, 06:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2024-05-13, 07:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-13, 07:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2024-05-13, 07:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Ionathus's Random Banter #249 -- Directionless Rambling Is Now Mandatory
To be fair Gale's got a ton of issues coming from the fact that he boinked Mystra. They're just mostly separate from his impulsiveness and lack of foresight, he has very little knowledge of how a relationship actually works and is TERRIBLE at expressing his interest (hence his reputation as a ninjamancer, many people brush past the hints that he links magic and romance).
As Astarion states the group is a bunch of weirdos. Which would be fine, but they're led by a Paladin who keeps stabbing innocents.
To to quote Belkar 'eh, the bear's probably fine'.