In which case, he should have had another way to tap out because that is pretty damn dangerous, especially for a first time playing together. Best practices would have been to set him up with a bell he could ring to safeword, or even a ball he could drop.

My experience with Faulkner is actually that he's much more intelligible when read aloud. I partnered up with people and did just that the times we had to read him for class.

Seriously, 40k is the game that brought you "blood for the blood god" and "da red wunz go fasta". The game is tongue-in-cheek as all get out and supposed to be a parody of grimdark SF. Granted, the people who take it seriously tend to be terrible (see Requires Hate…), but the work itself is deliberately over the top…

There is no way this was his first line crossing. At the very least, they're incompatible in their kink and the guy is going about trying to have a TPE relationship in basically every wrong way possible. Including a clear and disturbing total lack of negotiation or discussion. There's a really distressing amount of…

I am delighted to have been able to share this particular little mental record skip.

This is one of those times that being into fanfiction makes the whole conversation much, much stranger.

Fucking slashies are the actual worst. I've seen capitalization tricks used to good effect exactly once, and that was in a bit of erotica from 1996, when that sort of thing was still in vogue on Usenet for identifying subs and doms rather than a stupid relic. And it still eschewed slashies because they're terrible.

A lot of the BDSM community has terrible problems with consent. It has those problems for the same reason a lot of SF conventions have problems with sexual harassment — the people violating others are influential and the marginalized nature of the community makes it reluctant to ostracize others. Add on to that a…

It's possible the kid is scared out of his mind, honestly, and was hoping his parents could help. I was just starting to get past being completely freaked out by my own kinks at that age, and I'm on the submissive side of the equation. It's got to be a lot worse realizing you're fantasizing about hurting and forcing…

I had real trouble with the storytelling style. The combination of
the dialogue wheel, where most of the time I couldn't really figure out
what kind of tone I was actually going to take with any given statement
even with the supposedly helpful tone icons, and the timeskips, which
seemed to show up every time I started…

Yeah, that was the Burly Brawl. I remember it being super hyped and it just looks about like the modeling in a last-gen video game. It's kind of sad. I remember thinking at the time that one of the reasons the first film looked so good is that the CGI is by and large indistinguishable from the practical effects,…

Given what my storage capacity has been given over to instead, I have a feeling you're still coming out ahead, really. XD

Thanks for the correction. My Silver/Bronze age timeline isn't as strong as it should be, clearly.

Right. I knew the era was big on developing Krypton — the Donner film takes its depiction straight from the comics of the era — but I stupidly wasn't thinking of that as the immigrant experience the way the Golden Age stuff was. Which makes the immigrant metaphor a huge and regrettable casualty of refocusing him to…

For me, the appeal with Superman is still there post-Crisis, because it refocused him away from the powers and toward the personality. It's the fact that he's a kid from Smallville that gives him the drive to be a hero, not the alienness. So it's the kind of goofy, dorky self who is the hero, and that makes him…

I find the Superman franchise fascinating because they're the only big-budget DC films produced pre-Crisis. As a result, I find they look profoundly alien to modern eyes. I'm so used to Clark really just being a kid from Smallville, rather than the exaggerated figure he appears in the films. And to Superman being a…

Ugh, right. I'd heard about that but forgotten. Guess it's a good thing I don't really plan to raid again. I still feel kind of wistful, because raids make up a lot of my best memories of the game (along with the worst…) but I guess it's best if I don't really want to go back.

I've been playing the same character in WoW since 2006. My time played on her is now over half a year, and that doesn't take into account all the other characters I've sunk a few days or weeks into. A couple hundred hours in RTW is nothing in comparison.

I thought 10 mans were back to being a thing in WoD. I've been cranky about the 10 man thing for years since it's always been my favorite raid size, but what can you do :/ Most of my grudge is still reserved for the guild leaders who destroyed my amazing 10-man guild in Wrath (first purely 10-man guild on our server…

Honestly, the core mechanics and class roles in WoW just aren't very complicated. What separates the good from the bad players is the ability to keep up their jobs while reacting to situational clusterfucks. As a tank, yeah, I've done "pure" gimmickless fights plenty and… they're boring. I understand my ability…