#additional perspectives

[sosthemortalcoil]

I think the different perspectives thing would be an amazing thing to add because I love seeing different points of views in stories. Seeing how a character that the player doesn't control really feels and thinks about something is really fun! It's also a fun way to see how other characters view the controllable character! Interacting with them doesn't mean they're revealing everything or how they really feel and seeing their true feelings from their own perspective is awesome!

I’m still considering this, but as I’d like to include multiple variations (actually reflecting the MC’s choices) it would be a bit of a time sink. Also something I’d work on/write while beta testing, as while it takes choices into account, the player has no direct control over how the scenes would play out.

Maybe reblog to let me know if you’d be interested in something like this? Just so I can get a better feel for how many people would be interested in something like this (and it wouldn’t just be from the ROs perspectives. It would be friends, maybe even enemies too. All sorts.)

[barthel]

Lawrence Lessig has written a post comparing Aaron Swartz to Martin Luther King Jr., so just, you know, heads up on that one.

[barthel]

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Blur - "Magic America" (from Parklife, 1994)

Happy War of Colonial Aggression Day, y'all.

[therichgirlsareweeping-blog]

But as a Woman who knows from some Etsy and sexual personae? The dudebro in my former life who sprung tents in his American Apparel drawers over them was responding more to the fetish than fencing in my power behind so much “adorable” — that is, as much as he only got hard for a girlish exterior, inside, he still wanted me to play the role of With It Lady and mom his life into focus when he couldn’t. And that insistence that I play small but act big — like women blaming women for the same thing — is what was fucked up! Who cares which of my many costume changes gave him boners (also, that is the worst word, but it’s accurate in this limited case)? It’s the power issue. Dudes, we are not here to be your perfect incorruptible vision of anything, in birds or in boots. Buck up, men and people. Adore our power.

Melissa Gira Grant - "Real Women" of the world, unite and whatever

If nothing else, this entire conversation is about to turn into an endless chorus of "been there, done that" -- and isn't that the most disturbing bit of all?

I wish I had answers; I don't. Maybe it's time for men to enter the conversation more actively? I just don't know. [ETA: And queer ladies, too. Or are we just staring down a squarely het issue here? Let's not split hairs, right?]

Because I was thinking about this on the subway this morning; 95% of personal ads demand petite, slender, pretty, girlish (empirical data from casual conversations with dudes, too). In charge, but not, you know, too in charge.

Hey baby, I can't conform to this, seeing as I'm an amazon goddess, an R. Crumb drawing come to life, ya dig? Can't turn into something I'm not just so you'll ask me out on a date and, at the same time not get trashed by other chicks for being too this that or the other. Sorry y'all. Or not sorry, really.