But seriously, which is going to get you laid more: shapeshifting or teleportation?
Teleportation will get you laid less than shapeshifting, but more than neither shapeshifting nor teleportation and without nearly as many creepy and terribly rapey overtones.
That's...an interesting ethical concept. I mean, if you are a shapeshifter and you shapeshift in order to attract someone, is that necessarily more dishonest or manipulative than how people change themselves to attract someone normally?
Depends. Can you maintain that form indefinitely? Do you revert to a "true" form if, say, you fall asleep or stop concentrating?
BTW, I had a fanfictiony idea in mind for Mystique once that dealt with questions of personal identity among shapeshifters
If you're a shapeshifter who self-identifies with the form you consciously choose to take, does it matter if you have some "true form" that you don't have any control over?
Shapeshifter identity politics, man.
There are common shared presumptions in our culture regarding dating and appearance. I figure I might see my partner without makeup, with bags under her eyes, with messy hair.
I don't really expect to wake up in the morning and find my partner covered in blue scales or a different sex entirely.
If powers are relatively common, aka XMen, I'd opt for Rogue's power.
Other people's powers are the best powers.
Maybe you already have a power-leech power, but you're the only superhuman in the world.
Wow.
That's some twilight zone level mindfuckery right there, Feral.
Like the episode with the only beautiful woman who lives in a world where everyone else is grotesquely hideous, and she is therefore considered ugly according to the societal norm.
That must have been the weirdest accident that caused that.
And it happened more than once.
Or those plastic surgeons sucked really badly.
There was a reddit meme today about trix cereal going from fruit shapes to regular balls.
The meme was basically "what if Trix really are for kids and we can't see the magical shapes anymore because we're old?"
At what point did 'gamers' become this sort of cliched, women hating stereotype? Or has that always been kind of a thing?
On a related note, the only time that really bothered me in regards to a female in a video game was with Metroid: Other M with the total destruction of Samus' character. Ok, yes, technically before that she was a silent protagonist but there is no way in hell that you could conceivably get that portrayal from the past games. Come the fuck on.
It's always kind of been a thing because games have long been a male dominated industry and hobby.
Of course there is also the need to draw the line between people that play videogames casually (practically everyone these days, my mom owns a DS for the Layton games, tons of people play games on their tablets or smarphones, etc), people that play videogames as a hobby (a good chunk of people) and "gamers."
If you want to use "gamers" as a derogatory term for "people who are fucking assholes and play videogames", sure.
I have a simpler solution that drawing those lines those though.
Has there ever been a comic run that was just about a shapeshifter working solo? It feels like there are so many cool things you could do with that.
I'm sure there have been but I believe were-things were pretty verboten during the silver age of comics so there hasn't been one big enough to enter the popular conscious.
the tropes videos are so boring to me. i don't know a lot about critical theory- or its vernacular, i guess- so i'm not one of those people who's like "yeah i know all this, so what, old pool"
but it's just so tv tropey and uninteresting- nothing imaginative, no powerful arguments to sum up the examples, no ideas
it's just like a mostly impartial video essay presented in an annoying framework with the tv tropes-ness of it
which i'm sure has some value for some people
but i find it tragically uncompelling
I might argue that the power comes from the sheer barrage of examples. She doesn't really let up. One example, or two? "oh, those are tragic". 15? 20? 50? ...
I think associating it with tvtropes is deeply unfair, because the word "trope" has been around for a long time.
If the situation were slightly different; say, if
a) the site had been "tv-trans" and it collected examples of trans culture in the media and
b) the video series focused on the same sort of thing
then would your post read the same way? "annoying framework with the tv-trans-ness of it"?
Yeah, she's not a flashy presenter, but I don't know if being flashy would help in this case. Nor do I really know what level she's talking on - like inqui said, is it really feminism 101?
Has there ever been a comic run that was just about a shapeshifter working solo? It feels like there are so many cool things you could do with that.
I'm sure there have been but I believe were-things were pretty verboten during the silver age of comics so there hasn't been one big enough to enter the popular conscious.
Uh?
The Hulk.
But anyway, I don't mean were-things, I mean Mystique-type shapeshifters.
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But seriously, which is going to get you laid more: shapeshifting or teleportation?
Teleportation will get you laid less than shapeshifting, but more than neither shapeshifting nor teleportation and without nearly as many creepy and terribly rapey overtones.
That's...an interesting ethical concept. I mean, if you are a shapeshifter and you shapeshift in order to attract someone, is that necessarily more dishonest or manipulative than how people change themselves to attract someone normally?
Depends. Can you maintain that form indefinitely? Do you revert to a "true" form if, say, you fall asleep or stop concentrating?
BTW, I had a fanfictiony idea in mind for Mystique once that dealt with questions of personal identity among shapeshifters
If you're a shapeshifter who self-identifies with the form you consciously choose to take, does it matter if you have some "true form" that you don't have any control over?
Shapeshifter identity politics, man.
Yeah, barring fraud I'm kinda failing to see any ethical issues here.
Though again, bias.
Which is fucking weird in a superpower discussion let me tell you.
Let's say that instead of changing my physical shape, I went around dressed in a U.S. Navy Master Chief's uniform and "reluctantly" confided to women that I was the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden (disclosure, I am not the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden).
But seriously, which is going to get you laid more: shapeshifting or teleportation?
Teleportation will get you laid less than shapeshifting, but more than neither shapeshifting nor teleportation and without nearly as many creepy and terribly rapey overtones.
That's...an interesting ethical concept. I mean, if you are a shapeshifter and you shapeshift in order to attract someone, is that necessarily more dishonest or manipulative than how people change themselves to attract someone normally?
Depends. Can you maintain that form indefinitely? Do you revert to a "true" form if, say, you fall asleep or stop concentrating?
BTW, I had a fanfictiony idea in mind for Mystique once that dealt with questions of personal identity among shapeshifters
If you're a shapeshifter who self-identifies with the form you consciously choose to take, does it matter if you have some "true form" that you don't have any control over?
Shapeshifter identity politics, man.
Yeah, barring fraud I'm kinda failing to see any ethical issues here.
Though again, bias.
Which is fucking weird in a superpower discussion let me tell you.
Let's say that instead of changing my physical shape, I went around dressed in a U.S. Navy Master Chief's uniform and "reluctantly" confided to women that I was the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden (disclosure, I am not the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden).
But seriously, which is going to get you laid more: shapeshifting or teleportation?
Teleportation will get you laid less than shapeshifting, but more than neither shapeshifting nor teleportation and without nearly as many creepy and terribly rapey overtones.
That's...an interesting ethical concept. I mean, if you are a shapeshifter and you shapeshift in order to attract someone, is that necessarily more dishonest or manipulative than how people change themselves to attract someone normally?
Depends. Can you maintain that form indefinitely? Do you revert to a "true" form if, say, you fall asleep or stop concentrating?
BTW, I had a fanfictiony idea in mind for Mystique once that dealt with questions of personal identity among shapeshifters
If you're a shapeshifter who self-identifies with the form you consciously choose to take, does it matter if you have some "true form" that you don't have any control over?
Shapeshifter identity politics, man.
Yeah, barring fraud I'm kinda failing to see any ethical issues here.
Though again, bias.
Which is fucking weird in a superpower discussion let me tell you.
Let's say that instead of changing my physical shape, I went around dressed in a U.S. Navy Master Chief's uniform and "reluctantly" confided to women that I was the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden (disclosure, I am not the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden).
Yeah, barring fraud I'm kinda failing to see any ethical issues here.
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So you're saying you're a xenophobe?
*takes notes*
There was a reddit meme today about trix cereal going from fruit shapes to regular balls.
The meme was basically "what if Trix really are for kids and we can't see the magical shapes anymore because we're old?"
Mind.
Blown.
If you want to use "gamers" as a derogatory term for "people who are fucking assholes and play videogames", sure.
I have a simpler solution that drawing those lines those though.
Just call them fucking assholes
I made a Greek salad and chicken enchiladas. It is not a traditional pairing. But it is a good one.
I'm sure there have been but I believe were-things were pretty verboten during the silver age of comics so there hasn't been one big enough to enter the popular conscious.
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I might argue that the power comes from the sheer barrage of examples. She doesn't really let up. One example, or two? "oh, those are tragic". 15? 20? 50? ...
I think associating it with tvtropes is deeply unfair, because the word "trope" has been around for a long time.
If the situation were slightly different; say, if
a) the site had been "tv-trans" and it collected examples of trans culture in the media and
b) the video series focused on the same sort of thing
then would your post read the same way? "annoying framework with the tv-trans-ness of it"?
Yeah, she's not a flashy presenter, but I don't know if being flashy would help in this case. Nor do I really know what level she's talking on - like inqui said, is it really feminism 101?
but I found the videos reasonable
Uh?
The Hulk.
But anyway, I don't mean were-things, I mean Mystique-type shapeshifters.
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my ideal body would probably be 4 twerking
Let's say that instead of changing my physical shape, I went around dressed in a U.S. Navy Master Chief's uniform and "reluctantly" confided to women that I was the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden (disclosure, I am not the Navy SEAL who shot and killed Osama Bin Laden).
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
take me
When I was a kid, Trix were just balls.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Yeah, barring fraud I'm kinda failing to see any ethical issues here.
There is always he-she.
Or. OR.
You were born old.
This is a viable hypothesis consistent with other data.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
@Sarksus will create the new thread
@Quid is backup