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Asian-GAF: We're all the same, like Stormtroopers |OT| |AT|
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http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=167055309&postcount=516 if you really want to see the post, but yeah >_> There's way more of the non-asian posts in that thread than the boxart, so I guess most of them got it out of their system?
Also, whoever makes the OT for it should title it Mirror's Edge Catalyst |OT| Starring Emma Stone as Faith
Honeymoon in August. It'll be a cruise around Hawaii for 10 days. Still need to book a hotel for the extra day we're staying after to avoid higher plane tickets. And plan excursions.
Septimus Prime
Member
Congratulations!
Make sure in Hawaii to tell them you're on your honeymoon. They'll usually do things like room upgrades and stuff for you.
Sweeeeeet. Definitely will tell everybody lol.
ActStriker
Member
I need table flipping gifs
Seductivpancakes
Member
I swear to god a lot of gaffers need to go out more and look at people.
Every time they discuss race, wtf is this.
Every time they discuss race, wtf is this.
FallingEdge
Member
hilarious
just have to smh and move on
just have to smh and move on
Seductivpancakes
Member
Just read that reddit news.
I was on that neogaf hate sub reddit once. I saw a thread asking if bunny was the worst gaffer of all time.
Don't ever change Bunny <3
I was on that neogaf hate sub reddit once. I saw a thread asking if bunny was the worst gaffer of all time.
Don't ever change Bunny <3
I personally like doing the CityPass stuff for a weekend - especially if the weather is nice. Definitely hit up the Seattle Center (Experience Music Project, Science Center, Space Needle), and then take the monorail down to the waterfront and do Pike's Market + the Argosy Cruise if the weather is nice. That's the typical touristy stuff but it is good. After that, Seattle Underground Tour is is fun if you like history.
Depends how long y'all are up in Seattle - that's pretty good for a weekend. Since you will have a car - might be fun to hit up Gasworks Park (the major park in Seattle). Also, check to see if there are outdoor movies playing in Seattle that weekend at one of the major parks and do that (couple of years ago went to an outdoor showing of Princess Bride with Chris Sarandon actually quoting along with an open mic. That was fantastic).
IAmtheFMan
Member
Congrats on the marriage! I'm joining you in the married life in about a month...
Seductivpancakes
Member
weird people don't loves the bunny.
This is how tags happen.
Put on your big-girl pants and suck it up.
We all make mistakes. I've said worse and still kick myself over it.
ActStriker
Member
do we put an over/under on when HR comes for ya?
Hey thanks! Congrats on yours too and welcome to the club... In a month lol. So far I still can't stop playing with my ring.
Way to be an asshole. <3
I've always taken it to mean that point in time when you grow up. Sucks that your new hire took it the wrong way
Edit: that reminds me. I was drinking with a couple attorneys at the firm I used to work at and joked about one of our ex-employees about how she was yelling down the hallway before she left. One of the senior partners in the room said man that's too soon or something along those lines. I gave him a weird look and the other guy explained it to me.
Turned out that since I didn't use her last name and he came on after she left, he thought I was talking about his recent ex, who I didn't know shared the same first name. It got really awkward at that point so I just finished my drink and made an excuse to go back to the server room. >_>
Thanks for the tips! I had actually never heard of CityPass, seems like a good deal right? Might just go with that so our trip has some structure. I'm a big coffee nut so I'll definitely explore the city for some coffee places too
(unless you have suggestions on that matter as well)Septimus Prime
Member
If you have it already, you should probably bring your marriage certificate (some places do ask for it sometimes). You can probably try telling them you don't have it yet because you just got married, though.
I remember going to Hawaii about a month or two after I got married for non-honeymoon reasons, and a friend clued me in to tell them it was a honeymoon anyway. It was nice!
She'll get over it, I think. Everyone makes mistakes like that.
Aside: I personally think firstname@company is the "big boy/girl" email. Those usually indicate that the person was there when the company started, and usually the people I see with those kinds of emails are VPs and up.
Hahah what, I visited that once in a while but it was always sorely outdated. Guess there were huge ban waves that helped.
did anyone say anything about me? I want to be noticed!
Subreddits can be cool if you are into that topic (the history / science ones are fantastic!) - outside of your specific interests, the rest of reddit is sort of insane.
Bunny, you lacking tact? No way.
Then again, that's one of the most awesome things about you (when you aren't getting banned for it), so much <3 to the AngryBunny. I like to think of you as AsianGAF's Lewis Black. This is me on /r/all today:
Ok, that is freaking adorable.
I prefer poor speech die off on its own rather than be subject to the heckler's veto or "badwrongfun" more than anything else. You can have all your hateful subreddits; actively trying to stomp out that speech, while just in theory, tends to end poorly in a practical manner.
I suspect there is also a large amount of "West Coast" involved - to me you're pretty even keel outside of awesomely ranty at times. West Coast is a place that is pretty laid back all things considered. So don't be too hard on yourself for lack of tact...it's a relative thing.
Above all though...
-yours truly
<3 <3
Reddit is great, redditors are terrible.
Well at least the ones that seem to make up the majority of reddit. I've met redditors at local meetups and nearly all of them are cool people. The ones who sit at home and shitpost on reddit all day don't have the social graces or perspective for anything else. I think there have been a few times a literal basement dweller showed up to a reddit meetup and he had to be asked to leave. He was actually acting like a literal creepy fedora dude trying to neg the women there. It was gross.
Also we had the discussion in the TOGAF thread but someone took pictures of the TO Reddit meetup one time and it was like a lot more white than we expecting. I hadn't been in a while but I saw a bunch of familiar faces and didn't even realize most of them were white vs. actual demographics you'd expect in Toronto (more Azns, but that I feel is a different topic altogether).
All the shitty redditors that shoot vile shit out of their mouths are in most likelihood actually the basement dwelling MRAs you'd expect - at least from my experience. Everyone else is probably actually a decent person.
Well at least the ones that seem to make up the majority of reddit. I've met redditors at local meetups and nearly all of them are cool people. The ones who sit at home and shitpost on reddit all day don't have the social graces or perspective for anything else. I think there have been a few times a literal basement dweller showed up to a reddit meetup and he had to be asked to leave. He was actually acting like a literal creepy fedora dude trying to neg the women there. It was gross.
Also we had the discussion in the TOGAF thread but someone took pictures of the TO Reddit meetup one time and it was like a lot more white than we expecting. I hadn't been in a while but I saw a bunch of familiar faces and didn't even realize most of them were white vs. actual demographics you'd expect in Toronto (more Azns, but that I feel is a different topic altogether).
All the shitty redditors that shoot vile shit out of their mouths are in most likelihood actually the basement dwelling MRAs you'd expect - at least from my experience. Everyone else is probably actually a decent person.
Would also like to point out that the NYTimes has a series of articles about how people are paid in some countries to be trolls on the internet. I am starting to wonder about their impact - it explains the disconnect between reality and online in some cases.
A woman I was seeing once actually asked me why I didn't neg her. Like holy fuck?
wtf
*looks up words in Google*
wtf
what a shitty world
Reddit is useful for looking up user opinions on tech products.
Maybe that's what's with the whole nice guys thing that some people develop. Yes there is the other "nice" guy term.
Somehow, thinking of this reminds me of this video: https://youtu.be/xfeys7Jfnx8
I saw a tweet in my feed the other day, it was basically "guys who say they don't know how to talk to women really just mean they don't know how to treat a women like people".LOOOOL. Wow, how did I ever miss this.
( I love /r/niceguys
& yeah, I'm sure that there's a huge overlap between "nice guys" and "guys that think negging works because women are women."
I laughed cause it's true.
Gully State
Member
I just googled negging...reminds me of the sandwich technique for constructive criticism.
Septimus Prime
Member
I will confirm it works. It has a lot more to do with just negs, though, and a lot of what people are calling "negs" are really just insults. The core principle is to treat women as people and not keep them on a pedestal. For a lot of guys who have limited interactions with women, this is hard, so the "neg" simplifies things by giving them a "technique," where they can boil down social interactions to tallies and have something to fall back on. I don't think there's anything inherently evil with the thing itself, but its users are often kind of sketchy.
That aside, I remembered for some reason on a board I used to post on, we used to make up random, nonsense information about Asians and see how many people would fall for it. For example, one dude would start off with an seemingly innocuous and misguided question: "Is it true that Asians eat glass?" The people would follow up with "corrections" until the whole thing seemed plausible.
"Is it true that Asians eat glass?"
"I think you've been misinformed. Not all Asians eat glass. I believe it's only certain people from China."
"Yeah, it's Chinese people from the region near the Gobi Desert. The people around that region grow up in weather conditions where sandstorms would often blow sand (silica) into their food, so they grow up used to having a little glass with their meals."
"Oh, definitely. My great grandparents were from there, and I remember sometimes they would have a salt shaker with really finely ground glass that they would sprinkle onto their food."
"Yeah, it's not like we eat windows and sheets or glass or anything. Just a little bit with our food. Like pepper."
It got hilarious, fast. We also blamed sandstorms for squinty-eyes. Allegedly it's a trait that evolved from the necessity of limiting sand in the eyes.
That aside, I remembered for some reason on a board I used to post on, we used to make up random, nonsense information about Asians and see how many people would fall for it. For example, one dude would start off with an seemingly innocuous and misguided question: "Is it true that Asians eat glass?" The people would follow up with "corrections" until the whole thing seemed plausible.
"Is it true that Asians eat glass?"
"I think you've been misinformed. Not all Asians eat glass. I believe it's only certain people from China."
"Yeah, it's Chinese people from the region near the Gobi Desert. The people around that region grow up in weather conditions where sandstorms would often blow sand (silica) into their food, so they grow up used to having a little glass with their meals."
"Oh, definitely. My great grandparents were from there, and I remember sometimes they would have a salt shaker with really finely ground glass that they would sprinkle onto their food."
"Yeah, it's not like we eat windows and sheets or glass or anything. Just a little bit with our food. Like pepper."
It got hilarious, fast. We also blamed sandstorms for squinty-eyes. Allegedly it's a trait that evolved from the necessity of limiting sand in the eyes.
New Doctor Strange movie, role of Ancient One who is a 'Tibetan/Buddhist' man was gender swapped to woman. That's whatever, but the real kicker, rather than find some North Indian/Nepalese/Tibetan/Eastern Chinese woman to play the role, it goes to Tilda Swinton.
No one will care. Purists even saying I love Tilda when she plays villainous roles. But Asian representation already so slim in superhero movies. And in this case, it was an actual role that SHOULD have been given to any Asian. What hope is there for greater representation. I mean you very rarely see any Indian, Chinese, Korean be mentioned in parts for any roles.
No one will care. Purists even saying I love Tilda when she plays villainous roles. But Asian representation already so slim in superhero movies. And in this case, it was an actual role that SHOULD have been given to any Asian. What hope is there for greater representation. I mean you very rarely see any Indian, Chinese, Korean be mentioned in parts for any roles.
Doesn't even need to be male. If they want to gender swap, that's cool. But why not keep the Tibetan part of the character? Tilda Swinton is the first choice? There are plenty of Northeast Indian/Nepalese/Tibetan/Eastern Chinese actresses who could utilize the role no? I mean yeah I get it. But where is the purist outrage every time a white character gets changed? You very rarely ever see any older Asian women in roles too. Someone mentioned Michelle Yeoh, I wouldn't mind Gong Li, tons of actresses.
I just think that the roles are already so slim why remove an established one? Then we get the anger when a white role might be given to an Asian actor. But never the reverse...
Seductivpancakes
Member
Hollywood features are so adverse to non-white people it's hilarious.
I would recommend TV over it anyday. At least representation of women, LGBTQ, and visible minorities is slightly better. Not a silver bullet or anything but at least they're given actual roles and because TV is long form, they're less likely to turn out to be token characters. If you are so inclined, the Wachowskis made Sense8 that just dropped on Netflix recently. The cast is: white American man, Icelandic woman, Indian woman, African man, gay Mexican man, Korean woman, white German man, white American trans woman. It looks like ticking boxes but it's not really.
I could easily list maybe a dozen recent shows that have visible minorities in lead roles.
I would recommend TV over it anyday. At least representation of women, LGBTQ, and visible minorities is slightly better. Not a silver bullet or anything but at least they're given actual roles and because TV is long form, they're less likely to turn out to be token characters. If you are so inclined, the Wachowskis made Sense8 that just dropped on Netflix recently. The cast is: white American man, Icelandic woman, Indian woman, African man, gay Mexican man, Korean woman, white German man, white American trans woman. It looks like ticking boxes but it's not really.
I could easily list maybe a dozen recent shows that have visible minorities in lead roles.
It's more that the role, even if it's the wise old Asian man, mysticism trope, is one of the few REAL non-white roles in the comic and was available for the movie. They don't need upset any purist fans by changing an established white character to Asian or whatnot. But what do they decide? To change the role altogether to give to another white actor. And yet, unlike the casting of Heimdall, the change of Perry White to black in Man of Steel, no one will care Tilda Swinton is given the role.
Septimus Prime
Member
Protip: don't. Just don't be too self-deprecating. Maybe talk more about how you feel about things instead of just stating facts, since the latter she can get from any source, but the former is something unique about you.
I've yet to have a lady friend, so I hope that makes you feel better.
I was gonna say that and also just be yourself but most people don't take that into account and have the learn the hard way.
And you're how old? serious question.
"Uh have you heard of NeoGAF?"
The perfect opportunity to tell her how far negging has come since Sasuke Uchiha.
