Er, I’m quite sure it was Gimli, son of Gloin. Not Groin.

No no, they said Gimli, son of Gloin, son of Groin.

http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Groin

i’m not a gamer, but this is some important shit

I once got into an argument with a guy on wow, because he thought I was a guy pretending to be a girl. >.>

I left at least one guild during my hardcore raiding days in WotLK because of treatment I am 100% sure is due to my having been a female tank.

The final straw at the particular guild I’m thinking of was when I kept getting blamed for our wipes on Heroic BQL. I finally combed through the World of Logs reports, and pulled out the data that showed…

(1) My uptime on my own buffs was exactly where it should be. (2) My cooldowns were getting popped exactly where they should be. (3) I was taking more damage than the other tank—because my gear wasn’t quite as good, which they knew when I came in—but was getting less healing. (4) What heals I was getting were much more sporadic and unpredictable. (5) The couple of runs where I’d had an assigned healer watching out for me—like I fucking should have had every time, and like I kept requesting—the heals were steady and came in when they should, and we wiped to something other than my death.

Which resulted in… No change. At all.

This doesn't surprise me at all, unfortunately.

I'm a guy, and I play WoW on and off. The last time I created a character in World of Warcraft, I made it a woman.

I wanted to play a paladin, but at the time I was the Horde faction, and only one race, blood elves, could be paladins. Male blood elves look goofy and all have Dragon Ball Z hair, but female blood elves are at least professional-looking.

So now my new paladin is a woman, and I had an idea.

I knew real-life women got all kinds of shit, both from talking to friends, and seeing internet-public displays of assholery towards women. My idea was that while I wouldn't misrepresent myself as being a real life woman, and I wouldn't lie about anything (like personal details of where I live, personality quirks (I'm a loudmouth and call people out in trade), etc). I basically acted the same way I did on all my other characters.

I wouldn't say I was a man, but I also wouldn't deny that I wasn't a woman if asked directly. Simply 'I would rather not say'.

And hoooo boy did I get all kinds of random harassment just for that tiny little hint that I MIGHT be a woman.

One guy I was just randomly doing quests with asked how big my boobs were. Another who I was in a raid with asked if I would have cybersex with him (the raid had voice chat, and I said I didn't have a mic). All kinds of off the wall stuff like that, which I'm sure you all are familiar with.

I had considered getting a mic and using one of those voice modulator things to make it sound like my voice was a woman's, but I felt that was both going to far and way super creepy.

And whenever I pick up WoW again and start playing my paladin again, I get these dipshits crawling out of the woodwork and propositioning me.

I can only imagine the amount of guts it takes to be an 'out' woman online.

Don’t worry about the price of gas.

"So why do you live on the shores of one of the largest bodies of fresh water in the world?”

"Oh… no reason," I replied, nervously cleaning my collection of semi-automatic weapons.

"Lake Michigan"

"fresh"

Do I want to buy and play Dragon Age II before Dragon Age: Inquisition

Y/N please circle one

Great, thanks, now I've got marker all over the screen.

i seriously miss being able to use lj icons as subtle commentary on the content of your own comments

S,A,M,E

Attn lafinjack and foxtongue and @kermix especially.

Me too, which is why I ACTUALLY STILL USE LJ

Warning Signs of Satanic Behavior. Training video for police, 1990

My Dad's response to his white co-workers making fun of his accent

White Co-Worker: That's not how you say it. My Dad: But you knew what I meant so why do you have to make a big deal out of it. White Co-Worker: Aww come on man, it's funny, lighten up will yah Nestor? My Dad: You know I speak 5 languages, right? How many can you speak? White Co-Worker: Just English My Dad: Tell me something. What does a cow say? White Co-Worker: Moo? My Dad: That's right, the cows in my country say that too. You know why? They can only speak one language *walks away* White Co-Worker: *sheds white tears*

#NotAllCows

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-linguistic_onomatopoeias#Cow_mooing

Another friend of a friend is having a fun ol’ racist time this evening, so I’ve decided to play White Dude Bingo. So far I’ve checked off the boxes for:

I didn't know you were friend of a friend with Bill Maher.

Okay so one of the most enduring questions I have about X-mens is about why the mutant x gene works the way it does, how people with such diverse bodies and abilities are supposedly unified by one mutation. And some of them are so weird. I mean, there’s a dude who looks like the devil, how does that happen??   I mean, obviously, it’s comic book science so I don’t mean to have this “THIS DON’T REAL” nerd out about it, but I recently had the thought that maybe the mutation is like, susceptible to narrative influence, like the gene gets activated and then the way the individual mutation occurs is shaped by thought and circulating ideas. It’s a kind of stupid, not worked out theory, but there you go, that’s maybe one possible explanation for why your mutation could literally be looking like the devil. 

This has always been one of those things that I just chalked up to what I call “price of admission”: something seemingly impossible that you ignore the impossibility of, because it’s a sine qua non for the story to happen. (Another good example would be robots and monsters the size of skyscrapers, for Pacific Rim.)

I really enjoy this explanation, though.

Honestly, fanwank (if there’s a way to use that word non-pejoratively) is often one of my favorite things about fandom. (A classic being that Han Solo bragged about doing the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs—a unit of distance rather than time—not because George Lucas doesn’t know what the fuck a parsec is, but because the route actually involves wending your way through a bunch of wormholes, so a shorter route is faster, but also potentially fatal.)

I don't follow the comic scene, much less Marvel, nearly as closely as Shot From Guns, so I could easily be wrong. Having said that, here's how I always interpreted the Marvel mutation thing:

There have always been mutations. Always. They're not new. So, we don't have mutations where the specific mutation looks like a devil, we have a culture that had people who looked like devils, demonized those people, and created myths around those people. We have plenty of historical evidence of this happening with run-of-the-mill real-life 'mutations', people with disorders who were hounded or killed because of their birth.

Also, pretty much any myth you can think of fits into this. Doppelgaengers? We got mutants for that. Angels? We got mutants for that. Sasquatchen? We got mutants for that. The general catch-all concept of witches? We got mutants for that. Those are just the first X-Men specific examples I thought of, much less Marvel as a whole.

So we've got these powerful people in a world that doesn't understand them at all. Tries to kill them if they show their power, or their mutation changes their appearance. Or maybe they used their powers and people worshipped them as a pantheon or a messiah.

Anyway, from what I understand of Marvel and how Stan Lee imagined a lot of it, the 'mutation' trope was intended to be a not so subtle wrapper for a lot of discriminations, like race or sexuality. And now the stories we're seeing, this entire "holy shit where are all these mutants coming from?" theme of the Marvel world's most recent generations, are just a symptom of mutations being taboo for, well, thousands of years.

Certainly there have been historical societies who were better about certain taboos, so maybe there were some societies who were better about mutations, but it wasn't the norm. Now science in general and the globalization of communication makes it harder to write the mutations off as deities being deities, harder for the 'freaks' to physically hide or flee when society turns on them.

So they pretty much have to come out, as a group, and say "yo, we're here, no matter how hard you try you'll never kill all of us, so you better get used to us". The writers aren't necessarily wanting a devil character and basing him on mythological devils, the myths were ripped from the headlines, as it were, and now we as a society have to deal with these people, humanely and justly and compassionately, one would hope... but unfortunately usually not.

There is a story behind these mugs

When I was a smoker, my roommate and I would play Yahtzee a lot.

I once ashed in the dice cup.

You haven't lived until you've taken a sip from a can of someone's dip spit.

THIS IS SO ACCURATE

Kids still have to print things?

Some places still make you fax them!