Disqus - Latest Comments for jezzicuh

Re: TV Tropes Restores Rape Tropes

Jessica — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:30:54 -0000

I do feel it's uniquely awful, but that's probably obvious. It's not a "broadly-sourced" community, in my opinion, but a pretty insular group of young (mostly male) nerds who shun and shame outsiders.

Honestly, I hope you're right in the long run because the site could be a valuable resource, but I see no reason to believe it. Actions speak louder than words, and TV Tropes has just kept getting worse over the years. I hope this kind of coverage honestly does get you guys to clean house and not just shush the anti-objectification, anti-pedophilia "whiners" away like what has happened consistently so far.

Re: TV Tropes Restores Rape Tropes

Jessica — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:04:05 -0000

Heh. For what it's worth, Nikki, I'm one of those "hyper feminists" and I've stopped following The Mary Sue recently on RSS because it felt like all they ever do is fluffy pieces on Avengers-themed shoes. I suppose you can't keep everyone happy. :)

Re: TV Tropes Restores Rape Tropes

Jessica — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:54:55 -0000

First off, Morven, you're putting words in my mouth. At no point did I say that there should be no documentation of rape in fiction -- in fact, I pretty clearly said that Geekfeminism would be a great home for this kind of thing so clearly I don't object to the idea on principle.

(Edited because you may have been asking specifically if I think TV Tropes shouldn't deal with rape, in which case: that is correct. As long as your community is the way it is, I do not think it is a good place to handle problematic topics. It's like .. putting Reddit in charge of some archive of feminist theory.)

From what you've said, it seems to me that you're excusing the horrible attitudes at TV Tropes because a) it's under the surface and b) nerds will be nerds. Neither of those is a very good excuse in my eyes, and it certainly doesn't redeem the overall character of TV Tropes or make me think it's any better able to handle problematic content.

Re: TV Tropes Restores Rape Tropes

Jessica — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:45:27 -0000

Bleh. I love you guys at The Mary Sue, but you're on the wrong side of this one. Having rape tropes managed by sensible people like the folks at Geekfeminism was an absolute best case scenario. The TV Tropes forums are full of people convinced that anime featuring sexualized children and rape are totally awesome and anyone who argues otherwise is just society trying to tell you what to do, man. In at least one case, a 15 year old girl was hounded for her "pedophile hating" attitude and propositioned until she no longer visited the site.

Folks -- folks with good hearts in good places -- have been trying for months to get TV Tropes and Fast Eddie to clean up their site and I am kind of bummed that just when there seemed to be a breakthrough, The Mary Sue came in and reversed a lot of good work. I know you meant well, but .. bleh.

Re: Metagame

Jessica — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 17:22:24 -0000

I've only leveled to 11 in the post-4.03a world, but I've already had three quests that gave me an NPC helper. I suppose we're expected to level solo, so instead of group quests we get computer helpers now. While that's useful, I kind of miss the camaraderie of group quests.

Re: Possible strangeness with site

Jessica — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:31:42 -0000

Explain your Like button, sir! Is it Facebook? It doesn't look obnoxiously Facebooky. I clicked it, but I'm not sure what happened.

Also, it's sort of bleeding over into your sidebar, but I suspect that's because you're mid-server changes.

Re: The Reunion (pre-reunion thoughts)

Jessica — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 13:01:41 -0000

I applaud your inclination to go back and use it as an opportunity for reflection. I don't like milestones like that -- I'm always scared that I'll fall short. "You must be this accomplished to ride the 20 year reunion ride." :)

Anyway, nice to see you writing on a regular basis again.

Re: Moving to Disqus for Comments

Jessica — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:03:48 -0000

Thanks for mentioning DISQUS again! I used it a long time ago, but turned it off due to a technical problem. I *really* like the latest version, and am putting it back on my sites. I kind of wish there was an easy way to switch between two posting profiles, though... said Liore, the space goat. /sigh

Re: So What Else Are You Playing?

Jessica — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:57:40 -0000

There is a sequel! It's called Zuma's Revenge.

I finished the last level of classic Zuma after years of sporadic practice. It will probably remain the premiere achievement of my life. ;)

Re: An Ode to Contractions, the Key to Your Voice

Jessica — Fri, 14 May 2010 17:07:32 -0000

I agree with everything you've said! The best personal writing is done when we're all "acting natural", or at least like we're not in a schoolroom. :)

I also think there's some merit to NOT using contractions occasionally as part of one's voice. If I'm trying to express something particularly abhorrent or upsetting or if I'm feeling very prissy, not contracting stuff is a cool way to express that. ("I cannot understand why blah blah", or "I do not like liver", for example.)

Re: lying or editing?

Jessica — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:49:15 -0000

Test. I think Disqus is eating comments.

Re: slave to social media fashion

Jessica — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:15:58 -0000

No, nor did a hod of cement drop from a construction site on to his head the precise NIGHT BEFORE my Women's Studies final.

I know, I'm as shocked as you are.

Re: slave to social media fashion

Jessica — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:36:08 -0000

Oh, d'oh, I know who this is now. Don't mind me.

I'm so torn on Twitter. As a coder with a couple of web apps under my belt I was really dismissive of it at first. Great, you can enter 140 characters into a database and it shows up on your webpage. Wheeee. As an old school blogger, too, it seemed to oversimplify personal publishing into almost nothing.

Then I got one, and I really enjoyed the social circle message board functions. It's a nice way to stay in touch throughout the day. If you're clever enough, it's also a simple way to publish amusing thoughts, and I admit to being more appreciative of Twitter as a broadcast medium.

However, it honestly wasn't until I looked at Twitterfall yesterday that the grand scope of it clicked. I used the keyword "Vancouver", and suddenly.. people tweeting about accidents on the way home, reviewing bands they saw last night, talking about things going on this weekend, discussing local issues (we're in the middle of a gang war right now). All those tweets had some context and became a pretty glorious string of something I would call content.

It's definitely making me think about how I use Twitter, and how I can add signal to the noise.

Re: slave to social media fashion

Jessica — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:35:46 -0000

Heavens, SDZ, that was a pretty cogent and interesting reply. Are you sure you’re on the right blog?

I kid, I kid. You bring up an interesting tangent, which is the integration of real and carefully constructed online lives. I recently dealt with this on a smaller scale – I have Jessica/jezzicuh, blogger and journaler and commenter, and then also a somewhat well established identity from a MMO game that also has a blog and a Twitter and so on. It gets very difficult to keep the two apart, and in fact I’ve given up on that as far as my lifestream goes.

I know at least one person who refuses to Twitter because they think it’s unseemly to spew one’s life all over the internet. I can’t say that they’re entirely wrong.

I hope you’re right that people are still out there creating amazing content. We’re lacking search and context now, I think. I find even now with what I think are above average internet search skills I have a hard time turning up interesting resources on things that interest me.

(If you decide to work your comment into a blog post, come back and share the link. I’d be interested to read it.)

Re: although i used to wonder why

Jessica — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:49:27 -0000

Danke! :)

Re: oh. my. god.

Jessica — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:30:54 -0000

The book cover is awesome. It's like a Penguin Classic gone horribly wrong.

Re: so long, 2008

Jessica — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:10:41 -0000

Wait, there are still rogues?! I thought you all turned into Death Knights. ;)

Circle of Healing is nerfed on Tuesday. Priests are all emo.

Re: the owls are not what they seem

Jessica — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:01:34 -0000

The Sloane Crosley book was well written, but I didn't groove with it like I do some others of that ilk. I think with author-oriented essays you have to feel like the author is someone you would want to be friends with (this varies from person to person, of course), and I just didn't 'click' with Sloane.

Re: gaming the system

Jessica — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:02 -0000

A building with 50,000 gamer geeks from around North America, and one of them had the flu... and then the rest of us did.

However, I had a grand time until then!

Re: still alive

Jessica — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:58:57 -0000

I'm fairly certain if I was working for John McCain you would know by the sounds of Dad spluttering and swearing on the phone. :)

Re: hair artist

Jessica — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 22:27:45 -0000

Your bum is so wee, sometimes I think the pixies brought it!

Re: friday brainsplat

Jessica — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:25:56 -0000

Oh, good catch, thanks! I fixed that.. you can leave comments on my LJ now. :)

Re: friday spectacular

Jessica — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:51:12 -0000

Everything posted after this one (such as today!) will show up on my LJ too. And don't worry.. I'm both lazy AND like making cool little things like LJ synchronization happen. :)

Re: friday spectacular

Jessica — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:03:14 -0000

You genius you! That works like a charm... :)

Re: say what?

Jessica — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:42:03 -0000

Your "saying insane things" thing is endearing. :)

Tell you what, you do the face-to-face work, I'll do the behind the scenes internet writey stuff, and we'll TOTALLY control the world!