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  1. Scylla Rhiadra
    I think I've posted another, earlier version of this pic, but I'm getting a little better at this stuff with practice, and I think I like this one better.
  2. Scylla Rhiadra
    It's the topic that just keeps on giving and giving. And wow, what it's got on offer right at the moment is a bit terrifying. Just make it stop already.
  3. Scylla Rhiadra
    Wow. Are we trying to lawyer our way around the illegality of AP here?
  4. Scylla Rhiadra
    YOU are darling. ❤️
  5. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is an EXCELLENT idea. Let's make this a serious bit of scandal! YES. IT IS @Madelaine McMasters'S ILLICIT LOVE CHILD!!!
  6. Scylla Rhiadra
    I'm seriously pissed at him about it too.
  7. Scylla Rhiadra
    Oh, I'm so glad you made it, Sid! Yes, it's a powerful play. And a lot funnier than most people think too!
  8. Scylla Rhiadra
    IKR? We've had laws against things like murder FOREVER, and yet people keep getting murdered!!! I think it's high time we stopped pretending that these useless rules are accomplishing anything.
  9. Scylla Rhiadra
    No idea how Adobe got hold of this (I need to put tape over my webcam?), but this is TOTALLY me. Really.
  10. Scylla Rhiadra
    I suspect you just won Rowan's star! Congrats! A stern reminder however that politics are NOT permitted here!!!
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  12. Scylla Rhiadra
    What do I win if I correctly guess whom you'd award this to? (I've got a pretty good idea.)
  13. Scylla Rhiadra
    YMMV, as always!
  14. Scylla Rhiadra
    Caer, if there is one thing easily demonstrable from my thousands of posts here, it is that I am as capable as anyone else of mucking up a communication, sounding incoherent, being incomprehensible, etc.!
  15. Scylla Rhiadra
    In the Bladerunner scene, the director had the challenge of communicating affect indirectly. We don't have a "narrator" who can describe what he's feeling, so the language, which is a bit like the visible tip of an iceberg, has to carry the weight of communicating how intense and very human are his responses to his experiences in life. In this case, I think, it succeeds brilliantly: there is a reason that this is possibly the best known and most quoted scene from the movie. It's enormously powerful -- and of course produces an "affect" in us that is testimony to its effectiveness. (See what I did there? 😏)
  16. Scylla Rhiadra
    Affect here is a noun, and is related to, but ultimately rather more complicated, than the meanings of the verb. The barebones dictionary definition of current usage (OED) is "A term used in psychology for the experience of feeling or emotion, mood, etc., as opposed to cognition and volition." In my field, it's used most often to describe the complex and sometimes subtle ways in which our emotional responses can impact upon us, and upon our perceptions of and responses to the world around us. It is NOT a very common usage, though. Poetry and literature, or art in general, can produce a particular "affect" in those who experience that is much more difficult to describe comprehensively and accurately than what one might call the "intellectual content" of the piece.
  17. Scylla Rhiadra
    Ouch. The first Trainspotting is the movie that I mentioned above somewhere, I think, that I was unable to finish watching because of one particularly traumatizing scene. I do love the Prodigy remix of Lust for Life though.
  18. Scylla Rhiadra
    Just in passing, Love, you were asking about the use of the term "affect" earlier. That scene (which is brilliant) is a pretty good example of how it might be used: what we hear and see from Roy is an expression of the "affect" of all he has experienced. The fact that he's capable of it (because affect is mostly about emotional and/or psychological responses) is, of course, what proves that he and the other replicants are fully "human."
  19. Scylla Rhiadra
    I think this is exactly right. Well said; it's sort of what I've been trying to say, but said soooo much better. Caer has suggested something similar. They have obviously been on this forum, as they cite it, and if they are in this particular field (MMOs and games) they're likely familiar with the rough-and-tumble of these kinds of fora, so I probably shouldn't worry too much, but I'll confess that if they DO post here, I'll be watching anxiously behind half-closed fingers!
  20. Scylla Rhiadra
    This is WHY I never had kids!!!
  21. Scylla Rhiadra
    No, I didn't think that was what you were saying! I thought your post was entirely reasonable, friendly, and worthwhile!
  22. Scylla Rhiadra
    Oh, totally. I'm not trying to play "the victim" here: I knew exactly what I was doing, and in fact commented to a friend that I was about to get myself banned from the place even before I'd written and posted my response. Had it been a place I cared at all about, or a person I liked better (this particular person has always seemed to me not very pleasant, tbh), I'd most likely not have done it. Mostly, I don't like confrontation. And when I do confront someone -- and that includes here -- I generally go out of my way to try to sound non-belligerent. But honestly, the whole "you're just producing screenshots / captures of other people's work" thing is really starting to bug me, so I suppose I could argue that this was my rant. And as the cost of letting it rip was pretty low (as it's not a place I use at all), I decided to go for it. It felt good! Good analysis, though. I'd still disagree with you that banning me was a "reasonable" response, given what I actually said, but I do concede that it's a very human one. And clever you finding the post!!!! ETA: But in the "humans are inconsistent" category -- I got a rather snotty and snide response to an admittedly highly political and contentious pic I posted a few days back, and responded in a pretty acidic way. Weirdly, I've NOT been banned from his region (which is a sort of "art sim" one quite popular with photographers).
  23. Scylla Rhiadra
    You have NO idea dahling . . . 😏
  24. Scylla Rhiadra
    When what they REALLY needed was a "NO SCYLLA" sign, right?
  25. Scylla Rhiadra
    Heh. So I've apparently been banned from a region very popular with photographers because I took issue (quite politely, I think) on Flickr with the owner's suggestion that photographers owe all the artistry of their photos to the hard work of the sim designer. I quote: I actually wrote that I agreed with him that photographers should provide the SLURL of places where they take photos and acknowledge them, but I think my response interrupted the steady stream of obsequious agreement that his remarks had been receiving. Oh well. Some people are very delicate little flowers, I guess? (And before someone inevitably points out that region owners have the right to choose whom they ban, I should hasten to add that I'm aware of this. And as I don't think I've ever actually been to the region in question anyway, and had no plans to go there, I'm not exactly devastated anyway.)
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