The Swanton825

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Jaysin" data-cite="Jaysin" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="25823" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Also watched Titan AE for the first time in years tonight and it was even better than I remembered it being. Don Bluth doesn't get nearly enough credit for his movies.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Don Bluth movies were a majority of my early childhood. An American Tail was heartwrenching.</p>

I looked up more songs from their 03 album after loving Death & Resurrection Show and found out not only did Dave Grohl do the drums, but he did it for free because he was such a huge fan. And you've got to respect a band that can do so many genre leaps that songs of theirs from 2003 and 2011 sound almost nothing alike.

Don't know if I count as a longtimer. Joined in 07 but I've spent most of that time lurking and occasionally starting diaries that rarely last three shows.

That was a fun first show! Also, I really need to listen to more of Killing Joke. I'd only ever heard songs of theirs from the 80s before so I never knew they had any heavy songs.

Most of the errors are on me. I seriously can't believe I forgot to add the Hooligan Sister's relationship. Also, I imagine a lot of users here are lurkers like I am most of the time so I'd say the fact that the only "complaints" are people pointing out errors is a good sign.

<p>America? Maybe, but more in a splintering like Yugoslavia than some apocalyptic event. Capitalism? When even China practices their own state-run version of it I can't see every other major nation on Earth going "that's it boys, pack it up! No more America means no more capitalism!". The Cold War gave us a very egocentric view of world politics when in reality, America could disappear tomorrow and the world would move on. Not without consequences, but there's nothing *essential* about our nation's existence.</p><p> </p><p> As for the extinction level event. The human race can bounce back so long as there are 10,000 genetically distinct people left. I highly doubt a virus with a 1-4-ish% fatality rate has the power to cause an extinction.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT: i recommend looking into online therapy to help. There are plenty of places like betterhelp.com that have professional far more qualified to discuss this with you than fans of text based sims.</p>

This right here is everything I hoped someone would do with Yumaniac. The Behemoth gif, the jabs at black metal fanboys, Kawano introducing her, it's perfection.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="lavelleuk" data-cite="lavelleuk" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="48936" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Again, I hope you don't mind me saying, but I would rather say it and potentially help than say nothing out of worrying I'll offend haha. and despite what I have put I can tell you now from what I see this is a fantastic addition to the C-Verse, and really needed. I love the bio styles, I can guarantee if people added the characters to the C-Verse people who played that data wouldn't know what was your work what was default, in a good way, as the style of write-ups matches the data so much, flawlessly.</div></blockquote><p> </p><p> A lot of these issues were my fault. I used the quick skill creation to give myself a base for each worker and tweaked it from there and I clearly forgot to tweak some of those stats. The pop issues were just me having a brain fart and forgetting that pop doesn't work in 20 like it did in 16.</p><p> </p><p> I'm glad to hear you got a kick out of the Dr. Yumaniac bio. That was one I'm particularly proud of. And Bonnie Bogan is totally ODB. Had I known about Martina I would've made her a mix of the two.</p>

WWE. I don't think it would've gone bankrupt, but they wouldn't be where they are now without The Rock and Austin reviving business.

So that marks the second time The Rock has saved one of Vince's businesses. One more and he gets a free frozen yogurt.

Those re-renders look great, but man I am in love with that new UPJ logo.

Damn that backstory got dark fast... and it's fascinating! I adore alternate history.

The 90s Gamera trilogy is the gold standard of all kaiju films and nobody can convince me otherwise. As for other kaiju films, Rodan is an underrated classic, the Rebirth of Mothra trilogy is so bad it's good (and friggin' Atsushi Onita stars in the third one) and Q the Winged Serpent is a fun American take on the genre.

It seems like it'd be appropriate for the rename to be the Washington Dumpster Fires at this point.

Whoops. Embarrassing

I didn't say people couldn't. My point is that it's on a completely different level of offensive when an Irish Catholic college calls itself the Fighting Irish and continues to do so well into a period in American history where Irish people actually have their voices heard and could easily demand it be changed than compared to a bunch of white dudes calling themselves the Redskins who have refused to change the name despite decades of outcry because they knew next to nobody in America gives a damn about Native Americans. It's why the Navajo are dying left and right from COVID, it's why the Standing Rock Reservation has to live with the perpetual fear of their drinking water getting poisoned by a busted oil pipeline and it's why after the dust is settled on all of this, nothing will have changed besides a name and a logo. The people who stood by the Native Americans who wanted it changed will head off to protest something new and the people who fought the name change so heartily will get used to the new name in a couple years and we'll all look back on debating the name as another dumb moment in football. Meanwhile, nothing will change for Native Americans because even asking for a token gesture like a NFL team's name to be changed ballooned into a decades-long struggle.

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26529" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>My question is, where is the outrage over the mascot for Notre Dame? Fighting Irish implies all people who are either from Ireland or of Irish ancestry are nothing more than drunks who like to fight. That outdated stereotype is highly offensive, where are the activist to boycott that? Where is the faux woke outrage?<img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> Not sure where the drunk part of it comes in when the mascot is a leprechaun in an old-timey fighting stance, but anyways I think the main difference comes down to the fact that unlike Native Americans who are still very much a minority with a laundry list of prejudice and mistreatments they continue to endure, people of Irish ancestry aren't the minority in America that their ancestors were and their kinsmen continue to be in the Isles. Similar to Italian-Americans like myself, Irish-Americans are considered to be "typical" Americans and we don't have to worry about the harassment that people like my maternal grandmother had to and to act like stereotyping Irish-Americans as drinkers or (to use a more personal example) Italians as mafioso is capable of being anywhere near as hurtful or dehumanizing as names like the Fighting Sioux or Redskins is to Natives who want it changed is disingenuous.</p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="BHK1978" data-cite="BHK1978" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26529" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>My late uncle was Native American and I remember asking him years ago about this. His quote was, "Nobody cares about it, most are indifferent." I think that may hold true. Granted it is not a fact, it was just what he said about the people that he knew. <p> </p><p> Part of me wonders if this is not a bunch of white activists calling for the change of the name over guilt. It does seem that is often the case, a small group of people complains about something but they are really loud about it and thus it amplifies and it makes it seem like more people support their cause than actually do.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> I would consider the white guilt aspect if people hadn't been demanding the name be changed since the 80s. White guilt protests are way too short lived to keep going that long. Remember when protesters were trying to get stuff like sushi taken off of college canteen menus on the ground of cultural appropriation? That lasted all of a hot minute.</p><p> </p><p> The main reason I feel it's become such a prominent debate in recent years is because Dan Snyder is a scumbag who sues elderly season ticket holders, tries to sell plushies of a murdered player and created a foundation to support Native Americans that after only five years had no money being put into it. If someone who isn't an aspiring Saturday morning cartoon villain buys the team instead of Snyder 20 years ago, I'm almost certain that the team either changes the name in a clever rebrand or works more with Native groups like teams like the Utah Utes and Florida State Seminoles do so that Washington is seen as being respectful to their traditions.</p><p> </p><p> EDIT:</p><p> </p><blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="Dalton" data-cite="Dalton" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26529" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>That very well may be true. Honestly, the name isn't the team's biggest problem anyway, that title goes to Dan Snyder <img alt=":D" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/biggrin.png.929299b4c121f473b0026f3d6e74d189.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></div></blockquote><p> You beat me to mocking Snyder. <img alt=":p" data-src="//content.invisioncic.com/g322608/emoticons/tongue.png.ceb643b2956793497cef30b0e944be28.png" src="<___base_url___>/applications/core/interface/js/spacer.png" /></p>

<blockquote data-ipsquote="" class="ipsQuote" data-ipsquote-username="cappyboy" data-cite="cappyboy" data-ipsquote-contentapp="forums" data-ipsquote-contenttype="forums" data-ipsquote-contentid="26529" data-ipsquote-contentclass="forums_Topic"><div>Then 2 questions spring to mind.<p> </p><p> 1: Does this mean they were connected to the baseball team at one point and the organized crime ties there?</p><p> </p><p> and 2: Why haven't the name change crowd run with this? This story would seem to make their case of the name being problematic seeing the extremes that were gone to in order to justify it in the first place.</p></div></blockquote><p> </p><p> 1. I don't believe there was any connection between the two teams besides the stadium. They were struggling to draw crowds so I think the owner was trying to trick people into believing the teams were connected.</p><p> </p><p> 2. You've got me there. The info even comes from a book called The Redskins Encyclopedia! Written by a fan and historian of the team! My only guess is that nobody has thought to look in such an obvious place for that info.</p>

He also says at the end of the article that he's not going to defend the name and if people want it changed, then change it. So we've even got former players not giving a crap about changing the name.

It's a very dumb, yet hilarious, explanation. They were originally from Boston and known as the Boston Braves. Then they moved into Fenway and changed it to Redskins because the owner wanted a name that made people connect them with the Red Sox and because their coach at the time lied and claimed he was Native American when he was actually just a white dude who had his own supposed sister from the Ogala testify in court that he was not her brother. EDIT: Totally forgot to mention the part where their coach told the players to dress up in war paint, feathers and full headdresses for their first home game as the Redskins. They went so overboard with the paint that the players wound up having trouble sweating because it blocked their pores.

I know my team doesn't have "history" in the same way but if I was told the Vikings were changing their name I don't think it'd be that big of a deal. Mostly I'd just be annoyed that all my Vikings stuff would be outdated. Also I feel like any survey that can make a sweeping statement like that only asked a very small group. You can't get 9 out of 10 people to agree on pizza toppings, yet despite consistent protests from local tribes for decades 9 out of 10 Native Americans don't mind the name? Maybe if it was 50/50 I'd find it believable, but you can't have generations of people protesting the name for so long and yet next to nobody in their own community agrees with them. This reminds me of how the Crazy Horse monument in South Dakota is actually sacrilegous to the Lakota because they're carving it out of a holy site like the Black Hills and to top it off picked a pointing gesture for the sculpture that's offensive to the Lakota, but because they browbeat tribal leaders into accepting that this is what's happening the people in charge of the monument can claim "most Lakota approve of us!".

Just call them the Warriors, put a W where the native guy used to be and bring back those awesome dark red helmets with the spear on them they wore for all of a hot minute in the mid 2000s. Boom, problem solved. All the theming can stay the same, basically nothing is majorly changed and now Washington has an alliterative name.

And if they need someone from the same area to replace him, I would like to suggest Jason Kincaid. Twice as talented, none of the ego or sleaze.

I couldn't access a few of the links, but here's the rest: Also for anyone interested, here's the nGo border: