Shamitako

Discussing the differences people have is different from discussing privilege. Privilege is looking at the reasons one person has things better than another person. And, in practice if not also intent, results in shaming the person with the privilege for having an an unfair advantage over other people. If the goal is to understand one another, then it's been missed by a longshot, because privilege is used as a tool to tell people why they can't ever understand the struggles of others. And in doing this widens the gaps between us all that are already far too wide The issue is not in the title but in the rules where you say that you can only talk about struggles if they are the struggles of an oppressed group. No matter what you title it, by making it so that it's about the advantages of white people you're making it about privilege. If it were about, quote, "racial iniquity" then there would be no need for such a rule

(How could you forget Aquila-senpai? D: ) Lisa followed Jesse inside, trying not to feel too nervous about his companions. She mostly just tried to stay quiet and out of the way, generally not being much help since just about everything that came out of her mouth was filtered through her fantasies. As instructed, she refrained from loudly proclaiming herself to his Angel Mafia friends... Who didn't seem very angel-mafia-like. But with all the talk of their foe she couldn't hold it in any longer. "Yeah, there was the guy with the glove and he made ugly bird things and I was all like whoosh and pow and kablammo and it was a super awesome fight." She gushed. Immediately her excitement turned to embarrassment as she realized how childish she sounded, so she shut up again and visibly moved to shrink the physical area she was taking up so she'd feel less noticeable.

Yeah, that's all I was trying to say The discussion of issues itself is not a problem, however the discussion of privilege brings in finger-pointing and "who has it worse" competitions as you said, and of course who's allowed to complain which is my biggest issue with it

I am not upset so I apologize if I came off that way. Talking about privilege consistently makes issues worse, that's all I mean to say

Talking about who has it worse in life doesn't lead to removing barriers, it just makes them stronger Privilege discussions only lead to further discrepancies and only exist for finger-pointing. I'm part of the trans community, we're like the biggest proponents of whining about being underprivileged and all it's done is make people hate us and not take us seriously not that I'm saying we should just ignore these issues, just that talking about them in the context of privilege has consistently proven to only make things worse

7/10

(Psst, why not go use the full editor and uncheck "enable emoticons". Also while you're at it you should probably edit things and not double post...)

It's like a not depressed Maokai

Victoria Victoria hugged Harituuli back. There wasn't much else to do. Tesla and Wallace's fighting was, disconcerting, but she had no power to stop them. Right now the one with all the power in the arena was the man in the white suit. Whatever strange device he had used to cancel out their mechs meant that nobody could reliably take him on. Mr. Jeff was best outfit to fight him directly right now, being the most experienced in combat--both in and outside of mechs--of everyone in the arena, until he attacked, Victoria would hold position. She made sure, however, to toss a hand signal in his direction to indicate that she was ready if he needed her. Probably, she was bad at hand signals. Watcher (OOC: Start playing that Last Occultism arrange in my last post again, it helps with the mood) The man known as the Watcher stayed true to his name as a fight broke out. Such foolishness only further displayed why the practices of Pride were broken. Jefferson started to move to intervene, but Watcher shook his head. "It's best to leave them for now." He said. "Oh so now you want to stay out of things?" Jefferson replied, "Tell you what, I'll take you up on that demonstration. Prove that you're really this 'Watcher' fellow who was the first to arrive in the Planes. As if anyone would believe such a moronic claim." "I confess I cannot prove my age, as only I have witnessed myself, but I can further demonstrate my power." Watcher replied. An orb of white flashed past Jefferson, screeching from nowhere into the air. It flew through Deb and halted itself on the other side of him. Giving the retreating boy no chance to react, it formed into the shape of a hand and grabbed him, somehow turning solid. It effortlessly lifted him into the air and brought him to where Watcher and Jefferson were. "Sorry, but I don't think you should leave." Watcher said calmly. "How? What even is that?" Jefferson asked, dumbfounded at the glowing white hand that now held Deb afloat beside him. "It is a small exertion of power." "But, you aren't even using a mech." "Not as you would think, no, your kind is too simple to realize the applications of the power you so selfishly hold to yourselves." Watcher let Deb down gently before continuing, "This 'Favor' you utilize is so much more than you know. In the short period of time you have had to study it you've barely even scratched the surface. Neither those who train their bodies, those who train their minds, nor even the pragmatists who use the power of technology have any idea of what they're fooling around with. But it is not my job to stop that, I simply observe and occasionally offer advice." "And yet here you are trying to stop things." "I couldn't let someone as important as the little lord over there bury herself alive." With that he turned around once more, returning his attention to Victoria, completely ignoring Jefferson and Deb again. He knelt down in front of her so that his eyes were level with hers. She gave him a confused look as she clung to the sobbing child that she had spared. "What do you want?" She demanded suspiciously. "Victoria McKay, where I am from those of great power are given a special name, such as how they call me Watcher. You are the most powerful child I have ever seen in my many years of observation, and you are on the path to become even stronger." "Well, I am strong." Victoria mumbled. "In honor of this strength I would like to give you a name like mine, would that be alright?" "Um, yes? I think so." "Good," Watcher smiled, "Then from now on you should introduce yourself as Lord, because you are the strongest of us all." "Lord, huh?" the newly christened Lord tested the feeling of her name, "I like it." "I'm glad to hear it. Now then, Lord, shall we be going?" "Um, where?" "Wherever you like, you're the one in charge here." "Well... I have kind of always wanted to see the other Planes. I once read that one of them is always on fire!" "Very well then." Watcher raised himself to his full height and prepared to hide the three of them so they could escape. "Oh, and bring Wally too, I don't want Tesla to beat him up again while I'm gone." There was a flash of light and then Lord, Harituuli, and Wallace all disappeared, leaving everyone else is the arena lost as to what had just happened Mr. Jeff Jeff would have loved to stop Watcher, he really would have, but he didn't know what could be done against someone who could conjure giant glowing hands out of nothingness with only a tiny fraction of their power. Nobody he knew of could do that with all of their power. So he just watched helplessly as Watcher took away the three children. What made it worse was that he was thoroughly convinced that they were safer with that madman than they were with the ones in here who almost all simply watched everything unfold without saying a word. But such a fiasco wouldn't simply be overlooked, he feared for those left behind, particularly Tesla who now would have to deal further with the rage of David. He walked in that direction, hoping to intercede before things got ugly. (OOC: I'll reappear the disappeared guys after Tesla and the twins get posts. I'll post for the twins as soon as I get the opportunity)

This game was way too fun. Never played Poppy support before (although I have played a good bit of both Poppies on my other acc) I got first blood by flash>Eing Annie into a wall and I think it may have tilted her super hard because she kept doing shit like completely missing Tibbers because she was out of range whereas before that she was actually like playing super well in lane And then I got to run around and constantly stop Mantheon and Riven from jumping people, that was fun AF. Was working on a mallet of sticking potential since we were ahead and I wanted to try it over Iceborne

"Great! ...Hey, wait up." Lisa followed after Jesse, stumbling slightly as she wasn't expecting him to start leaving so quickly. He seemed to have a general idea of how to look for people, a skill which she had already demonstrated she was lacking, and his searching was clearly more directed. At every stop she asked why they were stopping there to try to learn how his reasoning worked. Currently they found themselves in front of a fancy looking hotel, if it weren't for the extravagance of the entire city it would probably be the fanciest of the fancy buildings that she had ever fancied. "Ooh, this place is cool, why are we stopping here?" She asked excitedly. Maybe it was a known meeting place for the angel mafia and Jesse thought his friends might have been captured and were being tortured and threatened with angel mafia death. If that were the case they'd have to go on some kind of stealth mission to rescue the captives from certain angel mafia demise. Or even better, they might charge in, guns blazing and mow down the angel mafia like the unjust angel mafia jerks they were. Of course she couldn't do that, she had to declare her powers to use them "If the angel mafia are in there I'm not going to be much help." She said with complete seriousness, slipping her fantasies into reality again

TFW three DC's and the fourth AFKs. Kayle came right back, but it still ended up being 2v5 so that was fun...

Alright TY also by this evening I actually mean before I wake up tomorrow

Yeah, hi, I was just about to ask if you were alright with me moving us to them in my reply which I will make sometime this evening

If it's Raka then my life is going down the drain... I'm expecting Ekko or Jhin as well Whatever they do I hope they don't double up on a single role again like last year, that was lame :/

8/10 It's awesome but it's also a little cluttered feeling?

ANGAR

Okewl I like, play Kayle, so that's a nice little thing to have, even if everyone else will get it too