Recent content by epithet

Fantasy Grounds has never, as far as I can recall, had pre-orders for anything.

If only that were true... If only life were that easy. Alas.

Indeed, it seems like all you have to do is ignore the cancel culture crusaders, or better yet mock them. Once you offer a sincere apology to the habitually offended, they'll smell blood in the water and, as often as not, you're done for.

"Townsfolk" is a broad catch-all.

It tends to depend on who the disregarded others are, actually.

No, I do not die on the hill of grammatical purity, even in "certain instances." This all began with me, thinking to participate in an ongoing conversation, saying (I'm paraphrasing) "You can be called whatever you want to, but 'they' is plural." Then politics happened.

The words you use to describe me have no bearing on my humanity, and vice versa. If I call you a pencil, or a keyboard (first things that my eye fell upon,) that says more about me that it does about you. It probably indicates I'm "off my meds."

I probably don't use "thee" and "thou" because (if I had to guess) they fell out of use centuries before I took my first English class. Same reason you don't use them. On the matter of respect, "due regard" is a flexible standard. The regard your feelings are due varies widely based on the...

Clearly, a lot of people here care a great deal about that "cultural baggage," but it wasn't even a topic of conversation back when I was in English classes. Maybe if we focussed more on language as a means of clear communication and less on and exploring the way in which it is an expression of...

Look dude, it's your site so you can say whatever you want--I understand that--but I have to take issue with your characterization. I am not arguing "against the human condition." People's humanity isn't a factor of their genders, their pronouns, or their grammar.

It is neither. It has nothing to do with respect, which is earned and should not be assumed. You're confusing respect with courtesy, which is the reason to address a person in the manner requested. I can call you what you want to be called and have no respect at all for you, just as easily as I...

I think that one came from Florida. It's also the premise of a pretty funny murder mystery novel by Carl Hiaasen, called "Tourist Season."

Can't speak for anyone else, but it definitely went somewhere for me. Specifically, it went away, once it became clear that the proponents of singular use of plural pronouns weren't actually talking about grammar but were instead talking about ideology. I can go around and around on grammar, but...

Maybe to the south of the caves of ice, along the banks of the River Alph. There, the people dine on honeydew and call each other, singularly, "y'all." This is due to being drunk on the milk of paradise.

You're hilarious.