The Very-Many-Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΕ

[Mouthwash]

For people with a background in philosophy: know any hot female act utilitarians? I'd really like to have sex and I imagine the discomfort they'd experience wouldn't be quite as bad as being single for the past twenty-two years.

I know there aren't many women in philosophy. But since affirmative action has such a strong hold on the field, female philosophers are likely to be less qualified (i.e. the kind of person who would buy into utilitarianism).

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[Lexicus]

For people with a background in philosophy: know any hot female act utilitarians? I'd really like to have sex and I imagine the discomfort they'd experience wouldn't be quite as bad as being single for the past twenty-two years.

I know there aren't many women in philosophy. But since affirmative action has such a strong hold on the field, female philosophers are likely to be less qualified (i.e. the kind of person who would buy into utilitarianism).

Dude, protip, if you want to have sex don't ever say or think stuff like this

 

[Takhisis]

Translated from Lexicus: That's one creepy post, Mouthwash.

 

[Lexicus]

I mean I appreciate the digs at utilitarians because they're so silly but c'mon

 

[Mouthwash]

Translated from Lexicus: That's one creepy post, Mouthwash.

These are people who think that torturing someone for five decades would be A-OK if it served their beneficent goal of greater total happiness. What I want doesn't seem like a lot to ask after that.

 

[sophie]

These are people who think that torturing someone for five decades would be A-OK if it served their beneficent goal of greater total happiness. Should they get to complain about creepiness after that?

I thought this was about you wanting to have sex? Or was the professed interest in having sex merely a front to mock utilitarians? In which case, why the professed interest in having sex? If it was about sex, then return to Lexicus's point: opening with "I think you are less qualified than a man" is usually not a good way to get someone to like you.

 

[Mouthwash]

I thought this was about you wanting to have sex? Or was the professed interest in having sex merely a front to mock utilitarians?

I guess kind of both? Not that I'm expecting it to seriously happen. But it would enhance the pleasure to make someone's abhorrent worldview work for my benefit.

In which case, why the professed interest in having sex? If it was about sex, then return to Lexicus's point: opening with "I think you are less qualified than a man" is usually not a good way to get someone to like you.

I wasn't going to say that part to them, silly. They'd have to take utilitarianism seriously for it to work.

 

[Arakhor]

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[Takhisis]

Can we have a new question?

 

[Synobun]

Can we have a new question?

How dare you?

 

[Mouthwash]

How dare you?

Who are you to judge?

 

[Synobun]

Who are you to judge?

It's because I'm maybe arrogant.

 

[Mouthwash]

Let's do a real question now: why is Planescape so overlooked? You have one of the most unique settings in all of fiction, but no, D&D has to be ultrageneric dwarves n' elves.

Would it be possible for someone to buy it from WotC? (I sometimes fantasize about that.)

 

[Takhisis]

I doubt WotC would sell.

 

[Synobun]

[The following isn't really relevant to Planescape, but is a response to anti-generic fantasy]

I'll be honest, I find that most people who try to put a "unique spin" on fantasy (i.e. not Tolkien-esque) just frontload their new species to an indigestible extent. Needing to sit down and study a grimoire and surgeon's guide to understand the basics of your NEW AND IMPROVED! species is just not something I'm willing to put up with. Meanwhile with dwarves and elves I usually only need to be aware of one or two notable changes and away I go.

 

[Mouthwash]

I doubt WotC would sell.

It's not like they're even using it.

[The following isn't really relevant to Planescape, but is a response to anti-generic fantasy]

I'll be honest, I find that most people who try to put a "unique spin" on fantasy (i.e. not Tolkien-esque) just frontload their new species to an indigestible extent. Needing to sit down and study a grimoire and surgeon's guide to understand the basics of your NEW AND IMPROVED! species is just not something I'm willing to put up with. Meanwhile with dwarves and elves I usually only need to be aware of one or two notable changes and away I go.

May I ask what works you've read of 'non-generic' fantasy?

 

[Takhisis]

[The following isn't really relevant to Planescape, but is a response to anti-generic fantasy]

I'll be honest, I find that most people who try to put a "unique spin" on fantasy (i.e. not Tolkien-esque) just frontload their new species to an indigestible extent. Needing to sit down and study a grimoire and surgeon's guide to understand the basics of your NEW AND IMPROVED! species is just not something I'm willing to put up with. Meanwhile with dwarves and elves I usually only need to be aware of one or two notable changes and away I go.

It's also, simply, that generic works and is generic for a reason. It's like complaining about Ozzy Osbourne's music being ‘generic’ heavy emtal… well, he was there half a century ago at the very beginning, with Black Sabbath.

It's not like they're even using it.

So?

 

[Mouthwash]

It's also, simply, that generic works and is generic for a reason.

Sure, there's a demographic that just likes the same old thing. I just can't figure out why that demographic is so large.

So?

How much money are they expecting to make on it?

 

[Arakhor]

It's hardly likely to be what it's worth to them but rather what they think it's worth to you.

 

[Mouthwash]

I don't think you get how market value works?