Coskii

I had heard absolutely nothing about Secrets of Grindea, but it looks like a game that's right up my alley, so it's been grabbed.

It was many years ago and I just realized that it wasn't a sumo, just an absolutely monstrous hand that for whatever reason I recollected as a sumo wrestler.

This is more of a public service announcement style of post than a deeply intentioned 'after incident response' post.

While I'm sure there have been plenty of incidents based on some of the other comments, there hasn't been some singular massive event to cause this to happen. If anything it's more of a reminder that one purpose of blahaj.zone is for inclusivity and acceptance. Excluding people because of some indirect words is not the goal.

As someone who works specifically to build and maintain low income housing, I was painfully aware of just how precarious of a situation the population decided to put us in.

On a really terrible upside, the housing market might nose dive from various other large city low income groups needing to sell off potential low income housing to fund and maintain currently functional low income housing.

I understand the question you are attempting to ask. However within this example if John decided that Johnathon/Johnithian are what John would like as pronouns, but somehow is simultaneously fine with being called John as a name.. I believe you would find most people would use John rather than similar and longer names as pronouns (to avoid confusion mostly). If John prefers to be referred to as Johnathon, then most people would follow that or split off entirely and pick up a nickname.

Idealogically anyone should be able to use whatever pronouns they'd like with no rules, limits, or caveats.

Realistically (for now/me), my social interactions are not high enough on my layers of priority, particularly with new groups, that I would consider the need to commit most or really any of anyones' pronouns to memory. As using those pronouns would require me to speak about someone other than myself, to someone who is not the direct recipient of those words. Being the hermit that I am, my comments throughout nearly the entirety of my time on Lemmy or other online social spaces reaching back to nearly the beginning of my time online does not need or use third person pronouns an absolutely vast amount of those interactions in that time.

As a completely off topic anecdote, the only time I can remember using third person pronouns semi often was while on a forum for the original halo game in which I'd attempt to decipher the horrendous typos and extra keystrokes of people I can only assume were younger children asking questions about the game.

They certainly do have an appeal, and ideally it's fine. Realistically though there's a mental limit to the number of those flowcharts a single person can be expected to learn and follow.

I could see a high fantasy setting where an entire culture followed a single chart and it would be fine.. But at the same time I've literally seen players fail to start a sentence with their own name and title (for court record keeping reasons).

I'm excited to see the new jet set radio and crazy taxi.

Not because I'm at all interested in playing them but because I want to see the absolute shitshow they will both assuredly release as.

You can use the 'oh I get whatever is on sale' method and just bypass most of the particulars. I get your frustration on the matter, but it I only takes a moment to fill in the blanks. If it's really not right you can return it later for whatever the right thing is. You were planning to go anyways.

The kind that wants realllllly consistent beef jerky.

For Max, I would use he/hims, they/thems, or whatever other pronouns Max would prefer. Max is a shortcut in and of itself. Maxwell, Maximilian, Maxine, or Maximus can all be Max.

If Max were to decide that Maxs' pronouns were Maxillaries/Maximilleficint, I would at that point likely just refer to Max as Max. As at that point I feel that what has been made are no longer pronouns, but situational proper nouns.

By a much more extreme example, if Max has a flowchart/spreadsheet of pronouns that are time/date sensative, such as changing pronouns according to the current astrological sign + day of the week/phase of the moon, Max is being called Max.

Coskiis' stance on pronouns is very simple. Coskii will respect anyones pronouns up until those pronouns are more complicated than a beings name. At which point Coskii uses the beings name instead of any pronouns. Pronouns are meant to be a conversational shortcut. If a shortcut is not being made, Coskii does not feel the need to use pronouns.

Neopronouns are (generally) not more complicated than a beings name. Exceptions do exist.

Writing a message without using pronouns for explicit understanding of how and why pronouns exist in English in the first place, including personal pronouns, is certainly a mood. The flow of sentences is somewhere between legal and caveman. Not using pronouns leaves no wiggle room for any interpretation on the subject being discussed, however the lack of personal pronouns means Coskii must always refer to Coskii as Coskii. Thank goodness Coskii is not a terribly long name.

The only thing I want to reach are my toes. This year I'm going to try to increase my flexibility.