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Dear Telltale

FealiksFealiks
edited April 2010 in General Chat
Hello, Telltale. How have you been? You look really nice in that dress. I would like very much to lick you in the face.

Anyway, skipping ahead of pleasantries, we, the fans, have decided that it would be magnificently wonderful if there was a way we could display our gender on the forums using a technique better than the one we use now (which is NSFW pictures).

It would be positively radical and sick if there was a field somewhere under our avatars (much like "Location:" and the post counter) which helped us display gender.

Yours warmly and tenderly, the fans.

Comments

  • coolsomecoolsome
    edited April 2010
    that would kill the only intresting thing I have on these forums
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited April 2010
    Don't worry cuteness, I'm sure they'd provide an "other" option for you. (And a "Yes please!" for Avistew :p )
  • puzzleboxpuzzlebox Telltale Alumni
    edited April 2010
    Lena_P wrote: »
    (And a "Yes please!" for Avistew :p )

    I've missed you. :D
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited April 2010
    Yes, until recently I was wandering the wilds of a strange place called "Cambridgeshire" noting the bizarre habits of the natives. They had "garden centres" full of fudge and Edinburgh woolen mill products, and clocks that didn't tell the right time, a strange land indeed.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    Lena_P wrote: »
    Don't worry cuteness, I'm sure they'd provide an "other" option for you. (And a "Yes please!" for Avistew :p )

    That would work with "sex", but just sound stupid with "gender".
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited April 2010
    To avoid the whole "sex vs gender" debate, we could have "vagina or penis" rather than "male or female". Sound good? (Hint: yes, yes it does)
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    That would work with "sex", but just sound stupid with "gender".

    I was assuming we'd go with "sex" since you can't make as many jokes out of "gender". Plus a few of you guys had a long discussion about it a month ago, and you seemed pretty set against gender as a designation and forumites always come first, right?
    Fealiks wrote: »
    To avoid the whole "sex vs gender" debate, we could have "vagina and/or penis" rather than "male and/or female".

    Fix'd, only not because I doubt this idea will come to pass.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    Well we're re-having the debate right now :P

    Either way I think I'd feel best about a blank field. That is, we can fill the field but also the field's name. If that's possible that would be great for several reasons:

    - people could choose whichever word they prefer for sex/gender/whatever
    - the field could be used for other things one considers important but that have been left out or overlooked as a field.

    What do you think? (And is that feasible, anyways?)
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited April 2010
    Oh boy ... that's a conversation I hope I don't have to get involved in :p . I have to say I don't know what's feasible or not with how the forum's coded since I'm not smart like ... well, all the other mods basically. (Seriously, they even know when new versions of the forum are available and stuff! Compared to me they're so ... competent!) I don't know whether or not the "sex/gender" option is being considered by Telltale or not, but maybe this discussion will encourage them to look into it.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    At any rate, adding a field should be possible. Another forum I go to recently added the field "contraception" (birth control) and they definitely didn't pick that one from a list.
  • FriarFriar
    edited April 2010
    I prefer not to know!
  • HaydenHayden
    edited April 2010
    I think a gender field would help a lot. I've been banned a lot in the banned game for calling he's she's and she's he's.
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    I think a gender field would help a lot. I've been banned a lot in the banned game for calling he's she's and she's he's.

    Hay is banned for not knowing how to avoid using pronouns.
  • HaydenHayden
    edited April 2010
    Avi should be banned for thinking that avoiding pronouns is always possible.
  • Lena_PLena_P
    edited April 2010
    Hey, you two! Don't make me have to move your posts! (And have to do some actual mod type work ...)
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited April 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    Avi should be banned for thinking that avoiding pronouns is always possible.

    It usually is possible, but it can sometimes make you sound really impersonal, which is annoying. For instance, saying "hayden should be banned because they suck lolol" sounds less warm and lovely than "hayden should be banned because he sucks lolol"

    Just more reason to add a gender field... ^_^
  • AvistewAvistew
    edited April 2010
    Fealiks wrote: »
    It usually is possible, but it can sometimes make you sound really impersonal, which is annoying. For instance, saying "hayden should be banned because they suck lolol" sounds less warm and lovely than "hayden should be banned because he sucks lolol"

    Just more reason to add a gender field... ^_^

    "they" is a pronoun too.

    "hayden should be banned for sucking" would be a possible version without pronouns.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited April 2010
    Avistew wrote: »
    "they" is a pronoun too.

    "hayden should be banned for sucking" would be a possible version without pronouns.

    Oh, I thought you were just talking about gender-specific pronouns.

    Not using pronouns at all can really limit you sometimes. Either way, it's easier to use them than to not use them :p
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited April 2010
    Why do I feel like I'm reading an awesome, surreal sitcom script every time a new thread gets rolling here? (especially when Lena, Fealiks, and Avistew are involved)

    :D
  • HaydenHayden
    edited April 2010
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Why do I feel like I'm reading an awesome, surreal sitcom script every time a new thread gets rolling here? (especially when Lena, Fealiks, and Avistew are involved)

    :D

    Oh, okay, yeah sure. Leave me out, I wasn't involved. I wasn't the one who caused this script to exist in the first place...


    :)
  • Hassat HunterHassat Hunter
    edited April 2010
    Fealiks wrote: »
    using a technique better than the one we use now (which is NSFW pictures).
    Since when did that go "bad" (well, if it's limited to the woman :p)?
  • ShaggEShaggE
    edited April 2010
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    Oh, okay, yeah sure. Leave me out, I wasn't involved. I wasn't the one who caused this script to exist in the first place...


    :)

    Writers never get much credit. :p
  • HaydenHayden
    edited April 2010
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Writers never get much credit. :p

    Yeah, the stinkin' actors get all the glory.
  • FealiksFealiks
    edited April 2010
    ShaggE wrote: »
    Writers never get much credit. :p
    haydenwce27 wrote: »
    Yeah, the stinkin' actors get all the glory.

    I know this seems irrelevant, but that reminds me of the Mad World cover that was released with Donnie Darko. Everyone was accrediting it to Gary Jules because he sang, but it was Michael Andrews who rewrote it and completely changed how it sounded. *folds arms*
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