The Downfall of Bhaalspawn (contains possible SJW discussions)

anonymous asked:
Staring at the question someone sent you earlier, Do you think people rather someone go soft on autistic people because either they themselves are autistic (or just someone real lazy pretending to have it-) and don’t want to be forced to deal with someone who isn’t going to let them get away with behaviors and change them? Or is it a legitimate way to communicate to an autistic person in a much softer push? (From your Sheldon video, I’d assume the former or a slight mixture)

Autistic people in general demand basic human respect and decency, which they are frequently denied.

However, on the internet “respect and decency” is considered to be synonymous with “Soft and non-confrontational.” An attitude that, in real life, is condescending.

anonymous asked:
The biggest complaint I have about big bang theory is the overuse of the laugh track and how it so often is played to something that isn’t funny.

You don’t actually have a complaint about The Big Bang Theory then, because it doesn’t have a laugh track. It has a real studio audience.

No sitcom has a laugh track, actually. And they don’t direct their audiences either. Multi-camera sitcoms with laughter are some of the hardest shows to make because the laughter is a staple of the genre that people don’t like being absent, and all that laughter has to genuinely earned.

The audience laughter isn’t there to tell you when to laugh, it’s there to remind the crew to be funny.

The idea that laughter is made from a pre-recorded machine or is staged from an audience is just bitchy shorthand that some critics use because they want to deride a sitcom as not being funny, but the fact that the audience is laughing betrays that and their only recourse is to deny the genuine laughter.

AKA: Lie.

Nobody likes to be the one person in the room that doesn’t get the joke, and the studio laughter makes you into that person even in your own living room. But you could always pull the stick out of your ass and stop being such a pissant.

Complaints about “laugh tracks” is a dead giveaway that someone is pissing and moaning for the sake of pissing and moaning, and has no real criticisms to make about The Big Bang Theory, or ANY sitcom, and their opinion ought to be disregarded.

anonymous asked:
I’ve avoided TBBT because I heard it had uncomfortable Jewish stereotypes. Is that true?

Howard’s mother has that one accent, and the two of them occasionally use Yiddish words, and that’s about it. It’s mostly Howard that makes jokes about his own heritage, and Howard is the base-breaking character of the series.

If by “Uncomfortable Jewish stereotypes” you mean someone like Mort Goldman, then not even close. The Nanny would be a more accurate comparison.

anonymous asked:
Do you think it is possible for someone who is stupid, with effort and hard work, to become intelligent?

Well if someone is willing to put in hard work, then they weren’t stupid to begin with. They were merely ignorant. It’s understandable to be ignorant if you were in a position where you were given wrong information and nobody was around to correct you.

It’s all about how you react to being corrected.

30 Day Social Media Blackout

For my own health, I’m shutting off all social media for the next month. This includes Tumblr, Twitter, Skype, and Discord.

The only exceptions are Youtube, where videos will continue to be posted, and Patreon, where polls and videos will continue as normal. However, I will not be responding to messages/comments on either site.

Heroic Patron Calls are cancelled during this time. Thank you for your understanding.

anonymous asked:
Do you ever stop and think that a good chunk of Equestria’s population should be suffering from PTSD by now? Because in a very short span of time they’ve had their capital assaulted by Changelings, their magic stolen by Tirek and, quite recently, a lot of them were captured and enslaved by the Storm King. Plus a bunch of stuff I’m probably forgetting. Any one of those events would traumatize a person for life, so who knows what damage going through ALL of it would do to the ponies.

PTSD doesn’t exist in children’s shows because it’s implications are needlessly grim. Especially in a show like Friendship is Magic where it’s existence can further exacerbate the existing cock-up cascade.

Last night we have a lovely chat about how the way things are named affects the way people react to them, and how in regards to mental health this is one of the more glaring issues that goes completely unaddressed.