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Dusty Friday
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#1698214 Is alcohol overrated?
Posted
on 09 August 2012 - 02:23 AM
#1856524 My one tiny complaint.
Posted
on 31 August 2012 - 05:42 PM
As an adoptee now in her 40's, I can tell you that until the PC police started telling me what to think, I - like every other adopted kid I knew, including my siblings - referred to my birth family as my "real parents." So did my adoptive parents.
Tyria is an entirely different planet that is pretty much somewhere between medieval times and the industrial revolution... their residents are too busy fighting for their lives to worry about politically/socially correct language.
I didn't even stop using "real parents" until I was in my 30's and started looking for them. I joined a few support forums that had adoptees, first families and adoptive families all in one place... and got immediately taken to task for how I thought of my relatives. Somehow by calling my birth parents my "real" parents, I was imbued with the power to negate the specialness of the adoptions the Guatamommies had just finalized.
And incidentally, I WAS "given up." Yeah, I've been through all the PC terms with that, too... "no no, it's 'surrendered'!!!" or "you must use 'given over,' silly girl!" No - my birth mother most definitively and assuredly gave me up. As she did my next-older sibling.
Your child will only be sensitive to such language if you teach him/her to be... the whole adoption-positive/sensitive language thing is 100% about the egos and feelings of the parents - both types. We're the kids. We're the ones you guys have passed between each other. We get to use whatever language WE want to describe OUR adoption and OUR relatives. And in the Tyrian context, that is an adopted child speaking his/her truth.
Tyria is an entirely different planet that is pretty much somewhere between medieval times and the industrial revolution... their residents are too busy fighting for their lives to worry about politically/socially correct language.
I didn't even stop using "real parents" until I was in my 30's and started looking for them. I joined a few support forums that had adoptees, first families and adoptive families all in one place... and got immediately taken to task for how I thought of my relatives. Somehow by calling my birth parents my "real" parents, I was imbued with the power to negate the specialness of the adoptions the Guatamommies had just finalized.
And incidentally, I WAS "given up." Yeah, I've been through all the PC terms with that, too... "no no, it's 'surrendered'!!!" or "you must use 'given over,' silly girl!" No - my birth mother most definitively and assuredly gave me up. As she did my next-older sibling.
Your child will only be sensitive to such language if you teach him/her to be... the whole adoption-positive/sensitive language thing is 100% about the egos and feelings of the parents - both types. We're the kids. We're the ones you guys have passed between each other. We get to use whatever language WE want to describe OUR adoption and OUR relatives. And in the Tyrian context, that is an adopted child speaking his/her truth.
#1852494 GW2's Infinite Inventory System
Posted
on 31 August 2012 - 03:23 AM
Isn't there a tip pop up when you first loot an item that clearly points at the part in your bag with this annoying yellow window that gets in the way telling you how to send things to the material bank? If people are just clicking the option for the tips off without knowing how to play the game they deserve to spend all that money traveling to and from the actual bank.
Also a 250 limit is nowhere near infinity. Just saying. The title should be changed to to "(Nowhere near) Infinite Inventory".
Also a 250 limit is nowhere near infinity. Just saying. The title should be changed to to "(Nowhere near) Infinite Inventory".
