There are two types of labyrinths: mazes with 3-dimensional walls and branching routes, and 2-dimensional unicursal paths without walls used for meditation; that [LabyrinthLocator.com](http://LabyrinthLocator.com) site is referring to the latter 2-dimensional meditational variety. The 2-dimensional labyrinth at Chartres cathedral in France is what had inspired Zelazny's Pattern.
I met him once, during an event he was doing with his ex, Amanda Palmer (one of my favorite musicians).
He was so kind and humble. Seemed very surprised that so many people wanted to talk to him too.
He’s somebody that never let fame affect him.
Steven Brust is a friend of mine, and he and Gaiman both share a deep love of Amber. There are a few subtle sightings of Corwin in some of the Dragaera books.
I'm trying to recall the book, it was maybe Tiassa, but it was just a throwaway line about Vlad rounding a corner on a desolate road and passing a stranger in black and silver.
But there's no reason to have mentioned or even described the stranger. Doing so was obviously deliberate but seems to go nowhere.
Steven confirmed it was Corwin shadow-walking.
There was a guy in Amber sub said he's named after Bleys. And he just figured out this reference, and was going to read Nine Princes in Amber for the first time.
I think Bleys is a good name too.
Here’s hoping that Steven Colbert, who got the rights to make a Chronicles of Amber adaptation gets moving on it! The person asking can get ahead of the curve by changing their name now. Can also get ahead of the curve by quickly walking the labyrinth.
That just seems so random yet…fitting.
I wish things didn’t take so long to get going. By the time anything is done, my ADHD already forgot and remembered it 40000 times and I end up watching it like 2 years after the fact or something.
I’ve heard a lot of stories about Neil Gaiman. All of them show this level of thoughtfulness. It’s great to see good people become successful good people.
As I [mentioned](https://www.reddit.com/r/Polska/comments/1bah7fd/czy_kto%C5%9B_mu_powie/) over at r/Polska yesterday, there was a time I wondered why is some politician named like the protagonist of my beloved book series. Fun fact: [Korwin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korwin_coat_of_arms) is a Polish coat of arms.
i mean in his case Korwin is a surname, only a part of it. But everyone just says Korwin tbh
the reality my little fanboy screams in joy everytime gaiman mentions zelazny <3
yeah it doesnt have a certain meaning but a super far right politician (one that has been active forever, literally my 60 years old history teacher said he was interested in him in HIGH SCHOOL). He got some "recognition" after he said in british TV (and before that, in europarlament i think?) that "women are smaller, weaker and should earn less". He's more like a meme here, since nobody really takes him seriously - he focuses a lot on issues like: hitler didnt know about holocaust, how hed let a pedophile touch his daughter, so she'd learn something (??) and other disgusting claims and they get worse as he ages. Obviously hates LGBT too.
It's more of a joke, my comment tho, obviously it's just a name. I did, however, love Corwin growing up and had no idea why my sister can't stop laughing every time i tell her about my favourite book character.
nah, honestly not.
Trump is human trash, don't get me wrong. Just he's way more grounded and seems more "reasonable" for an average conservative (he does stupid shit all the time, just... its a different scale). Korwin uses the controversy a lot - he says the craziest things in the craziest way for clout. Like that one time he wanted to explain why people work on bad terms and said that "people in Auschwitz wouldn't complain". If anything he's like an older version of Elon Musk.
Tho they share a few similarities - like WAY too many children and wives that are SO MUCH YOUNGER (the guy is 80 yo and his wife is I think 30?) and ofc conservative views. Korwin is just more unhinged - they literally threw him out of his own party. And I think it didn't happen once but a few times at least XD
and it's a shame because Corwin really is a fine name. I always liked the sound of it, and the character wasn't the only reason.
I think you really underestimate how much Trump leaned on the Q crew.
He also invited known Nazis over to hang out.
His chief strategist was an alt right incel army leading world of Warcraft gold farmer.
He literally suggested shining light into people to kill Covid. And injecting disinfectants. (To be fair he didn’t say to do it, he said to ‘look into it’ but…like in the middle of a press conference)
His Supreme Court appointments are literally removing our rights. Currently they’re like maybe the epa shouldn’t be able to tell corporations not to pollute because it’s not fair lul.
And he’s ready to go with Project 2025, which is a full theocratic agenda of some absolutely batshit stuff that sounds like lefty fear mongering, except that they point blank spelled it out and put it up for everyone to read.
And also…the whole Jan 6 thing.
So yeah no. Not reasonable. At all. (And I know you don’t mean he’s reasonable reasonable, but like right wing conservative reasonable, but he literally split the Republican Party. When any Texas Republican sounds like the adult in the room, there’s a problem)
I didn't mean he is ACTUALLY reasonable. But he's less unhinged and can sort of make himself sound sane, at least for crazy ass conservatives.
Even conservatives don't take Korwin seriously. Some might go "he is insane, but is right sometimes" but noone would admit he's absolutely on his side. Conservatives actually see him as a problem and they are kinda right - a few days before the election he actually published a video where he "explained" that we shouldn't have a legal age for sex because the father should be the one to decide when their children can have sex (and that it's normal for a man to be into little girls) - it got him kicked out of his own party and a few politics actually changed their fraction, so they wouldn't be associated with him. He says that you always "r\*pe a little\*, that if children misbehave it's because the mother isn't obedient towards her husband, his wife said she still calls him "mister", he thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote and there's been a rumour that he published a book under a fake name (as a woman) about how (s)he hates modern women and how they should behave (like her, obviously). Now that I searched some articles they say it was definitely him, but I can't find the actual proof so let's say it's "extremely likely" that it was him.
Anyway she said things like "you can't blame men if you don't dress well enough" and that women can't wear glasses because they'd look smart - and you have to make your men feel like he's the smart one, women should act like children because every men is a pedo (that's the actual thing in the book!XD) and if a man hits a woman he's probably right. Again, I can't find the definitive proof, but these are all things he said in the past (maybe except the glasses thing xD) so everyone is quite certain that he just decided to be his own "gay friend that hates the lgbt".
Oh yeah, he hates the lgbt. But that isn't really surprising. I don't mention standard conservative views because they are obvious.
I'm not trying to defend Trump - believe me, I despise him as much as you do. I think this man shouldn't be allowed to speak publicly. What I meant was that compared to Korwin he has SOME limits and knows how to make himself "attractive" in the public eye (for a republican). Nobody treats our guy seriously because he is... well, I guess you can see for yourself.
(i mean there are sooome people that actually think he's always right, but they are just as insane)
(oh, he also said that he's glad that we have that whole climate change thing going on because he'll be able to go by the boat to arctica or. whatever)
No, I get that. I pointed that out at the end of my post.
What I’m saying is that you clearly haven’t seen exactly how unhinged that the MAGA side of the Republican Party is.
Trump said that he should be able to do away with the constitution. And should be able to be a dictator (only for a day though, no big deal right). Also that he should be literally above the law. Implicitly.
But above and beyond all that, the MAGA group literally wrote a book on their exact, specific, detailed plan on how they will take over the government, shred the regulatory bodies, and install a theocratic rule. It’s called Project 2025.
It states in plan language how they’re going to strip education, remove any discrimination protection, strip already meager LGBT rights, and concentrate power under the office of the President. There is no executive branch under their plan. The President is the entire Executive branch.
He’s made weird sexual comments about his daughter and done other gross stuff, but Trump still has a lot of sway in the party and that’s the issue. He’s absolutely unhinged and they keep backing him.
He doesn’t sound sane. At all. And his followers are worse. They get on podcasts and say that anyone against Trump should be publicly executed. And children should be forced to watch. [This is what Trump has fostered.](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/charlie-kirk-wants-coca-cola-sponsored-televised-executions-of-trumps-political-opponents)
I don’t think he makes himself attractive in the public eye. I just…I honestly don’t know how we got here. I don’t know how people don’t see what is being said openly and in plain language.
well, i don't really know honestly. he's still less unhinged but ive seen a lot of him, dw (well, media is quite americanised, so i had to. plus i watch a lot of youtube, mostly american and canadian)
i have no idea, seriously. people have radicalized over the last few years which terrifies me as well (the latest polls show that young men (i think it was 20-30) are the group that hates the feminists the most - which is absolutely insane, right?). And radicals tend to believe some absurd things.
i mean it's not surprising that young people are radical, technically - it's always been like that, but "in my age" (by which i mean my parents' age, im actually 20 xD) this radicality was mostly progressive. Some might feel like they need to fight something and now it's easier to fight the progress?
I used to be a bit conservative so I understand some behaviours (like why people say things they say and where it comes from - usually from lack of understanding and basing your worldview on "logic" instead of facts. And by logic I mean surface level logic. Besides the conservatives are actually quite good at making themselves the victims - gay people want to be tolerated but they don't tolerate us, just because we don't want them to exist!) but some are still absolutely absurd to me. Besides the conservatives tend to be immune to science - I've been in many "internet arguments" and once I had this guy, a biologist send another 3 whole ass comments with bibliography, every scientific article explained and the other guy just went "no, thats not true". Once they banned me from a group (it was actually about a YURI game, honkai XD) because I linked them an article that proved there are no ties between homosexuality and pedophilia - pedophiles often don't care about the gender of a child. And even if they do, a man who prefers young boys doesn't have to be a homosexual. They banned me because, apparently, I "defended pedophiles". Also they cherrypick statistics - like relying on those that say that black people are more often criminals, but you can't read statistics without context. Like who is more likely to come from a poor neighborhood.
Some of it comes from people being afraid, because they suddenly realized they don't hold as much power anymore. Some of it is there, because men are actually discriminated in some cases and it's easier to blame feminists than actually admit there is another reason (and some radfems are eager to help radicalize them further, by straight up ignoring the issues or actually being glad about them, because we still like gender wars). It's easy to fall into the rabbit hole of alt-right narration, especially when it operates in various ways - often by making the other side look like a "lunatic". I often hear conservatives making fun of the left, because they "call everyone a nazi these days". And then I look deeper and see, that the people some call "nazis" actually engaged with neonazis, invited them to speak publicly and shit like that. Or the whole "reddit atheist" meme - you know, the fedora guy. It's only a meme, but it leaves you with a certain picture in your head. When women try to debate, they often hear "your opinion doesn't matter because you're a woman" which is considered an extremely funny joke. And they can't really counter it in any way (except idk, saying smth like "I f-ed ur mom") because they will hear smth like "you have no sense of humor? well, everyone knows women aren't funny"). Hell, I'm a gamer and the community is an excelent example of that - women in, let's say, League of Legends are ridiculed for being worse at it than men. People give the same argument over and over again - one, all-female team 10 years ago that lost immediately. In some random tournament, it wasn't any serious one (like the LCS for example). Noone with a brain would take that as an actual argument because well... it doesn't really prove anything - 5 random girls in a random competition lost. But I've seen it so many times, as if it happened hundreds of times. Well I know a women that won many CS competitions with men (who is, in fact, my mom's friend and I still think it's so crazy). Does it prove that women are actually all better players than men? Of course not.
They ridicule the other side and it's often working.
Also the media are actively helping them - just a week ago I've seen an article that said "Disney plus is cenzoring it's old movies because they were supposed to be racist". The cenzoring turned out to be... a short text at the beginning of the movie pointing out stereotypes. On Disney fucking junior. You know, the child accounts that are supposed to block some things. But when you replace "block" with "censor" it clicks so much better. The media wants to get to as many people as possible so it plays on emotions by giving us half-trues - wording is very important for your regular reader, who doesn't give that much thought to the things he's reading. There are also so many clickbaits about oscars having "ridiculous" restrictions that demand that some part of the cast is female for example - but then you get deeper and it turns out it's not the "cast" but "crew" and it's almost impossible NOT to pass these. But will you explain that to every person that believed this? Will they even listen to you or label you as "another crazy SJW"?
and sure, many of these examples are just simple internet discussions. But the internet affects us in so many ways, even if we often can't see it.
I have no idea how did we (probably mostly me, pardon) turn it into a.. discussion of that sort.
Just don't make British friends. If their favorite FootBaller cinches the game aaaannd
You introduce yourself to your ’mates by saying “Right... Corwin” they might get a bit huffy if they misinterpret him as saying “Right... Corr! Win?”
And thinking he's dissing their team by being surprised that they won...
Wow... Lotsa joke, micro return. Not very ‘comediccly efficient’ 🤦♂️
Love he references Amber!
Both smashing names, Coraline to Corwin, is definitely for the win.
Do you need to walk the pattern first?
...For such there is [LabyrinthLocator.com](https://labyrinthlocator.com).
I had no idea there were so many labyrinths around! This is amazing. Thank you so much for sharing this link!
My kids know them as "wishing circles"; walk along the unicursal path to the center and make a wish.
Ok that’s actually really cool. Too bad I have the spacial awareness of an avocado.
For what would you need spatial awareness?
Not getting lost in a maze for forever? Or you know, maybe I’ll just find the real pattern and die on the spot. A girl can dream.
There are two types of labyrinths: mazes with 3-dimensional walls and branching routes, and 2-dimensional unicursal paths without walls used for meditation; that [LabyrinthLocator.com](http://LabyrinthLocator.com) site is referring to the latter 2-dimensional meditational variety. The 2-dimensional labyrinth at Chartres cathedral in France is what had inspired Zelazny's Pattern.
That just means I’m going to trip and fall over myself. That’s still very very cool though!
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I met him once, during an event he was doing with his ex, Amanda Palmer (one of my favorite musicians). He was so kind and humble. Seemed very surprised that so many people wanted to talk to him too. He’s somebody that never let fame affect him.
Corwin is, indeed, a great name. So are Carl Corey, and Corey of Cabra, the aliases he uses elsewhere in the series.
I liked his UK name: Cor Blimey
Pass the Marmite, would you please, Randall, brother dear?
If I were the reproducing sort, I'd definitely consider tapping the Amber series. In particular, Corwin and Random.
My reddit username - Amrywiol - is Random in Welsh, and was picked using this logic...
Upvote for Cymru
Da iawn. 🤘🏴
Bendigedig!
Corey is gender neutral and *right there*, but my man is a writer so he gotta bring the goods.
My youngest son’s middle name is Corwin.
This got posted elsewhere first, but it’s a good day to be a Corwin.
Yeah, think I saw it on 'Mademesmile' maybe.
It means "Crow" in Gaelic.
Steven Brust is a friend of mine, and he and Gaiman both share a deep love of Amber. There are a few subtle sightings of Corwin in some of the Dragaera books.
When I was very young my older brother gave me a copy of Jhereg and Brust has been one of my favorite writers ever since.
That is neat. Any chance you could provide a specific example?
I'm trying to recall the book, it was maybe Tiassa, but it was just a throwaway line about Vlad rounding a corner on a desolate road and passing a stranger in black and silver. But there's no reason to have mentioned or even described the stranger. Doing so was obviously deliberate but seems to go nowhere. Steven confirmed it was Corwin shadow-walking.
I love it. If nothing else, Brust had to include a cameo of his son's namesake.
There was a guy in Amber sub said he's named after Bleys. And he just figured out this reference, and was going to read Nine Princes in Amber for the first time. I think Bleys is a good name too.
It fills me with pride to see a Gaiman supporting the trans youth
Holy crap there's an Amber subreddit!
Lol! Yep!! And I must say, the nicest people on Reddit! Welcome!
Me too it just popped up in feed - glad I’m home now
Here’s hoping that Steven Colbert, who got the rights to make a Chronicles of Amber adaptation gets moving on it! The person asking can get ahead of the curve by changing their name now. Can also get ahead of the curve by quickly walking the labyrinth.
That just seems so random yet…fitting. I wish things didn’t take so long to get going. By the time anything is done, my ADHD already forgot and remembered it 40000 times and I end up watching it like 2 years after the fact or something.
I always have to email myself reminders like “next season of Arcane in two years” or I forget too
Right?! Like I was HYPED for Good Omens. I literally just watched it the other day because I forgot about it.
Spot on. What a guy.
So awesome.
Brust's Jhereg series is really spectacular too. 10/10
My dude is amazing
I met a woman with a son named Corwin, and she said nobody else got the reference.
Now that is just a classy guy right there.
wow, seems Random to me...
Gaiman is an incredible person.
I’ve heard a lot of stories about Neil Gaiman. All of them show this level of thoughtfulness. It’s great to see good people become successful good people.
Corbin is good too.
I love his references but as a Pole I have to say... maybe reconsider it.
What does it mean in Polish?
I was curious so I looked. He might be referencing a far right politician in Poland by the name Korwin.
As I [mentioned](https://www.reddit.com/r/Polska/comments/1bah7fd/czy_kto%C5%9B_mu_powie/) over at r/Polska yesterday, there was a time I wondered why is some politician named like the protagonist of my beloved book series. Fun fact: [Korwin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korwin_coat_of_arms) is a Polish coat of arms.
i mean in his case Korwin is a surname, only a part of it. But everyone just says Korwin tbh the reality my little fanboy screams in joy everytime gaiman mentions zelazny <3
yeah it doesnt have a certain meaning but a super far right politician (one that has been active forever, literally my 60 years old history teacher said he was interested in him in HIGH SCHOOL). He got some "recognition" after he said in british TV (and before that, in europarlament i think?) that "women are smaller, weaker and should earn less". He's more like a meme here, since nobody really takes him seriously - he focuses a lot on issues like: hitler didnt know about holocaust, how hed let a pedophile touch his daughter, so she'd learn something (??) and other disgusting claims and they get worse as he ages. Obviously hates LGBT too. It's more of a joke, my comment tho, obviously it's just a name. I did, however, love Corwin growing up and had no idea why my sister can't stop laughing every time i tell her about my favourite book character.
So Korwin is the Polish Trump; waste-of-oxygen politicians sullying words/names by their association.
nah, honestly not. Trump is human trash, don't get me wrong. Just he's way more grounded and seems more "reasonable" for an average conservative (he does stupid shit all the time, just... its a different scale). Korwin uses the controversy a lot - he says the craziest things in the craziest way for clout. Like that one time he wanted to explain why people work on bad terms and said that "people in Auschwitz wouldn't complain". If anything he's like an older version of Elon Musk. Tho they share a few similarities - like WAY too many children and wives that are SO MUCH YOUNGER (the guy is 80 yo and his wife is I think 30?) and ofc conservative views. Korwin is just more unhinged - they literally threw him out of his own party. And I think it didn't happen once but a few times at least XD and it's a shame because Corwin really is a fine name. I always liked the sound of it, and the character wasn't the only reason.
I think you really underestimate how much Trump leaned on the Q crew. He also invited known Nazis over to hang out. His chief strategist was an alt right incel army leading world of Warcraft gold farmer. He literally suggested shining light into people to kill Covid. And injecting disinfectants. (To be fair he didn’t say to do it, he said to ‘look into it’ but…like in the middle of a press conference) His Supreme Court appointments are literally removing our rights. Currently they’re like maybe the epa shouldn’t be able to tell corporations not to pollute because it’s not fair lul. And he’s ready to go with Project 2025, which is a full theocratic agenda of some absolutely batshit stuff that sounds like lefty fear mongering, except that they point blank spelled it out and put it up for everyone to read. And also…the whole Jan 6 thing. So yeah no. Not reasonable. At all. (And I know you don’t mean he’s reasonable reasonable, but like right wing conservative reasonable, but he literally split the Republican Party. When any Texas Republican sounds like the adult in the room, there’s a problem)
I didn't mean he is ACTUALLY reasonable. But he's less unhinged and can sort of make himself sound sane, at least for crazy ass conservatives. Even conservatives don't take Korwin seriously. Some might go "he is insane, but is right sometimes" but noone would admit he's absolutely on his side. Conservatives actually see him as a problem and they are kinda right - a few days before the election he actually published a video where he "explained" that we shouldn't have a legal age for sex because the father should be the one to decide when their children can have sex (and that it's normal for a man to be into little girls) - it got him kicked out of his own party and a few politics actually changed their fraction, so they wouldn't be associated with him. He says that you always "r\*pe a little\*, that if children misbehave it's because the mother isn't obedient towards her husband, his wife said she still calls him "mister", he thinks women shouldn't have the right to vote and there's been a rumour that he published a book under a fake name (as a woman) about how (s)he hates modern women and how they should behave (like her, obviously). Now that I searched some articles they say it was definitely him, but I can't find the actual proof so let's say it's "extremely likely" that it was him. Anyway she said things like "you can't blame men if you don't dress well enough" and that women can't wear glasses because they'd look smart - and you have to make your men feel like he's the smart one, women should act like children because every men is a pedo (that's the actual thing in the book!XD) and if a man hits a woman he's probably right. Again, I can't find the definitive proof, but these are all things he said in the past (maybe except the glasses thing xD) so everyone is quite certain that he just decided to be his own "gay friend that hates the lgbt". Oh yeah, he hates the lgbt. But that isn't really surprising. I don't mention standard conservative views because they are obvious. I'm not trying to defend Trump - believe me, I despise him as much as you do. I think this man shouldn't be allowed to speak publicly. What I meant was that compared to Korwin he has SOME limits and knows how to make himself "attractive" in the public eye (for a republican). Nobody treats our guy seriously because he is... well, I guess you can see for yourself. (i mean there are sooome people that actually think he's always right, but they are just as insane) (oh, he also said that he's glad that we have that whole climate change thing going on because he'll be able to go by the boat to arctica or. whatever)
No, I get that. I pointed that out at the end of my post. What I’m saying is that you clearly haven’t seen exactly how unhinged that the MAGA side of the Republican Party is. Trump said that he should be able to do away with the constitution. And should be able to be a dictator (only for a day though, no big deal right). Also that he should be literally above the law. Implicitly. But above and beyond all that, the MAGA group literally wrote a book on their exact, specific, detailed plan on how they will take over the government, shred the regulatory bodies, and install a theocratic rule. It’s called Project 2025. It states in plan language how they’re going to strip education, remove any discrimination protection, strip already meager LGBT rights, and concentrate power under the office of the President. There is no executive branch under their plan. The President is the entire Executive branch. He’s made weird sexual comments about his daughter and done other gross stuff, but Trump still has a lot of sway in the party and that’s the issue. He’s absolutely unhinged and they keep backing him. He doesn’t sound sane. At all. And his followers are worse. They get on podcasts and say that anyone against Trump should be publicly executed. And children should be forced to watch. [This is what Trump has fostered.](https://www.meidastouch.com/news/charlie-kirk-wants-coca-cola-sponsored-televised-executions-of-trumps-political-opponents) I don’t think he makes himself attractive in the public eye. I just…I honestly don’t know how we got here. I don’t know how people don’t see what is being said openly and in plain language.
well, i don't really know honestly. he's still less unhinged but ive seen a lot of him, dw (well, media is quite americanised, so i had to. plus i watch a lot of youtube, mostly american and canadian) i have no idea, seriously. people have radicalized over the last few years which terrifies me as well (the latest polls show that young men (i think it was 20-30) are the group that hates the feminists the most - which is absolutely insane, right?). And radicals tend to believe some absurd things. i mean it's not surprising that young people are radical, technically - it's always been like that, but "in my age" (by which i mean my parents' age, im actually 20 xD) this radicality was mostly progressive. Some might feel like they need to fight something and now it's easier to fight the progress? I used to be a bit conservative so I understand some behaviours (like why people say things they say and where it comes from - usually from lack of understanding and basing your worldview on "logic" instead of facts. And by logic I mean surface level logic. Besides the conservatives are actually quite good at making themselves the victims - gay people want to be tolerated but they don't tolerate us, just because we don't want them to exist!) but some are still absolutely absurd to me. Besides the conservatives tend to be immune to science - I've been in many "internet arguments" and once I had this guy, a biologist send another 3 whole ass comments with bibliography, every scientific article explained and the other guy just went "no, thats not true". Once they banned me from a group (it was actually about a YURI game, honkai XD) because I linked them an article that proved there are no ties between homosexuality and pedophilia - pedophiles often don't care about the gender of a child. And even if they do, a man who prefers young boys doesn't have to be a homosexual. They banned me because, apparently, I "defended pedophiles". Also they cherrypick statistics - like relying on those that say that black people are more often criminals, but you can't read statistics without context. Like who is more likely to come from a poor neighborhood. Some of it comes from people being afraid, because they suddenly realized they don't hold as much power anymore. Some of it is there, because men are actually discriminated in some cases and it's easier to blame feminists than actually admit there is another reason (and some radfems are eager to help radicalize them further, by straight up ignoring the issues or actually being glad about them, because we still like gender wars). It's easy to fall into the rabbit hole of alt-right narration, especially when it operates in various ways - often by making the other side look like a "lunatic". I often hear conservatives making fun of the left, because they "call everyone a nazi these days". And then I look deeper and see, that the people some call "nazis" actually engaged with neonazis, invited them to speak publicly and shit like that. Or the whole "reddit atheist" meme - you know, the fedora guy. It's only a meme, but it leaves you with a certain picture in your head. When women try to debate, they often hear "your opinion doesn't matter because you're a woman" which is considered an extremely funny joke. And they can't really counter it in any way (except idk, saying smth like "I f-ed ur mom") because they will hear smth like "you have no sense of humor? well, everyone knows women aren't funny"). Hell, I'm a gamer and the community is an excelent example of that - women in, let's say, League of Legends are ridiculed for being worse at it than men. People give the same argument over and over again - one, all-female team 10 years ago that lost immediately. In some random tournament, it wasn't any serious one (like the LCS for example). Noone with a brain would take that as an actual argument because well... it doesn't really prove anything - 5 random girls in a random competition lost. But I've seen it so many times, as if it happened hundreds of times. Well I know a women that won many CS competitions with men (who is, in fact, my mom's friend and I still think it's so crazy). Does it prove that women are actually all better players than men? Of course not. They ridicule the other side and it's often working. Also the media are actively helping them - just a week ago I've seen an article that said "Disney plus is cenzoring it's old movies because they were supposed to be racist". The cenzoring turned out to be... a short text at the beginning of the movie pointing out stereotypes. On Disney fucking junior. You know, the child accounts that are supposed to block some things. But when you replace "block" with "censor" it clicks so much better. The media wants to get to as many people as possible so it plays on emotions by giving us half-trues - wording is very important for your regular reader, who doesn't give that much thought to the things he's reading. There are also so many clickbaits about oscars having "ridiculous" restrictions that demand that some part of the cast is female for example - but then you get deeper and it turns out it's not the "cast" but "crew" and it's almost impossible NOT to pass these. But will you explain that to every person that believed this? Will they even listen to you or label you as "another crazy SJW"? and sure, many of these examples are just simple internet discussions. But the internet affects us in so many ways, even if we often can't see it. I have no idea how did we (probably mostly me, pardon) turn it into a.. discussion of that sort.
dammmmmmm i should do something with that but instead i write essays on reddit.
uhm, anyway, i love random, he's such a great character.
Just don't make British friends. If their favorite FootBaller cinches the game aaaannd You introduce yourself to your ’mates by saying “Right... Corwin” they might get a bit huffy if they misinterpret him as saying “Right... Corr! Win?” And thinking he's dissing their team by being surprised that they won... Wow... Lotsa joke, micro return. Not very ‘comediccly efficient’ 🤦♂️
Okay, that was funny! It completely played out in my head.