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This blog is file-share friendly but makes every reasonable effort to respect the terms-of-use of free content creators. (This blog also acknowledges that only EA's TOU counts legally. Disregarding another creator's TOU is rude but not illegal.)
My policy, unless otherwise noted, is 'do whatever you want as long as you credit everyone whose work is involved and don't break their policies.' Usually, someone whose meshes, textures, actions, coding, or templates I've used has 'no paysites' somewhere in their policy, so it's probably a good idea to assume, well, no paysites.
That was unexpected
Date: 2017-01-20 04:23 am (UTC)I keep entertaining this hope that at the opening of the inauguration ceremony tomorrow, Ashton Kutcher is going to pop out of the woodwork and say “That’s right, America! You just got Punk’d!”
I should have probably phrased my preface more carefully. I’m completely aware of the U.S. political situation. I’ve read what the pundits are predicting will happen regarding the Trump/Pence administration. I read about it on Facebook on the daily. My dyed-in-the-wool shitkicker Republican cousins back in Colorado are constantly informing me how Trump will make America great again, when they actually take five minutes to stop turning cartwheels.
I know full well what they’re speculating could possibly happen, maybe, down the road, to small businesses, to the LGBT community, to Muslim Americans, to people of color and so on. I just don’t care. My government is seriously effed up, and it has an immediate and catastrophic effect on me and everyone I know. While U.S.ians are worried about what might happen to the Affordable Care Act in six months, I’m worried about where I’m going to get fuel to put in my tank so I can drive to work tomorrow. So yeah. I understand. I really do. And I sympathize. But Mexico has bigger problems.
I’m sorry if that sounds harsh. Back to the original conversation.
I think that at the time when Paradox07 made her post, she was still upset over having been banned. (The original post is on 13 Nov 2016, about a day after the “banishment”) I don’t think that at that time she’d had sufficient time to fully absorb what had happened and type up a moderated response. I’m not justifying her actions, just trying to provide some context. I think that the strong language she used to disparage Sunni was a projection of how extremely torqued off she was. I don’t know her much better than you do, but if I had to guess her age, I’d guess she’s fairly young; this is kind of the go-to response for Millennials.
On the other hand, I understand how it might be disconcerting when a virtual unknown comes into your personal space and begins hurling insults toward a Simmer who you’ve had positive discourse with in the past. If you’re trying to find a sympathetic audience, this probably isn’t the best way to go about it.
That said, to the neutral observer the whole escalated extremely quickly. Here, we teach our kids "Cuenta hasta diez (Count to ten)." Don't post when you're upset. Sleep on it, and when you're calm, try to type out a measured response. Just my two cents.
I’m sorry. I’m wicked tired and I’m starting to ramble. Paradox07 did make a similar post on my blog, and I responded to her at length. If you’re interested, it can be found here:
https://blueheavensims.blogspot.mx/p/policy-tou-download-directory-and.html?showComment=1484880475646
I wish I could focus long enough to elaborate a better response. Ophelia is whinging on because she’s hungry, so for now I’ll sign off.