oh, so likke you're skirting around the goverment and making exchanges with currency they can't tax you on is that it?

aw shit

to do the illegal shit or catch them

right like a vpn and stuff right

crap I don't know what tails are

oh my god @Buddy Hobbs not here

I know Tor

and vpns

why's Tor compromised?

Tor was or Tails was?

ah

so basically don't use it

use Tails

What about canada

as in actually going there to do your pirating?

oh okay so you mean don't have your vpn hosted in the US have it hosted in one of those other places

@Picassoツ I would hazard a guess that no you are not, I could be wrong.

god dammit

holy crap this call is wasted o

sorry to interject

I know

was he even freaking prepared god dman

damn*

and he keeps droning on trying to extend the conversation

AUGH

RIGHT BEFORE ME

fuck my life

what? wanderzing is right above me in the rollcall?

oh shit well then I have no idea

go to their patreaon and contribute

patreon*

then either email them with your discord name or message @Deleted User

Guys I have a question kind of out of no-where for the group not on politics but I'm interested in people's answer

If you have a problem with a tv show interpretation of a story not being faithful to the source material when it pertains to skin color is it racist? Or can it just be because it's not faithful to source material?

how do you mean?

It's in reference to Witcher btw haha

I got into it with a friend who is adamant that it's racist

A lot of people are liking the show to be fair

My friend just thinks in absolutes and he's convinced if you have a problem with some of the people in the witcher being darker skinned that it's absolutely racist

because it didn't explicitly say in the books "everybody is white"

hmm I'm not sure that's why, he's a gay guy who's bf is darker skinned and I think that's part of it. For context haha

well right but

in the books Triss who has red hair

is definitely lighter skinned

And Yennefer too. And the guy who wrote the book is Polish and the folklore in the books is based in Polish stuff so it would make sense for all the characters to be of a particular skin tone wouldn't it?

uh no I have not

I've seen that thing about the teen titans Starfire who's a redhead but also darker skinned

I only know of that example

the writer said that?

oh shit right

buuut I heard people say that that MJ from spiderman isn't Mary Jane

just "MJ" for now and mary jane might pop up later

oh yeah I remember all that nonsense happening months ago

but then it came out she wouldn't be darker skinned just "ethnic" or something and in that context apparently "ethnic" meant like Scandinavian or something

so everybody calmed down

they got triss and Yennefer

I think

Uh in my mind it's because the only darker skinned people in the story are from the southern places like Kovir and she and triss are not from anywhere south

Most of the story takes place in a broader expanse of territory referred to as the "Northern Realms"

Not particularly no

I brought up the example to them, (my friend and his darker skinned bf) what if one of the servant ladies in the movie "The Help" had been white? would it have been racist if you had a problem with that?

"No, because there were no white slaves in that movie" was the response

so doesn't it make sense to say that there were no darker skinned people in the main cast in the witcher books?

There are albino black people

I just mean in terms of having a problem with Established Characters in a tv show having different skin tones, very noticeably so, than their source material originals, is that racist?

because I don't think it was

duuuuuude

he messaged me a book in discord further arguing his cause

you guys wanna read it

look at this

just making sure he didn't include any personal info in the rant

look at this nonsense

wow it's so big I can't copy paste it all

uhhhh

right

okay okay here got it

https://pastebin.com/n0jkBv9v

this is him ranting at me calling me racist because I have an issue Triss and Yenn from the witcher aren't the same skin color as the source material

it's not racist

it's just I want it to be like the source material

this is how he ended it

pt 2 of it was this

There’s a “not” that got pulled out of that and put at the end. No idea where it goes but place or where you think best. I hope you read that with the understanding that I don’t want to fight with you. Otherwise we’re just fucked. At some point, you’ll need to learn it’s okay to be wrong, and that your friends deserve a little humility

I know right

"It's okay to be wrong"

so apparently having an issue with 2 canonically white characters being darker skinned in a tv show adaptation of the story IS racist you guys guess that settles it

I can't do that haha but I'd like to sometimes

its about the Witcher Tv show

he calls it racist to have an issue that canonical white characters are darker in the show

No argument

I know guys really

it sounds so.. what's the term

cognitively dissonant?

echo chambery

Dude he's my damn room mate

I deal with this crap like every week

it basically is

kind of

his darker skinned BF is who he's basically standing up for